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...Bonham General Store...
...have just completed a minute search of the city of Bonham searching for "the Bonham general store" which the writer of your article about Sam Rayburn in the Sept. 27 issue so glibly mentions...
There are some 100 stores in Bonham, including two banks, 12 cafes, six drugstores and seven dry-goods stores, but not one of them will acknowledge to being "the Bonham general store" where Sam sits with cronies for "big-town" photographers. The general store to which the author refers, I presume, is the store owned by Ernest Parker at Ivanhoe, 15 miles north of here...
...Bonham has an estimated population of 9,230 . . . does not claim to be a metropolis, but it is definitely out of the general-store class...
When Sam is home he helps in the chores, visits in the Bonham general store, rides about the ranch to inspect his 200 white-faced cattle. Sam's favorite spot is the one-story ranch house, nestled in a grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence...