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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959
VOLUME 74, NUMBER 26
Savoy Gets TP&L
THERE
Tuesday
for
the
Water Plan OK'd
For Caney Creek
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the
wonder.
Send The Whitewright Sun for.
year to:
WAR ON WEEVILS
FAMILY SERVES
Name.
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Street or Route.
City.
Zone State.
[2] Renewal
Adding Machine Paper.—The Sun.
Sun Want Ads get results.
Woman Planning io
Run For Governor
Shooting From
Roads Unlawful,
Sheriff Warns
Little Leaguers
Lose First Game
Steel Industry
Asks Extension of
Labor Contracts
Carr Sets Goal For
Debate on Tax Bill
Dirksen Scolds
Hagerty Critic
U. S. Deteriorating
Fiscally, Byrd Says
HERE
and
IKE COMPLAINS OF
ROAD BUILDING JAM
Whitewright
Trenton
Savoy
Randolph ..
Bells
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The boyhood home of Stephen Col-
lins Foster, noted writer of southern
songs, was Towanda, Pa.
“NUDIES ICE CUBE
TRAYS” ARE LATEST
$2.00
$2.50
England has an underwater tele-
vision camera which can bring up,
via remote control, very good pic-
tures from a depth of 1,000 feet.
STATE RESTOCKS
LAKE AT BONHAM
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WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
BURLINGTON, Mass. — Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Ganley treasure a
letter from President Eisenhower
congratulating them as the parents
of 10 sons in the service—six sol-
diers, three sailors and one marine.
David Edwards
Injured as Bicycle Generating Plant
Struck by Pickup
Island gits in high gear he’s
clear out of the state.
Yours truly,
UNCLE DAN.
HOLLYWOOD. — A mail order
summer catalog is offering “nudies
ice cube trays”
Each tray makes four ice cubes in
the shape of a woman, nude from the
waist up.
NAVAJO INDIANS have an iron-
clad rule that a husband cannot look
upon his mother-in-law when she
comes to visit her daughter, and has
to get out of the house until she
leaves; so says a filler item which we
read in a newspaper this week. The
divorce rate among Navajo Indians
is practically nil, we understand.
Could there be a connection?
League
team defeated Sherman Rotary 7 to
6 Friday night, and is in third place
in the league with three wins and
two losses. In first place is Sherman
Concrete, 4-0; second, Am vets, 3-1;
third, Whitewright and American
Legion,. 3-2; fourth, Rotary, 2-3, and
last, Community Hospital, 0-5.
Games scheduled Tuesday night
were rained out.
weather-wise,
here during
LAST WEEK we had something to
say about the unnecessary cost of the
Texas Legislature in its performance
to date. Seems that we were ultra-
conservative in our figures. Gover-
nor Daniel now says the dilly-dally-
ing of the Legislature is costing
$200,000 a day in lost revenue in ad-
dition to the tremendous cost of op-
erating the law-making body. On
the other hand, maybe the taxpayers
are profitting by the delay in levy-
ing new taxes. Anyway, the Legis-
lature has a herculean task in solv-
ing the State’s financial problem, and
whatever the outcome the people are
going to have to pay through the
nose for all the State services they
are getting—or are supposed to be
getting. Maybe Texas could secede
from the Union and then apply to
the United States for foreign aid,
making the levying of new taxes un-
necessary.
PHILADELPHIA.—A call for
tion to eradicate the boll weevil is
sounded in the July issue of Farm
Journal, the nation’s largest farm
magazine. The magazine urges ev-
ery cotton farmer to write to his con-
gressman urging approval of a
$1,893,000 appropriation to. start con-
struction of a new boll weevil re-
search laboratory to be located at
State College, Miss.
"I do not agree with a word that you say.
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
Independence, Mo., hometown of
President Harry S. Truman, was the
starting point of the old Santa Fe
Trail in 1831.
SOUTH BEND.—Senator Byrd
Virginia said Sunday that
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WASHINGTON—President Eisen-
hower complained Wednesday that
Congress has put the national road-
building program in a critical,
$4,200,000,000 jam by not boosting
the gasoline tax.
Congress shows no signs of order-
ing the 1 % cents a gallon increase
he has aske'd, to pump more money
into the interstate highway fund.
Without the increase, Eisenhower
pictured the program as limping to
an almost complete halt over
next two years.
BONHAM. — Restocking of Bon-
ham State Park Lake—emptied of all
fish in “Operation Kill” by the Texas
Game and Fish Commission in May
—has been completed.
The restocking was completed
when J. S. Searcy, assistant at the
Lewisville hatchery of the commis-
sion, placed 12,000 bass fingerlings
in the lake. Previously several thou-
sand small channel catfish had been
put into the lake.
The bass placed in the lake came
from the Lewisville and Eagle Moun-
tain hatcheries.
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A 2,000-acre area two miles north
of Savoy in both Grayson and Fan-
nin Counties, has been chosen as the-
site for the new 125,000-Kilowatt
generating plant to be built by the
Texas Power & Light Co.
The plant, which will include a
1,020-acre lake, will be two miles
north of Savoy and the lake will
spill over into the two counties.
A 2,900-foot dam will be built at
the northeast end of the lake. It will
be 57 feet high. Some 300 workers
will be employed during the peak of
construction, and a' force of 35 will
be needed to operate the plant after
construction.
The lake will be built by putting
a dam across Brushy Creek, although
TP&L officials were in Austin Wed-
nesday filing a petition to use watei-
from Red River for the initial filling
of the lake. Permission also will be
necessary from Oklahoma, since the
Sooner State controls the water
rights, but' the Sooner request must
be predicated with Texas sanction.
The plant site will be just south of
the historic Virginia Point church,
which marks one of North Texas’s,
oldest settlements. It will feature
the latest design in large, steam elec-
tric generating equipment. The tur-
bine-generator will weigh more than,
one million pounds and will be in-
stalled on a large concrete pedestal.
The plant’s boiler will weigh about
seven million pounds and will be 117
feet high.
Pipe will be laid from Red River
to the lake and water will be pumped
into the lake by two large pumps.
Lake water is used to condense the
steam passing through the plant con-
denser and it is returned by canal to
the opposite side of the lake and re-
used.
A brick service building, a labor-
atory, a warehouse, machine shop
and maintenance building also will
be constructed.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I’m the sort of feller that puts a
heap of importance to the little
things in life. Fer instant, I saw a
filler in the paper yesterday where
the consumption of soap in the Unit-
ed States was down 14 percent in
1958. This looks mighty bad fer our
country, especially since 1958 had a
extra Saturday night in it. We ain’t
had too much Godliness in this
country fer quit a spell, and now it
looks like we’re losing our cleanli-
ness. But with all these taxes they
are adding from year to year, I reck-
on folks figger they’re gitting took
to the cleaners without any soap.
On top of that soap item, I see
where the Custom Tailors Guild
aims to save cloth and cut prices by
tightening up on men’s pants, mak-
ing ’em much tighter in the seat. I
don’t see no objection to it. If
taxes keep going up a feller ain’t go-
ing to have time to set down nohow.
Well, Mister Editor, I’m coming
over to your place Monday and git
me some signs printed. I’m begin-
ning to feel like the store keeper did
about one of his customers. This
feller would come in the store, reach
over and git a banana and eat it,
then reach over and git a apple and
eat it, then pinch off a piece of
cheese and eat it. Then he’d give
the store keeper a 50-cent order. At
the end of the month the store keep-
THERE WAS a time when enough
new television viewers were being
added each year to make the adver-
tising sponsors of television re-runs
get at least something for their mon-
ey. But now, with practically every
family old-heads at TV viewing, it
would seem that the sponsors of
these old re-runs are pouring their
money down the drain. There are
a few, a very few, TV programs that
are worth watching a second time,
but the number is very small. Most
re-run TV shows are like yesterday’s
newspaper—as dead as the prover-
bial dodo. Even the old, old movies,
dating back to the 1930s, have most-
ly been shown and are being re-run,
and re-run again. Is it any wonder
that the people are turning to movie
theatres and other things for diver-
sion?
BONHAM. — The Caney Creek
watershed work plan advanced an-
other step last week with the an-
nouncement by Gov. Price Daniel
that he had approved the flood re-
tention reservoir plan.
The project was recommended by
the Soil Conservation Service.
The plan calls for construction of
15 dams in the .watershed of Caney
Creek, which flows from north of
Whitewright in Grayson County in-
to Red River near Ravenna in Fan-
nin County.
Means of Financing
The next two steps, according to
Donald Hodges, a conservationist
with the Fannin Soil Conservation
District at Bonham, will be securing
easements and finding a means to fi-
nance the maintenance of the struc-
tures.
The federal government foots the
bill for construction of the dams, but
it will be the responsibility of the
Watershed Control Improvement
District in Fannin County to pay for
right-of-way and expense of moving
utility poles, lines and pipes.
This is usually done through sale
of bonds or assessing a small tax on
landowners in the district affected.
The uppermost structure on the
creek will be north of Whitewright,
the lowest just southwest of Raven-
na. Six of the structures will be
south of Highway 82, the other nine
north of the highway. Caney Creek
crosses 82 between Ector and Savoy.
The lakes formed by the dams will
range in size from 10% to 49% acres
at normal level. When flood water
is retained, the size will increase
sharply.
AUSTIN.—Speaker Carr of Lub-
bock said Wednesday he wants a tax
bill ready for House debate Monday
morning.
Carr told reporters he feels the
House should send its version of a
general tax bill to the Senate by
Wednesday—halfway mark of the
second special session.
“If we can’t get a compromise
then I think we should throw out
any tax bills available Monday and
let them fight it out on the floor
again,” Carr said.
The speaker made his remarks
after a stormy session of the special
16-man committee he named to work
on a tax bill compromise acceptable
to the House and Senate.
Some members of the committee
indicated there was still consider-
able dissension between House ele-
ments, particularly over proposed
franchise taxes and sales taxes.
However, Carr said he was still
hopeful that the stalemate could be
broken soon.
“We should get a bill out of the
tax committee this week at the latest
and we should take it up on the floor
Monday at the latest,” he said.
NEW YORK.—The steel industry
proposed Wednesday an indefinite
extension of steel contracts due to
expire at midnight Tuesday.
R. Conrad Cooper, chief industry
negotiator, also denied rumors the
industry was about to make a new
settlement proposal.
He reiterated that “the companies’
position is that there be no employ-
ment cost increase.”
Cooper said unless the steel-work-
ers union agree Thursday to the in-
definite extension of present con-
tracts, many steel plants will have to
begin closing down Friday in antici-
pation of a July 1 shutdown.
He said the industry’s proposal is
that present contracts be extended
without change while negotiations
continue. The extension would be
subject to termination on 10-day no-
tice by either side.
Cooper said the extension was
proposed because the companies do
not want a strike and it appeared
there is no possibility of any agree-
ment being reached before the in-
dustry must start closing down and
banking furnaces on Friday.
Earlier, a break had appeared im-
minent in the eight-week contract
deadlock.
THERE IS an unsolved mystery
on the main drag this week. After
the downpour of rain Tuesday aft-
ernoon, several small fish were
found at the curb on the north side
of Main street. They
bream (perch), about
long. Several theories
vanced as to how they got
Some theorists said they came out
of the rain cloud. Someone suggested
that a fisherman might have re-
leased them in the ankle-deep water
during the rain. But Joe Johnson
came up with the most logical ex-
planation, saying . they probably
.swam up from the creek just east of
the Katy tracks.
WE DON'T know how much rain
is enough, but most people seem to
agree that we’ve had enough for the
present. The rains during the past
week have insured a good corn crop
and provided enough sub-soil mois-
ture to "carry the cotton crop along
for quite some time without addi-
tional moisture. Pastures are lush,
lawn grass is growing so fast you
can almost see it grow, and stock
tanks have caught some water for a
change. While other sections of the
state were getting destructive floods
and hailstorms, the
area
Ty well,
Rainfall
amounted to 4.28 inches up to 11 a.
m. this morning, according to Ernest
Smith, official recorder. This amount
has fallen here since Sunday. Total
for the month of June is 7.33 inches.
Most of the rain has fallen gently
and has soaked into the earth with
not much run-off.
Cautioning hunters against indis-
criminate shooting, Sheriff Woody
Blanton Monday warned that
charges would be filed against any-
one shooting wildly from county
roads.
Blanton says he has received nu-
merous complaints recently of in-
stances where rifles have been fired
from the roadside of county roads.
Many of the shots have narrowly
missed hitting homes of rural resi-
dents. In one case last week a calf
valued at about $300 was killed from
shotgun blast. There was no effort
to cut up the calf, which indicated
to Blanton that the shooting was in-
discriminate.
At least one other farm animal has
been killed in a similar manner dur-
ing the past month, Blanton said.
Danger to rural residents was
stressed by Blanton, as well as the
hazard to farm animals. Sheriff
Blanton said that periodic outbreaks
of indiscriminate shooting by hunt-
ers alarm country residents several
times a year. The recent rash of re-
ports is the first reported to Blanton
this year.
David Edwards, 9-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Edwards of White-
wright, remains under treatment in
Sherman Community Hospital for
injuries received Saturday morning
when the bicycle he was riding was
struck by a pickup truck driven by
Gene Blanton, 22-year-old Negro of
Bells route one. David sustained
several broken ribs and other in-
juries of a serious nature. His con-
dition was reported as satisfactory
late yesterday.
A charge of aggravated assault
with a motor vehicle was filed in
Sherman Monday against' Blanton.
He told police he didn’t see the boy
give a hand signal for a turn, but a
witness to the accident said the boy
did give such signal. The accident
occurred on West Main street in
front of the Edwards home about
9:30 a. m. David, who was dragged
40 feet by the truck, was given first-
aid treatment by Dr. Paul E. Geers
and was then taken to the hospital
in an Earnheart ambulance.
of
to his
knowledge the fiscal situation in the
United States “deteriorated faster in
the past 18 months than in any com-
parable peacetime period.”
Byrd said he believed the United
States has “moved from estimates of
virtually balanced budgets in fiscal
years 1958-1959 to combined deficits
of $15,000,000,000.”
He said that “best experts” believe
that “deficit financing in present
circumstances is a continuing infla-
tion, which is our No. 1 domestic
problem.
“If confidence in the dollar is im-
paired our international trade will
be destroyed and the chain of eco-
nomic strength in the free world will
be broken beyond repair,” he said.
Byrd said the annual budgets of
federal, state and local governments
this year “will run deficits total $15,-
000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000.”
Public debt will approach $350,-
000,000,000 and private debt now
runs at more than $500,000,000,000,
he said.
“In short, we have nearly a tril-
lion dollars of debt on our backs.
That figure is beyond ordinary com-
prehension,” he said.
Byrd said that when governments
become insolvent they go through
“a revolutionary wringer.”
“The nature and process of such
revolutions may vary,” he said, “but
invariably the form of government
is changed. There is no reason to
think free enterprise democracy as
we have known it could survive.
“This would be according to
Russian plan.”
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Republi-
can Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Il-
linois scolded Sen. Stephen M.
Young (D.-Ohio) Wednesday for
saying James C. Hagerty is receiving
free treatment at an Army hospital.
Dirksen told the Senate that Hag-
erty, President Eisenhower’s press
secretary, is paying $21 a day at
Walter Reed Hospital where he is re-
cuperating from an appendicitis op-
eration.
Young jumped up to say that while
it might be true that Hagerty is pay-
ing a “nominal fee” for room and
board at the hospital, he was oper-
ated on by Maj. Gen. Leonard D.
Heaton, the hospital commandant,
for no fee.
Young added that Hagerty is pay-
ing nothing for X-ray and other
services.
“Mr. Hagerty is the recipient of
socialized medicine at a preferential
level,” Young declared.
The Whitewright Little League
team lost its first game Saturday aft-
er winning four straights.
Savoy defeated Whitewright 4 to
0, getting two hits and making one
error. Whitewright got no hits and
made four' errors which permitted
the Savoy scoring. Walker pitching
for Savoy got 17 strike-outs, while
Tillett for Whitewright got 12 strike-
outs.
Trenton defeated Randolph the
same night 15 to 9, with Trenton get-
ting 12 hits and making three errors,
and Randolph getting six hits and
making three errors.
Games scheduled
night were rained out.
Following is schedule:
Saturday, June 27 — Bells vs.
Whitewright at 6:30, followed by Sa-
voy vs. Randolph.
Tuesday, June 30—Savoy vs. Bells
at 6:30, followed by Whitewright vs.
Trenton.
Following is the league standing:
Won Lost Tie
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hailstorms, the Whitewright
has been treated exceeding-
thus far.
the week
con-
cerning the taxpayer’s welfare
should be open to the public and the
press.
“Eliminating much of the ‘protec-
tion’ which has been a weapon of
control and has taken away people’s
freedom to act as an individual
would be my next goal.
“Many of our state agencies would
get a thorough check. By getting
rid of a lot of leeches the taxpayers
are supporting we could lower taxes
instead of raising them.
“People would experience more
freedom than they’ve had in years.”
Texas’ first and only lady gover-
nor, Mrs. Miriam A. (Ma) Ferguson,
celebrated her 84th birthday here
June 13.
A strong advocate of economy in
government and state’s rights, Mrs.
McCleary pledged that if she should
ever be elected governor she would
lead the fight to repeal Texas’ poll
tax law.
She said:
“I don’t think any of our constitu-
tional rights should be taxed.”
Mrs. McCleary would draw strong
support in such a move from Rep.
Maud Isaacks of El Paso, one of only
three female members of the legis-
lature.
Rep. Isaacks sought unsuccessfully
during the regular session for a con-
stitutional amendment to abolish the
poll tax as a prerequisite for voting.
Mrs. McCleary said if she finally
decides to run for governor the
motivating cause will be some band
masters of Texas’ public schools.
She recalled that two years ago she
and her husband, an operating engi-
neer for heavy construction equip-
ment, moved to Freeport.
Mrs. McCleary, a private music
teacher, said she was told at the
Freeport Chamber of Commerce that
fifth grade children in the Freeport
schools were having to pay from
$400 to $500 each for band instru-
ments.
“Many of the children couldn’t
take band because they couldn’t af-
ford the instruments,” she said.
She has a nine-year-old son, Billy,
and to a music teacher the prices
seemed way out of line.
So she started checking. She said
she found public school band direc-
tors were getting a rakeoff in com-
missions on instruments sold to Tex-
as school children.
er sent him a bill fer five bucks fer
grazing. These folks that let their
stock run all over a feller’s land
ought to be quoted a regular price
fer grazing. That’s why I’m fixing
to have me some signs printed. I’ll
word ’em: Grazing Per Day Rates—
pigs 50 cents, cows $1, horses $1,
Payable In Advance.
I see where Ike says the U. S. Re-
tailers Association still ain’t an-
swered his question. Several years
ago he made ’em a speech and give
’em this question: “What have you
done with the cracker barrel and
pickle jar? What are you giving
kids from 6 to 12 to leave memories
such as my generation had?” I can
tell him without further ado that
the cracker barrel has been replaced
with a juke box, the pickle jar is
full of comic books, and the country
store has turned into a super mar-
ket. And when the kids now 6 to
12 git grown they’ll be in such a
pickle trying to pay off the bar-
reled-up national debt they won’t
have time fer no memories.
Rhode Island is bragging about
the lowest traffic death rate of any
state fer the last 12 months. It’s no
With these high powered
cars, by the time a feller in Rhode
run
AUSTIN.—Is Texas ready for its
second petticoat governor?
Mrs. Virginia. McCleary, who
created a sensation by exposing a
school band racket while living at
Freeport, is giving serious consider-
ation to entering the gubernatorial
derby next year.
The 34-year-old former music
teacher, who now calls Luling her
home, has already drawn a platform
which any politician would do well
to study.
Her goal would be to fight for all
meetings and records dealing with
public affairs to be open to the pub-
lic.
Said Mrs. McCleary, who is about
five feet tall and weighs about 100
pounds:
“Every action and meeting
the taxpayer’s
were small
two inches
were ad-
there.
C. K. SMITH, owner of White-
wright Cleaners, is joining the na-
tion’s cleaners in warning mothers of
small children of the danger lurking
in the plastic bag which cleaners use
to protect garments when they are
delivered to homes. Some sixty
small children, mostly infants, have
been suffocated by these bags this
year, due to carelessness or thought-
lessness of mothers or other members
of a household. The thin plastic ma-
terial clings to the mouth and nos-
trils of the children, shutting off
their air supply and suffocating
them. Cleaners are warning that the
bags should be destroyed immedi-
ately upon removal from the gar-
ments they are designed to protect.
A good method is to tie knots in the
bags until they can be disposed of.
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