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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1957
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 30
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New Yellow Corn
Hybrid Announced
Baptist Revival
At Pilot Grove
Lone Star Farmer
Degree at Ft. Worth
Earlier Dates For
Grayson County
Mass Chest X-Ray
Senate Whittles
Rights Bill Down
To Voter Guards
Stiffer Union
Demands, Employer
Resistance Is Seen
Southwest Income
Tax Take Hits Record
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away!
For those who have just about ev-
erything, there is a cultured pearl
still in its oyster, sold in a can.
Revival services will begin Friday,
July 26, and continue through Aug. 3
at the Enterprise Baptist Church,
with the pastor, Rev. W. E. Thomas,
conducting.
Prayer service will be held each
day at 7:45 p. m., with the preaching
service to follow at 8:00.
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Records show that the first English
cook book, or collection of recipes,
made its appearance in 1498.
possible score is 77; the Navy aver-
age is 48.9.
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resident of the Whitewright
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Counties. Sent elsewhere, the price is $2.50 per year.
Asiatic Flu May
Break Out in Texas
WASHINGTON—Rep. Kean (R.-
N. J.) proposed today to increase and
extend social, security benefits and
raise to $4,800 the present $4,200
maximum wage base for making con-
tributions.
in
taxes
and
by
WASHINGTON. — The Navy has
raised its intelligence standards in an
effort to speed the discharge of more
than 15,000 sailors.
The Navy’s action was prompted by
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wil-
son’s recent order reducing the man-
power strength of the armed forces
by 100,000. To comply with the di-
rective, the Navy will have to cut
15,900 from its roles by next Jan-
uary.
Navy Secretary Thomas S. Gates
Jr. told Navy commanders to. force
the discharge of enlisted men with
scores of less than 42 on the Navy’s
“general classification test.” Highest
WACO.—The voice that tells Wa-
coans they forgot to dial the new pre-
fix letters to their phone numbers
began screeching at them Tuesday.
Wacoans put such a heavy load on
the recording that automatically tells
the negligent to start over again that
it wore out and transmitted only gib-
berish.
The phone company quickly re-
placed it.
at Denison
death June
graduate of
member of
Church.
Surviving
LOKEY EDWARDS, local manager
for Community Public Service Co.,
received an insertion order for an ad-
vertisement to appear ifi The Sun this
week warning people not to use pen-
nies in fuse boxes, but the ad mat
failed to arrive in time. People ought
to be well enough informed in this
enlightened age not to jeopardize
their property and their lives by re-
sorting to the use of pennies or other
devices to get the current back on
when a fuse blows and a new fuse
isn’t on hand. A fuse is a safety de-
vice, just like a pop-off valve on a
steam boiler, and should never have
its safety feature cancelled out by
any means. Fires can be started that
way, as has been proved many times.
When an electric circuit is overload-
ed, either by too much load on the
line, or a direct short, the little piece
of metal in the fuse melts and shuts
off the current. If the fuse weren’t
there, the electric wires would get
hot and somewhere along the line a
blaze would be started. It might be
in the middle of the night that this
occurred, and your house could burn
down with you asleep in it. Houses
wired for the use of circuit breakers,
of course, have no fuses and you can’t
use pennies on circuit breakers.
A revival meeting began at the Pi-
lot Grove Baptist Church yesterday
and will continue through August 4,
it is announced by Rev. James W.
Harper, pastor. Mr. Harper is lead-
ing the singing for the meeting.
Rev. Charles T. Jones of Logans-
port, La., is the evangelist for the
meeting.
Morning services are being held at
9:00 o’clock, and night services at
8:00 o’clock. The public is invited to
all services.
Barry Anderson, Jimmy Bassett
and Bill McDowell of the White-
wright Future Farmer Chapter re-
ceived their Lone Star Farmer de-
grees at the State FFA convention at
Fort Worth last weekendi
The local chapter was designated
the eighth best chapter in Texas and
will be one of the chapters from this
state to attend the national FFA con-
vention in Kansas City, Mo., October
14-19. Joe Morgan, local vocational
agriculture teacher, Jim Clark, and
possibly others will attend, Mr. Mor-
gan said.
Bill McDowell, competing in the
state public speaking contest at the
convention, was awarded third place.
First place winner was Lewis Camp-
bell of Sulphur Springs. Mr. Morgan
said that McDowell and Campbell
were about on a par, but that the sec-
ond place winner was in his judg-
ment definitely inferior to McDowell.
In addition to the speaking the
contestants had to answer a number
of questions on grasses and soil ero-
sion. One of these questions, Morgan
said, was why the basic soil struc-
ture has remained about the same in
spite of years of erosion. “That was
one question we didn’t anticipate and
for which we had no answer,” he
said.
Mrs. Jack Lackey and Mr. and Mrs.
Alton McDowell attended the Friday
session of the convention.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
’but I will defend to the death your right to
■say it.”—Voltaire.
time
area,
died in a Muleshoe hospital July 20.
Mrs. Cooper was born in Knoxville,
Tenn., July 22, 1888, the daughter of
James H. and Nancy Key. She mar-
ried Clarence E. Cooper Sept. 18,
1912.
She moved to the Muleshoe area in
1953 where she resided at the time
of her death.
She is survived by her husband;
one son, J. D. .Cooper, Bovina, Tex.;
two daughters, Mrs. Beulah Coker,
Denison, and Mrs. R. G. Bennett,
Muleshoe; one brother, George Key,
Whitewright; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Johnson, Bonham, and Mrs. Eva
Chesher, Pampa; 17 grandchildren,
two great-grandchildren, and a num-
ber of nieces and nephews.
DALLAS.—The Internal Revenue
Service announced through its Dallas
offices Tuesday that federal tax col-
lections in Texas, Louisiana, Oklaho-
ma, Arkansas and New Mexico
reached a record high of $4,346,361,-
410 in the 1957 fiscal year ended
June 30.
That was $341,767,310.16, or more
than 8 % percent more than the
$4,004,382,051.25 collected in the 1956
fiscal year in the same states.
The largest increases were
withheld individual income
which rose by $142,695,120.38
excise taxes which increased
$100,078,480.52 over the take for the
1956 fiscal year.
The service said the take was at-
tributable to an increase in total
payments of wages and salaries by
Southwestern employers.
WASHINGTON.—Some key unions
are hatching a batch of plans that are
likely to bring a noisy end to an era
of relative labor peace.
A possible upshot: More major
strikes in coming months. Whether
or not these materialize, it seems cer-
tain there’ll be harder and often
more bitter bargaining by unions and
employers.
The core of labor’s plans is a set of
stiff wage demands to be served on
employers the rest of this year and
in 1958. Some other,issues—shorter
hours, for example—also will create
controversy.
The State Health Department’s
mobile X-ray unit will bring its an-
nual tuberculosis offensive to White-
wright Aug. 30, earlier than ever be-
fore. The unit is scheduled to be in
operation here from 8:30 a. m. till
5:30 p. m.
Whitewright will be the first town
in the county visited by the unit. Van
Alstyne, Whitesboro, Sherman, Gun-
ter and Denison will be visited in or-
der.
The schedule for this year was an-
nounced at a meeting of the board of
the North Grayson Tuberculosis As-
sociation in Denison Tuesday after-
noon.
WASHINGTON. — The Army cut
its draft calls to the lowest level in
more than a year Tuesday, but has-
tened to say this did not mean the
draft would be ended in the near fu-
ture.
The cut in the manpower levy for
next September — 8,000 men, com-
pared with 11,000 in the August call
—is in line with the 100,000-man re-
duction of the armed forces an-
nounced by the Pentagon a week ago.
The Army’s portion of the cut is 50,-
000.
Not since April 1956 has a selective
service quota been so low. From
January through April of that year
the monthly quotas were 6,000.
The Defense Department
nouncement of the September call
said the 3,000 reduction from
August quota reflected the decision
to cut manpower in all the services.
But the Pentagon said:
“Draft calls for the Army will not
be eliminated in the near future be-
cause of the reduced strength.”
Some of the cut in strength will be
brought about by more selective
choosing of personnel, the announce-
ment said.
are one brother, Robert
H. May of Whitewright; two sisters,
Mrs. T. J. Lilley of Whitewright and
Mrs. C. C. Hill of San Antonio, and
several nieces and nephews.
Attending the funeral from out of
town were Mrs. Philip May Jr. and
children, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Truett,
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Lilley, Mrs. Net-
tie Groves, Mrs. Ada Posey, Mrs.
Maybelle Howard, Jim May, Mrs.
George May and Mrs. Bob Overturf,
all of Denison; Mrs. Walter Keeling,
Mrs. R. R. Waldo, Mrs. Printess
Compton, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dos-
sey, R. T. Pennington, Mrs. Sewell
McKinney, Mrs. Earl Stone, Mrs.
Marion Felker, Mrs. Lillian McSped-
den, Mrs. Doll Davis, Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Kirkpatrick, Mr. and Mrs. Gomer
May and Mr. and Mrs. Kirk May, all
of Sherman; Mrs. Jack Morton of
Irving; Mrs. Virgil Biggers and Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Biggers of Wewoka,
Okla.; Mrs. Joe Clark and Mrs. Rob-
ert Grant of Bonham; Mrs. Guy Dil-
lon of Durant, Okla.; Mrs. D. Leon
Harp of San Antonio; Mr. and Mrs. J.
Alton May, Mr. and Mrs. Fender May
and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Merikle,
all of Jacksonville; Mrs. Curlee
Cummings of Lubbock; Mrs. J. W.
Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas
May and Tommy May of Dallas; Mr.
and Mrs. Frank White and daughter
of Paris, and Mr. and Mrs.
Pritchard of Bells.
COLLEGE STATION. — A new
early-maturing hybrid which pro-
duces good yields under conditions of
low moisture and high temperature
has been developed in the corn im-
provement program of the Texas Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station.
This new hybrid, Texas 38, is a
yellow-cross with ears slightly small-
er than other Texas hybrids,
plants are usually about two
shorter than the other hybrid
the ears are borne one to two
lower. Because of it’s earliness,
Texas 38 escapes some insect damage
suffered by medium-maturing hy-
brids now grown, according to a leaf-
let just released by the Experiment
Station.
This leaflet, “Texas 38—a Hybrid
for Droughty Conditions,” gives a
full description and background on
the new hybrid. It also gives in-
formation on agronomic characteris-
tics and recommended uses as well as
comparative yields of Texas 38 and
the other hybrids.
So, find out how Texas 38 can help
you. Seed will be available in 1958.
Copies of this leaflet are available
from the Agricultural Information
Office, College Station, Texas. Just
ask for L-345.
Farm-toMarket highway No. 1281,
from Whitewright to Tom Bean, is
48 percent complete, it was an-
nounced this week by State Highway
Engineer DeWitt C. Greer. The road
intersects Highway 69 at the south
edge of town.
R. W. McKinney is the contractor
on the road on which work started
last winter. Due to bad weather,
only 67 working days had been used
on the 5.29-mile stretch when the re-
port was made.
McKinney has. two other contracts
on FM 1281. The 0.234-mile stretch
from Whitewright to the Fannin
county line, is 10 percent completed.
The 7.728-mile portion from the
Grayson-Fannin County line east to
Randolph, is 47 percent complete.
This is the old Cotton Belt Rail-
road route, with the road following
the old rightofway most of the way
from Tom Bean to Whitewright, then
skirting Whitewright on the south
and running south of the railroad
rightofway for a considerable dis-
tance before again joining it.
The Highway Commission Tuesday
awarded a contract for 14 miles of
grading, structures, base and surfac-
ing of the east end of this highway,
from the Fannin-Hunt County line
to Commerce. This leaves only two
strips of the route on which contracts
have not been let. One is about 14
miles from Randolph to the Fannin-
Hunt County line, and the other is a
10-mile stretch from Tom Bean to
Sherman.
The people of this area are more
concerned with the Tom Bean-Sher-
man strip, completion of which will
provide a shorter route to Sherman
for Whitewright and will give Tom
Bean a badly needed outlet.
"CHARLIE WALDROP of Avinger
•spent the weekend with his son, Rev.
Fred Waldrop, and family. Mr. Wal-
drop lived in the Pilot Grove com-
munity some 50 years ago, leaving
in 1906, he said, because of excessive
lainfall the preceding year which
-mined most of the drops and made
roads impassable even for four-mule
•wagons in this area. “I decided that
I would swap this area’s mud for East
Texas sand, so I moved to Avinger
and have lived there ever since,” he
•added. He said that in Whitewright
there was a mudhole on Main street,
in front of what is now the City Hall,
which was so bad that wagons would
get stuck and the owners would have
"to get Taylor Prigmore’s hous.e-mov-
ing equipment to get them out. And
that was the “good old days” we hear
about.
MRS. MINNIE PATTERSON
Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie
May Patterson, 69, were held at 3:30
p. m. Wednesday at Earnheart Chap-
el, conducted by Rev. C. C. Dooley,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, and Rev. Fred Waldrop, pas-
tor of the First Baptist Church.
Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Gomer May and
Kirk May of Sherman, Joe Thomas
May of Dallas, J. Alton May and Fen-
der May of Jacksonville, and Grover
Stuteville of Whitewright.
Mrs. Patterson died at 3:30 a. m.
Tuesday at the home of her brother-
in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Lilley, after an illness of more than
three years.
Born March 20, 1888, on a farm
north of Whitewright, Mrs. Patterson
was the daughter of Joe and Rosa
May, pioneer settlers of this area.
She was married to Ben Patterson of
Denison on Dec. 2, 1927, and she lived
until Mr. Patterson’s
26, 1932. She was a
Grayson College and a
the First Presbyterian
SHERMAN. — Grayson County’s
overall road program has been ap-
proveld by the State Highway Com-
mission, with recommendation that
the county make itself financially
able to purchase necessary right-of-
way for some 135 miles of new Farm
to Market Roads in the next 10 years.
A letter from the Highway Com-
mission to Jerome McKinney, chair-
man of the Grayson County road
committee was read to the Commis-
sioners Court Tuesday by Judge J. N.
Dickson who received a copy of the
letter.
The commission said that 10 miles
per year of Farm-to-Market road
would be built during the 10-year
period, with additional or new right-
of-way needed.
The plan, as submitted to the High-
way Commission in March, would
commit Grayson County to vote a
bond issue to cover needed right-of-
was as needed for an overall road
system, and to aid in building new,
all-weather county roads on school
bus and jnail routes.
The court also approved an order
to pay for moving of the present
bridge at the east end of Ray termi-
nal near Denison to a location on the
old Calamus road on Mill Creek, in
Precinct 2. The county bought the
bridge from the State of Texas for $1
and has agreed to a contract with a
Wichita Falls firm to move the bridge
intact for a stipulated price fo $79.80
per hour. Excavation work at the
new site is being made this week.
OTTO RUSSELL, local cattleman,
drove his cattle truck by Tuesday and
showed us a 15-year-old cow with
twin calves. A cow with twin calves
isn’t exactly rare, but the unusual
thing about this particular cow is
that she was one of a set of twins
born 15 years ago, and has dropped
13 calves up to the present, including
the set of twins. Half Brahma and
half Whiteface, the cow looks like
she’s good for many more years, in
spite of the fact that she has already
passed the average age for cows. Otto
said this cow upset the belief of some
cattlemen that twin calves would not
make good breeders. Her twin was a
bull, and Otto kept him for breeding
purposes for several years.
NOW THAT .the State Liquor Con-
trol boys have arrested and jailed an
Oklahoma truck driver for crossing
Denison Dam in order to more easily
service a tavern on the Oklahoma
side, maybe they ought to arrest the
engineers, conductors and brakemen
on trains hauling beer in tank cars
and other containers through “dry”
territory in Texas, to be consistent.
LET’S NOT go overboard on this
cigarette-lung cancer thing. Re-
member that cigarette taxes pay a
substantial portion of the federal and
state budgets. If everybody stops
smoking cigarettes, then comes the
question of who is going to make up
the tax loss. Then, too, if everybody
stops smoking cigarettes, just think
of how much revenue the doctors and
hospitals and undertakers will lose,
because everybody will be healthier
and live longer. These doctors and
hospitals and undertakers will not
make as much money, won’t pay the
government as much income tax, and
somebody will have to make up that
tax loss also. Too, think of how
many houses won’t get rebuilt by the
lumber people, for with nobody
smoking cigarettes there won’t be
nearly so many fires, and not nearly
so many houses to be rebuilt—a di-
rect loss to the building people, in-
cluding the carpenters, plumbers and
electricians. They won’t make as
much money, so there’ll be another
"tax loss. With fewer fires, insurance
rates would come down, resulting in
loss of revenue to insurance agents
and adjusters, and of course another
loss to the federal treasury in income
taxes. So, just -let the people keep on
sucking tobacco tar into their lungs,
cancer or no cancer, in order not to
disturb the economic status quo of
any of thosez enumerated above, to
say nothing about the tobacco people.
As for us, we’ll stick to cigars and/or
chewing tobacco. Not a pipe, for
they tell us pipe smokers are likely
to develop cancer of the mouth.
F. F. JOHNSON
F. F. Johnson, 80, a native of
Whitewright who had lived at Hed-
ley, hear Memphis, Texas, for 30
years, died Wednesday of last week
and was buried Thursday.
Surviving are five sons, three
daughters, two brothers, Jeff John-
son of Ardmore, Okla., and K. H.
Johnson of Phoenix, Ariz.; and two
sisters, Mrs. S. A. Couch and Mrs.
Laudie Frederick, both of Pauls Val-
ley, Okl^.
M. E. WINBURN JR.
Marcellus E. Winburn Jr., 54, a
Dallas real estate operator and for-
mer band-leader, died in a Dallas
hospital Wednesday morning of last
week. Funeral services were held at
Dallas Thursday and burial was at
Cumby.
Mr. Winburn toured the country
for 15 years, known as Bernie Mar-
cella and his band, and playing at
the leading hotels throughout the
Southwest.
He was the son of the late Mike
Winburn, resident of Whitewright
for about 25 years while he was local
service man for Lone Star Gas Com-
pany.
Surviving are his wife; a brother,
E. A. Winburn of Sulphur Springs; a
sister, Mrs. Ruth Clark of Oklahoma
City and a former resident of White-
wright; and his stepmother, Mrs. M.
E. Winburn Sr. of Whitewright.
HIGHER BENEFITS POSED
WASHINGTON.—President Eisen-
hower’s civil rights bill was stripped
in the Senate Wednesday of all its
enforcement powers except those
covering voting rights.
The vote on the crucial issue, com-
ing after five hours of debate, was
52-38.
It was a solid victory for South-
ern senators, who have argued for
weeks that the bill as it came from
the House would permit the federal
'government to force racial inte-
gration of the schools in their states
and impose other social changes.
Thirty-four Democrats and 18 Re-
publicans joined to adopt an amend-
ment by Senators Clinton Anderson
(Dem.) of New Mexico and Gerald .
Aiken (Rep.) of Vermont to elim-
inate almost all of section 3 from the
measure. Thirteen Northern Demo-
crats and 25 Republicans voted,
against the amendment.
Section 3 would have empowered,
the attorney general, on his own ini-
tiative, to seek federal court injunc-
tions against all kinds of civil rights
violations or threats of violations.
Persons flouting the injunctions
could be charged with contempt of
court and tried by federal judges
without a jury.
Northern supporters of the amend-
ment hailed the vote as diminishing
the chances of a Southern filibuster
against what’s left of the bill and in-
creasing the chances of passage.
“I think this vote makes the en-
actment of a workable civil rights
bill very likely,” Aiken said.
Some of those on the other side
declared knocking out section 3
would be followed by Southern as-
saults on other sections of the meas-
ure. Sen. Jacob Javits (Rep.) of
Ne\y York said Tuesday’s action
“leaves the bill in great jeopardy.”
“I hope those who are really for
civil rights will see the jeopardy of
losing one position after another and
rally to support the other provisions
of the house bill,” the New Yorker
told the Senate.
Still in the bill is authority for the
attorney general to seek injunctions
in voting rights cases. In addition,
persons who felt their right to vote
was being denied illegally could by-
pass state courts and go directly into
federal courts with petitions for re-
straining orders or demands for dam-
ages.
Also in the bill are provisions to
set up a bipartisan commission with
broad subpoena powers to investigate
the civil rights problems, and to
create a civil rights division in the
Justice Department.
But all the remaining provisions
are under attack in varying degrees,
and further efforts probably will be
made to soften the legislation.
Immediately after adoption of the
Anderson-Aiken amendment, major-
ity leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas
called up a jury trial amendment
proposed by Sen. Joseph O’Mahoney
of Wyoming. This was a surprise,
since supporters of the bill had ex-
pected to go to work next on amend-
ments to the commission part of the
bill.
had
to
outbreak of
AUSTIN.—The State Health De-
partment said Monday that it
warned county health officers
watch for a possible
Asiatic flu in Texas.
Dr. J. E. Peavy, chief epidemi-
ologist for the State Health Depart-
ment, said it had been confirmed that
a number of Texans were exposed to
the new flu virus at a church confer-
ence in Grinnell, Iowa, and at the
Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge,
Pa.
Peavy said he understood that sev-
eral of the Texas Boy Scouts were ill
when they returned a few days ago.
He said 350 to 500 Scouts had respir-
atory illnesses at Valley Forge and at
least two of the cases showed the
presence of the Asiatic flu.
He said several of the 19 Texans
returning from the Grinnell church
conference had “flu-like symptoms.”
Doctors throughout the state were
warned to watch for the new virus
and to send throat wash specimens
to the state health laboratory here as
soon as possible for diagnosis.
“We know that by calling a doctor
early and getting treatment started
the mortality rate is relatively low,”
Peavy said.
He also predicted that single cases
would develop in Texas as vacation-
ers return from other states where
cases have been reported.
“We do anticipate a possible out-
break later on,” Peavy said. “I’m
mighty afraid we might be into it be-
fore long but I sure hope not.”
Peavy said the present influenza
vaccines have no effect on the new
Asiatic strain of virus. However, re-
searchers have prepared a new vac-
cine and it is being tried experimen-
tally.
“They hope to have it ready in
commercial quantities by early fall
and we hope it is ready before there
is any major outbreak,” Peavy said.
Peavy said the symptoms of Asiatic
flu were the usual influenza symp-
toms—aches, fever, and a general
feeling of illness.
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