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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953
VOLUME 68, NUMBER 51
NEXT WEEK
Farmers Meeting
re
The First Methodist Church
is
at
Sun Honor Roll
a
Singing Convention
The Sun wants your news items.
Santa Claus To Be
Here Christmas Eve
CPS Plugs Texas In
National Magazine
Xmas Lighting
To Be Judged Soon
Simmons Retires
As SPA Manager
Junior Red Cross
Drive Under Way
Presbyterians To
Present Xmas Play
Candle Lighting
Service Sunday
Benson Indicates
Flexible Support
Plan Is Favored
Annual Chamber Of
Commerce Meeting
Scheduled Dec. 28
Year’s Subscription
To This Newspaper
Is Perfect Gift
CHRISTMAS TREE
SAFETY IS URGED
Proved reserves of natural gas in
the United States were 199.7 trillion
cubic feet in 1952.
All who joy would win must share
it; happiness was born a twin.—Lord
Byron.
Once-a-Week Express
Stranger—“Say, mister, what time
is it?”
Native—“Bout Tuesday, I’d say.”
Stranger—“No, what hour? I have
to catch a train.”
Native—“Aw, Tuesday’s close enuf.
There ain’t no train ’till Saturday, no
how.”
LANDSLIDE VOTE
OKAYS PEANUT,
COTTON QUOTAS
E. W. Harris of Bakersfield, Calif,,
and Helen and Betty Ann Pritchett
of Whitewright; a sister, Mrs. Robert
A. Jones of Celina; a brother, Add
Pritchett of Austin, and two grand-
children.
TIGERS LOSE TO
CLIFTON 13 to 6 Scheduled He!
Younger Generation
Old time Mosquito (to young mos-
quito)— “And to think that when I
was your age I could bite girls only
on the face and hands.”
in
the
Southwestern Power Administration
since its establishment in 1943, has
retired, it was learned today.
Whitewright; three daughters, Mrs. year outside these counties, includ-
ing subscriptions to service men and
women anywhere in the world. For-
eign subscriptions to those other than
service personnel come higher—$5.00
per year. Changes of postal regula-
tions requiring the affixing of more
and more postage to each subscrip-
tion make the higher rate necessary.
Subscriptions by or for the follow-
ing are acknowledged:
W. D. Alcorn
Alton McDowell
John Pace
Mrs. L. C. Hampton
Mrs. S. H. Murphy
G. W. Ball
Lloyd Roddy
F. .. Grant Hoover
Mrs. C. B. Dixon
B. M. Dean
Lewis Whitworth
Mrs. Pauline Nelms
Lester’ Haile
T. A. Gray
Dr. Edwin O. May
Eugene Reeves
C. J. Kaiser
W. M. Pierson
Mrs. A. J. Schubert
Mrs. J. W. Goree
Paul Cook
R. V. Henry
James B. Russell
Ross Booher
Dessie Reynolds
J. R. Oliver
T. E. Gosnell
L. E. Alexander
R. T. Ray
Sfc. James E. Taylor
Aubrey Page
Mrs. Clark Morgan
Mrs. W. Dean Bowden
Wilson and Hart
Mrs. J. C. Waldrop
J. R. Hacks
D. M. Wilson
Mrs. L. T. Bishop
M. V. Williams
Trelis June Penny
Manton Fain
Grafton Montgomery
O. H. Foster
J. E. Tramel
J. B. Allison
G. C. Stuteville
Walter Robbins
Ellen Williams
Elbert Bennett
Rev. Ben Sturdivant
Mrs. Mildred Pietzsch
W. G. Harrelson
DENISON. — Lee Simmons,
charge of the Denison office of
You can solve some of your
problems by sending The Sun
those you wish to remember
Christmas.
has
announced, a candle lighting service
and Christinas carols in music,
scripture and story, on Sunday night
at 7:00 o’clock. The program, to be
presented by the junior and adult
choirs and children of the church, is
being directed by Mrs. Sarah Kilgroe.
Everybody is invited to attend.
KNOXVILLE.—Sheriff’s deputies
found a man as’leep on the railroad
tracks yesterday.
“Don’t you know a train might run
over you?” asked Deputy Jess Cham-
berlain.
“What time is it” asked the drunk
thickly.
“It is 4 o’clock.”
“Then I ain’t got nothing to worry
about, ’cause the engineer that drives
that train always stops for me.”
WASHINGTON. — Farmers who
grow the country’s cotton and pea-
nut crops left no doubt today that
they want production and marketing
controls—and continued high support
prices—for those crops.
They voted overwhelmingly yes-
terday to approve the control pro-
posals advanced by Secretary of Ag-
riculture Benson.
In this they followed the lead of
the wheat farmers who, last August,
voted for controls by a 7-1 margin.
Cotton farmers in 20 states turned
out about 500,000 strong and voted
nearly 16-1 in favor of limiting pro-
duction of the 1954 cotton crops. The
percentage of “yes” votes was about
94 percent—a new record—compared
with 89.4 percent in December 1949,
the last time cotton controls were
voted in a referendum.
The unofficial but nearly complete
vote was about 447,000 yes to 29,000
no.
Peanut growers in 13 states voted
about 17-1 for controls on peanut
production for the next three years—
1954 through 1956.
ENGINEER IS
FRIEND OF HIS
AUSTIN.—Labor Commissioner M.
B. Morgan warned Texas merchants
Tuesday not to work their female
employees more than nine hours a
day nor more than fifty-four hours
in one calendar week during the
Christmas holiday season.
State laws prohibits longer work-
ing hours for female employees, and
fixes a penalty of $50 to $200 for
each day of violation.
“We have had a number of reports
coming to us that some of the mer-
chants are preparing to work their
female employes nine and one-half
hours per day during the Christmas
holiday season,” Morgan said in
prepared press statement.
DR. COX QUITS
STATE POST AS
HEALTH OFFICER
Quite a few persons are going to be
reminded of Christmas gifts for 52
weeks because of the thoughtfulness
of relatives and friends in sending
them The Sun as a Christmas gift.
There’s still plenty of time for oth-
ers to send gift subscriptions, and
the price is $2.00 per year in Gray-
son and Fannin Counties, $2.50 per
Playing on a rain-soaked field at
Waxahachie Friday night, the White-
wright Tigers lost their quarter-fi-
nals game to the Clifton Cubs 13 to
6. Some 300 Whitewright fans who
went to Waxahachie on a special
train to see the game weren’t disap-
pointed in the Tigers, however,
agreeing that they gave a good ac-
count of themselves.
Everybody, including the Tigers,
are confident that the Tigers could
beat the much-heavier Clifton team
on a dry field. On a muddy field, the
heavier team has a big advantage,
and that advantage was with Clifton
Friday night. The Clifton boys out-
weighed the Tigers 10 pounds to the
man.
The Tigers went further this year
than ever before in state football
competition. They won the district
championship, the bi-district cham-
pionship, and the regional (District
13A, 14A, 15A and 16A). In the
playoffs they beat New Boston and
Hawkins, and the boys are in agree-
ment that Hawkins has a better team
than Clifton.
Clifton will play Ranger this week
in the semi-finals, and next week
the winner of this game'will play the
winner of the Deer Park-Luling
game for the state championship.
Take Holiday
In celebration of a successful foot-
ball season, the Tigers were joined
by a number of other students in
“playing hookey” Monday, and Supt.
S. T. Montgomery Jr., finding so
many students out, declared Monday
a holiday for all, and closed up shop.
For that reason, The Reflector
missing from The Sun this week.
Christmas Holidays
The local schools will dismiss
2:30 p. m. Friday for the Christmas
holidays, and will resume work Mon-
day, Dec. 28. They will also take
the New Year’s holiday on Friday,
Jan. 1.
The Junior Red Cross enrollment
drive is being conducted in • the
Whitewright schools this week under
direction of Mrs. Griffin Dollarhide
Jr., who has been elected to the
Board of Directors of the Grayson
County Chapter. Mrs. Floyd Ever-
heart is the other Whitewright mem-
ber of the board.
Mrs. Eloise Talley of Denison, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Grayson
County Chapter, American Red
Cross, gave The Sun the following
statement in connection with the
current drive:
“Mrs. Dollarhide has conducted
former Junior Red Cross enrollments
in Whitewright, and is enthusiastic
about this program that gives juniors
an opportunity for service. Junior
Red Cross conducts its own fund
drive each Fall, with funds collected
being kept separate from Red Cross
funds, and used only for juniors. The
enrollment is on a room or unit ba-
sis. An elementary school room con-
tributing as much as 50c is consid-
ered to be 100% enrolled. The first
50c collected in each room pays for
the Junior Red Cross magazine,
which the children enjoy and the
teachers find most helpful for use as
supplementary reading. All over 50c
a room remains in the county to be
used for Junior Red Cross projects.
The high school enrollment is based
on $1.00 for each group of 100 stu-
dents.
“The main project for Grayson
county Juniors each year is the mak-
ing and filling of Christmas stock-
ings for the McKinney VA hospital,
the VA domiciliary at Bonham, and
the Perrin AFB hospital. School stu-
dents also make holiday items such
as nut cups, tray covers, etc., for use
in the hospitals. Wherever interest
is shown, Junior Red Cross will co-
operate with school officials in pro-
viding texts for First Aid and Home
Nursing Classes to be taught by au-
thorized instructors.
“This year Junior Red Cross is pro-
viding about 7000 Accident Preven-
tion Check Lists to be distributed to
elementary school children through-
out the county to be used in their
study of accident prevention.”
Build A-Guards,
President Urges
Raymond Perdue, assistant tq/Sim-
mons during the last few years, is
'currently in charge of the office as
acting area representative. The des-
ignation was changed from distract
manager to area representative a
couple of years ago.
With headquarters in the Barrett
building, the office has charge of the
sale of power produced at Denison
Dam throughout Texas and Oklaho-
ma, under the jurisdiction of the
main SPA office at Tulsa.
Simmons is one of Grayson Coun-
ty’s oldest leading citizens, having
been active in public affairs for more
than a half century. He served as
sheriff during his early years and
was manager of the Sherman Cham-
ber of Commerce for a long tenure.
One of the high points in his career
was as superintendent of the Texas
prison system..
Judging in the. Friday Literary
'Club’s Christmas lighting contest is
to be done between now and Dec. 22,
and the judges are going to have
quite a number of doors, windows
and outdoor lighting effects from
which to choose the four prize win-
:ners.
There will be prizes for the best
‘decorated window, the best decorated
door, most unique decoration, and
best effect for least money spent.
It is suggested that you drive over
town at night and try to pick the
winners; that is, see if you can pick
them like the judges do.
Contributing to the prize fund
were the Rotary Club, Home Demon-
stration Club, Chamber of Com-
merce, Parent-Teacher Association,
Friday Literary Club, and Commu-
nity Public Service Company.
The children and young people of
the Presbyterian Church will present
by request the one-act play, “The
Street of Hearts,” again this year on
Tuesday, Dec. 22, at the church at
7:30 p. m. Those taking part are:
Angels, Carol Dawson and Harriett
Stevens; Spirits of Christmas, Dixie
Bassett and Guyla Wren Sears; Mary,
Beverly Bassett; Joseph, Lee Smith;
Rich Girl, Louisa Lackey; Proud Girl,
Ruth Elaine Williams; Clean Lady,
Sarah Stevens; Too-Busy Lady, Eliz-
abeth Stevens; Deaf Man, Tom Scott
Phillips; Old Lady, Anna Lou Phil-
lips; Chinese Boy, Tom Sears; Blind
Girl, Janet Smith; Business Man,
Phillip Stevens; Poor Little Boy, Clif
Emerson; Wisemen, Jimmy Bassett,
Jimmy Smith and Bobby Phillips.
Preceding the fantasy Miss Janis
Horton will play a Melody of Christ-
mas music on the organ and Robert
Grant of Bonham will sing. Miss
Horton, Mr. Grant and the choir will
intersperse the play with incidental
music.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all to attend the service.
Community Public Service Com-
munity published a page advertise-
ment in the November issue of Man-
ufacturers Record, directed toward
encouraging manufacturers to move
their plants to Texas. The ad was
illustrated by a map of Texas, show-
ing a hand depositing a factory on
the map, and with the caption “Make
your next move Texas where there’s
room to grow.”
Then followed the text of the ad:
“By locating your plant in Texas,
you can grow with one of the fastest-
growing regions in the U. S.
“Since 1939, the growth rate of
Texas has exceeded the national
average in population, industrial em-
ployment, value added by manufac-
ture and income per capita.
“Texas offers industry the profit
opportunities of an expanding mar-
ket, plus the nation’s richest store of
raw materials, year-around mild cli-
mate, lower production costs, abun-
dant low-cost power and natural gas,
and excellent transportation. There
is no state income tax in Texas and
no sales tax.
“The medium and smaller-sized
•cities on Community Public Service
Company lines offer special advan-
tages to industry. Living costs and
taxes are generally lower, living con-
ditions are better and there is a plen-
tiful supply of intelligent, home-
loving workers who have the incen-
tive and capacity to produce.
“Scores of prime locations are
available and many communities we
serve offer attractive inducements to
industry. We’ll be glad to furnish
full information on request.”
At the side were listed White-
wright and the 82 other Texas towns
served by the company, all of them
small towns with plenty of room to
grow.
The County Line Singing Conven-
tion will meet at Cannon at 2:00 p.
m. Sunday, it is announced by L. L.
Wendell. “Our convention was at
Cannon a month ago and we had a two-day
house full of singers and listeners,” ” ’ ’
Mr. Wendell said, “and we are hop-
ing to have the same results this Sun-
day. We are expecting singers from
all parts of the county, and from the
singers who have promised to attend,
we will have a good convention.”
gift
to
at
It will remind them of
you 52 times during the year—every
time they receive a copy of the pa-
per. It is a never failing source of
gratification to both local citizens
and former citizens of Whitewright.
The Sun will send the recipient a
card expressing your best wishes for
Christmas and notifying him or her
of the subscription.
You can buy your gift subscrip-
tions at Sun office, or just mail them
in. The price is $2.00 for subscrip-
tions going to Grayson and Fannin
Counties, $2.50 elsewhere.
E. B. Pritchett
Dies As Result Of
Traffic Accident
The Sun will go to press on
Wednesday next week in order to
get distribution before Christmas.
Advertising in the issue will be
largely Christmas greetings, and
advertisers are urged to get their
orders or copy in early. We have
a nice line of ready-prepared
greeting ads. News contributors
are also cautioned that news items
must be turned in by Tuesday to
insure publication, except that
last-minute news can be handled
Wednesday morning.
AUSTIN.—Don’t let that Christmas
tree become the center of a tragedy
in your home, the Texas Insurance
Advisory Assn, cautioned today.
The fire insurance experts sug-
gested these safety rules:
A small tree is safer.
Be sure it’s freshly cut.
Stand it in water in the coolest
part of the house.
Avoid, cotton or paper decorations.
Never place an electric train under
the tree.
Be sure electric lighting sets are in
good order.
Put out lights burning when no one
is in.
Place the tree so its accidental
burning would not ignite curtains or
other furnishings.
Discard the tree when the needles
start falling.
Warning Issued
On Work Hours
AUSTIN.—Dr. George W. Cox re-
signed Monday as State Health Offi-
cer effective March 1, 1954.
It was a surprise move, for Dr. Cox
often had been under fire and always
won the backing of the State Board
of Health, which employs the health
officer. Dr. Cox, 74, plans to retire.
O. V. Barker, vocational agricul-
ture teacher in the high school, and
secretary of the Chamber of Com-
merce, has scheduled a meeting of
farmers for Friday night to discuss
the planting of sesame in this area.
The-meeting will be held in the agri-
culture building at 7:30 o’clock, and
all farmers are urged to attend, and
others are invited.
Mr. Barker told The Sun that he
has all the details in connection with
the growing of sesame, and will give
this information at the meeting. It
will be necessary to have sesame
acreage of at least 150 acres in order
to get a marketing arrangement here,
he said, and if the farmers are will-
ing to give sesame a trial, he will
suggest that they plant about 10 acres
to each farm. Fifteen farmers plant-
ing ten acres each will be the mini-
mum, and there is no limit as to the
maximum number of farmers that
may participate.
Sesame is an oil-producing plant,
and it has proved profitable to Texas
farmers who planted it this year, Mr.
Barker said.
He said he is not promoting the
deal, but is willing to help the farm-
ers find something to grow on the
land to be taken out of wheat and
cotton production under marketing
quotas next year. He believes that
sesame is one of the answers to this
problem.
E. B. Pritchett, 68, well known
farmer, died at Baylor Hospital, Dal-
las, at 9:20 p. m. Sunday as the result
of injuries sustained in a traffic acci-
dent near Oak Hill Cemetery three
weeks ago. Following the accident,
in which the jeep he was driving col-
lided with a car driven by a Negro,
Mr. Pritchett was taken to a Bonham
Hospital, then to Dallas. His condi-
tion had been critical from the be-
ginning.
Funeral services were held at the
Earnheart Chapel at 2:00 p. m. Tues-
day, conducted by Rev*. Harold Davis,
pastor of the Savoy Methodist
Church. Burial was in Sunnyside
Cemetery at Savoy.
Pallbearers were Carlton Johnson,
Elbert Bennett, Roby Childress and
Tom Sears, all of Whitewright, and
Earl Blakey and Homer Burris of
Savoy.
Mr. Pritchett was born Sept. 22,
1884, northeast of Whitewright, the
son of Joseph and Elizabeth Ann
Pritchett. He was married to Miss
Mamie McSpedden in 1909, and she
died in 1936. He was married to
Mrs. Viola Coleman June 8, 1940. He
was a member of the Savoy Metho-
dist Church, and had been a farmer
all his life.
Survivors include his wife; three
sons, E. M. Pritchett of Arcadia,
Calif., B. B. Pritchett of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and Paul Lee Pritchett of
CHICAGO.—Secretary of Agricul-
ture Ezra Taft Benson indicated
strongly here Wednesday that his
new farm policy will call for flexible
instead of high support prices on
farm commodities.—
And if voting delegates to the
American Farm Bureau Federation’s
convention, meeting in Chicago, ap-
prove on Thursday a resolution pre-
pared by their resolutions commit-
tee, they will endorse such a pro-
gram.
According to the farm bureau’s
resolution, the flexible price sup-
ports w’ould not apply to commodi-
ties under market controls until a
year after such controls were put in-
to effect.
For instance, marketing controls
have been voted for cotton and wheat
in 1954. So the flexible support plan
would not apply to those crops until
1955.
Secretary Benson let it be known
fairly well that the plan which he
will present to Congress in January
will call for flexible instead of rigid
price supports. He diverted from his
prepared text, which he delivered to
the farm bureau convention Wednes-
day afternoon, to say the “present
rigid price control program is not in
the best long-time interest of farm-
ers.”
And in a press conference just prior
to his speech he made his view fair-
ly certain. A reporter asked if his
program would contain flexible in-
stead of rigid supports. He replied:
“Don’t you feel there is room for
some flexibility? We have not firmed
up on that question yet, but we are
nearing that point.”
Flexible versus high supports on
basic commodities — cotton, wheat,
corn, rice, peanuts and tobacco—has
been the major question as farmers
and politicians have awaited the ad-
ministration’s farm program which it
will recommend to Congress in Jan-
uary.
It has also caused some split in the
farm bureau’s delegation this year.
In past years the farm bureau has
stood for flexible price supports. But
this year delegates from about a doz-
en southern states put up a fight for
high supports on cotton and tobacco.
At a called meeting Monday of the
Chamber of Commerce, attended by
about 20 persons, it was voted to hold
the annual meeting of the organiza-
tion on Monday, Dec. 28, at 5:00 p. rn.
at Craig’s dining room. At that time,
it was announced by C. B. Bryant
HI, president of the organization, a
full accounting of the activities of
the Chamber of Commerce for the
past year will be given.
New officers and directors will be
elected at the meeting. Present of-
ficers are:
Mr. Bryant, president; W. E. Stan-
ford, vice president; O. V. Barker,
secretary.
The board of directors is composed
of six members, three of whom were
elected last year for two-year terms,
and the other three will retire this
year.
The holdover directors are Clyde
Craig, Mrs. Leon Ball and Clarence
Tillett. The directors who will be
replaced are RusSell Summers, Tom
Sears and Glenn Doss.
It was decided at Monday’s meet-
ing that nominations for officers and
directors will be made from the floor
instead of by nominating committee
as has been the case in the past.
A membership drive will be con-
ducted after Christmas, with O. V.
Barker heading the committee. Other
members of this committee are Dick
Walker, W. E. Stanford, Earl Blanton,
J. B, Dixon and Lee Smith.
Directors Meet
The board of directors met Wed-
nesday morning and reviewed the
organization’s activities during the
last year. These included:
(1) Effort to prevent the Cotton.
Belt Railroad from abandoning the
Sherman-Commerce Division.
(2) - Promoted agricultural experi-
ment under direction of the Grayson.
County Pilot Plot Demonstration
Club.
(3) Expended considerable effort
in trying to get a doctor for White-
wright, contacting the Texas Medi-
cal Association and the leading hos-
pitals and medical schools.
(4) Contacted two industries that
were moving out of Dallas in ah ef-
fort to have them locate in White-
wright.
(5) Placed the name of White-
wright before the industrial depart-
ment of the Katy Railroad and listed
its assets and facilities for an indus-
try.
(6) Established a policy that
Whitewright will not subsidize a doc-
tor in order to get him to locate
here.
(7) Held Homecoming and ex-
pended considerable effort in getting
a mailing list of Whitewright Exes.
(8) Set up a permanent Homecom-
ing organization.
(9) Sent five representatives to
appear before the State Highway
Commission in connection with the
proposed new highway to utilize the
old Cotton. Belt rightofway.
(10) Enrolled in the A. &. M, Col-
lege Industrial Conference.
(11) Conducted Christmas party.
(12) Aided in the TB mass X-ray
program.
And other activities.
WASHINGTON.—President Eisen-
hower voiced an “appeal Monday to
the common sense of America” to
prepare, without panic or hysteria,
for the possibility of atomic attack.
Asserting the nation’s cities will
become front-line targets in the
event of World War III, the Presi-
dent told a conference of 175 U. S.
mayors:
“When a threat is not immediate
with us, the ordinary American is not
particularly anxious to get out and do
a drill that he thinks has a little of
the infantile about it. He possibly
sees himself back in primary school,
where he had drills, or evacuating
the school room, in case of fire.
“But there was a very great prin-
ciple there.
“Ordered haste will save you, and
panic will destroy you. So it is, first
of all, against the incidence of panic
that we must be prepared.”
Eisenhower keynoted the theme of
calm preparedness at the outset of a
' closed door conference,
called by himself, on problems of na-
tional defense. The White House
later made his remarks public.
Santa Claus is coming to White-
wright at 3:00 p. m. on Thursday,
Dec. 24, under sponsorship of White-
wright merchants who have con-
tributed to a Chamber of Commerce
Christmas party fund to make his
■visit possible.
Santa will head a parade at that
the high
hour which will feature
school pep squad.
Packages of Christmas candy will
be distributed after the parade by
members of the regional champion-
ship football squad. No tickets will
be used in the candy distribution, as
was done last year.
The parade committee is composed
of M. B. Hasty, Newton V. Cole and
Lee Smith. The general Christmas
party committee members are Joe
Meador, Mrs. Leon Ball, Clarence
Tillett and Earl Blanton.
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