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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
'VOLUME 79, NUMBER 6
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1964
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Lively Campaign
Shapes Up For
Grayson County
G. D. Bennett For
Justice Of Peace
Of Precinct No. 3
Summers Announces
For Re-election As
Mayor of Whitewright
Produce Costs Are
Advancing Slightly
Consumer Price Index
Is Being Revised
HERE
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$2.50
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VACANT HOUSE
HAD 24 TENANTS
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TAXPAYERS
15th District Court judge;
of Sherman,
Ball moss does not feed upon the
host tree but draws its sustenance
from the air, dew and dust lodging on
it.
The Whitewright Parent-Teacher
Association regular monthly meeting
scheduled for next Tuesday night has
been postponed until Tuesday, Feb.
18 because of conflict with another
local meeting.
The meeting will be held in the
High School library at 7:30 p. m. The
fifth, sixth and seventh grades will
present the program.
There will be only
meetings of the association after, the
February meeting. Date of the March
meeting is the 10th, for April it will
be on the 14th, and in May it will be
on the 12th, all the regularly schedul-
ed meetings. The PTA hopes, that for
the last three meetings of the year
other organizations will not schedule
anything that will conflict.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Enclosed find check or money order for $.
Yours truly,
Uncle Dan
now
about
Whitewright; 15 grandchildren
five great-great-grandchildren.
36,000 FROM U. S.
IN CANAL ZONE
New
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Any address in Grayson or Fannin County__
Elsewhere in United States, or APO number_______
I want to announce my candidacy
for the office of Justice of the Peace,
Precinct No. 3, Grayson County. I
have had lots of experience with the
office of Justice of the Peacee while
I was constable of this precinct, and
also worked with Justice Court in
Fannin County.'
I will promise that I will do my
best to see as many of you as I can
in the interest of my candidacy. I will
sincerely appreciate your vote.
G. D. BENNETT
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WHEN YOU HEAR the fire siren
at 6:00 p. m. Saturday, don’t start to
a fire but head straight for the Fire-
men’s Hall where the annual chili
supper of the Whitewright Volunteer
Fire Department will be in progress.
You can eat good chili and at the
same time fielp pay for the new fire
truck that was bought to protect your
property.
THE BEST WAY to insure accu-
racy in your news items appearing
in The Sun is to write them out in
detail and bring or mail them to us,
or given them in written form to
Ethel Short. It is easy to make mis-
takes in recording news items when
all information is not given in writ-
ing. There are so many different
ways to spell names that it is often
guesswork on our part. We want to
publish all the news of the people of
Whitewright, and we like to have it
accurate. There are those, we have
been told, who wonder why such and
such an item was not in the paper.
If we don’t know about it, we can’t
print it.
A LOT OF shenanigans goes on in
politics that the electorate never
learns about, but currently the elec-
torate has learned about the pressure
exerted by the White House on Rep.
Joe Kilgore to keep him from running
against Sen. Ralph Yarborough. Kil-
gore was all set to enter the race,
having stated that he would not be a
candidate for his current office. Then
LBJ stepped in and talked him out
of it, so that Yarborough could re-
main in the Senate as an administra-
tion rubber stamp on liberal legis-
lation. What did Kilgore get out of
the deal in the way of promises? Just
wait and see what kind of political
appointment he gets from the Presi-
dent.
PTA Meeting Date Boy Scout Week
Reset For Feb. 18
LAWRENCE, Neb. — When Jack
Lemke started tearing down an old
farmhouse he discovered the place
wasn’t vacant after all.
Living beneath the building were
21 raccoons, two skunks and a tom-
cat.
A great drought lasting from 1276
to 1299 A. D. forced the ancestors of
the Pueblo Indians to leave their
homes on the plateaus and cliffs and
settle in the river valleys.
as
well be painted black, like funeral
cars.
I don’t know, Mister Editor, what
this world is coming to. Fer instant,
Ed Doolittle’s daughter come by the
country store Saturday night looking
fer Ed, said he hadn’t been home
since “lunch.” Ed’s daughter works
in one of them city offices and
home talking
COLLEGE STATION—Some fresh
produce will cost more this week
weather in many
vegetables in best
Mrs. Gwendolyne
THE LADIES of the Marvin Meth-
odist Church are sponsoring a house
warming for Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Hicks who have moved into their
new home on the Whitewright-Ran-
dolph highway. All friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Hicks are invited to attend
between 2 and 4 p. m. on Sunday.
Too Reserved
Wife talking to her husband: “My,
that man you had home for dinner
yesterday is attractive; is he mar-
ried?”
“I don’t know,” replied the hus-
band. “He’s rather a reserved chap
— keeps all his troubles to himself!”
MRS. J. A. PANNELL
Mrs. J. A. Pannell, 91, long-time
resident of Tom Bean, died Sun-
day in Sherman. Funeral services
were held at Tom Bean Monday af-
ternoon anad burial was in Vittitoe
Cemetery at Kentuckytown.
Mrs. Pannell was born at Crockett
April 11, 1872, the daughter of Jeff
and Polly Ann Williams. She moved
with her parents to White Mound,
near Tom Bean, in 1877, and married
Joe A. Pannell Nov. 2, 1890, in Tom
Bean, and lived there most of her life.
Survivors are two sons, J. O. Pan-
nell of Denton and J. J. Pannell of
Fort Worth; three daughters, Mrs.
Carl Hartwig of Fort Worth, Mrs. W.
E. Maddox of Coolidge, Ariz., and
Mrs. B. M. Dean of Tom Bean; a
brother, B. M. Williams of Portales,
N. M.; a sister, Mrs. E. A. Mitchell of
and
she comes
“lunch.”
Us rural folks, as a general rule,
ain’t got but three eating times a
day, breakfast, dinner, and supper.
Dinner comes as close to 12 noon as
we can git it, and supper comes after
it gits too dark to work. We ain’t
got no such thing as “lunch” around
here and whenever I use the word
dinner in my little piece you’ll know
I’m talking about the meal that com-
es about the time of day when the
sun is straight up and down over the
top of the house.
Me and my old lady was talking
about these matters at breakfast and
she allows as how, just when it looks
like the country was going to the
bow-wows one week it keeps com-
ing back the next. But if we git to
calling dinner “lunch” and putting
out automobiles in fractions, I ain’t
too shore we’ll make it one of these
weeks.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I see by the papers where one of ed from not seeing the other feller,
them big automobile companies is It proved that fire trucks had just
coming out twict a year with new
cars. They aim to put some out next
month and call ’em the “1964% Mod-
els.” The other car makers will fall
in line and they ain’t no telling where
the thing will stop. I’m expecting it
to git to three or four showings per
year, all done in fractions.
It’s going to ;be a little confusing,
special to this young generation that
ain’t learned much arithmetic and
has trouble with fractions. Johnny,
that already can’t read none too good,
ain’t going to recollect if he’s driving
a 1964 % job or a 1964 % model.
The fellows that designs new car
models was claiming the American
public needs more than one new car
showing a year. I could drive a 2-
horse wagon through that argument,
Mister Editor, but it wouldn’t do no
good. A heap of folks will be buying
a 1964 % model when they ain’t got
a good start yet on paying for their
1964 % job.
These automobile companies is the
master thinkers of our age. I recol-
lect a few years ago when they come
out with all them rainbow colored
cars. They claimed they was not on-
ly pretty but the loud colors would
cut down on road accidents. They
allowed as how fire trucks had al-
ways been painted red so folks could
see ‘em and git out of the way. I
ain’t noticed no letup in car wrecks
Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
and it proves that wrecks ain’t caus-
Mayor Russell R. Summers has
authorized The Sun to announce his
candidacy for re-election as Mayor
of Whitewright, subject to the City
Election April 7.
Mr. Summers was first elected to
the mayor’s office in 1950, succeeding
Mayor F. M. Echols who had served
as mayor for more than 40 years and
who was not a candidate in 1950.
Summers has been re-elected every
two years since 1950, usually without
opposition. Two years ago he defeat-
ed Ronce Morgan 303 to 97.
Appearing in The Sun this week
is a legal notice in connection with,
the proposed issuance of $70,000 in
general revenue bonds by the City
of Whitewright.
The legal notice stipulates that the
$70,000 raised by the 50-year bonds
will be used for improvements to the
water system, remodeling of the City
Hall and for street improvements. Of
the. total, $28,000 is designated to the
water system, $10,000 to the City
Hall and $28,000 to streets, for a total
of $66,000. The other $4,000 will go
to pay engineering and other fees.
The City Commission last year
increased the rates charged for water
as the first step in what the City
Commission said was for the purpose
of drilling and equipping another
well.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
Boy Scouts all over America will
observe Boy Scout Week Feb. 7-13,
and also the 54th anniversary of
scouting.
The Sherman Area Council, Boy
Scouts of America serves White-
wright as well as 17 other communi-
ties in Grayson County.
Here in Whitewright there are five
units of scouting, as follows:
Pack 5: Sponsored by Whitewright
Rotary Club. Floyd Flowers, cub-
master; Randall Jones, committee
chairman; Mrs. Floyd Flowers, Mrs.
Lucille Wyatt, Mrs. James Bryant,
Mrs-. Doyle Worsham, Mrs. E. D. Mc-
Cullough, Mrs. Christian and Mrs.
Giles, den mothers.
Pack 12: Sponsored by White-
wright School for Colored. Bert Wil-
son, cubmaster; William Patterson,
committee chairman; Lucille Wilson,
den mother.
Troop 42: Sponsored by White-
wright Rotary Club. Wallace Mynatt,
scoutmaster; John Biggerstaff, com-
mittee chaiarman.
Troop 18: Sponsored by White-
wright School for Colored. Bert Wil-
son, scoutmaster; William Patterson,
committee chairman.
Post 7: Sponsored by Whitewright
American Legion. Jack Thruston, ad-
visor; Jack Meador, committee chair-
man.
During 1963 these five scouting
units served 102 boys in Whitewright.
Scouting officials hoped to increase
the number of participating boys
during 1964.
LAST WEEK The Sun was given
inaccurate information about sched-
ule of the automobile license office
here. Mrs. Howard McDaniel will
be in the tax office at the City Hall
Monday through Saturday during the
month of January instead as part-
time as was published. Her hours
will be from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. every
day except Saturday when the of-
fice will close at noon.
following colder
growing areas.
Fresh growing
supply, reports
Clyatt, Extension Service consumer
marketing special, are carrots, cab-
bage, cauliflower, potatoes, dry
onions, sweet potatoes, winter squash
and rutabagas.
Available at moderate price levels
are cooking greens such as collards,
mustard, spinach, turnips and turnip
greeens. Quality is generally good on
salad greens, but prices vary as one
considers endive, escarole, leaf and
head lettuce.
Best buys at fresh fruit counters
include medium size oranges, bana-
nas and apples.
Chicken hens and turkeys are poul-
try economy items.
Most cuts of fresh pork are good
values as supplies continue heavy.
Look for pork loin and shoulder
roasts, chops and sausage for good
values. The beef counter will reveal
good buys in steaks, chuck and rib
roasts. Lamb is not especially plenti-
ful, but some markets will feature
leg and shoulder roasts.
The next time you buy butter, look
for the U. S. Shield identification.
It’s the way to make sure you get
good flavor, aroma and texture, the
specialist says.
WILLIAM C. LEWIS
Funeral services will be held
2 p. m. today at the Pilot Grove
Baptist Church for William C. Lewis,
49, who was found dead in his car on
a road near Pilot Grove Tuesday af-
ternoon. Burial will be in the Pilot
Grove Cemetery.
Mr. Lewis was born Sept. 28, 1914,
at Pilot Grove. He was unemployed
at the time of his death.
Survivors are his wife; one son,
Donnie Ray of Fori; Polk, La.; three
daughters, Mrs. Billie Joyce Bell of
Westminster, Miss Laura Lewis of
Dallas, and Miss Sandra Lewis of
Whitewright; one brother, Arthur
of Whitewright; six sisters, Mrs.
Mary Butler and Mrs. Ruth Routt of
Van Alstyne, Mrs. Helen Ford of Dal-
las, Mrs. Grace Becker of Whites-
boro, Mrs. Orlie Ford of Albuquer-
que, N. M. and Mrs. Melba Johnston
of Tioga.
School Election
Ordered For April 4 In Revenue Bonds
Shaky taxpayers were warned
Tuesday not to forget to print or
type their name at the top of their
income tax return.
Each year, said Ellis Campbell Jr.,
district director of Internal Revenue,
thousands of refund checks are re-
turned to IRS offices because the
postman cannot deliver them —
usually because the names or ad-
dresses are illegible.
Campbell said it is permissible to
sign the bottom of the return in nor-
mal handwriting, even if the signa-
ture is akin to a hen scratch.
The top of the return, however,
should carry a carefully printed or
typed name and Social Security
number.
A LETTER received this week
from Gus Jones, district Social Secu-
rity manager for this area, compli-
ments the Whitewright Rotary Club
members. He said that last year he
presented a series of questions and
answers programs at civic clubs in
Grayson, Fannin and Cooke Coun-
ties. The program consisted of ask-
ing 50 important questions about
Social Security to members of the
audience. Of the civic clubs present-
ed such a program in seven different
towns and cities in his service area,
members of the Whitewright Rotary
Club succeeded in answering the
highest proportion of questions ask-
ed. As a matter of fact, members of
that club answered incorrectly only
three of the 50 questions asked. “In
analyzing why people in Whitewright
know more about Social Security
than those in other areas in the three
counties, the answer appeared pretty
obvious to me,” Mr. Jones wrote.
“Your newspaper over the years has
regularly carried an informational
article about Social Security each
week. Possibly you have wondered
whether your readers are interested
in the articles and whether it is of
significant value to them. I thought
this report might provide you the in-
formation you would want in this
respect,” he said. Well, everybody is
or ought to be interested in that sub-
ject, since everybody pays Social Se-
curity taxes and everybody will later
in life receive dividends on what has
been paid into the SS fund over the
years. That is why, Mr. Jones, we
have tried to keep our readers in-
formed on the subject.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF
CITY ELECTION
The State of Texas,
County of Grayson,
City of Whitewright.
ELECTION ORDER
I, R. R. Sumers, Mayor of
City of Whitewright, Texas, by vir-
tue of the power vested in me by
law, do hereby order that an election
be held in the City of Whitewright
on Tuesday, April 7, 1964, for the
purpose of electing a Mayor of the
City of Whitewright.
And that said election shall be held
at the Firemen’s Hall in said city,
and the following named person is
hereby appointed judge thereof, to-
wit:
R. C. Vestal.
ELECTION NOTICE
The City Marshal is hereby di-
rected and instructed to post a prop-
erly executed copy of this order and
notice of election at the City Hall, or
the place where this election will be
held. Said notice shall be
thirty days before the date of said
election.
Signed and executed this the 5th
day of February, 1964.
(Seal)
R. R. SUMMERS, Mayor, City of
Whitewright, Texas.
Attest: HAROLD DOSS, City Sec-
retary.
No Good At AH
Mr. Skjold — Dear, did you notice
the handsome fur coat worn by the
young lady in front of us in church
today?”
Mr. Skjold —
didn’t.
Mrs. Skjold — Huh, a lot of good
it does you to go to church.
MRS. DON FULLER
Funeral services were held
Sherman Monday for Mrs. Don
Fuller, 79, who died Saturday in
Sherman nursing home after an ni-
nes osf two years. Burial was in Me-
morial Park.
Mrs. Fuller was born Dec. 17, 1884,
at Kentuckytown, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. K. Smith. She was the
former Miss Elizabeth Smith and
grew up in Whitewright where her
father was in the grocery business
for many years. She married the
late Don C. Fuller here April 5, 1913.
She was a member of the Presby-
terian Church.
Surviving are a son, Don C. Fuller
Jr. of Uvalde; a daughter, Mrs. Hart-
ley Hutt of Sherman; two brothers,
Frank A. Smith of Whitewright and
Charles Smith of Sherman; a grand-
daughter, Mrs. Don Williams of Sher-
man; and one great-grandchild.
There are more than 36,000 Ameri-
in the Canal Zone, a strip 10
miles wide across the Isthmus of
Panama.
Americans in the zone include 9,-
750 military personnel, 11,800 mili-
tary dependents, 1,380 U. S. civilian,
government employees, and
2,525 civilian dependents.
In addition, there are 10,700 more
U. S. civilians and their dependents
who work for the government-owned
Panama Canal Company
Canal Zone government.
The late entries of Sherman
torney David H. Brown, Democrat,
for 59th district judge and Whites-
boro osteopath Dr. Fred Banfield,
Republican for congress, 4th district,
have added additional fuel to what
already was the hottest political race
in several years.
Brown will oppose incumbent W.
C. Dowdy of McKinney, who has held
the post 20 years following his ap-
pointment in 1944 to replace Tom
Suggs, who resigned. The 59th dis-
trict includes Grayson and Collin
counties.
Banfield, 49, will oppose Democrat
Rep. Ray Roberts of McKinney for
the congress post. Banfield filed with
county GOP chairman, Mrs. Jack
Martin of Denison.
The judge’s race is one of five con-
tested races that involve commission-
er offices or higher. Three men have
entered the race for state represen-
tative in flotorial district 49F, made
up of Grayson and Cooke counties.
Incumbent Don Hefton of Sherman
is opposed by Charles McClaran of
Denison, a civilian employee at Per-
rin Air Force Base, and Jack Lyons
of Bells, Frisco Railroad clerk. Lyons
was a late entry in the race.
Blanton Opposed
Sheriff G. W. (Woody) Blanton of
Denison has Denison Peace Justice
Homer R. Gaddy as an opponent.
County attorney Dean Martin is op-
posed by Joe Joiner. Both are Sher-
man attorneys.
J. B. (Bryan) Walker of Collins-
ville, Precinct 3 commissioner, has
drawn two opponents, Leslie Wood
of Whitesboro and John Farr er, who
lives northwest of Gunter on a Dor-
chester rural route. Wood filed
several weeks ago while Farrer filed
Monday.
Charles E. Hughes of Sherman will
oppose Jack Kennedy, also of Sher-
man, for the office of Democratic
chairman. Kennedy won the post
two years ago when R. C. Slagle Jr.
stepped down after 10 years. Both
Hughes and Kennedy are attorneys.
Former Judge
Brown, former judge of the Gray-
son County Court at Law and Sher-
man city councilman, said he de-
cided to enter the race against Dowdy
after completing a poll of more than
2,000 Grayson and Collin voters.
“I plan a vigorous, fair and gen-
tlemanly campaign based upon my
qualifications of 18 years in the prac-
tice of law and my service as judge
of Grayson County Court at Law,”
Brown said. “I believe such a cam-
paign will improve my indicated
polling strength considerably.”
Two Or More Entries
Three of the races for justice of
peace in the county have two or more
candidates. In Sherman, incumbent
A. L. McGuire has drawn Sherman
freight businessman Lewis Bradford
as a foe in Precinct 1, Place 1.
Retired railroader Carl Flanery
and Lonnie F. Roberts, both of Deni-
son, are seeking the Precinct 2, Place
1 spot being vacated by Gaddy. In
Precinct 3, present office holder D. O.
Feagan of Tom Bean is opposed by
Otto C. Cunningham anad G. D. Ben-
nett, both of Whitewright.
Only six offices in the commission-
er to congress category failed to at-
tract at least two candidates.
No Opponents
Candidates who did not draw op-
ponents were R. C. Vaughan of Sher-
man,
George Schumacher
county tax assessor-collector; Ver-
non Beckham of Denison, state rep-
resentative for District 48; and M. C.
(Cliff) Hestand of Sherman, Precinct
1 commissioner.
H. B. Everheart, constable of Pre-
cinct No. 3, has no opponent.
The Whitewright Independent
School District Board of Education
in a meeting Monday night ordered
a school trustee election for April 4.
Two members, Dick Walker and
Wallace Wilson will be up for re-
election. Candidates for the school
board must file application with the
County Judge.
In other action, the board reelect-
ed for two-year terms David John-
son, High School principal, and Ran-
dall Jones, Elementary School prin-
cipal. A new school bus and a new
school bus chassis were purchased
for use next fall.
The board also recommended that
in the future the senior trip be limit-
ed to a two- day period, beginning on
Friday morning and ending Saturday
night.
COLLEGE STATION — The Con-
sumer Price Index (C.P.I.) is having
its face lifted, says Mrs. Gwendolyne
Clayatt, Extension Service consumer
marketing specialist.
It has been based on how wage
earners spent their money in 1952.
Spending patterns have changed
during the past 12 years, and the re-
vised index will reflect these chang-
ed patterns.
Food will not have such a large in-
fluence on the new index, Mrs. Clatt
says. Food made up 28 percent of the
old index and was a large part that
changes in the old index were at-
tributed to food. This was particular-
ly true when the index was rising.
The consumer price index some-
times is called the “cost of living” in-
dex, which is incorrect for it mea-
sures only one factor that influences
the cost of living ■— the change in
retail prices. It does not show the
effect of changed spending patterns
when a family starts to eat more
steak and less hamburger, nor does
it .show the increased expense when
a new baby joins the family or when
a serious illness strikes.
“Since the consumer price index
merely shows how retail prices
change from month to month and
year to year, its revision will be a
better measuring tool for keeping up
with these trends,” the specialist
says.
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