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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 79, NUMBER 2
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9,1964
THERE
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Leberman Announces
For State Legislature
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Speedup Sought
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Johnson Budget
Surprises Nation
School Cost Next
Year $21 Billion
Federal Panel
Is Ready With
Smoking Report
New Ford Dealer
Friday-Saturday
Ray Shaw Is New
Methodist Chuch
Choir Director
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RAILS FACING
STRIKE CRISIS
HERE
and
Sleepy rats are being studied at
the University of Florida because, it
develops, rats react the same way
people do to getting up in the morn-
ing. Eventually, it is hoped, people
will be educated into getting up with-
out an alarm.
Root rot can be controlled by soil
treatment to save expensive plants.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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Open House By The School Planning
Commilee Named
POLITICS IS beginning to get go-
ing locally. Joe Joiner of Sherman
has announced as a candidate for the
office of county attorney. Lowell
Leberman Jr. of Commerce has his
formal announcement in The Sun
this week as a candidate for State
Representative, District 24, Fannin
and Hunt counties. Mr. Leberman, a
blind young man, came to our office
■with his seeing-eye dog.
Den 3 of the Cub Scouts met for
their weekly meeting Monday in the
home of Mrs. Floyd Flowers. The
boys roasted marshmallows and stud-
ied fire safety. Mrs. Lucille Wyatt,
den mother, served doughnuts to sev-
en boys.
SEVERAL PERSONS have men-
tioned to us a story appearing in the
Denison Herald Tuesday which quot-
ed Rep. Ray Roberts repeatedly call-
ing his district the Third Congression-
al District. How a mistake like that
could be made by a newspaper is be-
yond the understanding of non-news-
paper people, but mistakes do hap-
pen. Trouble is that mistakes in
newspapers are publicized to all read-
ers of the paper, while most others
can make mistakes without everyone
knowing about them. Ray Roberts
knows, of course, that his district is
the Fourth Congressional District and
could never call it anything else.
IF YOU are to vote in 1964, you
are going to need a poll tax receipt,
unless you are exempted by law from
paying the poll tax by reason of age
or disability. Important elections are
coming up, remember, including the
presidential election. January 31 is
the last day to qualify as a voter.
Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
1 —1 -----------------a— - -
he picks up the morning paper. Zeke
said maybe Vietnam wasn’t in South
America like he argued, admitted it
might be in Africa like the other fel-
lers claimed, but he allowed as how
his geography was right on the beam
when it come to foreign aid.
He was quoting from a speech by
Congressman Otto Passman of Lou-
isiana where the Guvernment agency
that holds the money box fer foreign
aid closed out the phiscal year with
nearly 8 billion dollalrs in unspent
funds. Farthermore, Zeke said Con-
gressman Passman reported that
more’n a billion dollars of that money
wasn’t even earmarked or obligated
fer nothing, was just laying there idle
to be grabbed off by the first country
that come along and put up the porest
mouth.
ClemWebster announced the only
“aid” program he was backing in the
next election was this Federal aid to
education bill. He said he had wrote
a letter to his Congressman promising
his support fer this bill if they would
use all the money fer teaching arith-
metic in Washington.
Personal, Mister Editor, I don’t
think they was much we can do about
money. Slow but certain this item has
got the human race in a squeeze. The
Bible says it’s hard fer a rich man
to enter Heaven and it’s gitting hard-
er and harder fer a pore man to re-
main on earth.
Yours truly,
A LOCAL business man visiting in
South Texas recently, came back
with a Texas Tall Tale. Seems that
sportsmen in the area were baiting
gang fish hooks with frankfurters,
casting the bait into the brush and
snaring wolves. When a wolf took
the bait, the fisher angled the animal
until he could get a shot at it with
a rifle—anyway, that’s his story.
. WASHINGTON — The nation will
. spend more than $21,000,000,000 to
educate the 41,700,000 youngsters en-
rolled in the public schools in 1963-
1964, the National Education Associa-
tion reported Saturday.
The NEA’s annual report on school
statistics estimated there are 26,814,-
754 pupils enrolled in public elemen-
tary schools, 14,907,911 enrolled in
public high schools, and 35,000 un-
classified enrollees in grades kinder-
: garten through 12.
The total of 41,757,665 is almost
1,500,000 greater than the 40,390,049
I enrolled last year.
The NEA noted there is some infla-
tion in this figure because pupils en-
i rolled in two or more states during
the school year were counted more
than once.
The total outlay of $21,201,199,000
includes $16,896,948,000 in current
expenditures, $413,679,000 for other
programs such as community services,
summer schools, community colleges
and adult education, $3,211,735,000
for capital outlay and $678,837,000
for interest on school debts.
Total expenditure on the public
schools for the 1962 to 1963 school
year was 19,700,000,000.
Cost per pupil on the basis of
average daily atendance is $455 an-
nually, $22 higher than last year’s
$433. This is in current expendi-
tures only, and does not include capi-
tal outlay, interest on school bonds
and other programs.
Current expenditures include a-
mounts spent for general control, in-
struction, operation, maintenance,
fixed charges, and such services as
health, transportation, food and at-
tendance.
The number of classroom teachers
has increased by 4.1 per cent, from
1,512,653 in 1962 to 1963 to 1,574,818
this school year.
WASHINGTON — The long-await-
ed report on smoking and health by a
special federal panel of scientists will
be made public Saturday at noon, it
was announced here.
The panel — called the Surgeon
General’s Advisory Committee on
Smoking and Health — has been
going over the evidence for more than
a year.
Now, apparently, the report is fin-
ished, It will offer no recommenda-
tions for action — but will form the
basis for a second study which will
consider possible federal action to
regulate tobacco use and trade.
Surgeon General Luther L. Terry
will hold a news conference on the
findings.
The entire staff and all members of
the committee are to be present to
answer questions.
The panel — chosen for lack of
bias on the tobacco issue — num-
bers 10 men, including five non-
smokers, three cigarette smokers and
two cigar smokers.
They have sorted through thou-
sands of scientific reports and statis-
tical studies to compile their report.
Indications are that the report itself
will not be clear-cut in some health
areas, and may spell out the need for
further research.
The American Medical Association
already has said it will embark on
its own research into the associations
between smoking and health hazards.
The report is expected to have a
great initial impact, since it con-
cerns an industry which each year
produces 2.3 billion pounds of tobac-
co, worth $1.3 billion. The federal
government alone collected more than
$2 billion in tobacco taxes in 1962.
There was no immediate total on
the millions more city and state taxes
produce.
DAN EDDY, director of the Service
Unit Department of the Salvation
Army in Dallas, has commended the
Whitewright Service Unit for the
welfare program which it conducted
in 1963. Eddy, in making his state-
ment, said that the annual activity
report indicated that over 100 per-
sons were assisted, and that a ma-
jority of the welfare recipients were
residents of the Whitewright area.
Aid extended to men, women and
children in temporary distress in-
cluded groceries, clothing, meals,
transportation and other forms of
aid, including sending boys to sum-
mer camp. In addition, Dr. Paul Geers
has worked closely with the White-
wright unit where medical assistance
was indicated. The Whitewright Sal-
vation Army unit, a participating
agency in the Whitewright Commun-
ity United Fund, is composed of
Charlie Ayres, chairman; John Big-
gerstaff, vice-chairman; Roy Blanton,
treasurer, and Tom Sears.
LAST WEEK we overlooked the
birthday of The Sun, which was 78
years old on January 1. With last
Thursday’s issue the paper began its
79th year of service to the White-
wright community. Seventy-eight
years adds up to 4,560 weekly issues
and represent hundreds of thousands
of man hours of work.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
■but I will defend to the death your right to
■say it.”—Voltaire.
According to a study recently pre-
pared for the U. S. Senate, several
fatal diseases — pulmonary emphy-
sema, lung cancer, chronic bronchitis
and colds — have been linked to air
pollution. In fact, more people suf-
fering from emphysema (characteriz-
ed by difficulty in breathing) are to-
day receiving Social Security disabil-
ity benefits than the victims of any
illness other and arteriosclerotic heart
disease. As communities increase in
size and the air becomes filled with
carcinogenic contaminants, death
from respiratory system cancers be-
gin to rise. The report says: “A
change in air environment apparent-
ly can affect one’s chances of getting
lung cancer.”
On January 2, the first regular
meeting of the 'Whitewright Young
Farmers Chapter was held. Tempor-
ary officers were elected as follows:
President, David Johnson; Vice-
President, J. A. Harper, Jr.; Secre-
tary, Bobby Clark; Treasurer, Wel-
don Bartley; Reporter, Sonny Smith;
and Advisor, O. V. Barker.
Anyone under 36 years of age and
interested in agriculture may join
the Whitewright Young Farmers
Chapter. This includes part - time
farmers, young men engaged as agri-
culture workers. Agriculturists over
36 years of age whom the Young
Farmers may want to include in their
chapter membership may belong in
the capacity of associate members.
The Whitewright Young Farmers
Chapter is formed exclusively for
educational purposes with particu-
lar reference to the field of agricul-
ture. The program in administered by
the Agricultural Education Division
The following educational pro-
of the Texas Education Agency,
gram was approved for the following
year:
January, Soil Tests and Fertilizers.
February, Pasture Improvements.
March, Farm Finance.
April, Insect Control.
May, Renner Experimental Farm
Field Day.
June, Farm Equipment Program.
July, Field Day on local demon-
stration plots by Charles Spence,
Sherman.
August, Soil Conservation.
September, Feeds and Feeding
October, Diseases of Cattle.
November, Beef Production.
December, Income Tax.
January 17th will be the date
the first educational program. Mr.
C. O. Spence, area agronomist, will
be the speaker and will discuss soil
tests and uses of fertilier. Bill Bass
of the Federal Department of the In-
terior will speak on rodent control.
Everyone is invited to attend the
meeting at 7:30 P. M. in the Agricul-
ture Building at Whitewright High
School.
CHARLES E. FRANKLIN
Funeral services were held at 2 p.
m. Tuesday in Earnheart Funeral
Chapel for Charles Everett Franklin,
53, who died at 8:30 a. m. Sun-
day on a farm owned by him west of
Whitewright.
Mr. Franklin was born March 2,
1910, in Tom Bean, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Franklin. He married
Miss Wilma Jones Jan. 5, 1935, in
Whitewright. A farmer active around
Whitewright for many years,
Franklin was a member of
Memorial Methodist Church in Sher-
man and an ex-student of Sherman
High School and Austin College.
Surviving him are his wife; two
sons, Charles Edward Franklin of
Sherman and James Alton Franklin
of Indian Head, Md.; one daughter,
Miss Nelda Jane Franklin of White-
wright?; three brothers, James O.
Franklin of Dallas, Morris N. Frank-
lin of Howe and Paul H. Franklin of
Sherman; five sisters, Mrs. S. C. Fen-
nel and Mrs. Joe Williams of Sher-
man, Mrs. J. A. Boswell of Dallas,
Mrs. E. E. Stone of Tyler and Mrs.
Donald Shields of Kingsport, Tenn.
The First Methodist Church of
Whitewright has employed Ray Shaw
of Commerce as choir director, and
will have a covered dish dinner at
the church at noon Sunday, Jan. 19,
to give the membership an opportun-
ity to get acquainted with Mr. Shaw.
Members will be expected to take a
covered dish to the church for the
event.
Mr. Shaw is a student at East Texas
State College, Commerce.
President Johnson Wednesday an-
nounced a surprise cut in federal
spending. He disclosed he had slash-
ed his new budget to 97.9 billion dol-
lars by trimming nuclear weapons
production, closing old defense plants
and warring on “fat and waste” else-
where.
The government still would be
operating in the red, but the deficit
would be slashed in half.
In his first State of the Union mes-
sage, the President also told Congress
that the budget he will submit Jan.
21 will call for a billion-dollar anti-
poverty program to give a fair chance
to millions of Americans now dwell-
ing on “the outskirts of hope.”
The President also announced
cutback in production
Lowell Leberman, Jr., of Com-
merce, Texas, formally announced
today that he is a candidate for elec-
tion to the office of State Represen-
tative of District 24, Hunt and Fan-
nin Counties. Lowell Leberman, Jr.,
is a lifetime resident of Commerce.
He is the son of Mrs. Sue Leberman
and the late Dr. L. H. Leberman, who
was a practicing physician in Com-
merce for twenty-five years.
Leberman attended East Texas
State College and the University of
Texas where he majored in pre-law.
Leberman stated that he had direct-
ed his courses of study and extra-cur-
ricular activities toward an eventual
career in politics. While at the Uni-
versity of Texas, he received the
Cactus Outstanding Student Award,
and is a member of the men’s honor-
ary organizations Silver Spurs and
Friday’s Society. In 1961, he was
selected as a State Department spon-
sored good will ambassador to Chile.
After the Chilean trip, Leberman was
elected president of the University of
Texas Student Body.
Leberman, whose father served as
school board president and mayor of
Commerce before his death, stat-
ed: “I look forward to visiting with
old friends and meeting new ones
throughout the district. I am anxious
to talk about the opportunities and
problems which confront our district
and our states and I will be address-
ing myself to these issues as the cam-
paign develops. I hope to talk per-
sonally with each of you about these
issues as the campaign develops.”
(Political Advt.)
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The fellers at the. country store
Saturday night was discussing
everything from Vietnam to the Con-
gress and from foreign aid to wim-
men.
They was a little confusion on some
items, fer instant Zeke Grubb argued
Vietnam was in South America and
nobody claimed to know nothing a-
bout wimmen. But, general speaking,
the fellers was overflowing with wis-
dom on all matters.
First off, Ed Doolittle said he
wanted to pay his respects to them
noble Congressmen on the matter of
trying to git their wages raised $10,-
000 a year. Ed allowed as how ever
Congressman in Washington knowed
when he was beating the bushes fer
votes two years ago exact what the
wage scale was fer the job. He was
of the opinion that respect fer hisself
or his constituents would wait till af-
ter the general election in November
afore voting hisself a fat hike in pay.
Ed figgered a Congressman had ought
to come home and tell the voters he
was going to support a bill fer more
pay and let the people give him the
raise if he was elected. That made
sense to all the fellers and it was
so voted.
Zeke brung up the topic of foreign
aid again. It has got to the place
where Zeke gits so mad about this
foreign aid business his old lady has
to put a ice bag on his head ever time
J. Edgar Hoover, writing in the
FBI’s Law Enforcement Bulletin:
“Morality is one of the more perplex-
ing and controversial problems facing
our nation . . . because of individual
and collective moral cowardice in
society. We do not have the courage
to stand in conflict with the mad
rush for material wealth, indulgence
and social prestige. Many persons
are so preoccupied with selfishness
and greed they no longer know —
nor care for that matter — where
honor stops and dishonor commences.
Others are simply confused. Ration-
alization and double standards have
so clouded some moral principles that
right anad wrong are no longer clear-
ly distinguishable.”
WASHINGTON — After a six-
month cooling off period and forced
settlement of two issues, the railroad
work rules dispute appears to be
headed for another crisis late next
month.
Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz
conceded as much Monday when he
announced that the federal govern-
ment once again is stepping in to try
to mediate the dispute, now nearly
five years old.
On Feb. 25, a congressional dead-
line for settlement of the so-called
secondary issues — issues not set-
tled last November by compulsory
arbitration — runs out and a nation-
wide rail strike could begin.
The issues involved in the current
negotiations include such topics as
wage structure, certain road and
yard jobs, interdivisional runs, use of
self-propelled equipment, night shift
differentials, holiday pay and ex-
penses away from home.
MRS. MINNIE ORENDUFF
Funeral services were held at
p. m. Monday in Bonham for Mrs.
Minnie Ann Orenduff, 79, of Bon-
ham, who died at 11:45 a. m. Sun-
day. Burial was in Willow
Cemetery.
Mrs. Orenduff was born Oct. 11,
1884 in McKinney, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Wilmeth.
Survivors are a daughter,
Bessie Orenduff of Bonham,
sons, Monroe Orenduff Jr. of Kansas
City and Arba Orenduff of White-
wright; a sister, Miss Burtcy Crump
of McKinney.
At the regular meeting of the
Whitewright School Board Tuesday-
night, a planning committee was
named by L. H. Durham, board presi-
dent, to study the needs in regard to
a new high school. Named to the com-
mittee were J. T. Holloway, Dick
Walker anad Kenneth Frisby, mem-
bers of the board.
Among those things to be con-
sidered under a long-range plan,
Supt. S. T. Montgomery Jr. told The
Sun, would be a site for the new
school and estimated cost of such a
project to cover the needs of the
Whitewright school district.
Members of the committee would
appreciate any ideas of the patrons of
the district, Mr. Montgomery said.
In other business Tuesday night,
the board appointed David Johnson,
high school principal, as census trus-
tee. The school census will be taken
later this month.
Democratic leaders, surveying what
promises to be a hectic 1964 session
of Congress, called for a legislative
speedup that could put civil rights
and tax reduction bills on the law
books early in July.
They conceded it was highly un-
likely that the second session of the
88th Congress could complete all its
chores by that date. They said legis-
lators probably will have to return
after the Republican national con-
vention, which opens in San Fran-
cisco on July 13, to finish their work.
Speaker John W. McCormack said
he expected the windup to come in
the Wfeeks between the Republican
convention and the Aug. 24 opening
of the Democratic national conven-
tion in Atlantic City.
Senate Democratic leader Mike
Mansfield spoke of reconvening after
the Democratic convention. Earlier
he had said the new session could
run another 12 months despite con-
ventions, campaigns and elections.
McCormack said the administra-
tion’s two top-priority bills, civil
rights and a House-passed $11,000,-
000,000 tax cut, would have to be en-
acted before the GOP nominating
convention, with routine legislation
to follow.
Mansfield, more perrimistic, said,
“If you think last year was a bad one,
wait until this year.”
Dorsett-Roman Ford Sales, Inc.,
Whitewright’s new Ford dealer, will
hold open house Friday and Saturday
at the Ford sales room, corner of
Main and Bond streets. Coffee and
doughnuts will be served from 9 a. m.
till 5 p. m. both days.
On display will be new 1964 Fal-
cons, Fairlanes, Galaxies, Thunder-
birds and pickup trucks, James Dor-
sett said yesterday.
The new owners, James Dorsett
and John Roman purchased the Ford
dealership from James Edwards.
They are both Sherman men, but Mr.
Dorsett said he would move to White-
wright as soon as he can obtain
suitable residence to move into.
a
heavy cutback in production of
atomic explosives and called on Rus-
sia to do the same. He said there was
no need to stockpile more such wea-
pons than were needed because to do
so would only be provocative and
wasteful. There are tens of thousands
of nuclear weapons in the U. S. stock-
pile.
Unveiling his “frugal” 1965 budget
in advance, he revealed that it calls
for spending 500 million dollars less
than the 98.4 billion dollars expected
to be spent in the current year and
900 million dollars less than President
Kennedy originally proposed last
January.
He said the budget for the 12
months starting July 1 would cut the
federal deficit by 50 per cent, from
the current 10 billion dollars to 4.9
billions. This slash would be based on
an optimistic estimate of 93 billion
dollars in tax receipts, some 6 billions
more than expected this year.
In the legislative field, the Pres-
ident renewed his appeal for such
Kennedy-Johnson programs as the
11-billion-dollar tax cut to “keep this
country moving” and the civil rights
bill to ban all racial discrimination
“as far as the writ of federal law will
run.”
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