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Classified Display mi All Popular Brands: GOODYEAR GOODRICH DAYTON Sidewallstoo! Closing-Out Every TIRE IN STOCK! PASSENGER and TRUCK A HOST OF WANTED SIZES! Hundreds of tires goon sale tomorrow morning at great money saving prices. We've cut and slashed prices to the very bone. We are definitely going to sell every tire we have in stock. Choose from regular and low pressure tires, and WHITE SIDEWALLS TOO! See the terrific savings on Truck Tires. Every major brand tire is included YOU CAN NEVER SAVE MORE ON TIRES THAN RIGHT NOW THEY GO ON SALE BRIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING THEY WILL BE SOLD! a we rt aii "Your Friendly Ford Dealer" 222 Clarksville Phone 46 Automobflej for FOR SALE! The Best Fishing Car in And Worth the Money I 1938 CHEVROLET $95 PARIS FINANCE CO.

10 Solomon Bldg. Phone 228 Trucks, Trailers, CHEVROLET pickup truck In excellent mechanical condition, all work necessary done to qualify under new regulation will sell worth the money. M. D. Doug Scott (Faught) Paris, Houte 6.

LATE 1947 CMC truck, long wheel base with new motor, $325 for quick sale. Inquire E. M. Jones, Enloe. Texns, and mailing address Houte 3, Cooper, Texas.

FOR SALE or 1947 Dodge 2-ton truck, 5-speed transmission, A-l condition, 900 tires on back. 825 on front. Call 2700-R. Tires Parts Supplies TIRES. Batteries and accessories.

Good trade al- lowancc on your used tires. Ray Walters Service Station. Phone Classified Display BRILLION SURE STANC SEEDERS New Holland HAY BALERS Ties With Wire or.Twine John Scarborough Tractor Company 333 Honhtm Phont BRIEFS AND PERSONALS Monthly Family will observed at; Gordon Country Club Friday night at 7:30 for members and their guests. Charles Ragland, a native Parisian, Svas here Thursday on business for the Texas Steel Company of Fort Worth. Paris Chapter NO, 5, Ordtr of the Eastern Star, will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 In the Masonic Temple.

A meeting of the Woman's Home Demonstration Club chorus will be held Saturday at 2 m. at the court house. All members are urged to attend. Ir'win Glew, manager of Dadant Sons, bee supply company here, is in Iowa on business. lie also will visit the home office in Hamilton, 111.

COOK A CIVILIZED MAN "We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without console ce and live without We may. friends, we may live without books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks." Meredith. B. B. Hartm, preslcknt of Lamar Creamery, has returned home after attending the Dairy Product! Institute's annual convention in Fort Worth.

The Rt. Rev. Joseph Gomez, presiding bishop, 'will speak at the Negro Ebenczer AME Church Sunday, March 2, at 11 m. The pastor, Elder Jaines Humphrey, the public to attend. The public is Invited to attend Ihe South American Festival sponsored by Methodist Youth Fellowship of First Methodist Church Friday night in the church basement.

A special pep rally will be held in Paris High School gymnasium Thursday afternoon just before the departure of school busses and cars going (o the Glndewater PHS basketball game. Bobby R. Tingle, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.

Tingle, 15d 1, Sum- ncr, has entered the Airplane and Engine Mechanics School at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. He was formerly employed by Cummer Graham Co. entered the Air Force Sept. 19. Theft Charge Filed After Cooper Man Loses Money Here Felony charges of theft from the person were filed against Earl Franks of Paris early Thursday morning following complaint of a Delta County man that $270 was stolen off him here-last night.

3 tut luuac Authorities said they are continu- i mittee today for more informatibn ing their investigation into the in- cident. They indicated that other Info Sought On Military Purchases By RUSSELL BRINES WASHINGTON Chairman Hebert (D-La) summoned military officials before his House subcom- Contract Olcoyed For Housinq Job In West Dallas DALLAS A contract was being drawn Tuesday for construction of the first 590 dwelling units a $37,000,000 low-rent public housing project in West Dallas, James Stephenson, executive director of the Dallas Housing Authority said. The contract was lo be with J. J. Fritch; general contractor whose bid of 52,988,000 for building thei.590 units was low bid among 14 submitted Monday, Unit's to be placed under construction are the first lot of housing units planned in the area.

proceed order will be issued today, in order, that work can begin immediately," said Mr. Stephenson: riexj group of apartments will b'e the subject of bids to be opened March-10. Other bids will be opened every two weeks until the end of May, according to Mr. Stephenson. Second low bidder, with- a bid of $2,999,950, was J.

Rife Con- MARKETS Official Gives I OOF Degrees O. A. Benthul of Dallas, onetime Parisian, now grand master of the Odd Fellow order in Tjxas, paid his official visit to Wlldey Lodge No. '2, IQOF, Tuesday night in the lodge building. He called-a short special session of the Grand Lodge conferred the past grand's lO principles and purposes.

He was accompanied here by Vernon Barton, Cooper, district deputy supervisor, who presented WHdey Lodge with an "Ap- Week" banner. This Is given- to lodges which turn in at least one membership application a week during a year. About 60 members of the Paris, Cooper and Greenville lodges attended. Mr. Bentliul, at the Grand Lodge sessions in Galveston, March 17-18, will be made past grand master.

Wildey Lodge will be officially represented at the Galvesfon meeting by L. H. Hinkson and Mr. Tinsley. Mr.

Benthul Jived in Paris about 10 years ago, being connected with Perkins Brothers Company store. Atomic Bomb Discussed By Charles Wells Charles A. Wells, noted writer, journalist anil speaker, his audience at First Baptist Church Wednesday night that "the American people have no concept of.tho attitude of the rest, of the world toward the atomic bomb and the use we have made of It both in war and as a propaganda weapon in the cold war," Mr. Veils is spenking-cacti night this week at First Baptist Church, ills topic 'Wednesday night as "What A Layman Should Know About the Atomic Bomb." Citing reports from the foreign press and statements made by our allies in the United Nations, Mr, Wells declared that America lost much of its moral leadership by using the bomb on a defeated nation and by forgetting thnt.a nation which carries "a big stick should speak softly." "Only the high sense of Christian responsibility 'in our: attitude toward the atomic bomb can recover for us the moral nnd' spiritual leadership we must have if we are lo lead the world away from communism," he added. Wheii Labor Rules Christian Statesmen or Mob" will be Mr.

Wells' Thursday night subject. -A forum discussion will follow. THI PARIS NEWS, THURSDAY, FIB. 28, 1952 DEATHS AND FUNERALS LINDEN Fort Worth Livestock FORT WORTH, Feb. 28 500; calves 200; feel steers and yearlings dull, sharply lower, other Classen of and all calves Oooil and choice slaughter steers ithd yearlings.

common and medium COWK 520.50-524; good and choice slaughter calves common' and. medium medium to choice. lUocicer calves stacker itock- er cows Hogs SOO; butchers 'steady; fait oily -hogR choice 180-2151 pound liogs soft oUy bogs I down: choice 160-175 pound 280-400 pound liogn sows S1.1.50-S1B; feeder pigs I Sheep 1.200; slaughter vcak lo 60 cents lower; feeders steady. Good arid choice shorn slaughter lambs No. 2, 525 50; common nnd medium feeder Fort Worth Grain FORT WORTH, Feb.

17 WV Wheat No. 1 hard 2.67-12. Corn. No. 2 white 2.23-2a?i.

Oats Wo, 2 white Sonjluims No. 2 yellow mllo 3.02-07 per 100 pounds. New Orleans Spot NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 27 Spot cotton closed steady S3.75 a bale lower.

Sales 558. Low middling 36.00; middling 40.00; Rood middling 41.00. Receipts none. Stock, 250.68B. suspects were involved in the case.

Rudolph Maynard of Cooper told the county attorney's office that he was at a North Main Street place when some other men joined him. He said he remembers leaving with them in a car, but later found himself wandering about with a bleeding head and his money missing. Authorities said Maynard told them he some hogs earlier in the day to get the money. Governor Shivers Tells Clemencies AUSTIN, Feb. 28 Cov.

Shivers has taken the following clemency actions upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles: CondltionaJ pardons: Leroy Mayer, over five years credit on six-year sentence on April 1, from Coleman, Baylor and Ector counties for three cases of burglary and one case of forgery. To Ector County. William M. Lloyd, over one year and nine months credit on three- year sentence on April 19, 1951, from Dicken.s County for driving while intoxicated, to Scurry County. FARMER Continued From Page of the five areas will compete for the state award.

Should McVay wtn the region selection he will riceive i $200. If he wins the state honor he will get $500. In 1950 M. J. Stewart won the state award, receiving 5500.

fn 1951, Fred Gliliam was the regional winner of $200. Mrs. Blake Bonham won the Homemaker plaque for being the outstanding state woman. The Chicota Conservation Group won $200 from the award in 1951. public relations men who he said are "trying to soft peddle" an investigation of military buying.

"We are going to tind out who the Potomac pitchmen are and' how much they are paid to the public's attention away from waste in the military," Hebert told a reporter. He defined a "pitchman" as a "carnival character who will try to sell anything." Hebert asked the Pentagon Monday to supply a list'of all military and civilian personnel assigned to public relations, and their salaries. He called an open hearing of his armed services subcommittee today to pursue the subject with Archibald S. Alexander, undersecretary of the Army and other officiafs. At the same time an expenditures subcommittee headed by Rep.

Bonner (D-NC) continues its probe of reasons why th military services have not centralized their purchasing. Karl R. Bendetsen, acting chairman of the management committee for the Defense Department, was. called to more details. Bonner told.

a reporter that a Defense Department order last July directed the military services to work toward a consolidation of their buying activities. "Since then," Bonner said, "the only thing they have done is to start an experiment In medical testified yesterday the Army medical depot in Alameda, now is purchasing, storing and distributing medical supplies, used by the three armed services in Korea and the seven Western states. He said this was an experiment which, if successful, should be adopted "across the board." The two subcommittees, conducting somewhat parallel investigations; contend that millions of dollars could he saved by selling up a single agency to buy everything needed by the services. Dallas Spot DALLAS. Feb.

21 coUon Dallas 40.00; Houston 40.10; Oatvcsio Poultry, Eggs Parts News SftrV.lc* LINDEN The rain Sunday and Monday again, delayed farm work. Several tomato growers here have under their hot beds to.warm them up so they cnri plant seed. Mrs. Ben Dowell from Liberty and Capt. James Anderson Fort Hood visited Elbert Anderson Sunday.

Dowel! visited other relatives at Olive during the weekend. Mr. 'and Mrs. Henry Skldmore froin Dallas spent the weekend with tils' parents; Mr. and Mrs.

W. W. Skid more. Ernest Allen who underwent major operation in General Hospital in Paris about 10 days' ago was able to be brought home'-. Sturday.

Her daughter-in- law, 'Mrs, Albert Hensley from Dallas spending the week here with her. Mr. Mrs. Clint Thompson and children from Garland Sunday in the Allen home. Mrs.

Thompson is Mrs. Allen's granddaughter. EOOS: 25-30 ccnti. POULTRY: Brolleri, 38-30 cenln: era, 24-S8 cents; fryers, 21-38 cents; hcna 1B-20 cents; rooatern, 1S-13 cents. Cotton Seed CoUon iced 175 per ton.

Milk MILK: No price quoted. Federal milk marketing order No. 43 prevMllng. Price i paid In January, Orade A 53.88 per 100, pounds testing 4 per cent buUeriat test pins 9.5 c.tnls per point over 4 per cont nnd minus 3.5 cent? per point under percent CREAM: No. 1, 75 cents; No.

2, 70 cents. For ManuJacturlnc Purposes: J4.35 per 100 pounds testing 4 per cent plus 8.8 cents per point over 4 per cenl find minus 8.8 cents per pound under 4 per cenl. Paris Rabbit Market Colored fryers, 28 cents ccr pound. White fryers, 30 cents per pound. Bakers, Tl each.

Pecan Market Local. 10 erntA per pound BIARDSTOWN Paris News Service BIARDSTOWN Robert McKinney has built a new corral; Cud Blertsoc is having a new barn huilf; Jack Francis has moved into the Armstrong Store huilding- after making several improvements, including papering and inside, gas installed, and a new front porch added. It is now open for business. iUrs. Maude Smith of Paris Is ill here at the home rif her daughter, Mrs.

Tony Bietlsoc. Mrs. Henry Pickering is somewhat Improved after being in St. Joseph's Hospital, Paris, for treatment. Mrs.

Roger Jones and Mary Anne Jones of El Dorado, and James Pickering of Houston are attending her. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Pickering of Houston and Mrs. Joe Aderhold and son.

Bill of Dallas were weekend visitors of the Pickerings. Mrs. James Kins and Mrs. C. Clem have had influenza.

Practice FFA Judging Contest Set at PJC R. B. Thomas, FFA supervisor, Area 6, extends invitations to all area chapters to attend the "practice Judging" contest, March 15 at the Paris Junior College. Those wishing additional information concerning the contest are requested to write or contact P. Griffis at the PJO.

This Is a warm-up judging contest, remarked Thomas, for the Area 0 judging contest to be held at East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, April 5. Thomas also reminded district FFA instructors that no meeting will be held in the Paris district during March. First meeting is scheduled for April 7, In the Paris High School. Over 100 schools have been invited, and more than 300 agriculture students are expected to attend the PJC contest, explained Griffis. Mrs.

Gertrude Bedford Mrs. Gertrude Bedford, 71, of Antlers, died late Wednesday In St. Joseph's Hospital here. She had been a patient there since Feb. 21.

Coffey Funeral Home of Antlers had charge of arrangements for services, which were not announced here. Baughn Funeral The funeral ot Numan K. Bnughn, 30, of Linden community, Rt. 2, Blossom, will be held at 2 p. m.

Friday at Blossom Baptist Church. The Hov. Fred Greger will officiate and Gene Uoden Price Support Set For Field Corn A price support of $1.00 a bushel for' corn has been announced. by the Production and Marketing Administration, to an announcement made Thursday by J. P.

Maxwell, chairman'of the county PMA committee. This should'help farmers lo see their way clear to help meet the high production goal', set for' Lamar County, it was remarked by Maxwell. Indications were made by farmers at the beginning of the year that a larger corn acreage was wanted and needed. for crop compares with-the 1951 corn crop rale of $1.57 per bushel for corn. Dollars- and-cents support are announced at.this time advance of spring planting, the chairman said, in accordance with forward pricing provisions of governing legislation.

The support for corn Is a mini-: mum, based on a national average of $1.60 a bushel; it will be revised upward It 90 per cent'of parity for corn at, the beginning of the 1952 marketing year''next October to greater than the 'national average, no the average support level be lower. Mr. Maxwcll-'sald that yearls high-production goals for important crops, particularly corn, will mean that farmers will have to do everything possible to Increase yields per acre, while' protecting the land's future productivity. Carolyn Garvin Wins High School Orators'Contest Carolyn Garvin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

'James Ga.ryln, 32247th NE, and a sophomore at Paris High School, won first place In the high' school oi'atorical contest' Wednesday afternoon in the high school auditorium. Her subject was "Tbo Constitution.in our Everyday Lite." Miss Nan Jo Whltaker, daughter of Mr: and Mrs, Elmer Whltaker, 654-23rd SE, and a freshman won second place. Garvin will compete in the district contest to be held here March 14 and Miss Whltaker wiil be alternate. Winner of the district content 'compete the divisional, also scheduled for Paris on March '21. Sponsored by the" American Legion, these contests are preliminary to (ho national contest which awards $4,000 scholarship as first prize, The Rev, James Hlley, Mrs.

H. C. Kennerner, Jr. and Nathan Bell were judges for the Wednesday afternoon contest, which was given before a large audience of students, parents and Sons, funeral directors, will make Interment In Knights of oh Cemetery. Pallbearers will be James Hart, Jesse Hart, Riley Hevron, Herman Herron, Carl Griffin.and Reece Pyron.

Mr. 36th Division veteran of World War II, died Tuesday in the veterans hospital at McKinney, after several weeks illness. Mrs. George Stoehner Parts Service HONEY GROVE Mrs. George Stoehner.

76, died Thursday at 2 a. at the home of her sister, Mrs, Mary Loschke. The furneral is arranged for Friday at 2 p. at Aliens Chapel Lutheran Church, conducted by the Rev. Donald Vetter, Burial in Evergreen Cemetery.

Paris! later in the afternoon, was arranged by Robert West Funeral flome here. Mrs, Stoshner, born in Germany, June 15, 1875. had lived in this vicinity many years, A widow, she leaves two sisters, Mrs. Loschke and Mrs. Jacob Fein, both living here, and a brother, Charlie Vorholzer of RVn community, Rt, 2, Paris, besides several nieces, nephews and stepchildren.

Sorrels Funeral Paris News Service BOGATA; (delayed) The funeral of F'-ank M. Sorrels. 85, was held in the Mtehodist Church Sunday. He died Saturday in a Dallas hospital. He moved from Bogata to El Paso in 1916 and had lived in Dallas two years.

He leaves his wife, formerly Miss Mollie Fuller; a son, Forrest U. Sorrels, and Dave Sorrels here. Parisian Fined For Transporting Liquor in City Joe Sasser, a Paris taxicab driver, was fined $100 and cost Thursday morning when he pleaded guilty In Comity Court to a-charge of transporting liquor In dry i The against, gasser by police following bit arrest nlfht. Officers said they were searching him In 'connection with a dis- Iturbancc earlier In the night when they stopped his car on North Main Street. However, a routine-search of the vehicle turned up three one half pints of whisky, they said.

Judge Joe Hammock accepted Sasscr's plea and assessed the fine. Ruth Ann Jack President Of New Study Club Ruth Ann Jack was elected president of the Poets Club at an organization meeting held Wednesday at Paris High School. Purpose of the new study tlub is cultural, with writing, and studying to stressed. W. M.

Heath, English instructor, Other chosen Amanda.Ingram; and Margaret' Ann' Haley, secretary treasurer, A by law committee is composed of Carl Ana Mooring, Myra Jo Lewis, 'Mary Ann Kelly and 'Barbara Brown. Margaret Ann Young elected keeper of all records and work. The next meeting'-will held' Tuesday, March 4, after school. Club are Jo'Faulkner, Suianne Raphael, ering, Barbara Mary, Eva Jean Bailey, Nancy Williams, Moore, Barbara Totten, Jo Anne James, Lewis, Margaret Arin Haley, Myra Jo Morris, Joanne, Herman'Gage, Mary' Ann Kelly, Amanda Ingram, Mar-' garet Ann Young, Ruth Ann Jacki Judy'Davis, Betty Maynard, Eliza-' beth Polk, Jeannle O'Connor 'and Nlta Joyce Glover. Butter and Egg Prices Move Up By The Associated Press Butter and egg prices moved higher in most retail markets this week.

Meats showed little change. Many stores marked down fish prices and planned to stress seafood among their week-end specials. Butter advanced one to as much as six cents a pound to the highest retail and wholesale levels since early April of 1948 In some areas. Production continued In fall off as milk was diverted to fluid market channels. Kggs rose an average of two lo four cents a dozen at retail but were still listed among the best food buys for Lent by the majority of stores.

There was no shortage of eggs, but more were moving into storage. Cotton, Oil Barter MEXICO CITY, Feb. 28 Sources in the Mexican nil Industry ycsterdny said Japan and Belgium have offered lo barter oilfield pipe in exchange for cotton. WE'RE COOPERATING WITH THE MERCHANTS OF PARIS FRI.FEB. 29 EXTRA VALUE''DAY SPECIALS NO PARKING FUSS WHEN YOU RIDE A CITY BUS FREE! Ride Paris City Buses FREE TO TOWN (Ride Back Home for Regular Fan)' 8:30 a.m.

to 3:00 p.m. ON EXTRA-VALUE-DAY FRIDAY, FEB. 29 GET THE BUS HABIT IT PAYS PARIS CITY BUS LINES.

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