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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1942.
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VOL. 57, NO. 34.
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Henderson-Loy
Election Suit
Is Set for Monday
Johnny Doughboy in
England Refuses
To Like Warm Beer
Grayson College
Ex-Students Will
Meet Here Sunday
With the Men
in Uniform
Ration Stamp No. 8
Good For 5 Pounds
Of Sugar Aug. 23
MARRIED MEN UNDER 45
DUE TO BE CALLED SOON
SINGING TELEGRAMS
OUT FOR DURATION?
LEAFWORMS DAMAGING
COTTON IN THIS AREA
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before the close of school.
WASHINGTON. — The United
States Public Health Service, which
is distributing posters to war plants
urging workmen to take good care of
their teeth, discovered to its chagrin
Friday that a dentist pictured on the
poster has one too many fingers.
The dentist is shown probing into
the open mouth of a husky workman.
The left hand, which holds an instru-
ment, has six fingers.
Whitewright merchants offer you
better values.
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JMorris F. (Brother) Gillett, radio
technician second class, has been
transferred from a Navy receiving
ship at New York to his permanent
station aboard the U. S. S. Badger, a
destroyer now in an East coast port
undergoing repairs. His address is in
care of Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Lieut. F. M. Williams of the Navy
has been transferred from Corpus
Christi to Kingsville, Texas.
Sgt. Donald Paul Hudgins has been
assigned to the Eighth Troop Carrier
Squadron for overseas duty, his ad-
dress being APO 3000, care of Post-
master, New York, N. Y.
ARMY TO TAKE l-B’s
UNLESS TOTALLY UNFIT
The Selective Service System
Wednesday abolished its limited ser-
vice (IB) classification of men
found to have minor physical defects
and ordered all but the totally unfit
reclassified as available for service,
the Associated Press reported from
Washington.
of the
suit
defeat by
Judge J. J. Loy for county judge in
tives. Walter is in the U. S. Army Air
Corps and was recently made a pri-
vate first class.
Walter Clark has returned • to
Bylthe, Calif., after a visit with his
father, E. W. Clark, and other rela-
School Opening
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WASHINGTON. — Sugar ration
stamp No. 8 will be good for five
pounds of sugar in the 10-week pe-
riod beginning Aug. 23 and ending
Oct. 31, the office of price adminis-
tration announced last week.
While not changing the basic ration
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\freek, it will enable consumers
make purchases in larger units
facilitate the disposal of five, 10 and
25-pound packages.
SHERMAN. — On motion
contestant, V. R. Henderson’s
challenging his 23-vote
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district clerk and an officer
court.
In ordering the continuance, Judge
Slagle gave Judge Loy’s attorneys
until Friday to set up their amended
answer to the amended pleadings if
the contestant. Judge Loy is repre-
sented by Webb & Webb of Sherman
and Cunningham & Lipscomb of
Bonham, and Spearman Webb and
Trav Lipscomb were the attorneys in
the courtroom Wednesday.
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COLLEGE STATION.—Cotton bag
manufacturers in Texas have in-
formed the Texas USDA War Board
that they can supply plenty of pick-
ing sacks made from cotton cloth, B.
F. Vance, board chairman, has an-
nounced.
Vance said that shortages of cot-
ton duck cloth for the manufacture
of cotton pick sacks required a shift
to sacks made from osnaburg. Texas
mills, in answer to queries from the
War Board, indicated they could sup-
ply as many of the osnaburg sacks as
needed.
Leon Spindle has joined the Navy
as a carpenter’s mate first class (la-
bor foreman) in the construction de-
partment for duty outside the conti-
nental limits of the United States. He
took the oath at Dallas first of the
week and was ordered to return
home and await a call to active duty.
He has been employed for more than
a year in the construction department
of the Denison Dam.
COLLEGE STATION.—Texas cot-
ton farmers will receive loans at 85
per cent of parity on this year’s cot-
ton crop.
Rates on 15/16 inch middling cot-
ton, net weight, vary-from 16.61 cents
in the El Paso valley to 16.82 in East
Texas and back to 16.77 in the Cen-
tral Texas area, P. C. Colgin, state
AAA commodity loan specialist, has
announced.
Loan rates throughout the state
will vary, he explained, because
location and freight rates.
As in previous years, premiums
and discounts for grade and staple in
the 1942 program will be calculated
in relation to the loan rate on 15/16
inch middling cotton.
The average loan rate of 7/8 inch
middling cotton, gross weight, is
16.02 cents per pound while the net
weight loan rate is 70 points higher
to’ compensate for the lesser number
of pounds on which the loan is ex-
tended. Loan rate for middling 15/16
cotton is 20 points above the basic
loan rate for 7/8 inch middling cot-
ton, the average price being 16.92
cents, net weight.
Notes will bear interest at the rate
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J. H. Philley, manager of the local
Community Public Service Company
properties, Tuesday was sworn in at
Dallas as electrician’s mate first class
in the Navy construction department
for duty outside the continental lim-
its of the United States. He was or-
dered to return to Whitewright and
await a call to active duty.
Paul Wilson of Bells has received a
letter from his son, Billy Wilson, who
is at the San Diego, Calif., Naval
Training Station, saying that Boyd
Payne, coach of the Whitewright
High School football team and mem-
ber of the faculty last year, is sta-
tioned at San Diego. Mr. Payne en-
ryphal incident of the American sol- hi the physical training depart-
dier who ordered a beer “fast — as
fast as you got out of Dunkirk,” but,
the riots are not proportionately
greater than Saturday nights on an
American main street.
Gobs Have High Time
Londoners are still talking about
the contingent of American got|s who
got two days’ leave with several
months’ pay, touring the city in cabs
and-drinking a few score West End
pubs dry, but with seven exceptions
the sailors managed to rejoin their
ships.
Pay is probably the major problem
—the unmarried British private with
his half crown a day obviously can’t
compete with his American counter-
part. But American officers believe
that deduction for dependents, volun-
tary savings, and the official encour-
agement of war savings will do much be expedited,
to reduce the difference.
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A National campaign is being made
to collect all old metal, iron, etc., for
defense. Many homes, especially
farm homes, have several hundred
pounds of old metal that is doing no
one any good, that could be used for
making shells and bullets to be used
on the Japs and Huns. War factories
need this metal. Let’s let them have
it.,
The local salvage committee is
■composed of the following: Pascal
Farley> chairman; Carl May, J. B.
Hamilton, L. E. Alexander and Glen
Earnheart. The committee will be
.glad to give you any information
about the campaign they can, but all
know the purpose of the campaign,
which is to get the metal to the mills
so it tan be put to use in winning the
war.
Mr. Farley has agreed to handle
the metal and will pay market prices
for it. As soon as he receives suffi-
cient quantities for shipment, it will
be shipped promptly to processing
plants. Let’s junk the Jap. Gather
up your junk and sell it.
Quiz on Junk
Q. Why should salvage material
pass through the hands of junk deal-
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Dick Montgomery has re-
as teacher in the Grammar
to accept employment in the
of 3 per cent per annum and
mature July 31, 1943, but will
called on demand. Loans will
available until May 31, 1943.
Full loarf rates will be available to
AAA cooperators while non-cooper-
ators may receive loans at 60 per cent
of the full rate-on that part of their
cotton subject to penalty, Colgin said.
BOSTON^ — A general draft of
married men under 45 with depend-
ents will come “in the not far distant
future,” a spokesman for Brig. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey’s National Selec-
tive Service Board predicted today.
Public Relations Director Ted
Luther, speaking at the 52nd annual
reunion of Legion of Valor members,
said the nation’s reservoir of 1-A
men was “practically exhausted” and
that it now would be necessary to
obtain soldiers from 1-B and 3-A
classes.
NEW YORK. — It looks like
swan song for singing telegrams.
Permission to discontinue these and
other special rate social wire mes-
sages has been asked of the federal
communications commission by the
Western Union add Postal Telegraph
Companies so that war messages can
R. C. Slagle Jr. in 15th District Court
at Sherman at 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning.
Asking the delay in a motion dic-
tated into the court records, Jack
Nossaman of Whitewright, attorney
for Mr. Henderson, contended he had
not had sufficient time to prepare
amended pleadings to Judge Loy’s
answer-; that the election officials
would be busy with, the runoff elec-
tion Saturday and that it would be an
injustice to them to start the trial
Wednesday, and that no injustice
would be inflicted on anybody by
continuing the case until next Mon-
day.
Attorneys for Judge Loy, who were
ready for trial, agreed to the con-
tinuance, but challenged Mr. Hender-
son’s cost bond on grounds that it
was insufficient and that it was im-
properly prepared in that it bore the
signature of Mr. Nossaman, attorney
in the case, and R. C. Steed, deputy of One-half" pound
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The fourth annual reunion of the
Grayson College Ex-Students Asso-
ciation will be held here next Sun-
day, when some three or four hun-
dred former students of the school
arid members of their families are
expected to be present. Invitations:
have been mailed to all ex-students
of record by Mrs. J. C. Gillespie, sec-
retary, and J. W. Pender of Denton,
president, but the attendance is ex-
pected to be smaller than usual this
year because of the tire shortage. The
meeting is for ex-students and in-
vited guests, and will not be open to
the public. Those attending are ex-
pected to take basket lunches which
will be spread on tables in the High
School gymnasium.
The meeting will be opened at 10 a.
m., when the association will be
dalled to order by the president. The
program follows:
Hymn; chapel exercises, led by
Rev. J. L. Truett; welcome, by Miss
Gladys Ray; response, by Mrs. J. B.
Hughey of Pampa; vocal solo, Mrs.
O. L. Jones; inspirational address,
Leon Harp of San Antonio; in memo-
riam, by Judge Fenner Leslie of
Bonham; hymn; prayer; adjourn-
ment for lunch. J. W. Pender will be
song leader-, and Mrs. Luther Parr of
Greenville will be accompanist.
A patriotic program will be given
in the afternoon, the session begin-
ning at 2:30 o’clock. The program
follows:
Hymn; vocal solo, by Janis Jayne
Horton; address, Judge J. J. D. Cobb
of Tulsa, Okla.; vocal solo, Bettye
Nell Yeager; two-minute talks by
class representatives; business ses-
sion; adjournment.
He’s on the Outside
“I’m against this new fad—women
wearing men’s trousers. If you saw a
man and woman walking down the
street both wearing trousers, how
could you tell the difference?”
“You can always tell the differ-
ence. The one who is listening is the
man.”
LONDON. — Six months after the
arrival of the first units of the new
AEF, the problem of adjusting thou-
sands of Americans to completely un-
familiar conditions has gone a long
way, thanks to the friendliness of the
average Briton and the sanity with
which U. S. military commanders
have attacked the problem.
The problem revolved around a
few big differences and thousands of
smaller ones — economic, political,
racial. For the average doughboy, it
has now shaken down to such issues
as cold beer vs. warm, central heating
vs. coal grates, American sunshine vs.
British rain.
Man of Convictions
The average American still refuses
to trade his weekly commissary ra-
tion of five cans of home beer and
five packages of American cigarettes
for all the “bitter” beer and straight
Virginia “gaspers” in the British
Isles. He still—quite rightly—thinks
British weather is terrible. His opin-
ion of British coffee is really un-
printable.
But one way or another, he is get-
ting along with the local product
where he must.
He drinks with ordinray British
soldiers and civilians, and seems to
get along with them, although there
have been a few fist fights, and cas-
ulaties. There is the possibly apoc-
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Kaiser re-
cevied a V-mail letter Monday from
their son, Yeoman 3c Ralph B. Kai-
ser, who is on a U. S. destroyer in
the Pacific war theatre. It was prob-
ably the first of the new type letters
to be received here. Originally writ-
ten by Yeoman Kaiser on a typewrit-
er, the letter was photographed on
16-mm. film, transferred to the
United States, then printed on a
small sheet of paper. This procedure
is followed to save shipping space,
and persons writing to .service men
overseas are requested to use the V-
mail envelopes, available now at post
offices and to be available soon at
stationery stores.
Sgt. and Mrs. James Birt Phillips
of Roswell, N._ M., have returned to
their home after a three-day visit
with his mother, Mrs. Velma Phillips,
and other relatives here. Sgt. Phil-
lips has been in the Army since Jan-
uary, 1940.
Grammar School,
classes will be taught
building during the coming school
term.
Mrs.
signed
School
office of the U. S. Engineer at Den-
ison, leaving dne vacancy on the fac-
ulty. There are two vacancies on the
science
de-
nate as stated above,
qualities of the material
proved.
Paris green may also be
controlling leafworms, but
be mixed with flour to increase
herence and with hydrated lime to
offset the danger of burning the plant
foliage. The following proportion is
suggested: One'part Paris green; one
part flour, and five parts hydrated
lime.
Best results are obtained by apply-
ing the poison with suitable dusting
machinery but where spraying is
preferred, three pounds calcium arse-
nate or two pounds lead arsenate may
be used in fifty gallons water. If
Paris green is applied as a spray,
one-half pound should be mixed with
two pounds hydrated lime in every
fifty gallons of water. All spray
mixtures should be freshly made up
when applied. Paris green spray ■
mixtures should be thoroughly agi-
tated.
The application of white . arsenic
either in dry form or mixed with
water as a spray will seriously dam-
age plants and is not to be advised.
Individuals have gone even further
than this and, because, as they say,
the white arsenic will not mix with
water, they have included sal soda or
lye, boiling the mixture until it clar-
ifies. In doing so they bring about a
chemical reaction and produce so-
dium arsenite which is soluble. Being
soluble, it is even more dangerous to
plant life in its burning effect than
the white arsenic.
Pvt. Robert Chumbley has been
transferred from Fort Belvoir, Va., to
Camp Crowder, Mo., where he is as-
signed to Co. B, 345th Engineers.
Pvt. Findley Haile of Sheppard
Field, Wichita .Falls, spent Saturday
night and Sunday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Haile.
Glen E. Stapleton, son of Mrs. Liz-
zie Roper, has completed his training
at the San Diego Naval Training Sta-
tion and has been assigned to the
Fleet Landing Force, U. S. Destroyer
Base, San Diego, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wallace have
received a, letter from their friend,
Edgar W. (Pete) Nicely, Camp
Cooke, Calif., advising them that he
has been promoted from private first
class to corporal. He has been in the
Army since March.
Supt. E. C. Butler of the White-
wright Schools said yesterday that
the Board of Education had tentative-
ly set Monday, Sept. 14, for the
opening of school, but that this date
was subject to change, if necessary.
Mr. Butler said that Bethel has
contracted to send all the pupils of
that district to Whitewright this year
Other districts having contracts with
the local schools are Blanks, Enter-
prise and District 42.
The Ely, Orangeville and Richland
districts will not have any school this
year, but none of them has made a
contract for the student body as a
whole. Under the arrangement in
these districts, Mi\ Butler said, it will
bd optional with the patrons where
they want to send their children. In
this connection, Mr. Butler said a
large number of the pupils of the
three districts have transferred to
Whitewright.
A 20x30 building has been built on
the High School campus this summer
to house the farm shop equipment
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Farm shop
in the new
Lieut, and Mrs. Jack Spindle of
Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, visited
his mother, Mrs. J. F. Spindle, first of
the week. Jack has about recovered
from an attack of yellow jaundice,
and is now on sick leave from the
Army.
The first good rain since June 14
fell here Saturday night and Sunday
foi* a total precipitation of 1.76
inches. It rained 1.54 inches Satur-
day night and .22 of an inch Sunday.
Rainfall in July was only .25 of an
inch, and there had been no rainfall
in August until last Saturday.
A severe electrical storm accom-
panied the Saturday night rain.
Lightning struck the belfry of the
Methodist Church, splintering the
siding and shattering some windows.
It also knocked a hole in the roof of
the Howard Brodhead residence, oc-
cupied by Vernie Hopper. Telephone
and electric service was disrupted at
several points over town.
Farmers in the Whitewright area,
remembering the devastating effect,
of leafworms on their cotton last
year, are becoming alarmed at the
increasing evidence that the insects
have got down to the business of
stripping cotton stalks of foliage dur-
ing the last week. Last year, some
farmers poisoned with good results.
Others, apparently getting some of
the worthless poison that was sold in
Texas last year, said poisoning did no
good. The agrciultural experiment'
stations have proved, however, that
poisoning if properly done will con-
trol all kinds of insects that work on
cotton, including leafworms, and that
increased yield will pay many times
the cost of poisoning. In the Rio
Grande Valley, cotton producers
poison their cotton as regularly as
they plow it, for in that area no cot-
ton could be raised without poison-
ing.
The Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station recommends calcium arse-
nate as a dust for the control of leaf-
worms on cotton. This should be ap-
plied at the rate of five to seven
pounds per acre.
Lead arsenate may also be used
in controlling leafworms applied at
the same rate as calcium arsenate,
though it kills much slower. By add-
ing lime, talc or clay to the lead arse-
the dusting
are im-
and steel scrap, nonferrous metals,
rubber scrap, burlap bags, rags, old
manila rope, waste paper, etc.
. Q, Why doesn’t the’ government
.prescribe prices which junk dealers fighter sterngth in the western
’will pay for scrap?
A. There are too many factors in-
volved to make this practical. The
value of junk in a house or on a farm
•depends upon its condition and the
cost of transporting it to market Nat-
urally, the price ceilings limit the
amount which junk dealers can af-
ford to pay.
Q. Why doesn’t the government
collect junk?
A. The government is collecting
^scrap iron and rubber on farms
where junk dealers are not normally
available. In most places the collec-
lion problem does not warrant estab-
lishing a government-operated sys-
tem.
Q. Does the government want gifts
of scrap materials?
A. The government prefers that
gifts of scrap be made to local chari-
ties, service organizations or Defense
Councils. If you wish to help the
government with your scrap, sell it
to a junk dealer and buy War Stamps
or Bonds with the proceeds.
Q. Can anyone collect scrap?
A. The more people who collect,
the better. No one has an exclusive
right to collect.
ers instead of going straight to war
production factories?
A. Scrap must be properly sorted,
prepared and packed, and accumu-
lated in lots large enough to ship ef-
.ficiently, before it can be used by
mills. Only the junk dealer has the
experience and equipment to do this.
Industrial plants using
'have always depended on
this important processing.
Q. How can one be sure
junk dealers won’t hold the scrap to
get higher prices?
A. The junk dealer cannot get
higher prices by holding, since ceil-
ings have been placed by the govern-
ment on prices at which he can sell
to consuming mills. A well-run junk
yard will always have
amount of scrap on hand
being prepared. It is also necessary
to accumulate enough of each grade
so that economical shipments can be
made. An empty junk yard produces
no scrap. Any dealer who hoards is
subject to requisitioning by the gov-
ernment.
Q. Are there ceiling prices
scrap and waste materials?
A. The government has fixed ceil-
ing prices regulating sales to consum-
ing mills by grades and classifica-
tions for all important waste mate-
rials. There is no limitation on* sell-
ing at prices below the ceilings. Ceil- | ______ _______
ings have been established for iron 1 out of a total force
lost.
In some quarters it was believed
the German plane losses represented
close to one-third of the Luftwaffe’s
occu-
pied zone of Europe and it was con-
sidered likely that the Germans
would have to move fighters west
from other areas, possibly even Rus-
sia.
Important in the Allied air action
was the work of twenty-four Ameri-
can flying fortresses, which, at the
start of the Dieppe action, raided the
German fighter drome at Abbeville
before many planes could leave the
ground.
All these fortresses returned home,
after all but one had dropped their
bombs on or near the target.. Three
were damaged by antiaircraft fire,
and the radio operator of one was
the only casualty. He had an injured
kneecap. Runways, fuel dumps and
plane dispersal areas were hit.
Abbeville is thirty-eight :
from Dieppe and Rouen, which
fortresses raided Monday, is
the same distance from Tuesday’s
scene of operations.
Some of the Allied tanks were lost
in the fighting on shore, others were
re-embarked. For the first time these
machines were landed from new, se-
cret British tank-landing vessels.
The landings were made at dawn
and throughout the fine, hot day the
fighting was of the fiercest—nothing
unexpected in this defense zone,
where the fortifications are so strong
and where the layout of harbors,
basins, locks and channels as compli-
cated as anywhere on the Northern
French coast.
Wednesday’s communique laid
stress on the “vital experience gained
in employment of substantial num-
bers of troops in an assault, and in
the transportation and use of heavy
equipment during combined opera-
tions.
That meant plainly that this was a
full-scale rehearsal for the second
front. Some sources called it inva-
sion in miniature.
The Allied side did not divulge the
size of the force involved, but the
Germans estimated, by radio, that
about one division was involved, or
perhaps 15,000 men.
LONDON.—Commando forces
tanks of the Western Allies—Ameri-
cans, Canadians, British and fighting
French—invaded and lambasted Ger-
many’s ironclad zone of coastal forts
.at Dieppe Wednesday and withdrew
as planned after achieving an all-day
assault on tjie enemy shore
English Channel, something
never dared to try.
Nine hours after the first
landed the re-embarkation was com-
pleted, just six minutes behind
schedule.
A communique said losses on both
sides were heavy. But it was under-
stood every one o f the principal Al-
lied objects was achieved.
The size of the force still was an
official secret but some of the re-
turning troops told how a mile-long
string of invasion barges set out for
the raid at twilight Tuesday. The
barges, escorted by destroyers
corvettes, moved under their
power.
The American troops, chosen from
specially trained battalions called
Rangers, were said to have been at- I continued until 10 a. m. next Mon-
tached individually to Canadian and' day when called to trial before Judge
British units instead of operating as
separate units. There was no indica-
tion how many United States troops
participated in the attack.
Preliminary results ashore
these:
Destruction of a six-gun shore ar-
tillery battery, an ammunition dump,
an antiaircraft battery and a radio
location station.
Allied fighter planes, making up
what perhaps was the greatest aerial
canopy yet sent aloft, shot down at
least eighty-two enemy aircraft and
probably destroyed or damaged more
than 100 others, in addition to a
number smashed by naval vessels.
95 Planes and Some Tanks Are
Lost by Allied Fighters
Some ninety-five Allied planes—
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