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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 9
Mayor Proclaims
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School Lunch Menu
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City.
State.
4.47 Inches Rain
Here This Year
Grayson 4-H Club
Week March 2 to 9
County Approves
Fire Protection
For Rural Areas
Texas Public
School Week To Re
Observed March 4-8
C. C. Membership
Drive Set March 5
Roswell Magill Urges
Fiscal 1958 Federal
Budget of $68.9 Billion
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN,
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Subscription rate is $2.00 per year in Grayson and Fannin
Counties. Sent elsewhere, the price is $2.50 per year.
SAFETY HINTS
FOR KITE FLYING
Until the middle 1600’s, watches
were made with the hour hand only,
and people determined the minutes
by the relationship of the hand to the
nearest hours.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
HERE
and
THERE
“INTIMACY” NOT
TAX “ALLOWABLE”
TURNER McCOLLOM
DIES IN HARLINGEN
ANYBODY HAVE
TOWN FOR SALE
Contentment is really just a matter
of reducing your wants and desires.
When you fire a volley of censure
at somebody else, you may not feel
the recoil at once, but it is present as
surely as you are.
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March 2 Deadline
To Enler Race For Day of Prayer
City Commission
PUBLIC INVITED
TO FASHION TALK
WASHINGTON. — Sin is not de-
ductible.
Leon Turnipseed of Bessemer, Ala.,
thought it was, and claimed as a de-
pendent in his 1954 income tax re-
turn a married and undivorced wom-
an with whom he lived.
The U. S. tax court ruled in this
case that an individual living in “un-
lawful intimacy” with a taxpayer is
not a dependent within the meaning
of the Internal Revenue Act.
extend
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News has reached Trenton that
Turner McCollom died of a heart at-
tack at his home in Harlingen Feb.
15. He was the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. McCollom and spent
his boyhood in Trenton. Burial was
made in Harlingen.—Trenton Trib-
une.
following
with the
FROM WHAT school men tell us
and what we read in the papers, the
nation’s greatest shortage of school
teachers is for the teaching of science
courses in public schools. Maybe in-
stead of a blanket raise for all school
teachers, the Texas Legislature ought
to consider a program that would
make the pay of a science teacher so
much greater than other teachers that
more young people would qualify
themselves to teach science. Indus-
try has a variable pay scale for work-
ers, enabling those with greater skills
to earn more than the average work-
er. It requires a lot more ability and
hard work to become a qualified
science teacher than it does to become
a teacher of reading and writing and
spelling and civics and grammar.
have plenty of room to run.
use the streets or highways.
Rule Number One and it’s important
to follow it.
“Rule Number Two is to make sure
your kite has no metal in the frame
or in the cord. If the cord has tinsel
or little strands of wire in it, or if the
kite string should get wet, and you
should forget and let it come in con-
tact with electric lines, you might be
very seriously hurt.
“Rule Number Three is, If you
should slip up and let your kite get
near electric lines and it becomes
caught in them, leave it there! Never,
never try to get a kite down from
electric lines. Do not try to climb up
after it or poke it down. It might
cost you your life.”
NEW YORK. — Roswell Magill,
president of the Tax Foundation and
a former Undersecretary of Treasury,
called on Congress to hold Federal
spending in fiscal 1958 to the current
year’s estimated $68.9 billion level. .
This would make nearly $5 billion
available for tax and debt reduction
in the year, he said.
Mr. McGill added, in a statement:
“I believe American taxpayers would
strongly support any Congressman
who offered a concurrent resolution
directing the appropriations com-
mittees to hold Federal spending for
fiscal 1958 to this year’s level.”
Hold-the-line action by Congress,
Mr. Magill said, would result in a
$4.7 billion surplus in view of the
$73.6 billion in budget receipts esti-
mated for fiscal 1958, which starts
July 1. This compares with a $1.8
billion surplus which would result
from the President’s proposed budget.
“The Federal budget proposed for
fiscal 1958 is outrageously high. It
can and must be cut in order to make
tax and debt reduction possible this
year,” Mr. Morgan declared.
Buy your Printing in Whitewright.
Mayor R. R. Summers has issued
the following proclamation on World
Day of Prayer, March 8, 1957:
Whereas, World Day of Prayer will
be observed this year in many places
throughout the world where humble
peoples, living against a background
of universal tension and uncertainty,
will bow their heads and lift up their
hearts to Almighty God in prayer,
and
Whereas, the Church Women of
Whitewright will join on this occa-
sion with church women in commu-
nities throughout the nation and the
world to form an articulate and in-
spiring chain of human prayer, and
Whereas, the troubled peoples in
less fortunate nations than ours, and
indeed, even in our own beloved
country, need Divine Guidance as
never before, especially as this is
stimulated through prayerful com-
munion,
Now, therefore, I R. R. Summers,
Mayor of Whitewright, do hereby
proclaim Friday, March 8, 1957, a
WORLD DAY OF' PRAYER
in Whitewright, and I urge our citi-
zens to observe this day by attend-
ing on March 8, 1957, wherever pos-
sible, World Day of Prayer services,
or pausing for a minute of prayer at
high noon to ask God to give us, in
all our humility, the wisdom and
courage to meet and successfully
solve the profound problems of our
times.
In testimony whereof, I have here-
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of Whitewright to be affixed at
Whitewright, Texas, this 27th day of
February, 1957.
R. R. SUMMERS, Mayor
The following statement in con-
nection with the above observance
was given The Sun for publication by
Rev. C. C. Dooley, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church:
“The annual World Day of Prayer
comes on March 8th. It being the
Presbyterian women’s year for the
program, it is their desire to ask all
the churches that will observe it, to
hold open the hour of 4 to 5 p. m. that
day for special music, and prayer
with an offering for the Interdenom-
inational work around the world in
connection with this observance. Mrs.
H. H. Sears will be the chairman for
this purpose, and the offering can be
relayed to her for forwarding to the
proper authorities.
“This will be instead of the usual
program furnished by the headquar-
ters, but will observe the prayer, with
an offering for the work, and it is to
be observed in each church accord-
ing to their own wishes, but the.hour
4 to 5 p. m. is suggested, as above.”
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Anybody
have a town for sale?
The Robert S. Miller Real Estate
Co. of Pasadena, Calif., wrote the
State Department of Economic De-
velopment for such information.
It is willing to pay up to $100,000
for a village, inhabited or otherwise.
The annual membership campaign
of the Whitewright Chamber of
Commerce is scheduled for next
Tuesday, March 5.
Griffin Dollarhide Jr., chairman of
the membership committee, has an-
nounced that a kickoff breakfast will
be held at Craig’s Cafe at 7:30 Tues-
day morning. Coffee and doughnuts
will be served. All who are willing
to assist in the membership drive are
requested to be at the breakfast.
Mr. Dollarhide has successfully
headed previous membership cam-
paigns.
Regular monthly meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce was held at
the cafe Monday night, with about a
dozen members present, including all
but two of the members of the board
of directors.
Edwin Badgett, secretary, read the
minutes of the annual meeting held
on Jan. 28 at which Carl Edwards
was elected president and Ron Faison
was elected vice-president. Three
new members of the board of direc-
tors were also elected at that meet-
ing, Lloyd Alexander, George Brown
and Wilson Kaiser.
Mr. Edwards said that a complete,
list of committee assignments for the
current year will be given after he
membership drive is completed.
Inclosed find check or money order for $....
Send The Whitewright Sun for one year to:
It’s the season when small boys
with kites in tow are seen in vacant
lots throughout the land.
Kite flying is. fun but tragedy can
result from this sport. Not a year
passes without some casualties to
young kite flyers.
Reddy Kilowatt, who works for
Community Public Service Company,
doesn’t want any youngster to get
hurt while flying his kite. So he
makes some suggestions.
“When you get ready to fly your
kite,” says Reddy, “choose a place
away from power lines and television
antennae, an open space where you’ll
Never
That’s
Monday, March 2, is the deadline
for filing for places on the White-
wright City Commission for the elec-
tion to be held April 2. Present law
requires that candidates must file for
city offices 30 days in advance of the
election.
The terms of both the city com-’
missioners, Jack Meador and Charles
E. Ayres, expire this year. Both are
expected to run for reelection.
A MAN from the other world (out-
side Texas) asked us not long ago:
"“Why do all Texans carry pocket
knives?” At the time we couldn’t
think of the answer to that one, but
a story appearing in the papers this
week set us straight. It seems that
an Australian cowboy was bitten by
a poisonous snake and he carried no
knife with which to open a wound at
the point of snake bite and let the
poison out. So he placed the muzzle
of a gun against the bite and pulled
the trigger, blowing off part of his
arm. Doctors said it saved his life.
But here in Texas we all carry pocket
knives so that when or if we are bit-
ten by a snake, we can cut open our
arm instead of blowing part of it off
with a gun.
(Denison Herald)
Individual contracts are expected
to be placed in the mail next week
that will bind the Grayson County
Commissioners Court to pay $10,000
to 12 county towns for rural fire pro-
tection for 1957, Judge J. N. Dickson
announced today.
The announcement came after as-
sistant county attorney Steve David-
chik revealed he could Rave the con-
racts in the county commissioners
court “within 48 hours.”
The participating towns, however,
will not get an advance payment as
hoped, but must wait until the end
of 1957 to get paid on a pro-rata ba-
sis depending upon the number of
calls they make.
Davidchik said the ruling handed
down by Attorney General’s office
forbids any advance of funds and al-
so rules out any community that is
not an incorporated town or city. “It
is based on similar payments being
made in other counties in Texas,”
said Davidchik. “Dallas County, for
example, has county funds made
available for rural fire protection.”
The towns had hoped to get a $650
lump sum in advance and then have
the $2,200 balance divided up on the
basis of the number of calls made at
the end of the year. Davidchik said
the attorney general’s ruling knocked
this out.
The way it is set up, each partic-
ipating town must have an auditor
make monthly certification of the
number of rural fire calls made and
they, in turn, must be filed with the
county commissioner’s court. At the
end of the year, the calls of all the
towns will be totaled and then the to-
tal divided into the $10,000 to set the
pro-rata rate per call. This figure
then will be multiplied by the num-
ber of calls made by each town to de-
termine what share of the $10,000
each will receive.
Judge Dickson said since the towns
must enter into contract with . the
county to guarantee the fire protec-
tion, the contracts will be mailed to
each mayor in order that the city
commissioners can meet and pass the
necessary emergency resolution that
will bind them to the contract. “This
is the legal procedure necessary for
communities to deal with individual
towns,” Judge Dickson added.
Davidchik’s report that eliminated
non-incorporated areas, ruled out the
last hope of the Layne community of
getting a share.
Since the last action taken on the
issue, both Denison and Sherman city
commissions have agreed to partici-
pate in the program “for the benefit
of the county although it will, be a
costly participation to the towns.”
Towns participating are Denison,
Sherman, Bells, Whitewright, Tom
Bean, Howe, Van Alstyne, Pottsboro,
Whitesboro, Gunter, Collinsville and
Sadler.
ONE OF the candidates for United
States Senator sends us a press re-
lease in which he says that a poll of
2,246 Democratic leaders in all parts
of Texas gave him 89 percent to six
percent for one other opponent, four
percent for another, and one-half of
one percent for each of two others in
the race. Well, if that’s the way it
stands, all this hullabaloo about a
runoff election is unnecessary, since
this candidate will get an over-
whelming majority in the first elec-
tion. The first thing a candidate for
a major office does is hire a public
relations outfit to publicize his cam-
pagn. More often than not these
press agents draw on their imagina-
tion instead of telling the truth in
their press releases.
J. A. ALSUP
Funeral service was held Tuesday
at 2 p. m. in Earnheart Funeral
Chapel for J. A. (Penny) Alsup, 81, a
retired railroad employe, who died
Sunday at 10:20 a. m. in a Denison
hospital after an illness of three
weeks.
Rev. Houston Garner of Kentucky-
town, Baptist minister, and Rev. Guy
B. Duff of Denison, retired Presby-
terian minister, officiated. Burial
was in Cedarlawn 'Memorial Park.
Pallbearers were Bill Wolfe, Ken-
neth Jett, Thurman Pool, Donald
Wolfe, Joe Wolfe, and Freddie Wolfe,
all grandsons of Mr. Alsup.
Mr. Alsup was born in Giles Coun-
ty, Tenn., May 19, 1875, a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Anderson
Alsup. His wife was the former Miss
Daisy Vance Williford. He came to
Texas at the age of five years and to
He was a
member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors are one son, Gilbert Al-
sup of Paris; four daughters, Mrs.
Lena Wolfe and Mrs. S. O. Pool, both
of Whitewright; Mrs. Vera Hall of
Dallas, and Mrs. Bessie Hayes of
Pasadena, Calif.; one brother, G. M.
Alsup of Maud; 12 grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
4-H Clubs throughout Grayson
County are making plans for the ac-
tivities of 4-H Club Week March 2 to
9. The week has been proclaimed by
County Judge J. N. Dickson.
The various clubs in the county are
planning a multitude of activities.
Climaxing the week’s activites will
be a weiner roast and program near
the power house on Lake Texoma,
with about a thousand boys and girls
expected to attend. Robert Lynch
and Miss Alice Guthrie, assistant
county extension service agents, are
in charge of 4-H activities.
The Whitewright 4-H Club will
observe 4-H Week with a display of
project material and a bake sale.
4-H emblems were made last Satur-
day in the home of Mrs. W. M. Mc-
Lauchlin to be sold and worn by the
members. Those working on the em-
blems were Alpha McLauchlin, Pat
Coggins and Anna Franklin. The
junior leaders who assisted were
Bobbie Kay Cawthon and Donna
Franklin. Adult helpers were Mrs.
McLauchlin, Mrs. Bob Cawthon and
Mrs. Louis Franklin.
The observance will
through March 23 to include
Dairy Foods Contest at Sherman
a program for the Rotary Club.
Rainfall in Whiewright during
January and February totaled 4.47
inches as measured on the city’s of-
ficial gauge by Ernest Smith. It
rained 2.05 inches in January and
2.42 in February.
This compared with a January-
February total in 1956 of 4.76 inches.
There’s a big difference in total
rainfall for the fall and winter
months this year and the preceding
year, however. In October, Novem-
ber, December, January and Febru-
ary this winter it has rained 12.71
inches. For the same period the pre-
ceding winter it rained only 6.09
inches for those same months, less
than half as much. Then in March
last year it rained only one-half inch,
to give an October through March to-
total of only 6.59 inches.
Here are the 1955 and 1956 totals
as furnished by Mr. Smith:
1955
BUYING A CAR?
CHOOSE FROM 300
DETROIT, Mich. — Ward’s Auto-
motive Reports says in its current
isue that there are exactly 300 indi-
vidually-priced 1957 cars on the mar-
ket today.
This, the trade publication says,
compares with 272 different cars at
the start of the 1956 model year and
260 at the start of the 1955 model
period.
Ward’s puts the “average factory
price” of the standard equipped 1957
model at introduction time at $2,749.
The Whitewright schools will hold
open house all next week in observ-
ance of Public Schools Week in Tex-
as, it is announced by Supt. S. T.
Montgomery Jr. There will be a dis-
play of work done by grade school
students for visitors to inspect, and
the public is invited to take advan-
tage of this annual opportunity to
observe their schools in action.
J. W. Edgar, Commissioner of Edu-»
cation, has issued the
statement in connection
observance:
“Please let me take this opportu-
nity to congratulate the Texas Com-
mittee on Public Schools Week for
the continuing success of this annual
visitation program. The figures com-
piled by the Committee reflect the
fact that a great deal of work is be-
ing done by a great many people to
make this the outstanding observ-
ance that it is.
“School improvement programs in
Texas are administered with the aim
that local communities should be. en-
abled to make their own improve-
ments with a minimum of interfer-
ence. The Texas Education Agency
has' many responsibilities established
and required by law, but most of the
responsibilities for school adminis-
tration rest upon the local school of-
ficials.
“The advice and suggestions of in-
dividual citizens and organizations of
citizens are needed continuously if
public officials, whether local or state,
are to carry out their public service
responsibilities effectvely and effi-
ciently. Clear communication chan-
nels between professional educators
and other citizens are essential to
keeping the various educational pro-
grams up to date and directly respon-
sive to the will of the people.
“Texas Public Schools Week offers
a splendid opportunity for citizens to
visit their schools. If they become
acquainted with the schools and their
problems, they are more likely to en-
list themselves in efforts to improve
their schools. The education of our
young citizens remains the most
challenging of all public responsibil-
ites, and it deserves no less than the
active participation and support of
all of our citizens.”
Mrs. Bess Rothman, fashion con-
sultant for Volk Bros., Dallas, will be
the guest of the Whitewright Home-
making Department on Wednesday
March 6. At 1:00 p. m. she will give
a demonstration and talk in the High
School Gymnasium. Mrs. Rothman,
who has been a teacher in the John
Robert Powers School of Modeling,
will talk on a variety of subjects such
as “Make Up,” “Posture,” “Selecting
the Right Clothes” and other phases
of fashion which will be of interest
to all women and girls. Mrs. Earl
Blanton, teacher, says that the
Whitewright school is very fortunate
in securing Mrs. Rothman and would
like for the public to attend the meet-
ing along with the high school girls.
PLANS NOW are for conducting
the church census next Sunday—if
the weather is favorable—according
to Rev. J. W. Polk. The census has
been postponed twice because of
rain. If the weather is bad next
Sunday, then the census will be "con-
ducted on the first pretty Sunday. It
will begin with lunch at 12:30 p. m.
at the First Baptist Church.
THERE’S NO change in White-
wright’s 20 percent good fire record
credit for fire insurance policies writ-
ten on and after April 1, due to the
fact that no major fire insurance
losses were paid in 1956. However,
two major fires will become a part of
the record for next year, and it is ex-
pected that the good fire record cred-
it will be reduced for the period be-
ginning April 1, 1958. Several towns
in this area experienced changes for
this year in their credits. Bells’ cred-
it was increased from 15 to 20 per-
cent, Tom Bean’s credit was reduced
from 20 to 15 percent, Ector’s credit
was reduced from 5 percent to zero,
Savoy’s credit was cut from 25 to 20
percent, and.Trenton’s 5 percent pen-
alty remains unchanged. The amount
of credit or penalty is determined by
the insured fire losses over a five-
year period.
Monday: Bar-be-cued Pork on
Hamburger Buns, Potato Chips, To-
mato and Lettuce Salad, Hot Dough-
nuts.
Tuesday: Red Beans, Cabbage
Slaw, Hot Buns, Butter, Home-Made
Cake with Chocolate Icing.
Wednesday: Meat Loaf, Mashed
Potatoes, Green Beans, Spiced Apple
Rings, Ice Cream Sandwiches.
Thursday: Hot Dogs and Chili, Po-
tato Chips, Cookies.
Friday: Tuna Casserole, English
Peas, Potato Chips, Hot Doughnuts.
Last Legislature
Vote on Bribery in 1927
AUSTIN.—Arrest of a Texas leg-
islator on charges of consenting to ac-
cept a bribe recalls the last such com-
plaint—exactly 30 years ago.
As in the current case, charges
came in February—the second month
of the Legislature.
Two House members were
pelled after lengthy hearings.
The current charge against Rep. this community in 1951.
James E. Cox of Conroe was brought
by a representative of the naturo-
pathic physicians. The 1927 com-
plaint was brought by a lobbyist in-
terested in killing a public health bill.
In the 1927 case, a lobbyist claimed
he was told by a member of the
House that it would cost $1,000 to kill
a bill he had introduced.
The lobbyist informed Speaker
Robert Lee Bobbitt. The Governor
also was informed and the aid of
Texas Rangers was obtained.
A meeting was held in a room in
the Stephen F. Austin Hotel one eve-
ning with two legislators whom the
lobbyist claimed were working to-
gether. The lobbyist had $1,000 in
cash and the Rangers had made notes
of numbers on the bills.
The lobbyist said he left the room
in Austin with one of the House
members and they crossed the street
to the alley behind the Driskell Ho-
tel. There, in semi-darkness, $1,000
was passed to the legislator.
Rangers Frank Hamer and Torn
Hickman stepped up, arrested the
House member.
The legislator admitted that he
took the money but insisted it was a
legal fee and was so offered and ac-
cepted.
In defense before the House,
frameup was alleged. •
When the House prepared to vote
on expulsion, Speaker Bobbitt ad-
dressed members:
“I hope you will vote in fear of no
man, but in fear of God Almighty.”
Thp member who took the money
was expelled by a vote of 133 to 4.
His alleged partner in the deal was
unseated by a 119 to 14 vote.
Proposal Would
Require Legislators
To List Earnings
AUSTIN. — Representative Sadler
of Percilla wants all state represen-
tatives to take a lobbyist pledge with-
in the next three weeks.
Sadler filed with the chief clerk
of the House Monday a resolution
which would require that each House
member file a sworn statement by
March 15 “to show all income, gifts,
retainer fees, monies and anything of
value received.”
Members who were in the 54th
Legislature would file for the period
from Jan. 1, 1954, to Feb. 28, 1957.
New members would file for the pe-
riod from Jan. 1, 1956, to Feb. 28 of
this year.
Sadler would require that the
statements remain on file in the of-
fice of the secretary of state for two
years and be open for public inspec-
tion.
NEW EQUIPMENT totaling $257
in cost was purchased by the White-
wright Volunteer Fire Department at
its last meeting. The department
was presented with a new fog nozzle
this week by James (Sonny) Gosnell
in appreciation of the excellent work
the firemen did at a fire at O. K. Feed
Mill last month. The firemen are
considering as a long-range project
the purchase of a fire truck to use in
fighting rural fires.
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