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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY. JULY 8, 1948.
VOLUME 63, NUMBER 28.
5c a Copy, $1.50 and $2.00 a Y ear
Negro Vacation
Start Monday
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has
Sun Honor Roll
and
on battle-
is ex-
record
The Sun does Good Printing.
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if
Action Urged To Halt
Rise In Polio Cases
Creager Is Still
GOP Boss in Texas
Ike Makes First
Columbia Talk
American Legion
Elects Officers
P.-T. A. Institute
Held at Commerce
Lake Texoma Has
Large Attendance
No Need To Levy
Ad Valorem State
Tax Next Year
Vandenberg Will Get
1948 Freedom Award
Electric Power
Conservation Asked
:ion
Picnic Will Begin
Here Next Tuesday
ROAD MEETING
HELD AT ECTOR
STEERS AT $38.50,
ST. LOUIS RECORD
HALF OF HIGH SCHOOLS
TERMED INEFFICIENT
JULY 4 DEATHS
TOTAL 5 71, TOP
TOLL SINCE’41
WAR DEAD PUT
AT 78,000,000
STARLIGHT OPERETTA
BRINGS “ROSALIE”
TO DALLAS JULY 12
ALL DUST SALVAGED
IN MONEY MINTS
is a junior
is leading
Baptist Revival
Will Close Sunday Bible School To
Farms Triple Use
of “Bottled Gas” '
Texas
He said
this points to the need for reorganiz-
ing school districts, financing
state management.
in
the
i a
song and
SOUTH TO STAND American Legi
FIRM ON RIGHTS
WASHINGTON.—Dust in the air,
workers’ clothes and even bath water
yield gold and silver at the U. S.
mints, where money is made.
Nobody in the mints who
posed to precious metals leaves for
the day without taking a bath or
shower—and none of the bath water
leaves the mint without being
strained for metal. It all adds up to
thousands of dollars worth of recov-
ered metal.
DENISON.—Lake Texoma led all
National Parks, monuments and re-
sort areas in attendance for the fiscal
year which ended June 30, Superin-
tendent James V. Lloyd reported this
morning.
A record total of 2,035,123 visitors
were recorded over the vast Texoma
area, more than three times the 1947
total of 425,000, Mr. Lloyd said.
At the same time, for the current
travel year, Mr. Lloyd revealed that
Lake Texoma had attracted 1,328,125
through June, almost one-half million
more than any other area under NPS
supervision. With the three lush
tourist months of July, August and
September still to go, Mr. Lloyd is
confident that more than 2,250,000
w’ill be reached with an outside pos-
sibility of 2,500,000.
Oddly enough, there were more
visitors at Texoma during May than
June, with 302,181 recording during
May as compared to 296,626 last
month. The reason for this, however,
was the big rodeo day sponsored by
the Daily Oklahoman, which at-
tracted in excess of 50,000 persons
during the single day.
This year,, automobiles have aver-
aged only 3.86 persons per car as
compared to 4.126 of last season.
WASHINGTON. — Truman forces
sought Wednesday to close ranks to
withstand any efforts at a blitz for
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at the
Democratic National Convention.
Democratic National Chairman J.
Howard McGrath disclosed in Phila-
delphia, Pa., that he and some Cabi-
net members and other political ad-
visers had met at the White House
Tuesday night with President Tru-
man.
Atty. Gen. Tom Clark of Dallas was
among them.
The group agreed that Eisenhower
is no longer a threat, McGrath said.
He expressed certainty that Mr. Tru-
man would be nominated on the first
ballot, although not unanimously. He
saw no other rival candidate as a real
threat, since Eisenhower has bowed
out.
Robert E. Lee and George Meade
were the opposing generals at the
Battle of Gettysburg.
The 3-day Fourth of July weekend
brought violent death to at least 571
persons.
The over-all safety showing was
the poorest since 1941 and the third
worst in twenty years.
A final survey showed these vio-
lent deaths occurred between 6 p. m.
Friday and Monday midnight:
Traffic, 306; drownings, 192; fire-
works, 4, and miscellaneous causes,
69.
The over-all total was exceeded by
the record total of 628 in 1941 and
596 in 1939.
The traffic toll was the third high-
est in twenty years—exceeded only
by the 1941 toll of 384 and the 1947
toll of 310. The 192 dr ownings was
the highest total from this cause in
twenty years.
DALLAS.—Arthur Treacher, Hol-
lywood comedian; Grace McDonald,
beautiful stage and screen star, and
Hal LeRoy, nationally famous dancer,
head the cast of the Starlight Oper-
etta’s production of the musical com-
edy, “Rosalie,” which will be pre-
sented for the first time in Texas at
the State Fair Casino, Dallas, for the
week beginning Monday, July 12.
The largest Protestant denomina-
tions in the U. S. are the Methodists
and the Baptists.
NEW YORK.—The cost of World
War II is still being revised—upward.
Human loss alone is put at 78,000,-
000 lives by the Revue Du Droit In-
The stagger-
ing total—slightly more than half
the population of the United States—
breaks down as follows:
32,000,000 men killed
fields.
26,000,000 men, women and chil-
dren murdered in concentration
camps.
20,000,000 men, women and chil-
dren killed by air bombing. (A com-
puted total' of 2,429,475 tons of bombs
were dropped over Europe alone.)
To this total can also be added the
delayed victims of war — more of
them each day; the thousands dying
from effects of wounds, starvation
and war-contracted illness.
The material cost of World War II
is set at $375,000,000,000 (gold)—
about 10 times all the gold extracted
from the earth since the days of the
pharoahs.
The following names have been
added to The Sun honor roll since our
last'report:
Jesse Wallace
Lt. Anna J. Benson
J. D. Young
M. W. Waldrum
Robert Collins
Dr. Minnie H. Pirtle
John Manning
C. I. Witt
Bill Muirhead
R. E. Spong
W. A. Goodnight
Griffin Dollarhide Jr.
Grover Gillett
J. H. Hopper
C. Sutton
Mrs. S. S. Phillips
C. W. Pope
W. R. Skaggs
Mrs. Joe Miller
L. C. Cambron
Bob Cawthonx
County Farm Home
Contract Awarded
PHILADELPHIA. — Four souhern
Democrats—including former Texas
Gov. Dan Moody— served quiet but
firm notice Wednesday they would
not accept an administration-en-
dorsed “compromise” civil rights
plank for the party’s 1948 platform.
The quartet told reporters they
would insist on a States’ rights plank
which would remove any responsibil-
ity for congressional action on anti-
lynching, anti-poll tax or anti-dis-
crimination (FEPC) legislation.
They are members of a platform
drafting and hearing subcommittee
which started work Wednesday
morning. Left-wingers on the com-
mittee dominated the first ’ day’s
hearings, putting National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers President Mor-
ris Sayre through such a grilling that
he never got to complete his prepared
statement.
The southerners, vanguard of an-
gry Dixie delegations scheduled to
descend on Philadelphia in force Fri-
day and Saturday, sat quietly through
initial committee sessions, leaving the
questioning of witnesses to ultra-lib-
eral congressmen, senators, mayors
and ex-governors.
NEW YORK. — Senator Vanden-
berg of Michigan, chairman of the
Senate foreign relations committee,
has been selected to receive the 1948
freedom award.
Freedom House, donor of the
award, announced Monday Vanden-
berg would be honored for leading
“the united American people in the
service of a free world.”
Presentation will be made at a
dinner here Oct. 10. Previous award
winners include Wendell Willkie,
General Eisenhower, Secretary of
State Marshall, Walter Lippman and
Sumner Welles.
DALLAS.—Commercial and indus-
trial electric power users here were
asked Tuesday to conserve power as
much as possible.
The Dallas Powei' & Light Com-
pany said it is confronted with the
greatest demand for power in its his-
tory.
In order to avoid possible overload-
ing of generating equipment, com-
pany officials visited their larger cus-
tomers to ask their cooperation in
cutting off lights, air-conditioning
equipment and machines when they
are not in use.
C. A. Tatum, commercial manager,
said the demand is expected to be
even greater in July and August as a
result of prolonged hot weather.
SHERMAN. — Contract has been
awarded to the Mar-Lang Construc-
tion Company of Sherman for the
construction of a county farm home
on a bid of $68,546.51.
The 1-story brick and concrete
building will be used to provide liv-
ing quarters for thirty persons and
will replace a structure destroyed by
fire in August 1946. Construction
will begin immediately.
The 23rd annual American Legion
picnic is to liegin Tuesday, June 13,
at the American Legion park and will
continue through Saturday.
Hammond's Pla-Park Shows with
their five rides, three shows and 25
concessions, will furnish attractions
for the picnic.
Speaking by candidates for public
office will be featured on Thursday
and Friday nights. It has been the
custom in the past to have one candi-
date night, but the arrangements
commitee decided to extend the
speaking over two nights in order
that candidates might have more time
for presenting their arguments as to
why they should be elected.
On Thursday night candidates for
Congress have been invited to speak.
There are three men in this race,
Congressman Sam Rayburn, Judge
David Brown of Sherman and Sena-
tor G. C. Morris of Greenville. Mr.
Rayburn will be in Philadelphia to
preside over the Democratic national
convention, and will be represented
here by a speaker. Senator Morris
and Judge Brown are expected to be
present in person.
Friday night will be devoted to
candidates for state representative
and for county and precinct offices,
and all candidates are expected to be
present.
Caso March, candidate for gover-
nor, has advised the picnic commit-
tee that he will be present and will
speak on Thursday night, or will send
a substitute if he finds it impossible
to be here.
Members of the American Legion
are expecting this to be one of the
best picnics ever held here from the
standpoint of attendance. Policed
parking space for automobiles will be
provided at a small charge, and there
will be plenty of free parking space
outside the park. There will also be
plenty of free ice water, and plenty
of things to spend your money for.
AUSTIN. — Drastic measures to
combat polio were urged Wednesday
by Dr. George W. Cox, state health
officer.
Reported cases in 65 counties
reached the “alarming total” of 580
during the first six months of 1948,
compared with 292 cases in 66 coun-
ties in 1946, the last bad polio year.
“This staggering increase in polio
in a brief two-year period evidences
a need for drastic measures in all
communities to combat the disease,”
Dr. Cox asserted. “It is the responsi-
bility of the people of the state to re-
port themselves to their doctors
whenever they recognize symptoms
of polio. It is also their duty to give
wholehearted cooperation to clean-
up drives in their communities.”
He urged immediate medical atten-
tion, especially at this time of year,
for such symptoms as headaches,
fever, stiff neck, pain in the legs, ir-
ritability and drowsiness. These, the
health officer stated, are symptoms of
polio. "
“It is well to guard against panic
in polio cases,” he said, “for complete
recovery is not impossible. Even in
the more severe cases, when the germ
has penetrated the nervous systm
causing paralysis of one oi' more
groups of muscles, some remarkable
recoveries have been made.”
Dr. Cox said that the first line of
defense against polio is a carefully
conceived and thoroughly executed
clean-up campaign in all communi-
ties.
“Local police power should make
such clean-ups mandatory,” he said.
At the regular meeting of the
Preston Everheart Post, American
Legion, Tuesday night officers for the
ensuing term were elected as follows:
C. B. Bryant HI, commander; Wilson
Kaiser, vice-commander; Griffin Dol-
larhide Jr., adjutant; Earl Blanton,
finance officer; Bill White, service
officer; B. W. Newman, chaplain;
Cloy Horton, historian; Ted Head,
sergeant-at-arms; N. B. Nicholson,
child welfare officer.
Committees appointed several
weeks ago to arrange for the annual
American Legion picnic, which will
be held next week, reported that ev-
erything was in readiness for the big
celebration. The organization has
sponsored 23 picnics since World War
I.
Of the 8,000 millionaires in the U.
S. today, 4,475 or 56 percent live in
six states—California, Illinois, Mas-
sachusetts, New York, Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
COMMERCE. — The Texas Con-
gress of Parent-Teacher Associations
is diligently striving to reach five
major educational goals, Mrs. R. M.
Carter of Sherman, state vice-presi-
dent, told the Second District P.T. A.
Institute at Commerce Friday, July 2.
Mrs. Carter addressed nearly 250
visiting parents and public school
teachers from Northeast Texas at the
fifth annual institute to be held at
East Texas State Teachers College.
More than 400 graduate and under-
graduate students of the college edu-
cation department were also present.
Sallye E. Hamilton, Sam Montgom-
ery and W. H. Bedford, all of White-
wright were among those who at-
tended.
Foremost of the P.TA objectives is
the promotion of the welfare of chil-
dren in the home, school, church and
community, Mrs. Carter pointed out.
The other objectives as outlined by
the state vice-president are raising
standards of home life, securing ade-
quate laws for the protection of
youth, bringing the home and the
school into closer relationship, and
promoting cooperation between edu-
cators and the public in order to se-
cure the greatest advantages in phy-
sical, mental, social and spiritual edu-
cation for every child.
ST. LOUIS. — Cattle prices at the
St. Louis National Stockyards again
hit a new all-time high Tuesday.
. Six yearling steers averaging 907
pounds sold for $38.50 a hundredr-
weight, which is 25 cents over the
previous record established only
Monday.
At a meeting held in the Ector
school auditorium Wednesday night
for the purpose of forming a program
for improving the Ector-Ely-White-
wright road, a resolution was unani-
mously passed endorsing a f
bond issue for improving the road,
provided it would not take a tax of
more than 5 cents on the $100 valu-
ation with interest not more than
two and three-fourths cents, bonds to
be paid in fifteen years.
This resolution was passed after
Calvin Witherspoon of Ector and J.
A. Harper gave a report of a confer-
ence with State Highway District En-
gineer Davis at Paris Friday of last
week. J. H. Waggoner accompanied
Mr. Witherspoon and Mr. Harper to
Paris.
Mr. Davis said he had no doubt
about the State Highway Department
taking part in improving the road, if
a bond issue of $100,000 was voted
for the purpose. He said the State
Highway Department would pay one-
fourth of the cost of the program -and
would take the road over and main-
tain it in the future as a farm-to-mar-
ket road. Mr. Davis said it might be
two or three years before the road
was made a farm-to-market road un-
der the present set-up, but assured
the committee immediate action
would be taken if bonds were voted
for re-building the road with the
State sharing one-fourth of the cost.
Sixty-five were present at the
meeting and a permanent Ector-Ely-
Enterprise road organization was
formed. Mr. Witherspoon was made
chairman of the Ector group, Dave
Beazley of the Ely group, and J. A.
Harper of the Enterprise group. They
will proceed immediately to find out
the wishes of the property owners in
the proposed road district. The citi-
zens of these communities are anx-
ious to see the road improved and
taken over by the State Highway De-
partment, and seem to be willing to
tax themselves to bring this about, if
this is the only way it can be done.
Attending the meeting from White-
wright were Thomas Sears, Griffin
Dollarhide Jr. and Roy Blanton, sec-
retary of the Booster Club.
There will be a Vacation Bible
School at the Colored Baptis Church,
beginning Monday morning, July 12,
at 9:00 o’clock. All colored boys and
girls in the community between the
ages of 4 and 16 are invited to attend.
The school is being sponsored by
the W. M. U. of the First Baptist
Church here.
There will be songs, Bible stories,
games, handwork and refreshments
each day.
Truman Aids Close
Ranks To Bar Blitz
DALLAS.—Use of “bottled gas,”
which now performs a variety of jobs
AUSTIN. — State Treasurer Jesse
James Saturday said government
cash is at a record-breaking total and
State Comptroller George H. Shep-
pard said it wouldn’t be necessary to
levy a general ad valorem tdx for the
coming year. This will be a break
for the taxpayers.
Gov. Beauford H. Jester refused to
agree to an increase in Texas taxes,
standing out against a block of legis-
lators who were bent on raising nat-
ural resources levies. Now Comp-
troller Sheppard says it won’t be nec-
essary to impose as much tax next
year as it was this.
June balance sheets released by
James showed that the government’s
124 separate accounts have net cash
of 177 million dollars and that at the
close of business Saturday the gen-
eral fund, the state’s all-purpose
spending money, has the all-time
high of $72,450,530.
No Ad Valorem
Sheppard says it will be 75 million
dollars at the end of the fiscal year
on Aug. 1 next and that it is obvious
that an advalorem levy for the gen-
eral fund will not be made for the
coming year with revenue exceeding
spending and this whopping big sur-
plus on hand.”
Of added interest is the fact that
both James and Sheppard, along with
Governor Jester, are members of the
State Automatic Tax Board that fixes
the state tax rate annually. It is 35c
this year on each $100 of assessed
valuations, with 35c for schools and
2c for Confederate pensions. This
total of 72c would be reduced to 37c
to property owners.
James reported that at the close of
business on June 30, the general
fund’s cash was $65,969,726, but that
July allocations of $6,481,803 would
raise it to $72,450,530, which breaks
all previous records.
On June 30, 1947, the general
fund’s balance was $46,684,384 and
on Aug. 31, 1942, it was deep in the
red to the tune of $29,243,065.
These figures show that from 1942
to 1948 the general fund has risen
from a huge deficit to a staggering
surplus, the span representing $101,-
693,595.
Government bonds worth 9 million
dollars owned by a highway revolv-
ing fund matured this week and were
converted into cash to bring the high-
way account to $26,161,828 in cash.
James explained that this will give
the Highway Department plenty of
cash to build main lines and farm-to-
market roads as authorized under the ternational of Geneva,
new federal appropriations. Texas
will have its cash ready for matching
purposes.
In that same connection, James
pointed out that the highway bond
assumption account is in a most af-
fluent condition, the main fund hav-
ing $12,097,776; coupon paying, $1,-
311,168, and unallocated motor fuel
tax, $6,746,920.
Permanent school fund has cash of
$11,847,763 and the university perma-
nent fund $7,117,682.
Comptroller Sheppard reported
that state revenue receipts increased
38 percent thus far this fiscal year,
while spending is up only 31 percent
over last year.
Sheppard’s statement showed that
the crude oil tax, at a record high of
$8,300,000 in June, is the real big fac-
tor in the State Government’s pros-
perity.
SAN ANTONIO.—R. B. Creager, a
Taft supporter at the Republican Na-
tional convention, Tuesday assumed
leadership in the GOP drive to swing
Texas voters to Dewey in November.
Creager emerged from an organiza-
tional meeting with firm control of
the party reins even though the pres-
idential aspirant of his choicb lost the
nomination at Philadelphia, Pa., to
New York’s Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
George Hopkins of Dallas, state
Republican chairman, intra-party foe
of Creager and the state’s foremost
Dewey supporter in advance of the
nominating convention, was offered
the vice-chairmanship of the support -
Dewey committee organized Tuesday,
but he declined to serve.
H. J. Porter of Houston was ap-
pointed chairman of the committee.
Mrs. Walter Groce of San An-
tonio, a long-time Dewey backer,
said, “This organization is purely un-
official and means nothing whatso-
ever, except simplification of fund-
raising and unifying of Dewey sup-
port in Texas.”
An official state headquarters for
the Dewey-Warren ticket will be
opened in Dallas within a few days
with Hobart McDowell of San An-
gelo in charge.
Branch offices are to be opened at
Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, Houston
and some other cities.
NEW YORK. — Gen. Dwight D.
on farms and ranches, has increased 1 Eisenhower, president of Columbia
9qq narpont cinnp iQ4i amnrdincr fr> University, told the opening assembly
of the summer session Tuesday that
the American army “has existed from
the beginning not just to defend life
and properhy but to protect a way of
life.”
Eisenhower did not mention the
controversy over his refusal to accept
the Democratic presidential nomina-
tion if it is offered to him. But he
said some men served their country
in one manner, some in another.
“Such men as Washington, Jackson,
Grant and Pershing did it in uniform.
Jefferson, Marshall and Lincoln did it
in civilian activity,” he said.
Eisenhower spoke for five minutes
from the steps of the Low Memorial
Library to 5,000 students under a
boiling sun. It was his first formal
address to the Columbia student
body.
“Your rights — the right to select
this school—is a natural right but it
is the result of blood, sweat, sacrifice
and death,” Eisenhower said.
“If we are to have better homes
and working conditions, each of us
has the responsibility to defend with
his life the liberty that has brought
this about.
“In doing so, we must recognize the
kinship of all people throughout the
world who recognize the dignity of
human life and conduct their govern-
ments accordingly.”
AUSTIN.—About half the high
schools of Texas are less efficent than
the 1-room rural school, Dr. H. A.
Moore, executive secretary of the
Gilmer-Aiken education committee,
said Wednesday.
Only one child of every five who
enter school ever finishes high
school, Dr. Moore said. The state’s
high school program fails to give
them what they need, he told a con-
ference of parents and teachers meet-
ing under the sponsorship of the Uni-
versity of Texas School of Education
and the Texas Congress of Parents
and Teachers.
Small high schools are forced to
provide sixteen courses that will
answer requirements for college en-
trance, and they can not afford more,
Dr. Moore said. This means they are
serving only the one student in three
who finishes high school and goes on
to college.
“They put all the students through
the same paces and don’t meet the
needs of the great majority,” Dr.
Moore said. “They fail to teach the
children how to make a living, and
how to make their social adjust-
ments.”
The 50c tax on local valuations that
now stands will not begin to pay for
the state’s building needs in schools,
Dr. Moore predicted. It is not the
concern of the Gilmer-Aiken com-
mittee to determine where the addi-
tional tax money must come from, he
said. However, the surveys show
that it will be needed.
At present only about ninety-three
students attend the average
high school, Dr. Moore said.
Despite inclement weather and hol-
idays the revival now in progress at
the First Baptist Church continues
with great interest. The revival be-
gan last Wednesday night at 8 o’clock,
$100,000 | with Rev. LeRay Fowler of Moody
doing the preaching and Douglas Dil-
lard of Temple and Baylor University
leading the singing and working with
the young people.
Day services are held at 10 o’clock
and started Thursday morning of last
week. Prayer services begin at 7:30
p. m. and are held for all ages begin-
ning with the junior age.
Rev. Fowler, who is a young man
of 24, but a man of many years expe-
rience in preaching and youth work,
is bringing some interesting mes-
sages both morning and evening.
During the morning services he is
speaking from the Book of Revela-
tion. This study is proving very
helpful to the congregation and some
few mornings
reached 100.
Rev. Dillard, who
Baylor University,
singing and the young people in
great way. His messages in s — - *
on the violin have been a blessing to
the people. Young Dillard will head
all the mission work of the volunteer
band in Baylor University next fall
when he resumes his studies.
The pastor states that the revival
will continue through Sunday night
but that there will be no Saturday
morning service. He further states
there are many in the town who are
not taking advantage of the revival
and he urges them to attend and en-
ter into the revival.
There have been thus far four ad-
ditions to the church, two other con-
versions and several rededications. A
baptismal service is planned for the
closing service Sunday evening.
The pastor urges the members of
the Sunday school and church to
work for a goal of 250 Sunday and a
goal of 60 in the training union.
Talk of Douglas
Others of Mr. Truman’s followers
spoke up heartily for his cause, while
the stop-Truman gang increased their
talk of Supreme Court Justice Wil-
liam O. Douglas as a possible candi-
date.
While Mr. Truman, back from his
Missouri trip, went into partial se-
clusion to confer with party leaders
the next few days, James A. Roe, a
New York Democratic leader, gave
notice he would place Eisenhower in
nomination at Philadelphia.
Roe, a former congressman, also
said he would move that the conven-
tion formally ask the President to
step aside in favor of the general. He
claimed the Queens County delega-
tion he heads would cast its 8 % votes
for Eisenhower.
That Truman backers expect
Eisenhower demonstrations was indi-
cated by the announcement of Leslie
Biffle, convention sergeant at arms,
that Philadelphia policemen and pri-
vate detectives will be stationed at
strategic spots to prevent phony
stampedes.
Biffle is an intimate friend of the
President and staff director of the
Senate Democratic policy committee.
This study is proving
attendance
299 percent since 1941, according to
the Oil Industry Information Com-
mitee. “Bottled gas” refers to such
gases as butane and propane which
can be- stored in portable containers
under high pressure.
Indicative of the changes that have
taken place during and since the war
as almost every phase of farm and
ranch operation have been mechan-
ized, bottled gas is used for cooking
and for home use and water heating,
and to operate brooders and incuba-
tors as well. Individual users of bot-
tled gas, other than industrial users
but including agricultural consum-
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Waggoner, J. H. & Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1948, newspaper, July 8, 1948; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1331804/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.