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THE PARIS NEWS, AUGUST 31, 1960 DEATHS AND FUNERALS Arthur T. Tucker Arthur Tenner Tucker, 67, a retired farmer of Pbvvderly, Rt. 2, died Tuesday at p.m. at Lamar Medical Center in Paris, after illness. He was born in Tennes- see, April 28, 1893, son of the bte Charlie and Alice (Turner Tucker.

Services will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. et Gene Roden Sons here, and interment made in Friendship Cemetery near Biardslown. Mr. Tucker's wife, the former Miss Annie Lou Nolan, died in 1934. He leaves these children: Ed ward Tucker and Mrs.

Billy Kee, Powdsrly: Arthur Tucker and Norman Tucker, Paris; Ode 11 Tucker, Mrs. Virgil Martin and Mrs. W. W. Nicholson, all "OPERATION IDEAS' 5 new plan fcr Lamar County Chamber of Commerce Program of Work outlined Tuesday morning at a meeting of approximately 50 women Chamber members and wives of Chamber members.

According to the new plan, entitled "Operation women participants will contact five Chamber members, asking for ideas to improve and compose the 1960-61 Program of Work. Discussing the new plan, following the Tuesday meeting, are, left to right, Ben Marable, Chamber past president conducting the program, Mrs. N. L. Barker Mrs.

J.K. Guest, Mrs. Walter Bassano. (Paris News Staff Photo). Frosh, Parents At PHS Session Freshman students of Paris and Wednesday morning.

High School and their parents attended separate orientation programs at the school Tuesday night DANIEL (Continued From Page One) delayed at least until Nov. 14 by one of the federal judges who recently enjoined Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis from interfering with the Orleans Parish School Board. U.S. Dist.

Judge J. Skelly Wright said the board informed him it would be impossible to comply with the Sept. 7 integration date because of Davis' seizure ot the schools Aug. 17. In Darlington, S.C..

four young Negroes bearing anti-segregation placards were arrested as schools opened on their traditional segregated pattern. Nashville, quietly began the fourth year of its grade-a- year integration program and several Negroes were expected to register today in previously all- white Knoxville schools in the first year of similar plan. In Dunn, S.C., 10 Indians unsuccessfully sought to enter the high school, and in St. Louis, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Dollar- way, school district had applied the state school placement law illegally.

While still endeavoring to delay Integration, Houston opened registration for its first grades and kindergarten Tuesday. No Negroes tried to enroll in all-white schools. The board's appeal for a delay Avery School Defers Open House Dote of More than 200 parents attended an orientation program Tuesday night, and Wednesday over 300 freshmen students received a similar I announced by Both programs were designed to i Jackson acquaint those attending with the buM and the high school and; is not as done now as we Special to The News AVERY Postponement open house at Avery's renovated school plant from Friday night of t'-is week until September 16, is rangements, which were incomplete. Reed Funeral The funeral of Mrs. Harr 1 Reed, 80-year-old Negro resident of Powderly, Rt.

1, fatally burned when fire destroyed her home, was set Wednesday at 2 p.m. Reeds Chapel Methodist Church. The pastor, the Rev. F.C. Conwright, had charge, burial in Reeds Chapel Cemetery being arranged by William Maxey Funeral Home.

Mrs. Reed died early Tuesday morning when flames enveloped the small house on the Airl 1 Road where she lived alone. Surviving are these child Mrs. Mary Rucker, rly; James Reed, Paris, and Jack Reed, Detroit, these Monahans, and Mrs. L.E.

Ruth- brothers: Richard Hill, Powderly; hardt, Morton; 20 other descend- Willie Hill, Oakland, and ants; a. Brother, Jesse Tucker, Roots ill, Independence, i sister, Mrs. Wonder Prince, Oklahoma City, Okla. Supt. Frank W.

Oxnarcl, and two sisters; Mrs. Callie Bishop, Wichita Falls, and Mrs. Virgil Thompson, Paris. Mrs. John V.

David Oklahoma News Bureau ANTLERS, Okla. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Jane Dayid, 53. wife John Vir i 1 David of Sobol, were set for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bapti Church, the Rev.

Glenn Bates, pastor, officiating. Burial was to be made in Spencerville cemetery by Antlers Coffey Funeral Home. Mrs. David who died Saturday in the United States Public Health Hospital at Talihina, was bo December 27, 1902, in Spencerville, where she spent most of her life. Her husband survives besides one daughter.

Miss David, of Hugo; two sons, John Virgil David in Korea, and Johnathan Edward David, Peoria, and a half-sister, Mrs. Rosalie LeFlore of Ft. Towson. Philip H. Hobbs Paris News Service DEPORT Philip Harold Hobbs, a cafe operator here the past ALASKA SCHOOL ROOM FACES LAMAR COUPLE The long trip to Alaska is ahead for a young Lamar County schoolmarm end her husband, Mr.

and Mrs. Dick Rast. The two left Tuesday Wichita Falls where they'll visit briefly before flying to Alaska. She is the former Miss Mattie Bell Justiss. They have been visiting her parents at Rowland, Mr.

and Mrs. Will Ed Justiss. Rast is a former Paris Junior College football player. The couple will leach in the school at King Cove on the Alaska peninsula. Their students will be Alaskan Indians.

Rancher Will Become lana's Fifth Husband HOLLYWOOD A handsome rancher and horse breeder will be Lana Turner's fifth husband. He is Fred May, a crewcut sportsman who once tried to slug a Hollywood columnist he said had insulted her. The couple stopped Tuesday in Santa Ana, en route to the races besides at De i Mar, and obtained a mar- Delores Jean riage They wouldn't say not think we can be ready EO short illness. what can be expected. hoped jt would bei and do is months, died Tuesday after "a According to Mrs.

Perry PHS counselor, both meetings were outstanding successes. The parent orientation was designed to acquaint them with the high school curriculum and some of the problems that exist. A open discussion followed the scheduled program. Judge Cedric Townsend 1- comed the parents on the part of the School Board, while Superintendent Thomas Justiss explained the purpose of parent orientation. Principal Dee Cunningham followed with a talk on our and Mrs.

Booth, "Your Children." Wednesday morning, 300 freshmen got their first long look at Paris High School following the orientation. Guided tours were conducted through the school facilities, and were completed with a reception in the gymnasium, sponsored by the Student Council. soon," says Mr. Jackson. However, school will open as planned, Tuesday, September 6, with a half-day for registration.

Classes are to begin on a full day basis the following day, Wednesday. Parents of all children entering school for the first time are requested to bring the children's birth certificates on registration day if possible. Kiwanis Hears Rural Needs The need for extensive work in rural development was discussed Fresh Showers Fall on Texas By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain fell on much of Texas The funeral, Thursday at 10:30 a.m., will be conducted at the Baptist Church here, with interment in Highland Cemetery by Grant Funeral Home. The pastor, the Rev. George Griffin, will officiate, and named bearers are Jack Nixon, Kenneth Read.

Jess Stal 1 Dick Burden, Bob Read and Walter Evans. Son of Marion and Willie fShil Hobbs, Philip Hobbs was born in Halesboro community, August 20, 1904. and had lived there or at Deport most of his life. His death at the Sanitarium of Paris, occurred about 10:45 a.m. Surviving are his mother, now living in Paris; these children: Mrs.

Granville Jones, Commerce; Mrs. Henry B. Barton, Bagwell; Philip H. Hobbs, and George W. Hobbs, Lake when they will wed.

Lana gave her age as 39. May is young-looking 43. It will be his second marriage. May made such a success of a half-dozen enterprises, including an export-import business, that he was able to retire to ranching at 38. His two children by his first marriage live at his Chino, ranch.

Friends wondered if Lana, when wed to May, might be able to regain custody of her teen-age daughter, Cheryl. It was during the furor over Cheryl's escape froni a county- operated girl's school that May tried to swing on a Hollywood trade paper writer. "Lana is a wonderful girl," May said after the incident, which erupted at a party celebrating the premiere of her latest film. "She should not be persecuted by the press, It's all right to criticize her professional ability, but not her private life. "I am very much in love with Miss Turner.

A man in love cannot stand by when his girl is ih- sitited." The column to which May objected criticized Miss Turner's up bringing of Cheryl, now 17. Cheryl At the time of the stabbing, Jiss Turner was divorced from ier fourth husband, actor Lex Barker. She had been beaten and tireatened by Stompanato and was arguing bitterly with him, in bedroom of her Beverly Hills mansion, when the tall, slender irl stepped in and stabbed him vith a kitchen knife. A coroner's ury ruled it was justifiable homi- ide. Miss Turner was previously wed millionaire Henry J.

(Bob) Toping, to Cheryl's father, restaura- Tuesday and scattered showers or Jackson; five and a' was mac a ward of Superior thundershowers were forecast for all portions of the state Wednesday. Houston, where residents have to search.their memory for a day when rain did not fall, received .06 brother, Homer Hobbs, Halesboro. Court after she fatally stabbed Fulson Lee D-eath of Fulson Lee. Negro resident of Blossom, occurred Wednesday at 4:30 a.m. at home, after of an inch of precipitation.

It was illness. the 23rd day in the last 24 days He leaves his Fletie: these that rain has fallen there. children: Mrs. Nina McCuin. Par- A sudden shower dumped 1.62 Mrs Georgia Davis, s.

Eloise Poals and Airs. Ruby recently was turned down by the Tuesday at The Nicholson House 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals du-ing the weekly meeting of the, in New Orleans. But attorney Joe Paris Kiwanis Club. i Tuiia in Reynolds has mailed another re- i Speaking was R.

S. "Rip" Loit- Texas quest to the U.S. Supreme Court. I is. agent for Rural Development inches on Fort Worth and it was accompanied by winds of 42 m.p.h.

The heaviest rains were at ihe northwest part of fell before In appealing to the governor by of the Texas Agricultural 4-2 vote, the board fell back sion Service in Mt. Pleasant, upon one of the early theories of Loftis pointed out that the a Haynes, St. Louis. Mrs. Doris Voting, Wichita Falls; Mrs.

Verena Cole, Portland, Zollie M. Lee, veterans hospital, Waco, and Samuel Lee, Blossom; their ststes a state could interpose its sovereignty to prevent usurpation of power by federal courts. Daniel, who has said he be- ricuHural areas need more payroll an' 1 job opportunities, to keep ycuth at home, a better standard dawn. College Station got 1.15| 26 descendants, and these sisters inches, and heavy rains hit and brothers: Mrs. Birdie Mae South Central Texas and along Spencer, Altudena, Miss the coast.

Pauline Lee, Detroit, Clem Continued rains in the Lower Lee, Richard Lee and Henry Lee. Rio Grande Valley hurt farmers who are trying to complete the lieves desegregation is a local The aUl ude t0 ward industry problem, declined to comment on I has been a stumblin? block for the the Houston boards request. of living, more education, and a harvest of cotton crops before a better atiiiude toward industry, Sept. 10 plowup deadline. Rainfal; totals included Pharr .80, McAllen .34, Presidio .36.

Yic- the development of strictly oria .54 Bjg Sprinc 32 Allslin pressed its appeal for an order thf sSe ttTaI arCai Industr needs a Corpus Christi .05. Lufkin, me si.te and agricuUurc necds in Pajacios San A IQ and gan An dustry," he pointed out. Guests at the meeting were Dr. holding up the integraion ruling. Atty.

Gen. Jack Gremillion said the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the state's plea for i stay order Thursday. The three-judge court set aside Towers formerly of Pans, now of a state law giving the governor authority to take over school systems threatened with integration. tonio .02 and Beeviile and Tyler .01.

Millet-ton. and Bill Lee, Wichita, Kan. Moody Wortham Funeral Home has charge of ar- HOSPITALS Admitted: Mrs. A. A.

Stevens. 1008-3i'd SW: Mrs. Lottie McGin- her mother's hoodlum lover, John Stompanato, in 1958. Too Late to Classify WANTED Experienced truck drivers to handle Eravel trucks and trailers. Apply in person to Mr.

Cunningham at Trucking Company, 2140 South Church. FOR good bicycles. S1J.50 each. John and Brenda Houston. SU-5-6136.

In Darlington, the father of one of the youths arrested obtained school blanks and told Supt. G. C. Mangum he was "interested in getting our children In better schools." Police Chief J. P.

PriveUe sairJ the jour young Negroes arrested near school property for parading without a permit bore placards, one of which read "Jim Crow must go." The ruling of the St. Louis court sends the case of the rural Dol- larway district, near Pine Bluff, back to the district court in Little afon -nd John' Tem cra Wednesday morn-j "is, 950-IOth SE: Mrs. J.M. Hayes. Riddles, all of Pans'! arTd Eddie ranged from 67 at AmarillojSOl S.

Maim Mrs. Julia Messer. to st Calveston. No rain fell Rattan. Mrs.

Roy Davis, early in the day. Grand W. L. Pevchouse, five-day forecast issued Greenwood, Elaine Godfrey, Wednesday calls for temperatures SE; Mrs. Claude McKin- about normal near the coast and-' nE y.

Route 3 Greenville. W. A. Phillips ar.d Lloyd S. Sterl-! 'A.

were inducted as new mem- Rock for further proceedings. WHO'S NEW A son was born August 30 at St. Joseph's Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Milford Thompson, Windom, Texas.

New Names Alan Ray the name of a son born August 23 in Sanitarium of Paris to and Mrs. Terrell Boyd, 420 E. Washington. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

J. P. Boyd, Sulphur Springs, and Mr. and Mrs. E.

Ij. Slinson, 2151 Bonham, (Confirmed From Page One) completing of downstream chan-1 neljng work. The Cooper Darn and Reservoir, itself, is at a standstill. Local interests in Cooper, Commerce and Su 1 Springs not yet contracted with the Corps of Engineers for in the reservoir due to a disagreement over the cost. Actual work on the dam and reser- 2 to 4 degrees above normal in Eastern and Central Texas and 3 to 5 degrees above normal in Western Texas.

Precipitation is expected to be locally heavy near the coast and light to moderate in rest of state, MARKETS Fort Worth Livestock FORT WORTH (fi.Pl HOSJ 15; top 00. so- test. 100; SO: cleanup; n.rdium antl voir. and appropriations for same, hr-cV, u.vMM"™* will not be forthcoming until a contract is signed. The Sanders and Cooper appropriations were the only ones in the bill involving the Paris area.

M. Dismissed: Mrs. Eleanor Ginney, 134-8th SE: John Stahmer, Cooper: W. G. Boren.

Route Howard Simmons, 1127 E. Houston; Donald Thrasher, 441-13th N'E; Archie Moore. 124K-13th N'W; Mrs. H. H.

Hurley. 1113-12th SE; Mary Smith, Blossom; Mrs. Paul Finley, 331 E. Polk; J. J.

Bridges, Powderly; James Browning Route LA.MAR MEDICAL CENTER Admitted: G. R. Butler, 116 Geo. Wright. Homes; Mrs.

Robert Wood, Route Dismissed: Aulry King, IIM- 241 SE; Richard Achley, Jacksonville, Cal Wright, 109-17lh SE; Rodney Smith, Route 2. Detroit Opening Enrollment 257 Paris N'ftHs Service DETROIT Tho Deiroit school opened Monday with 73 students registering in high school and 184 in elementary grades. Several others are expected U) enroll in each department. MONUMENTS And Markers Guaranteed Top Quality SAVINGS ON ANY STONE Easy Terms Excluiivs Dealer For Rock Of Ages vaeorgio Marble DEWEESE MONUMENT CO. TO BUY small electric meat case.

Must be bargain for cash. Hal A. Shipp Elore, Route I. Pattonville. Texas.

TKHEE bath, paid. Addl's. 533 North Main. FOR SALE 275 ACRES blackland south rf Brookston on F.M. road.

70 Acre.s cotnn allot.TKjnt 25 acre meadow, balance in cultivation. W.A. (BUD) GRIFFIN lr5-lst S.V. SU4-1153 FOR SOMEONE ran visualize the future. Apprnxiniatcly 75 acres on federal highway, 2 niles from Pans city limits.

About '2 mile hlfrh- frnntatjc. Can be tlevcl- nped nr fold in small tracts. Has modern house and out- bmlriinEf. S.25.000. Will help buyer finance if necessary.

BOX H.F., care Parii Nev. s. JOB OPPORTUNITY If are interested in learnmj? a good irade (he newspaper business then look into this. Prefer younjf man with his military obligation fulfilled. wage paid fnr hour vith all fringe including 2-week paid vacation.

Sne EARL EVANS at THE PARIS NEWS SEEING IS BELIEVING "Theic arc. open them over." look TrIE Philippine mahojany paneled kitchen and den roinbi- nMion will take your eye in lliis pretty five room house at 17U5 nrahain Street uith beautiful tall pines, pecan trees and St. Augustine $7850. PRICK of town owner anxious to this modern fivn room i-ottagc at 1731) Kdst Booth. Hardwood floors, asbestos attached gar- DUPLEX S42-7th S.W.

Neiv kitchens, new haths, now htalcr.s. Separate meters. Lot Mft deep. Look It and callrni: for price and financing, HOB GRAHAM ST. -Six rooms bath clown; tlirec rooms.

b.lth iin, Needs redecorating bui Rood buy at J.1500. MRS. T. S. SMITH 5U1-3143 SU-i-6670 eur Steve Crane, and to eader Artie Shaw.

band- Reno School Opening Set Reno Elementary School, east ol Paris, will open its fall term Monday at 8:30 a.m., with regis ration and organization of Class es the same day. announces the principal, J. C. Kelso. Buses will cover their regular routes and the lunch room will be operatior beginning Monday.

All six-year-olds must have their certificates when they register, says Mr. Kelso. The faculty includes besid Mr. Kelso, Mrs. Hailey S.

Johnson, Mrs. Jimrnie Heavener, Mrs. Elsie H. Lusby and Mrs. Oliver Allen.

BRIEFS AND PERSONAL? Dial SU 4-4323 Fred Null, 415 Brown won he house paint given away by Lumber Company during he Red River Valley Exposition. The log at the Paris Police Department showed one arrest for drunkenness, one prowler report, and two tickets issued (or speeding Tuesday afternoon and night. Past Matrons and Past Patrons of Paris Chapter No. 5, Order of he Eastern Star, will meet in the Company conference room for a dinner Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Mrs, Frances Wolsram daughter, Patricia, Warren, 111., are visiting her daughter, Mrs.

Edward Hubner and family, 2110- -ollege. The night nurse-s of the Sanitar- um of Paris honored Mrs. Frances Wolsram and daughter with dinner Tuesday night at the Holiday Inn. The cover of the September issue of The Texas Horseman, which was published this week, shows an action shot of the recent Paris Rodeo. It pictured a a 1 roping scene.

Another winner In extended her visit in Paris with lier parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bristow.

648-14th NE, due to the illness of one of her children. (Had a visitor from out of town, going somewhere, hare a new employe, one on vacation or out of town on business? The Paris News would like to know about It, and would appreciate your telling us about it or any other happenings. Please rail SUnset and give us the information. We'll take It from there.) Murder Bond Of $10,000 Set at Hugo Oklahoma News Bureau HUGO, Okla. Application for bail for Mrs.

1 a Trapp, charged with murder, was heard in Choclaw County district court here Tuesday by Judge Howard Phillips, and bond was set at announced. The Dulnick 000 i5 on was not immedl- terprises booth in the Coliseum ate according to Mrs. Trapp's has announced that Barbara -attorney. Wheeler, 704 Cedar Street, won Trapp was charged with clock radio given away there. murder after the fatal shooting of her estranged husband, Eug Trapp, at the woman's home here.

the recent Red River Valley Exposition has Parents of children who are starting to school for the first time are urged to obtain birth certificates Thursday and Friday at the Lamar County Clerk's office since ail offices in the Court House svill be closed Monday for Labor Day. Kenneth Booth, ST4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Welton Booth of Chico- La, who spent a 30-day leave at home, ieft Tuesday for Ft. Dix, N.J., en route to Germany.

He has been in service three years, and is being transferred abroad from the Presidio, San Francisco, Calif. The annual report for 1959 of the Optimist International Boys' Work, just received here, includes a picture of pre-auction promotion for the Paris Optimists' Radio-TV Auction. The picture showed Optimist Morris Kimbell riding an elephant on the Plaza, advertising the auction. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs.

R. F. Crumley, Paris, Rt. 5, have returned home after a visit with relatives in Lubbock, Denver City, Wellington and Mangum, Okla. Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Short and children. Larry, Jimmy and Laura, "465 Clark Lane, have returned home after visit in Wichita Falls with relatives.

Recent visitors in Paris were Mr. and Mrs. Sam Leverett. and children. Jerry Bee and Cammie of Morton.

Mrs. Leverett i Jucise Phillips Tuesday also sentenced David J. Hancy, 39, to three years in the state penitentiary, Haney having entered a plea of guilty to forgery. Choctaw County Has New Public Welfare Official Oklahoma News Bureau HUGO, Okla. Mrs.

Bland Pittman Tuesday was announced as county director of the Choctaw County Department of Public Welfare. She succeeds Mrs. Etta Anderson, who will leave soon to study at Washington University in St. Louis, after several years here. Mrs.

Pittman, who has 19 years service with the department, was promoted to the county director's post from the position of case work supervisor. Her first employment was as a case worker. NO TRESPASSING Anyone fnund trespassing on mv farm properly 2 to 4 miles South of Paris, between old and new Dallas hlBhwavs and alrtng dirt road East of old Dallas hlph- be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Mary how a balloon "Our medium reaches everyone from here to Poker Flats, and then Reminds as of the little boy vho, on seeing his first big balloon, asked, "What's that, daddy?" Some advertising media claims, like balloons, axe so full of hot air they get lost in the clouds. Fortunately for those who foot the advertising bill, there is a tough, unyielding standard which safeguards print media expenditures.

Audited circulation facts, as provided by the Audit Bureau of Ciicula- makes it possible for advertisers to know exactly they will get when they use this publication for their sales messages. Our ABC report tells advertisers about the markets we reach and how well we reach into these markets, Be ABC sure facts, not fiction audits, not air. Through the reports issued by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, publication, along with other publisher of ABC, voluntarily and regularly give the buyers of advertising more verified factual information than is available for any other media at any lime..

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