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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1947.
VOLUME 62, NUMBER 33.
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Imaginary Storm'
Kills Baby Girl
County Farm
Home Plans
To Be Pushed
Aged Woman Burns
To Death In Home
Wilbur Keith To Be
Speaker at Grayson
Man-Made Rain
Soaks Farm Lands
Over 2 5-Mile Area
Ely Farm Work
Shop Dedicated
American Legion
Rodeo Tonight
And Friday Night
Bike Messenger
Dies, 50 Fat Cats
Found in Room
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, Whitewright, Texas:
Herewith my remittance of $1.50—send The Sun one year to:
TEXAS COTTON
GAINS HEAVY
U.S. Weighs
$20,000,000 Cotton
Loan to Japan
precinct 2, and purchase of five
shelving units at $465 for the county
clerk’s office.
STATE PROMISES
CROW-KILLING
DRIVE IN FANNIN
It All Depended.
Passenger —%“Have I time to say
goodby to my wife?”
Conductor—“I don’t know,
long have you been married?”
The electric fan, developed in the
early 1880s, was one of the earliest
uses of the electric motor.
and
the
2.75 Inches Rain
Gives Whitewright
Area Good Soaking College Reunion
Baptist Teen-Age
Meeting Held Here
Lightning Destroys
Wentzel Farm Home
Cemetery,
Funeral
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You can still buy The Whitewright Sun for $1.50 a
year, and if you are not a subscriber this is your invi-
tation to subscribe now. The Sun is one of the few
newspapers still selling at the pre-war price, in spite
of steadily increasing production costs.
A very successful teen-age meet-
ing of Zone 2 of Grayson County
Baptist young people met in the First
Baptist Church Tuesday evening for
their regular monthly meeting. The
program was in charge of East Sher-
man Baptist Church, with Rev. Jim-
my Frankling, a student in Howard
Payne College, conducting the meet-
ing and being the principal speaker
for the occasion.
The banner for attendance
given to East Sherman.
Following the program the young
people met in the basement of the
church for games and religious films,
and refreshments served by the in-
termediate department superintend-
ent and her corps of workers.
The next meeting will be with the
First Baptist Church, Sherman, on
the 16th of September. This will be
a county-wide meeting for all teen-
agers.
Barbecue Dinner
Following the program a barbecue
dinner was served by the women of
the Ely community. Those partaking
of it will never forget it. The barbe-
cue was as fine as one ever ate, and
it was only a small part of the menu.
Besides a big serving of barbecue on
each plate there were fried chicken,
salads, pickles, onions, pie, cake—but
why mention more? And there was
plenty of iced tea and other drinks.
In other words, it was a meal that
one will find only in communities
like the Ely community. After all
were more than satisfied there was
still enough food left to serve almost
as many as had been served.
This writer would like to mention
the name of every man and woman
in the Ely community that contrib-
uted their efforts to make the
gram a success, but that
sible. It was a grand success in ev-
ery way and was enjoyed by every-
one. Guests were there from Bon-
ham, Honey Grove, Savoy, Sherman,
Whitewright and other towns.
The building dedicated is 30x50
feet and is well equipped with ma-
chinery and tools. It is being used
by the GI class and farmers of the
community. There are 22 veterans
enrolled in the vocational class.
Sherman Editor To
Speak on Literature
Of Southwest
Deadline Set on
Vet Readjustment
Allowances
An amateur rodeo sponsored by
Preston Everheart Post No. 225,
American Legion, will be held at the
American Legion park tonight and
Friday night.
A downtown parade will be held
at 7 o’clock tonight, and everybody
is invited to bring a horse and join in.
the parade. The rodeo is scheduled
to start at 8 o’clock.
The American Legion post recently
completed a rodeo arena at the
south end of the park. The first ro-
deo was held during the picnic in
July, and drew good attendance. The
sponsors are promising a much bet-
ter rodeo this time. Proceeds from
the event will be added to the Amer-
icon Legion building fund.
on the cotton crop, which
time promises a good yield,
the rain, cotton fields were
blooms as well as bolls
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Health Officer
Says Prepare Child
For School Now
STANLEY J. LOVETT
Mr. Lovett will begin an eight-day
revival meeting at the Church of
Christ here Aug. 17. His home is at
New London. Services will be held
P. Z. German of Tulsa, Okla.
Judge S. F. Leslie of Bonham is
president of the Grayson College Ex-
Students Association, and Mrs. R. E.
Hickman of Whitewright is secre-
tary.
Dallas Man Buys
Palace Theatre
From M.B. Hasty
Rainfall here Tuesday amounted to
2.75 inches, according to Recorder
Charley Cates, and the ground got
its first thorough soaking since June
22 when it rained 1.19 inches. Rain-
fall in July was only .69 of an inch,
.64 of an inch having fallen July 3
and .05 July 23. The June total was
4.79 inches. Tuesday’s rainfall was
the first in August. The total for
1947 to date is 19.74.
Farmers were divided in opinion
as to whether rain was needed or not
at this
Before
full of
in various
stages of maturity. It is believed the
rain will be beneficial to cotton in
most instances, provided it doesn’t
continue to rain. Late corn will al-
so be benefitted, as well as pastures.
40 kihds of or-
by Wilbur Keith; adjournment for
I lunch to be served in gymnasium,
I with music by Bonham Orchestra.
The afternoon session will begin at
2 o’clock with a quiz program con-
ducted by Miss Gladys Ray.
AUSTIN.—School days will soon
be here again. Thousands of Texas
boys and girls and teachers will be
returning to tine schools. Each child
entering school should be as free as
possible of any physical defects
which can be corrected. The earlier
these are corrected the better chance
the child has for academic progress
and for good social and emotional
1935-45
bales,
pounds.
The department reported weather
has been favorable and cotton pros-
pects very good in Texas, Arkansas,
Louisiana and the Far Western
states. Production in the three Far
Western states may exceed 1,000,-
000 bales for the second time on rec-
ord. %
A vacation Bible school
held at the Bethel Baptist
chids in every state from Illinois to i beginning Monday at 8 p.
New England. Some of the most
common are lady’s slippers, orchis,
pogonia, grass pink, coral root, rat-
tlesnake plantain, and twayblade.
WASHINGTON. — A loan of per-
haps $20,000,000 to finance Japanese
purchases of American cotton and
thereby help re-establish a cotton in-
dustry in Japan, is under “general
discussion” by financial officials
here.
An official of the Export-Import
Bank of Washington disclosed that
such a suggestion has been made, but
no concrete proposal is before the
bank.
Presumably any request for such a
loan would come from General Mac-
Arthur’s government. A similar cot-
ton loan for Germany already is
pending before the Export-Import
Band.
The bank officials gave the pri-
vate opinion that a cotton credit,
with $20,000,000 as the “initial” loan,
could be negotiated “as a sound
banking proposition” to put the Jap-
anese spinning and weaving industry
on its feet.
The loan would be repayable from
earnings.
pro-
is impos-I development, says Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer.
August is the time for a complete
medical and dental check-up. Eyes,
ears, nose, throat, and teeth should
be carefully examined by the family
doctor and dentist, and all reme-
diable defects corrected. If such de-
defects are neglected, they may re-
sult in serious damage to growth and
development.
Dental corrections often take time,
but a person is repaid many times
over for good dental care. Healthy
teeth lend attractiveness to the per-
sonal appearance, enable thorough
chewing of food, and promote gen-
eral good health.
In schoolrooms, children expose
each bther to many communicable
diseases, especially the common cold
and diseases such as measles, scarlet
fever, whooping cough, and diph-
theria. Protect the child from diph-
theria and whooping cough, as well
as smallpox, by safe and dependable
immunization.
Parents, see that your child has
complete protective treatment
against preventable diseases; a clean
healthy throat and mouth; the best
possible vision and hearing; adequate
diet, sleep and rest to build up re-
sistance against disease. It will pay
good dividends, and your child will
be ready for school.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Forty fat al-
ley cats, one of the oddest estates
ever to turn up in the hands of the
public administrator, came to light
Tuesday aftei’ the death of Gabriel
Gabrello, 50-year-old Filipino bi-
cycle messenger.
Public Administrator Phil C. Katz
said Gabrello’s 5. by 9 foot room
yielded the cats—most of them
caged—and an assortment of 15 kit-
tens.
The manager of the building in
which Gabrello had his rooms said
the elderly messenger had lived
there 15 years, but had kept the
presence of his feline companions a
secret.
Katz said Gabrello was practically
penniless. The cats and kittens were
turned ovef to the pound.
Kissinger Leases
will be followed by an address by W. | NomS Building
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O. M. Kissinger has leased the Lee
Norris building on the corner of
Grand Avenue and Bond street from
H. L. Bradshaw of Sherman, who
leased the building for a period of
five years on June 23 from Lee Nor-
ris.
Mr. Kissinger announced Thursday
he would handle Sinclair products
and stock a line of automobile parts
and accessories. He will also oper-
ate a garage in connection with the
business. He expects to be open for
business within the next fifteen days.
Painters began work Thursday
painting the building solid white.
The interior of the building will al-
so be painted white.
Mr. Kissinger said he would in-
stall new equipment for the garage
and would purchase a new stock of
auto parts and accessories.
Mr. Norris moved his stock
equipment from the building
first of the week.
Albert Nibling, editor of The
Sherman Democrat, will speak on
several aspects of Southwest Litera-
ture next Monday night at the meet-
ing of the Current Book Club. Mr.
Nibling will discuss McCarthy’s
“Maverick Town” in detail and will
touch on the characteristics of the
writing of J. Evatts Haley and J.
Frank Dobie. Being personally ac-
quanted with all three of these Texas
authors, Mr. Nibling will be able to
add a new viewpoint to the interpre-
tation of their works.
The Book Club will meet in the
parlors of the Presbyterian Church
at 8 p. m. It is hoped that a large
number of members will be present
to welcome Mr. Nibling.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Man-in-
duced rain fell on 3,000 to 5,000 acres
of parched Missouri farm land Tues-
day night and chief rain maker
said Wednesday he would produce
similar showers in other localities on
invitation.
Kenneth Spencer, president of the
Spencer Chemical Company, said a
company plane made runs over three
large coumulus clouds, released 100
pounds of dry ice at 10,000 feet.
Spencer said tests showed rain
started at 7,000 feet, where the tem-
perature was 60 degrees. Ground
temperature at the time was 105.
Ground observers—mostly farm-
ers — reported the precipitation
varied from light showers to soaking
rain over an area twenty-five miles
long.
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BELLS. — Mrs. Dave E. McCul-
lough, 79, of Pink Hill community,
west of Bells, was burned to death
Saturday at 7 p. m. when her farm
home was destroyed by fire. Funeral
services were held at 2:30 p. m. Mon-
day at the Bells Baptist Church.
Her 86-year-old husband received
minor burns in the blaze. It is be-
lieved that the fire was caused by a
kerosene stove explosion and flames
enveloped her before help could
reach her. She was burned beyond
recognition.
Services were conducted by
Rev. J. A. Henderson, pastoi' of the
Pink Hill Baptist Church, and the
Rev. A. L. Greenwait, pastor of the
Bells Baptist Church. Burial was in
Rose Hill Cemetery, directed by
Earnheart Funeral Home, White-
wright.
Mrs. McCullough was born in
, . , + onn 4= • Quincy. Ill., Aug. 21, 1867, a daugh-
oaCt°Lat J A°?! ter of Mi-'- and Mrs. J- A- Morrison.
She was married to Mr. McCullough
Dec. 26, 1886. She was a member of
the Baptist Church.
BONHAM. — Word has been re-
ceived here by the chamber of com-
merce that a crow killing campaign
will be conducted in Fannin County
this winter by the state . game, fish
and oyster commission.
The letter was written by Howard
Dodgen, executive secretary, to
Choice Moore, manager of the cham-
ber of commerce here. Dodgen ex-
plained that the shortage of tin metal
had held up production of crow-
killing bombs, which, in turn, will
delay somewhat the start of the
crow campaign.
Last year widespread damage was
reported by farmers in the Fannin
and Grayson County area whose pe-
can groves were raided by thousands
of the pests.
Dodgen explained, however, that
the principal purpose of the crow
eradication campaign was to de-
stroy the crow in order to protect
other wildlife, not only native birds
from nest robbery and destruction of
young but also to protect ducks and
geese on the breeding grounds where
crows spend their summers.
SHERMAN. — A bolt of lightning
set off a fire which destroyed the
$25,000 farm home of Mrs. Annie
Wentzel, east of Sherman, before
dawn Monday. About 20 percent of
the loss was covered by insurance.
Mrs. Wentzel said she and her
daughter, Mrs. Rauel Straus, and
Mrs. Straus’ son were awakened
about 3 a. m. by an ear-splitting clap
of thunder. They though at the time
lightning had struck nearby, but
they went back to sleep. An hour
later they were awakened to find the
house enveloped in flames.
AUSTIN. — Texas’ World War II
veterans had better mark off July 26,
1949, as the end of the time in which
to claim their allowances under the
servicemen’s readjustment act, the
Texas Employment Commission said
today.
That is the date ending the period
in which claim allowances for veter-
ans discharged before July 26, 1947,
the TEC said, under an act of the
80th Congress substituting that date
for the words “termination of the
war” in the act.
Veterans discharged after July 25,
1947, will have two years from the
date of their discharge to claim ben-
efits.
But veterans who enlisted or reen-
listed between Oct. 6, 1945, and Oct.
5, 1946, will not be affected by the
July 25 date, and the end of the war
for that group will be the end of
their new * enlistment period, the
TEC said.
A majority of veterans have been
steadily employed since discharge
and now have rights under both the
National Servicemen’s Readjustment
Act and the Texas Unemployment
Compensation Act, the TEC added.
Both types of claims are filed
through commission offices here.
Marshall B. Hasty, owner and op-
erator of the Palace Theatre for the
past six years, has sold the theatre to
George M. Hight of Dallas, who took
charge of the business Monday. The
consideration was approximately
$35,000.
Mr. Hight owned and operated a
business in Dallas for the past sev-
eral years. He was reared on a farm
near Sulphur Springs. Mr. Hight
said he was coming to Whitewright
to make his home and be one of our
citizens. “If I did not have faith in
Whitewright, I would not have made
the investment I did,” Hight said.
“It is my aim to give Whitewright a
good picture show and to show only
the best of pictures.”
Mr. and Mrs. Hight and daughter
and Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Powell, son-
in-law and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hight, are moving to Whitewright
today. Mr. Powell let a contract last
week for a dwelling to be built on
the lots just west of the Baptist par-
sonage. The two families will oc-
cupy a dwelling leased from Edwin
Badgett until the new home is com-
pleted.
Mr. Powell is a photographer and
will open a studio here in the near
future.
Mr. Hasty has not announced his
plans for the future, but did say be
was not going to leave Whitewright.
He is now on a vacation trip to Cal-
ifornia. He said he probably would
enter business of some kind after the
first of the year.
SHERMAN. — Grayson County
commissioners will give immediate
consideration to plans for erecting a
county farm home for which ap-
proximately $38,000 is available,
Judge J. N. Dickson said Wednesday.
Sales at public auction Tuesday of
four tracts of surplus county lands at
prices totaling $17,725 were ap-
proved by the commissioners and
deeds to the properties are being
drawn. The sales carry mineral
x rights to the. lands which are now
under lease made by the county.
The $17,725 from the sales, $6,000
from oil leases on the county farm
and approximately $15,000 from in-
surance on the farm home building
destroyed by fire in August, 1946,
make up the available fund for the
home construction project.
Judge Dickson pointed out that
considerable expense has been in-
curred in providing temporary hous-
ing for county wards and in buying
necessary furnishings. He said this
will be charged against the available
fund account.
The court Tuesday approved
transfer of tax reallocation moneys
to precinct road and bridge funds for
July expenditures; $559.56 to pre-
• cinct 1, $3,341 to precinct 2; $452.37
to precinct 3, and none to precinct 4.
Also approved were purchase of a
Several new names have been
added to The Sun subscription list
this week. The publishers are al-
ways glad to welcome new readers
to the large family of Sun readers.
The following have been added to
The Sun honor roll this week:
Mrs. T. F. Coffman
J. A. Blanton
Julian Montgomery
W. P. Simpson
Homer Ryon
Mrs. M. Belew
B. R. Caraway
A. L. Biggerstaff
Mrs. D. B. Tate
Mrs. Howard Cook
Odell Clark
Ernest Mayo
Guy Davis
J. P. Darwin
Wilbur Keith of San Antonio, well
known newspaper man and writer,
will be principal speaker at the ninth
annual meeting of Grayson College
ex-students here on Aug. 24. Mr.
Keith, who worked on The White-
wright Sun as a young man, was for
many years a staff writer for the
Dallas News.
The Grayson exes will meet at the
High School building at 10 a. m.
The following program will be car-
ried out:
Opening songs by audience; invo-
cation by Rev. E. L. Silliman of
Sherman, Grayson Theme Song, led
by Miss Janis J<eyne Horton; wel-
come address by Mrs. Alberta Bry-
ant Everheart; response by Mrs.
Ethelene Echols Lee of McKinney;
solo by Ray Smith of Dallas; busi-
ness, reports, appointments, an-
nouncements; in memoriam by Roy
Robinson of Trenton, music; address I at 8:00 p. m. daily. The public is in-
' vited to attend the services.
The Ely community farm work-
shop was dedicated at noon Tuesday
with Congressman Sam Rayburn of
Bonham making the principal ad-
dress. Mr. Rayburn commended the
citizens of Ely for their cooperation
in building the workshop and for
their progressive spirit in community
affairs. He also commended the
GIs for the interest they are taking
in soil conservation, and for taking
advantage of the courses being of-
fered in agriculture in the GI voca-
tional school. Mr. Rayburn stressed
the importance of conserving the
soil and building up farm lands. He
told of the hard fight made in the
last session of Congress to get appro-
priations for soil conservation, after
they had been cut to the core. Mr.
Rayburn also discussed international
affairs and other subjects now at-
tracting the attention of the people.
Preceding the speaking by Mr.
Rayburn, short talks were given by
chairmen of the various committees
of the Ely Agricultural Association
in which they told the objects of the
association. Those appearing on this
part of the program were Willie D.
Ross, Calvin Moon, Mrs. C. E.
O’Neal, Riley Beazley, Shirley Sells
and S. D. Blackerby. The welcome
address was given by Dave Beazley.
G. N. Flewharty, Fannin County
supervisor of GI vocational and ag-
ricultural schools, commended the
Ely ex-service men for the fine work
they are doing and especially for
their leadership in securing the farm
workshop for the Ely community.
William T. Standford is teacher of
the class. Curlee Cummings, Fan-
nin County school superintendent,
introduced Mr. Flewharty. Willie
D. Ross was master of ceremonies
and introduced Congressman Ray-
burn.
WASHINGTON.—Texas, with
increase of 1,531,000 bales, accounted
for almost half of the gain in the es-
timated 1947 cotton crop over 1946
reported Friday by the Department
of Agriculture.
An 11,844,000-bale crop was fore-
cast for the nation, 3,204,000 bales
more than the 1946 crop of 8,640,000
bales. The crop last year was the
smallest since 1921. The acreage for
harvest was computed at 20,989,000.
The Texas acreage was placed at
8.156,000. It was expected to pro-
duce 3,200,000 bales with an average
yield of 188 pounds per acre. The
1946 crop totaled 1,669,000 bales, 134
pounds per acre. The average for
for Texas was 3,021,000
an average yield of 168
PHILADELPHIA. — A “mortal
fear” of storms and thunder was
blamed Wednesday for the death of
2-year-old Nancy Lee Pollock of
Stockton, Calif., while on a visit to
the home of her grandmother, Mrs.
Walter Connor, in Philadelphia.
The child’s mother, Mrs. Elba Pol-
lock, who described her daughter, as
being “mortally afraid” of electrical
storms, said Nancy Lee died of fright
Tuesday night when she awoke sud-
denly and imagined she heard thun-
der.
Mrs. Pollock said the child was put
to bed at 7:45 p. m., apparently calm,
but 15 minutes later she awoke and
burst into tearful screaming. The
mother said her daughter was so
frightened that her body had become
rigid. Then the screams ceased and
she fell limp.
A nearby physician arrived and
pronounced Nancy Lee dead. Detec-
tive Albert Helvitson said the “thun-
der” Nancy Lee apparently heard
was the rumble of drums from a
drum and bugle corps that was
hearsing in the neighborhood.
will be
Church
m. The
school will be under the direction of
the pastor, Rev. John R. Stephens.
The public is invited to attend.
The revival announced to begin at
the church last Sunday was post-
poned on account of the illness of
Rev. Claud Johnston, who was to
1 conduct the revival.
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