The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 23 x 16 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 74, NUMBER 44
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959
5 CENTS PER COPY
88.5% of United
Deaths
Fund Goal Reached
22,
7
THERE
Durable Goods
Shorigages Seen
Court Won't Let
U. S. Rush Union
with
10
Mailing of Christmas parcels
expire
the
School Lunch Menu
USE THIS ORDER BLANK
Send The Whitewright Sun for.
year___ to:
Name.
Street or Route.
GETS ABOUT
City.
Zone__State..
[J New
2 Renewal
-
Mrs. Bryant Tells
About Russia Trip
HERE
and
Laughlin Named
Farm Bureau Head
PERRIN AIRMAN
FREED BY JURY
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
/
Enclosed find check or money order for $.
steel
many
OVERSEAS MAIL
DEADLINE NEAR
$2.00
$2.50
eight
nieces
Oh! it is excellent to have a giant’s
strength; but it is tyrannous to use it
like a giant.—Shakespeare.
A new kind of carbon paper has
red stripes for use in accounting.
Please check whether this subscription is:
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Any address in Grayson or Fannin Counties__
Elsewhere in the United States_____________
Yours truly,
UNCLE DAN.
It really pays to rinse raisins thor-
oughly in hot water and drain before
adding them to muffins because
they’ll taste plump and juicy in the
baked product, and from the batter.
I Tigers Blast Van
Alstyne 21 to 6
THE TEACHER shortage must be
over. Down at Houston the school
board fired a teacher because he
struck with a rolled-up newspaper a
student who was attacking him.
"I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to
eay it.”—Voltaire.
R. C. WALDROP
Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Dooley, Mrs.
Joe Miller and Mrs. Willard Young
attended the funeral'of Robert Char-
lie Waldrop at Avinger last week.
Mr. Waldrop, an uncle of Mrs. Miller
and Mrs. Young, was the father of
Rev. Fred Waldrop of Gainesville,
former pastor of the Baptist Church
here. Other survivors are his wife,
a son, Billy Burk Waldrop of Avin-
ger, and a daughter, Mrs. Ava James
of Dallas.
REV. BILL JOHNSON, new pastor
of the First Baptist Church, came in
Friday and had us print some letter-
heads and envelopes for the church.
He said he asked church officials
where the former pastor had bought
the church stationery and was told
that he had been buying it out of
town, in Louisiana or somewhere. “I
told them that if local people don’t
use locally available services, there
will come a timfe when they will no
longer be available,” Mr. Johnson
told us. That applies to all local peo-
ple in all towns everywhere, and to
all local services as well as printing.
Whitewright already has lost some
local services because of non-patron-
age, if you will think back over the
last few years.
WE’VE NEVER had any faith in
public opinion polls. Maybe it is be-
cause we have never known anyone
who has ever been consulted by the
opinion samplers. What brought up
this subject? We read in U. S. News
and World Report that Mr. Rocke-
feller’s supporters for the Republi-
can presidential nomination are “go-
ing to use the public opinion polls as
one of their weapons.” Does that
mean that they are going to rig the
polls—sort of like TV quiz shows—
supply the answers before the ques-
tions are asked? What do you think
—if you go in for that sort of think-
ing?
R. H. (BOB) MAY, one of the very
few native old-timers remaining in
Whitewright, celebrated his 81st
birthday Sunday. Among the birth-
day greeting cards he receiveed was
one he showed us from Versa Hor-
ton. It had an Allen Shivers button
attached to it and Versa had written
underneath that she tried to find an
Ike button but couldn’t. Mr. May,
who is Democrat precinct chairman
of this precinct, is an ardent Liberal
Democrat and has no use for either
Shivers or Ike, which Versa very
well knew.
In a called meeting of the board of
directors, Grayson County Farm Bu-
real reelected Albert Laughlin of
Southmayd president. Charles Skaggs
of Whitewright was reelected vice
president, and Weldon Rutherford of
Howe was named second vice pres-
ident. Ernest Embry of Sherman
was elected secretary. These offi-
cers were elected to serve for the
year of 1960. Plans were made to
attend the State convention in San
Antonio.
Leon White, chairman of the
Whitewright United Fund campaign
committee, told The Sun yesterday
that 85.8 percent of the $3300 goal
had been raised.
Mr. White is asking all captains to
work all cards and prospects that
they still have, so that the drive may
be brought to an end Tuesday, Nov.
3.
“If anyone has not been contacted
and wishes to contribute to the wor-
thy cause, call one of the .captains or
call me,” Mr. White said. “Your
contribution to the United Fund will
be picked up immediately.”
Contributions may also be made
to Sears Anderson, United Fund
treasurer, at the First National Bank.
ALGIERS.—Touat Mohand Said,
109, walked 93 miles from his tent
village oj Soumann to Algiers to
claim his old age pension. “I wish to
enjoy the remainder of my life peace-
fully,” and I need money for that,”
he was quoted as saying.
DISPOSITION OF all those old
magazines and newspapers around
your house can be solved Nov. 6
when the High School Senior Class
conducts a scrap paper drive. The
seniors will pick up paper on that
day if you will call any member of
the class.
MRS. ROY C. WHITT
Funeral services were held at
a. m. Tuesday in Bonham for Mrs.
Dorothy Ryon Whitt, 42, of Lubbock,
a native of Whitewright, who died at
11:35 a. m. Sunday in a Lubbock hos-
pital. She was the wife of Roy C.
Whitt.
Rev. E. J. Kearney of Wewoka,
Okla., and Rev. E. J. Tarbox of Bon-
ham, Baptist ministers, conducted the
services. Burial was in Willow Wild
Cemetery.
Mrs. Whitt was born Jan. 16, 1917,
a daughter of Mrs. Leia Patterson
Ryon and the late Milim Ryon. She
graduated from Whitewright High
School with the class of 1934. She
and Mr. Whitt were married Feb. 20,
1935, in Durant, Okla.
Survivors besides her husband and
mother are three sons, Kenneth Whitt
of Austin, Danny Whitt of Com-
merce, and Roy Whitt of Lubbock; a
daughter, Dorothy Marie Whitt of
Lubbock; three brothers, Paul Ryon
of Whitewright, Jack Ryon of Sher-
man and Muri Ryon of Dallas; one
sister, Mrs. Wallace Wilson of White-
wright, and one grandchild.
rI
J. E. WORSHAM
Funeral services will be held at 2
p. m. Friday at Earnheart Funeral
Chapel for James Ernest Worsham,
81, who died Wednesday after a five-
year illness. Rev. Raymond Promp-
ter of Honey Grove, Rev. Charles
Kuhn of Savoy and Rev. John Rob-
erson of Whitewright will conduct
the services. Burial will be in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Active pallbearers named are
Lloyd Alexander, David Johnson.
Archie Evans, Bob Jones, Huse Free-
man and Harold Sikes.
Born April 14, 1878, in Johnson
County, Texas, Mr. Worsham was the
son of Doc and Harriet Worsham. He
married Miss Maude Henry Aug. 4,
1898, in Hunt County, and they lived
northeast of Leonard for 39 years
and in the Grove Hill community be-
fore moving to Whitewright six years
ago. He served as Fannin County
commissioner from • 1922 through
1928. He was a retired farmer, a
member of the Methodist Church,
and a member of the Woodmen of the
World.
Sqrviving are his wife and five
children, Mrs. Vera Wilkerson and J.
A. Worsham of Whitewright, Mrs.
Eunice Freeman of Sherman, Orville
Worsham, address unknown, and
Odell Worsham of McAlester, Okla.;
nine grandchildren and seven great-
grandchildren; two brothers and
three sisters, O. F. Worsham of Dal-
las, E. B. Dixon of Whitewright, Mrs.
Annie Williams of Van Alstyne, Mrs.
Beckie Morris of Whitewright, and
Mrs. Lillie Trotter of Mesquite.
sisters, Mrs. Offie Griffin of Phoe-
nix, Arizona, and Mrs. Lorene John-
son of Houston; his father, E. B.
Kent; five brothers, Ed Kent and J.
D. Kent of Whitewright, John Kent
of Leonard, P. P. Kent of Bakers-
field, Calif., and A. M. Kent of Wich-
ita, Kansas, and four grandchildren.
1922 at San Antonio. She was a
member of the Lutheran Church.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Rus-
sell, and four brothers, Tom Booher
and Ernest Booher of Whitewright,
Walker Booher of Trenton, and
Harve Booher of Slaton.
WE SEE by the papers that the
Urban Land Institute is predicting
that the Dallas-Fort Worth area will
have a population of 4.3 million per-
sons by the end of the century. With
an average of a motor vehicle for
every two persons, just think what a
traffic jam there will be on the
streets and highways of the area.
Makes us sort of glad we were born
early enough not to have to worry
about what’s going to happen 40
years hence.
Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I’m gifting a little out of patience
with them Japs. They give us the
Japanese beetle, then they about
ruint our textile, business with cheap
goods, and now they’ve got a new
one.
By cross-breeding they’ve been
raising roosters that’ll crow nonstop
fer 55 seconds. It says here that the
first shipment of these alarm clocks
for farmers and ranchers reached the
West Coast last week.
The good old American rooster is
a reasonable bird that has woke up
the farmer in this country fer 200
year without much complaint. He
gives the farmer a ordinary three-
second cock-a-doodle-do, waits a de-
cent spell and gives him another
three second warning. Two or three
of these and he quits and lets a fel-
ler git up in peace and quietude.
A rooster that’ll stretch his cock-
a-doodle-do fer 55 seconds nonstop
will give half the farmers and ranch-
ers in this country a nervous break-
down afore the year is gone. Be-
tween the Japanese beetle and this
new rooster business, it looks like
they is now out to kill off American
agriculture fer good.
I think our Government should put
a very high duty on them new Jap-
anese alarm clocks. I aim to write
FOLKS WHO didn’t get to see the
Whitewright-Van Alstyne game Fri-
day night will be able to see a moyie
of the game at the Linda theatre at
12:30 o’clock Friday. The movie will
be the Rotary Club program for the
day, and the public is invited to at-
tend the showing. It is free, of
course.
SUBSCRIBERS TO TV Guide who
are tee-totalers, if any there be, got
a great shock this week when they
thumbed through the Guide and
found a 12-page color insert titled
“How to make the 32 most popular
drinks,” and the insert wasn’t talk-
ing about milkshakes, either.
my Congressman about it today. The
farmer in this country has enough
troubles without starting the morn-
ing all shook up by one of them per-
petual-motion roosters. The old
fashioned three second cock-a-dood-
le-do was good enough fer George
Washington and it ought to be good
enough fer us.
That note you got, Mister Editor,
about me and my old lady maybe
don’t git along so good is a mistake.
Me and her git along fine. Like
all wimmen, she has her little faults.
Fer instant, if you take her to town
to git somepun, you’ll have to find a
all-night place open by the time she
gits dressed and ready to go. And
she talks a heap, too. In fact, some
nights she’s so tired she can hardly
keep her jaws working. And she
never gits beyond eyesight of the tel-
evision set no more. At first, TV
just took the place of radio at our
house. Now it has just took the
place.
But you tell your readers, Mister
Editor, that we git along fine. One
reason we git along so good is that I
learned right after the ceremony
that a feller shows a great command
of the English language to say noth-
ing when his old lady has got the
floor.
and
letters should be made in November
to overseas military personnel, their
dependents and authorized civilian
employes, the postoffice department
has announced.
To assure delivery before Christ-
mas, mailing for transmission by
surface transportation should be by
Nov. 20 and for airmail not later
than Dec. 10.
A slip showing a list of contents
and the name and address of the
person for whom it is intended
should be included in each parcel.
A list of articles prohibited for over-
seas mailing may be obtained at any
postoffice or branch.
JUST HOW silly can the courts
get! The Court of Criminal Appeals
reversed the conviction of a man in
Grayson County because the printed
charge had a word omitted by the
printer. The defendant pleaded
guilty to the charge, so there was no
question about his guilt. The Gray-
son County Attorney said new charge
forms would be printed to obviate
such error in future charges. If
Grayson County would have such
forms printed by The Sun or some
other careful printer, such mistakes
wouldn’t be made. But Grayson
County awards printing contracts to
the lowest bidder, and the lowest
bidder isn’t usually the most reliable
printer.
WASHINGTON. — The Supreme
Court refused Wednesday to require
the Steelworkers Union to hurry its
appeal from an order that would end
the 106-day-old steel strike.
This probably means the strike
will drag on at least into next week.
In a brief order giving no reasons,
the high court rejected a government
request that the back-to-work in-
junction become effective promptly
if the union did not file its appeal by
noon Thursday.
By so doing, the supreme bench
let stand a 6-day delay granted the
union by an Appeals Court in Phila-
delphia Tuesday when it upheld the
back-to-work order issued earlier by
a federal district judge in Pittsburgh.
That delay—intended to give the
union time to carry its case to the
Supreme Court—is due to
next Monday.
There was nothing to indicate the
high court’s action was other than
unanimous.
The ruling came a little more than
seven hours after the Justice Depart-
ment had formally requested the
court to lose no time and uphold the
back-to-work order “so that the
emergency created by the steel strike
may not continue longer than abso-
lutely necessary.”
The Steelworkers Union’s lawyers
opposed the speedup procedure
sought by the government, contend-
ing there are serious statutory and
constitutional issues involved and
that these require unhurried consid-
eration.
Arthur J. Goldberg, the union’s
counsel, filed a document question-
ing the high court’s right to take the
case at this stage. The union said a
delay of a few more days, even a few
more weeks, “would not irreparably
harm the national interest.”
Although the union now has until
Monday to file its formal appeal pa-
papers, Goldberg indicated he in-
tends to do so on Friday and to fol-
low with a detailed legal brief on. ,
Monday.
After the court’s denial of the gov-
ernment’s speedup bid, Goldberg
said “we still intepd to proceed as
expeditiously as possible. We still
hope to negotiate a settlement.”
The government is opposed to a .
Supreme Court review of the Ap-
peals Court decision, and will file
papers in opposition as soon as the
union brings in its petition asking for
review.
After all the pleadings are in, the
court could dispose of the case sim-
ply by denying a review. Or it
could order oral argument on the
merits of the case before making a
decision.
8 Crops Declared
To Be in Surplus
WASHINGTON.—The agriculture
department has officially declared
that eight crops are in surplus, a
move to bring into effect the new
$50,000 ceiling on regular price sup-
port loans to individual farmers.
The eight crops are cotton, extra-
long staple cotton, rice, peanuts, to-
bacco, corn, rye, and tung nuts.
The Friday Literary Club ’ met at
the home of Mrs. James Bryant bn
Oct. 23, with Mrs. Roby Childress as
co-hostess. The theme for the after-
noon meeting was “The Road to Un-
derstanding.”
In the business meeting preceding
the program Mrs. H. H. Sears, pres-
ident, submitted, through her com-
mittees, recommendations for cer-
tain revisions of the by-laws. After
a general discussion the recommen-
dations as submitted were adopted.
The chairman of the program com-
mittee, Mrs. R. R. Summers, then
presented a program on Russia. She
introduced as guest speaker of the
day, Mrs. A. M. Bryant, who recent-
ly returned from a trip “behind the
Iron Curtain.”
Mrs. Bryant gave a most interest-
ing account of her trip to Russia and
Czecho-Slovakia which were the
high spots of her tour with a group
of American friends and acquaint-
ances. She presented maps, pic-
tures, and statistics to emphasize her
reactions and impressions.
She spoke of the vast area of Rus-
sia—eight million square miles with
a population of 235 million people,
or one-third of the population of the
world. She spent fifteen days in
Russia and six days in a satellite
country thereby enabling her to see
much and hear much that would be
impossible for a tourist with less
time to get.
She was told that there were from
10,000 to 15,000 American tourists in
Russia this year; so many that they
were referred to as the “American
invasion.”
She described Russia as a land
where everybody works and where
nobody owns anything, individually.
There is absolutely no private enter-
prise, she said, and business, both big
and small, is operated by the govern-
ment. The speaker also described
the education system, with eight
years of compulsory schooling; the
nursery schools where the babies of
six months are enrolled and where
they remain to the age of three and
one-half years.
She described the subways as
magnificent, and likewise the mu-
seums, filled with what were once
the private possessions of families of
wealth. Many former cathedrals,
churches, and places are now Gov-
ernment museums.
The cities of Kiev, Leningrad, and
Moscow were the chief places visited
by her tour-group. In Moscow they
viewed the Kremlin, and the bodies
of Lenin and Stalin.
Upon arrival in Copenhagen, Mrs.
Bryant said she experienced a feel-
ing of relief and joy at being once
again in a free country. On the re-
turn trip the tour stopped at many
cities in free countries. A trip to
Russia, said Mrs. Bryant, is an im-
pressive experience.
In the social hour following the
program, tea and coffee were served
buffet style from a beautifully ap-
pointed table in the diningroom.
At the next meeting of the club on
Nov. 6 Mrs. L. E. Dudley of Abilene
will be the guest speaker and will
give a book review. Mrs. Dudley is
a former state president of the Texas
Federation of Clubs.—Reporter.
THE SCHOOL BOARD is this
week publishing in The Sun rules
and regulations in regard to use of
cars by high school students at the
noon hour. Penalty for violation of
the rules is restriction to the campus.
HOMER L. KENT
Homer L. Kent, 64, died last
Thursday at Olney after a long ill-
ness, and was buried at Olney. He
was a son of E. B. Kent of White-
wright. He moved from Trenton to
Olney 31 years ago, and was a re-
tired oil well driller. He was a
member of the Church of Christ.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Lizzie Hammond; four children; two
Monday: Barbecued Beef on Buns,
Scalloped Potatoes, English Peas,
Doughnuts.
Tuesday: Meat Loaf, Green Beans,
Creamed Corn, Hot Rolls, Butter,
Syrup.
Wednesday: Lima Beans, Boiled
Weiners, Cheese Sticks, Green Sal-
ad, Fruit Cobbler.
Thursday: Hamburgers, Lettuce,
Tomato, Pickle, Baked Beans, Potato
Chips, Banana Pudding.
Friday: Salmon Loaf with Celery
Sauce, Blackeyed Peas, Pickled
Beets, Pineapple with Grated Cheese
on Lettuce, Ice Cream.
The Tigers are resting on their
laurels this week, with no game
scheduled for Friday. After the
sound trouncing they gave the Van
Alstyne Panthers last Friday night—
21 to 6— tiiey are entitled to a week
off.
We hear that some of the boys
thought they ought to have a little
surcease last Monday from the rigors
of the classroom because of the vic-
tory, and took off from school. It’s
been a long time since the students
have had this occasion to celebrate,
so who would blame them for a lit-
tle irregularity?
Incidentally, Jim Ashley, district
manager of Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company, pays tribute to the
Tigers in his “Telephone Talk” ad-
vertisement in The Sun this week,
because of the victory over Van Als-
tyne.
Details of this game are given in a
story in The Reflector section, page
three.
Next week the Tigers will play
Bells here, and the following week
will wind up the regular season by
garnering the District 13-B cham-
pionship when they take on the Fris-
co Coons at Frisco.
At the same time Whitewright was
trouncing Van Alstyne, Frisco was
beating Princeton 60 to 0, so the Ti-
gers won’t have any walkover when
they meet the Coons. By any stand-
ard of reasoning, they won’t have any
trouble with Bells.
ROY. D. BENSON
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p. m. Thursday in Sherman for
Roy D. Benson, 75, of Howe, route 1,
retired farmer and Hardwicke-Etter
employe. Mr. Benson died at 1:30 p.
m. Tuesday in a Sherman hospital.
He was a deacon in the Tom Bean
Baptist Church.
Born Nov. 17, 1883, in Marietta,
Ga., Mr. Benson came to Texas and
Grayson County in 1901. On June
25, 1905, he married Miss Darcus
Cowart. Mr. Benson had farmed in
the Tom Bean and Whitewright areas
many years. He retired in 1953, aft-
er working eight years for Hard-
wicke-Etter Co. He was a Mason.
Survivors are his wife; a foster
son, Cecil W. Walker of Sherman;
three sisters, Mrs. Henry Barry of
Viars, Mrs. Lannie White of Petrolia,
and Mrs. Lois Smith of San Antonio;
four foster grandchildren,
grandchildren, and several
and nephews.
MRS. MAGGIE GRAVES
Funeral services for Mrs. Maggie
Graves, 81, of 9320 Homeplace Drive,
Dallas, were held at Earnheart Fun-
neral Chapel at 2 p. m. Sunday, con-
ducted by Rev. Floyd C. Irwin, Bap-
tist minister of Dallas. Burial was
in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Kenneth Booher,
Bobby Booher, J. D. Russell, Benton
Russell, Maxie Cotton and Ross
Booher.
Mrs. Graves died at 2:30 p. m. Fri-
day at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Jim Russell, where'she had lived for
nine years. She had been ill since
last March.
Born in Virginia July 11, 1878, Mrs.
Graves was the daughter of the late
I. W. and Alice Booher. She came to
the Whitewright community in 1901,
and was married to John Graves in
NEW YORK.—Shortgages loom for
some consumer durable products
such as cars and appliances this fall
and winter, Iron Age magazine said
Wednesday.
Because of the marathon
strike, the magazine n oted,
manufacturers of these products have
already had to cut back production
schedules or shut down. Even if the
strike ends soon, it added, the cut-
backs will continue for several weeks
while consuming companies await
shipments.
The shortages are not likely to be-
come critical, the National Metal-
working Weekly said. But the con-
sumer’s range of choice on most cars,
refrigerators, washers and dryers
will be limited, it warned.
“Already, Iron Age observed, Gen-
eral Motors dealers ’’have only a
token supply of new models.”
The magazine reported many ap-
pliance dealers are out of 1959 mod-
els while the 1960s are coming in
slowly. The situation will worsen
until steel shipments are resumed, it
said.
“The most optimistic time-table
for returning to production,” Iron
Age stated, “shows that major steel
users who are now without steel will
have to wait weeks before they can
get their own production lines go-
ing.”
S/Sgt. James Thomas Tague,
Perrin AFB airman charged ; with
burglary of the Tillett Grocery in
Van Alstyne, was acquitted by a
15th District Court jury in Sherman
Wednesday afternoon after a half
hour’s deliberation.
The trial attracted considerable at-
tention, rating a front-page story in
the Sherman Democrat.
Jack Nossaman and Robert Doss,
Whitewright attorneys, represented
Tague.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1959, newspaper, October 29, 1959; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1369271/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.