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TWO
MEETING THE PEOPLE
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Sunday, May 15th
(By Melvin Belew)
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compiled by a
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field, member of NSDAR.
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Dropping the Pigeon
We Are Living Better
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| Vandenberg is the first man to win i
success.
A SALES FABLE
on the toe. •
Savings Bonds, backed by Uncle
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Read the Ads for profit.
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“ ’Cause it always got in Grandpa’s
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Eddy,
except perhaps
—Loraine Dildine.
Mrs. M. C.
Re-
Pay Legislators
Better Salaries
THE EXAMINER. McKINNEY, TEXAS, MAY 12, 1949
National Award
Honors Rayburn
Buy American!
Buy U. S. Savings Bonds.
CLINT THOMPSON
' WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
Herman
Mrs.
7,500,000 In United
States III With
Rheumatism
Honoring Daughters
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Lions and Rotary
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Grandpa’s Mustache
Grandpa had a black mustache
, so long and wavy,
favorite f ’
American Revolution Clubs Endorse
Blue Cross Drive
McKinney Examiner Senator G. C. Morris
Busy at Austin
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ry a liquor container with a broken
any motor vehicle. Verily-
knows its way
The
route leads to a dry
—except perhaps’ the
Dowell.
Blest be the Tie that Binds, As-
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Inside Collin County (1 year) _$1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) _$1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.) 75c
The farmer who buys and keeps
U. S. Savings Bonds is never sold out
for a song.
Boyce House tells this one: Did
you ever hear of “dropping the
pigeon?” Back in Memphis, Tenn.,
when I was a young reporter, “drop-
ping the pigeon was frequently re-
ported to the police. How the name
was derived, I don’t know but it was
a swindle in which the sharpsters
and the victims were Negroes! The
scheme worked in this way:
A cotton picker, with his season’s
earnings, alighted from a train and
as he entered the railroad station,
a well-dressed Negro perceived
from the new arrival’s clothes and
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The Examiner believes that
amendment ought to carry. We need
better qualified men in the Legisla-
ture. We do not mean to slur our
Legislators. But well qualified men
such as are needed in Texas Lagis-
latures at this time just are not to
be had unless they are paid a de-
cent salary. The present plan of pay-
ing men to leave their business to
go to Austin for a few months to
enact wise laws for the benefit of the
great Lone Star state, has passed. If
a man has no business at home then
he has perhaps made a failure as a
financier. If he is rich, well off in
property, he would perhaps lean too
far to the side of the banking and
commercial interests. At least he
would be charged with doing so. If he
has no business he may be inclined
to be prejudiced against business in-
terests. We believe in paying at
least $3,000 per year and require
that they stay on the job, all the
time, like Congress does. Of course,
this plan may be amended. But this
idea of a great state like Texas hir-
ing men of ordinary ability to pass
such important legislation as we are
now facing is a mistake. You can’t
get real, first-class men to work for
PRACTICALLY NOTHING.
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A constitutional amendment will
be submitted to the voters of Texas
raising pay of the state legislators
to $3,600 annually, and calling for
a session of the legislature each
year, instead of every two years. The
Lamar County Echo doesn’t like the
proposition and says “The lawmak-
ers will probably be in session four
months each year, which would
mean a salary of $900 a month for
the time they are in Austin. Or, if
you want to figure it another way,
they would get $300 a month trie
year ’round, with a paid vacation
eight montris out of every year.
Frankly, we don’t believe the tax-
payers of Texas will favor this
amendment. We always have plenty
of candidates for the legislative
jobs, even at the present pay.”
government
etc., and a
v ex-
BRITAIN’S billion-dollar gas in-
| dustry passed into the hands of the
government Sunday, socialism’s in-
was a greenhorn, so he stepped for-
ward and said, “Jedge Brown, when
did you get to the city?” and then he
said, “Ah begs yoah pa’don, suh, but
you looks so much lak mah friend,
Jedge Brown, de distinguished .law-
yah from Grenada dat Ah mistook
you.”
Of course, the rustic was flatter-
ed at having been mistaken for so
distinguished a personage and then
GRAIN MEN and wheat farmers
are alarmed over the prospects of
another storage squeeze. The eleva-
tors are still full of
loan grain sorghum, clu., ai
bumper crop of small grain is
pected.
A rabbit heard them talking.
And ran home like a streak.
He thought he’d try the lion’s plan,
But his roar-was just a squeak.
A fox came to investigate—
Had luncheon in the woods.
Moral: When you advertise,
Be sure you’ve got the goods.
Texas Press Messenger.
Lammers, NSDAR Recording Sec-
reary General.
Greetings, Mrs. F. B. Ingram, Na-
tional President Daughters of 1812.
NSDAR project of marking graves
of Revolutionary War soldiers and
of Real Daughters of the Revolu-
tion.
Mrs. Frank Garland Trau, Regent
Texas Society, D. A. R.
D. A. R. Ritual, Mrs. Albert E.
Hudspeth, Mrs. John Leslie Eddy.
Biography of Nancy Barbee
Mayes, Mrs. A. Harold McNeese.
Unveiling of Marker, Anne Wer-
ner.
Dedication of Marker.
Presentation of Wreath, McCarty
as
defendant conf esse d.’” “Pshaw,
judge,” replied the foreman, “we all
know Bill and we know what a big
liar he is.”
THE WOMEN are taking the
country. There are now nine wom-
en in the United States Congress—
one of them in the Senate.
Tie a string on your finger. Rc-
<nember to step in the bank today
* and buy a U. S. Savings Bond.
Officer Clears Up
Beaver ‘Mystery’
Cokeville, Wyo., May 7.—Myste-
—
crease in the beaver population on
for human eyes,
Till the ink is on the paper, when
it grows to mountain size.
The boss, he stares with horror,
then he grabs his hair and
groans;
The copyreader drops his head up-
on his hands and moans—
The remainder of the issue may be
clean, as clean as can be.
But that typograhpical error is the
only thing you see.
—Texas Press Messenger.
THE COMMERCE Journal has
joined the battle to fill up abandon-
ed wells, and says “if you riave or
know of an old unused well or cis-
tern, report it to the City officials.
McKinney’s Chief or Police Padgitt
informed the Examiner that he had
five old wells filled last week. Here’s
hoping he keeps the good work go-
ing until ,every one of these baby
death traps is filled.
sembly.
Taps.
This service will be followed by
the dedication of the marker at the
grave of Mrs. W. G. Harris.
A lion met a tiger
As they drank beside a pool.
Said the tiger, “Tell me why
You’re roaring like a fool.”
That’s not foolish,” said the lion,
With a twinkle in his eyes.
“They call me king of all the beasts
Because I advertise.”
Representative Rayburn’s position Robert B. Mayes in Kentucky
-k. per_ December 18, 1828. In the spring of
critic of the Republican 1852, with their seven chldren and
several slaves, they traveled over-
land to Texas. Bringing personal
That was, oh,
And when his favorite dish was
served,
It always sopped up the gravy.
One day his little grandson,
As upon his lap he sat,
Asked in a voice so puzzled,
“Grandpa, what is that?”
Grandpa was really very pleased.
That his mustache had gained at-
tention,
Because, to poor Grandpa’s dismay,
It was very seldom mentioned.
Grandpa then right quickly said,
“Just a mustache; it’s nothing to
dread.”
Soon afterward Grandpa got sleepy
And went to lie down on the bed.
Later on, when Grandpa woke,
He learned to his dismay,
His grandson had cutfeff his mus-
tache,
“ ’Cause it always got in Grandpa’s
way!”
Gradually the prices of many
things needed for daily living are
coming down. Not with a rush,
which would indicate another de-
pression, but little by little, so that
while buying in some lines is not so
eager as it once was, there is steady
demand. That IS AS IT SHOULD
BE, and if it continues that way we
shall be fortunate, says the Paris
News.
Prices WILL NOT COME DOWN
to what they were before the war
UNLESS WAGES COME DOWN
FIRST, and that is not likely nor is
it DESIRABLE. There are still de-
mands for increased wages, but those
demands will not be met as they
were a few years ago. In some in-
stances where inequalities are shown
there will be adjustments, but wages
as a rule will remain about where
LL they now are.
That of itself should serve to show
gP-why prices should not and will not
L fall much lower. The wages were
| set to meet the cost of living at the
high prices created by the war, and
so long as the wage level remains
■ there can be little margin for manu-
facturers and distributors to reduce
prices.
Indications are that what are
known as truck crops will not bring
the badly swollen prices they got in
past seasons. Meat has fallen slight-
ly, and fruits and vegetables will
have to follow if they are to find a
ready market. Yet these reductions
reduce the cost of living little if any,
because most people are living bet-
ter than ever before, with respect to
the quantity and quality of food they
eat. The Agriculture Department
figures based on nation-wide re-
search, show that people are eating
more chicken, turkey, cheese and
meats and general than before the
war. They are consuming more
nounds of food each day than in 1939.
That alone helps at least to keep up
prices and provide markets for pro-
. ducts that otherwise would show
greater drop.
in the House.” . 1IBi ...
Collier’s said Eric Johnston serv- w^h the aid of two trusted slaves,
Frank and Ebbie. They were buried
in the family cemetery. On this
farm, which is still in the Mayes ,
family, Nancy Barbee Mayes lived i
until her death on June 29, 1893. i
She was buried in the Mayes family I
cpmeterv nn the farm. Later the
were removed to Pecan
THE HOUSE Liquor Regulation
muxxuw ail ■ Committee killed trie bill to permit
“do-gooder” | ?ale. of liquor by the drink. Also
ouried in subcommittee another
measure making it unlawful to car-
ry
seal in r J ’
this legislature knows its
No controlling sale of liquor,
local option -----'
state, finally-
big cities.
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.50
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) $1.00
PHONE 233
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
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ternational May Day holiday. That
is the seventh major industry na-
tionalized by the Labor Party since
it came to power in 1945. And what
a mess they are in. But don’t wor-
ry. If the Socialists wreck the
I country, England can borrow all
she needs from our ‘
country.
ithe greatest crippier among trie
' rheumatic diseases.
This type of arthritis involves an
inflammation of the joints, with
! stiffness and deformity.
| “There is NO SINGLE CAUSE or
no single specific CURE for the dis-
ease,” Holbrook told the Texas
physicians.
Despite these handicaps, he add-
ed, research has proven that victims
'of the disease CAN BE HELPED.
“With an early diagnosis and in-
dividual care,” he said, “nearly all
uxu ouuU1, x^ncy xsaroee iviayes ts ^AN helped DEFORM-
refined, dignified, and well edu- be PREVENTED and in
d. She assisted her husband, a i Z h dlSease Can be ar‘
On Sunday afternoon, May 15th,
at 3:30 p.m. in Pecan Grove Ceme-
tery, a bronze marker will be placed
at the grave of Nancy Barbee
Mayes, a real daughter of the Rev-
olution, by the Jane Douglas Chap-
ter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, of Dallas. It is the poli-
cy of Texas D. A. R. Chapters to
mark historical sites and the graves
of the Real Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution with appropriate
emblems. This North Texas Pioneer
Mother will be the first so honored
with dedication and marker service
sponsored by the Jane Douglas
Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, Dallas. Members of
the Jane Douglas Chapter are:
Mrs. A. Harold McNeese (nee
Mary A. Mayes), former Librarian
of Chapter, is a great-granddaugh-
ter.
Mrs. James D. Forteith (nee
Mary Louise McNeese) is a great-
great-granddaughter.
The above are of direct descent
from Nancy Barbee Mayes.
Mrs. Lanham Croley (nee Edythe
Davis) is a great niece.
Original research and lineage pa- welfare of the people of this
pers were compiled by a
daughter, Mrs. Alva Mayes Harts- commend to fellow citizens that they
field, member of NSDAR. study benefits of the plan and se-
Nancy Barbee Mayes was born ' hea!°? care Protection dur-
on December 19, 1811, in Spring- Ine thp
field, Green County, Kentucky. She
was the youngest and thirteenth
daughter of Elias Barbee, a Revolu-
daughter of 71ias Barbee, a Revolu-
tionary soldier who served in Col-
onel Gaskin’s Virginia Regiment.
He was at the seige of Yorktown.
Her mother was Elizabeth Slaugh-
ter, of lineal descent from Capt.
John Slaughter of England, who set-
tled in Virginia in 1617.
Elias Barbee and Elizabeth
Slaughter were born in Culpepper
County, Va. They married in Cul-
pepper on August 2, 1788, then em-
igrated to Green County, Kentucky.
Elias Barbee, Revolutionary Sol-
dier, served in the Kentucky House
of Representatives and the Kentuc-
ky Senate for long periods. He also
was the founder of Danville Deaf
and Dumb Asylum.
Settled West of McKinney
Nancy_Barbee was married to Dr.
r on
his new friend said, “Ah’s goin’ to
walk up town; if you would care
to accompany me, Ah’d be glad to
point out de sights,” an invitation
which was accpeted.
They had walked only a block or
two when the city man stooped
down quickly and picked up a bill-
fold, then jerked his companion into
a doorway, saying, “Let’s git in
heah befo’ somebody sees whut we
found.’’ In the billfold was a fifty-
dollar bill. “Huh, no name or ad-
dress; we can’t return it, so it’s
ouahs,” said the finder. “You has
brung me luck so we’ll split it.” But
he didn’t have change. The visitor
however produced $25, so his friend
pocketed this and handed him the
fifty-dollar bill. A few minutes la-
ter, the finder of the billfold shook
hands with him cordially and told
him goodby. When the country
negro made a purchase, he learned
that the bill was counterfeit. The
billfold had, of course, been dropped
by a confederate of the smooth talk-
er.
The Jury Knew Bill
During a trial for theft, the de-
fendant suddenly changed his plea
to guilty. The jury came back in an, --i
little while with a verdict of “Not I Slips That Pass in the Night
guilty.” The judge said, “But the -----
A typographical error is a slippery
thing and shy;
You can hunt till you are dizzy,
but it somehow will get by.
Till the forms are off the presses
jf IQ c+roncTo linur dill i4- .
It shrinks down into a <
never stirs or peeps,
Nell Churchwell, under the cap-
tion “Capitol Talk,” writes of ac-
tivities at Austin.- She says:
A bill permitting state employees
to transfer from State Employees
Retirement System to Teachers Re-
tirement System without loss of
benefit passed the Senate this week.
Authored by Senator G. C. Morris
of Greenville, this proposal works
both ways, in that teachers may also
transfer to the State retirement sys-
tem.
The teacher retirement system
plan of Senator Morris has passed
the Senate and has been reported
favorably out of the House commit-
tee.
Three main features of the plan
offer changes to both active and re-
tired benefit members. The one and
one-half per cent base used in the
calculation of prior service benefit
is raised to two per cent, applying
to retired and present members who
may retire later.
All full-time regular salaried em-
ployees of Texas public schools who
are not eligible for retirement mem-
bership are made eligible to be mem-
bers under this proposal. If passed,
they may become members Septem-
ber 1, 1949. They will be given 90
days to refuse membership, other-
wise the 5 per cent salary deduction
per year becomes automatic.
For the teachers who did
teach prior to 1927, the proposal
would make them eligible to re-
ceive prior service payments.
Another of Senator Morris’ bills
which recently passed the Senate
makes three changes in the present
law dealing with liquefied petrole-
um gas. Under the present law a
a hardware or furniture merchant
is forced to come to Austin to take
an examination to secure a license
in order to sell and install butane
gas appliances.
Senator Morris’ plan would
change this law so that the exami-
nations could be given in different
regions.' This would eliminate the
expense of a trip to Austin for the
examination. The license fee would
be fixed at $5.
The proposed change also pro-
vides triat there must be a man on
the installation job who holds a lim-
ited license from the Railroad Com-
mission.
Senate Bill 19, introduced by
Senator Morris, has been finally
passed by both Houses and signed
bv the Governor into law. This
measure provides for an APPRO-
PRIATION of $9,750,000 for the
PRESENT BIENNIUM, and TAKES
CARE of the DEFICIT in the pres-
ent equalization law, INSURING
that ALL TEACHERS in RURAL
AID SCHOOLS will receive THEIR
FULL PAY.
will go to a g
ter, five-year-old Ann Werner/of
I Fred Werner. ,. . , - - „------ --------
Mrs. A. Harold McNeese will give to investigate the vanishing beaver,
a biographical sketch of the pioneer , but /be warden found only cow
settler. (Great-grandmother.)
McCarty Dowell of McKinney
will place a wreath to the memory
of his maternal Real Daughter an-
cestors.
Other Dallas descendants are
l Kealy Mayes, Richard Mayes, and
Mrs. J. C. Anderson.
Other descendants planning to at- . -- —-----
tend are Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mayes, 1 ln sucb a way that an entirely
Mrs. Ralph Bickler, Mrs. Ira Hous- thentic cow trail was left. The front
ton, Allen Rhea Mayes, all from hoof was on the heel, the rear hoof
Austin; Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Mayes, jon the toe.
Donald Mayes, A. Mayes, all from
Denison; Mrs. Herman Everitt, I Savings Bonds, backed by Uncle
Sterling City; Mrs. Charlie Rey- Sam, grow better with age. The last
nolds, El Paso; John A. Mayes, Fort five years pay best.
Worth; Mrs. Florence Harrington, l
Plainview; Mrs. Hayden Holloway, I
Mrs. Florence Ripple, San Angelo; j
Miss Nannie B. Ferguson, Waco;
Mrs. J. C. Greer, Mrs. Rosabel Dow-
ell, McKinney; Greer Dowell.
Program
Jane Douglas Chapter Daughters
of the American Revolution, Mrs.
Albert E. Hudspeth, Regent.
c In memory of NANCY BARBEE
it is strange how still it keeps; MAYES, Daughter of Revolutionary
„ corner and it • War Soldier, ELIAS BARBEE, an-
ux -cestors of Mrs. A. Harold McNeese
That typographical error, too small ; and Mrs. James D. Forteith of Jane
I Douglas Chapter, Dallas, Pecan
Grove Cemetery, McKinney, May
15, 1949, time, 3:30 p.m. Program:
Presentation of colors, Troop 295,
Boy Scouts of. America, McKinney.
Invocation, Mrs. J. ’ ~ ’
Chaiplain.
Salute to the Flag,
Turner, Flag Chairman, NSDAR.
Star Spangled Banner, led by
Mrs. Earle D. Behrends, Honorary
Regent.
Prayer to the Flag, Mrs. Ed S.
Busy Plantin’
I was at Tom Lane’s Courts the
other afternoon, and Mr. J. D. Mor-
gan from the Lucas community stop-
ped by to pick up a supply of that
famous Marathon oil and grease for
his tractor and farm machinery. Said
he was just getting started planting
cotton, that he was behind with his
work. A few days of pretty weath-
er and he’ll have those weeds “kiv-
ered” up and cotton sprouting.
Modern Transportation
A fellow was there at Lane’s mak-
ing arrangements for a cabin for the
night. He was driving a big, six-
wheel, box-car size truck bearing
the Cudahy Packing Company
Brand. The truck had a big refrig-
eration unit on the front of the truck
body. The motor whicri furnished
power for the refrigeration unit was
running. The driver was asked to
park the truck a distance from the
cabins so the noise of the equip-
' The
truck probably contained a ton or
< more of meats to be delivered to
markets in this vicinity on the fol-
lowing morning. Lots of difference
in the way they handle meats now
and a few years ago.
Greenville Resident
I enjoyed a chat with Mrs. Nota
Pickens at the Farmersville Hard-
ware Store. She owns and operates
the store but makes her home in
Greenville with her mother. She
likes Farmersville and appreciates
the splendid business she has there.
“Brainy” A Fixture
Douglas (Brainy) Allison is a
Farmersville fixture, having been
there all his life. He enjoys “razz-
ing” me about McKinneirf and never
fails to ask me when I am going to
move back home—meaning back to
Farmersville. His father was a
close friend of my dad. Douglas
works for Carpenter Brothers in
Farmersville.
Cattleman
J. W. Mason (an Examiner read-
er) was- in Homer Ballew’s hard-
ware store. He had just bought a
handle for his spade. He went back
to the work bench and put the new
handle in the spade. I asked Mr.
Mason if he could do “technical
work” like that. He said, “Yes, and
I can also use the spade.” You just
can’t keep a feller like that from
getting his work done. He quit thfe
farm a few years ago, and lives in
town. He told me the “Cowskin”
schoolhouse was sold the other day
for $295. He was sure I’d be inter-
ested, since “Cowskin” was my old
stomping ground. And what glor-
ious times we kids had.
We Visit A Preacher
Had a nice visit with the Rev. W.
P. Carter, pastor of the Copeville
Baptist Church. Bro. Carter said
they had most all of the interior of
'the church finished. Sunday school
class rooms, church office and audi-
torium have all been newly painted.
Bro. Carter also said ML was going
to invite me to come ^^Copeville
and “talk” to his people one Sun-
day while he is away on riis vaca-
tion. Well, if some good family will
arrange to “feed” me, I’ll be happy
to furnish plenty of “talk,” such as
it is. (Some body had better warn
that good family.—Eds.)
Scores of Tractors
I made a business trip to Anna to
transact a bit of business with Prof.
L. D. Hendricks, superintendent of
Anna schools. Never before have I
observed so many tractors in opera-
tion. In every field from one to
three of those “iron mules” were
rolling up and down the furrows.
Sure looked good. Even saw two
teams of mules in one field, believe
it or not. That looked good, too.
Reminded me of old times. I like
to see mules and horses even if they
are back numbers for modern farm-
ing. I’m a one-horse farmer—or
used to be, that is. I believe that a
lot of original ideas were born and
developed that resulted in better
farming, the ideas being born in the
head of a man following a ONE-
HORSE PLOW.
A Thought
BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES are
things that endure for a long time.
Did YOU create any BEAUTIFUL
memories for your mother on Moth-
tr’s Day last Sunday? It’s still not
too late, you know.
Till next week, s’long!
string on your finger.
U. S. Savings Bond.
David Botter in Dallas News
WASHINGTON, May 5.—The na-
tion’s highest PRIVATE AWARD for
; distinguished congressional service
; went Thursday night to Speaker
■ Sam Rayburn of Bonham.
: He got it for PARTY LOYALTY
. —“A fundamental quality if our 2-
; party system is to survive.”
; Collier’s magazine announced the
i designation of Rayburn and Sen.
Arthur Vandenberg (Rep.) of Mich-
igan as winners of the award for
L 1948.
The awards carry silver plaques
for the congressman and Senator
chosen and two $10,000 gifts. Ray-
burn and Vandenburg will desig-
nate the RECIPIENTS of the $10*,-
000.
President Truman will present the
plaques at a special White House
ceremony Saturday. At that time,
Rayburn and Vandenberg will an-
nounce the public purposes which
are to get the MONETARY endow-
ments.
In reporting on Rayburn’s desig-
nation as winner of the award for
“distinguished service to the nation,”
Collier’s said:
“Representative Rayburn (he be-
came Speaker again in 1949) was se-
lected winner in the House mainly
because of his high performance as
minority leader in 1948 and for his
PARTY LOYALTY, a fundamental
quality if our 2-party system is to
survive.
’Tn 1946, when the Republicans
had swept into power in Congress,
Mr. Rayburn, who had enjoyed a
long and distinguished career as
Speaker in a Democratic House, -was
asked by his party colleagues to
serve as MINORITY LEADER.
“He didn’t want to. But his party
called and Sam Rayburn answered:
‘Our representative government is
based on the 2-party system; and
that system is based on party or-
ganizations. It takes 'a MIGHTY
BIG MAN to be bigger than his
party. I know I am not that big.
So I serve my party, as the best way
open to me to SERVE MY COUN-
TRY.’
“It was this attitude that made him
work as conscientiously at being
MINORITY leader as if he were a
man who had already been to the
top.
“A less distinguished legislator in
might have become merely a
functory ( C
majority, making a hot speech now
“In the course of,l_948_Mr. Rayburn |n7 housAold' belongings to“make‘ i hlve“uber™S?™
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political' land> ^ey settled nine miles west
He I ty‘s black land farms.
was a REAL LEADER, and never
hesitated to risk his own, j
neck when
policy called
a The
party line in domestic affairs, the 'as a surgeon in the Civil War.
McKinney Lions Club, with Wre
Sutherland, president, and the Mc-
Kinney Rotary Club, of which A. H.
Eubanks, Jr., is president, have en-
dorsed the drive for hospitaliza-
tion here.
September, 1929, marked the be-
ginning of a significant health move-
ment in the State of Texas. Recog-
nizing the need of the average man
for first class hospital care without
the accompanying high costs, the
civic-mmded people of this state
started a non-profit community
health organization—the Blue Cross
Plan. Since that time the plan has
spread beyond this state, across the
United States, and into Canada and
Puerto Rico, until now 33,0000,000
persons are protected by Blue Cross
membership.
In 1945 a companion plan, Blue
Shield, was adopted to protect citi-
zens from medical-surgical ex-
penses. Now more than 8,000,000
Americans have this protection.
The service clubs of McKinney in-
terested as they are in the progress
of our city, recognize the major con-
tribution made by the Blue-Cross- . ,, x ,. -- ---------i-
Blue Shield Plan in the health and would not disturb people. The
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- c ~ - X com-
grand- m°umty. For this reason, they re-
study benefits of the plan and
mg the special one-month enroll-
ment period. They pledge all co-
[ operation and assistance in making
the excellent health facilities of the
community of McKinney economi-
cally available to every resident
through the Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Plan.
In the
Wxxxxxcx, me Luixuiuiiee siumeu VOL- ;
ing, records, legislative proposals 1 bodies
for his Plot adjoining are the graves of
two of her children, the late Adol-
phus Barbee Mayes and Abbie
Mayes Allen.
In keeping with the tradition of ■
the old South, Nancy Barbee Mayes
was r-2”—■ ■'*--“-*/** ’ ’ ”
cated. She assisted her husband,
physician in ministering to the sick. I
A staunch Presbyteran, she often j
attended the Walnut Grove Camp !
Meetings, west of McKinney. Along .
with her culture and gentle arts, i
Nancy Barbee Mayes possessed the
integrity and moral fibre that was
essential to a pioneer mother. Al- I
though she lost her husband and a |
son in the.Civil War, she raised her | . , „ j .. —
family and managed her farm with rious cow tracks and a puzzling de-
success. i crease in the beaver population on
The honor of unveiling the marker Fish Creek near Cokeville have been
hi err. +9 a great-great-granddaugh- (Cleared up.
----- _j« ; Lester Ragley, Wyoming game and
i fish director, sent a game warden
of designating a
but the warden found only
tracks near the stream.
The warden became suspicious
when he noticed that the tracks led
to a road and disappeared. He hid,
soon surprised the poacher and
chased him, but the man got away.
As the poacher ran, he lost some
ingenious footwear. Cow hooves
had been attached to his boot soles
r au-
Holbrook, senior
P/OP1? in the United States are’af-
Phis figure, he s----- ---
many people having heart
, xx-L-^x.,. ,----; can_
m xxuuseiiuiu oeiongings io maKeu,„„„ * , as many
a Texas home and gold to purchase \e ^berculosis, and approximate-
■* v>/4j __ _____j. J*y ioity times as manv as
faithfulness to party i McKinney on one of Collin Coun-
on him to do so. He I ty'3 black land farms.
iook a STAND on every issue. The Her husband, Dr. Mayes, served 1
2 1.. JiX—-I- thz Civil Wuy. IK,
national line in foreign affairs— ias weii as a son and a son-in-law ! conv?ntion of the State
that was his record in 1948, and it ! passed away during tht period, thealy”^0Clatl0n of Texas now in
was consistent with his record of,la3/ two lost in battle. ,
the thirty-six years he has served; With her other son away at war, J5 rlT,t’Tv?el°r-e ass°eiation s
in the House.” -Nancy Barbee Mayes carried on S ° medicine here, Holbrook
Collier’s said Eric Johnston serv- with the aid of two trusted slaves, | „J^™atoid. arthritis is perhaps
ed as chairman of the committee on
designation of the award winners.
Washington correspondents and oth-
er observers of national affairs
helped through advisory balloting.
In the course of designating a ,----- ------------
winner, the committee studied vot- ; cemetery on the farm. Later the
ing records, legislative proposals1 bodies were removed to
and speeches. I Grove Cemetery, McKinney. On the
Vandenberg’s award came ■■
work on international affairs. He
won it in 1945 for his espousal of a
x- „ , • . x . national program of foreign rela-
his gawking at the sights that he j tions instead of a partisan program
the award twice.
San Antonio, May 7.—Arthritis
and rheumatism play important
roles m statistical records on the na-
tion’s health.
Dr. W. Paul Holbrook, senior
Anz., medical center, says 7,500,000
people in the United States are af-
flicted with rheumatic disease.
This figure, he says, represents
twice as p-----
disease, seven times as have
as many
ly forty times as many as have in-
fantile paralysis.
Holbrook has presented two tech-
. nical papers on rheumatic disease
He i researcb before the eighty-second
law ! annHal convention of the State
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Thompson, Clint & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1949, newspaper, May 12, 1949; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1322275/m1/2/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.