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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 70, NUMBER 11
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955
5 CENTS PER COPY
!
THERE
will
Deaths
BUT FORCEFUL
Just 14 Days Left
To Register Cars
Phone Strike Sees
More Cables Cut
Western Week
King and Queen
Crowning Friday
Yalta Documents
Are Made Public
Bids Are Asked
For Whitewright
Housing Units
Texas’ Attempts
To Control Rabies
Called Ineffectual
HERE
and
TEXAS MOTTOES
NOT SO FANCY—
Greenbugs Invade
Fannin Grain Fields
buy rightofway through
the city for Highway 75.
who successfully fought
posed big hospital bond
thereby saved Sherman
several
A prejudice is a vagrant opinion
without visible means of support.—
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Diction-
ary.
but the 1952 Legislature ruled
this requirement.
Self-love is the greatest of all flat-
terers.—La Rochefoucauld.
PREFINISHED FLOORING
AVAILABLE FOR HOMES
The wicked are wicked, no doubt,
and they go astray and they fall, and
they come by their deserts; but who
can tell the mischief which the very
virtuous do?—Thackery.
WESTERNS 2ND IN
TV POPULARITY
NEWMAN GIVEN NEW
CONTRACT AT BELLS
it's easy to spot the
SMART BUSINESSMAN. HE
ADVERTISES IN THIS PAPER
REGULARLY/ J---'
pur-
now
J. C. WOODSON, 90-year-old Bells
resident, came in this week to renew
his subscription, remarking that “I
told you I was going to read The Sun
as long as I live, so you’d better ad-
vance my expiration date again.”
Mr. Woodson has been a Sun sub-
scriber for as long as we can remem-
ber. When we used to take the out-
of-town- papers to Bells to get them
in the mail on Thursday because the
Katy Flyer didn’t take on mail here
at night, Mr. Woodson was usually
at the Bells post office waiting to get
his paper.
Here is a new idea for you do-it-
yourself builders and remodelers.
It is prefinished hardwood floor-
ing, which comes from the factory
sanded, finished and waxed—ready
for installation and use the same day.
The manufacturers say anyone
who can drive a nail can lay the pre-
finished floor.
SOME OF our readers complained
to us last week because this column
was conspicuous by its absence.
Well, we’ll tell
Senate Rejects
$20 Income Tax Cui
ALBERT KRATTIGER of Denison,
Katy freight conductor who is a reg-
ular subscriber to this newspaper,
sends us a clipping about a 90-year-
old freight conductor who says ev-
erything in railroading has changed
since he first became a conductor ex-
cept for one thing—he still has his
caboose lighted by kerosene lamps.
Albert says he’s in the same boat—
his caboose hasn’t been electrified
either, although this has been done
on most railroads, but not the Katy.
the CIO
Union.
Negotiators conducted another ses-
sion in Atlanta with a federal con-
ciliator in an effort to settle the two-
day strike of 50,000 phone company
workers. But both sides said it had
been agreed specific issues involved
in the bargaining would not be dis-
cussed.
The company termed the wire-cut-
ting incidents “a vicious attack
against the public’s health, safety and
welfare.
BELLS.—Supt. Stacy A. Newman
Jr. has been given a new three-year
contract by the board of trustees of
the Bells School District.
Newman’s present contract, which
has a year to run, has been voided
by the new contract. Newman has
been with the local school since 1951.
He is president of the Grayson Coun-
ty School Administrators Association
and vice president of the Grayson
County Teachers Association.
“THE DOOR and window frames,
brackets and other articles for the
depots at Bellplain and Whitewright
were shipped to those places Thurs-
day,” according to Denison Frontier
Diary appearing in the Denison Her-
old. The clipping was from the Den-
ison Daily News of March 11, 1878,
the year the railroad came to White-
wright and caused the town to be
established. Bellplain referred to in
the clipping is now known as Bells,
that now growing town seven miles
to the north.
Crop yields per acre of American
farms have improved more during
and since World War II than in the
previous sixty years.
THE PRINTER \
;■
THE IMPORTANCE of releasing
unused cotton acreage to the County
Committee is pointed out in a display
ad sponsored by Jack and Joe Mea-
dor of C. J. Meador Truck & Tractor
Co. in this newspaper. The ad has
some information on the subject that
may not have been publicized exten-
sively heretofore. It seems that any
county will lose cotton acreage allot-
ment in 1956 to the extent that the
1955 allotment was not planted in
the county. With Grayson, Fannin
and Collin Counties already having
lost considerable acreage because of
failure to plant in past seasons, it is
highly important that every avail-
able acre be planted this year to
guard against further allotment loss
next year. The ad referred to above
explains the procedure very concise-
ly, and we hope that all farmers will
read it and take whatever action is
necessary to hold what acreage al-
lotment we have.
MRS. W. T. HUNT
Funeral services are to be held at
3 p. m. today in Earnheart chapel for
Mrs. W. T. Hunt, 73, who died Wed-
nesday morning in a Bonham hospi-
tal after a brief illness.
Rev. Lee H. Smith, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church will offi-
ciate. Pallbearers will be Ed Mar-
tin, Clarence Tillett, Royce Jones,
Elbert Bennett, George Bennett and
E. C. Watson.
Mrs. Hunt, a native of Tennessee,
was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Bacon. She was married to W. T.
Hunt at Whitewright on Oct. 7, 1948. mittee at a morning meeting.
She was a member of the Baptist
Church.
Her sole survivor is her husband.
ATLANTA. — Scores of telephone
cables were severed Tuesday in
widely separated parts of the South
and the vandalism was deplored by
officials of both Southern Bell and
Communications Workers
Harold Doss, city secretary who is
doubling as deputy tax collector for
automobile licenses, said at noon
yesterday he had issued license
plates for 229 automobiles and 48
trucks. This is less than half the
number of vehicles registered by him
last year, and indicates that a lot of
people still have this chore to attend
to.
The local automobile tag office, set
up in Whitewright by County Tax
Officer Iva Davidson for the conven-
ience of the car and truck owners of
this area, makes a trip to Sherman
unnecessary and represents quite a
saving in time and money for car
and truck owners.
If you haven’t bought your new li-
cense plates, Mr. Doss would appre-
ciate your doing so at once in order
to avoid a big rush at month’s end.
Deadline for registrations is March
31. Place: City Hall.
Also, the deadline for safety in-
spection of your car is March 31.
If you don’t have that safety inspec-
tion sticker on your windshield on
April 1, you will be subject to pros-
ecution.
The safety sticker has nothing to
dp with the purchase of your license
plates, however. Under the original
safety inspection law, it was neces-
sary to have the inspection sticker
before you could register a vehicle,
out
HOLLYWOOD.—Westerns are the
second most popular type of pro-
gram on TV, says the A. C. Nielson
Research Organization. Only vari-
ety shows rank ahead of the horse
operas. Dramatic shows are third.
Among the early evening singers on
network TV, says Nielson, the pop-
ularity ratings are in this order:
Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Eddie
Fisher, Tony Martin, Jo Stafford and
Jane Froman.
for less. They could abide by the
proposed law and still undersell the
small retailer, in any line. If the
Legislature really wants to do some-
thing to help the small retailer, let it
pass a law requiring wholesalers to
charge every retailer, large and
small, the same price for all mer-
chandise, regardless of the amount he
buys. As a matter of fact, we’d like
to see a law like that applying to
wholesale paper houses. Then we
could buy our fine papers at the same
price as the big printing plants.
THERE’S A bill before the Legis-
lature that would require retail
prices to be 6 percent above the in-
voice cost to the retailer after adding
freight charges and cartage. It is
called an unfair sales act, and ap-
applies to everything sold at retail,
including groceries, dry goods, ap-
pliances, automobiles, etc. Viola-
tions would carry a fine up to $500
and would make the offender subject
to injunctive action and suits for
damages. It wouldn’t help the small
retailer, for he buys in small quanti-
ties and his invoice prices would be
higher than the big stores which buy
in huge quantities and therefore buy
The local Tigers went to Bells
Tuesday afternoon, March 15, for
their opening baseball game of the
1955 season.
The boys showed good hitting at
the plate and did not make any er-
rors in the field. There were only
three balls hit by the Bells club. The
Panthers collected two hits in the
tilt, one each from Hayes and Burch-
field. The Tigers, however, col-
lected seven hits at the expense of
four Bells hurlers, French, Marlow,
Johnson, and Rice.
In the opening frame, Pannell led
off for the Tigers with a homer to
right field.. Dixon collected a base
hit also, but died on third. The
Panthers went down in order in the
first inning.
In the remainder of the contest, the
Tigers added eight more runs. San-
derson’s two home runs high-lighted
the Tiger hitting. One of his homers
came with the bases loaded.
Bennett, Andrew, Hayes, Clem,
Pannell, Hyepock, Dixon, May,
Burchfield, McKnight, Hughes, Bart-
ley, Sanderson, Musser, Head, and
Watkins saw action for the Tigers.
The Tigers are looking forward to
a successful season on the diamond
this spring, but right now they are
trying to obtain a place to play their
home games.
The local team is in District 32-B
with Bells, Tom Bean, Howe, Van
Alstyne, and Southmayd.—J. W. P.
$1.5 Billion Texas
Budget Approved.
/
WELL, WELL, the two factions in
Sherman are at it again, this time
buying advertising space for apd
against the proposed bond issue to
or around
R. L. Hall,
two pro-
issues and
taxpayers
hundred thousand dollars,
now is telling the people to vote
against both highway proposals and
elect his ticket in the city election
and he’ll save them some more mon-
ey. As a result of Mr. Hall’s opposi-
tion to the hospital bonds, Sherman
is getting St. Vincent’s hospital re-
opened at small cost to the taxpay-
ers. Maybe he can save them some
more money on the highway issue.
You can learn a lot about a coun-
try from the mottoes of its leaders.
The family shields of old may have
carried mottoes phrased in more ele-
vated and classical language than
those of the founding Texans, but the
glamorous knights never exceeded
the Texans in imagination and force
of expression.
Stephen F. Austin’s grim observa-
tion might be taken as the motto of
the first desperate revolutionists:
“Retreat is now impossible. We must
go ahead to victory.”
Travis, at the Alamo, made a mem-
orable variation on the “victory or
death” motto: “I shall never surren-
der or retreat. I am determined to
sustain myself as long as possible and
die like a soldier.”
Motto of J. B. Cranfill, religious
leader and editor: “Be kinder to
everybody than anybody can be to
me, and do it first.”
Mollie Bailey, the circus queen:
“You can’t take it with you. Do some
good as you go along, and leave a
good name with the people you have
met. I don’t want the earth, and
some day I shall get only a small
space in it.”
Motto of Shanghai Pierce, the cat-
tle magnate: “I have only one rule in
business. When everybody else is
wanting to sell, I buy; when every-
body is wanting to buy, I sell.”
Slogan of Mrs. Miriam E. Fergu-
son: “Two governors for the price of
one.”
C. F. BURKETT
C. F. Burkett, 87, retired farmer,
died Wednesday at 5 a. m. at the
home of his son, Earl Burkett, in Tom
Bean.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p. m. today at the Tom Bean
Baptist Church, conducted by Rev.
Jimmy Burton and Rev. Bob Scar-
borough. Burial will be in Vittitoe
Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Joe Hunter,
Jewel Biggerstaff, Claude Lackey,
Spurgeon Teague and Evan Moran.
Mr. Burkett was born in South
Carolina, a son of the late Mt. and
Mrs. John C. Burkett. His late wife
was the former Miss Mollie Sullivan.
He was a member of the Baptist
Church.
Survivors are four sons, John M.
Burkett of Whitewright, Earl Bur-
kett of Tom Bean, and Luther Bur-
kett and Eugene Burkett, both of
Sherman; one sister, Mrs. Carrie
Kink of Erick, Okla.; four grandchil-
dren and five great grandchildren.
WILSON KAISER asks us why
we don’t plug for a paint-up and
awning-repair program for the bus-
iness district. “Some of the awnings
and fronts look like the Grapes of
Wrath,” he believes, and he thinks
the owners ought to do something
about it as a matter of civic pride.
We fixed up the front of our build-
ing more than a year ago, as did
several other owners of business
buildings. We thought then that
others would follow suit eventually,
and we still believe they will—if
they live long enough.
shape.
MRS. P. A. SHORT
Funeral services for Mrs. Presley
A. Short, 72, were held at 4 p. m.
Wednesday in the Earnheart chapel,
conducted by Rev. Lee H. Smith, pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian Church,
and Rev. Newton V. Cole, pastor of
the First Baptist Church. Burial was
in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ernest Lilley of
Denison, Grady Gillett, Wilson Kai-
ser, Clyde Craig, Homer Sanderson
and John Pace.
Mrs. Short died at 5 a. m. Tuesday
at her home here after a two-year
illness. She had returned from the
Sherman hospital only a few days
before her death.
Born Dec. 23, 1882, at Greensbor-
ough, Ky., Mrs. Short was the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe T. Marshall.
She came to the Canaan community
north of Whitewright at the age of
7 and lived there until her marriage
to Mr. Short in 1905. They estab-
lished their home in Whitewright and
had lived here ever since. She was
a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
Surviving are her husband; a
daughter, Miss Leora Short of White--
wright; a son, Lester M. Short of
Midland; a brother, Frank Marshall
of Hooker, Okla., and two grandchil-
dren. >
WASHINGTON. — Joseph Stalin
told President Roosevelt at Yalta in
February 1945 that Stalin needed
sweeping concessions in the Far East
in order to explain “to the Soviet
people why Russia was entering the
war against Japan.”
Disclosure of the Soviet leader’s
statement on this and many other
long-controversial issues arising out
of the Yalta conference was made by
the State Department Wednesday
night with release of top secret doc-
uments of the Big Three meeting.
The Yalta meeting, in Russia’s
Crimea, brought together Stalin,
President Roosevelt and Prime Min-
ister Churchill of Great Britain. As
late as Saturday, the British foreign
office opposed publication now of the
Yalta papers.
Another disclosure was that Roose-
velt said at Yalta he hoped the Brit-
ish would give back the sovereignty
of the crown colony of Hong Kong to
China, and that it would then become
an internationalized free port. It
was recorded that Roosevelt “knew
Mr. Churchill would have strong ob-
jections to this suggestion.”
In any event, Hong Kong is still
British.
It was at Yalta that Russia agreed
to enter the war against Japan in two
or three months after the defeat of
Germany. Russia actually entered
just about a week before Japan sur-
rendered.
In addition to terms for Russia’s
entrance into the war against Japan,
the meeting laid down agreements—
much debated at Yalta—for the or-
ganization of democratic govern-
.ments in the liberated countries of
Eastern Europe, particularly Poland.
Further it produced agreement on
steps to have the United Nations con-
ference at San Francisco later in
1945, with Russia having in effect
three U. N. votes by including the
Ukraine and White Russia as mem-
bers alongside the Soviet Union.
At one point in the eighth session
of the conference in Lividia Palace,
Roosevelt told Churchill and Stalin
that the decision to include the two
Soviet states on the same basis as
sovereign nations was “very embar-
rassing to me.”
Two-Volume Papers
That quotation appears in a col-
lection of notes included in the 834-
page, two-volume set of papers re-
leased by the State Department.
These notes were kept by Alger Hiss,
who was later convicted of perjury
for denying that he passed out secrets
to a pre-war Communist spy ring.
School Lunch Menu
Monday: Bologna Slice, Mashed
Potatoes, Fresh Carrot Sticks, Mixed
Fruit on Crisp Lettuce Leaf with
Grated Cheese, Banana Pudding,
Milk.
Tuesday: Irish Stew, Crisp Crack-
ers, Cabbage Slaw, Cookies, Choco-
late Milk.
Wednesday: Red Beans, Kraut and
Weiners, Hot Cornbread, Cherry
Short Cake, Milk.
Thursday: Cube Steak and Gravy,
Creamed Corn, Mixed Greens, To-
mato Slice, Cookies, Chocolate Milk.
Friday: Hamburgers, Potato Chips,
Jelly Rolls, Ice Cream Stick, Milk.
Roy Blanton, chairman of the
Whitewright Housing Authority, said
yesterday that plans for the 16-unit
housing project in Whitewright were
released Tuesday, and are available
from Paul G. Bentley Company &
Associates, 1100 South Ervay, Dallas.
One general contract is provided
for, and sub-contractors will deal
with the general contractor, Mr.
Blanton said.
The project will consist of 12
white housing units and four colored
units. There will be two units to
each building, making a total of eight
buildings to be constructed. Loca-
tion of the project is east of the John
Kaiser home on East Main street
(Grand avenue).
Mr. Blanton said several weeks
usually elapse between the time bids
are asked for and contracts are
awarded. He hopes actual construc-
tion will begin in early summer.
This project has been hanging fire
for about three years, and at times it
looked like the deal was dead. How-
ever, the project was finally author-
ized late last year.
Bids have also been asked for in
connection with a similar project at
Tom Bean.
AUSTIN.—The House Appropria-
tions Committee recommended a
state budget of $1,512,426,951 for the
next two years, more than $115,000,-
000 above present spending.
The general appropriation bill was
voted out of the appropriations com-
Rep.
Max C. Smith of San Marcos, chair-
man of the committee, said the bill
might be brought up for floor action
on Thursday.
House committee action came as a
Senate finance subcommittee ap-
proved an expenditure of $1,553,-
382,503, a record total exceeding an-
ticipated tax revenue by more than
$51 million.
From the state’s general revenue
fund, the House committee’s bill calls
for an increase of $33,600,000 over
the next biennium, to a total of
$212,239,254.
The House bill provides an esti-
mated increase of more than $20 mil-
lion in the state’s foundation school
fund, and some $27,400,000 more was
anticipated for highway needs.
The measure also carries a bien-
nium increase in welfare payments,
including old age assistance of $14
million.
From the general revenue fund,
the House bill provides for spending
over the next biennium of $98,374,780
for higher education; $7,285,166 for
the judiciary system; $60,520,628 for
the state schools; $37,892,630 for state
departments, and $8,166,050 for jun-
ior colleges.
Most of the increase is for public
schools, colleges and universities,
highways and public welfare, expen-
ditures taking about 85 cents out of
each dollar of income from state and
federal sources.
The apparent additional tax need-
ed of more than $51 million includes
$14 million in increased public wel-
fare benefits, approved last Novem-
ber as a constitutional amendment,
but not yet acted on by the legisla-
ture. However, approval by the law-
makers appeared assured.
AUSTIN.—Attempts at rabies con-
trol in Texas are ineffectual, the
State Department of Health said
Wednesday.
Deaths due to rabies among hu-
mans have been greatly reduced, but
no effective control over the disease
has been found in eliminating it from
the state’s dog population, Dr. Henry
A. Hoile, State Health Officer, said.
Hoile was reporting on a study re-
cently concluded.
The department feels that rabies
control authority should be county-
wide, where there is a menace of an
epidemic, Hoile said.
Last year Harris County was au-
thorized such control in a bill passed
during the special legislative session.
Control of the disease has been
complicated by the marked increase
in rabies in wild animals, particular-
ly foxes and skunks.
conspicuous 1
“Why,” they asked,
you. Some of you may remember
Col. Henry Waterson, famous edito-
rial writer for the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal for many years. Mr.
Waterson, explaining how he was
able to write as well as he did, said
he attributed his ability to the fact
that before sitting down to his type-
writer he took two or three shots of
bourbon to lubricate his thinking ap-
paratus. “Without that lubrication,
I couldn't write a thing,” he said.
Now don’t get us wrong—we don’t
take even one shot of bourbon before
.sitting down to our typewriter. But
last week we were plumb out of beer.
WASHINGTON. — A Democratic
proposal to cut income taxes $900,-
000,000 a year was rejected by the
Senate Tuesday on a 50-44 roll call
vote.
Forty-five Republicans and five
Democrats joined forces to defeat
the proposal and give the Eisenhow-
er administration its biggest round so
far in the current battling over taxes.
The Senate then proceeded to pass
on a voice vote a bill extending pres-
ent corporate income and major ex-
cise tax rates for another year from
April 1. This is just what the ad-
ministration wanted.
Now the legislation must go back
to the House, which approved the tax
rate extensions but added a provis-
ion which would have reduced the
tax bill of every income tax payer
and dependent $20 each.
There were predictions by some
legislators that House spokesmen
would put up a strong last-ditch
stand for their plan in a Senate-
House conference committee. But
House Republican leaders will try to
get the chamber to go along with the
Senate version, and send the exten-
sion legislation to the President
speedily.
The White House said President
Eisenhower was pleased with the
Senate’s action Tuesday.
In bitter debate which preceded
the showdown, opponents of any tax
reduction at this time called the
Democratic plan “nonsense and a
hoax.” They also charged that it was
presented “in the name of political
expediency.”
BUT IF Mr. Hall, or anybody else
hopes the county is going to foot the
bill, they are going to be disap-
pointed. County Judge J. N. Dick-
son has served notice that the county
cannot help on the rightofway pur-
chase without a county-wide bond is-
sue being approved by two-thirds of
the voters. He pointed out that Den-
ison certainly would not vote for the
bonds, since that city voted its own
bonds to finance rightofway
chase through that city. We
serve notice that Whitewright vot-
ers will vote against the county
bonds, and we believe all the people
of the county feel that way about it,
except, of course, Sherman people.
Western Week, being observed this
week at the High School, will be cli-
maxed Friday night with a variety
show in the gymnasium at 7:30
o’clock.
The show will feature the crown-
ing of the King and Queen of West-
ern Week. There will be a variety
of other attractions, including the
Belew Twins of the Big D Jamboree,
Dallas.
Tickets are on sale by members of
the student body, and are 35c for
adults and 25c for children. Tickets
may also be purchased at the door
Friday night.
Tigers Open Base
Ball Season Wife
9-0 Win Over Bells
BONHAM.—Heavy, but. scattered,
infestations of greenbugs have been
reported in Fannin County’s grain
fields, County Agent Zeke Green said
this afternoon.
“I urge farmers to check their
fields daily or at least every two days
and look for yellowing spots in the
field which appear to be dying,”
County Agent Green said. “These
spots may be as small as two feet in
diameter and either round or irreg-
ular in shape. The greenbugs may
be found on the leaves of the grain
or on the ground in the shade of the
grain.”
County Agent Green pointed out
that parathion is the only chemical
recommended by the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture and the Texas
A&M College.
“Parathion should be applied at
the rate of one pint of 25 percent
emulsion per acre as a ground spray,”
he said. He said that a cotton spray
rig with cone-type nozzles spaced 20
inches apart would serve. .
The county agent said that many
insecticide dealers would not carry
parathion in stock as they felt it was
too dangerous, but he added that
many farmers and employees of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture had
used it for many years without ill ef-
fects.
“Parathion does the job better over
a wider range of conditions than do
other insecticides,” he said.
He urged farmers to contact their
nearest county agent. He gave his
phone numbers as 120 and 1009.
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