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5c A COPY, $1.50 A YEAR
Sun Honor Roll
contracts awaiting approval.
Per-
averages
RED RIVER VALEEV FAIR
AS LIVE STOCK SHOW
tumbled
on
A decision on the point I
were
Genuine Engraving at Sun office.1
the largest of its kind in the world.
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Ben Cook Named
New County Agent
Boy Scout Service
Held Sunday Night
At Baptist Church
Farmer Seriously
Injured When
Tractor Overturns
It Was Cold 48
Years Ago; Many
Froze To Death
GOVERNOR SIGNS
PAY BOOST BILLS
YOUTH CARAVAN
PUTS ON SERVICE
FIGHT AGAINST
HEART DISEASE
URGED BY TRUMAN
BAPTISTS WILL
HEAR TRUMAN
service
Dr. Burch
There are those who say that roast
’possum and sweet potatoes are a diet
for the gods.
Bids Made For
Texoma Concessions
Ninety tons of soil are moved in
plowing one acre six inches deep.
CAN’T KICK OVER
THIS KIND OF LUCK
Browns Buy Brick | District Governor
Business Building
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Wood sent to the bottom of the
ocean in deep places is crushed by the
pressure and loses its buoyancy.
Uhe tdtuiea/uqht dam,
VOLUME 62, NUMBER 7. WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1947.
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DENISON.—Pending the triple ap-
proval necessary before actual con-
cession contracts are issued, a check
Tuesday by the National Park Serv-
ice reveals that proposal bids total-
ing $365,500 on 11 of the 17 conces-
sion sites in the Lake Texoma Rec-
reational Area were received. How-
ever, $95,000 in the total were alter-
Meeting to seal the fate of the Red
River Valley Fair, 40 Grayson County
farmers and business men voted
unanimously yesterday at the Sher-
man chamber of commerce offices to
continue the exposition which was
organized 32 years ago. The group
expressed unofficial approval of a
proposal to convert the fair into a
modernized live stock show, feautring
beef and dairy cattle, poultry, sheep
and dogs. / ’ ' ’
will be made later by association di-
rectors.
In official action, the body named
32 new directors of the fair associa-
tion and four honorary directors.
These men will meet Feb. 18 to elect
officers. J. R. Oliver of Whitewright
was elected as one of the 32 directors,
and F. M. Echols of Whitewright as
one of the honorary directors. The
other three honorary directors are
Will Leslie, Lee Simmons and H. R.
Bone, all of Sherman.
state department employees. The
others applied to employees in the
state’s judiciary, eleemosynary insti-
tutions and higher educational insti-
tutions.
The companion travel expense bills
would raise the daily allowance for
food and lodging from $4 to $5 a day.
Governor Signs Bills
All seven other bills were signed
by the Governor just before he and
Mrs. Jester departed for Brownsville
to participate in the Charro Days
Fiesta.
The bill to aid rural schoolteachers
would give them a bonus of $75 a
month for the last four months of this
current school year. It will require
an estimated $4,775,000, which will
come from the present rural aid fund.
Approximately 15,700 teachers in
more than 3,000 rural schools will
share in the bonus.
Of Rotary to Visit
Whitewright Club
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WASHINGTON. — President Tru-
man, expressing “paramount con-
cern” over the health of American
citizens, has appealed for cooperation
in “fighting the present-day national
peril—heart disease.”
The President said the health prob-
lem arises out of the “increased tem-
po” of American life, and said it is
alarming to contemplate that 400,000
Americans will die of heart disease
this year.
WASHINGTON. — President Tru-
man Tuesday tentatively accepted an
invitation to address the Southern
Baptist Convention at St. Louis
“Mother’s Day,” May 11.
Dr. Louie D. Newton of Atlanta,
president of the convention, extended
the invitation at the White House.
Leaving Truman’s office, Dr. New-
ton told reporters:
“The President very much wants
to address the convention and told us
he will do it if nothing unforeseen oc-
curs to prevent it. He’ll make his fi-
nal decision later.”
Dr. Newton said he suggested that
Truman have his 94-year-old mother,
Mrs. Martha E. Truman, appear with
him. He told reporters that the
President indicated he would like to
have his mother with him on the oc-
casion if it can be arranged for her to
travel from her home at Grandview,
Mo., to St. Louis.
The convention will be held May
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the administration’s emergency list,
was s’
Gov. Beauford H. Jester.
Officials of the Department of pub-
| lie Welfare announced that agency
would work in high gear to make the
increased welfare payments effective
with March 1 checks.
John H. Winters, director of the
welfare department, estimated the
new law would boost average pay-
ments to the 191,000 aged people by
$2.50 to $3 a month. The aged, to-
gether with the 5,100 needy blind will
receive $500,000 to $600,000 more a
month, and the 30,000 dependent
children in 12,000 needy families, ap-
proximately $200,000 more a month.
The bill by Senator James E. Tay-
lor of Kerens, allocates funds to raise
annual welfare payments to the con-
stitutional maximum of $35,00,000.
Statisticians calculated it will require
the additional expenditure of $15,-
700,000 between now and the end of
the next biennium, Aug. 31, 1949.
The first of a series of eight bills
granting emergency salary and travel
expense increases for state employes
received the Governor’s signature of
approval a minute after it reached his
office.
It would raise salaries of $3,600 a
year and less by 15 percent, with a 5
percent boost on the difference be-
tween $3,600 and $5,001.
It was estimated the eight bills
would increase state salaries by $1,-
315,000 for the remainder of this fis-
! cal year, and traveling expenses by
$65,600. The pay raise became ef-
fective immediately on the Gover-
nor’s signing.
The first bill signed raised pay of
department employees. The
CENTERVILLE.—Every time Tax
Assessor-Collector Brad Robinson
takes office he nails up another
horseshoe over his office door. There
are eight there now. The horseshoes
have been picked up by his daugh-
ter, Miss Betty Robinson, now a stu-
dent at Sam Houston State Teachers
College, Huntsville.
SHERMAN.—Grayson County Ag-
riculture Agent W. H. Jones, who will
be transferred to Extension Service
headquarters at Texas A. & M. Col-
lege March 1, had a new successor to-
day after Ben D. Cook of Kaufman
was approved Monday as the Gray-
son County agent by the commission-
ers court.
Earlier, the court had approved
Russell Reed of Fort Worth as Jones’
successor. Since that time, however,
Reed has been given another Exten-
sion Service assignment and will not
come to Grayson County.
Cook is now the Kaufman County
agent, a position he held before en-
tering the Army Air Forces to serve
38 months as a ground school instruc-
tor of student pilots. He is 43 years
of age and is a native of Dublin,
Erath County, Texas. He was grad-
uated at Texas A. & M. College in
1934. Before entering the Extension
Service in August 1941, Cook served
as a vocational agriculture teacher
for seven years.
Old Rip, the Eastland horned frog,
and the Santa Claus bank robbery
(House was editor of the county seat
daily in Eastland County when these
events occurred) ;
Wolf-hunting, including accounts
of the “belled wolf” and Old Whitey,
who was never caught;
Old Spanish Fort, Jefferson, India-
nola and other places which, in early
Texas days, were leading cities;
buried treasure, “bad men,” the story
of a Texan who was the first man in
history to fly, and many other en-
grossing narratives.
House is heard each Sunday noon,
12:45, over KGKO (Fort Worth) in
“•I Give You Texas and the Great
Southwest,” and he writes a column
In observance of National Boy
Scout Week, a service was held at the
Baptist Church Sunday night for the
scouts and the public. The choir was
composed of young people, and the
sermon was delivered by Rev. R. L.
Gilpin, pastor of the Methodist
Church, and local scoutmaster.
Allegiance to the flag was given
by Scout Kelly Pierson, the scout
oath was led by Scout Jimmie Chris-
tian, and the scout law was given by
Scout Sonny Smith.
Jack Hammock of Sherman, scout
commissioner, presented scout badges
as follows: Tenderfoot, Gene Darwin
Bush, Franklin D. Ford and James
Allen Spinks; second class scout,
Jimmie Christian, and first class
scout, Conway Craig and Kelly Pier-
son.
Invocation was by B. W. Newman,
and benediction by Chauncey Course,
scout executive, of Sherman. Mrs.
O. L. Jones directed the choir, Miss
Betty Darwin played the organ, and
Miss Janis Horton the piano. Fred
Ryle, scout commissioner, of Denison
was also present.
The local Boy Scout troop is spon-
sored by the Rotary Club, with Rev.'
Gilpin as scoutmaster, Marshall
Hasty, assistant scoutmaster, and R.
A. Gillett, John L. Reeves, B. W.
Newman and Roy Blanton, scout
committee.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Brown pur-
chased from Mrs. Bryant King the
25-foot-front building now occupied
by the Brown Beauty Shop and the
Cull Reeves Cleaning Plant. Mr.
Brown, who operates a shoe shop a
few doors from the building, said
they made the purchase for a busi-
ness home. He will move his shop to
the half now occupied by the clean-
ing plant as soon as Mr. Reeves can
get another location. Mrs. Brown op-
erates a beauty parlor in the other
half of the building. Mr. Reeves has
occupied half of the building for the
past 25 years.
Mr. Brown said since he and his
wife were both in business, they de-
cided to stop rent bills and pay for
the building with the money sieved in
rents. They will make some improve-'
ments to the building.
Last Tuesday, February 11, 1899,
48 years ago, was the coldest day ever
experienced in Texas. It was 15 de-
grees below zero in Whitewright on
that day, according to old timers.
The following account of the cold
weather was taken from Tuesday’s
Dallas Morning News and was writ-
ten by Kenneth Foree, member of
the editorial staff of The News:
So you think it’s been cold. Well,
forty-eight years ago today when the
all-time record was hung up you
would have had reason to complain.
Some people were even complain-
ing before that. On Feb. 9, 1899,
snow had been on the ground at
Amarillo two months, Odessa had
had eighteen days of northers and
the temperature here had been only
once above freezing in eighteen days.
That day was Feb. 9, when the
thermometer crawled up to 45 and
appreciative Dallasites went down to
see the block of ice into which had
been transformed the Scollard Build-
ing (Republic National Bank site) as
a result of a fire. However, the
weather Bureau at Washington fore-
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with the blizzard until
fences and some, a
still standing, toppled
touched.
Grain, truck and fruit crops
destroyed as far south as Browns-
ville’s 12 above; peach trees in Ar-
kansas and orange trees in Florida—
Jacksonville, 0— burst. In the East,
trains were marooned; ice crushed
ships, and for a week New York
could not bury its pauper dead be-
cause of the frozen Hudson.
The following names have been
added to The Sun honor roll this
week:
Jesse James
W. E. Denton
E. M. Taylor
C. L. Holland
Mrs. Cordia G. Benham
R. V. Roberts.
J. B. Burden
Orbia Blanton
J. M. Wright
Lee Wilson
University of Texas
Ben F. Bailey
W. J. Mabry
SHERMAN. — Recovery of stolen
goods in the value of $5,282.08, more
than $1,000 over the $4,131 reported
stolen during the month, was pointed
out in a report submitted by Sheriff
Fred Prestage covering activities of
the sheriff’s department during Jan-
uary. The recoveries included prop-
erty stolen prior to January and some
stolen elsewhere.
The January report, according to
Sheriff Prestage, is the first of .a
series to be submitted monthly by his
office.
In January 53 cases were handled
by the department as follows: Viola-
tions of the liquor law, five; drunk,
21; driving while intoxicated, one;
lunacy, three; burglary, four; rape,
one; car theft, one; vagrancy, four;
aggravated assault, . two; robbery,
two; highway violations, two; swin-
dling, three; arson, two; murder, one;
and forgery, one.
Also during January, $648.65 was
collected in fees by members of the
office. In all 79 processes were
served.
Sheriff Prestage also set up in Jan-
uary a record and file system for the
office and began fingerprinting all
persons confined to the county jail, a
necessary procedure since many ma-
jor criminals are picked up under as-
sumed names on minor violations.
Under the system, a set of prints on
each person is forwarded to the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation, and the
Department of Public Safety. One
set is held in the identification bu-
reau of the sheriff’s department. On
receipt of the prints by the federal
and state bureaus, both return rec-
ords of all previous arrests. If the
subject is wanted anywhere in the
United States, a wire is sent giving
full information. Using a jacket file
system, a complete record is kept on
all persons handled by the depart-
ment.
newly-organized Current Book Club,
sponsored by the Friday Literary
Club. In his address, House also will
give liberal helpings of Lone Star
State humor from his other volumes.
His books of Texas humor have
sold a quarter of a million copies.
Thousands of Texans in the armed
services received them during the
war, causing one reviewer to com-
ment, “Boyce House set in motion a
wave of laughter which encircled the
earth.”
His newest book, “Cowtown Col-
umnist,” is more serious, containing
true, human interest stories about
lost arts7 TeAa,S LnC1Uling^ .
Courtrooms “smelled like a fish fer- J
tilizer factory.”
Further, an army of beggars and
cripples thronged the town and all-
night saloons. The United Charities,
its treasury drained by the destitute,
asked the Commissioners Court for a
donation.
Such was the situation on Satur-
day, Feb. 11, when a furious, 35-
mile-an-hour wind, driving sleet, hit.
The town became glazed with ice,
business ceased except in saloons
where Hot Tom and Jerry was most
popular by 4 p. m. when the ther-
mometer showed 20. At 7 p. m. Dr.
R. C. Buckner reported from the
Buckner Orphans Home it was zero
on his thermometer.
It was apparent Dallas was in for
a terrible night. Mayor Traylor and
County Judge Foree threw open the
city hall and courthouse to the home-
less and fires were ordered kept go-
ing all night.
At 10:30 p. m., H. S. McFarland,
Main and Exposition druggist, re-
ported 2 degrees below zero. At 12:30
a. m. at Apperson’s drugstore, Main
and Poydras, it was 13. At 2:30 a. m.
a News reporter in “the marrow-
freezing, burning, biting and pene-
trating cold” watched the thermom-
eter slide to -5, one degree lower
than any old-timer ever claimed
here. At 7 a. m. it was -10 at drug-
stores of McFarland, Apperson, J. A.
Rippetoe, Main and Akard; R. F
Eisenlohr, Elm and Ervay and on
thermometers of Dr. S. E. Milliken
and J. A. Skillern.
“Texas records tumbled from
Brownsville to Texline,” said The
News, adding, “the like of which was
never known before since the hardy
pioneers ousted the Indians and buf-
faloes.”
McKinney reported -11; Decatur,
Van Alstyne and Paris, -12; Ennis,
-13; Bonham, -12 to -15; Greenville
and Howe, -16; Plano, -9 to -12. The
Trinity was a sheet of ice six inches
thick and strong enough for a team,
which had three-inch icicles at nos-
trils, and a wagon. Ditto for the
Red, Colorado, Brazos and lesser
streams. Even the San Antonio Rivet-
had the skaters nearly every other
state stream had.
Railroad trains were halted by
frozen water tanks and at Fort Worth
two T. & P. Cannonball engines froze
up at the station. Corsicana, Sher-
man and Quinlan reported that kero-
sene froze in solid balls while lamps
were burning.
When a fire broke out at 110 Pecan
Dallas, the fire laddies raced up to a
frozen water plug, built a fire to
thaw it out. In the meantime, the
house burned down. When they got
the plug thawed the fire hoze froze
and the houses at 112 and 116 Pecan
also burned down. The city of Oak
Cliff had no water, and at Abilene
breaks in mains caused replacements
of almost the entire system.
At Galveston, where Weather Ob-
server Dr. J. L. Cline, later of Dal-
las, reported 7% degrees above, the
bay froze over (as it did to below
Corpus Christi) so quickly chilled
fish were unable to reach deep water.
When the ice melted boatloads of
stunned trout and redfish were gath-
ered with dipnets. Later a belt of
fish a yard wide and inches deep was
washed up from Galveston to below
Corpus Christi, which reported 11
Many works credited to Dumas
were written by collaborators and) The government printing office is
signed by hirii. I the largest of its kind in the world.
AUSTIN. — Legislation to boost
public welfare payments and state
employees’ salaries, and give a $300
bonus to rural school teachers, top in
signed into law Wednesday bv na^e bids leaving $270,500 actual bid
~ - - — - contracts awaiting approval.
According to previously announced
regulations, the National Park Serv-
ice retained the right to accept or re-
ject bids. The approval must first be
granted by the Region Three office
in Sante Fe, N. M., then by the na-
tional headquarters in Chicago and
finally by the Department of Interior.
Four Oklahoma bids were submit-
ted totaling $192,500 with $60,000 be-
ing an alternate bid on the Burns Run
Site. Carl H. Browall and J. C.
I Swearington, of Ada, turned in the
alternate bid, stating that they pre-
ferred to get contract consideration
first on Caney Creek Resort, site No.
49. They listed elaborate plans for
the Caney Creek Resort, including
the erection of a huge lodge.
In all, Grayson County has four
concession sites up for consideration,
Marshall County four and Bryan
County three. However, the princi-
pal Bryan County bid was on the
Burns Run Resort.
Most unique bid came from John
H. Smith, of Platter, on the Platter
Flats Resort, site No. 48. Mr. Smith
sent in detailed plans calling for the
erection of a gigantic sports arena, a
baseball field, as well as the usual
boating, swimming and fishing facil-
ities.
Of widespread interest was the bid
submitted by the Railroad Water-
proofing Corp., of Long Island, N. Y.,
through J. H. Van Roeshlaub. Mr.
Roeshlaub listed for immediate con-
struction, boat dock and 30 cabins,
with the planned launching of 60
cabin cruisers within six months of
the time the contract was let.
C. Dewitte Loe, of Loe’s Sporting-
Goods Co., Sherman, submitted a bid
for the $40,000 Highport Resort in
Grayson County. Mr. Loe contem-
plated immediate construction of cab-
ins, lodges, docks, and all of the
many essentials necessary for ade-
quate public service of a lake resort.
Marshall County seems a cinch to
get the two major sites in the bids
submitted on the Caney Creek and
the Little Glasses Resort. Both are
$50,000 projects and both bids called
for major construction and develop-
ment.
Park Service officials were pleased
with the initial private capital bid ef-
fort and a spokesman this morning
stated that an initial check revealed
that “all bids submitted were of a
substantial nature.”
above. Such a stench resulted, Cor-
pus Christi used wagons to remove,
the fish.
More than fish were affected. Coal
and wood famines developed. The
T. & P. and H. & T. C. hauled wood
free to Dallas and at fuelless points,
notably Waco with -8, some people
burned fences and outhouses. On
Main street here, a speechless, near-
unconscious dairyman was pulled
from his wagon to a fire. At Myrtle
Springs, a young man crawled into
town; later his frozen legs and hands
were amputated. At Mount Pleasant,
Farmer W. F. Jones started walking
to town and froze en route. Near
Denison and Brownwood, children of
campers died; near Vernon, three
Oklahomans died; near Round Tim-
ber, Baylor County, several herdsmen
met death. Even at San Antonio and
Houston, which had 4 above, and at
Wiemar and Laredo, Negroes and
Mexicans froze to death.
Stock did the same. Chickens froze
to death on many roosts. At McKin-
ney, Dr. J. W. Sargent went to his
stable to hitch his horse and found
him dead, as did many others. At
Paris, Dairyman I. S. Easterwood
chopped a hole in his icy stock tank;
a cow later stepped in to drink, was
frozen in and died there. Sheep
froze to death at Timpson; cattle at
Decatur, Paris, Henrietta. A Denison
traveler counted 900 dead cattle along
the Katy right of way. From West
Texas to Houston, many cattle drifted
blocked by
day or so later
over when
A Youth Caravan from Texas
Christian University, Fort Worth, had
charge of services at the Central
Christian Church Sunday. Charles
Jones, ministerial student from Inde-
pendence, Mo., was the speaker for
the morning service. Soloists Lewis
Spung of Dallas and Miss Mary
Maxine Jones of Houston each gave
numbers on the program.
Dr. C. A. Burch of TCU faculty
spoke at the evening service on
“Friendly With China.”
formerly lived in China.
Luther Gordon, who has spent
most of his life in the grocery busi-
ness, will open a grocery Saturday in
the building formerly occupied by.
the “oil” office on the south side of
I Main street. Mr. Gordon operated a
grocery from 1915 to 1942, twenty-
seven years, and clerked in a grocery
seven years before entering business
for himself, making a total of 34
years’ grocery experience. He re-
tired from business in 1942, but could
not stay out of harness, and Saturday
i he may be seen behind a grocery
counter again by his former custo-
mers.
Mr. Gordon, says he is anxious for
Saturday to arrive so he can be back
“at home” again.
for over 200 Texas weeklies.
haps no Texan receives more invita- I
tions to speak—he averages 150
speeches a year.
BOYCE HOUSE
Boyce House of Fort Worth, author
of the record-breaking books, “I Give
i You Texas” and “Tall Talk from
cast for Dallas on Feb. 10, rain, snow i ,Tj^XaS’ rev^ew newest book,
and colder. “Cowtown Columnist,” in White-
First came a freezing rain and a ; M°nday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p. m.
biting wind, then snow. By night I Methodist Church, before the
there were three inches on the newlv-or^nized C.urrAnt Rnnk rmn
ground and, The News reported,
“sleigh bells jingled.” But it was not
appreciated by many. Houses were
flimsily built for the most part, cot-
ton was selling at 5 % c and the many
jobless and unemployed laborers had
headed for the warm cities.
Here, the jobless found at least one
warm place, the courthouse. “Since
the cold weather began the court-
rooms have been crowded as thick as
sardines,” wrote The News’ court-
house reporter. “Very few patronize
bathing and one would conclude that
a water famine existed and the mak-
ing of soap is one of the ]
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W. ELWYN QUINN
The Rotary Club of Whitewright
Friday will welcome Elywn Quinn,
Governor of the 128th District of Ro-
tary International, which includes 63 i &
Rotary Clubs in North Texas. Mr. I & v J
Quinn is owner of the Quinn !nsur-| ]\ J d ‘
ance Agency in Gilmer and is a mem- 11V1OD ID 1
ber of the Rotary Club of Gilmer.
Mr. Quinn will speak at the Rotary
luncheon and will advise and assist
President Roy G. Blanton, Secretary
F. G. Hoover and other officers of the
club on matters pertaining to club ad-
ministration and Rotary service ac-
tivities. He is one of the 157 District
Governors of Rotary International
who are supervising the activities of
some 5,800 Rotary Clubs with more
than a quarter of a million members
in 73 countries and geographical re-
gions throughout the world.
He will meet with the board of di-
rectors an hour before the luncheon
for a conference.
Boyce House Will I New Grocery Store
Be Heard in Review To Open Saturday
Of His Latest Book
J. G. Muirhead, route three, well
known farmer, was seriously injured
Tuesday when the tractor he was
driving overturned ( in a creek bed,
badly crushing his hips. Mr. Muir-
head was plowing near a bank when
the tractor fell into the creek. He
was pinned under the tractor with
part of his body covered with water,
where he lay for more than an hour
before his calls for help were heard
by a neighbor, who was more than a
mile from where the accident hap-
pened. When the neighbor located
Mr. Muirhead he was unable to assist
him without help and notified other
neighbors, who dug him from under
the tractor with shovels.
Mr. Muirhead is in the Wilson N.
Jones Hospital at Sherman and re-
ports from his bedside Thursday
morning were that he is in a serious
condition and his recovery is not ex-
pected.
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