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Sun Honor Roll
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Dixie Blackbird
Minstrel Friday
No Decision Yet
On Legislative
Special Session
Negro School Gets
Lunch Room
Alonzo Harper Buys
108-Acre Farm
METHODIST PASTOR
ATTENDS CONFERNCE
MOTHER FINDS HER SON
THROUGH FLINT’S SEIZURE
TIGERS TO PLAY
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Texas Labor Is
Against Sales Tax
BUYS FAIN LOTS;
WILL BUILD HOME
if you take advantage of our
Elsewhere the rate is $1.50.
A recreation program is being car-
ried on at the Grammar School here
under the direction of Miss Pauline
Magers. The project is financed by
the federal government under the
WPA.
The program will consist of athlet-
ics, music, clubs, dramatics, organized
games, arts and crafts, and free play,
and includes adults as well as chil-
dren. Community night programs are
to be conducted, and craft classes and
clubs organized.
The school playground will be open
each afternoon from 1 till 6 o’clock,
a. m.
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Drill, by Grammar School students.
“Toast to the Flag,” by Grammar
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Navy Day Will Be
Observed With Open
Air Program Here
The Dixie Blackbird Minstrel to be
given Friday night at 8 o’clock at the
grammar school building, under the
sponsorship of the Parent-Teacher
Association, will provide plenty of
fun and amusement, according to an-
nouncement of the director. The pro-
ceeds from the program, after all ex-
penses are paid, will go to the Par-
I ent-Teacher Association and will be
Pension Cut Brings
But Few Complaints
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939.
Stedhams Observe
Golden Wedding
Anniversary
GALVESTON. — Texas Federation
of Labor delegates bristling in their
attitude toward the handling of the
social security problem in the state,
opened their annual meeting here
Monday.
Harry W. Acreman of-Austin, ex-
executive secretary of the federation,
of
Farmers Are Urged
To Kill Quota Plan
AUSTIN.—An act of the Forty-
Fifth Legislature which authorizes
Commissioners Courts of counties of
a certain population to fix the rate
for laying out fines was held uncon-
stitutional Wednesday by the Court
of Criminal Appeals.
General law fixes $3 per dey as the
rate for laying out fines in jail, but
the act sought to confer on certain
counties an exception under which
the rate could be fixed at from $1 to
$3. Other provisions of Articles 793
and 794 attempted to make further
exceptions on a population basis.
Four cases from Lamar County and
one from Fannin County raised the
issue in applications for writs of hab-
eas corpus. The defendants, who said
they had served sufficient time on a
$3-a-day rate but were confined dur-
ther on a $l-a-day rate, were ordered
discharged.
Nothing comes to us too soon, but
sorrow.—Bailey.
He’s only a sailor on the boundless
deep,
Under foreign skies and tropical heat.
Only a. sailor oh the rolling deep,
In summer’s rain and winter’s sleet.
He’s only a sailor for Uncle Sam
Far from his home and native land.
-He’s only a sailor some people say,
He couldn’t make a living any other
way.
You may call him a loafer or a gov-
ernment bum,
-But remember, friends, he’s the
behind the gun.
And when war clouds rise
peaceful sky,
The Fifth Sunday Singing Conven-
tion will meet at Pilot Grove Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock. All singers
and those who enjoy good singing are
invited to attend.
If you want a daily newspaper in connection with The Sun, we
can save you some money. The rates below apply to new and renewal
subscriptions alike.
New and renewal subscriptions are
Palace Theatre
Changes Schedule
Of Saturday Show
The Palace theatre announces that
beginning Saturday night two com-
plete double feature shows will be
run, one starting at 6:30 and the oth-
er at 9:15. This will give patrons a
two hour and 45 minute show for one
admission, 10c and 25c. Saturday
matinee will feature a Western pic-
ture at 10c and 15c.
Bargain nights will be changed
next week to Monday and Tuesday,
when “Zenobia” will be shown. A
Halloween prevue at 9:30 Tuesday
night will feature “Goldwyn Follies,”
which will also be shown Wednesday
night.
GRANGER.—Urging Texas farm-
ers to vote in the coming cotton ref-
erendum and to vote against the
quota plan of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, Ralph W.
Moore, master of the Texas Grange,
has issued the following statement
here:
“It occurs to me that after all these
years of trifling and dealing in un-
certainties on the part of the National
Administration relative to agricul-
ture, farmers should come to realize
that they are not being dealt with
fairly. Promises are easily made, it
seems, by Secretary Wallace and his
cohorts, but soon forgotten. After
seven years of government control
and regimentation, we are no nearer
the solution of the cotton problem
than we were in the beginning.
“We recall the failure of the gov-
trnment to pay the 1938 parity pay-
ments, and also they have reduced
the 1939 parity payments, as well as
the soil conservation payments.
“Texas and Oklahoma farmers
have been forced to bear the brunt of
this national farm program relating
to cotton. These two states have ac-
counted for approximately 90 per1
cent of the aggregate of reduction,
which is unfair, unethical and un-
sound from the national economic
viewpoint, and it is my opinion that
the farmers of Texas and Oklahoma
would receive larger payments if
they would vote down the quota plan
than they would if they should vote
for it.”
Moore further predicted that the
plan will be defeated if the opposi-
tion goes to the poles and votes.
The Whitewright Tigers will go to
Leonard Friday for a conference
game with the Leonard High School
team. Leonard has played four games
this season and lost four. White-
wright has played four games, win-
ning two and losing two, but has lost
both conference games played, and
won the two non-conference games.
The Whitewright and Leonard
teams should be fairly well matched,
according to their past perfarmances.
Jan. 8, which is Jackson
“victory celebrations” will be held in
key cities throughout the country on
that date.
All who have contributed to the
fund will receive complimentary
tickets to these celebrations, Quayle
them in their travels. Photographs of
most of the local boys now in service
are also included.
Little known to many civilians is
the fact that our larger ships of the
Navy carry a detachment of U. S.
Marines aboard who are always
equipped for any emergency that
might arise. This fine detachment of
Marines are always drilled to perfec-
tion, and come under the jurisdiction
of the Navy Department. They are a
part of the Navy.
Alonzo Harper, well known farmer
northeast of Whitewright, has con-
tracted for the purchase of a 108-acre
farm in the Marvin community,
northeast of Whitewright. The farm
is owned by a loan company.
Papers are being prepared to bring
the deal to a close. Consideration,
$5,000 cash. The farm is located on
the Whitewright-Ely road, and i^ one
of the best farms in that community.
NO MATTER what this date is, you may extend your time ONE
YEAR from that date (if you live in Texas) for—
$1
^School student.
_ Tribute to the Squalus, by Mrs.
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Reading
casually down a list of crewmen
aboard the German-seized freighter
City of Flint, Mrs. Nellis Long ex-
claimed: “My boy is on that ship.”
She explained Wednesday she had
lost track of Perry W. McHaffie, her
son by a former marriage, after he
tired of hunting shore jobs and went
to sea four years ago.
on a
'Tis he—not you, that goes forth to ' cominS in every day and the number
die! wil1 increase as the end of our annual
AS Stfel i i
Final papers have been signed con-
summating the sale of the W. C. Fain
homestead on Grand Avenue to Mrs.
C. B. Bryant, who contemplates
building a modern cottage on the lots.
The Fain homestead is a land mark
in Whitewright. It is a large two-
story building and is one of the oldest
dwellings in Whitewright. The build-
ing will be razed as soon as it is va-
cated. The location is one of the most
desirable, being on a corner, close to
the business section, churches and
schools.
AUSTIN.—Old-age pension recip-
ients, who accepted a $6 cut this
month with but little complaint,
probably will not be forced to under-
go a further reduction, Adam R.
Johnson, director of Public Welfare,
said Tuesday.
“There will be no further cut,” he
said, “certainly not in November.”
He said that at this time of year the
revenue begins to increase. Thanks-
giving and Christmas holiday contri-
butions play an important part, as a
large portion of pension revenue is
derived from liquor and beer taxes.
Plans for November pensions are
being made on the presumption the
Federal Social Security Board will
approve the new plan of administra-
tion submitted Oct. 7 by the state
board.
A letter giving the reasons for the
$6 cut was included with the pension
checks and many of the recipients re-
sponded, Johnson said. Only about 5
per cent, mostly men, complained.
Soil Conservation
Payments to Start
Flowing This Week
on each issue
of your Whitewright Sun. or on the wrapper if it reaches you in a
wrapper.
-Grover B. Smith.
Allegiance to the Flag,
team.
Roll Call of “Boys in Blue.”
“Taps.”
In the window exhibit may be seen
■curios gathered from the four corners
nf the earth by Navy men and Ma-
rines, as well as pictures made by
Parents and teachers of White-
wright Negro Grammar School are
sponsoring a hot lunch project, ac-
cording to announcement of M. D,
Boyd, principal.
Lunches are available for all needy
children—none are to be sold. Some,
surplus food commodities are sup-*
plied through WPA.
The P.-T. A. plans to sponsor va-
rious plays, socials, entertainments,
etc., throughout the year to help sup-
ply the lunch room with those com-
modities that are not supplied bv
WPA. y
Any donation from clubs, mer-
chants, or individuals living in White-
wright will be appreciated.
SINGING CONVENTION
COLLEGE STATION. — A new
payment process which will speed up
delivery of checks 60 to 90 days and
stimulate soil-building operations un-
der the AAA farm program was an-
nounced here this week.
The new arrangement will apply to
1939 conservation payments, sched-
uled to start flowing to approximate-
ly 600,000 Texas farmers and ranch-
men this week, B. F. Vance, assistant
state AAA administrator, said.
Under previous regulations „
would not have been possible to start
paying 1939 conservation checks un-
til December 31, the deadline for car-
rying out soil-building practices un-
der the ’39 program.
First applications received in the
College Station state headquarters of
the AAA were from Bosque County.
Along with Delta and Williamson
Counties, Bosque will be among the
con-
children.
There are more than 50 in the cast,
among them being a number of chil-
dren. Among the adults will be the
j following, all of whom are experi-
■ enced actors and actresses, and many
of whom would be stars in Holly-
wood, if they would only sign up with
ctau suu, jacKie, or oweetwarer, ivrr. it;.Q . , A Tir t,
and Mrs. Austin Stedham of Salina, J °d r ■ W'
Kansas, Mrs. Pearl Stedham and clul- F»cle Tom Cunnmgham, Clovis
f r , | Childress, N. L. Manning, Mrs. D. M.
ville, Mr. and Mrs. Lennie Carpenger 'Roddy- M1SS Sallye Hamilton, Her-
and daughter, Martha Jean, of Green-
ville, and Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
heart, parents of Mrs. Austin
ham and long-time friends
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Stedham were mar-
I ried Oct. 23, 1889, at Dukes, Ala., and
came to Texas in 1893, establishing a
home at Royse Citty. They came to
Whitewright in 1911. Mr. Stedham
was born June 15, 1868, at Bines-
ville, Ala., and Mrs. Stedham was
born Dec. 6, 1870, at Canton, Ga.
They had six children, four of whom
are living and three of whom were
present Sunday. Guy Stedham of
Fort Worth was unable to be present.
They also" have 15 grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren. The chil-
dren and grandchildren presented
them with numerous gifts.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Stedham have
been active in the Baptist Church
during the 28 years they have lived
■in Whitewright, while Mr. Stedham
has also been active in the Masonic
Lodge, having filled all the stations in
the lodge. Although 71 years old, he
continues to do the work in his
blacksmith and woodwork shop, be-
ing on the job every day except when
he decides to close up and go visiting.
WPA Recreation
Project Is Given
Grammar School
AUSTIN.—If any person in the
. capital knew today whether the Tex*
, as Legislature would meet in special
session to raise social security rev-
. enue it apparently was not Governor
1 W. Lee O’Daniel.
, The man whose signature on a
, proclamation would summon mem-
bers for an extraordinary session re-
ported on his Sunday broadcast from
the mansion:
“At this time there is no way to
know what the outcome will be, but
may I ask the public to be patient
while we are working on this plan.”
The “plan” was a mail poll of leg-
islators who were asked whether
they favored a consumers’ tax bill
similar to a proposed constitutional
amendment levying sales and natural
resources taxes which died at the last
general session.
The chief executive said some o£
the replies had been “rather indefi-
nite” which necessitated further cor-
respondence.
Explaining his poll was saving tax-
payers $5,000 a day (the average
daily expense of legislative
ings), the Governor added:
“I am simply trying to do my duty
by asking for information so that X
may make the proper decision as to
whether or not a special session of the
Legislature should be called at this
time.”
He asserted he was not trying to
dictate a method of raising badly
needed revenue.
“In answering my question they
will not sacrifice any of their rights
as legislators,” he said. “Regardless
of whether they answer my question
yes or no, it will not prevent them
from introducing any kind of a tax
measure they desire, or voting yes or
no on any other tax measure which
may be introduced and come up for a
vote.”
Rev. Ben Bell, pastor of the First
Methodist Church, is in Dallas attend-
ing the annual meeting of the North
Texas Methodist conference, at which
pastors to the various churches in the
district will be assigned for the en-
suing year, and other business of the
church attended to.
At the final meeting of the board of
stewards Tuesday afternoon the busi-
ness of the local church was brought
to a close and the annual report to
conference made.
The report will show all obligations
of the local church paid in full, and
that the new church year will start
with a clean slate. During the year
just closed more than $3,000 was con-
tributed by the local congregation for
the various activities of the church.
The pastor, Rev. Ben Bell, has been
on this charge only six months, suc-
ceeding Rev. Joe M. Connally, who
was moved to Decatur to fill a vacan-
cy. Rev. Bell came from Leonard,
where he was pastor two and one-
half years. Rev. and Mrs. Bell have
made many friends since coming to
Whitewright.
To defend his home, his flag and you.
Tis he that walks the decks of ships,
’Tis he that would die with a smile on
his lips.
■While you enjoy what he has done,
Then cast him off with a laugh and
call his a bum.
If it were not for him—whom you
sometimes berate
Foreign powers invading would mete
out your fate.
Then you would cry aloud for the
boys in blue,
But if there were none—pray—what
would you do?
Then remember, they to their flag are
true,
So please try to give them that which
is their due.
For, before they enlisted to wear suits
of blue
They were civilians, the same as you.
—Author Unknown.
PARTYDROPS
$25 DINNERS
first to receive any 1939 soil”
servation payments, Vance said.
Vance explained that the new
process allows a farmer to apply for
his conservation payment as soon as
he completes requirements for earn-
ing his full soil-building allowance.
Many farmers, he said, already have
finished this work.
“This will permit a more regular
flow of applications for grant
through the state office, and do away
with the log-jams that have been
partly responsible for delay in the
past,” Vance said. “It should also en-
courage greater use of funds allowed
for terracing, planting legumes and
green manure and cover crops, and
other practices employed in improv-
ing or saving the soil.
“In the natural course of events,
the faster a man completes his soil-
building requirements, the sooner he
gets his conservation payment.”
Rapid delivery of 1939 wheat and
cotton price adjustment payments is
reported here.
Mothers of boys from this commu-
nity now serving in the United States
Navy and United States Marine Corps
will sponsor a program in observance
of Navy Day, Oct. 27. The program
will be given in front of the Navy
Day window exhibit at Jim Ann’s
Beauty Shop at 11 a. m. Friday.
The High School and the Grammar
School students will attend the pro-
gram in a body, and an effort is be-
ing made to have a good’ crowd of
adults present also. The Denison
Chamber of Commerce will send an
orchestra to furnish music for the
event.
Following is the program:
“Taps.”
Impromptu Talk, by Tom Cunning-
Marion Felker of Whitesboro has
purchased the Bennett cafe from Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Bennett, and is now in
charge. Mr. Felker is making im-
provements in the cafe and will open
it for business the latter part of the
week.
Mr. Felker is no stranger to the
people of Whitewright, having oper-
ated a cafe here several years ago. He
is an experienced cafe man, and since
leaving Whitewright has been in the
cafe business in Whitesboro.
DALLAS.—The Democratic Party
has abandoned the policy of holding
$25-a-plate dinners on Jackson Day
as a means of raising funds for its
national committee.
This was revealed here Tuesday
by Oliver A. Quayle Jr. of Washing-
ton, treasurer of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee.
In lieu of the dinners, Quayle an-
nounced that a national fund-raising
campaign would be started on Nov.
15, for the dual purpose of providing
money for normal expenses of the
national committee and for the ex-
traordinary expenses to be incurred
in connection with the 1940 nominat-
ing convention.
The campaign will be concluded on
, -------- -------.1 Day, and
focused the convention’s attention
Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel’s manner
handling the situation, by saying:
“The Governor has taken $6
month from the needy old people. In
return he has given them nice
speeches every Sunday. Perhaps the
speeches are worth $6 a month to
them, but I doubt it.”
Opposition to a sales tax was
voiced by many delegates and predic-
tions were made the labor group
would favor financing old age pen-
sions and the social security problem
through a tax on natural resources.
The Allied Printing Trades council
Sunday passed a resolution express-
ing sympathy for the aged and assert-
ing they have been “cruelly deceived
by the Governor’s pre-election prom-
ise of more liberal pensions without
any additional taxes.”
The printing trades council opposed
will increase as the end of our annual
fall subscription campaign draws
nearer. The campaign will continue
through November, unless we are
forced to bring it to a close at an
earlier date on account of increasing
prices of newsprint and other mate-
rials going into the production of a
newspaper.
Our advice to our many subscrib-
ers is to renew their subscriptions
now, and not take a chance on the
campaign being closed on short no-
tice. If your subscription does not
expire until December or January,
it will be moved up one year when
your renewal subscription is received.
So, don’t delay. Renew your sub-
scription NOW. Many are taking ad-
vantage of our special club offers,
such as The Sun and the Semi-
Weekly Farm News, both one year for
only $1.50.
Where can you get more for your
money than one year’s subscription to
The Sun for only $1.00? It’s the big-
gest bargain in Texas today. The fall
special is good only in Texas. Out-
side of Texas the price is $1.50 a year.
The following have had
names added to The Sun honor
this week:
Dr. J. F. Spindle.
Dr. F. D. Layman.
Mrs. C. W. Keliehor.
M. BelerXn
Mrs. W. H. Murley.
D. W. Garrett.
M. E. Winburn.
J. A. Harper.
W. L. Gordon.
Luther Gordon. ;
Jesse Wallace.
Ferd Moore.
Willie P. Edwards.
Mrs. M. C. Gilliam.
Mrs. H. A. James.
B. L. Sanderson.
R. S. Taylor.
R. D. Hall.
Sam Stuteville.
J. C. English.
Albert Reeves.
J. Lee Smith.
Mrs. E. J. Tutt.
F. L. Starr.
Fred Starr.
Mrs. Bessie Compton.
Mrs. Alex Benham.
Mrs. Giles Cobb.
Mrs. Edgar Montgomery.
Miss Sallie Skaggs.
Mrs. J. L. Reeves.
Virgil Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stedham cele-
brated their 50th wedding anni-
versary Sunday, their children and
grandchildren being present for the
occasion. The children gave them a
turkey dinner at Pierce’s cafe. Aus-
tin Stedham, their son, brought the
under-med sehoo!
and green decorations, with “50” in
gold on top. The cafe was decorated
in .gold and green. Bettye Nell Yeag-
er gave a reading, dedicated to Mr.
and Mrs. Stedham. .
Present were Mrs. E. C. Webb of
Oklahoma City, Houston Stedham ■
and son, Jackie, of Sweetwater, Mr. j
and Mrs. Austin Stedham of Salina, '
TVTt*c Ppnrl j
Green- 1 R^dy, Miss Sallye Hamilton,
man Bedford, Muri Ryon, Jim Henry <
Andrews, Jack Lewis Yeager, O. L. i
(Pig) Jones, J. B. Cates, Dr. F. D. ]
Layman, Bussy Thornhill, Miss Fran-
ces Willimas, Mrs. Daniel Russ, J. C.
Gillespie, Daniel Russ, B. Alexander,
Mrs. C. J. Meador, Lonnie Ricketts,
Mrs. Wilson Kaiser, Pattie Everheart
and many others.
If you want to see a show worth
seeing, don’t miss this one Friday.
Admission only 15 and 25 cents.
dren, Cecil and Maxine,
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