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The Whitewright Sun
VOL. 56, NO. 22.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935.
5c a Copy, $1.50 a Year.
Basketball Tournament
To Be Held This Week
is experienced
bution for old-age pensions
ac-
•'V
to
the tourna-
Range
vs.
4 y2 per
per cent
7 y2 por-
tion over the vigorous opposition of
Senators Asked
To Reveal Their
Income Sources
Old Age Pensions
On Modest Basis to
Be Very Expensive
ROOSEVELT’S SOCIAL
PLAN AT A GLANCE
WAGGONER NAMED TO
FOUR COMMITTEES
BOWRIGHT DRUG
CO. IN BANKRUPTCY
AUTOMOBILE LICENSE
PAYABLE TO APRIL I
High Court Rejects
Mooney’s Plea and
Delays Gold Ruling
NEW TAX LAW
IS EXPLAINED
Bean-
White-
over-
and
AUSTIN.—Members of the Legis-
lature must pay for a group picture
to be hung in the halls of the respec-
tive houses.
Photographers who formerly made
the pictures gratis informed the Leg-
islature free work was banned by the
photographers’ code under the NRA.
A committee was appointed to ob-
tain bids from “a first class photog-
rapher.”
LEGISLATORS MUST PAY
FOR PHOTOS THIS YEAR
more tax penalties, interest or costs
after June 30, 1935.
.....
Son of B. Legg In
Serious Condition
Following Crash
3-DAY RAIN FOLLOWED
BY COLD WAVE SERVE
TO PARALYZE BUSINESS
<y ________
Tax Penalty Measure
Is Signed by Governor
COMMISSIONERS GRANT SALARY
BOOST TO 9 COUNTY EMPLOYES
OVER PROTESTS OF JUDGE LOY
BEHONEY, CHUDS DET
SUSPENDED SENTENCES
are cooperating with the federal gov-
ernment in the further study of the
subject and definite progress is be-
ing made.”
the total.
Jack Barbee, elongated center for
the Business five, Egg Davis and Lil-
burn Ross were the best performers
of the legitimate Business Men, but
when J. B. Harrison entered the
game he turned in the best perform-
ance of the night.
Gene Legg, 19-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. Legg of Denison, one of
ten persons injured early Saturday in
a tragic automobile accident between
Sherman and Denison that cost the
life of Harold Ransom of Denison,
was reported still in a serious condi-
tion at a Denison hospital yesterday,
although there had been some im-
provement in his condition.
The Legg family resided in White-
Call The Sun when you nave news.
In Java the black cobra goes by
many names — spoon snake, pig
snake, black snake and spitting snaJ^
of S. V. Earnest, district clerk, that
he be allowed $500 per year in ex-
officio fees. B. N. Whiteacre, chief
deputy under Mr. Earnest, received a
guilty to the charges, testifying that [salary increase from $135 to $150.
they burglarized the store together.
They were both tried by the same
jury Monday.
AUSTIN.—The Texas Senate Mon-
day received a challenge from the
House of Representatives to reveal
publicly their sources of income.
A resolution adopted by the House
last week constituted the challenge.
Representatives asked adoption by
the Senate of a proposal to form a
joint committee to prepare a ques-
tionnaire, to which each member
would answer under oath, concerning
his employment and income.
Undei* Senate rules, the resolution
was referred to a committee before
flooi- consideration, although suspen-
sion of the rules and immediate ac-
tion on it was possible.
Two years ago the House issued a
like challange to the Senate, which
disregarded it. Agitation for pub-
licity on employment of legislators
came to the fore in the Senate even
before the session started, however.
You can drive the old flivver with
your 1934 license plates on it until
midnight of April 1 this year.
Undei- terms of House Bill No. 6,
passed by the 43rd Legislature, all
1934 license plates are good and
valid up to and including March 31,
1935.
The beginning date on which li-
cense plates are to be issued is Feb.
1, and the customary two months pe-
riod will be allowed in which to buy
and affix them.
The Bow-Wright Drug Company,
owned by J. M. Wright and Roscoe
Pace, filed a petition in bankruptcy
Monday in the Federal court at Sher-
man.
This store operated in Whitewright
for 13 years, having opened for bus-
iness on Jan. 7, 1922, the founders
being R. A. Bow, O. G. Bow and J.
M. Wright. Later Roscoe Pace pur-
chased the interest of the Bow broth-
ers in the'business, Mr. Wright re-
taining his interest.
Dr. J. L. Bow, who has maintained
his offices in the store, has estab-
lished temporary offices at his resi-
dence.
wright for several years while oper-
ating a theatre here.
Jim Henry Andrews, another youth
injured in the 5-car crash, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Andrews of
Sherman, residents of Whitewright
for many years. Young Andrews was
not seriously injured, and was re-
leased from the hospital the day fol-
lowing the accident.
Roy Moore of Denison and Harold
McKinney of Sherman remain in a
serious condition with head injuries.
The accident happened when two
cars collided on the fog-obscured
highway, and three other cars piled
up in the wreckage.
per month, an increase of $10 per
month over the salary paid Sam Rick-
etts who occupied this post under R.
B. Caraway, former tax collector.
The number of persons to be em-
pfojft^d in the combined tax assessor-
collector’s office remains the same as
before the two offices were com-
bined, but a saving of approximately
$1,500 is anticipated by the court
through the elimination of one high-
salaried official whose work will be
divided between Mr. Allred and a
chief deputy at a salary of $150 per
month.
Relief for Fund
Some relief was afforded the lean
general fund when the court voted
to pay the salaries of the two court
reporters for the two district courts
out of the jury fund. It was esti-
mated that this would take a burden
of more than $3,500 off of the gen-
eral fund during 1935.
The request of Hubert Bookout,
criminal district attorney, for author-
ity to appoint two deputies and a
stenographer with no increase in sal-
aries was approved. No action was
taken on the proposal to hire a nurse
to aid a Red Cross nurse slated to
spend three months in the county
The court turned down the request working with the school children.
Members of the court also became
involved ■‘in a lengthy discussion of
merits of a centralized purchasing
system, but finally adjourned and
postponed action on the question un-
til the next meeting of the court
scheduled for Jan. 31.
During the lengthy discussion on
the many requests for salary hikes,
Judge Jake J. Loy warned the court
that the federal government would
turn back to the county Feb. 1, ap-
7 \ "“Iso called unemploy-
ables and that funds to care for these
persons would have to be provided.
He also told the commissioners’
court that granting of the salary in-
creases would cause a deficit and de-
clared that expenses in connection
with moving from the courthouse and
renting office space for approximate-
ly 10 months while the new structure
was being erected, would cause un-
usually heavy financial demands on
the county.
He vigorously opposed the move 1 _
two members of the court to abandon
the centralized purchasing system.
He declared that the records would
show that the county operated for
$73,000 less in 1933 under the cen-
tralized system than it did in 1932.
This figure covers all general operat-
ing expenses.
Judge Loy said that he pleaded
with the commissioners to abolish the
post of highway officer during the
session Monday afternoon from which
reporters were barred. He declared
that, since no new license fees were
to be collected until April 1, the high-
way officer would have no work to do
until after that date.
E. P. Jackson, highway officer for
several years, did not reapply for
the position and the court named A.
Live
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dividual awards will be given to the I
liigh point man of the meet, the best'
all-around player and the best sport.
Men who will be eligible to play
for Whitewright in the meet are:
Ross Brown, Guy Stepp, Clyde and
Charles Medearis, J. B. Henderson,
Clifton DeBerry, Leslie Holland, Bill
Smith, Joe Alexander, Glen Fleming
and';William Howard Harrison.
The meet will give some idea of[
how the Class A race in Grayson
County will come as the three Class
A teams in this county, Van Alstyne,
Whitewright and Whitesboro, are en-
tered and all have a good chance of
facing each other before the meet is
•over. Whitewright and Van Alstyne
meet in the first round with the win-
ner of that game meeting the win-
ner of the Tom Bean-Whitesboro
game. Indications are that the local
club will be more than able to hold
its own with the opposition that it
must face this week-end.
The locals have wins over Van Als-
B||^ Trenton and Bells to its cred-
B will be in shape for the rest of
Rams it must face in the meet.
^^^mitesboro lost out in the first
^round of Class A play last year, but
is figured to have a better team this
year and Tom Bean has one of the
-best teams they have boasted in years.
All in all the calibre of the teams en-
tered point to a fast and hard fought
tournament with the team able
to win the
SHERMAN.—Salary hikes ranging
from $5 to $35 per month were
including, dished out to nine Grayson County
employes Tuesday afternoon by the
commissioners’ court in a session
which lasted until after 6 p. m. The
increases will boost the county pay-
roll a total of $166.65 per month.
More uniform salaries among the
chief deputies in the courthouse were
established as a result of the action
A
dep-
, Fee Allowed
' C. M. Cole, county clerk, was al-
lowed an ex-officio fee of $500 and
two of his deputies, Weldon Williams
and C. H. Barrett, received salary in-
creases. Williams was increased
from $90 to $100 per month and Bar-
rett, chief deputy in the office, from proximTtelyVoO
$135 to $150.
The court refused the request of
J. Benton Davis, sheriff, that he be
allowed 50 cents per day for feeding
prisoners instead of the present 40
cent rate.
Will May, office deputy under Mr.
Davis, received a salary boost of $5
per month. He formerly received
$145 per month. In the office of J.
C. Allred, county tax assessor-collec-
tor, the salaries of two stenographers
were increased from $75 to $80 per
month to conform with the salaries
paid similar workers in other offices
in the courthouse. *
Mr. Allred created a new depart-
ment head in the delinquent tax di-
vision and as a result, J. E. Davis will
receive $150 per month for work in
this division.
Work Heavy
The former clerk in this depart-
ment last year received $115 per
month. Mr. Allred reported to the
court that the work in this depart-
ment had become unusually heavy.
V. R. Henderson will receive $1,-
800 per year as head of the tax as-
sessing department. This is in the
nature of a replacement for Mr. All-
red, who will devote his time to the
direction of the combined offices of
assessor and collector. Fred Sander-
son will act as assistant at a salary
of $1,500 per year. Fred Holloway, .
highway deputy, will receive $150 [judge Loy.
I
I m. Floyd vs. Southmayd.
I m. Tom Bean vs. Whitesboro.
F. m. Whitewright vs. Van Als-
WASHINGTON. — Tom Mooney’s
plea that the Supreme Court take up
his case was rejected Monday but the
tribunal pointed out another legal
road which eventually may lead to
freedom for the famous prisoner.
The court said in effect that the
California courts should free Mooney
if he had been convicted on perjured
by testimony; that he had the legal right
to ask for a writ of habeas corpus in
the State and that all arguments that
technicalities prevented further ac-
tion in his case were wrong.
Mooney is serving a life sentence
on a charge of participating in the
Preparedness Day bombing in San
Francisco in 1916 in which a number
of persons were killed.
Afterward, the court recessed un-
til Feb. 4 without action in the gold
clause cases which have claimed more
attention than any other suit pending ing ^penalties will
before the Justices in years. A de-
cision is expected then.
To Pass on NRA Code
Before the interlude, however, the
court had agreed to pass on addi-
tional new deal legislation—the lum-
ber code under NRA. It involves
E. Whiteacre of Denison to the posi- price fixing and other controversial
questions affecting the national re-
covery administration.
AUSTIN.—Gov. James V. Allred
Tuesday signed the House concurrent
resolution that puts into imme-
diate effect House Bill number seven
which passed both houses at the
fourth called session of the Forty-
Third Legislature but failed to re-
ceive sufficient votes in the Senate
to put it in immediate effect. The
bill releases all penalties and interest
on taxes delinquent on or before
Aug. 1, 1934, if paid on or before
March 15, 1935. Its proponents claim
it will bring large amounts of delin-
quent taxes into the State Treasury.
An amendment adopted in the Sen-
ate and concurred in by the House
Tuesday provides that the policy of
r 8 p. m. Bells vs. Trenton.
9 p. m. Rotary vs. Faculty.
Saturday:
10 a. m. Winner of Pilot Grove-
Range Creek vs. winner of Floyd-
Southmayd.
11 a. m. Winner Tom
Whitesboro vs. winner of
wright-Van Alstyne.
The winner of these two games will
then flip a coin to see which team
meets the winner of the Bells-Tren-
ton game in the semi-finals Saturday
afternoon with the winner of the toss
^^Mg into the finals Saturday night
BTthe winner of the game Satur-
^tafternoon.
■ Faculty 41; Business
Men 10
Bldaunted by a driving rain and
Ba bit scared by the size and fierce
H;s of their opponents, the Faculty
R things their own way last Friday
Rht and swamped the Business Men
■ a 41-10 score in the second game
Ba series between the Faculty and
Ros of the town.
BfThe outcome of the game was
Byer in doubt as the Faculty jumped
Bo a lead in the opening minutes
Rd added to that advantage every
Bv minutes. As in the Rotary game,
■ was Bill Cunningham and John
Brma who did the bulk of the Fac-
By’s scoring, but Key, Bryant, Man-
Big and Cantrell all added points to
stand the gaff the one
meet.
Schedule of play for
ment:
Friday:
3 p. m. Pilot Grove
In addition, the court created a
new deputy in the office of J. N.
Dickson, county auditor, to handle
representing the medical profession the large number of new reports now
'required by the State.
Judge Jake J. Loy and J. N. Dick-
son Wednesday named Carroll
Neaves, manager of Keith’s drug
store No. 1, to the newly created po-
sition.
Benny Gray, county farm agent,
received a boost in pay totaling $200
yearly or approximately $16.65 per
month. The county formerly paid
Mr. Gray $1,100 per year. He also
receives $1,600 from the Federal
Government.
or lower in five years. In January,
1930, zero was recorded for the first
time in 30 years, and in January,
1932, the temperature went down to
10 degrees. The lowest 1934 temper-
ature was 17 degrees.
The cold weather came just in
time to save the fruit crop which was
on the verge of budding because of
unseasonably mild weather during
the preceding 30 days.
Being a wet freeze, most farmers
are of the opinion that wheat and
oats were not damaged to any great
extent, although it is too early to de-
termine definitely the damage.
Damage Over the State __
Ten persons in Texas Jost their
lives, thousands of cattle’were frozen
to death, vegetable crops were dam-
aged as far south as the Rio Grande
Valley, and great suffering was
caused among the needy by the cold
wave.
Cattlemen in the Gulf Coast area
estimated that 20,000 head of cattle
were frozen to death or swept into
the sea after they had sought refuge
in warm Gulf waters. Loss to cattle-
men throughout the State will be
heavy, although no estimate had been
made Wednesday. With much of the
range stock in poor condition, severe
losses were inevitable.
Freezing weather extended across
the deep South from Florida to Cali-
fornia.
The Associated Press reported 65
known dead throughout the Nation as
the result of the blizzard.
After moderating considerably
Tuesday, a second cold wave hit here
Wednesday, bringing sub-freezing
temperatures Wednesday night and
Thursday morning. Heavy, low-
hanging clouds this morning and a
steady north wind indicated that the
weather bureau’s forecast for more
cold weather may be realized.
WASHINGTON.—A broad social
program intended to secure America’s
126,000,000 against “hazards and
vicissitudes of life” was laid before
Congress last week by President
Roosevelt.
Asking swift action of the
whelming Democratic Senate
House, he recommended these four
specific types of legislation:
“1. Unemployment compensation.
“2. Old age benefits, i
compulsory and voluntary annuities.
“3. Federal aid to dependent chil-
dren through grants to states for the
support of existing mother’s pension
systems and for services for the pro-
tection and care of homeless, neg-
llected, dependent and crippled chil-
dren.
“4. Additional federal aid to state of the court Tuesday afternoon,
and local public health agencies and [majority of the chief clerks or
the strengthening of the Federal Iuties will receive $150 per month un-
Public Health Service. der the new scale. •
“I am not at this time recommend-;
ing the adoption of so-called health
insurance,” he said, “although groups
WASHINGTON.—A staggering es-
timate of the cost of old-age pen-
sions, reaching two or four billions a
year ultimately, even on a modest ba-
sis, was disclosed at Washington this
week in a hitherto unpublished report
of the President’s committee on eco-
nomic security.
The figures may be the administra-
tion’s “ace in the hole” in fighting
congressional efforts to expand Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s program.
One-half of the 7,500,000 people
over 65 are now dependent.
If a compulsory employer-worker
contributory old-age pension plan is
not begun for the young now (which
is contemplated) the federal contri-
would
reach $1,294,300,000 by 1980,:
tuaries estimate.
Compulsory Annuity Plan
The compulsory annuities plan is
estimated to provide an income of
$2,200,000,000 a year by 1980.
q, , - . . , - Within twenty-five to thirty years
the State is against remitting any the actual number of [e over
lYlHTO TOV nanalrinc' i-n Envo-ior nr nnoro x x
will have doubled. -mio ms umu ume mat tne ,
The depression will inevitably in- temperature had reached 10 degrees
crease the old-age problem of the
next Congress.
So staggering were some figures
submitted by the actuaries that the
committee rejected them as extrav-
agant. The modest administration es-
timate of $50,000,000 for federal
contribution to state old-age pension
plans next year and $125,000,000
each following year is based on a be-
lief that many states will not grant
pensions.
Summarizes Problem
Summarizing the problem of the
aged, the committee said:
“Men who reach 65 still have on
the average eleven or twelve years of
life before them; women, fifteen
years. A man of 65 to provide an in-
come of $25 a month for the rest of
his life (computing interest at 3 per
cent) must have accumulated approx-
imately $3,300; a woman, nearly 3,-
600.
“If only this amount of income is
allowed to all of the people 65 years
and over, the cost of support of the
aged would represent a claim upon
current national production of $2,-
000,000,000 per year.
“Regardless of what may be done
to improve their condition, this cost
of supporting the aged will continue
to increase. In another generation it
will be at least double the present to-
tal.”
Near zero temperatures Monday
and Tuesday following steady rainfall
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, para-
lyzed business in Whitewright, re-
duced school attendance about 50 per
cent, and kept a large part of the
populace at home.
Rain which started before day-
break Friday morning continued
throughout the day and into the
night, and up to noon Saturday the
precipitation totaled 2.38 inches. Con-
tinuing Saturday afternoon and
night and Sunday morning, the down-
pour brought the total up to 3.42 for
the three days.
A blizzard such as is experienced
here at rare intervals struck about 8
o’clock Sunday morning, with such
fury that the streets were littered
with deadwood from trees. By noon
the temperature had dropped to the
freezing point, by 9 p. m. to 22 de-
grees, by 11 p. m. to 18 degrees, with
the low point of 8 degrees being
reached early Monday morning.
The strong north wind continued
throughout Monday and Monday
night, and after rising somewhat dur-
ing the day, the temperature dropped
to 10 degrees early Tuesday morning.
Many water and sewer lines were
frozen, resulting in considerable dam-
age from broken water pipes and
bathroom and kitchen fixtures, as
well as damaged automobiles.
This was the third time that the
New tax laws changing penalties
on delinquent taxes will apply also
on those being paid this month for
the yeai' 1934, according to Carl All-
red, county tax assessor-collector,
which if not paid on or before Jan.
31, become delinquent, (unless the
first half was paid in November), and
the following penalties will accrue:
If paid in February, 1935, 1%
per cent penalty and costs.
If paid in March, 1935, 3 per cent
penalty and costs.
If paid in April, 1935,
cent penalty and costs.
If paid in May, 1935, 6
penalty and costs.
If paid in June, 1935,
cent penalty and costs.
If paid in July, 1935, 11 per cent
penalty and costs.
If paid in August, 1935, liy2 per
cent and costs; and so on, increasing
y2 of 1 per cent each month.
Penalties Off 36 Days
The second half of 1934 taxes, if
not paid on or before June 30, 1935,
Become delinquent, and the follow-
T accrue:
If paid in July, 1935, 8% per cent
penalties and costs.
If paid in August, 1935, 9 per
cent penalty and costs, and so on,
increasing y2 of 1 per cent each
month.
Jess Dehoney and Elmo Childs,
Whitewright negroes, were each
given a two-year suspended sentence
in the 15th District Court at Sherman
on charges of burglarizing the Joe
Logan store here on Christmas Eve.
Dehoney and Childs both pleaded
Representative J. H. Waggoner of
Whitewright has been appointed by
Speaker Coke Stevenson as a member
of four committees of the Texas
House of Representatives. These in-
clude committees on Penitentiaries,
Public Printing, Common Carriers,
and Claims and Accounts.
The Texas Legislative Manual de-
fines the duties of three of these com-
mittees as follows, the fourth not be-
ing listed in the Manual in posses-
sion of The Sun:
Penitentiaries, 21 members, with
jurisdiction over all matters relating
to the penal institutions of the State
and to State and county convicts.
Public Printing, 11 members, with
jurisdiction over all matters relating
to printing for and stationery fur-
nished to the State, its departments,-
and institutions.
Common Carriers, 21 members,
with jurisdiction over all matters re-
lating to railroads, street and inter-
urban railway lines, steamship com-
panies, express companies, trucks1
and busses, telegraph and telephone
companies and to the Railroad Com-
mission.
(By Robert Cantrell)
Whitewright will be host to nine
•of the outstanding high school bas-
ket ball teams in this section of the
State Friday and Saturday when the
final annual invitation tournament
.gets under way. Play will start Fri-
day afternoon at 3 p. m. when Pilot
Grove and Range Creek, two of the
smallest schools in the meet, clash.
This game will be followed by the
Eloyd-Southmayd clash at 4 p. m.
I and the Tom Bean-Whitesboro clash
at 5 p. m. Very little is known of
the strength of these teams, but re-
ports from Collin County are that
Floyd has one of the outstanding
"teams in that section.
Play in the night session will start
■at 7 p. m. when Whitewright and Van
Alstyne, ancient rivals, clash in what
may be the outstanding game of the
. Tourney. Whitewright and Van Als-
t tyne have been rivals since time im-
memorial and promise to scrap all
the way. Bells and Trenton will meet
at 8 p. m. in the second game of the
"night. These two are rated as two of
U' the fastest Class A teams in this sec-
tion of the State and Trenton is fa-
wored to cop the Class A title in Fan-
nin County.
A game between the Faculty and
Rotary Club will finish the night’s
play. These two teams met once be-
fore with the Faculty coming out on
the long end of a 26-16 score.
Second round games will be run
•off Saturday morning, starting at 10
a. m. and the semi-finals will be
played at 2. p. m.
Admission to all games will be 10
•cents except the finals Saturday
night when a price of 25 cents will be
ik- barged.
A silver basketball figure will be
Iplgiven the team winning the meet,
» '"while individual basketballs will be
■. given members of an all-tournament
“. J jhat^will be selected by critics,
laches and officials of the meet. In- i
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