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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
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VOLUME 72, NUMBER 52
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1957
5 CENTS PER COPY
Deaths
of
THERE
is
is visiting her
Sun Honor Roll
Churches
Dallas Resident
Everybody reads the Want Ads.
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Send The Whitewright Sun for.
Name.
Street or Route.
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City.
] Renewal
Adding Machine Paper.—The Sun.
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Farm Bureaus OK
Two Cotton Plans
Frank Leahy To Be
Texas A&M Coach
Rudder Takes Job
With A&M College
Old-Age Payments
Topped hy Social
Security in Texas
Chosen to Study
Problems of Aged
Charlie Buchanans
Observe Anniversary
Personality Called
Big Driving Factor
HERE
and
Castration Termed
Sure Sex Offense
Cure In California
DEMOCRATS TO
HONOR HARRY
MEDICINE BY
REMOTE CONTROL
Mrs. Myrtle Menasco had as guests
Friday Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Fennell
and son of Fort Worth.
VETERANS DUE
1958 DIVIDEND
ON INSURANCE
PET OWNER GIVES
JAIL LOW RATING
not
the
on
They
two
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson had the
following Christmas guests: Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Hemphill, Miss Lea Reid
and Robert Hemphill of Dallas, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Pritchard and son Lee
of Bells, and Mr. and Mrs. David L.
Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Bowen and
children of Hale Center spent Christ-
mas with his father, O. C. Bowen.
Mrs. Nana Francis is visiting her
son and his family at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Cleveland are
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
E. Holloway, at Baytown.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris of Dal-
las spent Monday with their aunt,
Mrs. C. M. Fulton.
Mrs. J. B. King
children at Dallas.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Enclosed find check or money order for $.
KENTUCKYTOWN
BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday School—10:00 a. m.
Morning worship—11:00 a. m.
Training Union—6:30 p. m.
Evening worship—7:15 p. m.
$2.00
$2.50
We Heard
About...
and
who
Haute,
He has lived near his birth-
for seven
Mrs. H. G. Skipworth was struck |
by a car as she was crossing the
street at the First National Bank cor-
ner Saturday afternoon. After re-
ceiving first-aid treatment here, she
was taken to Community Hospital in
Sherman.
SOME OTHER nation may get a
sputnik to the moon first, but the
United States will be the first to get
there with foreign aid, observes the
Denison Press.
OUR WISH for this community for
the New Year is more sunshine and
less rain than we had in 1957.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Sunday School—10 a. m.
Preaching—11 a. m.
We hope to see you, if possible, in
church this last Sunday of the old
year.
The Ladies Aid added $100 to the
roof repair fund, and Tom Lilley
added another $50.• Others will give
to make the full amount, we are sure.
Thanks, and Happy New Year.—C.
C. Dooley.
A man can’t make a place for him-
self in the sun if he keeps taking ref-
uge under the family tree.
Subscription payments by or for
the following are acknowledged:
Aubrey Page
Miss Belle Huddleston
Jack Meador
Mrs. Callie Lane
Joe Reeves
Dr. H. V. Reeves
T. B. Autrey
Grover Stuteville
Miss Sallye Hamilton
Dr. John A. Ray
Mrs. John A. Ray
G. A. Henson
Mrs. H. R. Rhudy
Mrs. J. W. Mullins
Mai Jackson
T. L. Cowart
Jesse Bow
John E. Price
Bill Ireland
Walter Robbins
Mrs. Marvin Smith
T. M. Barnes
Cecil A. Bartley •
L. D. Selman
Mrs. Sarah Kilgroe
Manton N. Fain
C. N. Massey
Mrs. Forney Henry
Ross Booher
Mrs. Addie Sweatt
Mrs. E. R. Jansson
James B. Russell
Miss Dessie Reynolds
Mrs. Grady Sanders
Mrs. J. S. Whitworth
Mrs. Lee Wilborn
H. B. Smith
Mrs. Brice Davis
Virgil Mullins
Miss Lillian Baxter
Guy Stedham
T. L. Skipworth
Mrs. John Jarvis
Dick Walker
C. C. McLean
Mrs. C. B. Dixon
F. E. Douglas
Dr. Edwin O. May
Mrs. Pauline Nelms
Hilliard Wilson
Lloyd E. Alexander
Clyde Little
W. R. Vestal
Walter McDaniel
Mrs. L. W. Inman
Mrs. W. A. Phillips
Mrs. A. J. Schubert
J. P. Ownby
A. G. Bradley
Ralph Kaiser
M. R. Smith
N. R. Stillwell
Eugene Reeves
Robert H. King
Mrs. R. G. Hill
W. R. Wilson
Mrs. Jack Robbins
Noel Cox
Mrs. M. Belew
Mrs. Mary Pierce
L. F. Coffey
E. L. Boggess
A. L. Vandagriff
Mrs. Joe Ross
Warren Ross
J. E. Ross
Mrs. Clark Morgan
Mrs. Lillie Goodnight
Donald B. Johnson
C. R. Gibson
Mrs. Homer Caston
A. L. Harvey
Edgar Ayers
Mrs. Tom-JTord
OGDEN, Utah. — “My dog lives
better.”
That’s how Lew Hutchinson de-
scribed one night in Ogden city jail
after he was freed on $10 bail.
Hutchinson, 37, elected to “sit it
out” yesterday when he was sen-
tenced to pay $10 or spend five days
in jail because his Cocker Spaniel,
Jet, ran free without a leash.
Despite Hutchinson’s determina-
tion, he was freed when a friend,
who requested anonymity, posted
bail.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I. will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Holland and
daughters of Denton and Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Dickerman and daughters
of Sherman spent Christmas with
their parents and grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Holland.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Person-
ality plays an important part in the
way a driver handles his car, accord-
ing to Michigan State University’s
highway safety expert, Dr. William
A. Mann.
Mann told a group of Michigan
doctors that a person’s intellectual
and emotional characteristics deter-
mine whether he is a safe driver.
Many experienced drivers lack
important knowledge necessary for
safe driving,” he said. “They have
not learned to spot accident-prone
situations, they do not know the dis-
tance required to make a panic stop
and they handle their cars poorly in
a crisis situation.”
Mann said there are several types
of emotionally unacceptable drivers.
One is the hostile motorist who “isn’t
going to let anyone push his around,”
another type fears he will do some-
thing wrong.
Mrs. C. C. Martin and son of San
Antonio visited her grandmother,
Mrs. C. W. Pope, Sunday.
will be
Billner,
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Withrow
and children of Dallas, Miss Martha
Gail Key of Dallas and Mr. and Mrs.
George Key Jr. of Oklahoma spent
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. George
Key.
WASHINGTON. — Former Presi-
dent Truman will be honored Feb.
22 at the Democratic National Com-
mittee’s annual fund-raising dinner
here, the committee said Friday.
Democratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler said $100 contributors
would be guests of the committee at
the dinner.
AUSTIN. — Land Commissioner
Earl Rudder announced Saturday his
resignation from state office to be-
come vice president of A&M College
effective Feb. 1.
District Attorney Bill Allcorn of
Brownwood was named by Gov.
Price Daniel to fill the vacancy.
Rudder said he will be in charge
of the main college at A&M, work-
ing under President M. T. Harring-
ton.
AUSTIN. — Texas passed a mile-
stone in its public welfare programs
this year.
For the first time since the two
plans began operating in the same
area, the number of persons on fed-
eral social security rolls was greater
than the number on state old age as-
sistance rolls.
The Department of Public Wel-
fare’s annual report shows a star-
tling comparison of the volume of
the two systems which help persons
past 65 (the federal old age and sur-
vivors insurance dips to 62 for wom-
en).
On Jan. 1, 1948, for example, there
were only 34,327 persons drawing
federal social security in the amount
of $707,650 per month.
On Jan. 1, of this year there were
240,323 persons being paid at the rate
of $11,916,645 per month—a gain of
205,496 persons.
A Smaller Increase
Ovei’ the . same period, the number
of state old age assistance recipients
increased only from 211,321 to 222,-
538—14,217—and the amount rose
from $7,170,014 to $10,097,233.
Thus, in eight years, the social se-
curity list has switched from 176,494
behind the state roll to 14,785 ahead.
Of particular significance was the
jump in percentage of persons past
65 on social security rolls. It rose
from 8 percent at the start of 1949
to 35 percent at the start of this year.
And in 93 of the state’s 254 coun-
ties this year, social security bene-
ficiaries outnumbered state old age
pensioners.
AUSTIN.—Mrs. William B. Rug-
gles of Dallas was named today to a
special committee to study the prob-
lems of the aged.
Five appointments to the 15-mem-
ber committee were announced by__
Gov. Price Daniel. The other mem-
bers were named earlier by Lt. Gov.
Ben Ramsey and Speaker Waggoner
Carr. The committee was author-
ized by a concurrent resolution
adopted by the Legislature last
spring.
Mrs. Ruggles is chairman of the
division on aging of the Dallas Coun-
cil of Social Agencies and is also sec-
retary of the Texas Gerontological
Society.
Other Daniel Appointments to the
committee include Dr. Frederick
Dorsey of Houston, Dr. Jose T. Sep-
ulveda of San Antonio and Elmer
Lee Todd of Waco.
Daniel recommended that the com-
mittee study the over-all problems of
the aged, including health, rehabili-
tation, family relations, employment
and income, housing and other re-
lated fields.
Mrs. Jewel Booher and son
Dallas are visiting E. W. Booher.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Stanford of
Randlett, Okla., spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stanford.
An Eastern suburbanite and friend,
after a long evening of drinking in
town, located their car and started
immediately up a busy one-way street
against traffic. /
“Where we goin’ now, Joe?” asked
the friend.
“I dunno,” hiccuped the driver.
“But we’re sure late—everybody’s
cornin’ back!”
A woman’s way of meeting ex-
penses is to introduce them to her
husband.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Echols are
spending the holidays with Rev. and
Mrs. J. E. Montgomery at Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Earnheart and
children spent Sunday with her
mother at Commerce.
E. S. Cecil of Raymondville
visiting his sister, Mrs. J. M. Kidd.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School—10:00 a. m.
Morning worship—10:55 a. m.
Methodist Youth Fellowship—6:00
p. m.
Evening worship—7:00 p. m.
Woman’s Society of Christian
Service meets each first and third
Monday of each month.
Wesleyan Service Guild meets ev-
ery two weeks.
FORNEY HENRY
Forney Henry, 72, died Tuesday of
last week in a hospital at Slaton fol-
lowing a heart attack. Funeral serv-
ices were held at the Methodist
Church in Slaton last Thursday, and
burial was in Tech Memorial Park,
Lubbock.
Mr. Henry, a former resident of
the Whitewright community, had
lived at Slaton since 1916.
Surviving are his wife; three sons,
Clifford (Pat) Henry of Lubbock,
Willard Henry of Morton and Graf-
ton Henry of Las Cruces, N. M.; sev-
en grandchildren and one great-
grandchild.
Mrs. C. W. Pope spent Saturday
with her son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. George Gordon Pope,
at Bonham.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Slaughter
had as guests Christmas Day Mr. and
Mrs. Olan McKnight of Dallas, Mr.
and Mrs. Lyndon Slaughter of Den-
ison, and Mr. and Mrs. Erwin
Slaughter and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Slaughter, Mrs. O. T. Mc-
Knight and, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mc-
Knight of Whitewright.
The Whitewright Manufacturing
Co. Sportswear plant was closed
Tuesday and Wednesday for Christ-
mas holidays. Employees were pre-
sented with Christmas bonuses and
gift certificates, the individual
amounts depending upon the time of
service and salary earned. Mrs.
Ralph Bond is manager of the plant.
BEN W. HARVEY
Funeral services were held Mon-
day afternoon at Carson Cemetery
for Ben W. Harvey, 80, retired farm-
er who died at his Ector home Sat-
urday, Rev. M. E. Miller and Rev.
J. Aston Pollard conducted services.
Mr. Harvey was born July 20,
1877, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John Harvey. He had lived in Ector
for the last 30 yearss. On Dec. 24,
1898, he married Miss Rhoda Lam-
bert in Amity, Ark.
Surviving are his wife; five sons,
Oscar Harvey of Glenwood, Ark.,
Albert Harvey of Porterville, Calif.,
Jack Harvey of Amity, Ark., Frank
Harvey of Springfield, Ore., and
Henry Harvey of Savoy; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Annie Baker of McKinney
and Mrs. Ida Mae Lemmons of Ector;
two brothers, Hampton Harvey and
Jim Harvey, both of Amity; one sis-
ter, Mrs. Mary Burchfield of Savoy;
25 grandchildren and 12 great-
grandchildren.
Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Johnson are
visiting their son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, at
Midland.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—California’s
experimental program to cure sex
offenders by surgery has been 100
percent effective, Superior Court L.
N. Turrentine told a legislative com-
mittee yesterday.
He said that 130 court-approved
castration operations since 1938 have
ended the subjects’ various sex of-
fense problems.
Ten of the 130 men who have un-
dergone the surgery testified direct-
orly or by letter. Nine recommended
the surgical cure, but one said other
means should be tried on first of-
fenders. The 10th said he consented
to the surgery only to avoid impris-
onment and disapproved of it.
The committee is seeking to, de-
termine if more stringent sex of-
fense laws are needed.
WE WOULD have liked to skip
this issue of The Sun entirely and
enjoyed a week’s holiday, but this
wasn’t possible because of legal no-
tices. A lot of weekly newspapers
skip publication of the issue follow-
ing Christmas. Most of the country
daily newspapers skip the Christmas
Day issue, but the metropolitan
dailies and The Sun go right on giv-
ing their readers a paper for every
publication day in the year.
DES MOINES.—Don A. Springer,
Des Moines business man, was up-
stairs in bed with the flu. His wife
was entertaining a women’s group
downstairs. His medicine time
came, but he had none.
Not wanting to yell to his wife for
it, he reached a nearby telephone and
called his office. The office'worker
then called Mrs. Springer—and her
husband got his medicine on time.
IF THE Post Office Department
would do something to improve the
postal service over the country, may-
be there wouldn’t be any opposition
to a postage rate increase. A. L.
Harvey of Porterville, Calif., told us
this morning that he now gets his
Sun of Saturday of the week follow-
ing publication, whereas he used to
get it on Monday. Counting publi-
cation day, it used to take five days
to get The Sun from Whitewright to
Porterville, while now it takes 10
days, or twice as long.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Buchanan of
the Nobility community celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
this week, with their children and
their families present.
The Buchanans were married Dec.
29, 1907, at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Smith, in the
Grove Hill community north of
Leonard.
Mr. Buchanan was born in the Pi-
lot Grove community, the eldest of
eight children of the late Mr.
Mrs. W. D. (Bill) Buchanan,
came to Texas from Terre
Ind.
place all his life except
years spent at Slaton.
Mrs. Annie Smith Buchanan is the
eldest of 10 children of Mrs. Sher-
man Smith of Bonham, and the late
Mr. Smith. She was born in Old
Fort, N. C., and came to Texas with
her parents at the age of two years.
The Buchanans have three chil-
dren, Mrs. Velma Buchanan Cara-
way of McKinney, J. D. Buchanan of
San Pedro, Calif., and D. L. Buch-
anan of Trenton route one.
have four grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
The Buchanans are enjoying good
health at ages 72 and 73. He is still
actively engaged in farming.
Named To Post
Rudder was named to the Land
Commission post by Gov. Allan
Shivers in January 1955, after the
resignation of Bascom Giles. He was
elected to the post for a two-year
term in 1956.
Allcorn has served as district at-
torney at Brownwood since 1950, ex-
cept for a period in 1955 when he
served as special assistant attorney
general in charge of veterans land
prosecutions. He worked with local
district attorneys in conducting in-
vestigations and preparing trials of
Giles and others involved in the
scandals that shook the land program
three years ago.
Mrs. W. J. Martin had as guests
during the holidays Mr. and Mrs. C.
E. Glass and children and Buddy
Venters of Corpus Christi, M/Sgt.
and Mrs. -Lester Martin and children
of San Antonio, Miss Helen Glass of
Commerce and Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Medearis of Sherman.
MRS. BEULAH BILLNER
Mrs. Beulah Billner, 79, died at her
home here at 10:45 p. m. Tuesday
after an illness of several months.
Funeral services will be held at
Earnheart Chapel, conducted by Rev.
Fred Waldrop and Rev. C. C. Dooley.
Burial will be in Sunnyside Ceme-
tary at Savoy. Time of the funeral
had not been determined at press
hour today.
Pallbearers will be Cecil Ray
Hodges, W. J. Billner, James R.
Hodges, L. M. Cass, C. L. Williams
and Granvolee Hansard.
Mrs. Billner was born near Tren-
ton Dec. 25, 1878. She was married
to W. J. Billner May 31, 1896. He
died in 1938'. She was a member of
the Baptist Church.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Bessie Mae Pritchett of San Antonio
and Mrs. Elsie Hodges of Sherman;
one son, Oscar Billner of Sherman;
six grandchildren and six great-
grandchildren.
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
Sunday School—9:55 a. m.
Worship—10:55 a. m.
Training Union—6:00 p. m.
Evening worship—7:00 p. m.
Sunday night is students’ night.
College students and other young
people will be in charge of the pro-
gram. Mrs. Edgar Ayers is super-
visor.—Fred Waldrop.
DALLAS.—Two plans for legisla-
tion affecting cotton growers were
indorsed Friday by officers and di-
rectors of Farm Bureaus in 17 states.
Delegates meeting here said they
would like a 1958 law giving cotton
farmers an option on soil bank par-
ticipation and price supports. They
also proposed a long-range plan,
starting in 1959, to revamp govern-
ment participation in the cotton bus-
iness.
After two days of wrestling with
complex farm problems, the dele-
gates drafted recommendations for a
Jan. 20 meeting of American Farm
Bureau delegates. That group will
pass along to Congress its ideas on an
overall farm program.
The Dallas gathering voted to sup-
port a plan for 1958 which would
give cotton growers a choice of two
options:
1. Cotton farmers could keep their
present acreage allotments under the
soil bank and the present govern-
ment support prices.
2. Or, they could increase their
acreage 25 percent and take a price
support reduction to 70 percent of
parity.
WASHINGTON. — About 310,000
Texas veterans holding government
insurance policies will cut up a $17,-
000,000 dividend some time next
year, the Veterans Administration
has announced.
Regular annual dividends of $262
million will be paid to the 5,300,000
World War I and World War II GI
insurance policy-holders, VA' said.
The dividends will be paid as near
as possible to the anniversary date
of each policy in 1958. For instance,
if the policy was issued in January
1943, the dividend target date is next
January.
Average payment to 5,000,000
holders of World War II National
Service Life Insurance policies will
be $48. Generally speaking, the div-
idend will equal about 50 cents per
month for every $1,000 worth of in-
surance.
The estimated 300,000 holders of
War I U. S. Government Life Insur-
ance policies will receive average
payments of $73.
In all, the NSLI dividend will to-
tal $240 million, $30 million more
than this year’s regular dividend.
The USGLI total will be $22 million.
VA urged eligible policy-holders
who will share in the huge dividend
not to inquire in advance because
the resulting flood of mail might de-
lay the payments.
Holders of non-participating post-
Korea type GI insurance will
share in the dividends because
law makes no such provision
these policies.
Please check whether this subscription is: [J New
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Any address in Grayson or Fannin Counties-----
Elsewhere in the United States---
RAINFALL HERE Tuesday and
Tuesday night varied in different
parts of town. Ernest Smith said the
official gauge at the water plant re-
corded 1.15 inches. Our gauge, giv-
en to us last week by C. P. Dawson
of Dawson Butane Gas Co., recorded
1.6 inches. The rain was, general
■over this part of Texas, ranging from
one to two inches. Coming as it did
on Christmas Eve, it is possible that
Santa Claus got stuck in the mud
and was delayed so much that he
failed to get around to everybody
who was expecting him.
Mrs. Jack Farley honored Miss
Beverly Bassett, bride-elect of
Charles Herrera, with a bridge party
and linen shower Friday evening.
Mrs. Russell Summers made high
score and Mrs. Paul Ryon made sec-
ond high.
COLLEGE STATION. — Frank
Leahy, former head coach of the
Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, was
named as head coach and athletic di-
rector at Texas A&M College.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, Texas A&M
president, said formal signing of a
contract was expected by the end of
this week when Leahy gets out of St.
Anthony Hospital at Michigan City,
Ind.
Leahy broke his ankle in a fall
while carrying packages into
Long Beach, Ind., home. ~~
____> his
He was
taken to the hospital for X-rays and
remained for treatment.
He said a cast would be put on his
right leg from the foot to the knee.
Leahy, 49, was expected to report
to College Station soon after the first
of the year to take 'over the post
vacated by Paul. (Bear) Bryant, who
is returning to his alma mater, Ala-
bama.
Dr. Harrington said he called
Leahy and Leahy accepted the job.
His contract will call for a salary of
$16,000 a year plus rent free use of
a college-owned residence. The con-
tract is for three years.
Leahy left the Irish almost four
years ago after coaching them to an'
11-year record of 87 victories against
11 losses and 9 ties.
He quit on the advice of his phy-
sicians after his sixth undefeated
campaign because the pressures of
coaching had brought on severe
stomach trouble. He collapsed on
the sideline during one Notre Dame
game.
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