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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1959
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Unde Dan From Tom Bean Says:
GOV. DANIEL proves himself to
be an astute politician by proposing
a tax on cigars and no tax on snuff.
There are probably ten snuff-dipping
voters to one cigar-smoking voter in
Texas. As a matter of fact, if all the
snuff-dippers were to band them-
selves together in a lobby, they could
just about call the shots legislation-
wise.
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Dr. Edwin O. May
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C. B. Bryant III
Mrs. Pearl Miller
R. T. Pennington
Mrs. R. T. Switala
S. W. Bell Telephone Co.
Mrs. A. L. Groves
Mrs. Ben Dyer
Mrs. Lynn Cooper
Mrs. Bruce Pember
T. L. Skipworth
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Frank A. King
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Alton McDowell
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Houston Garner
Homer Sanderson
Mrs. Luther Gordon
Ira Fleming
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Mrs. R. E. Simpson
Alva Blackerby
B. J. Blackerby
E. L. Stine
Cecil D. Fields
Miss Gae Hollingsworth
Charles H. Lewis
Mrs. Silas G. Wilson
J. W. Atnip
Mrs. M. O. Davis
Monday: Hot Dogs, Chili, Potato
Chips, Baked Beans, Cabbage-Apple
Slaw, Cookies, Ice Cream.
Tuesday: Frito Pie, Pinto Beans,
Tossed Salad, Crackers, Bread, Choc-
olate Pudding, Whipped Cream.
Wednesday: Barbecued Beef
Buns, Scalloped Potatoes, English
Peas, Doughnuts.
Thursday: Meat Balls,
Potatoes, Green Beans,
Butter, Syrup.
Friday: Fish Sticks, Creamed Corn,
Lettuce and Tomato, Banana Pud-
ding.
PERHAPS NOW GRANDPA
CAN GO TO COLLEGE
Creamed
Hot Rolls,
A BIRTHDAY passing virtually
unnoticed is that of the Federal De-
posit Insurance Corporation, which
came into being exactly 25 years ago
this month. FDIC is the Federal
Government agency that insures your
deposits in your bank against loss up
to $10,000 each account. Banks still
fail in these United States, at the rate
of about half a dozen per year. But
when a bank fails, if it is a FDIC in-
sured bank, the depositors don’t lose
their money. There are about 712
banks which are not insured. About
one-fifth of these aren’t eligible for
the insurance because of their setup.
The rest haven’t joined because they
resent the cost of the insurance, or
insist they don’t need insurance, or
"they don’t like the system or the in-
spection inherent in it. The deposi-
tor, if he is smart, will pass up the
uninsured banks and keep his money
in an insured bank.
Some subscribers send along let-
ters, comments, verse, etc., with their
renewal subscriptions. Here’s one
from Charles H. Lewis of Slaton:
SCHOOL CENSUS is being taken
this week by the Whitewright school
teachers, Supt. S. T. Montgomery ^r.
informs us. All children who will be
6 years old and not more than 18
years old on Sept. 1 are to be enum-
orated. Parents of any children
within the age limits who may be
overlooked by the census takers have
until Sept. 1 to contact any of the
teachers. Percapita apportionment
of school funds is based on enroll-
ment figures, and it is important to
the local district that every child
within the age limits is enumerated,
whether in school or not.
THE PRESIDENT finds himself in
about the same situation as a hus-
band with an overdrawn * bank ac-
count and an extravagant family. The
federal budget is in the red and Ike
wants to so something to overcome
the deficit by eliminating some ex-
penditures that can very well be
eliminated. But he is confronted
with a spendthrift Congress, trained
over many years in the art of squan-
dering the taxpayers’ money. We
hope he will be able to hold the line,
by veto if necessary, and keep gov-
ernment spending within the limits
lie has outlined in his budget mes-
sage—but we wouldn’t bet on it.
For a short period from 1835 to
1837 the United States government
was out of debt.
“I do not agree with a word that you say.
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
RIVERTON, Wyo.—The marquee
sign on a drive-in theater closed for
the winter reads:
“Roses are dead, violets are drooped.
Summer has gone and We are
Pooped.
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. — Mr.
and Mrs. George Earp brought their
new baby home from the hospital
Tuesday. What’s the youngster’s
name? Wyatt Earp, of course. Dad-
dy, a metal polisher, claims to be kin
to the famous frontier marshal.
MRS. MINNIE THORNHILL
Services were held at 2:30 p. m.
Sunday in the Earnheart Funeral
Chapel for Mrs. Minnie Lee Thorn-
hill, 82, who died at her home at 7:15
a. m. Saturday'after an illness of a
year. Rev. Fred Waldrop officiated.
Interment was in City Cemetery.
Mrs. Thornhill was a native of
Kentucky and had been a resident of
Whitewright since 1902. She was a
member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include five daughters,
Mrs. Goldie Rogers of Durant, Okla.,
Mrs. Virgil Mullins of Whitewright,
Mrs. E. T. Mullins of Sherman, Mrs.
Paul Perry of Abilene and Miss
Janie Thornhill of Whitewright;
three sons, Harold of Whitewright,
and V. C. and R. H. of Fort Worth;
six sisters, Mrs. Lucie Cline, Mrs. L.
G. Taylor, Mrs. Ida Thornhill and
Mrs. D. H. Thrasher, all of White-
wright, Mrs. Kate Cecil of Raymond-
ville and Mrs. R. C. Burnett of Su-
dan; three brothers, A. Means of Al-
bany, Kentucky, Jim Means of New
Castle, Ind., and Ben Means of Den-
ison; 14 grandchildren; 33 great-
grandchildren, and two great-great-
gran’dchildren.
RICHARD WELLINGTON of Bon-
ham visited friends here Tuesday.
His brother, Bluch Wellington, and
Bluch’s wife were in Whitewright
last week, looking for a house to buy,
with the intention of establishing
their home here. Richard said he
didn’t know what Bluch had decided,
but that he advised him to go back
to New Jersey to live, since all his
friends were there. Bluch retired
more than a year ago after working
tor some 35 years for Otis Elevator
Company of New York, and lived
across the river in New Jersey. Since
retiring he and Mrs. Wellington have
been roaming around, trying to .make
up their minds about where they
want to live. Bluch told us last week
that “I thought I would like to wind
up where I started—in Whitewright.”
The Wellingtons grew up in White-
"wright — Bluch, Richard, Victoria
and Mae—but they have all been
away for many years.
AUSTIN.—Gov. Price Daniel rec-
ommended one temporary and four
permanent tax increases Wednesday
which he said will keep state govern-
ment solvent without the need for a
general sales or income tax.
His program, delivered in his first
message to the 56th Legislature, in-
cluded two new taxes:
1. A “severance beneficiary” tax:
on natural gas at the rate of 3 per-
cent of value, which would raise $19,-
700,000 in 1960 and $21,300,000 in
1961. The tax would be paid by any
person or corporation for whom Tex-
as gas is produced under a dedicated
gas reserve or any other contract of
purchase made prior to actual pro-
duction.
It is a new attempt to tax gas being
sent out of Texas. Gov. Daniel said
he is confident in the constitutional-
ity of the measure because it treats
interstate and intrastate gas alike.
2. A tax on cigars and other tobac-
co products, except snuff, at the same
rate now applied to cigarettes. The
present cigarette tax is 5 cents per
pack. The new tax would yield sev-
en million dollars per year.
Two Increases
Increases recommended in
taxes already levied included:
1. Raising the tax on motor ve-
hicle sales from 1.1 percent to 1.8
percent for a net return of $12,900,-
000 per year.
2. Raising the tax on distilled liq-
uor from $1.40 to $2.50 per gallon, to
yield $9,100,000 per year.
The four levies would
enough income to finance expendi-
tures recommended by the Governor
for the next biennium.
A temporary increase in the fran-
chise tax from $2.25 to $2.85 per
$1,000 of taxable capital was sug-
gested to help wipe out the $65 mil-
lion-dollar deficit estimated for the
current fiscal year.
The franchise tax increase would
be payable on May 1 and would ex-
pire after one year’s levy, yielding
$14 million dollars,
called the franchise
place to put the only new tax neces-
sary in the deficit program because
it is as broad-used as any tax which,
will fall due before the fiscal year
ends on Aug. 31.
Three Steps
Three other steps were recom-
mended to eleminate the deficit:
1. A bookkeeping procedure in the
comptroller’s accounting of the om-
nibus tax clearance fund to credit the
current year with $18 million dollars.
2. An escheat law to claim all
abandoned money and other personal
property held for more than seven
years without having heard from the
owner. It would produce $20 million
dollars immediately and $2,500,000
annually thereafter.
3. A permanent amendment to the
franchise tax formula on corpora-
tions engaged in interstate business,
to produce 15 million dollars more
annually from this source.
The franchise tax on out-of-state
corporations and the annual income
from the escheat law would recur
each year and would be added to
three other, steps suggested to pro-
duce enough income for the next bi-
ennium.
“Being a few years past sweet six-
teen,
I like to read Uncle Dan’s
from old Tom Bean,
Then wander down Memory Lane,
Trying to live the good old days
again;
Herewith you will find a little auto-
graphed slip of mine
For which send two and 50 cents
worth of Sun-shine,
And I’ll be wishing you a happy and
prosperous Fifty-nine.”
ENOUGH’S ENOUGH! This is the
third time this winter that ice-
coated streets have plagued White-
wrighters, and the fourth blizzard of
the winter. Where’s the guy who
said we don’t have severe winters
any more, like we used to have in the
old days? Back in the “good old
days” that blizzard which blew in
early Tuesday night would have
caught people unawares and there
might have been some suffering or
loss of life, as was common in the
dim distant past. Nowadays the
weather forecasters keep the people
informed via radio and television,
and no longer can a “blue norther”
slip up on an unsuspecting populace.
Our school’s 1959 Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow is Carole
Ann Taylor, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Taylor of the Pilot Grove
community.
She received the highest score in a
50-minute written examination on
homemaking knowledge and atti-
tudes taken by graduating senior
girls. She will receive a homemak-
ing pin manufactured by Josten’s,
which represents the slogan, “Home
Is Where the Heart Is.” Her exam-
ination paper will be entered in com-
petition with those of other school
winners in the state to name the state
Betty Crocker Homemaker of To-
morrow.
The test is designed and judged by
Science Research Associates.
Each state Homemaker of Tomor-
row will receive a $1,500 scholarship
from General Mills, an educational
trip April 4-10 with her school ad-
visor to Washington, D. C., colonial
Williamsburg, Va., New York City
and Minneapolis, and she will be a 1
candidate for the title of All-Ameri-
can Homemaker of Tomorrow. The
school of each state winner will re-
ceive a set of the Encyclopedia Brit-
annica. General Mills will award a
$500 scholarship to each state run-
ner-up.
Winners are being chosen for 12,-
260 schools throughout the nation
which enrolled 349,150 senior girls,
the largest number .of participants in
the five-year history of this $106,000
scholarship program. Growth has
been steady since 1955 when 187,463
girls in 8,400 schools participated.
The 1959 All-American Homemak-
er of Tomorrow will be announced in
Minneapolis April 10 at the American
Table Dinner in the Leamington Ho-
tel’s “Hall of States.”
The scholarship of the All-Ameri-
can Homemaker of Tomorrow will
be increased to $5,000. The national
runner-up will receive a $4,000 grant,
third place winner a $3,000 award
and fourth place winner a $2,000
scholarship.
told her she was going home Thurs-
day. Ed said when he left her Satur-
day morning to go to town she was
out digging in the flower garden. “If
this keeps up,” Ed allows, “they’ll
be operating on a feller and pushing
him off the table and chasing him
home.”
And we decided Saturday night
that farmers and ranchers is the big-
gest gamblers on earth — and the
dumbest. They gamble on rain,
drought, heat, cold, frost, hail and
insects, and at the end of the year if
his gambling has turned out all right
on account of him working like a
dog, he sells his grain or his cotton or
his cattle fer whatever they’ll pay
him.
And when he sells he discovers
some birds in Washington or New
York or New Orleans has been buy-
ing and selling his crop four months
afore it was made and has come out
ten times better off than he has, and
they has been doing it in a air con-
ditioned office.
If farmers and ranchers would
quit gambling the hard way and
raise just enough fer their own needs
one year, the price would git up there
to where them city fellers couldn’t
afford to speculate with it, they’d be
too busy trying to git some of it to
eat. But you’ll never git farmers
and ranchers to do this. Just here
and there you’ll find a feller like me
and Ed Doolittle that’s willing to rest
up fer a whole year.
Yours truly,
UNCLE DAN.
WASHINGTON.—Rep. Walter H.
Judd, R., Minn., said he will offer an
amendment to the veterans benefit
law to give free college educations to
persons whose fathers died in the
Spanish-American War.
The Spanish-American War ended
in 1898. Judd said there were about
25 persons in the country who could
obtain free college education if his
amendment 'were passed.
EMPLOYES OF the First National
Bank are wondering about the other
90% of the bonus the Dallas News
said they got. The Sun carried a
story last week about the annual
stockholders’ meeting of the bank,
reporting among other things that
employes of the bank were given a
ten percent bonus. In some unex-
plainable manner this ten percent
grew to a hundred percent by the
time the story got to Dallas. Just
goes to show that all newspapers
make errors, although maybe not as
many as we make.
End Exemption
One of these would eliminate the
present tax exemption allowed on
cigarettes and beer sold on military
reservations, which now costs the
state approximately $4,340,00.0 in lost
revenue.
Another $6,900,000 would come
from increased tax collections the
comptroller estimates he can collect
with additional personnel and from
revision of fees by state agencies.
Gov. Daniel added three new
spending programs, including driver
education in public schools, to the
budget he previously sent to the Leg-
islature.
Payment of medical care for per-
sons on public welfare rolls and
creation of a new industrial and tour-
ist advertising program for the state,
both approved in constitutional
amendments last November were al-
so recommended.
He said the Hale-Aikin Committee
on Public Education had made many
recommendations which should be
enacted into law and financed as
soon as conditions will permit. This
includes an increase in the state’s
minimum teacher salary from $3,400
to $4,000 per year.
Raise Gas Tax
The state gasoline tax can be
raised if the Legislature decides ex-
penditures should be increased for
public schools, colleges and high-
ways, he stated.
The gasoline tax should be re-
served to the states and not raised
by the federal government, whether
or not the Legislature decides to use
this source of revenue now, Gov.
Daniel urged.
SAN ANTONIO.—Mrs. Francisca
Torres, 67, was killed early Monday
by an ax blow that cut off her head.
Her son, Porfirio Torres, 39 and an
epileptic, was arrested and told po-
lice:
“I’m not sorry. She nagged me all
the time and I just got tired of it.”
Police said the man went to bed
after the killing and slept several
hours. He was charged with mur-
der.
Mrs. Elton Hoag, a sister of Torres,
said the man had been sulking for a
week because Mrs. Torres urged him
to eat.
Explorer Scouts and Leaders, rep-
resenting Explorer posts in Sherman,
Bells, and Whitewright, attended the
first Explorer Cabinet meeting of the
Sherman Area Council, Boy Scouts,
Friday.
The Cabinet, a new phase of se-
nior scouting, plans activities in
which Explorer Scouts in the coun-
cil will have an opportunity to par-
ticipate.
Sgt. B. L. Ponce of Perrin
Force Base outlined a plan of
meetings to be conducted at Perrin in
which Explorers will participate. The
plan was approved by the Cabinet,
which will ask all Explorer Scouts to
take part.
Sessions will be conducted in the
field of aeronautics, including such
’phases as weather, navigation, map
reading, dead reckoning, piloting and
physiological training. Dates sched-
uled for the sessions were Feb. 4 and
19, March 4 and 18 and April 1 and
15.
Elected officers of the Explorer
Cabinet were: Roy May, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lilburn May, Sherman,
president; James Butts, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. E. Butts, Sherman, vice
president; Ronnie McLauchlin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne McLouchlin,
Whitewright, secretary.
Other activities, such as Philmont
Scout Ranch, Explorer Scout socials
and Rifle Marksmanship were pre-
sented for future consideration.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
We had a right interesting session
up at the country store Saturday
night. First off, Ed Doolittle told us
about his wife’s operation for appen-
dicitis.
Ed says she had been planning this
operation fer some time, had cooked
up a month’s supply of vittles, called
on her preacher, writ her last will
and testament in case things went
wrong, and ordered a wheel chair
from Sears and Roebuck.
WelJ, come Monday and time fer
the operation, said Ed. He took her
over to the hospital Sunday night
so’s they could git a early start on
her Monday morning. All the neigh-
bors come by to bid her farewell fer
a month or two, and it was very sad.
Ed said he cried a little, but his wife
was brave and went right after sup-
per Sunday night.
They operated on her Monday
morning and that night they had her
setting up in bed, walking the next
afternoon, and Wednesday night they
AUSTIN.—Rep. Bill Jones of Dal-
las came up Wednesday with a pro-
posed constitutional amendment to
keep a lid on taxation.
It would require approval of two-
thirds of both branches of the Legis-
lature to pass a tax bill. Now a ma-
jority can levy taxes.
“I just want to avoid getting too
many taxes,” explained Jones. “I’ve
got the feeling that the State Gov-
ernment’s conservative approach to
taxation may be about to disappear—
that the dikes may burst.”
Jones conferred with Lt. Gov. Ben
Ramsey before offering his resolu-
tion for introduction. The idea was
advanced by Ramsey during his cam-
paign and in his inaugural speech.
The Texas Department of Public
Safety warned motorists of the in-
conveniences of a last-minute rush
at safety inspection stations before
the deadline, April 15.
More than 3,000,000 of the 4,000,-
000 Texas motor vehicles have yet to
receive their 1959 safety inspection
sticker.
In urging motorists to “do their
safety shopping early” and avoid the
rush at the 4,400 inspection stations
the safety department warned that
those who fail to do so will be sub-
ject to traffic summons after April
15. The average cost of the safety
inspection since the program began
six years ago is $1.10 for needed re-
pairs and $1 for the inspection fee.
The inspection stations check such
items as brakes, lights horns, mirrors
and windshield wipers and have
found that 39 percent of the vehicles
have needed some adjustment or re-
pair.
Col. Homer Garrison Jr., director
of the safety department, said this is
an improvement over the general
condition of motor vehicles six years
ago when the inspection program be-
gan. At that more than 50 percent
needed repairs.
“We hope that owners of motor
vehicles will take advantage of the
inspection facilities now and avoid
the inconveniences of waiting in line
as the April 15 deadline approaches,”
Colonel Garrison said. “This safety
factor is important to safe driving
on our streets and highways—and
that is our goal.”
(Edwards Chevrolet Company is
the official checking station in White-
wright.)
Izetta Gillett Wilson, also of Sla-
ton, sends this letter along with her
renewal:
“As you see, I am renewing my
subscription to my home paper, The
Whitewright Sun. I feel towards
your paper kinda like what my lit-
tlest granddaughter said to me
Christmas. I had given her a little
white wrist watch, her first watch.
She came up to me about three hours
after I had fastened it on her little
arm. This is what she said: ‘Grand-
mother, I don’t think I could live
without my wrist watch you gave
me.’ Glenn, I don’t think I could
be very happy without The Sun.”
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