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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
5 CENTS PER COPY
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 31
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husband;
Name
MANY WHAT?
St. or Rt.
Zone
City.
State.
Ned Ayres To Have
Downtown Cafe
Marine Cpl. Clem
Assigned Embassy
Duty in Turkey
Tax Equalization
Election Saturday
McElroy Named
Defense Secretary
First Payment Cut,
Loan Rate Hiked
For FHA Homes
L. M. West Elected
Bells Superintendent
Examination For
Tom Bean Postmaster
Inclosed find check or money order for $....
Send The Whitewright Sun for one year to:
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN,
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
PRESIDENT GETS
BILL FOR DAM
AT SAN ANGELO
FOOD PRICES
RISE AGAIN
HERE
and
THERE
More than 4,706,017 acres of Texas
land are under irrigation.
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and
Subscription payments by or for
the following are acknowledged:
A. L. Biggerstaff
Mrs. John McAlester
Walter L. Bunch
E. A. Hansard
Mrs. Harold Doss
Bluch Wellington
P. L. Owen
Mrs. J. N. Fain
Mrs. W. M. Ingram
Ed Kent Jr.
E. P. McIver
Jesse Wallace
C. B. Robinson
James O. Huseman
Lillian Baxter
Mrs. R. L. Sears
W. W. Compton
Printess Compton
Oglesby Stinnett
Sp/2 S. D. Phillips
Johnnie Johnson
Clyde Brown
Mrs. Emmet Penn
Linton Savage
C. F. Collins Jr.
S. E. Rino
Mrs. Maggie Montgomery
Dan Hollingsworth
Verner Hodel
J. R. Pierce
E. Edens
Lola Scott
Dorothy B. Hamilton
M. Z. Jones
Lena Mae Gowdy
T. D. Claborn
Mrs. T. E. Sears
D. E. McCoy
A. N. McCoy
J. P. Williams
Otto Russell
Mai Jackson
Roy G. Blanton
J. H. Harvey
O. C. Slaughter
Ray F. Brown
Will Mitchell
Mrs. Frank Armstrong
W. T. Farrow
Dr. C. P. Johnson
Mrs. C. J. Waits
Mrs. John W. McMurry
Ira Kirkpatrick
Mrs. Ray Schlosser
Mrs. Howard Cook
W. A. Thurman
O. S. Bass
Dr. F. D. Layman
Mrs. Velmer Jo Freeman
Grady Stuteville
Mrs. C. W. Pope
Dr. Eugene Nelms
Ralph Bond
Rev. Newton V. Cole
Kelly B. Pierson
Mrs. Avon Dale Ricks
Burn Everheart
Mrs. Bob Cawthon
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BISBEE, Ariz.—The man who set
up the marquee lettering on the Ly-
ric Theatre for a double feature was
unable to fit the title of the picture,
“Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,’'
on one line, so he left it looking like
this:
Love is a Many Splendored
Edge of Hell Thing
WE HAVEN’T had that proverbial
cold day in August yet, but we did
have a cold night. Joe Meador said
his thermometer at his greenhouse
registered 62 degrees at 6:00 a. m.
Wednesday. That sets some sort of
record for the time of year, we are
told. It was cold enough to have ev-
erybody scrambling for some bed
cover between midnight and dawn,
and to turn on the bathroom heater
do shave and bathe by.
MRS. BEULAH ANDERSON
Mrs. Beulah Lockhart Anderson, 85
year old widow of the late Professor
Jim Anderson of the Grayson College
faculty, died Wednesday at the home
of her son, John L. Anderson, in Fort
Worth. She was a native of the
Whitewright community.
Funeral is to be held in Ft. Worth
this morning and burial will be at
Whitewright.
In addition to John L. Anderson,
survivors include two other sons, G.
N. Anderson of Dallas and J. F. An-
derson of Fort Worth; a daughter,
Mrs. J. B. Williams of Dallas, and five
grandchildren and four great-grand-
children.
especially interested to learn that six
Japs died in a cave-in. But getting
back to fillers and why most news-
papers use them. Given enough time
and men and money to pay the men,
any newspaper could make its news
columns fill out without the use of
fillers, especially if they “hopped”
most of the front-page stories to in-
side pages; meaning that the story
starts on the front page and ends on
an inside page—if you can find the
ending. The News has plenty of men
and money, but a lot of other papers
aren’t so fortunate. To these less for-
tunate, the filler is the cheapest way
to fill out a column when a few lines
are needed.
Subscription rate is $2.00 per year in Grayson and Fannin
Counties. Sent elsewhere, the price is $2.50 per year.
MRS. PAULINE BRADFORD
Mrs. Pauline Bradford, 86, widow
of the late D. C. H. Bradford died last
week at her home in Truth or Conse-
quences, N. M., and was buried there.
She was a member of the Church of
Christ. The Bradfords were prom-
inent citizens of Whitewright in the
early 1900s when Mr. Bradford op-
erated a general merchandise store
and also operated peddling wagons
here.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
John W. (Hattie) Everheart and Mrs. to permit families of moderate in-
Ethel Bolstad of Albuquerque, N. M., come to buy homes with small down
and Mrs. Percy House of Los Angeles, payments
Calif., and two sons, J. L. Bradford
of Ohio and R. H. Bradford of Utah.
Grayson
a son of
Pheobus.
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TRENT ROOT
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
DEBRA ANN BUNCH
Debra Ahn, three-week-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Rainey Bunch of
Houston, died Wednesday, according
to a message received here by the in-
fant’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
C. Vestal. Mrs. Bunch is the former
Zoe Vestal.
The infant is survived by her par-
ents and a brother, Morgan Bunch.
He had operated his
business in White-
He was a vet-
A LETTER from Rev. Newton V.
Cole, former pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church here and now pastor of
Bellevue Baptist Church at Colorado
Springs, Colo., reads as follows:
“Enclosed is check for renewal of
my subscription. We greatly enjoy
receiving The Sun, and are happy for
“the progress being made in that area.
The new roads especially should give
the town a boost. I also want to
commend you for the church page. It
is always good to read of the activ-
ities the churches are in, and how
much better the church is doing since
I left. The weather out here is typ-
ical of what one would expect. We
have no air-conditioner and do not
even use a fan; sleep under cover ev-
ery night. We have quite a few of
the folk from Whitewright to stop by
and see us, and we are always de-
lighted to have them. We still think
it is about the finest little town we
know.”
L. M. West of the Tom Bean school
faculty has been elected superintend-
ent of the Bells schools, succeeding
Stacy Newnan. Mr. Newman re-
signed the Bells post after serving
six years as superintendent, and has
accepted a position as junior high
school principal at Jefferson. Mrs.
Newman will teach in the Jefferson
grade school.
Mr. West formerly served as prin-
cipal of the Bells High School before
going to Tom Bean.
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NEW YORK. — Wholesale food
costs as measured by Dim & Brad-
street crept up this week to a new 26-
month high.
It was the sixth successive week of
increase. At $6.39, the Dun & Brad-
street wholesale food price index was
at its highest level since June 1955,
-and 4.8 percent higher than in the
like week last year.
The index represents the total cost
at wholesale of one pound each of 31
basic food items. Last week it stood
at $6.37.
Higher this week were wheat,
corn, rye, oats, hams, butter, milk,
cocoa, potatoes, steers and hogs.
Lower were flour, lard sugar, cof-
fee, cottonseed oil, eggs and lambs.
MEAT DEALERS TOLD
TO USE NEWSPAPERS
CHICAGO.—Newspaper advertis-
ing is the “bargain media” for food
store advertisers, says the National
Assn, of Retail Meat and Food Deal-
ers which urged retailers yesterday
to use newspapers “in order to build
your business on the firmest of foun-
dations.” '
“Newspaper advertising is a bar-
gain media that will return many
times its original investment.”
Buy your Printing in Whitewright.
Propose Closing
To Visit Local Club 01 Court House All
Day on Saturday
The Sun is in receipt of a letter
signed by all Grayson County offi-
cials except Sheriff Woody Blanton
in which it is proposed tcfolose the
county court house all day on Sat-
urday, with no business to be trans-
acted except by the Sheriff’s office.
The Sheriff’s force is on 24-hour duty
seven days a week.
The letter points out that Saturday
is a holiday for court house workers
in many Texas counties. The Gray-
son County court house has closed at
noon on Saturday for several years.
District Clerk S. V. Earnest told
The Sun that very little business is
transacted in the court house Satur-
day mornings, and that he didn’t
think closing all day would work any
hardship on the public.
However, before deciding to go
ahead with the Saturday closing
schedule, county officials say they
would like to hear from the people if
there are any who object. If no sub-
stantial opposition develops, the new
schedule will become effective on
Aug. 17.
Teacher—“Since pro means the
opposite of con, can you give me an
illustration of each?”
Student—“Progress and Congress.”
WASHINGTON.—Neil H. McElroy,
a super salesman of a soap firm for
the past 32 years, was named Wed-
nesday by President Eisenhower to
be secretary of defense.
The selection of McElroy, presi-
dent of Proctor & Gamble, to succeed
the retiring Charles E. Wilson, came
as no surprise. Eisenhower at his
morning news conference as much as
said the Cincinnati, Ohio, business-
man would get the job.
McElroy’s nomination was sent to
the Senate for confirmation even be-
fore Wilson’s resignation reached the
White House. But, as Eisenhower re-
called at his news conference, Wilson
had said long ago he was anxious to
step out of the Pentagon job he has
held for 4% years.
WRITING AN account of the death
of Mrs. D. C. H. Bradford this week
reminded us of the peddling wagons
Mr. Bradford used to operate out of
Whitewright in connection with his
.general merchandise store here and
which was located in the building
now occupied by the City of White-
wright as an office and fire station.
We can remember as a small boy
visiting our grandparents on their
farm southeast of town and watching
for the peddling wagon to come
through the pasture from the south
and pull up to the house. There our
Grandmother Doss would have a
quantity of butter and eggs for the
wagon to pick Up, and she would se-
lect items she needed from the varied
stock carried by the peddling wagon.
Tt had a regular schedule which it ob-
served religiously in good weather,
"but when the roads got muddy
enough, as they often did, the ped-
dling wagon, had to postpone its
weekly visit. This was always a big
disappointment to the farm folks, for
they didn’t go much in those days
and any visitor served to break the
zmonotony.
The Rotary Club of Whitewright
will be host August 9 to Trent Root,
Governor of the 581st District of Ro-
tary International, who is making his
annual official visit to each of the 50
Rotary Clubs in Northwest Texas. He
will address the local club and con-
fer with President John L. Bigger-
staff, Secretary Remus R. Summers
and committee chairmen on Rotary
administration and service activities.
Mr. Root is Vice-President and
Controller of Southern Methodist
University, in Dallas, and is a mem-
ber and Past President of the Rotary
Club of Dallas. He is former Dean
of the Division of Business Adminis-
tration at Texas Technological Col-
lege, Lubbock. He was a counter-
intelligence officer in World War II
and has been a member of the SMU
faculty since 1948.
Mr. Root was elected as a District
Governor of Rotary International for
the 1957-58 fiscal year at Rotary’s
48th Annual Convention in Lucerne,
Switzerland, last May. He is one of
1249 District Governors supervising
the activities of more than 9,500 Ro-
tary Clubs which have a membership
of 446,000 business and professional
executives in 102 countries through-
out the free world.
Wherever Rotary Clubs are located,
President Biggerstaff asserted in dis-
cussing the Governor’s visit, their ac-
tivities are similar to those of the Ro-
tary Club of Whitewright because
they are based on the same general
objectives—developing better under-
standing and fellowship among bus-
iness and professional men, promot-
ing community-betterment undertak-
ings, raising the standards of business
and professions, and fostering the ad-
vancement of good will, understand-
ing and peace among all the peoples
of the world.
Each year, this world-wide serv-
ice organization continues to grow in
numbers and in strength, President
Biggerstaff added. During the fiscal
year, 341 new Rotary Clubs were or-
ganized in 41 countries of North,
South, and Central America, Europe,
Asia, Africa and the Islands of the
Pacific, and six countries were added
to Rotary’s roster—Cambodia, French
Cameroon, French Equatorial Africa,
Guadeloupe, Liechtenstein and Ugan-
da.
WASHINGTON. — The Senate
passed Tuesday and sent to the White
House a bill authorizing a $32,000,-
000 dam and reservoir at San Angelo,
Texas.
The measure provides that about
$11,000,000 of the cost be repaid to
the government by operators of 10,000
acres to be irrigated from the reser-
voir.
Domestic water users at San An-
gelo would repay about $7,000,000 of
the cost.
Senate action Tuesday was accept-
ance of a House amendment increas-
ing the authorized cost from $30,000,-
000.
Construction can not be started
until Congress appropriates the mon-
ey.
A tax equalization and bond as-
sumption election will be held on
Saturday, Aug. 10, at the city elec-
tion room. The polls will be open
from 8:00 a. m. until 7:00 p. m.
Taxpayers in the Whitewright In-
dependent School District will vote
on the question of assuming the
bonded indebtedness of the Desert
School District applicable to the por-
tion of that district which has become
a part of the Whitewright district.
They will also vote on equalization of
taxes of the two districts.
While this election is a matter of
form, Supt. S. T. Montgomery Jr. of
the Whitewright schools said he
hoped a representative number of
voters of the district will take the
trouble to go to the polls on Satur-
day and cast their votes.
ANOTHER HAZARD has been
added at Lake Texoma. As if the
danger from drowning, snake bite,
traffic accidents, etc., weren’t enough,
the hazard of being shot at by Okla-
homa law officers has turned up. An
Oklahoma sheriff shot and killed a
23-year-old man Sunday afternoon
on the Oklahoma side of the lake be-
cause three men kept going in a boat
powered by a 15-horsepower motor
when the sheriff yelled to them to
come to shore. Anybody who has
ever operated even a 10-horse out-
board motor knows that, it makes so
much noise that a shout from a few
yards away couldn’t be heard. A
trigger-happy officer can be as dan-
gerous as a trigger-happy criminal.
PAUL CRUME devoted his “Big
D” column in the Dallas News Mon-
day to fillers, those little one, two,
three or four-line items used by most
newspapers to fill out a column. The
Dallas News is the only newspaper
we know of that does not use these
fillers, not many of them, at least.
Paul says well-edited newspapers do
hot have to use fillers, so we presume
.he means the News is the only well-
edited paper to be found. On that
same front page we found a filler of
a sort; it was a three-line reader for
a Dallas bank marked advertising.
Just above this filler was another
saying six Japanese coal miners died
in a cave-in. That must have been
a filler, since nobody we know is
IN WHITEWRIGHT Negroes have
been voting for many years, there-
fore the right-to-vote bill that has
been creating so much furor in Con-
gress doesn’t seem too important
here. Any Negro who wants to vote
in Whitewright has been able to do
so by paying a state and county poll
tax before Feb. 1. That same voting
qualification is applied to white vot-
ers. There is no discrimination
“whatever. A good many whites don’t
think voting is worth the $1.75 it
costs, and those who think that way
do not pay their poll taxes. The
same condition applies among the
Negroes. Whites and Negroes alike
become qualified voters in Texas
• without paying a poll tax the year
after they become 60 years old.
Whether they use their voting rights
is strictly up to the qualified voters,
whites and Negroes alike.
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Mrs. Roy McDaniel, 66, died in a
Denison hospital Monday. Funeral
services were held in Denison Wed-
nesday, and burial was in Fairview
Cemetery.
Born near Whitewright Oct. 21,
1890, Mrs. McDaniel was the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Collins.
She married Roy McDaniel on June
8, 1920, and they had lived at Deni-
son for the last 28 years.
Survivors include her husband;
two daughters, Mrs. Charles Denison
of Denison and Mrs. Robert L. Tay-
lor of West Palm Beach, Fla.; two
brothers, Tom Collins of Whitesboro
and Floyd Collins of Midland; a sis-
ter, Miss Georgia Collins of Denison,
and three grandchildren.
Yowell,
Robert Yowell, Nyal Yowell, Claude
Yowell, Grady Yowell
Yowell.
Mr. Pheobus died
at reasonable financing
costs,” Rains said. “The financing
tariff on these loans is now so heavy
on the consumer that I think the
Congress should restudy the whole
FHA program.”
The FHA said the new down pay-
ment schedule will be 3 percent on
the first $10,000; 15 percent on the
next $6,000, and 30 percent on
amounts over $16,000. For a home
costing $10,000, for example, the
minimum down payment will be
$300, which is $400 less than under
the old schedule. For $12,000 it will
be $600 down or $600 less than pre-
viously; for $15,000—$1,050 down or
$900 less; for $20,000—$2,400 down
or $800 less.
WASHINGTON. — In twin moves
to spur home buying among lower
and middle income families, the gov-
ernment cut almost in half the min-
imum down payment for FHA-in-
sured homes and boosted the interest
rate on FHA loans from 5 to 514
percent.
And new strict controls were:
clamped on the amount of discount—
or premium—which may be charged
borrowers on mortgage loans in-
sured by the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration (FHA) or the Veterans
Administration (VA).
At the same time, the Federal Na-
tional Mortgage Association (FNMA)
announced a new schedule of prices
at which it will buy FHA and VA
mortgages.
Albert M. Cole, housing and home
finance administration, said the new
housing regulations are aimed at
channeling “a larger share of avail-
able mortgage investment funds into
the financing of lower priced homes
without increasing inflationary pres-
sures in our economy.”
The new regulations
old and new housing.
The higher interest rate, new dis-
count regulations and FNMA sched-
ule went into effect on all loan ap-
plications received after Monday.
The lower down payment rate was
effective Tuesday.
The new FHA interest rate is ex-
pected to result in a related increase
in the open market rate on conven-
tional home mortgage loans, now
around 5% percent. Some lending
institutions already are reported an-
ticipating a 6 percent rate.
Reductions in down payments were
authorized by Congress in legislation
President Eisenhower signed on July
12, but it was left to FHA whether to
put them into partial or full effect.
The government decided to go all the
way. Congress also directed the
FHA and VA to impose “reasonable”1
discount regulations.
Monday’s announcement was gen-
erally applauded by building indus-
try spokesmen.
However, Rep. Albert Rains
(Dem.)' of Alabama, chairman of the
housing subcommittee of the House,'
said the FHA interest rate has now
been raised so high “there is a se-
rious question in my mind as to
whether the whole intent of the FHA
program is being nullified.
“The FHA program was designed
Marine Corporal Clarence L. Clem,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Clem of
Whitewright route three, has been as-
signed two years embassy duty at
Ankara, Turkey. He recently com-
pleted the Marine Security Guard
School at Washington, D. C.
The school, run by the Department
of State and Marine Corps, trains
Marines to protect American embas-
sies and consulates all over the world.
The U. S. Civil Service Commis-
sion has announced that an examina-
tion will be held to fill the office of
postmaster at Tom Bean.
Applications may be obtained from
the post office in Sherman where the
“J written tests will be held. The job
pays $3880 annually.
Keeping up with the Jonses isn’t
nearly as dangerous as trying to pass
them on a hill.
Ned Ayres has leased the old Pierce
cafe building from Lee Wilson and
will move his cafe from Highway 69
to the downtown location, Mr. Wilson
informed The Sun yesterday.
The building is now being remod-
eled by Mr. Wilson. Partitions are
being installed to provide a private
dining room, a kitchen, and the cafe
proper. Ceiling in the building had.
already been lowered since the build-
ing was purchased from Mrs. Tippie
Pierce of Sherman and Mrs. Mary
Pierce of Clovis, N. M., several
months ago by Mr. Wilson.
Dining room in the cafe will have
about the same floor space as the
Craig cafe had, Mr. Wilson said. It
will provide a meeting place for the
Rotary Club and for other organiza-
tions needing a dining room.
Mr. Wilson said he expects to have
the remodeling job completed by Aug.
26 for Mr. Ayres to begin moving his
equipment into the building. The
cafe will probably be in operation
within less than a week from that
date.
C. W. PHEOBUS
Funeral services for William Cleve-
land Pheobus, 72, were held at 2:30
p. m. Wednesday at Earnheart chapel
here, conducted by Gerald Cleveland,
Church of Christ minister. Burial
was in Vittitoe Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jack
at 4:50 a. m.
Tuesday at his home in Tom Beah
after a three-year illness.
Born Sept. 11, 1884, in
County, Mr. Pheobus was
John William and Nereis
He was married on May 1, 1907, at
Tom Bean to Miss Annie Hopper. He
was a retired farmer, and a member
of the Church of Christ.
Surviving are his wife, of Tom
Bean; a daughter, Mrs. Marion Pen-
nell of Tom Bean; two brothers,
Charlie Pheobus of Whitewright and
Clifford Pheobus of Tom Bean; four
grandchildren, four great-grandchil-
dren, and several nieces and neph-
ews.
F. C. LONG
Floyd Clyde Long, 61, was found
dead in his photographic studio here
last Thursday afternoon by friends
who entered the locked studio be-
cause he hadn’t been seen all day. He
died some time Wednesday night or
Thursday morning, of a heart attack.
He had been complaining of pains in
his chest.
Funeral services were held
Gainesville Sunday afternoon
burial was in Fairview Cemetery
there.
Mr. Long was born Sept. 7, 1895,
at Gainesville, and was married in
1921 to Miss Goldie Laningham. She
died in 1940.
photographic
wright for six years.
eran of World War I and a member
of the Baptist Church.
Survivors are a son, Charles A.
Long of Memphis, Tenn.; two broth-
ers, Walter Long of Gainesville and
Charles I. Long of San Angelo; three
sisters, Mrs. Charlotte McEwen of
Portola, Calif., Mrs. Evelyn Prine of
Azle and Mrs. G. G. McClaran of
Gainesville.
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