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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, APRIL 26, 1951
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MacArthur Speaks
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) $1.00
PHONE 233
as Second-Class
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Unanswered Pleas
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YOUR LAW
Today’s Thought
AUSTIN,
T. B. Haggard of Frisco 2 never
How to Live
Long-And Like lit
County, Local School
Trustees Named in
Trustee Election
Some of the Causes
Of Cancer That
You Should Know
Stop Sale of Gas
Out of Texas
Penny Balloon
Kills Little Boy
Free Soviet Radio
Calls for Uprising
Kinney, Texas,
Mail Matter.
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
un-
as
moved from No. Cowden to Haskell
and orders The Examiner to their
new address.
How wisely things are ordered,
with much we can not know!
Into the future bravely we all
are asked to go.
For joys that are denied us, the
reason’s never plain.
The loss at which we grumble
may prove tomorrow’s gain.
What’s best is seldom certain.
What God has willed and
planned.
Not always at the moment can
mortals understand.
But this I must remember: were
God to favor me,
What served my selfish purpose
my neighbor’s hurt might be.
—Author Unknown.
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LEMON GROVE, Calif., April 20.
—A penney balloon killed a little
, boy today.
MARRIED. Married men have lower
the
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every prayer were answered
and granted every plea,
Our cares would not be
lightened; no happier should
we be.
For should I ask for sunshine,
my neighbor hope for rain,
Though one of us was thankful,
the other would complain.
j You stood—and the great audience
of the world
Listened with minds alert to hear
you speak.
Within a million hearts the flags
were furled
And the empty sky was colorless
and bleak.
Your words were strong and beau-
tiful and kind,
No malice marred the splendor
of the hour,
No word of bitterness against the
blind
Ones who have striven to strip
you of your power.
Texas Legislature
invites MacArthur
THE Texas Legislature is being
urged to appropriate funds to pro-
vide parks and other recreational fa-
cilities at various points in the state.
That might be considered as a
WORTHY cause, but certainly NOT
A NECESSITY, when taxes are be-
ing hiked to the limit to meet emer-
gencies caused by the war situation
and inflationary prices. With our
boys fighting and dying in Korea
we can get along without any AD-
DITIONAL STATE TAX-SUP-
PORTED PLAYGROUND FACILI-
TIES.The Lamar County Echo thinks
and The Examiner suggests the Echo
should keep its horn echoing long,
i.... . loud and far away.
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According to information from
Austin a resolution has been intro-
duced which would stop exporting
more natural gas from the state of
Texas. The Blount resolution has
been passed by the house.
Chairman of the Railroad Com-
mission Olin Culberson has opposed
the practice for years but has re-
ceived but little support until now.
The matter rests with the Federal
Power Commission which approves
permits for interstate gas lines.
It is stated that some 24 MILLION
PERSONS in 30 STATES now BUY
GAS FROM TEXAS fields and
when approved pipe lines are in
service the number will rise to 50
million person, it is claimed.
Texas Gas Running Low
The plea for curtailing Texas gas
is based on the fact that it is run-
ning low and those who give the
matter close study are becoming
alarmed over hte situation.
Until this year the Texas Legis-
lature has refused to go on record
against the MOUNTING GAS sale
to interstate lines. Now they are ask-
ing for relief and while the Federal
Power Commission is not bound to
yield to the request of Texas for re-
lief, such action as is now being
taken may influence the body, it is
stated.
Texas has a rich heritage in its
gas deposit for its own use and has
been a t
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WITHOUT discussing the compli-
cated issues involved in the contro-
versy between President Truman
and General Douglas MacArthur, it
is only reasonable to believe that the
trained and experienced Comman-
der of our armed forces in the Far
East would know more about how
to fight and win a war than the
politicians in Washington. MacAr-
thur says the Chinese Nationalist
troops in Formosa should be sent
to Korea to aid our own American
boys on those bloody battlefields,
and we are inclined to think he is
right. MacArthur has something
there.
HEADLINE in an exchange says
MacArthur “won’t enter politics.”
Want to bet. No penalty as to what
you may think—not yet.
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DETROIT News-Herald puts it
straight, saying, “National, interna-
tional and state problems have mul-
tiplied until man scarcely knows
the answer, and many are TALK-
ING ABOUT TURNING TO GOD.
However, their actions do not har-
monize with their speech. When we
get ready to return ’ unto God, and
to seek Him earnestly, then will He
hear us.”
AT LAST our legislators have
waked up to the fact that Texas has
been furnishing New York and oth-
er states with natural gas with
which to operate their factories at
what might be termed no price at
all. Those who own our gas wells
are permitted to sell it to other
states thus exhausting our natural
supply. Nothing morally wrong,
but is it not time to stop, look and
listen?
mittee probe, not to go before the
committee. He has not done so,
even, thought Chairman Fulbright
and other committee members have
repeatedly said they would welcome
his testimony — and even though
Dawson’s name has been mentioned
dozens of times by witnesses appear-
ing before the committee.
Since the trail of the probers has
gone so close to the White House-
even to a mink coat which came in-
to possession of a White House ste-
nographer whose husband repre-
sented himself to have “influence”
at the White House—we think the
investigation would not be complete
without Dawson’s testimony.
President Truman probably has
the power to prevent,the committee
from compelling Dawson to testify.
We should think he would be the
first to want the whole truth to come
out—Greenville Herald.
LAMAR County Echo notes that
“The Veterans of Foreign Wars,
along with many other organizations
and individuals has condemned the
recently announced method of DE-
FERMENT FROM MILITARY
SERVICE for boys who make GOOD
GRADES AS COLLEGE STU-
DENTS, and adds, “Nothing could
be more demoralizing to the war ef-
fort than to segregate the youth of
our land in this manner. Under the
Truman plan, the uniform of a Unit-
ed States soldier, sailor or marine
would signify that the boy was too
‘dumb’ to pass some kind of COL-
LEGE TEST—or that he was not
FINANCIALLY able to attend a col-
lege.
COLLEGE STATION, April 21. —
American ^ublTri urged "tobecoSl which Jimmy Phillips filibustered
AWARE OF CANCER, its causes, 1* b™,rc 1 " +bo T+ 1C b‘
and some of the ways of preventing
it. Mrs. Eloise T. Johnson, family
life specialist with the Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service lists
some of the causes as outlined by
scientific research: OVER-EXPOS?
URE to sunlight; action of certain
chemicals; constant IRRITATION
of WARTS, MOLES or SORE
PLACES; and prolonged exposure
to heat.
She says PEOPLE WHO WORK
IN THE SUN are particularly sus-
ceptible to skin cancer on hands,
face, and neck. Statistics show that
in Texas, which gets 60 to 80 per
cent oi total possible sunlight, 140
out of every possible one hundred
thousand develop skin cancers; in
Michigan, which gets half as much
sunlight, the rate is 24 per hundred
thousand.
Not EVERY person who works in
the sun GETS SKIN CANCER. Mrs.
Johnson says farm people who work
in the sun can be aware of the POS-
SIBILITY and follow up any indi-
cations of the development of can-
cer of the skin.
One ray of hope, the specialist
adds, is that science points out that
95 per cent of all cases of skin can-
cer are curable if taken early
enough.
Periodical physical check-ups by
the family doctor are recommended.
Persistent hoarseness, unexplained
coughing, changes in color or size
of WARTS, MOLES or BIRTH
MARKS, should be noted by a phy-
sician.
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got its pretty name.
JOHN C. EASTON.”
The Collin County Commission-
ers’ Court has completed its can-
vassing of the results of the recent
election for County School Trustees
and for trustee's of local school dis-
tricts with less than 500 scholastics.
The trustees of independent school
districts with more than 500 scho-
lastics canvass their own election.
The following men were elected
County Trustee: J. W. Cantrell,
Trustee for Commissioner’s F
cint No. 3; Doyle Stacy, Trustee for
Commissioner’s Precinct No.
Charles Hooper, County Trustee fA
Large.
The following men were elected
trustees of local districts with less
than 500 scholastics:
Alla Rural High: Volney Hickman,
Tommie Odell.
Altoga: Porter Cameron.
Asa Walker: Glen Frazier.
Bloomdale: Roy Knowles.
Blue Ridge: Clell Beckham, Burlin
Smoot.
Clear Lake: Ed Campbell.
Chambersville: Otto Carter, C. O.
Robinson.
Community: T. M. Williams, A. P.
Yeager.
Frisco: John Kerley, Joe McIn-
tire.
Lovejoy: E. C. Barry.
Lucas: E. T. Spears.
Melissa: Jessie M. Scribner, E. R.
Dickenson.
Pike: M. J. Curtis.
Parker: Jack Gatlin.
Prosper: C. L. Furr, C. G. Hays.
Renner: Roy Brown, J. B. Dooley,
J. S. Myers.
Westmnister: Jas. E. Fortner, Boyd
Hood.
Weston: Robert Estep.
The world your subject, and our na-
tion’s good
Your constant thought as it has
been for years.
Your soldiers love you, and your
brotherhood
Inspired a hurt land battling with
its fears.
Age has not touched you—steady
and strong you stand
Nothing will dim the luster of your
name.
“Fade out,” you say—Oh never while
the hand
Of history can write a name in
flame!
—GRACE NOLL CROWELL.
“The only sister of the Forman disagreement
sons, Miss Letitia, was married to Truman.
George W. Barnett, a merchant in
the village of Dallas. Later they ‘
came to Plano and built the home
which now stands north of Plano.
There they reared a large family—
' three of whom are still residents of
Plano—Miss Capitola Barnett, Mrs.
J. H. Gulledge and Mrs. Donna Car-
penter.”
her subscription for lets his subscription expire to The
Examiner. Renews to 5-52.
of factories, schools, and collective
farms.
Mrs. Fannie Cox of Chambers-
ville, a long-time friend of The Ex-
aminer, renews
1 another year.
The average child born today can
expect to live 68 years. This is the
highest life span in history, but it
can be pushed even higher, not only
by new medical discoveries but by
right living on the part of individual
men and women.
Some of these factors are com-
pletely or partly beyond your con-
trol—your sex, for instance, and the
kind of work you do. If you’re a fe-
male you have an overwhelming
advantage. In middle life, 15 per
cent more women than men have
survived; by the 70s, 20 per cent
more, and among nonagenarians
WOMEN OUTNUMBER MEN BY
TWO TO ONE.
Farmers and professional men —
clergymen, teachers, lawyers, doc-
tors— live longer than other occu-
pational groups. Slightly shorter are
the lives of business men and white
collar workers. Next are skilled and
unskilled workers; lowest on the list
are artists, writers, actors and mu-
sicians.
But you can do some things to
push the average span above the 68-
year mark. You can WORRY LESS,
avoid OVERWORK, keep your
WEIGHT DOWN, eat, drink, and
smoke IN MODERATION. If you’re
a bachelor—not too confirmed
in your bachelorhood — you can
boost your life span by GETTING
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mortality rates at all ages; in
25 to 44 year range TWICE
MANY BACHELORS DIE.
feHE CLARKSVILLE Times says,
“If taking chances can be called
' gambling, American farmers are the
twct GAMBLERS.” Listing
some of the hazards of weather, in-
sects, screwball politicians, The
Times says in part, “Cotton pro-
ducers are going all-out to reach the
SIXTEEN-MILLION-BALE GOAL
set for this year, in the face of a
CEILING about twenty-five cents a
pound UNDER which Mexican
farmers, less than a mile across the
Rio Grande from Texas growers, are
CONTRACTING TO SELL THEIR
CROP. Union labor bosses refused
flatly to go along in the defense pro-
gram because of alleged discrimina-
tion which, if compared to the handi-
caps imposed on producers of essen-
tial fibers, oils and feeds, would be
of negligible importance.
If
And Hezekiah had exceeding
much riches and honour; and he
made himself treasuries for silver,
and for gold, and for precious
stones, and for spices, and for shields,
and for all manner of pleasant jew-
els. — II Chronicles 32:27.
♦ * *
Wouldst thou MULTIPLY thy
riches? DIMINISH THEM WISELY;
or wouldst thou make thy estate
ENTIRE; divide it CHARITABLY.
Seeds that are SCATTERED in-
crease, but HOARDED up, they
perish. —Quarles.
Stories in the newspapers from Mrs. Donna Carpenter, well-
— — --------j es- known Plano resident comes by the i
jjv.vianj ..xui respect to the back- Star-Courier office to leave with us
ward Spring that is worrying many' an interesting newspaper story con-|
according to Captain J.; and other facts about this progres-
—i ---„.i— s|ve South Collin city. The article is
especially appropriate since this is
Piano’s Centennial Year, being 100
years ‘young in 1951.
The story brought by Mrs. Car-
penter follows:
“It is perhaps known to most of
the readers that a large majority of
the counties and towns in Texas
were named in honor of the pioneers
soldiers, statemen and jurists of the
republic and state of Texas. Many
of them have passed away; a few of
them still live. That it may not be
forgotten how and by whom the
thriving little city of Plano, in the
southern part, of Collin County, re-
ceived its name is the main object of
writing this communication.
“In the fall of 1850, Wm. Forman,
with his four sons and one daugh-
ter, emigrated from Nelson County,
Kentucky; and brought the Peter’s
Colony headright of Sanford Beck,
on which Plano is located. Our mail
facilities at that time were an old-
time saddle pouch carried on horse-
back once a week each way between
Austin and Clarksville. Mr. Forman’s
home was fourteen miles south of
McKinney and sixteen miles north
of Dallas and there was no post,
office between the two places.
“In the spring of 1851 Mr. For-
man applied to me to write him a
petition and get a post office estab-
Ished at his house. I did so, and the
establishment of the office was rec-
ommended b J. F. Crutchfield, post-
master of Dallas, and Col. L. C. Mar-
tin, postmaster at 'McKinney. These
documents were sent to Washington,
and ‘in due course of the mail’ an
answer was Returned, stating ‘that
the office would be established,’ and
requesting that we ‘give it a name
unlike any other post office in Tex-
as, and name some suitable person
as postmaster.’ We had a consulta-
tion over the matter. Mr. Filmore
was then the thirteenth president of
the United States, and we conclud-
ed to name the office Filmore, and
recommended Wm. Forman as post-
master.
“Again, ‘in due course of mail’ we
_ got a reply, and the office was es-
tablished and named as we request-
ed and the bond and other docu-
ments were sent to me at McKin-
ney. I sent them to Mr. Forman,
who, by the way, felt a little proud
of the honor of being the first post-
master of Filmore. In a few days
Mr. Forman came into my office.
He seemed somewhat excited. After
neighbors on Rowlett and Spring
Creek heard the new name we had
given the setlement, they were quite
excited, and objected strenuously to
the office being called Filmore.
“I asked him, ‘What was the kick
about the name we had given the
office?’
“He said: ‘The Vances, the Piques,
and the Rouths swear by all that is
good and bad that no whig from
Kentucky shall come into the neigh-
borhood and name the post office
Filmore'. They say they will not
patronize it; they will have their
mail sent to Dallas or McKinney.
Now, Colonel, you know I am no
petitioner. It is true tht I used to
vote the Whig ticket in Kentucky^
Why can’t you give the office an-
other name as good as Filmore?’
“I told him, ‘Yes, I can think of
a thousand names that would do as
well as Filmore, but I thought of
‘it as carrying politics a long way
and in the wrong direction to object
to a little postoffice being called af-
ter a president of the United States.’
“Mr. Forman replied, ‘Well, that
is so, but you know I want to live in
peace and harmony with my neigh-
bors and want the office as much
for their convenience as for my own
family.’
“I suggested that we call it For-
man.
“He said, ‘No, that would be worse
than the other, as I was not an old
settler, an dthey would say I was
putting- on too much style to name
the office for myself.’
“I said, “Well, Mr. Forman, we
will try to give it a name that no
one can object to.’
“Mr. Forman’s little clapboard
cabin was on the highest part of the
‘Beck Section.’ No other house was
in sight, and as we stood there, we
looked out on one vast prairie all
around us and I said to him:
“We will put a little Spanish into
the word ‘Plain’ and call it Plano.’
“The name was changed from Fil-
more to Plano by order of the post- j
office department and Mr. Forman
was duly installed as the first post- 1
master. If the little boys and girls AUSTIN, April 20.—-The Texas
of Plano will cut this out of the pa- Legislature has extended an invita-
per and paste it in their scrapbooks, tion to General MacArthur to ad-
when they become old men and dress a joint session of the House
women, they and their children can1 and Senate at his convenience.
know how their pretty little town! The House yesterday joined the
; upper chamber in inviting MacAr-
I thur to the Lone Star State—but
I avoided taking any formal side in
t with President
McKinney Examiner Dawson
| Should Testify
SUBSCRIPTION RATE _ ! WJStu.art Symington, who hasi
Inside Collin County (1 year) _$1.50 curRy Resources Board,
LONDON. — A station calling it-
self the “Free Russia Radio,” heard
for the first time here recently
called for a revolt in the Soviet
Union against Communist rule.
The broadcast given first in Rus-
sian and repeated in Ukrainian, was
jammed and sometimes completely
obliterated by another station emit-
ting a strong and continuous signal.
The call for revolt was said to come
from a Russian revolutionary com-
. mittee.” It said “the Bolshevik re-
great factor in causing in- j gime is already shaking.”
________ to blossom. It is now a1 The broadcast suggested the writ-
GROWING FEAR that our gas may ing of three letters NTS—meaning
run out in a few years and endanger “death to the tyrants” on the walls
the whole nation. of factories, schools, and collective
By Dwight Whitwell
Attorney-at-Law
The Simpson Dry Goods Company
had a bad fire one night and a large
part of their stock burned. Their
record books, which had been kept
in a wooden filing cabinet, were also
destroyed in the fire, and they had
no way of telling exactly how much
merchandise had been burned. The
insurance company refused to pay
them anything at all because the fire
insurance policy had a provision in
it requiring the dry goods company
to keep their books in an iron or
I other fire proof safe, and the dry
’’ I goods company did not have such a
i safe in the store. The court held in
Mrs. M. F. Brackney and Mr. and j the trial of a law suit by the dry
Mrs. Ray Chapman of Denton left goods company to collect their in-
Tuesday for Memphis, Tenn., to surance that their failure to have
meet the former’s son, Cameron their records in an iron safe render-
Brackney. Mrs. Brackney will ac- ed their policy invalid, and they
company Cameron to Knoxville, were not entitled to collect any part
Tenn., for an extended visit. of their loss.
for 18 hours in the Senate. It is prob-
ably not a good bill, and the House
tendency to kill it is a good sign for
the welfare of the unfortunate
people of Texas.
While we took some minor action
in the Senate this week, I think that
the men across the aisle, including
GENERAL JOHN WARDEN OF
McKINNEY, D. B. Hardeman of
Sherman, and Bill Swindell of
Commerce, deserve the attention
this week.
I hope that all my colleagues in
the Senate prove to be as loyal to
the people when the chips
down.
David Grady Chance, 4, took a
big breath. He was going tojWpw the
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown have balloon up. But he sucked It into
his throat. He suffofc^ted.
His father, L. GwChance, is off
• Korea with the Navfl.
Story How Plano Was WHAT THE POETS
Named Told As City HAVE TO SAY
Rounds 100 Years
BOLDEST
You and Texas Ninety-four Years
Ago Saw Bad
■My YvpPtfnPi*
'been chairman oi The'National Se-; colleagues across tne uapnol aisle-in M CCU11U1
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They took four steps that I think, day to day refer to the weather
•e of vital imnnrtanrp tn tho nonnln ' — ...xxu „„„„
■ of Texas. I have vigorously support-!
the Senate will finally concur.
1. They passed the anti-slot ma- i
chine bill, 135-5.
2. They voted, by a four-vote mar-
gin, to lift the $35,000,000 ceiling
from the old age assistance pro-
gram.
3. They passed a fine natural gas
ta? bill 87 to 52.
4. They slapped the bill to abolish
the State Board for Hospital and
Specials Schools into a subcommit-
tee—virtually killing it.
One by one, these actions mean:
1. The House is powerfully on rec-
ord in favor of the Senate anti-slot
machine bill, and we think possibly
that this week will be the proper
moment to bring that piece of legis-
lation, so important to the State’s
public safety, to a Senate vote.
Representative Jimmy Adams of
Mexia is to be COMMENDED for
his forceful campaign in the House
to get the ANTI-SLOT LEGISLA-
TION APPROVED. Powerful and
sinister forces oppose allowing a
vote on the bill at all in the Legis-
lature.
2. Although they had to look in
every member of the House and
send out the sergeant-at-arms to
round up absent members to do it,
friends of the old folks got the
House to agree 104-32, to lift the
assistance ceiling.
Now if the Senate joins the House,
this means that the people will vote
on the ceiling’s abolition in a state-
wide election.
A two-thirds majority is required
in each chamber of the Legislature
before a constitutional amendment
can be submitted to the people.
That means that the old folks will
need 21 votes in the Senate.
3. Jim Sewell, one of the most
popular and effective members of
the House, succeeded in sending his
natural gas tax bill over to us. It is
now in State Afiairs committee in
the Senate. Among others, I think it
is first-rate and am seeking its pas-
sage.
Specifically, it provides for taxa-
tion of the natural gas industry—
(taxation was inevitable, as every-
one conceded, and this is the logical
place for the taxation to fall)—
amounting to between $28 and $30
million yearly.
Half of that money would be spent
for rural roads, one-fourth for the
state’s schools, and one-fourth for
the cities in their street improve-
ments, etc.
Sewell, who is a blind veteran,
nevertheless is a cheerful, fluent,
and thoroughly admirable fellow.
He has done a wonderful job on this
people’s bill.
4. Finally, the House State Affairs
Committee shoved the bill to abol-
ish the State Board for Hospitals and
Special Schools into a subcommit-
tee.
Remember this was the bill against
Finance | vitaJ importance to^the people J pecially with
Corporation, the Fulbright commit- [
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members of Congress wrote to the
RFC through the years.
There was quite a furore in the
P°Sente T^man let it bf known
that he had exercised his executive
powers to secure copies of these let-
ters from files of the RFC. Mem-
bers of the Fulbright committee in-
terpreted the Presidential action as
an action to coerce them into drop-
ping an investigation whch Mr.
Truman had already called “asinine.”
The probe was carried on more
relentlessly than ever, even though
the President soon said he had no
such intention and ‘toould not use
the letters.
Now the Fulbright committee is
going into the letters of its own voli-
tion to see if there was any use of
influence by members of Congress.
That is a proper proceeding, we
think. The committee itself should
not be placed in the light of “white-
washing” culpable Congressmen, .if
any there are.
Undoubtedly the vast majority of
the letters will be found to be of
the “referral” type used by a Con-
gressman in writing a letter to any
Government agency at the request
of a constituent. If there are any
which go beyond that stage they
should be ferreted out.
In the meantime we think that
Donald Dawson, the President’s per-
sonal aide, should go before the
committee. The President directed
Dawson, at the outset of the com-
By Joe Russell
State Senator, Tenth District
AUSTIN, Texas, April 18.—1
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SSftSfiSSZ Um tee began its. inspection oi letters 1 cera^ Plano, how tt got its name
E. Caraway, real old-timer who
lived many years in the Petty com-
munity. Some years ago, and some
time before he passed away, he re-
called, and The Paris News printed
the story, of the year 1857 The story
was written around forty years ago,
and Captain Caraway said it re-
minded him in some ways of 1857.
He continued:
That year I was a student in Mc-
Kenzie College in Clarksville. North
Texas was very thinly populated
then, there being only three or four
families living on the road between
Paris and Honey Grove. Small grain
was the principal crop, but little
attention being cotton except along
Red River where, though the set-
tlements were few, there was con-
siderable cotton planted.
I remember that year as being
much like the present. I recall the
roads to Jefferson as being impass-
able much of the time, sho much so
that many articles reached faminine
prices. Salt for a time sold for $12
a sack and other things in propor-
tion. Then, as you know, we had no
railroads and the dependence for
freight was mainly on ox wagons.
Jefferson, 150 miles away, was a
market place for all North and East
Texas, so to Jefferson all merchan-
dise was shipped by boats, then
transferred to teams and hauled to
the towns of destination. The usual
charge for hauling was $3 per 100
pounds.
I remember, too, in that year
squirrels by the thousands emigrat-
ed through this country, going to-
ward the south. Ttyey travleed leis-
urely and on the rive they cut lots
of green cotton bolls off the stalk
; and ate the partly matured seed. I
■ also remember in that year the cot-
' ton grew to a height beyond any-
thing I ever knew, before or since.
Being full of bolls and leaf-heavy it
fell and lapped in the rows, then
rotted to an extent that in some
fields not a boll was picked. The
leaves did not rust and fall from
the -wet as they have done this year,
but they remained green until killed
by frost in the Fall.
In that ear we had what has ever
since been remembered as the May
freeze. Wheat was in the boot and
was killed all over the country. Up
to that time the prespect had been
fine. That year I saw for the first
time a reaping machine, which was
believed to be so perfect that no im-
provement could be made on it but
it has long since been relegated to
the rear, its place being taken by
the header and self-binder.
Weather is either usual or
usual, and here in Texas it is
likely to be one as the other.
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Thompson, Clint & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1951, newspaper, April 26, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1323513/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.