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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1949.
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Farmers Signing Up
For Crop Insurance
Old Age Benefit
Grants in Texas
Reach New High
Bells Resident Dies;
1 19 Descendants
Grayson County
Poll Taxes 8,000
Under Last Year
Presbyterian Club
Meets Here Tuesday
Methodist Week
Of Dedication
March 13 to 20
Lee Wilborn Gets
Promotion at Austin
Kansas Governor
Signs Liquor Act
BILLIARD HALL
LICENSE BILL
PASSES HOUSE
PANHANDLE MILK
IN DENTAL TEST
HE UNCOUPLES TRAIN
BLOCKING ROAD, FINED
A German alchemist named Geor-
gius Agricolo accidentally discovered
zinc when, in the 16th Century, he
was treating ores for lead and cop-
per.
A narghileh is an oriental watef
pipe for tobacco smoking.
a com-
an eco-
as not
TOPEKA, Kan.—A Governor who
does not drink signed a liquor con-
trol act Tuesday, turning the long-
time prohibition stronghold of Kan-
sas into the forty-sixth wet state.
Gov. Frank Carlson said the meas-
ure signals “the start of a new era in
Kansas.”
section assigned it.
Dollarhide hopes
Whitewright .and
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Schools Menaced
By Bureaucracy,
Editorial Says
Of Dimes Campaign
Chamber Commer
In County in March Membership Drive
Starts March 18
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 64, NUMBER 10.
Two Candidates
Withdraw From City Employs Newman
To Take Census
CHICAGO.—The National Safety
Council said Thursday the motor ve-
hicle death toll for January was eight
percent higher than in the parallel
month of 1948.
The council said there were 2,330
highway deaths last January, com-
pared with 2,160 for the correspond-
ing period last year.
Motor Vehicle Toll
For January Goes Up
White-
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a
billiard
Rep. Miller Walker
$2,515.99
1,500.67
36.81
36.19
36.06
35.49
36.33
I 70.85
37.01
162.37
18.59
8.84
10.54
6.05
12.72
28.57
BELLS.—Funeral services will be
held Thursday afternoon at Musko-
gee, Okla., for Samuel T. Taylor, 92,
a restired carpenter who died sud-
denly here Monday. Burial will be
at Muskogee.
Taylor leaves 119 direct descend-
ants.
Total -------------------------------' $4,547.71
It will be seen that while White-
wright was contributing $1^2.37 to
the campaign, Whitesboro gave only
$37.01, or less than one-fourth as
much, and Van Alstyne gave $70.85,
or less than one-half the amount
given by Whitewright.
It has been observed that
wright usually runs Jar ahead
Whitesboro and Van Alstyne
drives of this nature.
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CHICAGO. — Because there ap-
pears to be less tooth decay in the
Texas Panhandle than elsewhere, a
load of milk started Sunday on its
way to Boston, the American Dry
Milk Institute reported Sunday.
Sounds odd, doesn’t it?
The institute explained: It bought
80 gallons of whole milk near Lub-
bock, Texas, for the Tufts College
Dental School at Boston. The school
wants to find out if elements in the
Texas Panhandle soil have any in-
fluence on tooth decay and believes
the milk will carry any such ele-
ments. It will be used experimental-
ly on laboratory animals.• ' 1
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AUSTIN. — Consensus of opinion
among lawmakers is that school
teachers’ pay will be raised through
legislation, though not necessarily
through the Gilmer-Aikin bills.
Meanwhile, as the public and the
teachers are having time to study the
effects of the bills, notably Senate
Bill 115, opposition is growing rap-
idly. An editorial in the Fort Worth
Press declares:
“Already there is too much power
in Austin—so much that if a school’s
cloakroom facilities do not come up
to Austin’s demands, the school can
lose its accreditation. This, of course,
is improper punishment because it
punishes not the school board mem-
bers or the administrators who plan-
ned a building that did not suit Aus-
tin, but the children.”
Proposed legislation, the editorial
continues, “puts much more of the
control of the State’s schools into the
hands of the Austin scholastic bu-
reaucrats. There is set up
mission which, by means of
nomic index that strikes us
being very accurate, can go into any
school district or county and, in ef-
fect, set the tax rate. We doubt that
the people of Tarrant County would
like to have an Austin bureaucrat
travel 200 miles up here to tell them
what their taxes will be next year.
“Centralization of education is al-
ways bad. It .was the method used
by the German Nazis and the Japan-
ese imperialists to rear their cannon
fodder. It is an unfailing method of
imposing the ideas of the central
agency on the children of a wide
area.”
The editorial concludes by saying
that the legislation should be amend-
ed to remove the threat to local con-
trol and “if it is not so amended, we
believe the best interest of Texas
school children would be served by
its defeat.”
Senate Bill 115 would divide into
nine districts for the election of the
nine members of the State Board of
Education who would receive no sal-
ary whatever and yet would be ex-
pected to make an expensive cam-
paign and as each district would be
dominated by large cities, it would
be practically impossible for small
towns and rural communities to have
any representation on the central
board whose strong grasp would con-
trol every public school in Texas.
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aftermaths of flood is cleaning
after the water has receded.
Cross disaster rehabilitation help in-
cludes refurnishing and repairing
damaged homes of those without re-
sources to do the job themselves.
You can help the victims of disaster
through your gift to the 1949 Red
Cross Fund Campaign.
Sapphires range in color from
crystal-clear through yellow, green
The Grayson-Fannin County Pres-
byterian Men’s Club will meet in
Whitewright at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday,
I March 15, at the First Presbyterian
Church. A banquet will be served
the club by the womdn of the church.
In connection with the regular pro-
gram, a memorial service will be held
for all members who have died since
the club was organized in White-
wright in 1934.
H. R. Bone of Sherman, president
of Grayson County Chapter for In-
fantile Paralysis, has released figures
showing the amounts contributed by
the cities and towns of the county in
the recent March of Dimes campaign.
These figures should dispel any
doubt that Whitewright is definitely
the third best city in the county, as
Whitewright contributed more than
twice as much to the paralysis cam-
paign as any other place in the coun-
ty outside of Sherman and Denison.
These figures tell the. story:
Town Amount raised
Sherman
Denison
Bells
Gunter
Howe
Tioga
Tom Bean
Van Alstyne
Whitesboro
Whitewright
Pottsboro
South may de
Sadler
Dorchester
Gordonville
Collinsville
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Mrs. E. F. Everheart, local chair-
man of the annual Red Cross drive,
reports that the halfway mark has
been passed with reports from sev-
eral workers to be turned in. The
quota for Whitewright and communi-
ties is $410.00. Mrs. Everheart
wants Whitewright to be one of the
first towns to report the quota sub-
scribed, and she hopes when all the
reports are received Saturday, she
will be able to inform the county
chairman the quota has been sub-
scribed.
If the quota is hot reached by Sat-
urday night work will be continued
until the quota is subscribed.
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Grayson County poll tax receipts
and exemption certificates for 1948
dropped more than 8,000 under the
total for 1947.
Tax Officer Robert Dean reported
9,665 polls paid and 1,949 exemption
certificates, total 11,614, issued in the
tax paying period which closed Jan-
uary 31, 1949. Total for the same
day of 1948 was 19,728.
The 1948 total is slightly under
that of 20 years ago when 10,956 polls
were issued and 1,081 persons
ceived exemption certificates.
Added Cost Small
The federal crop insurance prem- I
ium represents but a small addition
to the farmer’s investment, Gunn
said. ' Through its use, however, the
manager said, the farmer protects
what he invests against losses that
can destroy or seriously damage any
farm crop.
Any person with an interest in a
cotton crop in Grayson County at
planting time is eligible to apply for
the protection, Gunn said. Most of
the applications will be accepted but
some may be rejected if the farming
operation involved is regarded as too
high risk for sound program opera-
tion, Gunn said.
T. B. Autrey is taking applications
for insurance in the Whitewright sec-
tion and Roy Belew for the Bells sec-
tion. Applications are also being
received by the Triple-A office at
Sherman.
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If your living room was ever a
foot deep in mucky river silt, your
furniture covered with mud, you
know one of the most disheartening
up
Red
re-elected
for the
„ Mr.
Petrash is now serving his first term
as principal. He has contracted for
the purchase of a dwelling on West
Grand avenue, now owned and
cupied by Paul Taylor.
Up to 4 p. m. Saturday, last day for
filing for city offices under state and
city laws, no names had been filed
with the Mayor as candidates for City
Commissioner with two to elect.
Not wanting to see the time for le-
gal filing pass without candidates,
and both M. B. Hasty and Edwin
Badgett, present commissioners, hav-
ing indicated that they would not be
candidates for reelection, a group of
citizens requested Earl Blanton and
J. H. Waggoner to file as candidates
for the two commissioner places.
They agreed to file their names, if
there were not going to be any other
candidates, since someone has to oc-
cupy these offices.
Soon after they filed, two citizens
filed the name of Edwin Badgett,
now a member of the City Commis-
sion, as a candidate. Mr. Blanton
withdrew his name Monday. This
left two names on the ticket with two
to elect. On hearing a rumor of a
write-in campaign Tuesday, Mr.
Waggoner withdrew ‘his name as a
candidate. Mr. Waggoner gave as his
reason for withdrawing that “he was
not in sympathy with write-in cam-
paigns:”
As the ticket now stands for'City
Commissioner, there is one candidate
with two to elect. The election will
be held the first Tuesday in April,
which will be April 5.
School Election
The election to elect two members
to the Whitewright Independent
School District board of trustees will
be held Saturday, April 2. Russell
Summers, who is now a member of
the board, has stated he will offer his
name for reelection. Jack Nossaman
consented to be a candidate for the
vacancy and his name will appear on
the ticket. The retiring member of
the board is C. J. Meador, who is now
president of the board, and who has
been a member for a number of
years.
WASHINGTON. — Congressional
friends of the penny post card hol-
lered bloody murder today at plans
to mark it up to two cents.
The plans are those of the Postof-
fice Department, which is going into
the red at the rate of half a billion
dollars this year.
“Diabolical,” declared Rep. Edwin
A. Hall (R-NY) today. “Asinine.
Impossible.”
“Raising Jhe penny post card to
two cents is the best way I know of
making the poor man shoulder the
postoffice deficit. It’s an American
institution. It must not be abol-
ished.”
“Never,” says Rep. Johnson (R-
111). “It will double the cost of ro-
mance and put the penny post card in
limbo with the 5-cent cigar.”
Rep. Priest (D-Tenn.) has also ral-
lied to the defense: “The penny post
card is one thing in government that
ought to stay as it is.”
Rep. Halleck (R-Ind.), with an eye
on zooming postal deficits, considers
the plight of the penny card some-
thing of a dilemma for Congress.
“It’s a long standing tradition,”
he acknowledged, “and it’s sometimes
called the poor man’s business,
don’t like to raise postal rates any-
where, but in my book it has got to
be done somewhere.”
Postmaster General Jesse M. Don-
aldson has no romantic ideas about
the penny post card in the face of a
$550 million deficit. It is putting the
Postoffice Department in the hole to
the sum of $57 million this year.
The penny post card business is big
business, he demonstrated to
House Postoffice committee.
All told, his figures showed, the
postoffice handled 3,600,000,000 pen-
ny cards in 1948, of which nearly
three billion were the stamped va-
riety sold in postoffice and about
700,000 the souvenir variety.
Each government postal card, he
said, costs the postoffice department
2.59 cents to print and handle— a
tidy loss, he implied. By upping the
price to two cents, he said he thought
his department would get an added
$36 million toward that half billion
deficit.
“It is not the poor man’s mail as
frequently stated,” he contended be-
fore the committee.
“We sell billions of penny postal
cards and about 95 percent of them
are used for advertising purposes,”
he said.
Austin College
Announces Huge
Building Program
SHERMAN. — Austin College an-
nounced Saturday the launching of
the largest construction project in its,
100-year history in a new program of
expansion that will add four new
buildings to the campus at a cost ex-
pected to exceed $600,000. The proj-
ects, which will aggregate one of
Sherman’s biggest construction un-
dertakings in many years, will in-
I elude the following:
A new gymnasium at the corner of
College and Bledsoe streets; a stu-
dent union memorial building near
the site of the present gymnasium; a
health center building, and a presi-
dent’s home.
Announcement of the projects was
made Saturday by James A. Fant of
Sherman, chairman of the college
trustees’ building committees.
Contracts for construction of t*he
gymnasium and student union me-
morial building were let to R. A.
Farnsworth Construction Co. of
Houston. The contract for architec-
ture was awarded Brown and Chap-
man, Sherman; and contract for con-
sulting engineer went to Andrews
and Lockwood of Houston. Contracts
for these two buildings were let on a
cost-plus basis.
The gymnasium and the student
union memorial building will cost an
estimated $250,000 each, not includ-
ing the equipment. Construction on
both is expected to statt as soon as
architectural plans are completed,
Mr. Fant said. It is anticipated that
construction on the gymnasium will
begin by the middle of April and that
this building will be completed by
next October. It is probable that a
portion of the gymnasium, including
| dressing rooms and showers, will be
1 ready for use by the beginning of
football practice early in the fall.
Red Cross Goal
Passes Halfway Mark
AUSTIN.—The House approved
bill Wednesday to license
and pool halls.
of Beaumont, author of the bill, esti-
mated it would raise $500,000 to
$3,000,000 a year, through license
fees.
Fees would range to $150 a year
for the first table in a commercial
pool parlor in cities over 150,000, and
$10 each for additional tables.
Walker’s bill was approved, 72 to
58.. It must be voted on once more
by the House before going to the
Senate.
The House wrote into the bill per-
mission for billiard hall operators to
sell beer. It originally prohibited
sale of “any intoxicating liquors” on
the premises. Persons under sixteen
years old would not be allowed in.
The measure prohibits use of ob-
scene language, or betting on the
premises. It would allow pool halls
to operate from 8 a. m. till midnight.
This exalted vehicle was retired from a Texico, Ill., rural mail
route after serving its owner, Joseph S. Spangler, faithfully for
several years. The tractor tires helped put the mail carrier over
sloggy farm roads that bogged down more conventional autos. Now
AUSTIN.—Average old-age assist-
ance grants for March are up exact-
ly a nickel.
In February $33.98 was the aver-
age paid to 212,082 persons. For
March the average is $34.03 for 212,-
987 persons—a new high in pension
rolls for Texas.
As the rolls climb, efforts are be-
ing made in the Legislature to end
the present annual maximum of
$35,000,000 for all social security pur-
poses.
Pending are resolutions proposing
constitutional amendments which
would remove the ceiling and leave
the total to be appropriated to the
Legislature restricted only by a limit
of $25 a month to the pensioner.
Undei’ ordinary matching by the
Federal Government this would in-
sure $50 a month if the Legislature
made this total appropriation. How-
ever, the Federal Government is add-
ing an extra $5 a month, and that
would make a grand total of $55 in-
stead of the March $34.03.
Texas’ 5,950 blind will receive a
total of $227,148 with an ^average
check of $38.47. The 5,876 blind in
February received an average grant
of $38.43.
Aid to dependent children pay-
ments increased 337 to a total of 16,-
167 families representing 44,728 Tex-
as children receiving aid. Payments
to families will average $49.02.
■ While her mother goes through
customs, little Irma Rukseniene,
3, one of 467 displaced persons
arriving in New York aboard the
SS Marine Jumper, gets a hand-
out from Red Cross canteen
worker Mrs. Ely Worthman.
Irma and her mother are from
Kaunas, Lithuania, and will live
with relatives in Naugatuck,
Conn.
structions, will begin the drive __
earnest, each committee going to the
In this way Mr.
every person in
section will be
visited and given an opportunity to
join the Chamber of Commerce in
one day, instead of having a drawn-
out membership campaign.
Individual memberships
Legislator’s Wife
Injured in Wreck
AUSTIN.—Mrs. J. A. Benton, wife
of Rep. J. A. Benton of Wylie, is con-
fined to Breckenridge Hospital here
with a broken knee cap incurred in
an auto accident near Belton Friday
morning.
Benton, a member of the 51st Leg-
islature now in 'session, said the acci-
dent occurred near Belton. The
Wylie legislator and his wife were
on their way home for the weekend.
By Ashley D. Jameson, Pastor
The period of preparation in Meth-
odism for the Advance for Christ and
His Church moves into the moment
of consecration and dedication on
March 20th. During this week of
dedication the Methodist Churches
will be open each evening from 6 to
7 o’clock serving Communion and
providing opportunity for altar pray-
ers on the part of its membership.
The church bell will peal the invi-
tation to a minute of prayer at noon
and to Communion each evening. The
Methodist advance is an effort on
the part of the people called Metho-
dists to discharge their responsibil-
ity to their fellows in the spirit of
Jesus Christ.
The Week of Dedication is the
first churchwide observance in Meth-
odism’s Advance for Christ and His
Church. While all pastors and many
laymen during the period of prepa-
ration prayerfully study the Chris-
tian faith, using as their “textbook”
the Holy Bible, now all Methodists
and friends everywhere are called to
prayer—to kneel humbly in the sanc-
tuary in quest of God’s forgiveness
and His power.
When the church bell rings, let us
join in prayer.
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WljriM
Lee Wilborn, former teacher in the
Whitewright schools, has been ap-
pointed director of curriculum and
instruction in the Austin public
schools, replacing Dr. T. G. Srygley,
who resigned. Mr. Wilborn was
principal of the Austin Allan Junior
High School when he received his
. appointment.
Wilborn will be concerned with
what Austin students will study in
schools. His new job is one of the
top administrative jobs in the Austin
public school system.
Dr. J. W. Edgar, superintendent of
the Austin schools, said that Wilborn
was selected for the job after educa-
tors from over the nation had been
consulated.
Mrs. Wilborn is the former
Lucille LaRoe of Whitewright.
Bitter Words Fly In
Fight Over Penny
Post Card Dilemma
The following names have been
added to The Sun honor roll this
week:
Paul Caylor
J. A. Hardcastle
- L. F. Baxter
Clifton DeBerry
Bob Andrew
Mrs. Clarence Rino
Mrs. Cordelia G. Caldwell
Pascal Connelly
Claud Garner
Roger Holcomb
Lee Wilson
G. B. Jones
Earl Bradley
Individual memberships will be
$6.00 annually and business estab-
lishments $24.00. Mr. Dollarhide has
set his goal for 200 individual mem-
berships, and business houses are ex-
pected to sign up 100 percent for
memberships.
If the goal is reached, the chamber
will have sufficient funds to operate
for a year. The annual Chamber of
Commerce banquet will be held after
the drive is completed and officers
for the ensuing year elected.
A Chamber of Commerce works,
for the whole community, not for any
group, or any individual. It’s pur-
pose is to promote the welfare of the
community, therefore every citizen,
every business man, professional
man, farmer and stockman should be
a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce, Mr. Dollarhide said.
Every town and city that is going
forward has an active Chamber . of
Commerce. With every one work-
ing together, and with members of
the Chamber of Commerce willing to.
work on committees, much good will
come to our little city. Every citizen
. can help to make his community bet-
ter by working with the Chamber of
Commerce.
So, be ready to sign up for mem-
bership when the committee mem-
bers call. Help them complete the
job in one day, and everybody will
be happy.
Don’t fail to join the Chamber of
Commerce.
COLUMBUS, Ind.—Clyde Berry,
45, of Nashville, Ind., did something
Saturday he said he long had wanted
to do—but it cost him a $25 fine.
He uncoupled a freight train
blocking a highway. and blue to black.
Re-Tired Mail Carrier
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Griffin Dollarhide Jr. has been ap-
pointed chairman of the membership
drive for the Whitewright Chamber
of Commerce. Mr. Dollarhide has
announced the drive will begin Fri-
day, March 18. In fact, he hopes to
complete the drive in one day. He
has appointed members of the com-
mittee to each section of the city.
The.committees will meet at 8 a. m.
on the above date for coffee and
doughnuts, and after receiving in-
structions, will begin the drive in
Grayson County farmers have
started signing up for federal crop
insurance protection on their 1949
■cotton crops and all eligible produc-
ers are urged by W. W. Gunn, man-
ager of the Sherman Triple-A office,
to make this sound business proposi-
tion for protecting their cotton crop
investments a part of their farming
plans .
Twenty farmer-agents have been
named to handle the insurance this
year, Gunn said, pointing out that the
logical time to take out federal crop
insurance is now so that the money
and labor which will be invested in
the production effort will be pro-
tected.
At a short meeting of the White-
wright Independent School District
board of trustees Saturday night, B.
W. Newman was employed’ to take
the census of children eligible for
free school in the district. The cen-
sus must be taken during the month
of March. Mr. Newman will visit
every home in the district so that no
child will be missed. The State pays
$55 per capita on each child of school
age, which makes it worth while to
see that no child in the
overlooked.
John J. Petrash was
principal of High School
term of 1949-50 at the meeting.
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