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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 76, NUMBER 30
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961
ESTABLISHED 1885
Summers Addition
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By Morris Wilson
Coffee Drinkers
Americans drink about 400 million
cups of coffee daily, or nearly 16
pounds a year for every man, woman
and child.
NORTHAMPTON, England. — A
Northampton teacher reports he got
this somewhat novel revision of one
of the Biblical commandments:
“Thou shall not admit adultery.”
TEXANS (excluding the minority
■who would benefit) should look up-
on the legislative stalemate over the
past few months as manna from
heaven. As long as the Legislature
fails to pass new tax laws, Texans
won’t have to pay and pay and pay.
WE ARE indebted to Mrs. C. J.
Meador and Mrs. W. M. Pierson for
a nice lot of figs. Last week we said
that our lone fig tree wasn’t produc-
ing figs fast enough for eating pur-
poses and to make preserves. We
know, of course, that our fig tree
can’t read, but it might have heard
us talking about the matter. Any-
way, it began producing in a big way
this week. So, with Mrs. Meador’s
figs and Mrs. Pierson’s figs and our
tree’s figs, the fig preserve situation
is well taken care of for this year.
WASHINGTON.—A University of
Illinois professor said today that al-
coholism has become the nation’s
No. 3 health problem,
a wave of prohibition
throughout the United
tween 1965 and 1970.
Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, head of the
University’s Department of Clinical
Science, spoke at the Washington
Institute of Scientific Studies for the
Prevention of Alcoholism.
Ivy said every doctor in the Unit-
ed States would be needed to treat
all the alcoholics in this country.
IRVING M. FULTON
Irving M. Fulton, 79, died last Fri-
day at his home, 1438 S. Travis street,
in Sherman, after a long illness. Fu-
neral services were held at Sherman
Sunday afternoon, and burial was in
Rose Hill Cemetery at Bells.
Mr. Fulton was born Dec. 26, 1881,
in Lee County, Miss., son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Fulton. He came to
Texas in 1883 with his parents, who
settled on a farm between White-
wright and Bells. In later years he
lived on a farm about a mile north
of Whitewright for many years, mov-
ing to Sherman in 1947.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Annie Mae Gates and Miss Kate Ful-
ton of Sherman; two nephews, Ed-
win Fulton of Whitewright and Dun-
can Fulton of El Paso; and two
nieces, Mrs. Leila Bradford and Mrs.
Annie Belle Presley, both of Dallas.
He was an uncle of the late Jim
Waggoner of Whitewright.
TOPEKA, Kan.—Alf Landon, the
1936 Republican presidential nom-
inee, has confided why he still drives
a 1951 model car.
“I have promised myself if it ever
costs $75 in a year to fix it up, I’ll
trade it in,” Landon said. “So far it
hasn’t.”
THE REASON why we call corn-
on-the-cob roasting ears, Mrs. Monie
Biggerstaff tells us, is that in the old
days the corn was roasted in the oven
Instead of being boiled as it is today.
She said that roasted roasting ears
are delicious, and we are going to
experiment with this method of
cooking.
augment airlift capacity.
5. Retaining many ships and
planes once headed for retirement
and increasing sea-lift, air-lift and
anti-submarine warfare capacity.
In addition, he said, he was delaying
deactivation of B-47 bombers.
6. Allocating some $1,800,000,000
of his monetary request of Congress
for procurement of non-nuclear wea-
pons, ammunition and equipment.
In addition, the President said he
would ask for an additional 207
million dollars for Civil Defense, a
function transferred only a week ago
to the defense department.
This brings the total defense bud-
get for the year to $47,500,000,000,
an increase of six billion dollars since
January.
TIE A STRING around your fin-
ger to remind you that you have a
date Saturday night for the firemen’s
annual watermelon party, an event
that always draws a big crowd. This
is one of the projects of the White-
wright Volunteer Fire Department
to raise money to apply on the pur-
chase price of the new fire truck, and
is deserving of support of all the peo-
ple. Serving will begin, downtown
on the pavement, at 6:30 and will
continue as long as people are wat-
ermelon hungry. The firemen say
to eat all the watermelon you want
and pay what you like—the more,
the better.
Ronce Morgan, developer of the
new Summers Addition on South
Carter street in southwest White-
wright, has scheduled open house for
Sunday, July 30, from 2:00 p. m. on.
Three new brick homes will be
open for inspection. They all have
1 % tile baths, built-in oven range,
central heat, attached garage, and are
on large lots. The street in the ad-
dition has been newly paved.
Mr. Morgan and O. V. Barker
have also announced the opening of
the new Highland Park Addition
further south on Carter street. The
44 acres in this addition, purchased
from Lester Haile, has ample room
for any conceivable home-building
boom in Whitewright.
MRS. RICHARD RIGGINS
Mrs. Richard Riggins, 47, former
Whitewright resident, died at Car-
rollton last Sunday. Funeral services
were held at Denison Tuesday, and
burial was in Calvary Cemetery
there.
Mrs. Riggins, the former Alene
Stevens, was born July 30, 1913, at
Denison. She married Mr. Riggins
Sept. 17, 1946. They lived in White-
wright for several years before mov-
ing to Carrollton. Mr. Riggins was
local manager for Lone Star Gas
Company, and has a similar position
at Carrollton.
Mrs. Riggins is survived also by a
brother, Harold Stevens of Denison.
the
He predicted
may occur
States be-
New fishing regulations on Lake
Texoma have been promulgated by
the game and fish commission, with
the passage of regulatory authority
covering the Lake Texoma area of
Cooke and Grayson Counties, the
Texas game and fish commission an-
nounced this week in Austin.
Under the new regulations there
will be no closed season on large-
mouth and spotted black bass, with
a daily creel limit of 10 bass, any
size. There will be no closed season
on crappie, with a daily creel limit
of 25, any length. Channel, blue and
flathead catfish can be caught
throughout the year, with a limit of
25 fish of any length . All other fish
species not specifically listed are not
regulated, which means that the lim-
it has been taken off white bass
(sandies) in this lake. This con-
forms with the long existing Okla-
homa regulation, which did not pro-
vide for a creel limit on white bass.
The new regulations provide that
hooks on throw lines and trot lines
must be spaced not less than three
feet apart, and shall not number
more than 100 hooks per line. Spear
gun and spear and bows and arrows
may be used for taking only rough
fish. It shall be unlawful to have in
possession any fish other than rough
fish while using either spear gun or
bow and arrow. Rough fish are de-
fined as carp, suckers, buffalo, gar,
shad, and drum.
THOMAS B. BLANTON
Funeral services were held at 3 p.
m. Monday at the Earnheart chapel
for Thomas B. Blanton, 83, who died
at 6:40 p. m. Friday at a Savoy Rest
Home. He was a retired farmer.
Rev. Larry Ravert, pastor of the
Marvin Methodist Church, conducted
the services. Burial was in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Mr. Blanton, a Whitewright resi-
dent, was married to the former Cor-
delia Nicely of Savoy.
He is survived by five sons, Roland
Blanton of Bakersfield, Calif., Ewing
Blanton and Emmett Blanton of
Wasco, Calif., Irving Blanton of Fort
Worth, and Clarence Blanton of
Wichita, Kan.; three daughters, Mrs.
Lee May of Sherman, Mrs. R. E. Walt
of Whitewright, and Mrs. Virgil
Ward of Wichita, Kan.; two brothers,
Foster Blanton of Sherman and Ben
Blanton of Denison; one sister, Mrs.
Charlie Layman of Whitewright; 32
grandchildren and 34 great-grand-
children.
dates in the Democratic
Grayson County made a
duction last year, but
nearly far enough.
New Fishing Rules Congress Asked
For Lake Texoma For Money and Men Open House Sei For
An optimist is a fellow who be-
lieves what’s going to be will be
postponed.—Kin Hubbard.
“LUCKY STRIKE Green Has
Gone to War!” Remember seeing
that in ads and hearing it on radio
nearly 20 years ago—in 1942?, Lucky
Strike cigarettes had been pack-
aged in a dark green pack for many
years, but the war cut off the sup-
ply of ingredients for green ink
which were imported from Ger-
many. So, Lucky Strike green went
to war and was replaced by a white
package. The green pack never re-
turned, but Lucky Strike advertis-
ing has returned to The Sun this
week for the first time since be-
fore the war.
THINGS HAVE c h a n ge d
Whitewright over the years. There
are still a few people around who
remember when Whitewright had
six dry goods stores, two newspa-
pers, three drug stores, two banks,
three hardware and implement
stores, two morticians, six physi-
cians, two livery stables, two laun-
dry agents for out-of-town laun-
dries, two bakeries, four restau-
rants, two dentists, two hotels, sev-
eral rooming and boarding houses, a
horse race track, two wagon yards,
three lumber yards, two mule barns,
and no automobile dealers. Are you
old enough to remember
days?
to Tuesday
the nation,
Kennedy asked Congress for author-
ity to call up 250,000 ready reserv-
ists for a year and to extend all cur-
rent tours of duty by 12 months. He
asked $3,500,000,000 more for mili-
tary and Civil Defense outlays. Mis-
siles, plane and ship production will
be accelerated.
Members of both parties on Capi-
tol Hill praised Kennedy’s address
and indicated support of his military
plan. But some foresaw the neces-
sity for tax nicreases to pay for it.
House Republicans, singly and in
groups, urged the chief executive to
make budget room for the defense
build-up by cutting his domestic
welfare and subsidy programs . Ten
GOP tax writers told Kennedy in a
letter:
“We reject the notion, which seems
implicit in present policies, that the
American people desire their gov-
ernment to pursue the bankrupt
route of ‘all this and defense too’.”
Meantime, a Selective Service of-
ficial said the stepped-up draft calls
probably will not disrupt the college
plans of many young Americans.
“We feel that going to college is very
important to the nation’s future,” he
said.
But the spokesman said if it be-
comes necessary. Selective Service
will force down the present average
draft age of 23 to grab younger men.
WASHINGTON.—President Ken-
nedy urged Congress Wednesday to
provide money and manpower for a
fighting force designed to deter war
with Russia over Berlin, but equip-
ped to fight if it comes to that.
The response was immediate and
enthusiastic . Both Houses promptly
set the President’s program in mo-
tion. Congressional leaders prom-
ised to have it on his desk for signa-
ture by Tuesday night.
The administration didn’t wait,
however. It increased the August
draft call from 8,000 to 13,000 men.
Inductions in Septembei’ and suc-
ceeding months will top the 20,000
mark.
The public also reacted quickly to
Kennedy’s “fight if we must” plan
for meeting Soviet threats to Berlin.
White House Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger said about 2,000 telegrams
had been received. They ran about
20 to 1 in favor of the President’s
stand, he said.
In a swift followup
night’s grim speech to
GONZALES. — Three Grayson
County people have been invited to
attend the nation’s most unusual re-
union.
George Burleson of Whitewright,
Patsy Ann Martinek of Gunter, and
Sarah Maudine Shields of Denison
have received invitations to attend a
gathering of former patients of the
Texas Rehabilitation Center of Gon-
zales Warm Springs Foundation. The
reunion will be held at the Center
near Gonzales Aug. 13.
The first reunion was held five
years ago when the former patients’
association was organized.
DAILY NEWSPAPERS have been
narrowing their columns until they
now get eight columns on the same
width sheet as The Sun uses for six
columns, and even nine columns on
a sheet just a little wider. This is a
method of increasing advertising
space rates without the advertiser
realizing what is going on. There
are still a few papers which give the
advertiser a full 13-em column for
his advertising inch, but very few.
The Wall Street Journal is the only
newspaper we know about that uses
even a wider column than 13 ems.
was more one way than the other, Pa
told him he walked straighter going
than he did coming home.
The Congress has been working on
this problem of post office finances
so long and gitting no place that I
Jiggered I better bring it up at the
country store Saturday night. The
thing hadn’t been in committee
more’n 10 minutes till the fellers had
it solved.
Ed Doolittle said he was reading
last week where our Guvernment has
spent $86 billion on foreign aid in the
last 15 year, averaging around $5.7
billion a year. The post office is
coming up short about, two-thirds of
one billion ever year, so Ed allowed
as how we could pinch a little piece
of that foreign aid off ever year and
pay up the postal deficit. Zeke
Grubb claimed that them countries
like the Congo and Vietnem would
never miss it, especial since the
grafters git about half of it anyhow.
Bug Hookum went so far as to favor
pinching off a little extra and mak-
ing all postal services free. He said
this would please the constituents
and make it nice fer them Congress-
men at election time.
If you folks in town has got any
problems, Mister Editor, mail ’em
to me parcel post and I’ll have the
fellers put ’em orr the agenda fer the
next meeting. But: be shore they
don’t weigh more’n 40 pound.
Yours truly, UNCLE DAN.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I see by the papers where the new
Postmaster General says the finances
in his department is all out of
whack. He is advising that we got to
hike the rates another notch or two,
maybe three. We been gitting that
song from ever Postmaster General,
Democrat and Republican, fer 40
year and the finances git worse and
worse and the rates git higher and
higher. About two more Postmaster
Generals and it’ll be cheaper to go
see a feller than write him a letter.
I don’t think finances is the only
thing out of whack in this depart-
ment. Fer instant, out here on the
rural route I can mail a parcel post
package weighing 70 pound, making
the mail man haul it into town and
git it off fer me. But if I haul it in-
to town myself and mail it at the
window they won’t take but 40
pound of parcel post. Don’t ask me
why. It’s the Post Office Depart-
ment that’s crazy, not me.
I ain’t saying they ain’t some ex-
cuse fer it. Sometimes they is
technical reasons fer things that
don’t meet the eye. A feller has to
figger all the angles afore he can
pass sound judgment on somepun. I
recollect onct when a traveling sales-
man stopped at ole Pa Sedgefield’s
house and ask him how fur it was to
town. Pa allowed as how it was 4
mile there and 6 mile back. When
the salesman ask him how come it
Even though IRS’s tax enforce-
ment program brings in millions,
Texans voluntarily pay most of the
$3 billion taxes taken in annually by
the Austin and Dallas Internal Rev-
enue Service Districts. The tax folks
give strong support to voluntary
compliance with enforcement. Thou-
sands have their tax returns audited
and several score are indicted for
fraud annually. More than 200
brand new tax men hired this year
for Texas IRS offices have just fin-
ished tax schools or they are hard at
work in one of several tax schools
being held here in Texas now. It
probably pays to voluntarily comply
after all.
LIMESTONE COUNTY has done
what the officials of most counties
don’t have the guts to do—reduced
by half the number of voting boxes
in that county. The number was cut
from 34 to 17 by the Limestone
County commissioners court last
week, thereby reducing the cost to
the county of holding general and
special elections, and to the candi-
primaries.
token re-
didn’t go
WESLEY JUDD
Funeral services were held at
10:30 o’clock this morning at the Pi-
lat Grove Baptist Church for George
Wesley Judd, 64, conducted by Rev.
Don Howland of Tom Bean and Rev.
Howard McSpedden of Denton.
Burial was in Pilot Grove Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ben Simpson, Rob-
ert L. Jones, Claude Lackey, and
Wallace Hamilton.
Mr. Judd died Tuesday of a heart
His home was at Tom Bean.
Born Sept. 28, 1896, at Cookeville,
Tennessee, Mr. Judd was the son of
James Dudley and Mary Bradford
Judd. He came to Texas with his
parents as a boy. On July 7, 1927, he
married Miss Zelma Stephens of the
Little Rock community. He was a
World War I veteran.
Surviving are his wife; three sons,
Ralph Judd of Whitewright; Douglas
Judd of Borger, and Stephen Judd of
Tom Bean; three daughters, Mrs. E.
A. Chow of Dallas, Mrs. B. M. Jones
of Tom Bean and Mrs. O. C. Schuma-
cher of Germany; four brothers, I.
O. and Howard S. Judd of Borger
and D. C. and Ralph Judd of Lub-
bock, and nine grandchildren.
SCUNTHORPE, England. — Dog
lover Jeremiah Green has made a
will setting up a 300,000-pound—
$840,000—trust fund to build and
maintain a luxury home for stray
dogs.
“Some people will call me a crank
for leaving all my money to dogs,”
said real estate dealer Green, “but
they have been my greatest friends.”
The dogs’ home will be a memorial
to Rusty, a cocker spaniel Green had
for 14 years.
President Kennedy Tuesday night
bluntly warned Russia that the Unit-
ed States will not allow the Com-
munists to drive us out of Berlin,
either gradually or by force.
His speech was nationally telecast
and broadcast to the world.
To demonstrate American pre-
paredness for military action he
called for bigger defense appropria-
tions, an Army of a million men,
more ships, more planes, more am-
munition.
“I hear it said that West Berlin
is militarily untenable,” the Presi-
dent declared. “So was Bastogne.
So, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any
dangerous spot is tenable if 1
men will make it so.
“We do not want to fight,”
President declared, but he added,
somberly, “but we have fought
fore.” In a pointed warning, he told
Russia not to make the mistake of
“others in earlier times” who as-
sumed that the Western democracies
were “too selfish and too soft and too
divided to resist invasions of freedom
in other lands.”
He said that in the days and
months ahead he would not hesitate
to ask for additional measures from
Congress to build up our military
might or exercise his executive pow-
ers.
“Everything essential to the secur-
ity of freedom will be done,” he as-
serted.
“And if that should require
men, taxes, controls or other
powers, I shall not hesitate to
quest them.”
Specifically, the President said he
was taking the following steps at this
time:
1. Asking Congress for an addi-
tional $3,247,000,000 for the military
in the current fiscal year.
2. Requesting an increase in the
Army’s authorized strength from
875,000 to approximately a million
men.
3. Seeking an increase of 29,000
and 63,000 men, respectively, in the
active duty strength of the Navy and
Air Force.
4. Ordering a doubling and a
tripling in the coming months of
draft calls, seeking permission from
Congress to call certain reservists to
active duty, and calling up a number
of air transport squadrons and Air
National Guard tactical squadrons to
July 21:
Whitewright 15 runs, 6 hits, 1 er-
ror. Howe 2 runs, 3 hits, 4 errors.
- Whitewright pitchers, Terry Ed-
i wards (winner) and Curtis Tillett.
■ Catcher, Scooter McCurdy. Howe
pitchers, Gene Stephens (loser), Cal-
vin Wiggins and Larry Carver.
: Catcher, Vernie Jacob.
: Strikeouts: Edwards 4, Tillett
Stephens 5, Wiggins 4, Carver 1.
Batting: For Whitewright, Tillett
4 for 5 including a double and a
triple, Dickie Leonardi, home run.
For Howe, Larry Craver 2 for 2.
July 24:
Whitewright 15 runs, 8 hits, 8 er-
rors. Tom Bean 14 runs, 15 hits, 3
errors.
Whitewright pitchers, Curtis Tillett
and Terry Edwards (winner). Catch-
er, Scooter McCurdy. Tom Bean
pitchers, Billy Neal and Billy Guth-
rie (loser). Catcher, Larry Jones.
Strikeouts: Tillett 9, Neal 7, Guth-
rie 1.
Batting: For Whitewright, Dickie
Leonardi 2 for 4 including a double,
Tillett 3 for 5 including a double and
a home run, Joe Hennig 2 for 3 in-
cluding a double. For Tom Bean,
Woodrow Brown 2 for 5, Guthrie 3
for 5 including a triple, Jones 2 for
5, Kenny Langford 3 for 5, and Dan-
ny Kemp 3 for 4 including a double.
Little League
July 22:
Bells 12 runs, 13 hits, 5 errors.
Whitewright 10 runs, 9 hits, 4 errors.
Bells pitchers, Layman and Cope-
land. Catcher, Brooks. White-
wright pitchers, Ryon and Bailey.
Catchers, Woodson and Bunch.
Strikeouts: Layman 4, Copeland 2.
Batting: For Bells, Brooks doubled,
Casteel 2 for 4, Copeland 2 for 3,
Layman 3 for 4 including a home
run, Neal 2 for 2. For Whitewright,
Bunch 3 for 4, Watkins 2 for 3, Deeds
2 for 2, including a double.
Season Record
Final standing for American Little
League:
Bells 1, Whitewright 2, Farmers-
ville 3, Tom Bean 4, Van Alstyne 5,
Howe 6.
Whitewright finished the season
with a 10-4-1 record, 2% games be-
hind first place Bells.
Final standing in National
League:
Trenton 1, Randolph 2, Ector 3,
Windom 4, Savoy 5, Dodd City 6.
Whitewright won the American
League sportsmanship trophy, and
Randolph won the National League
sportsmanship trophy.
Batting averages for Whitewright
Little League team: Bailey .420, Wat-
kins .387, Deeds .325, Bunch .266,
Hicks .256, Montgomery .250, Wood-
son .211, Vestal .142, Ryon .138.
Pitchers’ record: Montgomery 3-0,
Bailey 4-2, Ryon 3-2.
Final standing in American Pony
League:
Tom Bean 1, Whitewright 2,
Farmersville 3, Van Alstyne 4, Howe
5.
Whitewright finished the season
with a 9-2-1 record, one-half game
behind first place Tom Bean.
Final standing for the National
League:
Dodd City 1, Windom 2, Savoy 3,
Ector 4, Trenton 5.
Whitewright won the American
sportsmanship trophy and Trenton
won the National League sportsman-
ship trophy.
Batting averages for the White-
wright Pony League: Tillett .551,
Leonardi .446, Edwards .341, Hennig
.307, Range .275, McCurdy .256,
Jones .228, Billner .208, Ryon .143.
Pitchers’ record: Tillett 5-1, Ed-
wards 4-1.
The Little League all-star game
will be played at Whitewright Aug.
12.
The Pony League all-star game
will be played at Whitewright Aug.
11.
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