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THE PARIS, TEXAS, NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1959 Big-Hearted Citizens of Paris, Lamar Gave More Than $1 Million Last Year Approximately $1,089,000 was raised in Paris and Lamar County during 1958 for all philanthropic purposes, according to an -analysis just completed by Community Service Bureau of Dallas. This total includes annual budgets and capital funds raised for all religious needs and all other types of organizations and institutions in the community. Based on statistical data gathered by the Bureau, it is conservatively estimated that philanthropic contributions in Texas during the year just ended amounted to 8330,000,000, an increase of over 1957. The estimated total for the United States was according to statistical data released by the American Association of Fund Raising Counsel. This, too, was a national increase of approximately "The increase in philanthropic contributions during the past year is heartening, especially when you consider that we faced an economic recession," said 0.

Newberry, president of Community Service Bureau. "It is tangible testimony to the fact that the people of this country, this state, this city are determined to take care of their problems through voluntary giving as against the theory of socialism. This is particularly pointed up when we are reminded that 78.7% of the contributions were from individuals." Religions received of the philanthropic dollar, according to the Bureau's study. Welfare received health education foundations with going to miscellaneous purposes. This would indicate to us that the heart of Paris still beats strongly for- the needs of its fellow man.

Certainly the folks of our city never hesitate to support with their time and money any worthwhile organization or project. This speaks well; for our T. Non-Candidate Lyndon Gains Strength For a man who insists he is not a candidate of the Democratic nomination for President, Senator B. Johnson has for months been getting an astonishing amount of publicity as a probable contestant regardless of what he says or doesn't say about it Last week's Newsweek Magazine presents a "spread" on the majority leader of the Senate running to about six columns. "The impact of Johnson's strong and successful leadership of the party makes it inevitable that-Democrats will give him careful consideration before they choose their next presidential nominee," the magazine says.

It adds that "almost nobody" believes Johnson when he says he isn't running. "The betting in Texas is that Johnson's mask of 'unavailability' will be dropped before Texas Democrats meet, in May 1960, to choose delegates for the Los Angeles convention." Under the heading, "Can a Southerner Win?" a Newsweek writer asserts Johnson "may come dose." Like good many other political commentators this fellow seems to think that after all the other hot- and-bothered aspirants have run themselves ragged and wound up in a deadlock, two main figures will come down to the wire: Lyndon Johnson and Adlai Stevenson. As for the "Southerner" tag, some observers place significance on Johnson's recent alliance with Western Democrats and on his taking the lead in proposing a civil rights bill, in which he "stole the ball" right out of President Eisenhower's hands. This created a minor flurry among Southern some of them got round to that if the Johnson bill hadn't been pushed, a much stiff er one might have taken its place. How does Johnson stand in New England? Newsweek tells of a recent SlOO-a- plant dinner in Hartford, in which the.Texan all but stole the show, though most of the big Connecticut names at the 1 gathering were pledged to Senator Jack Kennedy of Massachusetts.

Nevertheless it was Johnson who "wowed and got a standing ovation. His hosts made it plain he was second only to Jack Kennedy. This in spite of the fact the magazine had said; in effect, he had no great "crowd appeal," but his strength lay in quiet conversation and behind-the-scenes maneuvering. The majority leader will be in Abilene Saturday night for the $25-a-plate luncheon which is expected to draw a thousand Democrats, not as the principal speaker (that chore belongs to Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney) but undoubtedly as'the stellar attraction. Johnson is the first Southerner in a hundred years to be taken seriously as a possible standard-bearer.

The Paris News Is in Independent Democratic newspaper, supporting what It believes to be right ind opposing what it believes to be wrong, publishing the news fairly and impartially at all times. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Samuel Brought Leadership To A Nation Facing Ruin it a potent factor in world history. Almost every great has known the rise and achievement of some outstanding leader. Once in a while, movements seem to get started and to mature without the leadership of outstanding persons, but this rare. a great man stands at 'the head of a great series of events.

One of the greatest Old Testament leaders was Samuel. He is often referred to as the last of the judges and the first of the prophets, for his nature and work partook of the qualities of both these offices. Judges in those days were not only arbiters of disputes but also civic and military leaders. We usually regard a prophet as a foreteller. Most of the Biblical prophets did foretell events, but their main function was to preach.

Samuel was a great, leader, a great religious figure, and one who in a number of ways'preached to the life and needs of his people. The Sunday school lesson for April 5 begins new series of lessons having to do with the United and divided kingdoms of Israel. David was the first king of the BOGATA Paris Service Mr. and Mrs- Harold Geese of Bogata visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

F. A. Geese at New London. Visiting in Bogata were Mr. and Mrs.

Travis Watts of Longv i with Mr. and Mrs- N.A. Gibson. Mrs. A.

M. Blake's guests were Ray Blake of Edna and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Blake and children of Ft. Worth.

Mr. and Mrs- Jack Wilson and daughter of Sherman visited Mr. and Mrs. Wilson tnd Mr. end Mrs.

Rufus Williams. Mr. and Mrs. C. G.

McMinn and children of Ft. Worth visited Mr. and Mrs. Russ Ward. Guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Car 1 Vaughn were Mr- and Mrs. J. D. Vaughn of Dallas tnd Melvin H.

Vaughn of Denton. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wilkinson were Mr. and Mrs.

Arnold Glover and son of Knox City, MM. L. D. Thompson of a City, Okla-, and Mrs. William Brooks of Hopewell, Kan.

With Mrs. Griffis Mr. and Mrs. L. A.

Wilcwc and children of n. Worth; Mr. and Bob Devlin and cfciMrwi, Mt. VCTMR; Mr. Mrs.

JK Kinf, Mr and MM. Wilson Norris, Mn. B. 0. Bfyan Md MiM Holt, Hebrews.

Solomon was the second. T5ie tyranny, folly, and general and character rendered the life of the Hebrew people so unstable that the north and south sections of the population divided. After Solomon, there were Northern Kingdom which bore the name of Israel and the Southern Kingdom which bore the name of Judah. Samuel acted as a king of Israel before Israel had a king. He had been consecrated to the service of God by his mother.

In fact, he was a child of the covenant, for Hannah had promised God that if she were allowed to have a male child she would consecrate this child wholly to the Lord. A man child she had, called his name Samuel, and wen he was quite young took him to the Hebrew high priets. Eh', and there left him that he might be reared within te precincts of the tabernacle and trained to be a helper of the high priest, Eli. This Eli was a well-meaning but inept, lazy, and indulgent person. He was totally unfit to lead the religious life of God's chosen people.

One would naturally expect that when God had a message for the Hebrews, He would reveal such a message to the ranking religious leader, namely, the high pritst. What really happened, however, was that when God's revelation came, it came not to Eli but to the child Samuel. Lying within the quiet of the temple, little Samuel heard God's awful pronouncement of-doom on Eli and his people. The high priest would die and his worthless sons would be slain. The nation would experience a major military disaster.

The Ark of the Lord would be carried away by the enemy, namely, the Philistines, and set up in their heathen temple. All this came about as God by supernatural vision assured the child Samuel that it would occur. Eli died and his sons were slain. The Philistines, however, found that their victory did not bring them complete satisfaction, for the Ark of the Lord, brought into the temple of the heathen god Dag'on, resulted disastrously for the idol. The Philistines, thoroughly terrified, hurried to return the Ark to the Israelites.

The passage of Scripture which constitutes this week's lesson tells how Samuel fathered all Israelites to Mizpeh for prayer, sacrifice, and for war. Samuel "drew water, and poured it out before the lord, and fasted on day." result of thig spiritual discipline and devotion was that Israelites were trans formed from cowerinf slaves strong, aggressive warriors. They turned on the Philistines and engaged them until the Philistines were defeated. Samuel gave the people a new heart, and with this new hear 1 came new courage and purpose The Philistines were not extermi nated at this time nor even ren dered powerless from the militarj standpoint. But they were subdued They could not terrorize Samue and his people as they had been 'accustomed to do for many dec ades.

Samuel was one of Israel's de liverers. He found his nation di vided, hopeless, and in bondage He left the people united, fillet with assurance, and free of tha cruelty which the Philistines hac for a long time been inflicting upo them. Samuel lived'in an age of Iran sition. We live in a similar age today. His triumph over circum stances was due to the fact tha he was a great man of God.

In fact that he was r. great man God. In these times of threatenec war, insecurity, international ten sion, and a wide-spreading declin in moral standards, we need lead ers like self-con fident men, wb; their bat ties against .1, supported the Spirit of vne living God. The Creator made us to be th image of His own eternity. Lands mortgaged may return but honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurers gold The loathsome degradation of hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices To bless the thing it loves. You cannot put great hope Into a small soul. Jones God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way. 12:23 What in me is dark, niumine what is low, raise and support That to the heights of this grea argument I may assert eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men. We we never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselve to be.

Rochefoucauld BRING COMMUMCT CULTURE TO BACKWARD PEOPLE OF Never Miricf the Screams- THB WORLD TODAY Meade Alcorn Had Realistic Attitude Towaid GOP Chances By JAMES MARLOW Associated Preii Newf Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) Every once in a while a politician leaves citadel of stuffy party plati- after a career which makes you feel like saying: "Thanks for some cool air, for a change." Meade Alcorn is such a one. With a few moments of frankness he dented, although the dent disappeared fast, the long tradition which seems to require political big-wigs to slam-bang the opposition only and never, admit defeat beforehand. Alcorn, 51, did his share of slam- banging before he resigned Wednesday as chairman of the Republican National Committee after more than 22 months of trying to steer his party down a road. But it was his plain talk months before the 195B that his party figured to Jose which anguished some of hu fellow-Republicans and astonished politicians of both parties. Alcora, a lawyer who is going back to his practice in Connecticut, looked over the prospects last April and announced to newsmen "it isn't in the cards" for the Republicans to win the Senate.

He thought his party might barely make it in the House. Among politicians this umbrelk of gloom which Alcorn raised over his party's chances may have seemed unheard of, unnecessary, unprofessional and even unsporting. It was certainly unrehearsed. But It was realistic. And it was justified, for what seemed at the time like wild optimism from his YOUR CANDIDATES For School Board TO THE PARIS NEWS: Regarding your request for information on myself, I was born and reared in Chicota and attended Paris Junior College and East Texas State.

I served two terms as district clerk, was assistant county attorney for two and years and served two terms as county judge. I started law practice'in Paris in 1940, am past president of the Lions, and have served as chairman the board at First Methodist Church. I am a former school teacher. My wife is the former Dorothy Humphrey, and we have one son, Tommy, age 15. At the present time, I am serving my term as a member of the Board of Trustees of Par i Independent School District.

I want to see the best schools possible for Paris under a long-range planning program being conducted by the board at this time to deter- CEDRIC TOWNSEND mine the city's school nesds. CEDRIC TOWNSEND School Board candidate TO THE PARIS NEWS: Why does Anthony J. Pane aspire to be a trustee of the Paris Public Schools? The reason is simple. i that I am fully qualified by virtu? of the fact that my business perience and college training been measurable success. .1 love Paris, I love children.

I admire teachers, so many of whom could receive much more compensation in other professional fields. I would like to see our teachers salary raised from the prese bottom of the state pay scale. I am interested in seeing that our very capable young men and ladies upon completion of college work, be allowed an opportunity to launch their professional careers in Paris. I do not believe that we need an expensive high school east of Paris, completely inaccessible to West Paris girls and boys. Instead of the mentioned senior high school, I favor the progressive movement of junior high schools.

We need a junior high school in both West Pane and East Paris, each located newest to greatest population, consider Ing the growth that our fine city promises to gain. opposite number, Paul Butler, chairman of the Democratic National- Committee, turned out to be rather conservative. Butler predicted the Democrats would win perhaps 12 seats from the Republicans in the Senate and 40 in the House. In the 1958 elections they actually took 13 Republican Senate seats and 47 in the House. It as the biggest Democratic victory since early New Deal days.

But Alcorn gave his party another dose of jolting frankness last January when the Republican National Committee met in Des Moines to hold a wake over the .1958 disaster and plan for victory in 1960. Akorn told committee members they had better dream up a new look for the party or get set for another shellacking. "Today," he said, "we are being out-voted, out-talked, out-spent and out-worked by an alert, disciplined, politically astute opposition. "In politics you can't stand still. Either you go forward or you go backward.

And it's high time for the Republican party to shifl gears. It's time we snatched oil the false-face thai the Democrats placed on us years ago. "It's time we erased the dollar j.sign they painted on our vest." Aloorn, like Butler on the other s' of the fence, had no easy trying to get Republicans to 5 oye-to-eye or work together. isa tier r-f? to try to keep Souih- a Democratic cormervatives run- rung happily in the same harness with Northern liberals, Alcorn had the same task with the conserva- tives and liberals of his party. Even if Alcorn made a policy of sweet-talk he couldn't have i everybody.

Highly conservative Rep. Clare Michigan Republican, wfi.i. so outraged by Alcorn's selec- to be the party's general in 1S37 ha reilct win this statement: cu-issrvative wing the Republican has been liqut- dstr-ti and i.s sbout to be buried." X- BACKWARD GLANCES (From Hit of the late A. W. Neville, Utor Th.

Newi, 1936-1956) Tales of affaire have anuinterest for most people, and I feel sure these recollections of a real pioneer, given me by 0. B. Briggs will be welcomed. Mr. Briggs says the Anders sketches have not been incorporated in any oTThe written histories of early days in Texas, and for that reason they should be worth preserving.

These incidents told Mr. Briggs by old friends who knew Mr. Anders and had the details from him: The Rev. David Anders, in his "Historical Sketches," gives many interesting adventures of early life among the Indians in this section of the country. Rev.

Mr. Anders does not give his age but says he was married in 1835 and presuming he was at least 20 years old then he was born about 1815, spent his entire life in what is now Oklahoma and in Arkansas and Texas. In settled in Hunt County where Commerce now stands. The narration of his early life was never known except to a few close friends and associates to whom he furnished the story of his eventful life in of a new country. Mr.

Anders said that in 1887 he was engaged to tend a boat on Red River (north of Paris) and lived in a little town in the Choctaw Nation later known as Fort Towson. Three men went out from this place to capture mustang pon i s. Indians attack them, killing and scalping two, and the third man got away and came home. A few of the men went out to locate and bury the bodies of the two men £he Indians killed. They found the dead bodies on the prairie two miles south of where Paris, Texas is today.

The bodies were in such a state of decomposition they dug a hole by the side of them and rolled the bodies in it. In 1836, '37 and '38 the Indians were so bad around where Ben Franklin is now located that the citizens had to build a'fort for protection. This was located a few miles northwest and called Lyday, in honor of the early settlers of that section. On two different occasions in 1837, Mr. Anders said, he went on an Indian hunt over a section where Sulphur Springs, Black Jack Grove (now Cumby) and Greenville are now located.

A a named Davis had to leave Fort Lyday one day to see about things at hii homi and while he was there the'Indians surrounded his home, killed toe man and stole his cattle and horses. A crowd of citizens pursued the Indians and overtood them in Jernagan thicket (now a part of Delta county) and there killed one of the Indians. The Indians fled but were overtaken the next day on South Sulphur where several Indian man, their women and children were killed. This--last fight took place- in what. was then known as Black Cat thicket where White Rock in Hunt, county is now located.

There was not much trouble reported with the Indians after this fight. 73 YEARS AGO Wednesday, April 3, 1946 J. A. (Gus) Binnion had been elected mayor in Tuesday's city election, the aldermen being.Da- vid Robinson, Al Barnett, George Lacy, Albert King and Wasson Uzzell. Word was received from the Rev.

Norman Alter, former Episcopal rector here, that he and his family were all safe and uninjured, after the tidal wave at Hilo, Hawaii, where he had a mission post. Ncrment ft Broad Insurance Company was celebrating its golden anniversary, D. Norment having succeeded his father, the late E. B. Norment'as a member of the firm, and C.

I. Broad being retired. Bible Thought Who Is on the Lord'i side, let him come unto 32:26. Soon or late everyone has to take sides. Let us try to be on the right side in every emergency of life.

Find out which side God is on, then it will be easy indeed to decide our position. Women Can Smoke GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) Guilford College, 122-year-old Quaker school in this tobacco-producing state, has finally given the go-ahead. Women students, who weren't allowed to smoke within a mile of the school, may now do so at the college soda shop. CANDIDATES City Government Bsrle Enter Television Production HOLLYWOOD W) Two durable comics, George Burns and Milton Beue, are going into the television production business.

They announced Tuesday that i (hey have formed productions and will first tackle a series of 39 half-hour filmed shows. Berle who has spent many years in live TV, will star in 13 of the canned programs and act as host on all of them. Burns will be executive producer. The format calls for situation, farce and musical comedy and variety programs- ANTHONY J. PANESS All our schools should the best irt the state.

If you elect me as a pubb'c school trustee, I will every effort to see this come triK. ANTHONY J. PANESS, Candidate for School Board Dick West Moves Up With Dallas News DALLAS (AP) Dick West moved up this week to become assistant editor of the editorial page of the Dallas News. Ted Dealey, Dallas News president, will assist W. B.

Ruggles, editor of the page, in directing the newspaper's editorial department and policy. TO THE PARIS NEWS: I am a working man and stand with the working class of people. I have worked hard all my life on different kinds of jobs and believe this is the kind of man an alderman needs to be. I believe in government of, by and for the people. I believe a man who holds public office should be a man who will take a firm stand for that which is right.

I believe a laboring man who has worked for someone else all his life will make the best servant for the people. I am running for alderman, Ward 3, and if elected will do the best for Paris and her people. I was raised in Texas and have lived in Paris six years. I own my home, am married and have four children in school. I am a member of the Northwest Baptist Church and a Sunday School teacher.

P.A. REYES, Candidate for both City Council and Alderman (Editor's Note: Mr. Reves told The Paris News that while he has P.A. REVES or Councilman filed for. both Alderman and Citjf Councilman, he favors the Mayor- Alderman form of govrnment.

He would, however, serve either form of government. (AND THE DINNER HORN) NORTH TEXAS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PARIS. TEXAS. Published Except Saturday Enttrw Second Clais Matter st the at Paris, Texai under Act of Congreu March. 1(79.

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