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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 11
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1957
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Schedule For 1957
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A league is about three miles.
Posi Office Asks
Rise Of Ceni On
Air, 1st Class Mail
School Trustee
Election April 6
Post Office To
Close at 5 P. M.
U. S. Mishap Cost
Near $10.8 Billion,
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Subscription rate is $2.00 per year in Grayson and Fannin
Counties. Sent elsewhere, the price is $2.50 per year.
MAN LYING ON HIGHWAY
JUST ANOTHER THUG
were
past
Bee’s wings vibrate 190 times
second.
Ships weigh less when traveling
east than when traveling west.
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CAMERON, Wis.—Glen Olson, 28,
told police he stopped his car when
he saw a man lying on the highway
as another man waved a flashlight.
Olson said the man with the flash-
light thrust a revolver at him and
took $25 from him. The other man
got up, and both fled in a car that
had been parked nearby.
The Statue of Liberty was erected
in 1886.
Grayson County
To Have Fall Fair Football Games
House Passes Buck
To Ike On Budget
The Parent-Teacher Association is
sponsoring a games tournament Mon-
day night, March 25, at the gymna-
sium, at 7:30 o’clock. There will be
a small admission charge.
Games will include forty-two and
dominoes for adults and games for
children.
Cake, candy, cold drinks and cof-
fee will be sold.
YOU’VE LET five months of the
six-month car inspection time slip by
without having your car inspected,
unless you are one of the 38 percent
of car owners in Grayson County who
have attended to this chore. April
15 is the deadline. After that date it
will be illegal to operate any motor
vehicle on Texas highways without
the 1957 inspection sticker. If you
get caught in the grand rush during
the latter part of the period, don’t
blame anybody but yourself.
AUSTIN.—Attorney General Wil-
son ruled Monday that it is not
against the law to buy an alcoholic
beverage in a wet area and drink it
in a dry area—within the legal hours,
of course.
There is no violation of the law, he
said in an official opinion, except if
_ the purchaser, having once completed
the trip from the wet area to the dry
area, further transports the beverage
to another place.
Then there is an illegal transporta-
tion of beverages.
CAR DEALER’S OUT TO
BREAK ELVIS’ RECORDS
ONLY TWO weeks remain in
which to register automobiles and
trucks before the April 1 deadline.
Residents of this area may attend to
this chore at the City Hall where
Harold Doss has a supply of auto and
truck plates.
MRS. CORA LEE PAYNE
Mrs. Cora Lee Hoard Payne, about
60 years old, died at her home in Dal-
las last weekend. Funeral services
were held in Dallas Monday morn-
ing, and burial was in Oak Hill Cem-
etery here Monday afternoon. Mrs.
Payne died alone at her home and her
body was found after she had been
dead a day or two.
Born in Whitewright, Mrs. Payne
was the daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John Hoard. She was mar-
ried to Jay Payne in 1918 and had
lived in Dallas since that time.
She isxsurvived by a daughter.
PTA To Have Game
Night on March 25
IF ANY of our West Texas readers
are wondering where their topsoil
went, we regret to report that part of
it arrived in Whitewright last night
and the remainder' appears to be
coming in now. When it’s all over,
Whitewright housewives will have a
clean-up job that will give them a
taste of what West Texas housewives
have most of the time.
The spread of the largest moose
antlers on record is 77 5/8 inches.
R. C. BURNETT
R. C. (Rash) • Burnett of Sudan,
formerly of this city, passed away
Feb. 26 at his home with a heart at-
tack. He was born in Fannin Coun-
ty in 1888 and married Nellie Maude
Means in 1908. ■ To this union were
born fifteen children of whom four-
teen survived and all were able to
attend the funeral. He is also sur-
vived by his wife, thirty-one grand-
children, eleven great-grandchildren,
two brothers and two sisters. He was
a brother of the late Mrs. Wade Rob-
bins. He has a host of friends and
several relatives here.
Funeral services were held in the
Church of Christ at Sudan. Rev.
Terry Blake officiated. Burial was
in Sudan Cemetery Friday at 3 p. m.
Relatives from here attending the
services were Mr. and Mrs. Hobart
Thrasher, Mrs. Gus Taylor, Virgil
Thornhill, Mary Lou Thrasher and
Mrs. Jimmie Anderson.
What is your Chamber of Com-
merce?
The answer is easy . . . It’s YOU!
The Chamber of Commerce is an
organization open to every citizen
and business firm in the community,
working together for a better com-
munity.
It is just as good or as bad as YOU
make it.
If you are not now an active mem-
ber of the Chamber of Commerce,
join today. Be a part of the progress
movement for this town.
In the Chamber of Commerce, the
PEOPLE do what th^y could not do
ALONE. Voluntary group action is
good. One man can’t build a town
. . . but all of the people working to-
gether CAN!
MORE VISITORS than usual
visited the Whitewright schools dur-
ing Texas Public School Week, it is
reported by Supt. S. T. Montgomery
Jr. This was in line wih a state-
wide trend, demonstrating that the
people are taking greater interest in
their schools.
THAT FREEZING weather last
week did not kill the local fruit crop.
At least, that is the opinion of S. P.
Jackson of Pilot Grove. Mr. Jack-
son said he examined his peach trees
and found that the open blooms were
damaged, but the buds were not. The
freeze did no damage to the grain
crop, which is looking good as the re-
sult of the good rains over the past
few months. Mr. Jackson recalled
that in 1955 we had a severe March
freeze which did kill the fruit crop
almost 100 percent in this area. But
the grain crop that year escaped and
turned out a record yield.
WOMEN WHO don’t like to work
have an out. The Arthritis and
Rheumatism Foundation has come up
with the finding that women who
overwork themselves doing their
household chores are more likely to
develop arthritis than their lazier sis-
ters. For the distaff side of the
household it boils down to this: Had
you rather have a spic-and-span
home of an arthritic wife?
3 Churches to Have
Temperance Speakers
Next Sunday
Three Whitewright churches will
join with other churches in the area
in observance of Civic Righteousness
Field Day in cooperation with the
Texas Alcohol-Narcotic organization
of Dallas, Sunday, March 17. This is
an inter-denominational organization
working under a board of directors
on which twenty different Texas de-
nominations are represented. Repre-
sentatives of the organization spoke
in 2,684 Texas churches last year.
Trained youth workers of the organ-
ization have spoken in at least one
high school in every county in Texas
to a total of 1,200,000 high school stu-
dents.
Mr. Allen Griswood will speak at
the First Presbyterian Church and
Rev. E. R. Kelley Jr. will speak at the
First Baptist Church at the morning
hours of worship. Mr. E. L. Robert-
son, superintendent of electrical op-
erations, Dallas Municipal Auditori-
um, will be the speaker at the First
Methodist Church.
The organization reports that tem-
perance interest is rising and that
three new counties, three large city
precincts and two smaller ones moved
over from the wet to the dry column
in 1956. The wet-dry map of Texas
now shows that there are 144 coun-
ties out of the 254 in Texas now dry,
81 others partly dry, and that only 29
are totally wet. The wets have not
succeeded in changing one foot of
Texas soil from dry to wet in three
years. There are now, as a result of
last year’s elections, 366,000 more
people in Texas living in dry terri-
tory than a year ago.
FRED WALDROP
C. C. DOOLEY
JOHN W. POLK
Eisenhower Signs
Mid East Doctrine
SHERMAN.—A fall fair, the first
in Grayson County in 10 years, has
been scheduled tentatively for the
first week in October.
The date was set Saturday at a
meeting of Chamber of Commerce
officials and the Texoma Exposition
and Livestock Association.
Bob Magers, manager of the east-
ern district, feed division of Quaker
Oats Co., was named show superin-
tendent.
Attending the meeting were W. T.
McKinney, chairman of the agricul-
tural division of the Sherman Cham-
ber of Commerce, and DeMack Kyle,
assistant manager of the Chamber of
Commerce; Henry Crutchfield, How-
ard Mathis and Glen Coffey. Gene
Teague, president of the Texoma
ELA, was unable to attend.
Plans are to hold the fair at Old
Settlers Park this fall under tents
and canopies, Magers said. It will be
a' complete fair and will include in
addition to livestock, departments for
crops, handicrafts, homemaking, can-
ning, youth, commercial, educational
and industrial exhibits.
WASHINGTON: — The Federal
Trade Commission has been conduct-
ing a secret investigation of coffee
prices for the past four months, it
was disclosed today.
FTC attorneys have been quietly
looking into operations on the New
York Coffee & Sugar Exchange and
have subpenaed 68 of “the principal
members of the exchange.”
This was revealed to a House Ap-
propriations Subcommittee by FCT
investigations Chief Harry A. Bab-
cock at a closed-door session March
4. Babcock’s testimony was made
public today but details of what ac-
tion the FTC intends to take were
stricken from the printed record.
Babcock said his responsibility was
to investigate “an alleged law viola-
tion.” He did not indicate what the
violation was or who was nvolved.
Thirsty Texans Get
Break From Wilson
AUSTIN.—There is no deadline for
participation in the Veterans’ Land
Program, Land Commissioner Earl
Rudded has announced.
“As long as a man is a Texas vet-
eran and money is available to oper-
ate the program,” Commissioner
Rudder added, “he may participate.
Of course, a veteran may use the pro-
gram only one time.”
Commissioner Rudder said that his
statement was prompted by numer-
ous inquiries that the Veterans’ Land
Board had received about a time
limit.
Two members of the Whitewright
Independent School District Board of
Trustees are to be elected at an elec-
tion to be held on April 6 at the City
Hall.
The terms of Earl Fields and Man-
uel Alexander expire this year. S.
T. Montgomery Jr. said yesterday
that Fields and Alexander had not
announced whether they would be
candidates for reelection.
R. C. Vestal has been appointed
ju<|ge of the election. Clerks assist-
ing him will be Mrs. Elmo Wallace
and Mrs. C. A. Massey.
At the same time and place there
will also be an election to name a
member of the County School Board.
Dick Walker of Whitewright is a
member of the board and will be a
candidate for reelection. He is now
serving out the unexpired term of M.
B. Hasty, who resigned last year.
TICKETS ARE being sold for the
Whitewright Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment’s firemen’s barbecue to be held
on Saturday, April 6, from 6:00 to
•9:00 p. m. Price for adults is $1.00
and for children 50 cents. Purpose of
the banquet is to raise funds with
which the department will buy need-
ed fire-fighting' equipment.
WASHINGTON.—The House Tues-
day checked back to President Eis-
enhower the distasteful task of cut-
ting his $71.8 billion budget.
After a political field day,
House passed a brief resolution, ‘219
to 178, asking Eisenhower “to indi-
cate the places and amounts in his
budget where he thinks substantial
reductions may best be made.”
The House had refused to send the
resolution back to committee, 214 to
185.
All the Texas Democrats present
voted for the resolution, and Rep.
Bruce Alger stuck with the Republi-
cans in.opposing it. Martin Dies and
Homer Thornberry were not re-
corded.
All efforts to amend the document
were defeated. Rep. Clare Hoffman
(Rep.) of Michigan wanted Speaker
Sam Rayburn directed to tell the
House where it might cut its own
spending. Rayburn asked unanimous
consent for withdrawal of the Hoff-
man amendment, but Hoffman
fused. The members shouted
down.
Republicans opposed the Demo-
cratic-inspired request for presiden-
tial help in budget reduction, claim-
ing it was up to Congress to decide
where cuts should be made.
The movement was pure politics,
GOP speakers said, in an effort to
make it appear the Democrats
for economy in spite of their
record of high spending.
Liquor, Feed Laws
Signed By Daniel
AUSTIN.—A bill to make it tough-
er to sell liquor and narcotics to pris-
on system inmates was signed Tues-
day by Governor Daniel.
The bill, by Senator Moffett of
Ciiillicothe, goes into effect immedi-
ately. It provides a minimum five-
year sentence and a maximum of 10
years for violation.
Daniel also signed a bill by Mof-
fett regulating manufacture and sale
of commercial feed. It is designed to
improve enforcement against adul-
teration and improper labeling,
has immediate effect.
BOSTON.—The total cost of all ac-
cidents in the United States last year
has been estimated at $10.8 billion.
This figure, said the Institute for
Safer Living:
Equals the net income of the na-
tion’s 135 largest railroads, utilities
and corporations.
Exceeds the total expenditure of
the U. S. Navy for 1955.
Would have clothed every man,
woman and child in the nation in
1956.
Would build
family homes.
Would build 300,000 school rooms.
Would build a new merchant fleet
with 200 ships the size of the Queen
Mary.
Would provide all three shots of
Salk vaccine for every person in the
world.
United States readiness to fight if
necessary to prevent the strategic
Middle East, with its vast oil re-
sources, from being taken over by
any “overt aggression” of Soviet
communism.
The action put Russia and Middle
Eastern countries with close Russian
connections—notably Egypt and Sy-
ria—on notice that the policy which
has been debated in Congress for two
months has now become the declared
purpose of the United States.
A new and far more active period
of American participation in Middle
Eastern affairs can thus be foreseen
—which is probably why the Soviets
have denounced the whole Ensen-
hower plan.
Recently the receipt of mail
Whitewright was changed so we now
receive practically all our mail in the
early morning hours, with the bal-
ance of mail for the day coming in
shortly after 9 a. m. So that every-
one could receive benefit from our
receiving mail so much earlier, the
mail is now worked earlier and de-
livered into post office boxes earlier.
Due to the fact that mail is now
worked earlier, and in line with the
general policy of the Post Office De-
partment, it now becomes practical
and necessary to close the service
windows at the Whitewright Post Of-
fice at 5 p. m. instead of the present
hour of 6 p. m.
This change in service window
hours is made after a careful study
of mail which is mailed and service
that is rendered after 5 p. m. The
small amount of business transacted
and the few pieces of mail posted aft-
er 5 bore out the fact that as the mail
was all worked earlier in the day, so
was all business transacted and mail
posted.
Tis change in time will be effec-
tive March 25, 1957. The local post
office encourages you each and ev-
eryone to mail earlier in the day so
all mail matter will move out of
Whitewright without delay.
JOHN BIGGERSTAFF
Postmaster
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A used car
dealer expects a lot of parents to
answer his newspaper advertisement
in which he offered to accept up to
10 Elvis Presley records and allow $5
per record against the purchase price
of any used auto.
The ad also said: “Special offer to
parents only—can wield the hammer
on all the records that are traded in.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
The Whitewright Tigers’ football
schedule for next season was an-
nounced this week by Coach S. T.
Montgomery Jr. There will be 10
games, beginning Sept. 13 and end-
ing Nov. 15. Five will be home
games, the visiting teams to be
Farmersville, Wylie, Princeton, Bells
and Anna.
Following is the schedule:
Sept. 13—Celeste, there.
Sept. 20—Leonard, there.
Sept. 27—Farmersville, here.
Oct. 4—Wylie, here.
Oct. 11—Princeton, here.
Oct. 18—Royse City, there.
Oct. 25—Bells, here.
Nov. 1—Frisco, there.
Nov. 8—Anna, here.
Nov. 15—Van Alstyne, there.
WASHINGTON.—The government
is preparing criminal prosecutions
against shady stock dealers who are
trading on a get-rich-quick mood in
the current stock market, it was dis-
closed today.
The information was contained in
testimony by J. Sinclair Armstrong,
chairman of the Securities & Ex-
change Commission, before a House
Appropriations Subcommittee Feb. 7.
The testimony was made public to-
day.
Armstrong said Americans are be-
coming suckers for phony stock deals
just as they were in the boom days
of the 1920s and there is a “tremen-
dous” increase in the amount of
fraud.
“There is an atmosphere in the
country today which I think has not
existed since 1928, that you can get
rich in the stock market,” Armstrong
testified. “People are in the mood to
be gullible . . . there have been great
losses sustained.”
He said the SEC has obtained a
number of injunctions against shady
stock dealers and is preparing crim-
inal cases against some. He did not
mention specific cases.
Vets Land Program
Has No Deadline
Monday: Barbecued Pork on Buns,
English Peas, Peach Salad, Dough-
nuts.
Tuesday: Pimiento-Cheese and
Ham Sandwiches, Potato Chips, Let-
tuce and Tomato Salad, Banana Pud-
ding.
Wednesday: Red Beans, Kraut and
Weiners, Peach Cobbler.
Thursday: Fish Sticks, Mashed Po-
tatoes, Pineapple Salad, Cookies, Ice
Cream.
Friday: Hot Dogs and Chili, Twis-
tees, Chilled Jello Salad, Doughnuts.
Car Inspection
Period Ends April 15
April 15, 1957, is the deadline for
the 1957 Motor Vehicle Inspection
Period in Texas, and according to H.
K. Caldwell, Inspector for the Motor
Vehicle Inspection Division of the
Texas Department of Public Safety
in this area only 38% of the ve-
hicles registered in Grayson County
have been inspected for the 1957 in-
spection period which started last
September 15.
The Department’s regulations for-
bid stations to make inspections dur-
ing wet or rainy weather, unless they
are equipped with brake testing
equipment, so all motorists are urged
to take advantage of every pretty day
and take their cars to a Motor Ve-
hicle Inspection Station and get a
safety check to avoid last minute
waiting lines on April 15.
OVER AT For Worth union pick-
ets are picketing a movie theatre,
their signs reading “This theatre un-
fair to motion picture operators.”
The theatre is a family-operated
affair, with K. L. Cremean running
the projector and his wife and his
parents assisting with the other work
in connection with the operation. The
union wants Cremean to stop oper-
ating his own projectors and hire a
union operator. He says the only
way the theatre can stay open is by
family operation. The union doesn’t
care whether or not the show goes
on, just so there is a union operator
at the projectors as long as it lasts.
DR. NORMAN Vincent Peale re-
cently reported the following con-
versation with a friend:
“Do you know, there is something
funny about this business of speaking
ill of other people? Point your fin-
ger at me.”
The friend did as he was told.
“Now,” continued Dr. Peale, “what
are your next three fingers doing?
They are pointing right back at you,
aren’t they? You see, I can’t help but
win, three to one.”
That’s a good trick to remember
when you want to avoid getting up-
set, says the Pepper Box. Remember
that for every finger pointing at you,
there are three pointing at whoever
is attacking you.
THE PEOPLE have it hi their pow-
power to stop inflation and establish
a stable dollar. All they have to do
is divert to savings some of the in-
come they are spending. It is as sim-
ple as that. If every wage and salary
earning family in the nation would
immediately start saving five percent
of the money they are now spending,
we’d see this price spiral come to an
end forthwith. Prices might even
start to come down a bit. Prices are
regulated by supply and demand, and
when demand declines prices follow.
Parrots have no wishbones.
. WASHINGTON.—The Administra-
tion abandoned a plan to put a five-
cent rate on all domestic letters and
instead asked Congress to boost both
airmal and first class rates by one
cent an ounce.
Under the proposal, one-cent in-
creases would raise the first class let-
ter rate to four cents an ounce, air-
; mail to seven cents, regular postcards
to three cents and air postcards to
five cents.
These and other boosts would bring
in about $527.5 million annually in
! extra revenue by 1961, Postmaster
General Summerfield said in a letter
to House Speaker Rayburn (D., Tex-
as). He did not forecast what the ef-
fect would be just for the next fiscal
year, starting July 1.
The President in his budget had
requested a $654 million postal rate
increase.
The new list of proposed postal
rates is similar to the Post Office De-
partment recommendation last year,
which was approved by the House
but got bogged down in a Senate
committee. That measure would
have produced an estimated $430 mil-
lion a year in added revenues.
Here are other rate increases
sought by the Post Office Depart-
ment:
Second Class Mail: A 15% increase
each year for four years, except for
newspapers publishing less than 5,000
copies. The minimum charge would
be boosted to 14-cent from %-cent
per piece.
The transient rate, for publications
mailed by other than publishers, or as
over-quota sample copies, would be
boosted from 2 cents for the first two
ounces and one cent for each addi-
tionel two ounces to 2 cents for the
first two ounces and 1.5 cents for each
additional two ounces.
The department would keep the
present minimum charge of one cent
per piece on controlled circulation
publications. However, it would in-
crease the weight charge to 12 cents
from 10 cents per pound.
Third Class Mail: A new piece rate
of three cents for the first two ounces
and 1.5 cents for each additional
ounce, except for books and catalogs.
The present rate is two cents for the
first two ounces and one cent for each
additional ounce.
For books and catalogs, the indi-
vidual piece rate of two cents for the
first two ounces would be raised to
three cents and the 1.5 cent charge on
each additional two ounces would be
replaced by a one cent charge on each
single ounce over the first two.
Third class matter mailed in bulk,
except books and catalogs, would be
increased from 14 cents per pound
and a 1.5 cent minimum per piece to
16 cents a pound and 2 cents mini-
mum per piece. Bulk mailing of
books and catalogs would carry a
minimum rate of two cents per piece
and 12 cents a pound, compared with
the present 10 cents and 1.5 cents
rate.
The department said the two-cent
minimum in both categories would
be increased to 2.5 cents on July 1,
Fourth Class: For books, 10 cents
on the first pound and five cents for
each additional pound, from the pres-
ent rate of eight cents and four cents,
respectively. Under the proposal,
the types of items entitled to the book
rate would be “substanially in-
creased.”
WASHINGTON. — With -a few
strokes of his pen, President Eisen-
hower legally established Saturday
one million single
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