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The Whitewright Sun
VOL. 54, NO. 45.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933.
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WHEAT 84c, OATS 39c
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Farmers Signing
To Reduce Acreage
Wheat Processing
Tax Fixed at 30c,
Effective July 8
Two More States
Join Prohibition
Repeal Ranks
Moist and Arid
Delegates Named
For Repeal Battle
Attendance Cup
Presented Rotary
' Club at Garland
1,300 Dry Agents
And Helpers Lose
Jobs On June 30
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lat these be enlarged and
;o provide adequate pro-
wet delegate or alternate will
for repeal at the constitutional
vention.
center,
iditorium
are being
Brazil is requiring all gold miners
to sell their products to the govern-
ment.
3-Year-Old Takes $35
In Pennies to Doctor
To Pay for New Baby
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Farmers of This
Community Favor
Cotton Reduction
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Dr. R. L. Sears has been appointed
city health officer and has accepted
the assignment, beginning July 1st.
The law requires that the city shall
"be officially aligned with the State
Department of Health and that all
matters affecting the public health
shall be under the direction of an ac-
credited physician. It has not been
easy to retain the services of a phy-
sician in a connection that involves
■responsibility and some disagreeable
tasks, but carries no stated compen-
sation. Dr. Sears and the city com-
mission, therefore, ask the cheerful
cooperation of the people in all serv-
ices that may become his binding
duty to perform.
contracts Wednesday to reduce their
acreage forty per cent, but most of
the contracts call for from 25 to 35
per cent reduction.
Reports from over the cotton belt
indicate that the campaign will be a
success. If it is, at least 10,000,000
acres of cotton will be destroyed, ac-
cording to Mr. Wallace, secretary of
agriculture.
Public Park For
Grayson County
Is Being Sought
WASHINGTON. — Attorney Gen-
eral Cummings announced Tuesday
that more than 1,300 employes of the
Prohibition Bureau will be fur-
loughed or dismissed June 30 to save
$4,000,000 in the coming fiscal year.
Among the employes to be drop-
ped, the Attorney General said, are
administrators, stenographers, typists,
attorneys and clerks. Their names
were withheld.
The Attorney General’s announce-
ment said: “The last session of Con-
gress appropriated $8,300,000 for the
purpose of carrying on prohibition
enforcement but under the plan of
reorganization contemplated for the
Prohibition Bureau, Director of the
and cooperation, the club knows that
most of the credit belongs to Mr.
Hooper. Gomer May was chairman
of the attendance committee during
the contest, and was active during
the entire campaign.
When the contest closed April 1
there were four clubs with a perfect
attendance record, Whitewright, Gar-
land, Terrell and DeKalb. The con-
test was continued until Whitewright
was the only club left with a perfect
record. Every meeting of the White-
wright club for 1933 has been 100
per cent in attendance. And the club
has forty 100 per cent meetings for
the Rotary year, which began July 1.
This is the best record the club has
made since it was organized more
than 8 years ago. The new year will
start July 1 with Rhom Pennington
succeeing Mr. Hooper as president.
No club meeting will be held WP**
day, the meeting at Garland Tues-
day night taking the place of the reg-
ular Friday meeting. The next club
meeting will be on July 7.
The grain market was not quite as
active Wednesday as it was Monday
and Tuesday, when advances of sev-
eral cents a bushel were made. The
Chicago market was down Wednes-
day following the two big advances
on Monday and Tuesday.
Local buyers Wednesday paid 84
cents for wheat and 37 and 39 cents
for oats, the higher price being for
sacked oats.
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CLOVIS, N. M.—-Charline Taylor,
3-year-old daughter' of Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Taylor of Roswell, likes her
newly arrived little brother and is
willing to make any sacrifice for him.
Charline, who is visiting here at
the home of her mother’s parents,
walked into a doctor’s office Tues-
day pulling a little wagon loaded
with $35 in pennies and offered them
as payment for her baby brother.
She, had been saving the coppers
for more than a year.
The Whitewright Rotary Club was
presented the trophy offered by the
Garland Rotary Club to the club in
the 48th Rotary district making the
best attendance record during the
contest, which was for a period of
three months. The trophy, a beautiful-
ly engraved silver cup, was presented
Tuesday night at an out-door meet-
ing at Garland. About 150 Rota-
rians and Rotary Anns attended the
meeting and enjoyed the excellent
program and picnic lunch given by
the Garland club in honor of the
Whitewright club. Visitors were in
attendance from Dallas, Terrell, At-
lanta and other towns in the 48th
district.
The cup was presented by J. A.
(Hot) Alexander, formerly of White-
wright. He said he was glad that
Whitewright won the cup, but that
he was for Garland until that club
was forced out of the contest on ac-
count of the illness of a member. He
paid Whitewright and the White-
wright Rotary Club many compli-
ments in his presentation speech. The
response was made by W. R. Hooper,
president of the Whitewright Rotary
Club. Mr. Hooper worked hard in
the contest to win and his enthusiasm
is responsible for the Whitewright
club winning the trophy. While he
gives all the credit to members of the
Whitewright club for their loyalty
The local R. F. C. chairman is au-
thorized to give limited assistance to
families who may have a surplus of
garden products suitable for can-
ning, but who haven’t the means to
provide cans and equipment with
which to salvage these provisions for
winter use. A system has been
worked out whereby this assistance
will be extended on a share basis. It
is realized that the season is now too
far advanced to embrace the full
benefits of this work, but roasting
ears, tomatoes and a few other vege-
tables may be saved through this pro-
posed cooperative effort.
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The Processing Tax.
The processing tax of four cents
per pound on cotton was mentioned,
but Mr. Gray told the inquirer that
farmers should dismiss that item
from their minds, that it would have
nothing to do with the price paid for
cotton because it would be paid by
the processor on cotton consumed in
America only; that the market price
of cotton is controlled by England
because that country is the world’s
largest user of cotton. Four cents a
pound tax on cotton, he said, would
hardly be noticeable to the consumer,
that it wopld add no more than two
cents to the price of a shirt. This
processing tax is to be levied for the
purpose of ultimately providing the
funds with which the government is
to purchase cotton acreage.
Mr. Gray said that about the only
difference in the cotton option plan
and the all-cash plan as applied to the
individual farmer is that the farmer
who elects the option plan has a
chance to eventually receive more
Tuesday, June 27, at 7:30 o’clock
Boy Scout Troop No. 2 of White-
wright met in regular meeting in the
Scout cabin. There were 12 present,
including James Irving Hughes, Jim
Pat Meador, Mark Montgomery, Jack
Meador, patrol leader; O. A. Hefner,
Jack Lewis Yeager, of the Flying
Eagle Patrol; Fred Coley, Albert
Lea Jackson, patrol leader; Fred
Starr, Hamilton Vestal, Merriwell
Vineyard, Quentin Nicholson, of the
Wolf Patrol.
The meeting was closed by the
playing of some Scout games. The
next meeting will be Tuesday, July
4.—J. P. M.
process and power required to lift it
from the deep well. This, factor al-
ways suggests ample storage above
ground, and one of the immediate
improvements that will probably be
undertaken, if government funds be-
come available, will be the construc-
tion of another concrete reservoir.
A survey of this improvement indi-
cates an expenditure of approximate-
ly $1,900, and is estimated to pro-
vide about 250 man work days.
Similar surveys for a community
golf course and recreation
and for a general utility
near the business district'' « .
prepared, and further efforts will be
pursued to induce the State Highway
Department and the county commis-
sioners court to give consideration to
improvement of the imp<
ways of this community.
Engraved or printed cards, invi-
‘ ’ iL or announcements obtainable
APPROPRIATION FOR
BEER ELECTION SIGNED
OKLAHOMA CITY. — Governor
Murray Tuesday signed the $132,000
appropriation bill for the beer elec-
tion July 11 and the ad valorem tax
reduction referendum Aug. 15.
No counters will be employed, the
inspector, judge and clerk taking
over the work.
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The farmers of the Whitewright
community are willing to sell part of
their cotton acreage to the govern-
ment in order to curtail production
this year. They voted unanimously
to that effect at a meeting held here
Tuesday night at which B. F. Gray,
county farm agent, explained the cot-
ton retirement plans. During the
meeting someone proposed a vote on
the question, and all who voted fa-
vored the plan, no votes being cast
against it.
The meeting was attended by
about 300 persons, more than half of
whom were directly interested either
as farmers or land owners. Mr. Gray
explained the two plans in detail, aft-
er prefacing his explanation with the
statement that he did not come to
Whitewright to argue for or against
cotton acreage retirement but to
plain it to those who were not
formed.
Must Be Conservative.
Mr. Gray warned the farmers that
they would have to be conservative
in their estimates of probable pro-
duction this year when filling out
contracts, saying that if their esti-
mates were too high the contracts
would be turned down. He said the
average per acreage yield of cotton
in Grayson County over a period of
five years was 157 pounds of lint
cotton, and advised the farmers to
keep this fact in mind when estimat-
ing the amount of cotton their land
will produce in 1933. The price to be
paid for cotton acreage will be based
on past production records and condi-
tion of the crop at this time, and the
speaker said the government would
not purchase any cotton acreage
which the crop was already lost.
Answers Questions.
At the conclusion of his explana-
tion, Mr. Gray told his audience that
he would try to answer any ques-
tions pertaining to the subject which
he had not made clear. Someone
asked how past production would be
determined on a farm that had made
practically no cotton last year be-
cause of weevil infestation, and the
speaker said the normal production
record of surrounding farms would
be used to determine what the weevil
infested farm should have produced.
In reply to the question, Mr. Gray
said production records over a period
of five years might be used in deter-
mining classification of crops.
A question brought out the fact
that a land owner might sell his rent
share of a cotton crop even though
the tenant did not want to sell his, or
vice versa, after an agreement as to
division of acreage by the owner and
tenant. A farmer wanted to know if
he could sell his option cotton at any
time he so desired, and Mr. Gray told
him he could not, that the option cot-
ton would be fed into the market
gradually by the government, there-
by bringing a better price than if it
were all sold at once.
Work Should Be Continued.
Another farmer wanted to know
when to quit working his cotton acre-
age which he had contracted to sell,
and Mr. Gray advised everybody to
continue to work their crops until
they received a letter from the Sec-
retary of Agriculture telling them to
plow it up. He said that all the acre-
age signed up would not be accepted
in the event the plan goes through,
and warned that there is a possibility
that no acreage will be purchased be-
cause the retirement plan calls for
at least ten million acres. If that
amount is not signed up promptly,
there will be no sale.
To the question of whether or not
farmers could plant some other crop
on land on which the cotton had been
sold to the government, Mr. Gray
said they could plant any crop they
desired for home consumption or soil
rehabilitation, but not for sale. He
said an effort is being made to speed
up the purchase of cotton acreage in
order that farmers may plant feed
crops on the land to offset the
pending feed shortage due to
douth.
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Despite Jimmy Mattern’s ill fated
attempt at a solo flight around the
world, Wiley Post (above) is poised
at New York for a lone hop-off to
better the globe circling mark he
established with Harold Gatty ir
1931.
5c a Copy, $1.50 a Year.
for his retirement acreage than the
farmer who accepts all cash.
The Two Plans.
The two plans under which a farm-
er may sell from 25 to 50 per cent of
his cotton acreage were .explained in
detail in The Sun last week, but will
be reviewed briefly:
Under plan No. 1 the farmer is to
receive in cash this summer from
$6.00 to $12 per acre for the land re-
tired from cotton, the exact amount
depending on the former average
yields per acre, and an option at six
cents per pound on as many bales of
government owned cotton as the
acreage retired would yield as deter-
mined by former average yields.
This cotton will be sold by the gov-
ernment some time during the year,
and the difference between selling
price and option price will be paid to
the farmer. The farmer is not re-
quired to put up any money for this
option cotton, and nothing will be
Reducted from the $6.00 to $12.00
per acre due him. Land yielding 100
to 124 pounds of lint per acre takes
the $6.00 price, 125 to 149, $7.00;
150 to 174, $8.00; 175 to 224,
$10.00; 225 to 274, $11.00, and 275
and over, $12.00.
Farmers wanting all cash may sell
their acreage under plan No. 2 at a
higher scale of prices, as follows:
Land yielding 100 to 124 pounds of
lint cotton per acre, $7.00; 125 to
149, $9.00; 150 to 174, $11; 175 to
224, $14.00; 225 to 274, $17.00, and
275 and over, $20.00.
Local Committee.
The local committee appointed to
handle the contracts in the White-
wright community is composed of
Bryant King, Finis Alverson and Carl
May, and headquarters has been
established in the building next door
to Kirkpatrick’s pharmacy. This com-
mittee must inspect all crops at time
of signing contracts, and again at
time of plowing up of the cotton.
Farmers are urged to sign up their
acreage as early as possible, in order
to have a better chance of having
their contracts accepted.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Upshoot-
ing grain prices nothwithstanding, a
[ processing tax of 30c a bushel on
wheat, effective at midnight July 8,
was formally proclaimed Tuesday by
Dr. R. G. Tugwell, Assistant Secre-
tary of Agriculture, after approval
by President Roosevelt.
The tax, to be collected from mil-
lers and other manufacturers con-
verting wheat into food products for
human use, will be in effect for the
ensuing marketing year. The rate,
however, is subject to changeS^which,
Secretary Wallace has said, will be
made as infrequently as possible.
In terms of an average one-pound
loaf of bread, the tax will amount to
.483 of a cent. For all flour except
whole wheat and graham the tax
would come to .704 of a cent a
pound.
The proclamation automatically
will put into effect at the same time
compensatory import taxes of 30c a
bushel on wheat brought into this
country, in addition to the present
duty of 42c a bushel.
Farmers in the Whitewright sec-
tion are signing up in the campaign
to reduce cotton acreage. The cam-
paign was started Wednesday morn-
ing and thirty farmers signed con-
tracts during the day. When the
building next to Kirkpatrick’s drug
store, which is being used by the cot-
ton reduction committee, was opened
Thursday morning several farmers
were waiting to sign contracts to re-
duce their acreage. The committee
expects to be rushed until Saturday
night filling out contracts for farm-
ers who are anxious to see the 1933
Budget Lewis Douglas ordered a sav- cotton crop reduced. Several signed
ing of $4,000,000 to be made.”
The number of employes to be
dropped includes Arizona, seven; Cal-
ifornia, fifty-three; Colorado, thir-
teen; Idaho, five; Kansas, seven;
Missouri, thirty; Montana, nine; Ne-
braska, five; New Mexico, seven; Ok-
lahoma, sixteen; Oregon, nine; Tex-
as, twenty-six; Utah, seven; Wash-
ington, twenty-three; Wyoming, sev-
en; Alabama, five, and Hawaii, eight.
Prohibitionists and anti-prohibi-
tionists met in Austin Tuesday and
each side elected thirty-one delegates
and thirty-one alternates to stand in
the election of Aug. 26 as their nom-
inees who will cast their votes for or
against repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitu-
tion which outlawed manufacture and
sale of intoxicating beverages in the
United States and possessions.
The prohibitionists held an orderly
convention which moved with ma-
chine-like smoothness, with no wran-
gling over distribution of honors. The
wets, however, staged an old-fash-
ioned convention battle of two hours
over the choice of a permanent chair-
man, and harmony was restored only
after James E. Ferguson, former
governor, removed himself from the
picture as a candidate for the honor.
C. C. McDonald, Ferguson’s closest
political friend, was made chairman
on Ferguson’s nomination. The drys
made W. A. Keeling, former Attor-
ney General, their permanent chair-
man.
A delegate and an alternate was
elected from each senatorial district
by each convention, and the names of
these delegates and alternates will
appear on the ballot in the election
Aug. 26. The dry delegate from the
9th senatorial district, composed of
Grayson, Fannin and Cooke Counties,
is Thomas 'S. Clyce of Sherman, and'
the alternate is H. W. Stark of
Gainesville. The wets elected from
this district R. T. Lipscomb of Bon-
ham as delegate and R. S. Reed of
Denison as alternate.
If this senatorial district favors in
the Aug. 26 election retention of the
Eighteenth Amendment, the dry del-
egate or alternate will cast one vote
to that effect at the State constitu-
tional convention. On the other hand,
if the people of the district want the
Eighteenth Amendment repealed, the
vote
con-
Paul J. Gorman, of Syracuse, N.
Y., has an American flag saved from F
the battleship Maine 35 years ago. ration;
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Anti-pro-
hibitionists today looked upon the ac-
tion of West Virginia and California
in joining the procession of wet
States as having heightened the pos-
sibility of repealing the Eighteenth
Amendment before next New Year’s
Day. •
Both prohibitionists and anti-pro-
hibitionists admit four others—Flori-
da, Missouri, Montana and Utah—
may act before 1934.
Only two States—Nebraska and
South Dakota—have definitely de-
cided against voting this year. That
leaves nine States with no indication
as to their probable action.
Wet and dry leaders issue con-
flicting claims as to the probable out-
come. The anti-prohibitionists say
repeal is certain while the drys con-
tend they can hold in line the neces-
sary 13 States to retain the Eight-
eenth Amendment.
States to act next are Alabama
and Arkansas, on July 18. They are
counted upon to indicate the trend
in what has been considered the dry
South. The drys contend that if they
hold two States this year a final de-
cision will go over into 1934.
Other states to vote are: Tennessee,
July 20; Oregon, July 21; Texas,
Aug. 26; Washington, Aug. 29; Ver-
mont, Sept. 5; Maine, Sept. 11; Mary-
land and Minnesota, Sept. 12; Idaho
and New Mexico, Sept. 19; Arizona,
Oct. 3; North Carolina, Ohio, Penn-
sylvania and South Carolina, Nov. 7.
DENISON.—An effort to obtain a
public park in Grayson County
through the federal government
Civilians’ Conservation Corps activ-
ity was launched Monday night at a
meeting at the Sherman Chamber of
Commerce. Mayor Clarence Scott,
J. Lee Greer and J. W. Madden at-
tended from Denison. Judge J. J.
Loy was in charge of the session.
Lawrence Westbrook of Austin,
state director of conservation work
was contacted at Austin and ex-
plained that the ground must be pur-
chased with funds obtained locally
before the federal government would
send in a company of 200 Civilian
Conservation Corps workers who
would remain on the project until its
completion with the government fur-
nishing all material and other neces-
sities for the construction of a com-
plete public recreation center.
The local citizens would be ex-
pected to provide only the land to
obtain a park that would include a
swimming pool, dance pavillion, golf
links, tennis courts and other fea-
tures constituting a complete recrea-
tion center. After its completion by
the conservation corps, the park
would be turned over to the state to
become a state institution.
Mayor Scott and Mr. Madden of
Denison, and Ben Gafford and Mr.
Wilcox of Sherman were appointed
as the committee to select a location
and are visiting the several possible
sites under consideration.
The possibility of obtaining a gen-
eral recreation center, the need of
in Grayson
County, has stimulated considerable
interest, and those backing the
movement are bending every effort
to assure its achievement.
Funeral services for Dr. William
Joseph Doss, 64 years old, were held
at the late residence at five o’clock
Saturday afternoon, conducted by
Rev. C. C. Merritt, pastor of the
Church of Christ. Interment was in
Oak Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were
T. E. Barbee, John Henry, T. J.
Lilley, W. J. Barbee, J. H. Waggoner
and P. A. Short.
Dr. Doss died at 4 a. m. June 24,
1933, after an illness extending over
a period of several years. Last De-
cember he underwent a surgical op-
eration at Sherman, and since that
time he had been confined to his
room.
He was born Oct. 30, 1868, two
miles southeast of Whitewright, son
of the late Thomas J. and Mattie
Barbee Doss, pioneer settlers in this
community. He received his literary
education in the Whitewright schools
and in Grayson College, and his med-
ical education in the University of
Louisville, Ky., Medical College,
from which he graduated with high
honors. He practiced his profession
at Savoy for many years, until his
health failed, and was later engaged
in the drug business at Blue Ridge.
While practicing medicine at Savoy,
on Dec. 31, 1894, he was married to
Miss Bessie Thompson. It was at Sa-
voy also that he professed religion
and united with the Church of Christ.
Surviving are his widow; one son,
Glenn Doss; a daughter, Miss Cecil
Doss; two brothers, E. T. Doss of
Whitewright and S. S. Doss of San
Benito, and a sister, Mrs. R. H. May
of Whitewright. Two sisters, Mrs.
R. L. Hayter and Mrs. W. L. Johnson,
died several years ago.
The several civic interests of the
city are consolidating their plans for
needed public improvements, which it
is hoped may be obtained under
terms of the national recovery act.
Project surveys are being prepared
to serve as advance notice of appli-
cation for funds that will be made, if
the federal grants and loans prove to
"be sufficiently liberal as to justify
and make possible the financing of
any large expenditures.
The set-up of the state organiza-
tion and routine procedure to be fol-
lowed in dispensing the government’s
Tehabilitation funds have not been
completed, and the most vital inform-
ation needed has not been released.
The question of security required for
loans, the interest rate to be changed,
the duration and other specific terms
of the obligation, will, when finally
determined, govern local units in
their decisions as to the extent of
improvements that may be under-
taken. t
If, and when, favorable data is re-
ceived Whitewright will likely put
forward for immediate consideration
one or more projects that may be se-
lected to rank at the top in general
, and which
may promise the quickest and broad-
est work relief for unemployment.
Certainly such improvements which
it is known must be made within the
near future regardless of the source
from which the funds may come,
should have preference. These could
be followed with applications for aid
on construction that would serve
legitimate public purposes, but which
could, if necessary, be postponed
without serious inconvenience.
A project survey submitted by lo-
cal school authorities covers needed
repairs on public school properties,
including the installation of gas heat-
ing, driveways and enlargement of
library facilities to meet the require-
ments of the State Department of
Education and the Southern Asso-
ciation. These improvements are
classified as present community ne-
cessities, which will become emergen-
cies if work is too long delayed. This
project is estimated to cost approxi-
mately $10,000.00 and will provide
necessary materials and 1,692 man
days work.
The waterworks system offers an
inviting field for large expenditures,
which could be made to perfect the
service, lower the fire insurance rates
and safeguard the city’s water sup-
ply. Our water standpipe built 33
years ago is one of the few of its
type that has withstood the consum-
ing process of nature for that length
of time. Most of these structures
have been replaced with modern
water towers. The standpipe is listed
by the State Insurance Department
as 72 per cent deficient, because only
the top rims are given pressure cred-
it, whereas all water impounded in
an elevated tank exerts the maximum
pressure at the fire hydrant or other
outlet. \
The city’s water mains are listed
as 27 per cent deficient in size in the
residence section, and the State In-
^sjjraecexDepartment has repeatedly
insisted ’
extended
tection, especially in industrial and
other sections of the town where
fire losses are likely to run into
large figures.
An addition to the waterworks sys-
tem that has long been recognized
as a necessity is another well. To
(fully realize this, one has only to con-
template the tremendous suffering,
post and inconvenience to which the
people would be subjected if the well
should fail through some irreparable
/mishap. It is a continuing risk to de-
< pend on one small well for our water
.supply.
The principal item of cost in sup-
plying water to the people is the slow
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