Hood County News-Tablet from Granbury, Texas • Page 1

it a he was sent was the is suit a the an is GRANBURY NEWS EST. 1886, HOOD COUNTY TABLET EST. 1919, CONSOLIDATED JUNE 15, 1945 Hood County let VOLUME 61 GRANBURY, TEXAS. THURSDAY. JANUJARY.

11948 NUMBER 12 M. Whitehead Died December 23, Here R. M. Whitehead, 73, died at the 5:30 General Hospital about cember 23. p.

His m. death Wednesday, shocked throughout community, his family and friends this section. Mr. Whitehead left his home at the usual time last Tuesday morning and said no word of feeling badly. About 11:30 he drove his car to the hospital and went in to see the doctor.

Knowing that it was a busy season, that his sons, Robert and Clay were in Fort Worth on R. M. WHITEHEAD business, his wife and sister, Miss Rose Whitehead preparing for Christmas, tint asked they be called. Miss Rose was however, and a note to Mrs, Whitehead scho not, at homel when arrived. Mr.

Whitehead seemed to be resting well, but the end came very suddenly turning plans for family reunion of fortyfive. on Christmas Day to a griefstricken meeting instead. Mr. Whitehead, was the son, of the late Mr. and Mrs.

R. S. Whitehead. He was born in Rome. Georgin, the family coming to Hood County when he was about seven years of age.

As a young man, he bought. his farm on the Brazos east of Granbury, adding acreage as the years passed until it totaled over 600 at this time. Always realizing that good farming practices are essential, in recent years Mr. Whitehead had became very much interested in the Soil Conservation program. He attended meetings, visited and talked with both technicians in soil building and practical farmers and became convinced that Hairy Vetch crop to grow to build the soil, and, a practical crop pasture.

He was 50 suefor with cos his 500-acre vetch field in spring became tone place and Soil Conservation ofheals, headed by Dr. Hugh Benchief of the U. S. Soil Con- servation Service, spent half de there. of the outstanding events in his life was the recent tour of Texas which he made aboand the Sail Conservation Special train, sponsored by the Second National Bank of Houston and the Burlington Lines, and on which outstandina industrialists and financial leadern of the east, and the writer, Louis Bromfield, were guests also.

Tuneral services were held De- cember 25 at 10:30 a. m. at the Fiat Baptist Church in Granbury with the pastor, Rev. J. E.

Black officiating. Mr. Whitehead had been faithful member of the Same church for a number of years. The auditorium and adjoinSunday School rooms were with friends gathered to pay their last tribute of respect to this known citizen and to offer words of sympathy to his family, Bosutiful floral offerings in great abers were further evidence of the esteem in which the family is held. Mr.

Whitehead is survived by hig wife, two sons, Robert and Clay, all of Granbury; three sistors, Mrs. Neely Burton of Comanel Mrs. John Jay of Dallas and Miss Rose Whitehead of Granbury; three brothers, A. E. of Slaton; Gaily and Bob of Fort Worth.

Interment was in the Granbury Cemetery. Pallbearers were Milton Kennon, Charlie Bennett, J. V. Arnoid, Bruce Price. Dr.

R. M. Walthat and Clyde Wells, This and That By Norma Crawford The holidays have been so busy that I have not had time. to gather my "This and That" bits. I should have been busy making resolutions for the New Year, but haven't gotten around to that either.

I have found the following lines which seem to me a good philosophy for everyone for 1948 and I am planning to incorporate them in my daily living for the New Year. "Some men thank God for a day that is done; I thank Him rather for one begun, For the chance to live as I feel I should, And with His good grace, as I know I could. I'm glad of the chance to do and say A kindly thing in a kindly way; And of bringing, if but for a little while, Tot the face of another -a happy smile. Miss Archer weds Mr. Wingo ter of Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Arrington, was married to Mr. Louis Wingo Sunday afternoon, December 28 at the home of her parents. Rev. Van P.

Morrison read the marriage ceremony and members of immediate families attended. The bride a winter wore white wool dress with black accessories. Her corsage of was gardenias. She of graduate Granbury High Schoof and Texas Wesleyan College in Fort. Worth.

Mr. Wingo, was in the who a lieutenant AAP during World War now attending T.C.U. in Fort Worth, where they will make their home. Willa Dean Archer, Miss Riley Weds Mr. Dodd Dec.

24 Miss Velma Riley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Riley, was married to Mr. B. B.

Dodd on December 24. Rev. Van P. Morrison perthe marriage ceremony at formed his home. The bride wore a grey with black accessories.

Mr. Dodd is the son of Mr. land Mrs. W. N.

Dodd Waples. He is employed in Fort. Worth and he and Mrs. Dodd will make their home there as soon as they can find apartment. For the time being they are making their home with Mr.

and Mrs. Riley. Rev. E. F.

Cole To Conduct Revival Rev. E. F. Cole of Fort Worth will conduct a Bible Revival at the First Baptist Church in Granbury beginning next Sunday, January 4, and continuing through January 11. Morning services will be held each day at 10 o'clock and evening services at seven p.

m. Rev, has been a pastor in Texas many years. He left the First Baptist Church in Lamesa rafter a pastorate of fifteen years there to engage in the work of evangelism he is now doing. The public is invited to hear his fine messages. Square Dance Legion Hall Friday Night Square dancers are invited to attend the square dance at the American Legion Hall here Friday night, Jaw.

2nd. A string band will play and there will be dances for those who are not skilled in "Swinging their partners." Admission will be $1 a couple. CARD OF THANKS We extend our thanks to friends and neighbors for their expressions of sympathy during this time of sorrow. Mrs. S.

H. Manning family. Merrill Named "The Man of The Year" Louis P. Merrill, Regional Conservator for the U. S.

Soil Conservation Service, with headquarters in Fort Worth, has as "Man of the Year" in Texas agriculture," an award that is made annually to some agriculture worker in Texas by the "Progressive Farmer." Merrill, as regional conservator, directs the work of approximately 2,000 people in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana; who are engaged in soil and water conservation, submarginal land development and utilization, farm forestry, irri-1 gation, and drainage. his office is in Fort. Worth, Merrill chooses to live on his ranch located between- Granbury and Glen Rose. Merrill graduated from John Tarleton Agriculture and Texas A. M.

College, with degrees in Animal Husbandry and Agriculture: For three years following his graduation from A. he was Superintendent and Vocational Agriculture, teacher in the Tolar public schools. In 1929, Merrill was appointed Agriculture, Director of the Tyler Chamber of Commerce. In 1934, he was pointed Regional Director of they Soil Erosion Service in the De partment of Interior. He has been Regional Conservator for the Soil Conservation Service since 1935.

He is a past president of the Texas Agricultural Workers Association, is a director of the Texas A. Former Students Ate sociation, and is a councilor of the Texas A. M. Research Foundations. Louis Merrill doesn't soil sonservation merely sake of saving the soil.

He believes because that it our soil should live be saved, helps people a pier, more prosperous life. He sums it up this way, "Soil conservation is using the land according to its capabilities and treating it according to its needs, to keep it permanently productive while in use." Swaim-Buck Wedding Christmas Day The wedding of Miss Thelma Swaim to Mr. Eldon Buck took place on Christinas morning, at the Assembly of God Church here with the Rev. J. F.

Owen pastor, reading the marriage ceremony at ten o'clock. Mrs. Buck is the daughter of Mrs. Jules Swaim and he is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. M. Buck, all of Tolar. After the wedding they returned to the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Rachael Hargrove, where their families and other relatives had gathered for a Christmas dinner.

After visiting their other grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Carney, Mrs.

J. C. Swaim and Mrs. T. L.

Buck, they left for Stamford where they will make their home. Mr. Buck is a Southwestern Bell Telephone Company employee there. THE STORK DELIVERED A son to Mr. and Mrs.

Claude Everett of Granbury on December 30 at the Granbury Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. J.

C. Saul on December 23 in a Houston hospital. The baby's grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. 0.

K. Saul of Granbury and Mr. and Mrs. John Vineyard of Plainview. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS If the Red Circle is around the date on your copy of the NewsTablet, it means that you are delinquent, The date is plainly stamned on your paper.

Watch it, pleas and don't let the Cirele be -placed around vour nana CITE EDITOR S. H. Manning Buried in Fort Worth S. H. Manning, 72, retired farmer, was buried in the Garden of Memories in Fort.

Worths on comber 24. He died at His home here December 23. His health had not been good, but his illness became critical a short while, before his passing. Funeral services were held at the Granbury Methodist Church at two o'clock with Rev. Van P.

Morrison officiating after which the body was taken to Fort Worth for, interment. Members of the Sunday School class of which Mr. Manning was a member acted as pallbearers. He had lived in Granbury seven years, coming here from. Plainview.

He is survived by his wife; five daughters, Mrs. Charles Beebe of Amarillo: Mrs. Carl Glenn of Cleburne: Mrs. B. Brockett of Itasca; Mrs.

R. F. Calkins and Mrs. Fred Martin of Fort Worth; two sons, Robert L. Manning of Fort Worth and George Manning of Amarillo.

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT am making my official announcement for Sheriff, Tax-Assessor and Tax Collector of: Hood County. I was born January 17, 1895, at Paluxy, Hood County, Texas, and heve lived here all my life. I am a son of Austin Baker. I registered in the first registration in Hood County, June 5, 1917, in World War 1. I was called into service with the Second draft from this county.

I served with the Milltary Police Dept, attached to the U. S. Detective Dept. I returned from service in February, 1919. In World War Il, I was with the Army Air Force Training Command Headquarters Patrol Guard.

I am married and the father of three children, two girls and one boy. I am engaged in Stock Farming! and own my farm fourteen miles south of Granbury. It is true I have made mistakes in my past life but I feel like can profit by them. This my first time to ask for a public office and I feel that I am worthy and well qualified to. fill this office.

I know this is a full time job and if elected I will be willing and ready to work and COoperate with you citizens and officers of this county and the -officers of the other counties and the State of Texas as well as other States. I further more state I am not clique or clan connected with any and if elected will be free to act in all matters concerned. I am strictly running on my own merits and would appreciate vote and influence in the coming Primary. Oran C. Baker.

FAMILY REUNION Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Tittle has had a very happy Christmas when they had all of their six children and their families for a reunion on Christmas Day, It was the first time in twenty years that all had been home at the same time.

Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kinson, Wendell and Jessica; Mr.

and Mrs. Joel- Tidwell, J. C. and Judy, all of Fort Worth; Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Rives of Sundown; Mr. and Mrs. Billy Tittle and Patricia of San Diego, Mr.

and Mrs. Travis Tittle, Travis Lynn and Linda Jean, and Alvin Tittle, all of Granbury. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Rev. and Mrs. J.

E. Black an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Cristina to Mr. Stanley Penny of Miami, Florida. The date of the wedding has not been set. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our most sincere appreciation to all those who were so kind to us during the darkest hours of sorrow.

Our heartfelt thanks for every comforting work and act of kindness. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carney. ENTERTAINED WITH BUFFET SUPPER Misses Beverley Cherry and Sara Sue.

Tippett entertained with supper Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Cherry's parenta, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cherry.

Mrs. Ross Tippett. assisted Mrs. Cherry in serving. Place cards carried out the holiday colors.

Those attending were Misses Enrique Archer, Christine Putteett, Ima Fern Strain, Jerry Perry, Glenetta Porter, Cherry and Tippett; Messrs. Bill Jarrard, Clarence Guhl, Marshall Rutherford, Pat Thrash, Oscar Browning, Joe Wyatt Dabney, Haskell Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Davis, of College Station, and Mr. and Mrs.

Frankie Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Jones in Florida Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard B. Jones, who were married Sunday, Decembet 14 in Nampa, Idaho, are spending their honeymoon in Palm Springs, California. Mr. Jones lived in Lipan until after his graduation from high school. He attended John Tarlton College in Stephenville before entering the Navy where he spent more than two years.

The bride is the former Miss Bola Mae New, a native of Nampa, Idaho. For her wedding she wore a white satin gown. The bridesmaids wore satin gowns of pink, blue and aqua. Miss Joyce Jones, sister of the groom was one of the bridesmaids. Mr.

Roy Wright was best man and the groom's uncle James Robert Followill, was an usher. Mary Jane Duffin was ring bearer. Mr. and Mrs. Lary Attended Funeral Mr.

and Mrs. J. L. Lary attendled the funeral of her sister, Mrs. S.

B. Everett in Carlton Tuesday -of this week. Mrs. Everett had been seriously ill for the past five months and during that time Mrs. Lary had visited her several times.

Her death brings the first break in the family of eight children who reached their majority. G. W. Bowser Had Nice Christmas G. W.

Bowser bad one of the nicest Christmases that we kavel heard about. He got something that lots of, people: dream of and have. slim hopes of receiving--an airplane. It was given away by the Stephenville airport operators on Christmas Eve and is an Aeronea. Gerald and G.

W. Durant flew it home, but he is keeping it hangared in Stephenville until he can build a hangar for it here. ROTARY NEWS L. S. Chandler, athletic coach for the Granbury High School, was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Rotary Club Tuesday.

He discussed the entrance of the Granbury Pirates into Class in which they will play teams from Arlington, Diamond Hill, Birdville and. Handley. The entertainment committee for January was appointed by President J. Q. Galloway as follows: A.

B. Crawford, Dr. L. G. Ballard and J.

H. Lary. Presbyterian Church There will pe services at the Granbury Presbyterian Church next Sunday merning at 11 o'clock. All Presbyterians are invited to attend as well as others whose church is not having services on that day. CARD OP THANKS The kindness of our friends and neighbors in our recent.

ment will never be forgotten. May this word of thanks express to each of you our most sincere appreciation. Mrs. W. H.

Baker and Marcellus. Coke Stevenson Throws Hat In Senatorial Ring Ex-Gov. Coke Stevenson of Junetion observed New Year's Day by announcing to the people of Texas that he expects to be a candidate for United States Senator in next summer's Democratic primaries. Sevenson followed his, uisgal campaign custom of not presenting a specific platform. "I do not believe the average political platform is worth much of anything," he explained in his Thursday address, delivered in Austin.

"My candidacy is based on on COKE STEVENSON certain fundamental principles of. sound government. It is based on my record as your public servant in the past." The former Governor declared that if he is sent to Washington he will continue to follow the pattern set by him in his service as Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Texas House. "As your United States Senator I shall hope not only to be for the right things," he said, "but to be able to do something constructive about getting the right things done." Mrs. Frank Carter Died In Sylvester Mra, Frank Carter, who born and reared in Hood County, died at her home -in Sylvester, Fisher County, Friday, December 26.

She had made her home in that section for many years. Mrs. Carter was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N.

J. Smith, pioneer settlers in the Squaw Creek community where she was born. She was the aunt of a number of Hood County citizens including Henry and Newt Zweif and Bob Crow- el. Noah Matt Gibson Died In Houston Noah Matt Gibson, 88, one of Texas' famous. peace officers, died peacefully in his chair December 23 at the home of his daughter, Miss Regina Cibson, in Houston.

Miss Gibson, who works. in the city, had prepared a mid-morning glass of milk for her father and also his lunch. When she returned she found that he had drunk the milk, but had not eaten his lunch, fixing the time of his passing at about 9:30 a. m. The body was brought to Granbury for burial beside the body of his wife and a son who died many vears ago.

Funeral services were held at the Kates and Terry Chapel December 26 at 10:30 with Rev. Hugh B. Brous officiating. Mr. Gibson, native of Weatherford, had ted, a colorful life.

He rode the old Chisholm Prail, served many years as a Texas Ranger taking part in fights along the border; served as sheriff of Brazoria County and as a deputy U.S. marshal. Besides hit daughter, he is 900 vived by one grandson, Edward Smith of Barbersville, West Virginia and two great-grandsons. His wife war a sister of the late E. A.

Hanneford..