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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 77, NO. 15
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1962
ESTABLISHED 1885,
Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
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DALE GORE
UNCLE DAN
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year___ to:
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Street or Route.
City.
Zone____ State.
Q New
Renewal
New Laundry In
Operation Here
49ih Division Due
Release in August
Funeral Friday
For J. H. Gosnell
To Vote or Not,
Poll Tax Is Tax
PTA Has Style
Show, Discussion
Social Security
Income Tops Outgo
Barbecue, Horse
Show New Items
For Stock Event
Fishermen Subject To
Check For Licenses
THE MOBIL Economy Run has
heen run and the winners are herald-
ing their miles-per-gallon records.
These range all the way from 31
down to 18 miles per gallon. The
buyer of an auto can reasonably
knock off 10 MPG from these records
in the MPGs he may expect from the
cars.
A CITY WORK crew has been fil-
ling chug holes in the city street
pavement this week, giving tempor-
ary relief from rough riding.
TEXANS ARE going to have the
'opportunity to vote in the May pri-
maries for or against legalized gam-
bling on horse races. Texas had this
back some 30 years ago, and it was
■outlawed by popular demand be-
cause of the evils it generated. There
is no sensible reason for reestablish-
ing it now.
Air pollution can cause crumbling
in stone buildings.
MARCH CIGARETTE AND
BOOZE TAXES IN SLUMP
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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$3.00 (6c tax in Tex.)
Young men who work their way up
into executive jobs tend to have
poorer health than execs who have
stepped into their jobs from college,
some researchers claim.
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GEORGE GILLETT
George Gillett, a native of ,the
Whitewright community, died Friday
at his home, 3700 Euclid, Dallas.
Private graveside funeral service was
held at 11 a. m. Saturday at Restland
Memorial Park, Dallas, Rev. Marcus
Chunn officiating.
Mr. Gillett, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Gillett, grew up in this
community. He had lived in Dallas
most of his adult life.
Surving are a brother, Grady Gil-
lett of Whitewright, and a sister, Mrs.
Cordia Caldwell of Dallas.
A light application of cleanser on a
damp cloth will dissolve dust and
grime on white wall tires.
Kennedy Lashes
Sieel Companies
For Raising Price
AUSTIN — Barely one-third of the
state’s 5.2 million citizens between
the ages of 21 and 60 paid the poll
tax each one owed by Jan. 31 this
year.
The Texas poll tax—which the U.
S. Senate would outlaw as a voting
requirement and which will appear
along with parimutuel betting as an
issue on the May primary ballots—
had nothing to do with voting ori-
ginally.
Framers of the Constitution of 1876
in fact shied from the tax as a prere-
quisite for voting because they fear-
ed it would endanger adoption of
their document. The tax was first
levied in 1877 as a purely financial
measure.
The first $1 of the state’s $1.50 tax
goes to the permanent school fund.
The 50 cents goes to the general fund.
All but 17 counties levy an additional
25 cents for their own purposes. If
all citizens paid what is due, the state
would collect more than $7 million
annually.
As it is, the state will get something
less than $2.5 million, after allowing
county tax collectors a certain a-
mount for their trouble, from the
2,973,000 poll taxes paid for 1961.
The highest collection on record, for
1960, represented only .177 per cent
of the state’s total income.
Each citizen’s legal liability for the
tax is far outweighed in present so-
ciety by the voting aspect. In the
various political factions’ frantic ef-
forts to qualify voters before each
election year’s poll tax deadline, the
admonition to “buy your poll tax” is
more common than the more com-
mon-sense idea of “paying” the tax.
Texas and Virginia are the only
states which still levy the poll tax as
a voting requirement. Virginia’s re-
quirement is actually based on the
proposition that a person must owe
no past due taxes in order to vote.
Few political observers believe any
more Texas voters would qualify
with a registration system, which
would necessitate some kind of fee,
than presently qualify through pay-
ment of the poll tax.
Thirty-two of the 50 states employ
a permanent voter registration sys-
tem. In all but eight of these the
permanent registration is subject to
cancellation by failure to vote.
As for disfranchisement of voters,' president.
BUT WHAT Jim Stuteville came
to our office for was to buy one-year
subscriptions to The Sun for his
brother, Overton Stuteville of Miami,
Florida; his daughter, Mrs. D. T.
Waddle of Valdosta, Georgia, and
his niece, Mrs. Jo Willa Morton of
Irving, Texas, and we welcome them
to our family of readers.
the residence requirements of all but
four states probably carry a heavier
responsibility in this regard than
poll taxes.
The National Association of Secre-
taries of State estimates that 8 mil-
lion voters are disfranchised in the
continuing population shift by the
states’ various voter residence re-
quirements. Only four states relax
their residence rules to permit new-
comers to vote for president and vice
THE PITTSBURG (Camp County,
Texas) Gazette comes to our desk
every week. Last week’s issue con-
tained the city’s delinquent tax roll
—4% columns long and listing some
■600 properties as delinquent. Pitts-
burg is not a large town, and with
600 delinquent property taxpayers,
We wonder how there could be
enough paying taxpayers left to fi-
nance the Pittsburg city government.
mrs. rufus mcmillin
Funeral services were held at 2
p. m. Wednesday in Earnheart Chapel
for Mrs. Rufus W. McMillin, 80, of
Pilot Grove. She died at 2 a. m. Tues-
day in a Sherman hospital. She was
a native of Van Alstyne.
The Rev. James Griffin of Pilot
Grove, and the Rev. Don Howland of
Tom Bean, Baptist ministers, con-
ducted the services. Burial was in
Pilot Grove Cemetery.
Mrs. McMillin was born Feb. 8,
1882, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clark Mullenix. She and Mr. Mc-
Millin were married Oct. 7, 1900, at
White Mound. He died in 1934. She
was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors are two sons, E. H. Mc-
Millin of Sherman and E. P. Mc-
Millin of Howe; five daughters, Mrs.
Hob Hardin, Mrs. D. Tate and Mrs.
James Bourland, all of Tom Bean,
Mrs. Arlie St. John of Whitewright
and Mrs. L. R. Ross of Sherman; 16
grandchildren; 17 great-grandchil-
dren and four great-great-grandchil-
dren.
Marshall Hasty placed his new
•automatic laundry in operation this
week, although he said there is much
work yet to be done before the in-
stallation is complete.
The laundry, located in the former
'Chevrolet building on South Bond
street, has 20 Maytag coin-operated
washers and six dryers. Other equip-
ment includes a coin changer, deter-
gent dispenser, and starching ma-
chine.
Work on a lounge for customers is
in progress. It will Tiave television,
Mr. Hasty said.
Work is nearing completion on
converting the large building next
door north for use as a furniture
store. This building, formerly used as
display space for automobiles, had
a concrete floor and metal roof, but
no walls on three sides. Walls have
been added and an insulated false
ceiling has been installed. The east
wall is all glass, with the plate glass
set at an oblique angle. Upon comple-
tion of this building, Mr. Hasty will
move his furniture store from Main
street to the new location.
A fund-raising barbecue and a
quarter horse show will be new fea-
tures of the Texoma Exposition and
Livestock Show at Loy Lake today
and Friday.
The Thursday barbecue, starting
at 5 p. m., is being held by Grayson.
Future Farmers to finance purchase
of portable scales for weighing stock
on the grounds.
At 7 p. m. the quarter horse show-
opens with adult, FFA, and 4-H ex-
hibitors invited to show animals.
There will be 16 quarter horse classes
open with prizes of $5 for first, $4 for
second, $3 for third, $2 for fourth,
and $1 for fifth places.
County Agent Stanley Oakley and
Charles Knight are general superin-
tendents of this year’s show and re-
port that more than 90 head of beef
cattle and 90 head of dairy stock
have already been entered in the
various classes.
Swine and sheep divisions will al-
so be included inthe show with all
animals scheduled to be on hand for
both days. Additional barn space ad-
ded last year made this possible. For
the first few years at the Loy Lake
pavilion the show had to be split in
order to have room for the animals.
This year the show organization
has" also published a 52-page pro-
gram covering all events of the show
and listing officials and rules in each
division.
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DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The fellers at the country store
Saturday night was wondering if
you’d got that letter off to our Con-
gressman about them Chinese
feathers. In case you ain’t dispatched
it yet, some of them wanted a item or
two added to it.
Ed Doolittle allowed as how them
bureaucrats in Washington has wore
him down and brain-washed him
complete on the idea we got to have
one taxeater fer ever tax-payer in the
country. If we can just hold this
one-fer-one ratio, claims Ed, we can
keep the national budget unbalanced
till judgment day. You can’t ex-
plore new frontiers, says Ed, with a
ballanced budget.
And he says he’ll go along with the
one-fer-one system that calls fer
ever office holder to have a assistant,
and fer ever assistant to have a help-
er, and fer ever helper to have a 30-
hour week, port to port pay, retire-
ment benefits at 50, a month’s vaca-
tion once a year with full pay, and a
“fact-finding” pleasure trip around
the world from time to time.
Furthermore, says Ed, he ain’t rais-
ing a finger agin that million-dollar
grant the tax-payers give them
science fellers to study if baby mon-
keys loves their mothers. But Ed is
pritty upset over the fact that four
months has gone by and we ain’t had
no report on this monkey-love pro-
ject. Ed claims that, fer a million dol-
lars, the tax-eaters ought to be giving
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Income to the two social security
trust funds exceeded outgo by $409
million during the 'fiscal year 1961,
according to the 22nd Annual Report,
sent to Congress recently by the
trustees of the funds.
Gus Jones, District Manager of the
Sherman Social Security Office said
today that the official figures given
in the trustees’ report show that in-
come to the two funds during the
rest of this decade and on into the
long range future will be sufficient
to cover all outlays for benefits.
Income to the Old-Age and Sur-
vivors Insurance Trust Fund during
the past fiscal year amounted to $11,-
814 million, including $522 million
interest on invested assets, Jones
said. Total disbursements for the year
were $11,743 million. At the end of
June 1961, the fund stood at $20.9
billion.
Total income to the Disability In-
surance Trust Fund during fiscal
year 1961 came to $1,082 million, in-
cluding $60 million in interest on in-
vestments. Disbursements were $745
million and the assets of the fund at
the end of the fiscal year totalled $2,-
504 million.
The three trustees of the funds—
the Secretary of the Treasury, the
Secretary of Labor and the Secretary
of Health, Education, and Welfare—
are required by law to make a report
to Congress each year on the opera-
tions and status of the funds during
the previous fiscal year and on their
expected operations and status for
many years into the future.
According to the trustees’ esti-
mates, disbursements from the Old-
Age and Survivors Insurance Trust
Fund during the fiscal year 1962 will
exceed income, mainly because of the
effect of the 1961 amendments. In
fiscal year 1963, income and outgo are
expected to be in approximate
balance. In every year thereafter on
into the long range future, income to
the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
Trust Fund is expected to exceed out-
go.
The assets of the Old-Age and Sur-
vivors Insurance Trust Fund are ex-
pected to amount to $22.2 billion by
the end of December 1965. By De-
cember 1970, they will have increased
to $53.7 billion. At the end of 1975,
it is estimated that the fund will
amount to $99.6 billion. By the end
of 1975, assets of the Disability In-
surance Trust Fund are expected to
total $2.9 billion.
Jones said that Sherman Social
Security Office has a new booklet
which describes in simple language
how the social security program is
financed. Free copies of this booklet
are available upon request, he said.
Just ask for Booklet No. 36. The
social security district office in Sher-
man, Texas is located at 300 East
Houston.
Plastics, long used as electrical in-
sulators, have been made to con-
duct electricity.
TYLER — With the begining of the
spring fishing season, game wardens
now are beginning a careful check of
licenses, according to Charles Bur-
nette, Conservation Supervisor of the
Game and Fish Commission in Tyler.
A resident fishing license costs
$2.15 and is required of every person
fishing in any of the public waters
of the state of Texas. No license is
required of persons under 17 years of
age or over 65 years of age. No licen-
se is required of a person or a mem-
ber of his immediate family when
fishing upon property that he owns
or upon which he resides. No license
is required of persons fishing with a
trot line, throw line or ordinary
pole and line having no reel or wind-
ing device, when fishing in the coun-
ty of his residence. The same $2.15
license may be purchased by non-
residents.
"I do not agree with a word that you say.
•tout I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
WASHINGTON .— President Ken-
nedy, in the toughest language he
has used since taking office, Wednes-
day lashed the steel industry for rais-
ing prices $6 a ton. He indicated the
government might crack down.
The President led off his press con-
ference by reading a prepared state-
ment containing harsh condemnation
of “a tiny handful of steel execu-
tives.”
These men, he asserted, are putting
the pursuit of private power and
profits ahead of their public respon-
sibility.
He charged that the steel chieftains
were showing “utter contempt for the
interests of 185 million Americans”
and predicted that the public would
find this hard to accept. '
Kennedy placed the steel situation
squarely in the context of national
security, pointing out sacrifices being
made on other fronts in the Cold
War. He praised the restraint which
he said steel union members dis-
played on wage demands.
If the steel price raise prevails,
Kennedy declared, the cost of homes,
autos, appliances and other items will
rise, too.
And he said Defense Secretary
Robert McNamara had advised him
the increase would add a billion dol-
lars to defense procurement costs.
Kennedy issued a pointed' warning
that the government has responsibili-
ties in this field “which we intend to
meet.”
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AN ILLUSTRATION of what auto-
mation is doing to the work force
was revealed to us this week by
■Jim Stuteville of Dallas. Jim be-
gan work more than 35 years ago for
Magnolia Oil Co. in its Dallas office.
It is now Mobil Oil Company. The
company some months ago installed
IBM electronic office equipment in
its Dallas office which eliminated
the jobs of about 400 workers. In
•order to protect jobs of younger
workers, the company retired all
workers with 35 or more years of
service, giving them full company
retirement benefits. Jim was one of
them. He said it was a profitable deal
for him, since he gets full company
retirement pay plus the amount he
will draw under Social Security, paid
by the company, until he is 65 when
Social Security will take over that
portion of his retirement benefits. It
was also a profitable deal for young-
er workers who were able to retain
their jobs because the older em-
ployes moved out when automation
moved in. But what is automation
going to do to the work force in all
industry in the future? In the case of
Jim’s company, those 400 jobs in Dal-
las are gone forever. What kind of
jobs can possibly replace these and
the millions that will be eliminated
by automation in the future? As more
and more jobs are eliminated by
future automation, the unemployed
will grow in proportion, and we
-could conceivably wind up with
half the American people unemploy-
ed and depending for subsistence up-
on the employed half.
The Whitewright Parent-Teacher
Association had its monthly meeting
on Tuesday night. Wallace Mynatt,
president, gave the invocation.
The second grade won the room
count for the number of parents pres-
ent.
The program consisted of a style
show and a panel discussion. The
style show was presented by Mrs.
Earl Blanton and the ' sixteen girls
who competed in the Vogue Dress
Contest several weeks ago. The girls
were: Gail Wilson, Glyna McCasland,
Becky Vestal, Jill Meador, Patsy
Neal, Anna Franklin, Patricia Jarvis,
Tressa Cureton, Jeannie Skip worth,
Kathleen Crawford, Delinda Black-
erby, Kay Buchanan, Doris Tillett,
Bonnie Ely, Elizabeth Stephens, Judy
Fulmer.
A most interesting discussion on
“The Responsibilities of the Parent
and the Teacher to the Student” was
given by the panel. Robert Sivley was
the moderator; Mrs. Kay Bryant, a
parent, discussed what the parents
expect of the teacher; Pattye Badgett,
a student, told what the students ex-
pect of the teacher; Mrs. Leta Harper,
a teacher, listed the responsibilities
that the parents should have concem-
inng the students; and Delinda Black-
erby discussed what a student ex-
pects of his parents.
Many important responsibilities of
the teacher and parent were discus-
sed. It was agreed that the most im-
portant responsibility of both the
parent and the teacher is to inspire
the child to make something of him-
self. Many of the problems with chil-
dren and students will cease if these
children are inspired.
This discussion helped us as teach-
ers and parents to evaluate ourselves
as to whether or not we are carrying
out these responsibilities that are ex-
pected of us. — Reporter.
I the tax-payers a report about once
a month, maybe once a week, on this
matter.
When you send that letter off to
Washington, Mister Editor, see if you
can git the latest news on this mon-
key-love project. All the fellers will
appreciate it.
Clem Webster said to tell his Con-
gressman he’s strong in favor of our
stockpiling program. Clem says
Sampson did the biggest job of
slaughtering till the A-Bomb, and he
done it with the jaw-bone of a ass.
Somewhere between Sampson and
the A-Bomb, claims Clem, you’d
have to put Senator Byrd fer trying
to do a jaw-bone job on our fine
stockpiling program.
Bug Hookum was lamenting one
thing about this program. He said he
was reading a list of them things we
was stockpiling and he was shocked
over the absence of one item. Bug
said, according to the list, we been
stockpiling everything from hum-
ming bird eggs to grandfather clocks
but they ain’t a frying pan on the
whole list. Bug allows as how the
frying pan, next to fire and the
wheel, was the greatest invention
ever made by man. He wants you to
ask his Congressman how come we
ain’t stockpiling this strategic item.
Bug says if war comes he’d rather
have one frying pan as a carload of
them Chinese feathers.
Yours truly,
Dale Gore Is New
Baptist Pastor
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WASHINGTON — Texas’ 49th Ar-
mored Division will be released from
active duty in August if there is no
“serious deterioration in the inter-
national situation” before then, Pre-
sident Kennedy said Wednesday.
The Texas National Guard division
is scheduled to be replaced by a
regular Army unit. Later, the Army
said it would announce details of the
release on April 30.
Barring the change in the inter-
national climate, Kennedy said all
Guardsmen and Reservists called in-
voluntarily last year would be re-
leased sometime in August.
The President cautioned that re-
lease of the Guard units was not the
result of any change in the inter-
national situation but represented a
permanent rather than emergency
force as a backup.
J. H. Gosnell, 79, long-time resi-
dent of the Whitewright community,
died at T p. m. Wednesday in a
Sherman hospital after a two-week
illness.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p. m. Friday at Earnheart chapel,
conducted by Rev. Calvin Tolar, pas-
tor of the Bethel Baptist Church, and
Rev. U. C. Broach of Leonard, a for-
mer Bethel pastor. Burial will be in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Weldon Bart-
ley, Clint Hennig, Houston Darwin,
Gomer May, Dick Walker, W. M.
Williams, Wallace Wilson and James
Bryant.
Mr. Gosnell was born at Campo-
bello, S. C., Dec. 25, 1882, son of
William and Lou Gosnell. He came
to this community as a young man,
and on Nov. 19, 1916, married Miss
Georgia Autrey of the Bethel com-
munity, south of Whitewright. He
farmed for many years in that com-
munity, retiring from that activity to
enter the grocery business in White-
wright where he operated the Hi-
Way Grocery until his death. He was
a member of the First Baptist Church
of Whitewright.
Surviving are his wife; a son,
James H. Gosnell; three daughters,
Mrs. Gilbert Keck of Nocona, Mrs.
J. M. Ashinhurst Jr. of Grand Prairie,
and Mrs. James Robnett of Lubbock;
a brother, W. E. Gosnell of Campo-
bello, S. C., and six grandchildren.
AUSTIN—Revenue from cigarette,
liquor and wine stamp sales during
March totaled $8.3 million, State
Treasurer Jesse James reported
Tuesday.
The month’s income was $359,275
less than the same month last year.
Cigarette stamp sales totaled $7
million, liquor $1.1 million and wine,
$88,123.
The First Baptist Church of White-
wright has employed Rev. Dale Gore
of Brownwood as pastor. He will
move his family to Whitewright next
week, and will begin his ministry on
Easter Sunday.
Mr. Gore was born and reared at
Corpus Christi. He graduated from
Howard Payne College, Brownwood,
with bachelor of arts degree, and
from Southwestern Baptist Theologi-
cal Seminary, Fort Worth, with
bachelor of divinity degree.
His ministerial experience includes
the following: Associate pastor of
First Baptist Church of Uvalde; min-
ister of music at First Baptist Church
of Hillsboro; pastor of Baggett Creek
Baptist Church, Comanche County;
minister of music Of First Baptist
Church of Brownwood.
Mr. Gore’s wife is the former La-
Verne Dennis of Brownwood. She is
a graduate of Howard Payne College
with bachelor of science degree, and
also attended Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. She has taught
for six years in public schools.
The Gores have two sons, Dennis,
age 2% years, and Jeffrey, age one
month.
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