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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1940.
VOL. 55, NO. 9.
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Texas Road Toll
128 for January
81 Retirement
Pension Claims
Approved in Area
Two Basketball
Games Scheduled
For Local Court
Olan Looney to Be
In Charge of Privy
Construction Work
New Books Added
To Rental Library
Liquor, Cigaret
Taxes Pay Pensions
Census Questions
That Will Be Asked
By the Enumerator
Betting Odds
Against F. D. R.
Being Re-Elected
O’Daniel Admits
The Irish in Him
Urges Second Race
Increased Cotton
Shipments Boosting
Merchandise Exports
Ag Expert Says Day
Of Five Million Bale
Cotton Crop Past
Post Office Asks
For Rent Proposals
X-RAY COSTS CUT
TO 10 CENTS EACH
BY NEW MACHINE
and
the
Department
$2 on
: Mr.
) the
SOLON WOULD LIMIT
SOIL CONSERVATION
PAYMENTS TO $5,000
WORLD’S FASTEST
PLANE WILL BE
DELIVERED TO U. S.
Ancient Rome forbade marriage by
women of more than 50 years.
NEW SERVICE
FOR FARMERS
It is not unlawful to write checks
for less than one dollar.
BROTHERS DROP DEAD
ALMOST AT SAME TIME
Man Killed Trying to Retrieve
Boy’s Kite from Highline
SHERMAN. — uThe <
will come to' your home
Rotary Club Has
Farmer Guests at
Anniversary Meet
lj)hiteu)Ainht
YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED IN .1885
Whitewright Again
Penalized Because
Of 1936 Fire Loss
CLOSED SEASON BEGINS
FRIDAY FOR GAME FISH
to expect
re-
tire
census man
! in April,”
twentieth
a
person will .be
social security
WASHINGTON.—Increased cotton
shipments were an important factor
in boosting the margin of American
merchandise exports over imports
during January to $126,589,000.
The commerce department said
Tuesday night that January exports
totaled $368,550,000 and imports
$241,961,000. The margin was one of
the largest in recent years. In Jan-
uary, 1939, it was only $34,665,000.
January cotton shipments totaled
1,125,000 bales, compared with 327,-
000 a year ago.
Other important exports during the
month included airplanes, machin-
ery, metals, canned vegetables and
semi-manufactured goods. Imports
increased on silk, wool, nickel, wood
pulp, diamonds and burlap.
two-month closed season on game
fish and all lakes in this area will be
closed to fishing. Game fish are pro-
tected during March and April be-
cause of the spawning season.
AUSTIN. — Closing their black-
book entries for January, state police
Monday announced that 110 fatal ac-
cidents had taken a toll of 128 lives
during the first month of the year. In
comparison with January, 1939, the
summary represented a reduction of
13 fatal accidents and 11 deaths, ac-
cording to drivers’ license statisti-
cians.
Once again the death score showed
the heavy proportion of pedestrian
deaths to the state traffic total, with
34 of the 128 fatalities being listed
as pedestrians.
During January, 1940, the rural
accident tally showed a marked de-
crease from the same month of 1939,
with 23 fewer fatal accidents and 24
fewer deaths as compared with last
year.
Texas cities, however, showed 10
more fatal accidents and 13 more
deaths than for the first month of the
preceding year.
accurate diagnosis
■with X-rays.
During the past six months 2,000
persons were 'X-rayed with the new
emit at the hospital’s tuberculosis
clinic. Percentage of error in detect-
ing the disease was less than 5 per
cent, Health Commissioner Henry F.
Vaughn said, adding:
“It is only reasonable
this incidence will be further
duced through continued use of
new technique.”
The result of three years of
search by the General Electric Com-
pany, the new machine is the only
■one of its type in existence.
Along with cutting the price of X-
ray pictures, the machine decreases
the length of time needed to make
them.
“It takes only one minute to take
the picture, and another minute to
■develop the negative,” Dr. Vaughn
said.
DETROIT.—A newly developed X-
xay machine which will cut the cost
■of an X-ray picture from $3 to about
10 cents is being tested exhaustively
at a Detroit municipal hospital.
Significance of low-priced X-ray j
pictures looms large in medical cir-
cles as recently perfected X-ray
I
SHERMAN.—A new service to be
contrasted daugh- given cooperators in the agricultural
cross-section of
the bewildering modern generation of
China. The story develops as its
theme the dissolution of family
discipline and the conflict of the in-
dividual and the family.
“Country Lawyer” (Partridge) is a
well-seasoned portrait of a dignified,
strongly individualistic, and lovable
personality such as could have been
produced only by the country town
as yet unimproved by the automobile,
the radio, and the chain store. The
story of the country lawyer is told by
warehouse
ear corn,
and
Proposals are being solicited, to be
received in the office of Post Office
Inspector A. S. Page at Fort Worth,
up to and including March 31, 1940,
to furnish quarters suitable for post
office purposes at Whitewright, un-
der a lease used by the Post Office
Department, at a stated price per an-
num, including heat or fuel, light,
water, toilet facilities, plumbing and
light fixtures, safe and all necessary
furniture and equipment, for a term
of five or ten years from October 1,
1940.
General building requirements,
equipment specifications, and form of
proposal, together with information
concerning the provisions of the
lease, may be obtained from Post-
master T. J. Lilley or the inspector
whose name and address are indi-
cated above.
S. T. Montgomery, coach of
Whitewright High School basketball
team, announces two post-season
games to be played by his quintet.
The first will be played Friday night,
March 1, when the Williams High
School team from out Pampa way
will meet the locals. The Williams
five,, champions of their district, are
coached by Red Conner, former Pilot
Grove and E. T. S. T. C. star. They
will go to Gober for a game Satur-
day night.
The other game will be played
Thursday night, March 7, by a team
composed of former Whitewright
High School players and the present
team. Proceeds of this game will go
toward paying for sweaters for the
team, and Mr. Montgomery hopes to
have the gymnasium well filled with
paying customers.
AUSTIN—-Texas raised $31,827,-
000 in taxes for old age pensions in
the last three and a half years, State
Auditor Tom King said today.
Of this, more than half, or $16,-
101,000, was raised by liquor taxes.
Most of the balance, $14,641,000,
came from cigaret taxes. Both these
taxes, totaling $30,742,000, or about
97 per cent of the pension revenue,
are sales taxes.
Vending machine taxes, amuse-
ment taxes and interest and transfers
accounted for the balance of the state
tax revenue. > .
man. A refugee professor joins him
in eluding the police and the two run
across other amiable and eccentric
characters.
“Miss Susie Slagle’s” (Tucker) is
a unique novel of life among the
medical students in Baltimore. Ip
September, 1912, four new students
meet at the hospitable table of Miss
Susie Slagle, proprietress of a board-
ing house. With complete under-
standing and knowledge of the life of
the medical students, the author tells
the story of the friendship of these
four young men.
was discussed
meeting here
AUSTIN.—One hundred thousand
copies of the new Texas highway
map will be off the press and ready
for distribution within the next 10
days, officials of the state highway
department said.
The 1940 edition, according to map
makers, is one of the most artistic
and informative that has ever been
issued by the department. A five
color job has been carried out on the
front with four colors on the back.
In addition to the new highway
designations and new number assign-
ments carried for the first time, a
complete list of all state parks, their
location and a brief description of
each has also been provided.
Two other new features on this
year’s map are reproduction of all
the important highway warning
signs, a column on “Facts About Tex-
as” and “Points of Interest.”
A slogan at the foot of the map
reads “See Texas First, Then Amer-
ica.”
census supervisor, “and here is some a^ odds had no
of the information he will seek:”
About the house, he will want to
know if it is owned or rented, its
value or monthly rental and whether .
it is a farm or not. wU-+
Questions about the individual |White
come thick and fast, but Mr.
assures it will never appear again
singly, but will bob up in tabular I
form in a mass of statistics designed :
to give hints as to regional buying
power, migrational trends, employ-
ment trends, racial origin and such
information.
The census man wants to know the
name of every person in the house-
hold, his relationship to the he.ad of
the family, sex, color or race, age
last birthday and marital status. He
will want to know whether he at-
tended school since March 1, 1940,
and highest grade completed pre-
viously, the state and county of birth
of each person and citizenship of any
foreign-born.
To get a study of internal migra-
tion, each person will be asked where
he lived five years previously. To
get complete facts of unemployment,
each person 14 or over must state
whether he was at work for pay or
profit in private industry in the week
of March 24 and 30. If not in private
work, each person will be asked
about WPA, NYA or CCC work.
All persons employed by private
industry or in regular government
work are required to give the num-
ber of hours worked the week of
March 24 to 30, and those seeking
work or assigned to public emergency
work must state the duration of their
unemployment in weeks up to March
30, 1940.
In a supplementary census, every
twentieth person will be asked se-
lected questions designed to give ad-
ditional information., Each twentieth
! person will be asked the state or
country of birth of father and moth-
er.
This ______
technique makes it possible to make asked if he has
number, whether or not deductions
were paid for federal old age insur-
ance or railroad retirement in 1939
and his usual occupation. This sup-
plementary census will want to know
of each twenteith woman whether
she has been married more than
once, age at first marriage and num-
ber of children born.
Every person will be asked the
number of weeks worked during
1939 and the amount of money, in
wages or salary or commission, re-
ceived, and whether or not there was
additional income of $59 or more
during the year.
Whitewright is being severely
punished because of loss by fire of a
large grain warehouse and contents
in May, 1936. We have been given
the maximum penalty of fifteen per
cent on all fire insurance premiums
paid for coverage within the city
limits during the past three years,
and which penalty will continue for
two more years before we have
dropped the disastrous 1936 record
from the five year period on which
the ratio of premiums and losses are
calculated in fixing the fire record
penalties and credits. It is esti-
mated that the grain warehouse fire
will cost insurance premium payers
in excess of $10,000 over the five-
year period.
The insurance losses paid on this
massive ironclad grain
;and contents, principally
are brought forward each year
repeatedly added into the total losses
for five years. Otherwise White-
wright would have been drawing a
substantial credit for the past three
years and could hope for credit bene-
fits for the next two years.
Since the system of credits
penalties was established by
State Fire Insurance
twenty-five years ago, Whitewright
has been on the credit side most of
the time. Reducing the credits
penalties to points, Whitewright has
enjoyed the benefits of 156 good fire
Tecord points as against 48 bad fire
record points, and of course the ratio
of good points would have been
greatly increased except for the big
fire of 1936.
The State Fire Insurance Commis-
isioner does not criticize oui’ fire de-
partment, but does criticize us for
not trying to prevent the construc-
tion of vastly oversized buildings
containing too much insured value
within one inclosure. The local fire
department has a very excellent rec-
ord in preventing the spread of fires,
■which is the essential function of fire
fighting organizations. Only one or
two instances can be recalled where-
in the local fire organization has per-
mitted a fire to spread beyond the
-structure in which it originated.
But, after all, the most effective
fire fighting is fire prevention.
Last Friday was Farmers Day at
the Whitewright Rotary Club lunch-
eon and members of the club had
farmer guests. For the past several
years the club has made a practice of
setting aside one day on which each
member would bring a farmer guest.
These days have proved interesting
and profitable to both the guests and
members of the club. About twenty
farmers were present at the luncheon
Friday, and all they had to do was
talk and eat and they proved to be
proficient at both. None of the visi-
tors were called on to make speeches,
but there were several in the group
that would have made a good speech,
if they had been called on.
Friday was the 35th anniversary
of Rotary and the program was in
celebration of this event. Talks were
made by W. E. LaRoe, R. T. Pen-
nington, F. M. Echols and C. B. Bry-
ant Jr., president of the club. Each
took a different phase of Rotary and
its objects, and as a result of the
talks Rotarians and visitors had a
better understanding of Rotary.
The program at the luncheon Fri-
day will be in charge of F. M.
Echols.
WHITESBORO. — Two brothers
living on adjacent farms at Gunter,
southeast of here, dropped dead
Monday within a few minutes of
each other.
William Leroy Wilson, 64, col-
lapsed and toppled from the tractor
with which he was plowing. John A.
Wilson, 69, helped place the body in
a car, then gasped incoherently and
toppled over dead.
A total of 81 claims for Retirement
and Survivors Insurance have been
certified for monthly payments in the
Dallas area up to Washington’s birth-
day, Feb. 22, says Ernest L. Tutt,
manager of the Dallas office of the
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors In-
surance.
“The average monthly insurance
payment to the 81 individual claim-
ants,” Tutt said, “is $21.65. Retire-
ment insurance payments to living
retired persons accounted for 71 of
the claims that have been certified,
and these ‘primary’ insurance pay-
ments,” Tutt said, “ranged from
$41.20 down to $10.00 per month per
person, the average being $22.83.”
“Among the 81 approved claims,”
Tutt said, “there were 7 from 65-
year-old wives of insured retired
wage earners. The wives’ monthly
payments range from $20.60 down to
$6.28 per month, or an average of
$13.05 per wife’s claim.”
“The 14 claims covering 7 couples
of husband and wife, both 65
over,” Tutt said, “ranged from
high of $61.80 down to the low
$18.83 for the combined ‘
per month; 7 supplemental monthly
benefits to wives age 65 and over
of living retired wage earners, aver-
aging $13.05 per month; and L
monthly survivors insurance bene-
fits to minor children of middle aged
deceased wage earners, averaging]2111 Oia comeaian 1S mistaKen ior a
$13.64 per month per child.” bomb thrower and becomes a hunted
“Of the 81 claims that have been
certified for payment in the Dallas
area,” Tutt said, “68 of them, or 84
per cent, are to residents of Dallas
County, 3 to residents of Collin
County, 1 of Cooke County, 3 of Den-
ton County, 1 of Ellis County, 2 of
Grayson County, and 2 of Kaufman
County.”
“In filing claims for Retirement or
Survivors Insurance,” Tutt says,
“residents of Dallas and Rockwall
Counties should contact the Main Of-
fice of the Bureau of Old-Age and
Survivors Insurance in the Allen
Building at Dallas. Residents of the
other counties in the Dallas area
may contact the Dallas office, or they
may use the part-time offices which
are open one day every other week
in the Post Office Buildings at Den-
ton, Gainesville, Sherman, Denison,
McKinney, Waxahachie, Ennis, Ter-
rell and Kaufman.
G. Olan Looney of Sherman was in
Whitewright this week and requested
The Sun to state that he is now re-
ceiving applications for the building
of pit toilets in Grayson County. The
privy-building project was approved
by the commissioners court recently
upon recommendation of Dr. Arthur
Gleckler, county health officer. The
project will give employment to from
40 to 60 WPA workers.
Pit toilets will be built free of
charge for any one furnishing the
lumber and materials, expected to
cost from $12 to $20. The county’s
only requirement is to furnish a gen-
eral supervisor, Mr. Looney, who will
work under the direction of Dr.
Gleckler. Families now receiving
farm security administration loans
will have the materials furnished
free by the government. Any person
may make application to Mr. Looney,
500 S. Elm, Sherman, or to County
Judge Jake Loy, for one of the struc-
tures.
CHILDRESS.—Bud Gee, 36, farm-
er of Dodson community, was killed
instantly Saturday night while at-
tempting to retrieve his son’s kite
which had lodged on a highline.
A 17,000-volt charge was sent
through Gee’s body the instant he
touched the wires with pieces of pipe
he had put together for a pole.
sion.”
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is a good natured, satirical farce
3 moving from one improbable event to
another with a few asides on the
weak state of modern Englishmen.
An old comedian is mistaken for a
The following new books have
been added to the rental library at
the High School recently and are
available to persons paying the 50c
library fee and a rental charge of 2c
per day, it is announced by Mrs.
Jewell Kennemer, librarian:
“The Nazarene” (Asch) contains a
wealth of incident and historical de-
tail which make it very long. The
story is told by three persons. An old
Gentile scholar, haunted by memo-
ries of an earlier incarnation as a
Roman official, tells how he contrib-
uted to the persecution of Jesus and
he forces a Jewish assistant to recall
his own experiences of that time as a
disciple of the Pharisees in Jerusa-
lem. The third part of the narrative
jis in the form of a gospel by Judas
Iscariot.
“Moment in Peking” (Yutang).
The scene of this outstanding and
unique novel, is a moving panorama
of Chinese life, over nearly forty
years—from the terror of the Boxer
Rebellion in 1900 to the bitter excite-
ment of the present Japanese inva-
sion, a period of great social change
and adjustments of a Peking upper
middle-class family. Three sons and
three strikingly c
ters-in-law offer a
Lee
(Dem.) of Oklahoma proposes to lim-
it the maximum amount of soil con-
servation payments to $5,000, except
in cases where landowners operate
several farms on a sharecrop basis.
In that case the maximum limit
would be fixed at $10,000.
The limits were provided in an
amendment he laid before the Sen-
ate yesterday to be offered when the
House-passed bill affecting the- soil
conservation service (HR3800) comes
up for consideration.
and
the
of
‘primary’ I embodying the same philosophy
and "‘wife’s’^monthly^ insurance pay- I
ment.”
“The total of 81 claims that had!
been approved up to Feb. 22, Wash- j
ington’s birthday,” Tutt said, “were
composed of 71 ‘primary’ monthly in- i?ower- * r€^ue™ reierences w me t from ^Gravson
snranep hpnpfih tn rntimd 65 vpar journal of Dr. Hudson were made m assistants ana clerks tiom Liayson,
surance benefits to retired 65 * year author’s “Magnificent Obses- Cooke and Fannin Counties,
old wage earners, averaging $22.83 .e „aumor s iviagnnicent uoses _______________
‘Let the People Sing” (Priestley) NEW STATE ROAD
MAP IS SPEEDED
adjustment administration’s program
this year, whereby farmers will be
assisted in planning their cropping
system to take maximum advantage
of federal payments,
at a three-county
Wednesday.
The plan is to set
plan sheets for each producer, listing
allotments of soil depleting crops,
then have community committeemen
confer with farmers who desire the
service and advise them on planning
the remainder of farm planting and
his son, who worked with him first |on practices by which soil building
as a law student and afterward as a x * J
partner and is based on incidents re-
lated by the country lawyer himself
and on cases and records taken from
his voluminous files. Some of the in-
cidents are amusing, some curious,
some i . .
human quality of having come from
experience.
“Doctor Hudson’s Secret Journal”
(Douglas) is an imaginary journal
’' ’ ’ ” ’ ” ’ ' of
5 found in
! other novels by this author. The book
'shows the rehabilitation of the cen-
j tral character’ and his successful
'building of a spiritual and worldly
'power. Frequent references to the
NEW YORK.—Bets of 2 to 1 that
Franklin D. Roosevelt will not be re-
elected president were reported to-
day by commissioners in downtown
New York to have reached $6,000.
win uume lu ,yuui uumc 111 npm,
said Will Leslie of Sherman, district !However $24’000 Put UP foi\ wa§era
takers, it
was added.
For the uninitiated, this means that
a citizen is willing to put up !
the chance that he’ll win $1 if
! Roosevelt is not returned to
individual I White House this November. A
Leslie Proviso in the betting is that wagers
I are cancelled if he gets the nomina-
tion but dies before election day.
j Among the other bets reported are:
Seven to 8 to 5 that Roosevelt will be
renominated; even money up to 7 to
5 that if nominated he will not win.
LOS ANGELES.—Delivery of
fastest military planes in the world,
constructed for the U. S. army air
corps, will begin shortly, Robert E.
Gross, president of the Lockhead
Aircraft Co., said today. Top speed
is more than 420 miles an hour.
The planes were accepted for army
use after a trial flight a year ago in
which Lieut. B. S. Kalsey flew one
of them from March field to Mitchell
field, Long Island, in 7 hours, 45
minutes and 36 seconds, not far be-
hind the transcontinental record of 7
hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
A $10,000,000 order has been
Friday marks the beginning of the placed, and planes are being built on
a production schedule which will'as-
sure delivery ahead of time.
payments may be earned. Soil build-
ing will be emphasized more than
before. ,
Community committeemen are to
be called in for schooling on the 1940
handbook of regulations and in-
moving, but all have the deeply structed in points where they may
assist the producers. They will then
conduct a series of conferences in lo-
cal communities and farmers will be
notified by mail on what day and
where they may obtain the service.
Wednesday’s meeting was con-
ducted by S. T. Taylor, principal
field assistant for district 4, and B. B.
Ingle of Grandview, state committee-
man. Attending were county agents,
county committees, administrative
AUSTIN.—The day of the five-
million-bale cotton crop in Texas is
past—at least for some time to come
—believes Dr. F. A. Buechel, Uni-
versity of Texas agricultural expert.
Even return to unrestricted cotton
production—“a possible development
in national administration within a
few years”—will not bring back such
gigantic cotton crops as this state
once had, for many years at any rate,
the statistician of the University’s
bureau of business research said to-
day.
Why? Because: (1) Brazil and In-
dia have permanently “adopted” part
of the American cotton market, and
(2) other cash crops and livestock
enterprises have been substituted
which spread the income of the cot-
ton farmers of the Southwest over a
long period during the year.
Government regulation of cotton
production—an outgrowth of the de-
pression—is not only extending the
farmer’s annual earning cycle, but is
bringing about better utilization of
land, he said.
Incongruities in the bureau’s 13-
year farm cash income index, caused
by these shifting seasonal tendencies,
have just been ironed out by an elab-
orate but foolproof formula devised
by Carroll Brown, University gradu-
ate student, under Dr. Buechel’s su-
pervision.
This readjustment has revealed the
shift from the major crop system of
ten years ago—when cotton furnish-
ed 67 per cent of Texas’ total agricul-
tural income—to the 1939 schedule.
Today, money from livestock has
almost doubled, that from livestock
products has tripled, and that from
fruits and vegetables—fresh and can-
ned—has almost quadrupled, Dr.
Buechel has discovered.
“Livestock products, especially
milk products, are more nearly year-
round factors,” he pointed out, “and
the fruit and vegetable crops are in
season throughout the entire year in
at least one of the eleven crop-pro-
ducing regions of the state.”
WEATHERFORD. — Gov. W. Lee
O’Daniel said here Wednesday he had
not made up his mind whether to run
for Governor again, but intimated in
the same breath that his every incli-
nation is to seek re-election so as ta
finish the task he set himself to.
“There’s a lot to be done, and I’ve
got enough Irish in me to hate leav-
ing a fight in the middle of it,” he
told friends here during a brief visit
while en route from Mineral Wells to-
Austin.
Greeting friends on the courthouse
square, he said he was glad to “get
out of Austin for a'breath of fresh
air.”
Meanwhile one of his staunchest
Fort Worth supporters when O’Dan-
iel ran for Governor two years ago
—the Rev. J. Leslie Finnell, pastor of
the Magnolia Avenue Christian
Church—announced at Fort Worth
that he is not going to support
O’Daniel if the Governor seeks a sec-
ond term.
Expressing belief O’Daniel has lost
a lot of support with the “boys out in
the forks of the road,” Mr. Finnell
recounted an experience he had on a
recent hunting trip, when a store
owner said folks had quit congregat-
ing in large numbers in his estab-
lishment to hear the Governor’s Sun-
day morning radio addresses.
Governor and Mrs. O’Daniel had
visited Mineral Wells earlier
Wednesday. He addressed high
school students during the morning
and made a radio address at noon,
after which they visited the National
Youth Administration home.
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 29, 1940, newspaper, February 29, 1940; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230625/m1/1/?q=denton+history: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.