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The President,
“Stay for Supper”
By Capt. Roy Hall
to as much as $500,000. And the top
PHONE 2-2332
Air Rifle Nuisance
up the pantry shelves
When Sunday comes don’t the
friends drop in, in that good
My Son
(Dallas News)
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Real Estate Transfers
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Rhee’s Threats
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Tidwell,
acres M. I. Geminez
vin L. Dinsmore,
acres M. I.
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Former Nazis
Explain Why
Germany Lost
Notes of Interest
In Collin County’s
Early History
Case of ‘It Might
Have Been’
survey, $300.00.
Jick Housewright et al to Cal- "
side);
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Frank
present
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sense
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
ux to Joe
McKinney,
MAT THE P6ETS
HAVE TO SAV
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Published each Thursday and en-
tered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
na A. McLaughlin, lot
$1500.00.
R. C. McCullough et
Sullivan et ux, lot in
Raymond Moley’s Maren. 4
umn dn The News makes good l -
for a Dallas concerned, with other
We were a numerous family in
the good old days of yore,
“ no matter how crowded the
When mother was loading the
pantry shelves and tempting
our greedy eyes.
Editor Glenn Doss in the White-
wright Sun speaks of the firing of
air rifles and guns within the city
limits and warns the -youngsters
against violating this state law.
We have had a rash of this petty
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.50
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) $1.00
story of President Eisenhower. It
was such a beautifully written ar-
ticle and told of the efect the Presi-
den’s life is having on the Capitol.
Below we have taken the liberty to
reprint excerpts from this story by
William H. Stringer, Washington
Correspondent of The Christian
Science Monitor.
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Bergvall for Bargains.
■, ■ ■
speaks quietly of Dwight Eisen-
hower’s own desire to tread a right date up to 5-55 on his Examiner. He
and God-directed path as President, has been a long-time subscriber.
WATERTOWN, Mass. — A weld-
ing firm confidently advertises its
ability with this sign:
“We weld anything but the break
of dawn.” mu
The sign is atop a chain, welded, "
link by link to produce a metal
post.
Geminez survey, $300.00.
Jick Housewright et al to Dud-
ley T. Miller----acres M. I. Gemi-
nez survey, $350.00.
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WELDER’S CONFIDENCE
IS PROVED BY SIGN
McKinney Examiner Bible Price Set As
— THOMPSON.. High As $500,000
prepared in material respects
scarcely at all in planning.”
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Love Can Be
Brutal Thing
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DESERT OF DEATH VALLEY
ONCE REGION OF LAKES
THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, MARCH 11, 1954
——mb——Bawa———aMtamnyawwii m naansam—aaegl
Police were looking Wednesday
for a 43-year-old Dallas man who
spanked his 40-year-old woman
friend so severely with a bed slat
that she had to go to Parkland Hos-
pital.
The victim told Patrolman E. E.
Tinsely that her 43-year-old friend
entered her home and found a
younger man paying a call. He
didn’t wait for her to explain that
the young man was waiting to take
her daughter on a date.
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Mrs. R. L. Speck, Jr., and young
daughter, Joan, were visitors to
The Examiner office Saturday. Mrs.
Speck teaches in the Weston School.
They subscribed for The Examiner.
Mrs. Vertie (E. J.) Cox et al to
Garvis Spain, lot in Plano, $400.00:
M. M. Martin et ux to James F.
Albright, Jr., 10 acres Joseph
Strickland survey, $1000.00.
R. C. McLaughlin et ux to Wino-
in Plano,
old-fashioned way
Just for a visit; but, deep in their
(Dallas Times Herald)
It has often been said that poli-
ticians cook up wars for the people
to fight, and that if political lead-
ers took their responsibilities more
seriously there would be no armed
conflicts.
This assumption is far wide of
the mark, but there is some truth
in it. Syngman Rhee, the aged
president of South Korea, is dem-i
onstrating this by his threats to re-
sume the Korean War unless the
high-bracket powers work out a
treaty for unifying his nation.
Sentimentalists will doubtless ap-
plaud Rhee and commend him for
his courage. But the cold fact is
that he is not truly heroic. Since,
because of his advanced age, he has
but few more years to live, he has
not much personally to lose by
Starting a war in which he would
face certain defeat. And conflict
would either cause his country to
be overrun by the Reds or develop
into a far-reaching holocaust in-
volving many nations.
Syngman Rhee may be only bluf-
fing, but it is more likely that he
means business. He has inflamed
the people and, if he gives the
word, his little army will march to
the front while he sits in his capi-
tal or hides in a bombproof cellar.
Out of the tragedy he may derive
a thrill, but the chief sacrifice will
be made not by him, but by thou-
sands of his fellow countrymen
and by people of other countries.
He has it in his power to set the
world afire and he may decide to
apply the spark and spend his last
few years thinking of himself as a
hero. He is just another politician
who is threatening to start a war
for somebody else to fight.
LT. GEN. Samuel E. Anderson,
commander of the U. S. 5th Air
Force in Korea: “The Communists
know that if they renew the fight-
ing it will be under different
ground rules—as outlined by Secre-
tary of State Dulles. While Mr.
Dulles did not say positively we
would use atomic weapons, in my
opinion we would.”
LA JOLLA, Calif. — Mammoth
lakes over 100 feet deep once cov-
ered the vast stretches of desert
which now extend for hundreds of
miles in the Death Valley area.
Dr. Carl Hubbs, professor of
oceanography, at the University of
California’s Scripps Institute, says
that pinnacles rising 125 feet above
the desert are mute testimony to
Monroe Orenduff of Bonham,
will continue to read the Examiner
sent by his sister Mrs. O. C. Harris,
of Chambersville.
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Mrs. G. B. Matlock of Allen is a
new name added to The Examiner
list from that city.
CUERO, TEXAS, RECORD says:
“In an effort to expedite deliver-
ies, postal authorities are urging
business firms to deposit their out-
going mail two or three times a
day. Postal authorities insist it is as
important to send out mail fre-
quently as to collect it several times
a day.”
hearts, don’t they know
they’ll be asked to stay?
Why, Sunday brought us the
sisters’ beaus and my
brothers’ friends and mine.
’Twas a stormy day and a dull
one, too, that we didn’t feed
eight or nine.
And I think of the mother and
think of the day who looked
to the day of rest
With food for an army, if one
should call, as a time that
they loved the best.
Then home was the merriest
place of all, those days that
have gone before,
For no matter how crowded the
table grew we always had
room for more.
—Edgar A. Guest
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of officialdom. In that line was a
German veteran, a minor diplomat
whose right hand, lost in the war,
was replaced by a glove.
As he moved up to the President,
Mr. Eisenhower instantly shifted
and shook hands with the German’s
left hand. That the Chief Execu-
tive would immediately sense his
situation in a prolonged siege of
hand shaking really amazed the
German.
On the Sunday afternoon when
the nation was waiting, hopefully,
to hear that a Korean armistice had
been signed, President Eisenhower
had just returned from a three-
day defense conference at Quanti-
co. The Communist and United
Nations high brass had met at the
Panmunjom tent, but no one knew
what might go wrong, or how de-
layed the signature might be.
As the President waited at the
White House, and the anxious mo-
ments ticked away, he began a
project. It was an undramatic little
project, but it was interesting that
he should choose this moment for
its commencement.
In those six waiting hours he
started to paint a portrait of Aba-
ham Lincoln, from one of the old
photographs taken just prior to the
My son, I will not say to you,
“This is the way, walk in it.” For I
do not know your way, or where
the Spirit may call you. It may be
to paths I have never trod, or to
ships on the sea leading to unimag-
ined lands afar, or haply, to a star!
Or yet again, through dark and
perilous places racked with pain
and full of fear, your road may lead
you, far from me, or near. I cannot
guess or guide, but only stand
aside. Just this I’ll say: “I know
for very truth there is a way for
each to walk, a right for each to
choose, a truth to use. And though
you wander far, your soul will
know the true path when you find
it. Therefore, go! I will fear noth-
ing for you, day or night! I will not
grieve at all because your light is
called by some new name. It mat-
ters naught to call it Star or Sun—
all light is one.”—The Epworth
Herald, 1928.
$7000.00.
J. Wesley Moulden to G. C. Haes-
ner et al, lot in Blue Ridge, xxx.
P. M. Stephenson to Nellie Car- .
ter, lot in Farmersville, $1250.00.
P. M. Stephenson to Nellie Car-
ter, 1.14 acres W. B. Williams sur-
vey, $750.00.
Carrie M. Hughston et al to
Johnnie L. Mann et ux, lot in Plano
$850.00.
J. H. Furlong et ux to Clyde T.
Todd, lot in Plano, $7500.00.
E. Melvin Graves et al to Paul
C. Stonemen et ux, lot in Plano,
$10,200.00.
Virgie Arrington to J. M. Scrib-
ner, 13 1-3 acres Jesse Still survey,
$1310.00. 0
Ida Kerley et vir to W. W. Kil-
lian et ux, lot in Frisco, $160.00.
Lyon-Gray Lumber Co. to Fal-
braith Investment Co., lot in Mc-
Kinney, xxx.
L. H. Myrick et ux to W. H.
Wyatt et ux, lot in McKinney,
$500.00.
Jones Steenson to Joe L Wood
et ux, lot in Plano, $1000.00.
Ora Watson Hooper et al to Hor-
ace L. Allen et ux, lot in Wylie
$5000.00.
Ora Watson Hooper et al to
Noble H. Watson et ux, 104.5 acres
A. West et al surveys, $17,033.50.
Homer L. Adams et ux to Ray
Graves et ux, lot in Plano, $1200.00
Nora Perkins to City of Celina,
lot in Celina, $2500.00.
G. W. Curtis et ux to R. E. Petty,
Jr., et ux,______Benj. Clark sur-
vey, $1000.00.
Jick Housewright et al to H. E.
“One of the things we admire in
President Eisenhower is his tena-
cious adherence to the principle that
government should refrain from
trying to plan and run the lives of
its citizens, but rather stand ready
to help out whenever and where-
ever its citizens are unable to carry
on alone. We, as a nation, must put
our trust in God and not in a gold-
en calf.”—Dawson (Minn.) Senti-
nel.
bake oven still there); Walcot’s
Marble Yard (Site of Bergvall
Grocery); Charles Bryant, buffalo
hides (at Railroad); J. W. and F. M.
Hill, wagons, farm implements
(South side).
Mr. George White’s activities in
Collin County would make a good
book, if written up. He was born in
Mississippi in 1820. Went to New
York state, where he farmed, and
then came to Texas, arriving at old
Buckner in 1847. He was a survey-
or also, and when the center of the
county had been located for a
county seat, he ran off the lines
and found it was in East Fork Val-
ley, two miles southeast of present
McKinney.
(In 1857 re surveyed, and laid out
the Dallas Road, which now runs
down to Wilson Creek from the
southwest corner of McKinney. In
1854 he surveyed the school lands
of Collin County, and later plotted
the Pecan Grove Cemetery. He was
in the Mexican War of 1848 in
Fitzhugh’s company. In the Civil
War he served in Fitzhugh’s 16th
Texas Cavalry, and in the 2nd Tex-
as state troops, and in Martin’s Par-
tisan Rangers.
(Mr. White deeded ground to the
city where the High School now is,
and deeded the plot for the Row-
lett Creek Cemetery. He was tax
collector and assessor, and notary
public at various times. On Febru-
ary 16, 1882, he married Margaret,
youngest daughter of Mr. Samuel
G. and Sarah (Hay) Ferguson. Had
two daughters, Margaret and Mary.
Margaret married Dr. W. T. Hoard.
George White died in 1886, and
lies in the cemetery he plotted—
Pecan Grove.
“Let us bow our heads.” With
words simple as these, the Chief
Executive of the United States
each Friday morning at 10 a.m.
opens his weekly Cabinet meeting
with a minute or more of silent
prayer.
To President Eisenhower it has
seemed natural and normal thus to .
launch every Cabinet meeting since
inauguration. For he is naturally a
religious man. Talk to members of
his administration — Secretary of ,
Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, him-
self a dedicated Christian, or mem- '
bers of the White Houe staff—or
the President’s pastor, the Rev. Ed- :
ward L. R. Nelson, and you will
find that they all so regard Dwight ■
D. Eisenhower.
They will comment that “Ike” is :
something a little rare in the presi- :
dency, and, furthermore, that his
influence has affected the whole at- :
mosphere of his administration. The
members are more dedicated men ■
and women than they otherwise :
might be—except when certain of
them fall prey to the “old Adam”
of extreme political partisanship. 1
To say the President is a religi- '
ous man is not to contend that his '
policies always will be right. Holy
Writ does not specify an always- '
right course of political salvation
—liberal, conservative, or midroad. :
It is a matter of daily demonstra-
big cities, over traffic. Humorously
but seriously, he says he won’t
drive across the continent again—
a resolve “never to tempt Provi-
dence and lunatic drivers.”
His last reference is the key to
trouble. The lunatic fringe is that
minority whose disregard and hu-
man cussedness cause most of the
trouble. How else can you explain
the fact that 90 per cent of the ac-
cidents are on fine highways and
in good cars? It’s human, not me-
chanical, error.
The finest engineering brains
construct an automobile that per-
forms satisfactorily. Skill and in-
finite precision go into highway de-
sign. On top of that, the country is
flooded with warning signs,, safety
schools, civic campaigns, lectures.
Still, the fatality rate climbs. The
same human mind that contrives a
perfect mechanism cannot control
its own attitude.
Of immediate urgency is his
suggestion to keep more kids out
of automobiles and to crack down
on speeding. But somehow the hu-
man being must crack down on
himself and his attitude. Every sta-
tistic reflects it. The lunatic fringe
may be a minority. But what a mi-
nority!
Safeway site); White’s blacksmith
shop (Later Scotty Forsythe’s
shop); Abe Rhine, drygoods (Pres-
ent McKinney Dry Goods site); J.
P. Dowell, hardware (North pres-
ent Foote House); Henry Hotel
(Below A. D. Hope’s, later was
Curtsigner Hotel); T. Bement, gro-
ceries (Present site Coffey Drug);
Shains Livery stable (Site of pres-
ent Duke & Ayres); Thomas Hotel
(Site of McKinney Home & Auto
Supply).
First National Bank (Center, west
The following is from a descrip-
tion of Collin County written by' But —
Mr. George White, in March, 1874. table seemed there was
In parenthesis I will place some of ' always room for more,
my own observations, as to loca- And Saturday was baking day
tions, etc. Mr. White’s article fol- ____ for cookies and cakes and pies,,
lows:
This is the most famous wheat-
Heard Brothers, grocers
of present Woolworth’s);
Gutzsell, baker (Behind
Commercial Hotel. Old
morning of Inauguration Day,
when the President-elect inserted
his famous “little prayer”—which
was not in the script—at the begin-
ning of the inaugural ceremony.
That morning Mr. and Mrs.
Eisenhower had attended, with
members of the incoming official
family, a quiet preinauguration
ceremony of dedication, timed ex-
actly to the minute, at the National
Presbyterian Church, of which
they were soon to become members.
The President-elect had returned to
the Statler Hotel, with a two-hour
wait ahead of him before he would
mount the inauguration platform at
noon.
In those tense, reflective moments
the President-elect considered the
inaugural address. The element of
spirituality was not sufficiently
stressed, he decided. He asked Ann
Whitman, his personal secretary,
for a pad of paper. Then and there,
on a pad of yellow legal ruled pa-
per, he composed the short, elo-
quent prayer of three paragraphs
which millions of Americans, and
millions more beyond these shores,
read or heard over radio and tele-
vision that noon of Jan. 20.
Plano, Lebanon, Rock Hill, Rhea ,
Mills, Weston, Mantua, Highland, I
Melissa, Blue Ridge, Farmersville, ! At the end ofthe week with a little
Millwood, and Decatur. Bois d’arc ; more good food than they’ll
hedges are the fencing used. (Rock ' need themselves?
Hill, Rhea Mills, Mantua, Highland ”” Ei
and Decatur are ghost towns.
The character of the soil is such
Assmann, declaring that Hitler’s
ideas about naval warfare were
“extremely primitive,” adds that
“the German Navy was not pre-
pared for a war at sea against the
British Navy, quite inadequately
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Inside Collin County (1 year) $1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.) 75c
\ vandalism here and the rash keeps
' breaking out. Street lights shot out
and window lights broken by rifle
shot. This type of mischief is hard
to stop. Police try to control these
juveniles, but the public is inclined
to be too soft on the young folks.
Let’s get away from this silly idea
that just because the little law-
breaker is under 18 he has a blank-
et okey to do as he pleases. This
coddling of youngsters in the name
of “self-expression” is a bunch of
bunk.
growing county in the state ... it „ .
has no waste land. It is supplied For Sunday brought in a merry
with numerous streams, but cistern group and for supper they
water is most generally used. There ' . always stayed,
are numerous living springs in the Till the table grew to a banquet
county. Two thirds of the county; board with places for twenty
is in prairie, but there is sufficient, laid.
timber for all purposes.
Improved lands can be bought, “Stay for supper!” Is that phrase
for $8 to $10 an acre; unimproved, i lost? So seldom I hear it now.
from $3 to $8. The county is out of . Can’t the tables be stretched, as we
debt, and has over $20,000 in its I used to do, or have we
treasury. The towns of the county I forgotten how?
are McKinney, the county seat; Don’t the mothers cook as our
" ' ’ mothers did? Don’t they load
cost will possibly double as the
years pass.
For those who want a Bible, but
can’t spare the 70 cents, there are
many organizations that will give
a copy free.
The Rev. Don Norman, who has
devoted a good part of his life to
the study and purchase of Bibles,
said the rare editions of the Good
Book will become scarcer and more
expensive as more and more of
them are picked up by public and
private collections.
“The day may come when a
Gutenberg original will cost as
much as $1,000,000—and it will be
worth it,” he said.
The high price of Bibles was
demonstrated recently when the
two-volume Gutenberg “Schuch-
berg copy” was offered for sale at
an asking price of $200,000. A
wealthy Eastern collector finally
purchased it for an undisclosed
sum.
The Library of Congress pos-
sesses the most expensive Bible in
the United States—a three-volume
Gutenberg printed on vellum val-
ued at $500,000.
Norman, who is executive secre-
tary of the Chicago Bible Society,
pointed out that a Bible must be
one of the 46 first copies of the
Gutenberg version to draw a six-
figure price tag.
That’s because these few volumes
are the first books ever printed
with movable type in the Western
world.
The days of the massive Bible
that rested on a center table in the
front parlor are passing, although
such editions can still be obtained
for around $35.
Instead, modern readers prefer
a smaller book costing between $10
and $18 which includes the tradi-
tional pages for recording the
deaths, births and marriages of a
family, Norman said.
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Lunatic Fringe
devout Mennonite group, known as
“River Brethren” because the orig-
inal community, of German stock,
had located near the Susquehanna
River in early Pennsylvania days.
Menno Simons, from whom the
Mennonites took their name, first
proclaimed his teachings in Zurich
in 1528.
The President’s grandfather had
been a preaching elder in the
church and had led his band of
Brethren to Kansas. The President’s
mother in later years became a
member of Jehovah’s Witness be-
cause, she said, “she admired their
zeal.” The President still admires
religious zeal.
When Mr. Eisenhower became
President, he decided it was time
to join a church. It seemed ■ the
proper thing for a President to at-
tend church on Sunday. Mrs. Eisen-
hower already had joined the Pres-
byterians, in Denver days. Their
son, Maj. John Eisenhower, had
once attended a Boy Scout troop
at the National Presbyterian
Church in Washington, when Eisen-
hower, Sr., was considerably less
than a five-star general.
Dr. Elson, the minister at Na-
tional Presbyterian, was a wartime
chaplain in the European Theater,
and had been delegated by General
Eisenhower to explain to German
religious leaders the Allied policy
for recognition of the church as the
war ended. He was an indefatigable
pastor, General Eisenhower knew,
with wide-ranging interests and a
soldierly cast of thought. . . .
Broad Religious Activity in Capital
There are, for instance, 14 religi-
ous breakfast groups functioning
in Washington—those for House
and Senate members, a breakfast
which embraces the judiciary, a
businessmen’s group, and others.
The President annually has attend-
ed a breakfast launching the An-
nual Christian Action Conference
sponsored by the International
Council for Christian Leadership.
The President, in his capacity as
chief executive of all groups of
Americans, was present at the an-
nual Roman Catholic “Red Mass”
in Washington this year. He was
the first President to attend. . . .
Examples of the capital’s interest
in religion, as seen by Dr. Elson, in-
clude the enthusiastic reception
given to evangelist “Billy” Gra-
ham, the extensive church con-
struction of the past few years, the
multiplying radio programs on re-
ligion, and the increased earnest-
ness among young persons in col-
leges and universities.
Moving within the Washington
scene is a President whose warmth
and sensitive humanity shine often
through official protocol. Recently
at a White House function the
President was shaking hands with
a long and seemingly endless line
fense against the very idea of a
Mediterranean war,” he says. “All
the failures in North Africa and the
Mediterranean developed in the
course of time from this one cardi-
nal blunder, until an intact and
commanding Malta decided the fate
of the African war with its heroic
soldiers and—I say this in full con-
sciousness—decided the fate of the
world war.”
Route to North Africa
But if Malta had been taken,
Kesselring continues, a permanent
and safe supply route to North Af-
rica would have been established
and after British influence had
been eliminated, “Egypt’s joining
the Axis (the German-Italian alli-
ance) would have been only a ques-
tion of time. The Axis powers
would have won a base for exten-
sive operations behind the Russian
front. Spain, Turkey, the Balkans
and most of the Arab states would
have sided with Germany, and
Great Britain would have lost the
foundation of her power.”
Kesselring quotes Lt.-Gen. Niel-
sen, former chief of staff of the
Reich Air Fleet, for the opinion
that the supreme command threw
Daily Worship in Boyhood Home away the chance of air supremacy
His parents were members of a by not constructing jet fighters in
- - • ’ time.
tion. . . .
The administration’s religious
tone was estblished on the very
Gettysburg Address.
This simple act, almost of horn- the depth of waters which existed
age—at a moment of stress—to per- in the ' region thousands of years
haps the most God-seeking man ago.
ever to occupy the White House, I --------o--------
" " " Tom Farrell, Rfd. 2, Plano, sets
Former German military and
civil leaders of World War II are
taking up the hobby that occupied
the minds of their predecessors in
the years between the two world
wars—explaining why Germany
lost.
Twenty-two of them, in a book
published here under the title “The
Balance Sheet of World War II,”
assess the reasons for Germany’s
defeat and conclude that it was due
to blind stupid leadership, especial-
ly from Adolf Hitler.
The former leaders who had a
hand in the book include: Field
Marshal Albert Kesselring, com-
mander in Italy; Count Schwerin
Von Krosigh, finance minister; Gen.
Hasso Van Manteuffel; Col.-Gen.
Heinz Guderain; and Vice-Adm.
Kurt Assmann.
Kesselring declares that the one
fatal mistake was blindness to the
importance of the Mediterranean
Theatre, where, he says, Germany
could have won the war at a frac-
tion of the cost of failure in Rus-
sia.
Guderian, the Panzer leader who
led the 1940 offensive which
crushed France and left Britain
standing alone, says that Hitler re-
peated the mistake of previous in-
vaders of Russia by dispersing his
forces and swinging south into the
Ukraine in 1941 instead of heading
straight for the strategic and eco-
nomic center of Moscow.
Most Serious Mistake
But his most serious mistake, ac-
cording to Guderian, was this rigid
direction of the war, his insistence
on defending every foot of ground,
which lost hundreds of thousands
of men unnecessarily.
Kesselring considers that Ger-
man failure to take from Britain
the key island or Malta was suffi-
cient to cost them the entire war.
“The fact that Malta was not at-
tacked (at the start) was an of-
that it never suffers from drouth.
When crops fail it is from excess
of rain. The uplands of the county
produce unparalleled crops. (Mr.
White had been here thirty years,
and he should know. Even when
this writer was young, a drouth
was exceptional.
This town numbers 3,000 inhabi-
tants, two newspapers, the McKin-
ney Enquirer, and the Messenger,
two churches and four church or-
ganizations. Two large schools are
flourishing, and the Masons and
Odd Fellows have thriving lodges.
The new courthouse is to be a
double-tower, two story building
with a Mansard roof. (This is our
present courthouse, which was
remodeled in 1928.
A 50-horsepower flouring mill is
now being built in McKinney. It
will be one of the largest in the
state. (This three-story, frame mill
was built east of the railroad, and
north of the present ice plant. The
present Collin County Mill and
Elevator Company is an outgrowth
of it.
The following are among the
leading business men in McKinney;
Throckmorton, Brown and Brother.
(Throckmorton became Governor).
(George White, real estate; (Up-
stairs, northside). Foote & Hern-
don, druggist. (Northwest corner).
Jesse Shain, merchant. (West side).
I. D. Newsome & Son, groceries.
(Southwest corner); H. W. Ardin-
ger & Co., dry goods (Northeast
corner); G. A. Foote, groceries,
(Foote House); H. A. McDonald,
stoves and hardware (South side);
Dave Stiff, blacksmith (In the ga-
rage now opposite the Courier-Ga-
zette).
Short’s livery stable (Present
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Politics makes strange bedfel-
lows, and it sometimes denies a bed
to a man who deserves one and who
would have well filled it. Such for
instance is the quirk that made
Harry Truman instead of Sam Ray-
burn president of the United
States.
In 1943 Senator Harry Truman,
speaking in San Francisco, suggest-
ed that the Democrats should nomi-
nate Sam Rayburn for vice-presi-
dent the next year. But 1944 was
the year of the Texas Regulars,
and the fuss they made carried over
into the National Convention. Two
delegations appeared there from
Texas, both were finally seated,
and later one walked out. The
squabble forbade any thought of
putting a Texan on the ticket, and
Harry Truman was nominated, suc-
ceeding to the presidency when
Roosevelt passed away the next
year.
The Texas row may have not
been wholly responsible, but if it
had been proposed Roosevelt would
probably not have accepted him.
He had experience with one Texan,
in the person of John Garner, who
had a mind of his own and ability
to express it when he thought nec-
essary. He probably considered
Rayburn as another Texan who
would not be submissive to a
fourth term just as Garner had re-
fused to go along with a third term
for a president. So Senator Harry
Truman, a man of no particular
force, a good Administration sup-
porter, was chosen and elected.
When Whittier wrote verses
about Maud Muller raking the hay,
and said, “Of all sad words of
tongue or pen, the saddest are
these, ‘It might have been,’ ” he put
into words what has occurred many
times in the history of men and na-
tions. The “might have been” of
the vice-presidency of 1944 is just
one illustration. Had Rayburn in-
stead of Truman succeeded to the
presidency there would have been
a different chapter in our history.
ATTORNEY General Herbert
Brownell: “Inherently, we people
have little liking for eavesdropping
of any kind. Fair play and freedom
mean so much to us. Wiretap
snooping reminds us of the meth-
od employed by the Nazi Gestapo
and the Soviet OGPU.”
EVERY American was horrified
at the ghastly death toll of the Ko-
rean War.
Yet last year alone accidental
deaths accounted for three times as
many victims as that war. Some
95,000 people died unnecessarily—
traffic accidents being the Number
1 killer with 38,000—and 9,600,000
were injured. The economic cost to
'the nation is estimated at more
than $9,000,000,000.
The president of the National
Safety Council made a memorable
commentary: “We do not believe
that any civilized nation can long
endure this tragic and disgraceful
, waste of manpower and resources
from accidents that are avoidable.”
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Thompson, Clint & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1954, newspaper, March 11, 1954; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1457432/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.