The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1947 Page: 4 of 8
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Thursday, August 14, 1947.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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HAY BARN BURNS
Cracks At The Crowd
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Dutch Boy Is Back!
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doubt about what
certain product you
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years that
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can
your individual needs.
Free Ice Water! Free Parking Cars!
Air Conditioned for Your Comfort
The Rexall Store
Denison
Texas
Grayson County Old
Settlers Reunion
should buy? Then ask us. We’ve
been handling drugs for so many
Fire Loss Nearly
A Billion a Year
Farmer’s Tax Bill
Levels Off in Texas
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Frozen Food Locker
BEWARE THE TWO TEES,
TYPHOID AND TETANUS!
This Will Be the 68th Reunion. Come
On Over
Remember the Dates:
August 21-22-23-25-26-27-28-29-30
Pate, Paunch No
Handicap to Dancing
Man With 7 Wives
We have just received a shipment of Dutch Boy-
White Lead and Dutch Boy House Paint. You know
Dutch Boy’s reputation for coverage and staying
ability.
August 21 to 30
Will Be the Dates For The
BUT, if you use locker service, here is the pattern:
Producer—Locker plant—Consumer .... In other
words, these costs virtually vanish—Long hauling,
commission merchant fees, packing charges, a cut
for the wholesaler, and the retailer’s margin.
COTTON FARMER
EXODUS URGED
YOU decide . . . whether two or five in your family
. . . which way is cheaper, more convenient, for you
to buy your meat.
PETRIFIED FORESTS
FOUND ON BOTTOM
OF LAKE WASHINGTON
ton areas the population should
reduced from 268,000 to 128,000.
bigamy
occasional
be
pros-
GOOD POINT TO
HIS ARGUMENT
ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
Rev. E. A. Doty, Pastor.
Sunday school, 10 a. m.
Preaching, 11 q. m. and 8 p. m.
Everybody welcome.
Kingston Drug Store
Established 1892
Whitewright Lumber Co.
“Neighborly Service”
Paints, Varnishes
Frozen Food Market
We Deliver from 7:00 A. M. to 6:00 P. M.
Open Sunday Mornings, 8 to 10
KIRKPATRICK PHARMACY
GOMER MAY, Manager *
In a recent advertisement one of the leading meat
packers of the nation stated that the average cut of *
meat traveled over one thousand miles before finally
reaching the consumer, roughly following this
pattern : Producer—Live-stock buyer—Commission
merchant— Packer— Wholesaler— Retailer— Con-
sumer.
Also a full line of Pittsburgh Paints and Var-
nishes, a top quality line that gives universal satis-
faction. We have some jobs done with Pittsburgh
Paint recently which we would like to show you.
The largest crater in the world has
been found in Iceland. It is nearly
five miles long and three miles wide.
Plenty going on all the time for your en-
joyment—Fun and Frolic galore for the
old and young. Meet your friends in the
Jesse Loving Auditorium.
Bill Hames’ Big Shows will be here for
their 42nd year at this Reunion.
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Ray Bristol, Minister.
10 a. m., Sunday school.
11 a. m., Sermon (first and third
Sundays).
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Church school, 10 a. m.
Preaching services at 11 a. m. and
8 p. m. by J. Pat Salyer.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
James I. Logan Jr., Minister.
10 a. m., Sunday school.
11a. m., morning worship.
7:30 p. m., young people meet.
Choir practice, Wednesday at 7:00.
Safety Conscious
She’d heard about loaded shot-
guns, so the Little Woman said
(while anxiously watching her hus-
band repair a lamp plug)—“Careful,
dear, there may be some electricity
left in it.”
brand of a
Nora had to discharge her maid.
At Nora’s party the maid horrified
her by becoming just as intoxicated
as the guests.
This is typhoid and tetanus weather we’re having
now. Inoculation is the only SURE preventive.
Army medical authorities take no chances with the
outbreak oi these diseases among service men. Why
should you run the risk? See your family physician
for inoculation, and buy your serums here. We car-
ry only the purest and freshest.
Nine out of every 10 chickens
hatched in Wisconsin are white.
HOLLYWOOD. — Actor Alan
Napier was discussing the merits of
his dog.
“I overheard a couple of neighbor-
hood kids arguing about its ances-
try,” Napier said.
“One of them insisted the dog
wasn’t just a mutt but was a ‘thor-
oughbred pointsetta.’
“The other kid said there ain’t no
such animal.
“ ‘He is, too,’ insisted the first kid,
‘You can watch him and tell. When
he ain’t pointin’ he’s just settin’.”
farm
sales
other
to keep
property taxes from increasing “to
the extent that they did after World
War I.”
The answer depends, the U. S. Bu-
reau insists, on how much the farm-
ers of Texas demand an increase in
services by their state and local gov-
ernments, plus the general level of
economic activity.
In the case of local governments,
the report concludes, property taxes
are still the major source of revenue.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Weldon R. Drake, Minister.
W. T. Simmons, S. School Supt.
Sunday School—10 a. m.
Morning worship—11 o’clock.
Training Union—7:10 p. m.
Training class—7:10 p. m.
Evening worship—8 o’clock.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8.
Choir practice Thursday at 7:45.
First Baptist Brotherhood to Meet
The Brotherhood of the First Bap-
tist Church, Newell Skaggs, presi-
dent, will meet for its monthly meet-
ing at the church August 19 at 8 p. m.
The guest speaker for the occasion
will be former Army Chaplain in the
European theater, Rev. James H. Cox
of the Pine Street Baptist Church,
Dallas. Rev. Cox is a former pastor
of the Northside Church, Wichita
Falls. He is a gifted speaker and a
man who has had much experience
OhifewAlaht
J. H. WAGGONER and T. GLENN DOSS, Editors and Owners
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas, Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter
Subscription Rate: One Year, $1.50; Six Months, $1.00; Payable in Advance
in Brotherhood and Training Union
work throughout the State of Texas.
A special invitation is given to all
the men of the church to be present.
Their friends are also invited to at-
tend this meeting.
In Appreciation
The pastor of the First Baptist
Church and his wife, who have just
recently arrived on the church field
here, wish to take this opportunity to
thank the members of the church,
their families, and other friends, who
showered them with so many beauti-
ful and useful gifts in the reception
given the night of July 27th follow-
ing the evening service. Many of
the gifts bore no names which makes
it impossible to convey thank you
cards without overlooking some. The
many gifts were appreciated so very
much by the pastor and his wife and
they wish to thank each one for his
lovely gift, whether it was household
articles, linens, glassware, or food.
May God’s richest blessings be up-
on each one of you.
HOWE.—A large hay-barn on the
W. W. Collins farm, five miles west
of here, was destroyed by fire Tues-
day night after it was struck by
lightning. The barn and hay which
was a total loss, was valued at
$4,000.
Edward Mays, who lives on the
farm, saved his cattle, and hogs from
the blazing building. Neighbors
prevented the fire from spreading to
other buildings.
the brands that will best answer
ered on the bottom of Lake
ington.
Forming a real menace to naviga-
tion, the trees, turned to stone by
centuries of immersion, at one time
jutted up from the bottom to within
a few feet of the surface.
Department of commerce survey-
ors got the job of “topping” the trees
in a novel underwater logging oper-
ation. Power boats with drag lines
snapped off the rocky snags 10 to 20
feet below the surface.
Frank A. Christensen, president of
the National Board of Fire Under-
writers, recently said that about a
year ago he predicted that direct
waste by fire might exceed the stag-
gering sum of $1,000,000,000 a year
by 1953—if the American people did
not fight it with every resource at
their command.
That forecast, he continued, was
wrong by about three years. If the
recent rate of increase continues, we
will cross the billion-dollar mark by
April, 1950.
Never in our history was the fire
problem so grave. In 1941, the loss
was $300,000,000. In the twelve
months ending last April, the loss
was more than twice as great—$616,-
000,000. Worse still, death by fire
has followed the trend, and the toll
has steadily risen.
The organizations and individuals
whose business it is to prevent fire
and to educate the public, are doing
three marriages in five weeks and
six since 1942, after his discharge
from Folsom Prison. He served four
years there, on a bigamy conviction
involving two earlier wives.
Sullivan said the annulment was
in 1946 by wife No. 5, Gertrude
Brandt.
Judge Dawson ordered O’Neill
jailed in lieu of $5,000 bond for pre-
liminary hearing Friday.
Ybu can buy from us a half of dressed beef for as
low as 28c a pound. An additional 3Uc a pound
slices, wraps, quick-freezes, and puts the meat in
your locker. Just a ’phone call brings the meat to
your door.
After Aunt Sally passed away
Uncle Buckram got a young wife, a
! maid, a laundress, a dressmaker and
H.
And no family is too small to buy, economically, a
half of beef for its food locker. Statistics show that
the per capita consumption of meat last year was
152.8 pounds. A half of beef weighing 130 pounds,
for example, in your locker will lose none of its ten- .
derness or freshness for at least twelve months.
to eight marriages, | a gardener to take her place,
one annulment and no divorces.
Sullivan said the
met and won most of his brides in
dance halls; in fact, he was arrested
while doncing with his latest wife,
Mrs. Myrtle Reilly, whom he wed at
Tijuana, Mexico, last June 28.
That, charged Sullivan, made it
r—1
a fine job. Their efforts have been
doubled and redoubled, but they
can’t get results without a far great-
er measure of public understanding
and cooperation than they have been
given so far. Fire prevention literal-
ly begins at home—in every house,
in every store and commercial build-
ing, on every farm. Every family
must become, in effect, a fire pre-
vention agency, if the toll is to be
checked. That is fire’s great chal-
lenge to the American people—a
challenge that has attained the status
of an emergency today.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Half of
Louisiana’s cotton farmers should
move off the land to assure a pros-
perous agriculture in the state, a
Louisiana State University agricul-
tural economist said Tuesday.
Frank D. Barlow Jr. of the uni-
versity experiment station told a
Farm and Home Week audience he
knew that shifting so great a pro-
portion of the population “will be
painful and a tremendous task,” but
that unless it were done it would be
impossible to “achieve economies in
The Unit Road Law
The following paragraph was
taken from an article in a recent
news letter issued by the Sherman
Chamber of Commerce in which the
county unit road law was being dis-
succed, on which an election will be
held in Grayson County August 23:
“And down at the forks of the
creek they are saying that this is just
another scheme for Sherman and
Denison to build fisherman’s roads
around Lake Texoma. And in Den-
ison they are saying that it is just a
plan for Sherman to centralize the
road department in Sherman. White-
wright picks up the echo. Tioga is
leery of the plan.” Then the article
goes on to say: “But there are a large
' number of intelligent men all ovef
the, county who are fighting for this
road law.”
This indicates that the unit road
plan may be defeated. The Sun did
not know Whitewright had picked up
any echoes. In fact, the unit road
law has been discussed very little in
this neck of the wood, therefore, we
may not be .in the “intelligent”
group.
LOS ANGELES. — Gerald
O’Neill is 51, bald, bespectacled and
paunchy—but he’s quite a man on
the dance floor in the opinion of Dis-
trict Attorney’s Investigator Walter
J. Sullivan.
Sullivan filed bigamy charges
against O’Neill, occasional movie
stand-in and bit player, in municipal
court Monday. O’Neill’s marital box
score, Sullivan told Judge Leroy D.
Dawson, came
We have a request to make of the
| government and we hope it will be
granted. Will the government be
kind enough to pass us up on this tax
business until we can do a few things
for our family and make repairs on
our home. Our wife is bitter be-
cause she has no new clothes and our
bathroom needs to be worked over.
Can’t the government spare us for a
few years so we can get at least a
portion of the absolute necessities we
sorely need. Our trousers should be
patched, but we have no money to
pay for the patching material. Of
course, we understand if we lived in
Europe, Asia or Africa, the govern-
ment would send us the things we
need, but we live here in the United
States and we beg the government to
let us have a share in our earnings,
a share a little beyond enough to
keep bare life afloat.
In Colorado, during the period of
appendicitis epidemics when it was
considered bad form not to have
one’s appendix taken out, there was
a law passed requiring surgeons to
prove conclusively that any appendix
taken out was diseased. This ended
the epidemic.
We could, in California, profit by
that experience, in another field.
Too frequently there rushes into
print some overzealous health officer
who views with alarm a pending epi-
demic of this or that, and urges ev-
erybody to rush to be vaccinated.
Two or three months later, there is
another alarm about another epi-
demic, and the people go through the
same motions—at the same expense.
It is well and good to take meas-
ures to safeguard the people against
dread afflictions, but the people, in
turn, are entitled to the type of pro-
tection which wise lawmakers threw
around them in Colorado many years
ago.
Health officers, too, have been
known to cry “wolf” when there was
no “wolf.” In such circumstances,
when the “wolf” of ’disease or afflic-
tion does come, the people will not
believe it.
The State Department of Health
ought to concern itself with a law re- '
quiring positive evidence of the
threat of an epidemic before a pub-
lic statement is officially released
concerning it. And the penalty for a
false statement of a pending scourge
ought to be summary dismissal from
the health service.
Scores of persons in this and all
other communities, when they read
news concerning an epidemic or a
disease, in print, immediately devel-
op all the symptoms of such disease,
and the power of suggestion helps
spread the epidemic even if there
originally was no genuine threat
one.—Sacramento Union.
By Claude Callan
production and obtain incomes more
nearly comparable with those in oth- 1
er-farming areas.”
Barlow said the shift should be en-
couraged now, since it would
easier to accomplish during
perous times.
He said that in order to increase
the average size of farms enough so
that they could be operated efficient-
ly the farm population in the upland
cotton area should be reduced from
97,100 to 45,000 and in the Delta cot-
be
WASHINGTON. — The farmer’s
tax bill in Texas is starting to level
off and may decline this year if
present trends continue.
While the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, Department of Agricul-
ture, reports that real estate farm
taxes in the nation as a whole aver-
age about 12 percent higher, there is
a slight downward trend to 'offset
this in taxes per $100 of land valua-
tion. The situation in Texas,♦how-
ever, is an exception to the rule, the
trend being downward in all brack-
ets.
In Texas, for example, the report
shows tax levies on farm real estate
in 1945 to be 15 cents and also 15
cents in 1946 per acre, with the same
figure likely this year. The index
figure dropped from 268 in 1945 to
260 in 1'946.
In the tax levies per $100 valua-
tion the farmer also is getting a
break. In Texas the drop was from
54 cents to 49 cents in 1946.
Many states have entered other tax
fields, the report says, tending to
take some of the burden off
real estate. Revenues from
taxes, gasoline taxes and
sources are cited as likely
SEATTLE.—Officials of the coast
and geodetic survey report three
submarine petrified forests discov-
Are you in
Cousin Bella can be well if it is
necessary. When there is a big so-
cial affair to attend she can paint
and powder over her illness.
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Waggoner, J. H. & Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1947, newspaper, August 14, 1947; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1332477/m1/4/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.