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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 76, NUMBER 12
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961
ESTABLISHED 1885
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More In Insurance
Farmers Plan To
Cut Corn Acreage
This Year From '60
Texas Senate
Approves 2-year
Spending Bill
Teachers Elected
By School Board
Kennedy Budget
Said To Call For
Deficit Spending
Lokey Edwards
Named President
Of Rotary Club
Western Week
Starts Monday
Congress Passes
Jobless Aid Bill
DOCTOR ADVISES
WIVES TO FLIRT
WITH HUSBANDS
HERE
and
MRS. O. V. BARKER has redeco-
rated her beauty shop next door to
our office. Installation of panel wood
on the walls adds to the attractive-
ness of the place.
CAR. OWNERS have only a week
left in which to obtain their regis-
tration license plates, and only three
weeks in which to obtain their safety
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At least ten countries use the eagle
as the symbol of supremacy.
RONCE MORGAN has begun con-
struction of two new residences on
South Carter street. This will make
six new homes built by him since he
came to Whitewright last summer.
SPRING CAME in Monday with a
touch of frost in the air, but there
was not enough frost to do any dam-
age to tender vegetation. The vernal
•equinox — when the sun is directly
over the tropic of Capricorn, marking
“the beginning of spring—occurred at
3:32 p. m. Monday, but that doesn’t
necessarily mean we won’t have any
more cold weather. As a nursery-
man told us the other day, “Don’t set
out your tomato plants until after
Easter.”
PIGS DIE, SO SOVIET
FARM CHIEFS IN POKEY
Listen
Flirt with him.
Dance with him.
If you do, I guar-
antee that you’ll furnish his life with
such fun that you’ll never be treated
like a stick of furniture again.”
MOSCOW.—Tass says two officials
of a state farm near Moscow have
been sentenced to a year in prison on
charges of permitting 2,182 pigs to
die last winter. The government
said the officials failed to provide
winter housing and feed for the pigs.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
•but I will defend to the death your right to
«ay it.”—Voltaire.
JOHN WILL MELTON
Funeral services for - John Will
Melton, 53, Kentuckytown farmer,
were held here at 2:30 p. m. Wednes-
day, conducted by Rev. L. D. Beall of
Sherman and Rev. Houston Garner of
Whitewright. Burial was in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Mr. Melton was found dead in his
car Sunday night at a local service
station. An autopsy showed that he
died of a heart attack.
Born Nov. 20, 1907, in Clay Coun-
ty, Tenn., Mr. Melton was the son of
He mar-
March 8,
He was a
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I see by the papers where one of
them safety organizations in Wash-
ington aims to lobby fer a law in
Congress making car manufacturers
put safety belts in ever automobile.
If them Congressmen git to messing
in such items as this, I got a few sug-
gestions fer ’em. I ain’t saw a single
thing the folks that makes cars has
ever done fer the pedestrian. If the
Congress is going into this field, I
think they ought to work both sides
of the street. When a feller goes to
town these days the only safe place
fer him to walk is where no motor
vehicle can be drove, bounced, skid-
ded, caroomed, catapulted, ricko-
cheted, or flung. I recommend col-
lapsible bumpers and padded radia-
tors, and a slanted rubber ramp in
front to scoop up the pedestrian, with
a soft pad up on the hood fer him to
land on. After all, they is a few peo-
ple left who has to walk and they
need some consideration.
I admit they ain’t too many pedes-
trians left and if the Congress is look-
ing at the matter from the vote angle,
them that has to walk to the polls
won’t git much relief. The old song
about the boy “walking his girl back
home” is out of style. Today if he
ain’t got a car, he ain’t got no girl.
The family car is gifting to be more
important in the American household
THE SUNDAY after Easter, April
3, is the tentative date for open house
at the Top of the Hill Addition. On
that day K & D Construction Com-
pany—Butch Kaiser and Grady Dur-
ett—will host a shindig at White-
wright’s new residential addition in
the southwest edge of town.
In a physiology class, the teacher
said: “Kevin, can you give a familiar
example of the human body as it
adapts itself to changed conditions?”
“Yes, ma’am,” said Kevin, “my
aunt gained 50 pounds in a year and
her skin never cracked.”
THE OIL industry has long en-
joyed a 27 percent depletion allow-
ance on federal income taxes. This
means that Uncle Sam gives 27 per-
cent tax credit on oil wells on the
premise that the oil supply in the
wells is being exhausted. Drooling
over the prospect of a similar allow-
ance on irrigation wells, farmers of
the South Plains of Texas have filed
.a lawsuit against the federal govern-
ment seeking to obtain a cost deple-
tion income tax allowance on all un-
derground water used for irrigation.
Maybe all taxpayers ought to band
together and file suit for a tax de-
pletion allowance on their ability to
earn money with which to pay taxes.
Nobody knows whether or not South
Plains irrigation water supplies will
ever be exhausted, but it is dead cer-
tain that everybody’s earning ability
is being depleted day by day, month
by month and year by year.
The coldest temperature ever re-
ported in Antarctica is minus 125.3
degrees, reported by the Russians at
their Vostok base in 1958.
THE RIDICULOUS 71-name ballot
for the senatorial election April 4
points up the need for some changes
in the state’s election laws. The $50
filing fee serves as an invitation to
publicity seekers to use the ballot
for a little personal publicity, know-
ing full well that their candidacy will
not be taken seriously. This situa-
tion might be corrected by boosting
the filing fee to $1,000 and providing
that the two candidates receiving the
greatest number of votes would have
their filing fees refunded. This
would keep the publicity seekers out.
Another change that should be made
is to prohibit an office holder to run
for another office without first re-
signing his current office if the term
would overlap the term of the office
he is seeking. This would save the
taxpayers the cost of a special elec-
tion, such as the current senatorial
race.
New officers to take over July
headed by Lokey Edwards as presi-
dent, were elected at Friday’s Rotary
Club meeting. Mr. Edwards, district
manager of Community Public Serv-
ice Company, will succeed Lloyd
Alexander as president.
Other officers elected to serve with
Mr. Edwards were George Hight,
vice-president; Russell Summers,
secretary, and Roy Blanton, treasur-
er. Two new directors were elected,
Ralph Judd and Philip Earnheart.
The retiring president will also serve
as a director.
Lokey Edwards had charge of Fri-
day’s program and showed a film on
atomic research.
Rotarians Tip Daniel and Fritz
Triplett of Sherman were visitors.
Carl Edwards will be program
chairman next Friday.
WASHINGTON.—An overhaul of
the federal estate tax, with the aim of
increasing the states’ share of death
and inheritance revenues, was pro-
posed Sunday by a congressionally
created board.
The Advisory Commission on In-
tergovernment Relations, in its first
report, offered a plan under which
the states would get about $800,000,-
000 out of the roughly $2,000,000,000
of such taxes collected each year.
This would double the amount now
going to the states.
Thornhill and
custodians.
WASHINGTON.—President Ken-
nedy, racing to beat the spring plant-
ing season, Wednesday signed into
law with almost unprecedented speed
his emergency feed grain program
and urged growers to sign up for
their own and the country’s good.
With Agriculture Secretary Orville
L. Freeman standing by his shoulder,
Kennedy affixed his signature to the
compromise legislation just two hours
after the Senate gave final congres-
sional approval. It was the first of
Kennedy’s 16 priority requests to be-
come law.
The bill gives Freeman power to
raise government support prices on
corn, other feed grains and soybeans
to farmers who cut their plantings by
20 percent.
Freeman immediately did just that.
He raised the support price for this
year’s corn crop from $1.06 to $1.20 a
bushel. He boosted soybean supports
from $1.85 to $2.30 a bushel. He al-
so raised supports on barley, grain
sorghums, oats, rye, flaxseed and cot-
tonseed.
Freeman also announced two steps
designed to reward farmers who join
in the program and punish growers
who refuse to go along. This would
partly offset a limitation that Con-
gress imposed on the enforcement
authority Kennedy requested.
AUSTIN.—Senators barely paused
Wednesday while recognizing visiting
school groups to pass with a lone dis-
sent the 2.5-billion-dollar 2-year
spending bill.
Seldom if ever before had the bi-
ennial appropriation bill slid through
the Senate without even an amend-
ment being offered. It set a record,
too, in the dollars it would provide
in the coming two years for operating
the state government.
It was calculated that the bill
would require 364 million dollars
from the overdrawn state general
fund, necessitating this Legislature
passing tax measures that will pro-
vide 77 million dollars annually to
wipe out the deficit and finance fu-
ture spending.
Several members were unhappy
with the section providing state aid
for junior colleges. But they all de-
ferred their hopes for better treat-
ment to the final draft to be written
much later on by a joint Senate-
House conference committee.
Representatives are running about,
a week behind the Senate schedule
on the appropriations bill. Once the
House passes its version, then the two
will name five members of each
house to adjust differences. That
process will take considerable time.
Meanwhile, final enactment of any
general spending bill must await ac-
tion by the Legislature to increase
taxes to provide the additional mon-
ey to pay the bill, plus balancing the
state’s general fund before this fis-
cal year ends Aug. 31.
So far, the House has made vir-
tually no progress in that direction.
The Senate can not act on revenue
raising measures until the House
sends it one.
WASHINGTON.—President Ken-
nedy asked Congress Monday to in-
crease next year’s Agriculture De-
partment budget by $442,429,000.
He also asked Congress for a $41,-
000,000 boost in the Interior Depart-
ment budget, an $11,000,000 increase
in the budget of the U. S. Informa-
tion Agency, and a reshuffling of
items of the State Department bud-
get.
His requests were part of a series
of amendments he is proposing to
former President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower’s budget for the 1962 fiscal
year.
These amendments affect particu-
lar departments. His general budget
revisions are expected to reach Con-
gress within the next few days. It
has been reported he plans to submit
a balanced budget and then call for
$1,000,000,000 in deficit defense
spending.
The White House said the increase
in the agriculture budget would be
used mainly to strengthen programs
in research, watershed, forestry and
conservation, and to bolster the loan
programs of the Rural Electrification
Administration and the Farmers
Home Administration.
In addition, some funds would re-
pay the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion for costs and losses.
The USIA budget increase would
be used to expand the agency’s proj-
ects in Africa and Latin America.
The reshuffling of State Depart-
ment items resulted in a decrease in
the department’s budget of $130,000.
The President asked for increases
of $1,305,000 for African programs,
policy planning, the U. S. delegation
to the United Nations, and diplomat-
ic and consular service emergencies.
The recommendations did not spell
out costs of the expanded African
program for USIA but said activity
would be approximately double the
1961 rate while in Latin America the
increase would be about 60 percent.
MUNICH. — Marriage counsellor
Elisabeth Gounod, 47-year-old gray-
blonde grandmother, reported that
most husbands lose interest in wives
because:
One—Women babble about their
own problems and are uninterested
in their husband's troubles.
Two—Husbands see their wives at
their worst: in hair-curlers, house
clothes and without make-up.
Three—Once the wedding ring is
on, women stop flirting with their le-
gal mates and dress to appeal to oth-
ers.
“Don’t let household routines make
you uninteresting,” advised the Ger-
man psychologist. “Prevent your
busband from becoming blind, deaf
and dumb to your attraction by using
your imagination.
“Be alive and
sympathetically.
Dress for him.
Sparkle for him.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Melton,
ried Miss Aline Melton
1937, in Stephenville, Ky.
member of the Marvin Methodist
Church.
Survivors are his wife; five sons,
Russell, Johnny, Bobby, Larry and
James Melton, all of Kentuckytown;
seven daughters, Mrs. Leonard
Thompson of Sherman, and Mary,
Helen, Linda, Donna, Kathy and Jean
Melton, all of Kentuckytown; four
brothers, Garfield, Jim and Glen
Melton, all of Livingston, Tenn., and
Curt Melton of Crossville, Ill.; and
two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Hutchinson
of Carmi, Ill., and Mrs. Mertie Gore
of Livingston, Tenn.
AUSTIN.—Motorists can look for
higher automobile insurance rates
later this year regardless of legisla-
tive action, state representatives
learned Tuesday.
Judge Thomas C. Ferguson, chair-
man of the State Board of Insurance,
said an increase of 13 to 14 percent in
rates is indicated. The change will
not come before June, when experi-
ence records become available for
1960, the first year under Texas’
controversial “merit rating” insur-
ance.
Ferguson appeared before the
House Committee on Insurance,
which considered bills similar to one
already recommended by a Senate
committee for Sen. Grady Hazlewood
of Amarillo.
The committee was told that the
board contemplates eliminating some
marginal traffic violations from its
rating program and expects to con-
sider only accidents costing $50 or
more, instead of $25.
Ferguson reported these changes
probably would call for the board to
reduce the credit for safe drivers
from 20 percent to 15 percent. About
two-thirds of the state’s motorists
qualified for the discount, a higher
percentage than was expected when
the program went into effect.
The gala opening for this year’s:
Western Week of the Whitewright
Schools will be Monday morning;
when everyone will arrive at school
in their western outfits.
The program promises to be bigger
and better this year, as the cream of
the local talent is combined in one fi-
nal night of western gaiety, which is
under the direction of Mrs. Houston. .
Darwin.
This week of parties, guns, and.
beards will terminate Friday night
with the Variety Show which will
cost adults 50c and students 35c.
The rules for Western Week are as.
follows:
1. First seven grades have two girl
candidates and two boy candidates
from each grade until Thursday. On
Thursday, one of the two pairs is
eliminated and the remaining candi-
dates work until Friday at 1:00
o’clock.
2. Each class in high school shall
elect a girl and boy as candidates for
King and Queen.
3. One penny equals one vote.
4. There will be a King and Queen
crowned from both high school and.
grade school.
5. The money from each class must
be in the office in a sealed container
by 1:00 p. m. Friday, March 31.
6. Every boy from the eighth grade
to the twelfth grade must have a
shaving permit.
7. Every girl from the eighth grade
to the twelfth grade must have a lip-
stick permit.
8. There will be a prize given for
the best dressed cowboy and cowgirl
from every grade in both grade and
high school for Thursday and Friday.
There are two days of the week
upon which and about which I never
worry. Two care-free days kept sac-
redly free from fear and apprehen-
sion. One of these days is yesterday;
with all its pains and aches, all its
faults and blunders, it has passed
forever beyond the reach of my re-
call. Save for the beautiful memo-
ries, sweet and tender, that linger
like the perfume of roses in the heart
of the day that has gone, I have
nothing to do with yesterday. It was
mine; it is God’s.
And the other day I do not worry
about is tomorrow, with all it possi-
bilities, adversities, its burdens, its
perils, its large promises. ^.Its sun
will rise in roseate splendor or be-
hind a mask of clouds. But it will
rise. Tomorrow—it will be mine.
There is left for myself then, but
one day of the week—today. Any
man can fight the battles of today.
Any woman can carry the burdens of
just one day.
Therefore, I think, and I do, and I
journey for but one day at a time.
And while faithfully and dutifully I
run my course, and work my ap-
pointed task on this one day, God the
Almighty takes care of yesterday and
tomorrow.—Robert J. Burdette.
than the cook stove. It’s a good thing
it runs on gas. It don’t stand still
long enough to refuel on hay.
Well, I see by the papers where
them folks in Washington has admit-
ted that cheap money is here to stay.
A news item says the Bureau of En-
graving will now print $1 bills in
sheets of 32 instead of sheets of 12
like they been doing since 1900. I
reckon the number of Guvernment
checks they print to the sheet has
been put in the top secret drawer.
Sometimes I think that me and Sen-
ator Byrd is the only two people in
the country that worries about these
things.
Fer instant, I was reading the of-
ficial tally sheet the other day where
the private and public debt is now
right at $800 billion, or a average of
about $20,000 fer ever family in the
United States. Of course, me and my
old lady will never live to pay ours
off, but I shore hate to pass it along
to my young neighbor and his family
down the road a piece.
But debt or no debt, Mister Editor,
I’m mighty glad to see the new ad-
ministration coming out strong fer
funds fer the schools. The principal
over at our school was telling me
they ain’t even got enough money fer
new baseball uniforms this spring, let
alone books.
Yours truly,
The Whitewright Board of Educa-
tion has re-elected all the teachers in
the local schools and all the school
personnel except W. T. Farrow, bus
driver, who will retire at the end of
the current term. Re-elected were:
Miss Lillian Neathery, Mrs. Al Eva
Blanton, O. V. Barker, Joe Crouch,
Robert Sivley, Mrs. Leta Harper,
Miss Sammye Caldwell, Buell Range,
Mrs. Dorothy Lackey, Mrs. Martha
Joe Emerson, Mrs. Pebble May, Miss
Mardell Pumphrey, Miss Sallye
Hamilton, Mrs. Sarah Kilgroe and
Mrs. Audra Bennett. Supt. S. T.
Montgomery Jr. and Principals B. R.
Vestal and David Johnson were re-
elected earlier in the year.
Other personnel re-elected were
Mrs. Harold Thornhill, Mrs. W. H.
Stedham and Mrs. Noba Hughes,
lunchroom cooks; Ray Lumpkins,
Arnold Henson and Robert DeBerry,
bus drivers; Caleb
Cecil Watson, building
All the above are in the two white
schools.
Mrs. Martha Biggerstaff was re-
elected school nurse. She also serves
in that capacity in the Tom Bean
schools.
In the Negro school, J. L. Huckaby
and Mrs. Florence Huckaby were re-
elected as teachers; Mrs. Pauline
Topsy as lunchroom cook, and Ogles-
by Stinnett as bus driver.
Easter Holidays
The schools will observe a full
week’s holiday period for Easter, dis-
missing on Friday, March 31, and re-
suming classes on Monday, April 10.
Supt. Montgomery told The Sun
that average attendance this year is
running a little ahead of last year,
and with normal attendance during
the remainder of the term the year
will wind up without the loss of a
teacher.
The school year will end with bac-
and
WASHINGTON.—Farmers intend
to plant 82,405,000 acres of corn this
year, down slightly from 82,906,000
acres last year but 2% above the
1950-1959 average of 80,429,000 acres,
the Agriculture Department reported
in its first major crop estimate of the
year.
Analysts warned, however, that
growers’ plans were reported as of
March 1, before much was known
about the proposed emergency 1961
feed grain bill. “Therefore, growers’
plans may be subject to unusual
changes prior to planting time de-
pending on whether a feed grain pro-
gram is initiated . . .”
If farmers do plant that much corn,
and if the yield per acre equals the
1956-1960 average of 48.9 bushels, a
total 4.1 billion bushels will be pro-
duced in 1961, 5% less than last year
and 4% below the 1959 crop.
The March 1 sampling of farmers’
intentions for 16 major crops indi-
cates they will use 264 million acres
of cropland, down from last year’s
271 million acres and down from
1959’s 272.2 million acres.
Soybeans are expected to show the
most spectacular acreage gain. Grow-
ers expect to plant a record 26.4 mil-
lion acres, nearly 10% above last
year and 6 % above the previous high
in 1958. Production is expected to
total a record 600 million bushels, up
7 % from last year and 3 % above the
previous record in 1958.
Acreage for all feed grains is ex-
pected to be 149 million acres, 1%
less than in 1960 and nearly 5% less
than the 1950-1959 average.
Total wheat plantings, counting
both winter and spring crops, are
currently predicted at 56.1 million
acres, up 1% from 1960.
WASHINGTON.—President Ken-
nedy’s billion-dollar program to aid.
the unemployed won final approval
in the House Wednesday over vigor-
ous protests of Rep. Bruce Alger of
Dallas and a handful of other con-
servatives.
The House-Senate conference re-
port sailed through a roll call by a
vote of 361 to 31 in the House and
shortly afterward the Senate sped it
on to the White House by a voice
vote.
Three Texas Democrats joined Al-
ger in the nay vote in the House.
They were Reps. Omar Burleson of
Anson, Walter Rogers of Pampa and
Olin Teague of College Station. All
other Texans voted for it, except Rep.
Jim Wright of Fort Worth, who was
absent.
The measure /extends unemploy-
ment compensation to jobless persons
who have exhausted their benefits
under current legislation. It will
mean an additional tax of 4 percent
on the first $3,000 of each employee’s
wages effective next Jan. 1 for a pe-
riod of two years.
Alger told the House that the meas-
ure was unjust to Texas and 39 other
states which, he said, would pour
more money into the compensation,
fund than would be received back.
Nine states, Alger asserted, would
be the principal beneficiaries at the
expense of other states.
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