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The Whitewright Sun
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937.
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VOL. 58, NO. 31.
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Black Topping
For Bells Road
Promised Soon
Bill Recognizes
Grayson Auditor
As Buying Agent
$500,000 Campaign
To Wipe Out Debts
Is Methodist Plan
ALLRED OPPOSES
2-CENT SALES TAX
WAGNER LABOR ACT
IS UPHELD BY COURT
BOARD OF EDUCATION
RE-ELECTS TEACHERS
SCOUT, CAMPFIRE
DRIVE SUCCESSFUL
CAMPFIRE GIRLS TO
ORGANIZE SATURDAY
YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS
IN JUVENILE COURT
F.D.R. FORCES
TO CONTINUE
COURT FIGHT
The Illinois conservation .depart-
ment killed 150,000 crows last winter
with dynamite bombs.
SECURITY FORM
MADE SIMPLER
RESIGNATIONS
ARE FORECAST
most
tax are
tax. Yet
income
TWO STUDENTS ARE
SENTENCED FOR
DESECRATING GRAVE
AAA LEADERS
ARE CHANGED
PRESIDENT OF BANK
SLAYS SELF IN AUTO
NEAR GRAND PRAIRIE
The first kindergarten was started
less than a century ago.
SIX PER CENT
CAR FINANCE
ADS TO STOP
WPA CUTS MATERIAL
GRANTS ON PROJECTS
PRESIDENT TURNS
THUMBS DOWN ON
SCHOOL AID BILL
Gus W.
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HAMMOND, Ind.—Two local high
school students, both brilliant, today
were under three to ten-year sus-
sentences for
desecrating a grave. They are George
Buege, 16, and Lynn Shepherd, 18.
Together they opened a coffin in
the cemetery, fled with a woman’s
skull, painted it, and paraded it be-
fore members of a secret society.
Judge William Murray pronounced
sentence at Crown Point.
An automobile accident is invari-
ably the result of a mistake by some-
one. Quite often the pedestrian is
at fault; once in a great while the
finger of guilt points to the engineer
who designed the highway or the
man who designed the car. But in
three accidents out of every five the
blunder is made by the man behind
the wheel.
What are these driver-mistakes
that result so frequently in death
and injury?
An analysis of the 1936 accident
Roosevelt Calls
For Economies
In Government
Canaan School
Closing Exercise
On Wednesday, April 21, 7:45 p.
m., the Canaan school pupils will
present a program for the close of
school. The program will consist of
dialogues, readings, special songs,
plays and other interesting numbers
that will be very entertaining.
On Thursday, April 22, 7:45 p. m.,
a play entitled “Two Days to Mar-
ry” will be presented at the Canaan
school building, sponsored by Mr.
W. W. Elrod. The play is full of
thrills from start to finish.
On Friday, April 23, 7:45 p. m., the
seventh grade class of the Canaan
school will present its graduation ex-
ercise. The salutatorian address will
be given by Tommie Burchfield and
the valedictorian address will be
given by Dortha Hickson. Rev. G. B.
Bradshaw of Whitewright will de-
Ivier the graduation address. After
the address, diplomas will be pre-
sented to the class by the principal,
W. W. Elrod.
ARLINGTON.—Thomas Spruance.
41, president of the First State Bank
of Arlington, was found shot to death
in his automobile at 8 p. m. Monday
less than six hours after the Arling-
ton bank had been ordered closed by
the State Banking Commission.
His body, a bullet through the head
and slumped over the steering wheel,
was found seven miles south of
Grand Prairie on the Florence Hill
road, near Bethel Church, by Elbert
Glenn as he drove by.
Justice of the Peace Tom King re-
turned a suicide verdict.
reports by statisticians of The Trav-
elers Insurance Company shows
that exceeding the speed limit is the
chief cause of death. Driving on the
wrong side of the road is the next
most common error and driving off
the roadway is a close third. Failing
to grant the right of way and reck-
less driving follow in that order.
Other common mistakes include
“cutting in,” passing on curves and
hills, failing to signal, and passing
standing street cars.
WASHINGTON.—Enactment of the
Harrison-Fletcher bill providing an
annual federal aid fund for schools
in all of the forty-eight states today
appeared very unlikely as it was
learned from a reliable source that
President Roosevelt has turned
thumbs down on the measure.
Under the terms of the bill, which
appropriates $100,000,000 the first
year, increasing $50,000,000 each year
until it reaches $300,000,000 annual-
ly, Texas would receive $5,081,723
the first year and $15,245,169 when
the peak appropriation is reached.
Meeting of the Third Sunday Sing-
ing Convention was postponed from
last Sunday, and it will meet next
Sunday at 2 p. m. at Bethel. The
public has invitation to attend.
is senior patrol leader, and Hamilton
. Vestal is troop scribe.
Campfire Organization
The campfire committee is com-
posed of Mrs. H. T. Arterberry, Mrs.
Floyd Everheart, Mrs. A. L. Jackson,
Mrs. Earl Hill, Gomer May and H. W.
Key. Guardians are Mrs. Lillian
Slusher and Mrs. George Clark. Mrs.
Floyd Everheart is treasurer.
A meeting of the Campfire organ-
ization is to be held at the library,
over Cole & Davis Co. store, at 3 p.
m. Saturday. All girls ovex- 10 years
old and their mothers are invited to
attend.
All girls 10 years old and above,
who are interested in joining the
Campfire Organization, and their
mothers or guardians are invited to
come to the library room, above Cole
& Davis Store, Saturday afternoon, 3
to 4 o’clock. Mrs. H. E. Hall of Sher-
man will meet with us.
We are planning to organize two
groups, Grammar School and High
School, and we are enxious to have
the charter groups organize Satur-
day afternoon.—Campfire Commit-
tee, Mrs. F. E. Everheart, secretary.
Jane Withers in “Holy Terror” is
the feature attraction at the Palace
theatre tonight and Friday.
Saturday, Charles Starrett will be
seen in “Dodge City Trail.”
For preview and Monday,
Rogers in “Doctor Bull.”
Tuesday and Wednesday, bargain
nights, the Jones Family in “Off to
the Races,” with Slim Summerville.
For Thursday and Friday nex.,
week, Dick Powell and Frances
Lankford in “On the Avenue.”
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Reduction of federal grants for
materials on WPA projects will force
local governments to contribute a
larger share of the cost of WPA im-
provements in the future,
Thomasson, district WPA
trator, announced Tuesday.
The material grant has been cut
from $9 to $5 a month per man em-
ployed on WPA jobs.
The curtailment was necessitated
by the transfer of $245,000,000 from
WPA projects to the relief of Mis-
sissippi flood victims.
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Squeezing a spring handle on a
new fruit juice extractor operates a
wire reamer around the inside of a
half orange or lemon that the device
contains, the juice being retained in
a bowl.
Whitewright Sun
Cole & Davis Co.
R. R. Waldo
Lester Haile
L. LaRoe & Co.
Rotary Club
Kirkpatrick Pharmacy
T. J. Lilley
Com. Public Service Co.
.Manning, Clark & Meador
First National Bank
Stephens & Bryant
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Dyer & Childress
.J. A. Bixlei-
City Meat Market
Cull Reeves
Scout Organization
Officers of the Boy Scout organi-
zation are: B. W. Newman, scoutmas-
ter; Mack Pierson, assistant scout-
master; N. L. Manning, assistant
scoutmaster; J. R. Waldrum, John
Reeves, Sidney Watson, J. T. Bean
and Dr. S. A. White, troop committee.
Patrol leaders are James Hughes,
Rattlesnake Patrol; Jack Meador,
Lone Eagle Patrol; Dale Watson,
Wolf Patrol, and Lucian Vestal, Fly-
ing Eagle Patrol. Jack Lewis Yeager
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Chairman
Ashurst (Dem.) of Arizona asserted
today the Supreme Court’s Wagner
act decisions “afforded new and ad-
ditional reasons” for enactment of
the Roosevelt court reorganization
bill.
He made the statement to reporters
just before the committee resumed
its hearings on the legislation. The
witness was John Clark Knox, fed-
eral district judge of New York’s
southern district, an opponent of the
President’s plan.
“So far as I can observe,” Knox
said, “the real issue is whether cer-
tain reforms, presently considered to
be desirable of attainment, shall be
secured in an orderly, constitutional
procedure, or through a program
which, if not unconstitutional, is def-
initely and positively, anti-constitu-
tional.”
COLLEGE STATION. —A change
in the personnel administrating the
agricultural conservation program of
the triple A in Texas has been an-
nounced with E. N. Holmgreen, ex-
tension poultry husbandman, taking
the position of administrative office
in charge.
A. L. Smith, who has headed the
AAA activities for the past two
years, has been designated as exten-
sion animal husbandman. Smith will
pay particular attention to the ad-
ministration of the range conserva-
tion part of the agricultural conserva-
tion program.
B. F. Vance, formerly district
agent of the extension service in
northwest Texas, has assumed the
duties of assistant administrative of-
ficer in charge of the triple A work.
J. A. Scofield has been appointed
district agent to replace Vance. The
assignments were announced by
Jack Shelton, vice director and State
agent of the extension service.
The campaign for funds to finance
the newly organized Boy Scouts and
■Campfire Girls activities here during
the next twelve months has met with
success thus far. Pledges totaling
$312 have been secured by F. M.
Echols of the finance committee, and
a number of firms, clubs and in-
dividuals are yet to be solicited for
funds. Additional pledges will be
published next week.
Of the funds raised, 65 per cent
will go to the Boy Scouts and 35 per
cent to the Campfire Girls.
Following are the pledges received
to date:
T. W. Ayres & Son $ 5.00
G. C. Stuteville 9.00
-J. A. Yeager ™ 9.00
Whitewright Lumber Co. 12.00
Craig’s Cafe 1 3.00
Palace Theatre L _T 6.00
Southern Ice Co. 6.00
City Employes — 12.00
High School Faculty 12.00
Rural Carriers 12.00
Grammar School Faculty 12.00
Hugh Trotter 2.00
Community Gas Co. 10.00
12.00
12.00
9.00
8.00
12.00
48.00
12.00
9.00
12.00
12.00
24.00
6.00
3.00
9.00
3.00
3.00
8.00
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WASHINGTON.—President Roose-
velt reported disappointing tax col-
lections Tuesday and ordered econ-
omies in all Government agencies to
prevent this year’s deficit from being
far greater than was anticipated.
The chief executive told his press
conference he had sent this letter to
departmental and agency heads:
“It is apparent at this time that the
revenues of the Government for the
present fiscal year will be materially
less than the amount estimated in my
budget message of last January, and
hence thp deficit will be far greater
than was anticipated unless there is
an immediate curtailment of expen-
ditures.
“You will carefully examine the
~ i status of appropriations for your ac-
- tivities with a view to making a sub-
stantial saving by eliminating or de-
are
this
x WASHINGTON. — Some senators
predicted Tuesday that one or more
of the supreme court’s so-called
“conservative” justices — McRey-
nolds, Van Devanter, Sutherland, and
Butler—might soon retire.
The legislators cited long current
rumors that some of the four
eagei' to quit but had clung to their
seats for two reasons:
1. They had no assurance of fixed
retirement pay.
2. Retirement might have resulted
in a realignment of the tribunal, be-
cause it would permit President
Roosevelt to name a new member.
The first consideration was re-
moved by the recent passage of the
Sumners act, guaranteeing full pay
of $20,000 a year to retired justices.
Decisions in the Washington mini-
mum wage and Wagner act cases up-
holding administration measures, the
senators argued, indicate that a re-
alignment on the court already has
taken place.
ferring all expenditures which
not absolutely necessary at
time.”
Almost immediately after
President’s announcement Secretary
Wallace revealed that 850 employees
would be pruned from the pay roll
of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration at the end of this month.
Wallace’s statement said this staff
had been engaged in making pay-
ments to farmers under the original
crop-control act and that a staff of
120 would be retained to complete
these.
The AAA reported its employees
numbered 7,278 in May, 1935, and 4,-
183 at the start of this month.
WASHINGTON.—A group of lead-
ing automobile producing and fi-
nancing companies signed agree-
ments today to end federal trade com-
mission complaints about advertising
of 6 per cent financing plans for
automobile purchasers.
The companies, contending they
never represented their installment
purchase plans as costing a pur-
chaser 6 per cent annual interest,
agreed to make clear in future
vertisements that the cost is 6
cent of the total debt of the
chaser when he buys the car. The
commission claimed the auto buyer,
under this plan, pays between 10 and
12 per cent interest.
FORT WORTH. — Thousands of
banquets held simultaneously
throughout Southern Methodism
April 23, interspersed with fervent
missionary addresses, are expected to
result in the wiping out of a depres-
sion debt of nearly $500,000 con-
tracted in foreign fields.
In the denomination stress is being
laid on the campaign known
throughout the church as the Bishop’s
Crusade. With this debt liquidated
the church expects to enlarge its pro-
gram throughout the world.
The big drive is to be made on
April 25 when collections are to be
taken in every church in Methodism.
Some are optimistic to the extent
of predicting that not only will the
$500,000 debt be removed, but that
the church will have an overplus of
an additional $500,000. This will en-
able the church to increase the num-
ber of its missionaries in the foreign
field, reduced heavily soon after the
depression struck.
The debt was contracted to main-
tain missionaries on the field and
prevent them from being stranded,
no funds being available to transport
them back to their homes.
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At a meeting of the Whitewright
Board of Education held Tuesday
night, all members of the faculty and
other employes of the local school
system were re-elected.
John H. Burma was re-elected
principal of the High School, and N.
L. Manning, principal of the Gram-
mar School., H. W. Key, superintend-
ent, was re-elected several weeks
ago.
Other High School teachers are
Mrs. Dorothy Lackey, Mrs. Jewel
Kennemer, Miss Virginia Draper, A.
M. Gaddis, J. C. Jernigan, Miss Lur-
line Travis, and J. T. Bean.
Grammar School teachers are Mrs.
Kathryn Roddy, Miss Mary Pumph-
rey, Miss Sallye Hamilton, Miss Car-
ter Fletcher, Miss Nadine Blanton
and L. E. Ricketts.
P. A. Short was re-elected janitor
of the High School building, and G.
V. Ford of the Grammar School
building.
Mrs. Carrie Kirkpatrick was re-
elected teacher of the Negro school.
The board adopted a resolution re-
questing faculty members to spend
three out of four week-ends in White-
wright.
$93,512.51 Goes
To County From
Auto Receipts
SHERMAN. — Grayson County’s
receipts on 11,307 motor vehicle li-
cense plates issued from Feb. 1
through April 3 amounted to $93,-
512.51, it was learned Monday from
George Schumacher, deputy in the
highway department of the tax as-
sessor-collector’s office.
Gross receipts during the registra-
tion period were $141,583.06. Of this
sum, the State is to receive $43,-
515.45 and the highway department
of the local office $4,555.10 as a com-
mission that will be added to the
salary fund.
The county receives all of its re-
ceipts on license plates up to $50,000
and thereafter keeps 50 per cent and
sends the State a like amount. The
highway department of the assessor-
collector’s office retains a small per-
centage that varies according to the
type of plates issued, Mr. Schu-
macher said.
While no definite figures are avail-
able, it is understood that the coun-
ty’s share of the receipts this year
may total a few thousand dollars
more than last year.
The total number of license plates
issued during the registration period
from Feb. 1 to April 3 follows: Sher-
man office — Passenger cars, 6,572;
commercials, 785; trailers, 85; deal-
ers, 15; motorcycles and side cars, 12.
Denison office—Passenger cars, 2,-
974; commercials, 419; trailers, 22.
A total of 425 license plates for
farm trucks were issued from both
offices.
DALLAS.—Forms which claimants
for lump sum payments under the
old-age pension section of the social
security act may use without the aid
of an attorney or agents have been
prepared by E. L. Tutt, field agent
for the board at Dallas.
“Simplicity of the claims forms
will make unnecessary the employ-
ment of attorneys or claim agents to
assist claimants,” he emphasized.
These forms may be obtained from
Mr. Tutt’s office, 1530 Allen Build-
ing.
They have been prepared for wage
earners, widows and widowers, other
close relatives executors and admin-
istrators, guardians and committees.
Lump sum payments became ef-
fective Jan. 1. Until monthly pay-
ments start in 1942, only lump sum
payments will be made.
Those to whom lump sum pay-
ments will be made are workers who
have been in covered employments
after 1936, and who have reached the
age of 65 and relatives or heirs of
such persons.
AUSTIN.—Governor Allred ex-
pressed the hope today that the Leg-
islature would not submit a constitu-
tional amendment calling for a 2
per cent general sales tax. The Sen-
ate is considering such an amend-
ment.
The governor said that until the
tax plan contained in his program re-
ceived a fair trial he did not favor
any other suggested cure for the
State’s financial troubles.
Allred has advocated higher levies
on natural resources and corporation
franchises, submission of a constitu-
tional amendment providing for
property classification, and revision
of property valuations to eliminate
inequalities and tax evasions.
“Until those able to pay are paying
their just share of the taxes,” Allred
said, “I’m not willing to see any fur-
ther tax on the backs of the poor.
The people who are most active
against the income tax are the
strongest for a sales tax. Yet the
sales tax is nothing but an
tax on the poor man.”
SHERMAN.—The Grayson County
auditor is established as the county
purchasing agent with a salary in-
crease of $900 annually allowed for
this extra work by a special bill
passed late Tuesday by the House of
Representatives at Austin and which
was scheduled to pass the Senate
without contest.
The bill was introduced in the
House by Representative Joe Keith
and in the Senate by Senator Olan R.
Van Zandt. Wording of the measure
makes it particularly applicable to
Grayson County. It refers to coun-
ties having a total population of be-
tween 65,000 and 70,000 and in which
are two or more incorporated towns
of 13,500 population or more. Gray-
son County alone meets these qual-
ifications.
Billie M. Whiteacre, the Grayson
auditor, has been serving as the pur-
chasing agent, and the bill vests him
with recognized authority in this
capacity although he remains under
the direction of the commissioners’
court.
A Grayson delegation going to
Austin Tuesday to encourage the
Legislature’s action on the special
measure included Judge R. M. Car-
ter, Judge J. J. Loy, Sheriff Benton
Davis, C. H. Barrett, B. M. White-
acre.
Another special Grayson County
bill was presented to permit com-
missioners to deduct expenses inci-
dental to the performance of their
duties from their respective precinct
road and bridge funds. This pro-
posal has not been submitted to a
vote.
WASHINGTON. — The Supreme
Court tagged the Wagner act consti-
tutional Monday and, by a 5-to-4 de-
cision, brought labor relations in a
vast sector of the manufacturing
industries under the regulatory
authorities of the Federal Govern-
ment.
Its verdict, claimed at once as a
major victory for the Roosevelt ad-
ministration, had the immediate ef-
fect of intensifying the raging con-
gressional dispute over the Presi-
dent’s bill to reorganize the high
tribunal.
Opponents of the measure prompt-
ly said the bill is dead, because it had
been demonstrated to be unneces-
sary. Its friends as quickly coun-
tered with statements that the status
of the measure is unchanged. Some
held the close division of the court
had strengthened the President’s po-
sition.
’ Reduced to their simplest terms,
the majority decisions held that the
power to regulate commerce between
the States conferred on the Federal
Government by the Constitution ex-
tends to activities affecting such
commerce—the manufacture, for in-
stance, of articles flowing into the
stream of inter-state commerce.
Favors Collective Bargaining
The minority of four, however,
held that in the cases under judg-
ment, at least, the manufacturing
processes involved had only an indi-
rect or incidental effect on inter-
state commerce, and thus were be-
yond the constitutional reach of Fed-
eral regulation.
The Wagner act guarantees the
right of organization to workers and
forbids employers to interfere with
or coerce employees in the exercise
of that right. It undertakes to com-
pel employers to bargain with rep- pended penitentiary
resentatives of their workers.
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To Press Drive
Discounting suggestions that the
bill might be withdrawn, Ashurst as-
serted the drive for the measure
would “go ahead with renewed
vigor.”
“Don’t listen to the siren songs of
the defeatists who say the bill may
be withdrawn,” Ashurst said. “I
have heard of men retreating when
they were losing, but never of men
retreating when they were winning.”
Asked for his “new and additional
reasons” for the court bill in view
of the Supreme Court’s validation of
the Wagner act, Ashurst said the
court “might change its mind.”
Following a series of petty crimes,
including thievery and housebreak-
ing, five youthful offenders faced
County Probation Officer Durrett in
a session of the juvenile court held
at the city offices Monday. The boys,
ranging in age from 9 to 15 years*
were lectured by Mr. Durrett, who
warned them that subsequent of-
fenses would mean serious trouble.
The boys were apprehended by
Constable K. B. Simmons following a
series of housebreakings Sunday, and
the probation officer was summoned
to take charge of them. Several res-
idences and business houses, the
Methodist Church and the Grammar
School building were entered Sun-
day. One of the offenders was caught
while pilfering at two places Sun-
day and was released after being
lectured by his captors.
Mayor F. M. Echols stated at the
court session that his observations
over a period of 20 years had proved
to him that parents were inviting
disaster for their boys when they
turned them loose to roam the
streets.
SHERMAN. — Funds to complete
graveling this summer of No. 14 from
Dorchester north to tie to No. 5 west
of Sherman will be available under
a federal allocation to states for com-
pleting secondary roads, John Wood,
state highway commissioner, advised
County Judge Jake J. Loy, in a con-
ference at Austin Tuesday.
Mr. Wood said there are no funds
on hand at present to blacktop No.
160, Denison to Bells, but that the
State Highway Commission favors
this construction as early as money
is available.
Senatoi’ Olan R. Van Zandt in-
formed Judge Loy and B. M. White-
acre, county auditor, that an appro-
priation bill already passed by the
House and now in the Senate would
provide money to pay the State’s
deficits under the county salary law.
The State yet owes Grayson Coun-
ty $15,000 or 11 cents of the 14 cents
pledged to aid in paying salaries of
county officials when the fee system
was discarded. Thus far only 3 cents
has been paid, Judge Loy said, and
the county is in need of these funds.
Judge Loy and County Commis-
sioners are to go to Dallas Thursday
to meet with Gus W. Thomasson,
WPA director, to work out a pro-
gram to put relief men to work and
seek further aid for WPA projects.
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