The Paris News from Paris, Texas • Page 7

Briefs About Town to Ha Bountiful Crops Mrs. Katherine taster, employe of Beall's is on a week's vacation. E. R. Baker, of the First National Bank, is leaving Friday for a two weeks vacation.

Mrs. Leta Smith of the piece goods department at J.C. Penny's is on a two weeks vacation. Mrs. Ralph Garcie, employed at McLellan's is moving to Houston Saturday.

N. A. Cleveland, FHA supervisor, was in Mt. Vernon Thursday on business. Mrs.

Gene Siddle, Ayres millinery department. Is absent from work because of illness. J. B. Michael, employe of Paris Milling Company, is absent from work because of illness.

Mrs. J. O. Reddell is now em- ploved at Palace Drug Store Xo. 2.

Ramon Mallow, farm ownership engineer put of the Lufkin FHA office, visited FHA farms in Lamar County Fridav. Mrs. Minnie Belle Hood. who works at the State Highway De- MARKETS FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK FORT WORTH Cattle 800; calves 300; around steady in cleanup trade; 240 feeder steers averaging 1.000 pounds 21, and two loads slaughter steers averaging 1.200 pound 33.50: common and medium grade yearlings and heifers 1726.50; common and medium beef cows canners and cutter? 10-16: sausage bulls 15-21; medium and good slaughter calves 18.5025.50. 250; butchers 25 above Thursday's average: sows and pigs unchanged; top 29 paid for good and choice 190-240 pound butchers: heavier hogs scarce; good 150-180 pound 26 28.75; sows 20-24; feeder pigs 26 down.

Sheep 1 700; steady; most spring lambs sold on feeder account; yearlings scarce; cull to medium shorn aged sheep mostly 9 9.50; feeder spring lambs 22-25; common kinds downward to 18 and below. FORT WORTH GRAIN FORT WORTH Wheat No. 1 hard, 2.35-39. Oats No. 2 white 91-92.

Corn No. 2 white 2.30-35. Sorghums No. 2 yellow milo, per 100 pounds 2.38-48. COTTON MARKETS Thursday's quotations based on middling 15-16 inch ration: Dallas 31.30; Galveston 31.30; Houston 31.30.

N'eiv Orleans cotton futurrs ns nf Thursday: Oct. 31.20; December 31.24; March 31.19 Cottonseed per ton. PARIS PRODUCE MARKET Milk: For manufacturing purposes: S4.55 per 100 Ibs testing 4 oer cent. IOC- each point over, minus 8c each point under Grade A sweet milk. 85.90 Dei 100 Ibs testing 4 per cent plus lOc per point above 4 per cent, minus 8c per point below 4 per cent Cream: No.

1. 65c No 2 62c. f.ggs: A 43c. No I. 67c Egas: Grade A.

43c, Grade B. 40c. trade C. 35c: current receipts, loss of Poultry: Hena over pounds. 26c: under pounds.

23c: springs. 38c. "I Know Who 'F. D. Is, Do You?" Yes, folks, you tec him most every flay more than likely he's been tn your home he's not fat, he's not slim, he's not handsome, he's not ugly, he's not bald, he's not hairy You'll know on Sunday, Aug.

he has an Important announcement for YOt'! partment station, is absent from work because of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Coy Skelton, of the Skelton Supply Department in Dallas, are in Paris visiting friends and relatives. Frank Scoggins of the men's department at J.

C. Penney's is spending a two weeks vacation in Illinois. Miss Thelma Bigger, employed at McLellan's. has returned from a two weeks vacation in Lubbock. where she visited friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caffee, employed at Beasley Vaughan's Drug Store, will leave Monday for a two weeks vacation in Oklahoma City. The Loyal Builders Class of First Christian Church will sponsor a rummage sale Saturday morning, beginning at 6 a.m.. at the market scjnare.

C. J. Stubblefield received his private pilot's license under the G. I. Bill of Rights at the Municipal Airport Friday, according to Jess Faulkner.

Harry W. Hughes of Paris is listed among candidates for a Bachelor of Science degree a Texas University's summer com mencement exercises August 29. Increasing numbers of Paris Golf Club members and guests are taking advantage of the nightly grill service being offered at the club this summer. Mrs. Jimmy Adams is in charge of the service.

A raid by Texas Liquor Control Board agents on a house Thursday in Paris netted a case and one-half of whisky. A charge of possessing liquor for sale in a dry area was filed against W. W. McDaniel in County Court. A Lamar County farmer who knows his peanuts corrects a rec quoted price of S4.15 per bushel.

It should have been S3.15 for that amount, he says. The farmer is eminently correct; The News embarassedly in error. Earnest Coulter, a Negro man injured in an accident Thursday morning in which his wife was killed, was reported improved Friday at Lamar Hospital. He was critically injured in the head on collision of his and another truck. The regular weekly concert by ihe Paris Municipal Band will be held Friday night at 8 o'clock at Bywaters Park.

The program will consist of marches and popular i numbers.according to the director G. S. 'Slicki Howard. Judge Cedric Townsend has committed three Negro juveniles to the State School for Boys on charges of theft. Two of the boys were previously paroled in a similar case.

Authorities said that the youths had admitted eight minor thefts about the city. A bid of $1,000 has been ed by the Paris Fire Department for the 1941 Buick passenger car formerly used as the fire chief's vehicle and for emergency calls. The automobile will be replaced by a pickup truck, which will be fully equipped as an emergency vehicle. A. W.

Stewart Dallas News distributor here, entertained two of his carrier boys. Philip Nance and Fira Aikin, with a swim Thursday afternoon at Barrett's Swimming Pool. Two others. Jessie Bridges and James Green, were also eligible to atfend for new subscriptions and collections but were unable to be there. Five Persons Named To Fire Committee Appointment has been made by the Paris Fire Department of a five member Fire Convention Committee as authorized by the City Council at a recent session.

Fire Chief Chester Kemp said that the members of the committee are Mrs. Dudley Hubbard. Bill Murphy. George Howerton. Mutt Cross and Oriis Rucker.

The committee will act as a lia- son group for the fire department in relations with the City Council and the public. Chief Kemp explained. RETAIL SALES UP NEW YORK weather in many sections of the country helped boost retail sales in the week ended Wednesday slightly above the preceding week and 6 to 10 percent ahead of the same week a year ago. Dun Bradstreet reported today. AUSTIN '3 Texas will have larger cotton sorghum grains, i peanut and pecan crops this year i than in 1947, the United States De-; partment of Agriculture predicted.

A record crop of flaxseed already has been harvested and a record rice crop is being harvested. Production of corn is below average but is also expected to exceed last year's. Winter grains production was far below that of 1947, with wheat and oats crops less than one-half a large as last year. A cotton crop of 3.500.000 bales is forecast. 69.000 bales more than in 1947 and the largest for Texas since 1937.

The increase comes i primarily in the northwest and' high plains area. Wheat production is estimated 1 at 54,169.000 bushels. 44 per cent of the 1947 all-time record. The corn crop is expected to hit 30.364.000 bushels. The sorghums yield is figured at i 84.834.000 bushels: rice.

24.096,000 i bushels; peanuts, 373.350.000 pounds. Prospective citrus production is short of last season. i i Services for Hodges Infant Held Friday 5 Funeral service for the infant, son of Mr. and Hodges. 824-12th SE.

dead at birth Thurs-; day at 7 p.m. at Lamar Hospital, was arranged for 3 p.m. Friday at Hopewell Cemetery- Brown-Roden i Funeral Home had charge of interment, the Rev. H. Glenn Smith of Immanuel Baptist Church officiating.

Besides the father and mother. the former Miss Audrie Konkle, are a sister. Wanda Sue. and three grandparents. Mrs.

Janie Coonrod. Bonham, and Mr. and Mrs. A. J.

Konkle, Paris. Rt. 6. 'THE PARIS NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1948, fog. 7 A BOUQUET FOR THE sad face kids watch, 10-year-old Marian Duffy gives flowers to nurse Pauline Newman for delivery to Babe Ruth in Memorial Hospital in New York.

(AP Wirephoto). McHam Funeral Friday The funeral of Ben M. McHam. 66. of 704 E.

Hcaron was set for 5 p.m. Friday at Brown-Roden Funeral Home, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. N'amed as pallbearers were Bob Northern. Lee Glasscock. J.

E. Crowley. Cei oil Musgrove. Frank Davis and Thomas Seay. Mr.

a retired farmer, died at home Thursday morning after about two months Funeral of H. W. Chain Is Held at Clarksville By Paris News Correspondent CLARKSVILLE The funeral of Hugh Wallace Chain, 72, who died at home Tuesday night, after a heart attack that morning at his office, was held Thursday morning. Mr. Chain was a plumber and tinner.

The Rev. Richard Irvin. the pastor, officiated at McKenzie Memorial Methodist Church, and burial was mnde in Fairview tery here by Jolley-Weaver Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Grant Walker. Joe Hess, Sam Hocker, Roy John A.

Bagby, A. D. Simpson and Ellis Goodman. Surviving are Mrs. Chain, two sisters.

Miss Lena Ohain and Miss Jesse Chain. Kansas City. and two Mrs. Charles McMahan. Duncan.

and Mrs. R. T. Marchbanks, Clarksville. Mr.

Chain, son of Newt and Rose Chain, was born in Missouri. Dec. 25, 1875, but had lived here a number of years and was a steward in the Methodist Church. He married Mrs. Grace Muns at Blossom.

Sept. 23. 1935. Border Patrol Rider Is Killed ALPINE A border rider for the international foot and mouth disease patrol was dead and another man was in the hos- ptia! here Friday following a shooting Thursday in the Big Bend country. Four men were reported to have been involved in an exchange of gunfire at Lajitas.

Brewster County river town In the Big Bend National Park. Dead was Stanley Rav Jeffers, 31. Sheriff Clarence Hord and two deputies returned here after an all- night ride back up through the park with the body of Jeffers. Babb, who suffered two bullet wounds, one in each shoulder, was said to be "not critically wounded." Two Jeffers brothers are employed in the livestock disease patrol. Two Babb brothers are employed on the Lewis Lewenthal Ranch on the border.

PARIS HAS THREE HOT DAYS IN ROW Three hots in a they were not table-fare, brother. Temperatures here have cleared the century bar the past three days. Tuesday it ws 102; Wednesday 103; Thursday 101. And it's plenty warm right now. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty my husband home for dinner.

Lillian I'll call you the same time tomorrow after breakfast. iMrs. E. J. Collum Dies Home at Slabtown By Paris News Correspondent COOPFR E.

J. Collum. i 48, ill at home in Slabtown munity, Lamar County, died there Friday at 12:13 a. m. Her husband and four children survive.

The Rev. F. C. Lunsford of Biardstown will conduct the funeral Saturday at 3 p. m.

at Rockford Presbyterian Church. with interment in the cemetery there by Delta Funeral Home of er. LONE STAR FARMS MILK IN CARTONS AND DELIVERED AT YOUR DOOR Phone 3006 Pasteurized Homogenized Buttermilk Whipping Cream At Your Grocers HORSE FLIES Yes, we have a positive, guaranteed, money back, remedy is the answer to your troubles with this costly fly. Coine in and see what we have. SUPERPHOSPHATE Bring us your purchase orders from the ACA office and let us fill them with ARMOUR'S BIG CROP Superphosphate.

We carry Armour's 0-14-7 which is also good on your purchase order. RED CHAIN FEEDS We carry a full and complete line of Red Chain Feeds. PRICED RIGHT. It doesn't cost to feed Red Chain Feeds, it PAYS. WE DELIVER EVERY THURSDAY RED CHAIN FEED STORE The Friendly Store J.

P. SAMMONS. Owner Carter Funeral Friday Is Arranged at Enloe By Paris News Correspondent COOPER Funeral service for A. S. Carter, 70-year-old Enloe resident, was arranged for 4 p.

m. Friday at Enloe Methodist Church. the Rev. Carl D. Reynolds, Metho; dist pastor here, officiating.

Mc- 1 Donald Funeral Home here had charge of interment in Oaklawn Cemetery. Mr. Carter, a retired farmer who died at Janes Hospital here early Thursday. leaves his wife. the former Miss Ada Huie.

and these children: Cleburne Carter. Mrs. Lennie Whitlock and Mrs. James McFatridge. a ytown; Mrs.

Robbie Whitlock. Ennis; M. H. Carter, G. W.

Carter. Mrs. T. B. Whitlock and Mrs.

Myra Skinner, Enloe. and Mrs. Mary Slough. Cooper, besides nine 1 grandchildren. Leathernecks Ready, Says Marine General SANTA AXA.

Calif, if "We are ready to go." So said the commander of the S. Marine Corps, four-star Gen. Clifton B. Cates. after watching Marine Reserve fliers from the western part of the country participate in maneuvers at El Toro Marine Air Station here.

Gen. Cates also witnessed a review of more than 250 planes, including the nucleus of a West Coast jet fighter squadron. The general told a news conference that Marine Reserves now total 113.000. with 84,000 officers and men in the regular corps. Brownwood Shuttle Pilot Is Honored BERLIN" Lieut.

James Lykins of Brownwood. was honored Friday as an outstanding pilot of the American section of the air lift supplying blockaded Berlin. Ceremonies were conducted at Tempelhof Airfield. Lykins was selected from among his colleagues to receive a watch given anonymously by a Berlin businessman as "a token of appreciation of the sen-ices rendered all the people of Berlin" by the air shuttle fliers. Lykins.

who is based at Thein- Main Airport in Frankfurt, had made 46 flights in the Berlin shuttle from June 22 to Aug. 3. He has been in the air force since 1941. Former Dancer Flees Ta California Court LOS ANGELES A flight which began in a South American jungle has ended in a Los Angeles divorce court. Juanita Roddy-Eden Patino.

28. former dancer, won a divorce from Ramon Patino, nephew of the late multimillionaire tin magnate. Simon Patino. Mrs. Patico who married Patino at Ft.

Lauderdale. in 1942, said he took her to Colombis last November, ostensibly to sell his rice mills and sugar refinery and tSen return to this country. When they reached Barranquilla. Colombia, she said, Patino told her he had tricked her and that' he didn't plan to return to the U. S.

She said he told her that under Colombian law she could never leave him or own property. Private detectives were hired to guard her. she said. She she drugged them and fled to Ecuador and finally back to this country. The court awarded her custody of their two children and gave her possession of a home here.

Expectant Mother Found Shot to Death SAX ANTONIO 'J Mrs. Joyce Cameron. 21. an expectant mother, was found by her husband shot to death in their home here late Thursday night. Justice of the Peace B.

B. Bro- thennan withheld an inquest verdict pending further investigation. Children See Mother Wounded, Uncle Killed WILKIXSBURG. Pa. Mrs.

Nancy Hallas and her two children, aged 3 1 and 6. were eating supper Thursday night when her husband appeared at the table. Ten minutes later the husband. 39-year-old Vernon Hallas. and the woman's brother in law.

Frank Traficante. 42, were dead. Mrs. Hallas was wounded critically in i the shooting al Traticanle's house. This is the way Mrs.

Hallas related the story to police Sgt. George Isett: She invited her husband to sit down and eat supper and he refused, saying he wanled to talk privately to his wife. They went outside, argued, returned to the house and continued the argument. Suddenly Hallas whipped out a revolver and shot Traficante once in the chest. Then Halias fired.

twice at his wife, hitting her twice in the chest. The terrified children watched Hallas go outside. Anothre shot was fired into Hallas' right temple and he fell dead. 12 Reported Dead In Superior! Crash ROSWELL, N. M.

Twelve, crewmen were killed and eight' others were injured Thursday! night in the crash of a B-29 Super-! fortress, the Roswell Record said i today. I The ship crashed three miles i south of Walker Air Force Base i near here. Col. John D. Ryan, field com- i mandant, announced that eight men escaped but declined to say how many were dead pending notification of relatives.

The Record said its count on i the deatli toll came from a re- sponsible source but one which could not be quoted. Howland Citizens fight Grass Fire A grass fire on the soutlnvest- jeru outskirts of Howland threaten- i ed the little community Friday! morning before townspeople turn- I ed out. to bring the blaze under control. Confusion in reports on the fire caused an appeal to the Paris Fire I Department for aid, and a pumper i truck was dispatched to the scene. i The blaze broke out in a pas-: ture on the farm of Mrs.

F. L. West and wind fanned it toward a i group of houses and barns on the edge of Hewland. i Word was spread over the com- munity asking help in controlilig. I the fire.

A group of about 40: residents turned out with wet tow-' sacks, brooms and any other use! ful weapon to combat the flames. One resident heard the report that two houses were on fire and others were about to catch. Word was flashed about 11:30 i.m. to the fire department by telephone. Chief.

Chester Kemp ordered out the pumper truck and along with a Paris News Staff car. made a 70-mile-an-hour dash over the 15 miles from Paris to Howland to find the fire under control and no houses on fire. "We want to help rural com- munities anyway we can in case of serious fires," Chief Kemp said, "but we urge that they be posi- I live of their information when i sending in an alarm." The chief pointed out that a large fire within Paris would require all firemen and trucks of the depart- ment. "Under these circumstan- ces, we want to be oosltive that we are needed and can usefully help when dispatching a truck to a rural fire," he continued. Reduction Made In Cotton Margin NEW YORK in The New York Cotton Exchange Friday announced reductions of S5 to $10 a bale in margin requirements, effective Aug.

16. The new schedule is based on the current government crop loan policy. The new rates are: $10 a bale on transactions entered into up to 33.7 cents per pound; $16 a bale from 33.01 to 36 cents a pound; $20 a bale from 36.01 to 39 cents; and $25 from 39.01 to 42 cents. RICHARD KEEPING ALL DOORS OPEN LOS ANGELES tfl Rje- member that song: Open the Door, Richard? Well, because 10-y a r-old Richard Serrao couldn't open it, he was in Los Angeles today, instead of at home in Honolulu. He went aboard the Matson Liner Lurline at Honolulu with his mother to see some friends off for the mainland.

He said he went into the restroom, the door slammed and lie couldn't open it. He wasn't discovered until the Lurline was far out at saea. His mother wired him $120 for a round-trip ticket. Richard 'is watching his doors, for the Lurline is due to tonight fox home. Rep.

Sam Rayburn Back in Bonham BONHAM. Tex. (to Rep. Sam Rayburn was back home in Bonham today with no immediate plans except to go fishing. The minority leader of the House arrived Thursday.

He declined to comment on the special session of Congress just ended except to say was expected, it did little or nothiilg in the interest of the plain citizens of the United States. We may expect as little or less from them in the future." A Gentle Reminder THAT Your Want Ad Must be in by 2:30 Saturday to appear in Sunday's Paris News Want Ad Section Call 2323 14 Santa Fe Cars Pile Up and Burn i MARIETTA, Okla ears of a Santa Fe freight train loaded with sulphur piled up near here today and an undetermined number burst into flames. Hiram Johnson, division passenger agent at Ardmore, said no one was injured. He said the wreck apparently was caused by a loose coupling bar on one of the cars. COLLINS Henry Collins, named as payoff man in the Communist underground by previous witness, takes the witness stand before the House Un- American Activities committee in the Red spy investigation.

(AP Wirephoto). WAR DEAD TRANSPORT OAKLAND. Calif. The Dalton Victory-, Army funeral ship, docked at Oakland Army Base Thursday with the remains of 3.961 servicemen who were killed in Pacific fighting. G0 00 SERVICE SELLS AT GLASS MOTOR CO.

221 BONHAM ST. YEAH! MAN! Ifs i great and glorious feeling to all your third, handkerchiefs underwear, returned ipic ind laundered. We have thii service awaiting your call. CITY STEAM LAUNDRY Phone 21 and 22 Master Cleaners and Pressers "One Call Does All" THANKFUL FOR A TANKFUL! BY PARIS AUTOMATIC GAS CO HORTMtas COLOi-weilS SNUft AKO KILLED IN COLLISION XACOGDOCHES 'J 1 Simmons. 10.

was killed in an automobile-truck collision near here Wednesday. Her mother. Mrs. Mozelle Womack, wai seriously injured. WOOL PRODUCTION LOW I AU)5TIX Shorn wool production in Texas will total only i 947.000 pounds this year, the low-! art amount since 1S31, the United' States Department of Agriculture estimates PARIS AUTOMATIC GAS CO.

COOPER HIGHWAY PHONE 155.