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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
'VOLUME 64, NUMBER 8.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1949.
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School Notes
Solar House Tests Sol's Warmth
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Mortuary
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Civil Rights Given
Priority by Senate
School Man Says
Census Must Be
Completed in March
Red Cross Drive
Begins March 1
Bolt Stops Fort
Worth Phone Talk
Railroads in Worst
Slump in Many Years
Britain to Quit
Rationing Candy
POSTAL RATE
HIKE ASKED
SEVERAL ATTEND
GRAYSON COUNTY
F. F. A. BANQUET
COTTON PLANTING
ACREAGE FOR 1949
SET AT 21,984,000
DRIES DEMAND
POISON LABEL
GILMER-AIKEN
FOES TO TAKE
FIGHT TO RADIO
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Health Insurance
Backers Denounce
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Government Likens
Lag to’48 Lull
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, for-
mer Army chief of staff who
graduated to the presidency of
Columbia University, has been
returned to temporary duties in
the National Defense Depart-
ment in Washington. Eisen-
hower will serve as “principal
military adviser and consultant”
to President Truman and Sec-
retary of Defense Forrestal for
several weeks. He will preside
over meetings of the joint chiefs *
of staff.
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LONDON.—All candy will be tak-
en off the ration list April 24, Food
Minister John Strachey told Com-
mons Monday.
Candy has been rationed in Britain
since July 194’2. The current ration
amounts to four ounces a week.
WASHINGTON. — Supporters of
^President Truman’s national health
denounced
assessed valuations are
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By Supt. B. R. Caraway
Under bills proposing to comply
with the provisions of the Gilmer-
Aiken recommendations, schools of
the size of the Whitewright Schools
would be able to employ at least two
more teachers than at present. There
are other bills which, if passed in the
place of the above mentioned bills,
would limit the number of teachers
in this size school to two or three
fewer teachers than now employed.
With the various bills of conflicting
natures it makes it impossible for the
school boards of the State to know
what they will be able to do in the
way of employing teachers for the
ensuing year until something defi-
nite is worked out by the State Leg-
islature.
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acres of grain
acres
The
of grain sorghums
would produce almost
Considering the amount in the
sinking fund at present, this school
district owes only about two-thirds
as much as it did six years ago. The
about 50%
WASHINGTON. — Supporters
insurance plan Sunday
the week-old health program of the
American Medical Association as a
“fancy press relations job.”
The AMA proposal is designed to
“obscure the AMA’s stubborn oppo-
sition to any program which would
bring medical care within the means
of the average man,” said the com-
mittee for the nation’s health, a vol-
untary group headed by Dr. Chan-
ging Frothingham of Boston.
“The AMA’s only proposal for
meeting that national problem is the
same as before—voluntary health in-
surance,” said Frothingham’s state-
ment. “It has not moved an inch on
this basic issue, despite all the win-
dow dressing.”
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WILLIAM P. CARAWAY
Funeral services for William P.
Caraway, 84, of McKinney, who died
at the McKinney City Hospital’ at
12:30 p. m. Tuesday, were held at the
Desert Presbyterian Church Wednes-
day at 2:30 p. m. Burial was in the
Cross Roads Cemetery, directed by
Glen Earnheart.
Mr. Caraway was born at Martin,
Tenn., July 7, 1864, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Caraway. He resided
in the Desert community for a num-
ber of years before moving to Mc-
Kinney.
Survivors include: Two brothers,
Oscar Caraway of Van Alstyne and
Arthur Caraway of Savoy, land two
sisters, Mrs. Minnie Alverson of
Whitewright and Mrs. Leel Wallace I
■of Leonard.
more that at that time.
Senate Bill 116, before the Senate
this week, would materially reduce
the school tax property of holders in
Whitewright, if it passes.
Mr. Grady Miller, of Wyatt C.
Hedrich, Inc., architects and engi-
neers, came by the school Friday and
left his card and said that he wished
to make estimates of building needs,
amounts of bonds reasonable for this
district, etc., when this district be-
gins to think about a building pro-
gram.
DES MOINES, Iowa.—A bill to re-
quire that all liquor sold in Iowa be
labedel with a skull and cross bones
and marked “poison” was introduced
in the State Legislature Wednesday.
The measure is labeled “an act to
protect the youth of the State of
Iowa against the use of liquor.”
One section of the bill also would
require liquor labels to carry the
words:
“Antidote: Pour contents of this
bottle in the sewer and' place bottle
in ash can.”
The game tournament held Thurs-
day night by the Home Demonstra-
tion Club and the V. F. W. Auxiliary
was attended by approximately 150
people.
The party was held for the purpose
of raising funds for a ladies’ lounge
and rest room, also a rest room for
men, to be built at a location in the
business section. It is planned to
further expand it into a building to
house a community recreation center
and meeting place for the various or-
ganizations of the city.
It is not planned to solicit contri-
butions, but other organizations
wishing to help sponsor the project
may do so. An estimated fifty per-
cent of the funds for building the rest
room are already available.
The city commission has voted to
give an option on a lot owned by the
city.
Guests were served home-made pie
and coffee. Several home-made
cakes were given away.
A large number of guests ex-
pressed their desire for another par-
ty at an early date.-^TReported.
They Don’t Listen
Theodore Hook, the famous prac-
tical joker, held with the contention
that people don’t pay much attention
to what others say on many occa-
sions.
On a bet he greeted his hostess at
a party by saying: “I’m sorry to be
late, but it took me longei’ to strangle
my uncle than I expected.”
“Yes, indeed,” replied the lady,
“so nice of you to have come.”
His friend gasped and paid up.
Matter of Salary
The city of Pittsburgh advertised
for a street sweeper and a naturalist.
The former had to have an eighth-
grade education, the latter a college
diploma in natural science. The sal-
aries: for the street sweeper, $4,177
a year; for the naturalist, $2,329 a
year.
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WASHINGTON.—The Department
of Agriculture Friday announced a
national goal for cotton planting in
1949 of 21,984,000 acres, the same as
the 1948 goal.
The department estimated the rec-
ommended acreage would produce
about 12,000,000 bales, ample to meet
estimated requirements.
The 1949 cotton goal is about 7
percent below the 23,653,000 acres
planted in 1948 and 13 percent less
than the 1937-41 average of 26,357,-
000 acres.
Cotton will be supported at 90 per-
cent of parity this year, but quotas
will not be imposed on growers.
The department
planting 13,600,000
sorghums, of which 7,0,00,000
would be harvested for grain.
7,000,000 acres
harvested would produce
116,000,000 bushels, it was estimated.
The recommended grain-sorghum
acreage is slightly below the 1948
acreage of 13,800,000 acres, but . 20
percent under the 1937-41 acreage of
17,000,000 acres.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Postmas-
ter General Jesse -Donaldson asked
Congress today to hike postal rates.
The increases would meet an esti-
mated 1949 department deficit of
$526,000,000.
Donaldson said second and third
class mail rates are “particularly in-
adequate.”
In a letter to House Speaker Sam
Rayburn, Donaldson reported that
post office operational costs have
climbed $800,000,000 since 1945.
The 1949 estimated deficit is $217,-
000,000 above that for 1948, despite
added revenue of $78,000,000 from
recent increases in air mail rates.
His letter accompanied a draft of a
proposed bill setting up new rates.
FORT WORTH.—A bolt of light-
ning put an abrupt end to a telephone
conversation between mother and
daughter at noon Tuesday and left
the 23-year-old daughter uncon-
scious at her Lake Worth home.
Mrs. W. F. Hardisty, wife of a city
fireman, was talking by telephone to
her mother, Mrs. W. L. Hammontree,
when lightning struck nearby. The
electrical bolt stunned Mrs. Hardisty
but she stammered out, “Mother,
lightning struck me . . . call Frank-
lin,” before losing consciousness.
The frantic mother called her hus-
band, a North’ side used car dealer,
and her son-in-law, Franklin,
hurried to the home where the
conscious woman lay.
When, ambulance attendants
rived, Mrs. Hardisty was not breath-
ing and her pulse was weak. She
was given oxygen on the way to a
hospital, however, and was revived
after forty-five minutes.
Mrs. Hardisty was kept under ob-
servation Tuesday afternoon but was
sent home five hours later when no
lasting effects could be found.
WASHINGTON.—It isn’t the heat
—it’s the hypothalamus.
And likewise, the blizzard-bound
will be delighted to know, when you
think you are cold it’s literally all in
your mind
Scientists at Stanford University
making tests for the Air Force have
determined .’that reaction to heat or
cold is merely an automatic response
to a buzz fjrom a braid cell — very
possibly the hypothalamus.
So far, however, they have not
learned hovJf to turn 6ff the battery.
The layer .of atmosphere in which
man exists iA called the troposphere.
WASHINGTON.—There are plen-
ty of indications today that the rail-
road industry is in its biggest slump
since the war.
Government experts say that rail
workers have been the hardest hit in
the wave of lay-offs, and figures
show that there are now less workr
ing on the railroads than at any time
since 1942.
Unions say about 100,000 men have
been cut off the payroll in recent
months.
Rail officials say their trains are
emptier than they have been for
many a long year. They estimate
that passenger traffic has fallen off
from 10 to 14 percent since 1948. And
they report that freight shipments
are about half what they were a year
ago.
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Ferd Moore of Sherman spoke to
a large audience of club members
and friends Tuesday evening at the
Central Christian Church. In a de-
lightful and charming style, Mr.
Moore described his travels through
England, France, Belgium, Switzer-
land and Holland in the summer of
1947 with a group of thirty-five from
various sections of the United States.
Carrying an excellent camera with
him, Mr. Moore was able to get col-
ored motion pictures of the historic
spots and war-ravaged cities of these
countries. When showing his pic-
tures the speaker’s commentaries,
sometimes facetious and sometimes
serious, kept his audience intensely
interested. His pictures of Switzer-
land showed the thrift and industry
of the peace-loving, law-abiding
Swiss people. The pictures included
some snapped of Mrs. John Madonne,
a former Whitewrighter, and her
husband, who was then a member of
the staff of the American Embassy in
Berne. Mrs. Madonne, who arrived
in Whitewright from Warsaw, Po-
land, a few weeks ago, was in the
audience Tuesday night and was
given a loud “welcome home” when
her picture flashed on the screen.
In Luxembourg Mr. Moore’s p^rty
visited the American Cemetery and
the grave of General Geo. S. Patton.
Belgium, in the opinion of the
speaker, has made the most complete
recovery from the war of any of the
countries he visited. In England,
living conditions were the worst, and
rationing the severest.
At the opening of the club meeting
the speaker was introduced by Edwin
Badgett, City Commissioner of
Whitewright and a member of the
Book Club. Mr. Badgett paid trib-
ute to the civic and philanthropic
services of “Ferd Moore, one of
Whitewright’s own.” A gift of appre-
ciation was presented to the speaker
by the club.
Mrs. J. L. Reynolds of Greenville
will be speaker for the March meet-
ing on the third Monday at the Bap-
tist Church.
Change of Position
/ “What became of that charmiafc
! secretary of yours?”
“I married her and now she’s my
Buy your printing in Whitewright.' treasurer.”
WASHINGTON. — Northern and
Western Democrats Wednesday
forced the Senate leadership to give
civil rights legislative priority over
the administration’s tariff proposals.
Otherwise, the party’s civil rights
wing threatened a revolt which
would have turned Senate signal
calling over to the Republicans.
Southerners attending the all-party
caucus reminded their colleagues that
the civil rights filibuster, now defi-
nitely set to start next Monday,
would split the Democrats and would
threaten seriously the entire Truman
“fair deal” program.
Sen. Scott Lucas (Dem.) of Illinois,
majority leader, told the caucus it
would be possible to set aside the
antifilibuster debate, already an-
nounced for Monday, in favor'of re-
ciprocal trade treaty debate.
Sen. Walter F. George (Dem.) of
Georgia urged such a course.
Three Democrats—Brien McMahon
of Connecticut, Francis Myers of
Pennsylvania and Theodore F. Green
of iRhode Island—asserted the party
had to start making a record in civil
rights. The staunch advocates of
such legislation, they said, would not
be impressed by an attempt to make
tariff matters of more import. Mc-
Mahon and Myers, the Democratic
whip, come up for re-election in 1950.
Southerners did not fight back in
the strategy conference. Sen. Rich-
ard B. Russell (Dem.) of Georgia,
leader of the Southern bloc, and Sen.
Spessard Holland (Dem.) of Florida,
expressed “regret” at the direction of
the talk but Russell said the South-
erners were prepared to start their
filibuster against rules changes next
Monday.
“It’s too bad to turn the Senate
over to the Republicans so soon,”
Russell said. At the same time, the
Southerners made no strong resis-
tance to the agreement dictated by
their civil rights colleagues.
The Dixie forces apparently de-
cided they were going to have to talk
sooner or later and they might as
well get started.
CHICAGO.—Mrs. Harriet Lough-
erfy of Chicago Sunday gave birth to
her seventh child—at the age of 23.
Both Mrs. Lougherty and her son,
Michael, who weighed nine pounds,
10 ounces, were reported “doing
well” at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
The father, Everett, 29, an unem-
ployed truck driver, and Mrs. Lough-
erty were married when she was only
13 years old.
Dr. Frothingham is a former pres-
the Massachusetts Medical
Members of the committee
include Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
David Sarnoff, president of Radio
■Corporation of America; Presidents
William Green of AFL and Philip
Murray of CIO and others. It de-
scribed itself as “heading up the
drive for President Truman’s health
insurance program, in opposition to
the AMA.”
WASHINGTON. — The Commerce
Department recalled Tuesday that
1948 snapped out of a business lag
like today’s, and went on to record
highs in production, prices, employ-
ment and income.
The end result last year, the de-
partment said, included a “gross na-
tional produce” (of goods and serv-
ices) worth 255 billion dollars com-
pared with 232 billion dollars, the
previous year.
Also, a national income (“the total
earnings of residents of the United
States from current production”) of
$224,500,000,000, a big jump from
1947’s $202,500,00Q,000.
The department reminded that aft-
er “prices had been rising uninter-
ruptedly over a period of several
months as 1948 opened,” last year
had a period like the present.
But the department, reviewing the
1948 economy in its monthly publi-
cation, Survey of Business, indicated
that 1949 is unlikely to parallel
1948 all the way through.
Noting that prices slipped down-
ward in the final month of 1948, the
department said:
“Price developments during 1948
confirmed the impression that a
rather impressive shift away from an
intensely inflationary position has
occurred.”
PAUL DEAN HOUSE
Funeral services for Paul.. Dean
^-House, tw'6-year'-*old^on -of^Mr. -and
Mrs. Hershell House of Turkey, who
died at Turkey Tuesday, were held
Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the White
Shed Baptist Church near Bonham.
The Rev. Thomas Reece conducted.
Burial was in Willow Wild Cemetery,
Bonham, directed by Earnheart Fu-
rieral Home.
Surveyors include the parents, one
brother; the paternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. George A. House of
Whitewright, and the maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Price of Bonham.
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This four-room “solar” house, built by the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, is being used to test whether New
England’s sunshine is warm enough to heat a house throughout the
-winter. A student family occupies the house while engineers study
its efficiency. Glass areas of the heat collector appear oh the roof.
Game Tournament
Is Well Attended
The annual National Red Cross
drive will begin on Tuesday, March
1. The quota for Grayson County is
$17,303. Carroll E. Wood, Sherman,
banker, is chairman of the drive.
Mrs. Floyd Everheart is chairman
for Whitewright and section. She is
now appointing her committees and
expects to reach the quota assigned
Whitewright and communities at an
early date. She hopes to be able to
report the drive completed in White-
wright before any other town in the
county."
Whitewright has always responded
to Red Cross drives and has never
failed to contribute more than the
quota assigned. The, quota for
Whitewright is $420.
The.national goal for 1949 is $60,-
000,000, less than the goal in 1948.
Five Future Farmers from White-
wright attended the County F. F. A.
Banquet Wednesday night at the
Grayson Hotel in Sherman.
Those who attended were Don
Cook, Jimmy Christian, Clifton Bass
and Sonny Smith, chapter represen-
tatives, and O. V. Barker, chapter
advisor, and William Hughes, county
president, from Whitewright, who
presided at the meeting.
B. R. Caraway, superintendent of
Whitewright Schools, Thomas Sears,
president of the Rotary Club, and B.
W. Newman, secretary of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, were guests of the
I Future Farmers from Whitewright.
Friday morning at 6:45, Station
KRRV will broadcast a meeting of
the Future Farmers held in Sherman
last Wednesday.
Progress on Oleo
Ending of discriminatory taxes
against oleomargarine has been
brought much nearer by consent of
the two leading farm organizations.
Both have taken unexpected action
favoring removal of special taxes
when satisfactory means are taken to
identify oleo so as not to be mistaken
for butter. The American Farm Bu-
reau Federation and the National
Grange deserve commendation for fi-
nally. lining up with progress on this
issue.
The National Grange provided the
first surprise when at its national
convention it discarded its old objec-
tions. Though the dairy folks who
wanted the taxes retained seemed in
the majority, the taxes were voted
down. Then the board of directors
of the farm bureau, which for years
has side-stepped the issue, stood up
and made a similar decision.
Many people who prefer oleo be-
cause of its lower price will' benefit
if Congress arid state legislatures now
cancel the taxes and licenses im-
posed on oleo to discourage its use.
On colored margarine the federal
government places a tax of 10 cents
a pound and requires wholesalers to
pay a license of $480 a year and re-
tailers $48. Eighteen states still pro-
hibit the sale of colored oleo, and a
number of other states collect taxes
or license fees.
It is time for all of these antique
restrictions (invented to benefit a
single group of farmers with dairy
interests) to be canceled.—Christian
Science Monitor.
BONHAM.—It will be imperative
that all scholastics in a school dis-
trict be enumerated during the
month of March this year, County
Superintendent Curlee Cummings
told members of the Fannin County
Schoolmen’s Association Monday
evening.
Supt. Cummings said that this was
necessary due to a change made by
the state this year in the census
laws which prevented the listing of
scholastics on a supplemental census
roll, a practice that has been fol-
lowed in the past when a child with-
in the scholastic census ages was
\ overlooked.
“All scholastics must be in the
state office prior to June 1,” he said,
“and it is highly important that every
child of scholastic age be enumerated
during the month of March. Failure
to enumerate the child at that time
could result in the family of the child
having to pay tuition and transpor-
tation.”
School transportation problems
were also discussed during the meet-
ing. Supt. Cummings told the super-
intendents to make sure that when a
child changed districts they had a
certificate of age and residence and
that it was reflected on their trans-
portation report or else they might
lose their transportation payment on
the student for the year.
Red-Faced Cops
Seek Ventriloquist
OKLAHOMA CITY. — Sam Gor-
don, 68, heard the muffled cries of a
ba/by coming from a parked automo-
bile’s trunk.
He called police. Scout Car Offi-
cers J. L. Mullenix and J. C. Jordon
rushed to the scene.
A crowd of puzzled spectators had
gathered, listening to the cries. Of-
ficer Mullenix flew into action. He
pried open the trunk and found some
tools and a spart tire.
The cries continued. Jordan jim-
mied a door and a window shattered
from the jolt.
A helpful spectator raised the hood
and another looked under the car—
no baby.
“It looks like somebody is trying
to be funny,” Officer Mullenix said,”
surveying the crowd suspiciously.
Bqt it wasn’t so funny when Wil-
liam O. Eller, 44, got there.
It was his automobile—and he
wanted to be paid for the damages.
The officer suggested Eller file a
claim with the city.
In the meantime, they’re out look-
ing for a ventriloquist — one who
makes noise like a baby.
WACO.—Foes of the Gilmer-Aiken
school reorgahization plan will take
to the air on a state-wide radio hook-
up early next week to fight the pro-
posals.
At least two of the bitterest foes of
the Gilmer-Aiken plan, Caso March
of Waco and W. D. Harrison of Fro^t,
head of the Texas State Teachers As-
sociation’s rural education depart-
ment, will be on the program, March
said Tuesday.
“We are taking this battle right to
the people, and telling them exactly
what the score really is,” said March,
2-time gubernatorial candidate, and
one of the most outspoken foes of
the Gilmer-Aiken proposals.
March said the speakers on the
broadcast would contend that the
new school proposals, now before the
Legislature, are designed to set up a
“czar of public education,” shove the
burden of school taxation on the
small property holder, and the pres-
ent school system to build a worse
one.
“We have already beaten down
two of the worst parts of the Gilmer-
Aiken ideas, and we can beat the
rest of them,” March said.
He said his faction’s opposition al-
ready had stopped attempts to force
the consolidation of small school dis-
tricts and to do away with the elec-
tion of county school superintend-
ents.
Proposed appointment of the state
superintendent of education, now Dr.
L. A. Woods, is one of the recom-
mendations being fought the hardest
by its enemies.
March’s side contends that making
the position appointive would create
an educational dictator, away from
the control of the voters.
“We also intend to inform the
average people of Texas how the
Gilmer-Aiken boys are planning to
capitalize even on the weather,”
March went on.
“They want the state aid pay-
ments based on average attendance
instead of the number of students
registered at schools. Of course in
the country schools, where the kids
often can’t get through the mud, that
knocks the average, and the pay-
ments, down,” he added.
He said an announcement would
be made as soon as possible on the
date and time of the radio hook-up.
“I challenged Senators James C.
Taylor and G. C. Morris, the back-
ers of these new laws, to appear on
the program with us, but they
wouldn’t do it,” March commented.
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