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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
VOLUME 74, NUMBER 2
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Social Security io Take Bigger
THERE
Tom Boohers Mark
Golden Wedding
More Businesses
Totals 30.96
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New Tax Form
Deaths
Explained by IRS
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PTA Meet Jan. 13
To Feature Civil
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United Fund Total
Is $423 Millions
Rotarians Name
Most Courteous
Local Employes
Temperature Hit
A Low of 8 Degrees
Russian Rocket
Enters Sun Orbit
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and
“I do not agree with a word that you say.
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
Under Control
A girdle is a device to keep an un-
fortunate situation from spreading.
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Smoky Prospect
“And when you awoke to find your
wife pouring kerosene over you,” the
judge inquired, “what did you think
she intended doing to you?”
“I’m afraid, Your Honor,” the hus-
band ruefully replied, “that she was
trying to make a fuel of me.”
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CHANCES OF WIN
AT SOLITAIRE SLIM
of withholding Forms W-2
from their employers and
before April 15.
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TOY SEXY, INDECENT,
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Present
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July 2.56
August 1.03
September 2.34
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November 2.41
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Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
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A certain householder put a sign on
her doorbell reading: “To ring the
bell put a dime in the slot. Money
will not be returned to solicitors.”
Homes Will Gel
Advance Census
Repori Forms
1958 Rainfall Of
Bile From Checks This Month 30.96 Inches Was
7.57 Under Normal In Whitewright
New
Benefits
A NEW telephone directory for
Whitewright is going to press soon,
and if there is any change you want'
to' make in your listing you should
contact the telephone business office
at Denison at once. The new direc-
tory will be in use for 12 months.
NEW YORK.—Some of the most
difficult solitaire card games known
are Clock, Accordion, and Auld Lang
Syne (also known as Patience).
Experts figure that you have only
one chance in 100 games of winning
when playing these Ihree versions.
I two other difficult solitaire games
—Pyramid and Hit or Miss — the
player has one chance in 50 of win-
ning. All these games are played
with one deck of cards.
WE DON’T object to other newspa-
pers picking up items from The Sun
and publishing them, but we do wish
they would be more accurate in their
quotations. It wasn’t Virgil Moore’s
home that burned—it was the Virgil
Murphy home. It wasn’t the site of
the Murphy home that has seen the
destruction of some eight homes over
the past 25 years—it was the gen-
eral area,
straight.
Defense Program
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The monthly meeting of the White- 1
wright Parent-Teacher Association
will be held at the High School on
Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 7:30 p. m. #
Speaker for the meeting will be
Capt. Slaughterback of Perrin Air
Force Base. He will discuss civil de-
fense.
The public is invited to attend the
meeting.
NEW YORK. — Contributions
through united giving rang up a rec-
ord total of $423 millions in 1958, a
national fund-raising chief an-
nounced Sunday.
Carrol M. Shanks, national chair-
man of United Community Cam-
paigns of America, and president of
the Prudential Insurance Co. of
America, announced the record in a
year-end statement.
He said the money would be used
to support 27,500 national, state and
local health, welfare and recreation-
al services which annually aid more
than 72 % million persons.
Members of the Rotary Club at last
Friday’s meeting selected by ballot
the most courteous male and the most
courteous female employe of local
business organizations.
Winner of the men’s award was
Benny Simpson, employed by White-
wright Lumber Company. Mrs.
Ethel White, employed by Commu-
nity Public Service Company, was
winner of the women’s award. Both
will be guests of the club at its next
meeting.
Lloyd Alexander, program chair-
man for Friday’s meeting, presented
Mrs. Houston Darwin, and Mrs. Dar-
win then introduced the performers,
Karen and Bob Darwin, Jim, Jan
and Larry Billner, and Jane Bigger-
staff. The children entertained the
Rotarians with singing, tricks of
magic, and a skit based on the story
of Little Red Riding Hood and the
Wolf, with the moral of the story be-
ing that little girls are smarter than
they were in Little Red Riding
Hood’s time.
Bob McVeigh, who lives in the Red
Moore home on route one, was a
guest of W. E. Stanford.
WE SEE by the papers that today’s
kids are soft because they ride to
school and don’t get the exercise they
need to develop properly. Back in
the dim distant past when we were
growing up things were different. We
walked the half mile to school,
walked home for lunch, walked back
to school, then walked home after
school—rain, shine, sleet, or snow.
Everybody did it, and we didn’t con-
sider it any hardship. Today’s kids
have one thing in their favor, though.
They get a better-balanced diet than
past generations, with fresh vege-
tables and fruit the year around. We
got them in season. Maybe that
serves to offset the lack of exercise
of today’s youth.
A family dinner Sunday in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Booher
of the Ely community marked the
observance of their golden wedding
anniversary. They were married
Jan. 6, 1909, at Blue Ridge.
Nine of their children—Leon Booh-
er of Sherman, Mrs. L. K. Rush,
Ross Booher, Kenneth Booher, and
Mrs. Dorothy Kelly, all of Ector; Mrs.
M. L. Cotton and Billy Booher of
Dallas, and Mrs. Bill Schmidt and
W. A. (Pete) Booher of Anaheim,
Calif., attended the dinner. The 10th
child, Jim Booher, is in Germany
and was unable to attend.
HONG KONG.—Communist news-
papers in Hong Kong Saturday de-
nounced the hula hoop as a “sexy toy
born of the hula and the belly
dance.”
The newspapers criticized the hula
hoop fad which spread here from the
United States on grounds that it
causes “an indecent motion of the
body.”
Joke on the Auctioneer
Auctioneer—“What am I offered
for this beautiful bust of Robert
Burns?”
Man in Crowd—“That ain’t Burns
—that’s Shakespeare.”
Auctioneer—“Well, folks, the jokes
on me. That shows what I know
about the Bible.”
Monday: Carl’s Sausage with
Gravy, Blackeyed Peas, Sweet Rel-
ish, Hot Rolls, Butter, Apple Sauce.
Tuesday: Hot Dogs with Chili, Po-
tato Chips, Baked Beans, Tossed Sal-
ad, Yellow Cake with Icing.
Wednesday. Steak Chopettes,
Gravy, Creamed Potatoes, English
Peas, Hot Bread, Butter, Syrup.
Thursday: Frito Pie, Pinto Beans,
Cabbage-Carrot Slaw,
Butter, Peach Halves.
Friday: Salmon Loaf, Green
Beans, Pineapple-Cheese on Lettuce,
Hot Rolls, Butter, Strawberry Jello.
MRS. KATHRYN OWNBY
Graveside services for Mrs. Kath-
ry Batsell Ownby, 83, of Tulsa, Okla.,
were held Tuesday at 4 p. m. in Oak
Hill Cemetery here, conducted by
Rev. Fred Waldrop, Baptist minister.
Ernest
at the
in El
She had been ill
The weather prognosticators hit
the nail on tl^e head Friday when,
they warned of a severe cold wave
heading this way. It arrived Satur-
day on schedule and sent the tem-
perature tumbling to the lowest point
in several years.
Sun editor’s supposed-to-be-re-
liable thermometer registered eight
degrees above zero at 7:30 o’clock
Sunday morning. At the same hour
Monday morning the temperature:
was 10 degrees. And, brother, that’s
cold weather for this neck of the
woods.
Many households had frozen water
lines, and some cars had frozen ra-
diators. Water pipes in the high
school building froze and burst, and
there was no school Monday because
of that. Roscoe Gillett was con-
templating a big water bill because a
water line in his yard broke and ran
all night. Joe Bodine and Al Short
had similar experiences.
^There are one hundred three
more business concerns in Grayson
County today than there were last
year,” says George A. Giese, regional
vice president of the Dallas office of
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. Basing his
facts upon a physical count of the
January 1, 1959, Dun & Bradstreet
Refercence Book, Giese points out
that in 1958 one thousand two hun-
dred ninety six businesses were listed
in Grayson County and today one
thousand three hundred ninety nine
businesses are listed—an increase of
seven and nine tenths percent.
The Reference Book, incidentally,
lists only manufacturers, wholesal-
ers and retailers. It does not in-
clude some of the service and pro-
fessional businesses such as beauty
and barbare shops and stock and real
estate brokers. Thus, the figures for
businesses in Grayson County would
actually be higher than the one thou-
sand three hundred ninety nine
quoted above.
As one phase in revising credit
ratings and keeping them up-to-date,
every year the credit reporting agen-
cy writes to all businesses who are
listed in the Reference Book to re-
quest their balance sheets. • Giese
says that this letter speeds up the
flow and processing of sojne of the
facts on which credit ratings are
based. “More than 95 percent of all
commercial transactions in the U. S.
are made on credit terms,” he added.
“The purpose of the Reference Book
is to help businessmen in any part of
the country make prompt and accu-
rate credit decisions to ship or sell to
businessmen in any other part of the
country.”
The credit rating is one of the key
factors in approving orders to ship
or sell. The rating consists of two
symbols. The first, a letter of the
alphabet indicates financial strength
or tangible net worth of the business.
The second symbol is a number. It
reflects a composite appraisal of the
background, operations, financial
stability, and payment record.
Each Reference Book listing, which
includes the rating, is a condensed
summary of the information con-
tained in the Dun & Bradstreet cred-
it report. The report includes a his-
tory of the business (who owns it,
who runs it, and how long it has been
operating); a description of what
the business does and how it does it;
a financial section which usually in-
cludes the latest financial statement;
and a record of how the concern pays
its bills.
While credit reports are primarily
used by businessmen who want to
evaluate the credit risk before ship-
ping or selling, insurance underwrit-
ers also use credit reports to review
risks, rates, and coverage for fire and
other types of insurance.
MRS. PAULINE MAY was in town
Friday, proudly showing last week’s
Life Magazine’s feature story about
the Atlas missile’s successful flight
into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Flor-
ida. The magazine carried pictures
of the eight top men identified with
the missile’s launching, and one of
those men was Capt. Davis P. Par-
rish, Mrs. May’s foster son. Captain
Parrish is the Atlas project guidance
officer at Canaveral. A product of
the Whitewright schools, Capt. Par-
rish (now major) attended Texas A.
& M. College, and graduated from
Rice Institute in mechanical engi-
neering. He then entered the Unit-
ed States Military Academy at West
Point, where he played football on
the varsity team, graduating in 1949
and accepting a commission in the
Air Force. He later took his mas-
ter’s degree in electronics at Massa-
chussetts Institute of Technology in
Boston. His wife is the former Mar-
jorie Williams of Florida, and they
have two small sons, Penn and Jeff.
IF BANK deposits are any crite-
rion, folks are in pretty good shape
generally. Deposits of Whitewright
area banks are the greatest in his-
tory. Of course, a dollar in the bank
today is only equal to about 25 or 30
cents by pre-war standards, for it
will buy less than a third of nearly
anything you need compared to pre-
war, with the exception of electric
power, natural gas and water. A set
of false teeth today costs $150 com-
pared to $50 pre-war. That same
yardstick can be used on clothes,
shoes, groceries, meats, automobiles
—and beer. Back in those days you
could buy a bottle of beer in your fa-
vorite tavern for a dime. Now it
costs 30c, granting that you would
buy it. On the other hand, your
Whitewright Sun costs you only 50
cents more per year now in Grayson
and Fannin Counties, $1.00 more
elsewhere. And, by the way, have
you renewed your Sun subscription?
Mrs. Ownby, widow of
Ownby, died Sunday noon
home of a son, Ted Ownby,
Reno, Okla,
some time.
Mrs. Ownby was a native of Gray-
son County, a descendant ■ of a pio-
neer family. She and Mr. Ownby
lived in the county many years. She
was a member of the Baptist Church.
Surviving are two sons, Ted Own-
by of El Reno and Hugh Ownby of
Tulsa; a daughter, Miss Bula Ownby
of Tulsa; four grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
58.44 21.73
The fact that last year’s rainfall
was well distributed over the grow-
ing season was responsible for one of
the best all-around crop years
Whitewright area has had.
The Internal Revenue Service’s
new Form 1040A — the size of an
average bank check — has only 15
items to complete, IRS Dist. Director
Ellis Campbell Jr. said.
Taxpayers eligible to use the mid-
get tax return simply fill in the
blank lines applicable, enclose copies
received
mail in
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Widow and Two Children
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The social security changes also in-
clude new maximum limits under
which top monthly payments to a re-
tired worker who earned an average
of $400 a month or more eventually
will go to $127.
The social security tax rate will
rise Jan. 1 from 2% percent to 2%
percent each for employes and em-
ployers. The tax on the self-em-
ployed will go up from 3 3/8 percent
to 3 % percent.
In 1960 the social security taxes
will rise again, to 3 percent each for
employes and employers and 4%
percent for the self-employed.
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used by
any individual with total income of
less than $10,000 — consisting
wages reported on Form W-2 and
not more than $200 in dividends, in-
terest and wages not subject to with-
holding.
says they’ve had that system in Eng-
land since 1939. If England is going
to swap us them kind of ideas fer the
money we’re sending over there, she
can keep her ideas and we’ll keep our
money.
According to his plan, only the
farmer and rancher that worked the
hardest, got up the earliest and
stayed up the latest would be allowed
to use the land. That would have ter-
rible implications, Mister Editor.
What if it applied to other lines?
What would happen if only the law-
yer that worked all the time was al-
lowed to practice? Or think what
would happen to the politicians if
only them public servants that stayed
on the job all the time was allowed
to hold office. We’d have to hold
elections ever ten days to git new
ones and we’d be in a contsant re-
placement program on everything
from politicians to newspaper editors.
The next time you write your Con-
gressman, Mister Editor, you tell him
they ought to be a little more careful
who they let in this country from
England. A plan like this feller ad-
vocates would ruin fellers like me
whose rheumatism gits worse about
planting time ever spring and lasts
till harvest time is over. In Ameri-
ca a feller has got to put up with his
wife’s kinfolks, but he ain’t got to put
up with visiting Englishmen.
Yours truly,
UNCLE DAN.
MOSCOW. — Soviet authorities
reckoned Wednesday night that the
cosmic rocket Mechta has swung in-
to orbit around the sun and started
edging up toward its top speed of.
about 2,000 miles an hour.
They said the peak will, come next
Wednesday when the rocket reaches
its nearest point to the sun—about
91% million miles from it—on an
egg-shaped course as the solar sys-
tem’s first artificial planet, the news
agency Tass reported.
“At that moment it will reach its
maximum speed of more than 32 kil-
ometers (about 20 miles) a second,”
Tass said.
This is nearly three times as fast
as the speed of the launching from a
Soviet base at 8 p. m. Friday which
threw the 1 % -ton rocket clear of the
earth’s gravity.
At the most distant point of
Mechta’s recession from the sun its
speed will decline to an average of
27.75 kilometers (17.34 miles) a sec-
ond, it was added.
By Soviet reckoning, the rocket
has passed a point 621,000 miles on
a direct line from the earth in its-
five-day flight.
“This figure will increase at a ter-
rific pace since the earth and the ar-
tificial planet are diverging in the
cosmos,” Tass’ science correspond-
ent wrote.
The agency reported the rocket had.
covered 14% million kilometers
(more than 9 million miles) in the
cosmos since it was fired. This re-
fers to the distance from the point in
space occupied by the earth at the
time of the firing.
The earth, speeding along in orbit
at 18.6 miles a second, traveled only
about 8,370,000 miles in the same
amount of time.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Up at the country store Saturday
night Ed Doolittle was giving us a
piece of his mind on what he thought
about them Congressmen messing in
the dental perfession.
Back during the war Ed got hisself
a set of store teeth from a mail order
house. Ed says the uppers has got
broke up over the years oh account
of him eating so much store bought
meat, so he orders hisself some new
uppers.
He got a note from the mail order
house saying it was now agin the law
to send store teeth through the mail.
It seems a Congressman from Geor-
gia ordered a complete set from some
company and they sent him two up-
pers and no lowers. When he tried
to git it straightened out, the mail
order house had done gone out of
business. So this Congressman gits
a law passed that you can’t send store
teeth through the mail no more. Ed
was mighty upset about it, allowed as
how if he had them two upper teeth
back he wouldn’t even mess with
store bought teeth in the first place.
Under our system of Guvernment
ever jackass has got a right to ex-
press his opinion on things that’s go-
ing on in the country. I’d like to ex-
press mine about this English feller
that’s making this lecture tour over
He says the time ain’t far off
when nobody but the good farmers
will be allowed to use the land.
Ernest Smith of the City Water
Department has furnished The Sun
with a record of the rainfall in
Whitewright during 1958. The 30.96
inches that was recorded is 7.57
inches below normal, and 27.48
inches less than the 58.44 record
rainfall of 1957.
Following is the official rainfall
record for the last three year, 1958,
1957 and 1956:
WASHINGTON. — An advance
report form will be mailed to every
household in the nation in advance
of the 1960 census.
It isn’t to be filled in and returned,
officials explained yesterday. The
possibility of such a do-it-yourself
census had been considered, but
plans for it were abandoned after a
test in Memphis, Tenn., last year
showed imperfections.
The advance report forms will,
however, give residents a chance to
have the answers ready for the cen-
sus takers who will visit them as
they have each 10 years in the past.
Its use is expected to increase both
the speed and the accuracy of the
nose count, officials said.
The Census Bureau said a complete
test of the 1960 procedures will be
run starting next Feb. 20 in two
North Carolina counties — Catawba
and Rutherford.
The nation’^ population is expected
to total 180 million persons by 1960.
The census enumerators, as part of
counting them, will take information
on each person’s relation to the head
of jthe household, his age, sex, color
or race, marital status and date ■ of
birth.
At every fourth household, forms
will provide such additional informa-
tion as place of birth, citizenship,
place of parents’ birth, amount of
education, date of first marriage, and
amount of military service.
To take a special housing census,
one report form will be left at one
household in four and another at one
household in 20. Each of these is to
be filled in and mailed.
ACTION TO oppose Lone Star Gas
Company’s application for a 33%
percent increase in the gate price of
natural gas has been taken by the
Sherman City Commission. Sher-
man plans to ask for a postponement
of the hearing by the Railroad Com-
mission because the city was not no-
tified of the hearing. If the delay is
not granted, Sherman plans to have
representatives at the hearing to en-
ter a protest. The increase, if grant-
ed by the Railroad Commission,
would mean an increase in the con-
sumer’s gas bill.
AT THIS time of year you would
do well to remember the birds. With
ice and snow covering the ground
some of the time, and no insects at
large, birds find the problem of sur-
vival very real. Throw out scraps of
"bread and other food on which birds
may feed. Also provide drinking
water for them when nature fails to
do so. They will repay you next
spring and summer by eating de-
structive insects in your garden and
trees.
WASHINGTON.—Increases in so-^>
cial security benefits and taxes voted
by Congress last August will take ef-
fect this month.
The increased benefits — which
average 7 percent and will total $700
million in 1959—will go to 12.3 mil-
lion men, women and children who
receive old-age, survivors or disabil-
ity payments.
The increases will be included in
January social security checks mailed
to recipients in early February. They
are automatic, so it is not necessary
to apply for them.
The increased taxes—which will
total $1.1 billion in 1959 — will be
paid by the 74 million workers cov-
ered by social security and their em-
ployers.
The individual tax increases will
range from maximums of $25.50 a
year for employes earning $4,800 or
more to $32.25 a year for the self-
employed. They will be withheld
from pay checks covering all wages
earned after Jan. 1.
The $400 million difference be-
tween the taxes collected and the
benefits paid out next year will be
used to put the social security sys-
tem on a sounder actuarial basis.
The benefit boosts are intended to
compensate social security recipients
for recent rises in the cost of living.
They will range from $3 a month for
those receiving present minimum
payments of $30 to $54 a month for
families receiving present maximum
benefits of $200.
Here are tables showing represen-
tative increases for recipients of old-
age and survivors’ benefits:
Monthly
Earnings
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