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Aims and Purposes
Of P-T Association
Announces For
Reresentative
P. T. A. to Present
Talent Pageant
Grand Jurors Are
Impanelled Monday
Merchants Buy
Brahma Cattle
COMMENCEMENT FOR
HIGH SCHOOL FRIDAY
FINAL APPEAL FOR
CENSUS ENUMERATION
SOIL BALI.OT IS
DUE SATURDAY
NAVY ORDERS 15,000
MORE WORKERS HIRED
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591
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475
670
565
1920
1,666
1,810
585
777
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575
887
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PARIS. — Germany has unleased
the full fury of total war on North-
ern France.
The French reported that German
parachute troops with lighted torches
were dropped at many places in wide
■ areas around Arras, Amiens and oth-
er cities in the path of the German
drive to the English Channel.
Hundreds of German, planes rained
incendiary bombs on every city, vil-
74,165
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per
Community Sees
How WPA Projects
Are of Local Value
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THE PEDESTRIANS’ PRIMER
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Travelers Safety Service
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Assembly of God
Revival Meeting
To Begin Sunday
Bigger and Better
----leo Promised
Trades Day Guests
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Modern War Brings
Fire From Skies to
Burn French Towns
WASHINGTON.—In the most vig-
orous step taken since President
Roosevelt announced his rearmament
program, the navy today ordered its
shipyards to increase its civilian
force by at least 15,000 workers with-
in three months to speed construc-
tion work on 66 war ships.
| preach at 11 a. m. The revivalist will
| arrive foi' the night service.
Invalid Husband
Of Mary Lee Nichols
Is Author of Book
Grayson Census
Figures for Fifty
Years Chart Growth
the Whitewright Future Farmers
the State F. F. A. convention
Houston July 5, 6 and 7.
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Fergusons to Open North
Texas Camaign Saturday
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WASHINGTON.—“All of the radio
stations over the United States, every
one of them, would have to be shut
down” in event of war, Maj. Gen. H.
H. Arnold told a Senate committee in
testimony made public here.
The army air corps chief explained
that “they are an invitation to some
hostile plane to come in on the radio
station at a particular point, to our
disadvantage.”
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Thursday morning is a busy time
in The Sun office. It seems that
many think The Sun does not want
copy for news stories and advertise-
ments until Thursday morning, and
SHERMAN.—A grand jury for the
May term of Fifteenth District Court
was impanelled Monday by Judge R.
M. Carter and recessed subject to
call.
J. M. McLemore of Van Alstyne
I members
are Ben Price, Gunter; Y. R. Qeorge,
Howe; J. P. Autrey, Whitewright; W.
R. Ford, Tom Bean; E. T. Cally, Den-
ison; George Wade, Whitesboro; Cal
Autrey, Tioga; Prince Kinsey, Sher-
man; R. B. Aston, Sherman; Grovei’
Caddell, ■ Preston Bend, and Bill
Brown, Bells.
The May term ends Aug. 12, and
the grand jury is to convene prior to
then to return indictments.
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VOL. 55, NO. 21. WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940.
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LONDON.—The capture of a Ger-
man girl parachutist armed with
formidable pistol, in Belgium, was
described here Tuesday.
Gaby Barthelemy, daughter of a
Belgian-born Canadian, said the
German girl, 17, and flaxen-haired,
was captured with another German
parachutist at Malines, halfway be-
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J. W. Hollingsworth of Sherman
Wednesday announced he would be
a candidate for state representative,
place 1, from Grayson County. Mr.
Hollingsworth was tax collector of
Grayson County from 1910 to 1914,
and is well known to many citizens
of the county. He is now engaged in
the livestock business.
J. H. Waggoner of Whitewright is
now holding place 1 and is a candi-
date for re-election, having an-
nounced for re-election in January.
RADIO STATIONS
WOULD BE CLOSED
IN EVENT OF WAR
AUSTIN. — The state treasury
Monday reported receipt of $615,000
from the Federal Government as so-
cial security matching funds for
Texas old age pensions in June.
An allocation of $30,750 was * re-
ceived for state administration costs.
Sweden has about 450,000 sheep. J
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3,975
10,958
11,807
13,632
17,065
13,850
included in
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The following interesting informa-
tion about Grayson County’s popula-
tion growth appeared in Sunday’s
Denison Herald:
What will the sixteenth decennial
federal census show for Grayson
County and its communities?
Subject of wide conjecture during
the last few weeks during which the
census enumeration has been in
progress, this question soon will be
answered as Uncle Sam chalks up the
standings for another ten years.
A quick glance into the past cen-
Next Monday, May 27, will be
trades day in Whitewright, and visi-
tors will see a bigger and better ro-
deo in the afternoon than the initital
show produced last fourth Monday,
according to Van Claborn, manager.
The rodeo will start at 3 p. m., and
it will be free to all.
While plenty of wild horses, bulls
and Brahma cattle have been ob-
tained for the rodeo, any person who
has any wild stock is invited to bring
them to the rodeo where riders will
be glad to attempt to tame them.
Although handicapped last month
by the extremely busy season for
farmers, the rodeo drew a large at-
r a still
Will Leslie of Sherman,
supervisor of the
that persons who have not
counted in the census fill in
blank below and mail ft to him
fore May 25:
Will Leslie,
District Supervisor of Census,
Fourth District, Texas,
Sherman, Texas.
To the best of my knowledge and
belief, I have not been included in
the sixteenth census of population
which has just been taken in this
community. In addition to myself,
there are also ------- members of my
family who have been omitted.
Signed
Street Address
Jewell
Rev. Ben
song,
Dale
Rev. L. O. Ballard, pastor of
Assembly of God Church, has
nounced a revival meeting will begin
at that church Sunday night, con-
ducted by Rev. Chas. E. Wilson of
Winnsboro. Services will be held at
8 p. m. daily, and the public is in-
vited to attend.
The congregation is erecting a new
church edifice on a site one block
south and half a block west of the
High School building. Although the
building is not finished, services will
be held there, Mr. Ballard said. Sun-
day school will be held in the new
... I building Sunday, and the pastor will
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smaller towns of Grayson
County, the Census Bureau tabula-
tion starts with the 1910 census. The
figures follow:
Xown—
Whitewright
Whitesboro
Bells
Tioga
Tom Bean .
Gunter 1
Collinsville .
Howe
Van Alstyne 1,453
Pottsboro 358
Mrs. Bob Sears, president,
nounces that the Parent-Teacher As-
sociation will sponsoi' a personality
and talent pageant June 7. Persons
desiring to compete in the event
should contact Mrs. Sears. There will
be a division for babies, ages 1 to 10
years; for young ladies, 14 to 25
years, and for talent, no age limit.
Mrs. Sears said that local winners
will go to a state meet.
Six or seven Whitewright mer-
chants contributed to a fund this
week to buy several head of Brahma
cattle to be used in the fourth Mon-
day rodeo. Tuesday four head
purchased in Hugo, Okla.,
brought to Whitewright. Two more
will be purchased this week, if they
can be found. These will be used in
roping contests and riding.
Prizes will be given according
rodeo rules to those riding horses
the wild steers, it is announced. No
of age
.... on the
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MTT,lE^u,rinmid-bh»ck.youre
lookout for yo - itof...no nlilns
on your own. Keep ,n.
I |and‘" ™e;7;s°five times more dan-
■”««midd" of'
block than at the romer.
DALLAS.—Mrs. Miriam A. Fergu-
son and her husband, James E. Fer-
guson, will open her North Texas
campaign for Governor with
speeches by each here Saturday
night.
Former State Senator John Davis,
now United States commissioner,
will introduce Mrs. Ferguson. | tween Brussels and Antwerp.
Date of change
If more convenient, give the au- —- - ------- — —
dress to your postmaster or manager ^ch Friday, .61 Friday night,
of Chamber of Commerce or
merchants association.
then they cover us up. This morning
we had more than we could handle
and get The Sun in the post office at
the usual hour. We were forced to
leave out news items that we wanted
to print and had to leave out three
advertisements, all because the copy
did not reach us until Thursday
morning.- The Sun appreciates its
friends sending in news items. We
want them. But send them in as
early in the week as possible. Our
advertisers would bring smiles to our
faces, if they would give us their
copy on Tuesday or Wednesday
...—. morning. How would you like for all
,, . produce i your' customers to call within a space
the pinnacle of fury achieved in the of two or three hours on Thursday
morn mg?
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63,996 ■ gian frontier, the
Amiens, not one railway station stood
intact Tuesday night, military
spokesmen said.
The main railway communications
with Britain through Amiens were
cut. The Allies were forced to fall
back on the longer and secondary
communications system farther west.
Advices here indicated only 50,000
to 60,000 Germans were involved in
the race against the retreat of nearly
1,000,000 Allied troops.
Military sources said that never in
history did a clash of armies
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battling Tuesday in Northern France. I
“The German air force went wild
with destructive fury,” French
sources said.
In the maze of blazing villages,
railroad yards and factories the Al-
lied armies were shifting their forces
to meet the attack. But the flames
raced on unchecked. A pall of smoke
hung over northeastern France, once
a comparatively rich region of tex-
tile factories, coal mines and sugar
refineries.
Supplementing the parachutists
and the incendiary bombs were mo-
torcycle troops estimated to number
20,000. They sped across the country
on secondary roads, operating in
featherlight columns and likewise
bent on arson and destruction.
Future Farmers were winning the F.
F. A. basketball tournament in the
Sherman District and the annual
father, mother, and son banquet.
For projects in 1940 the White-
wright Future Farmers plan to have
132 acres of corn for market, 61
acres of wheat, 105 acres of oats, 147
acres of cotton, five acres of gardens,
15 cows for milk production, 75 cows
for beef, 18 sows for pig production,
80 hogs for pork production, 460 hens
for egg production, and 18 turkeys
for poult production.
Supervised practice jobs for 1940
that were done under the direction
of Mr. Cunningham include running
12,185 yards of terrace lines, running
4,830 yards of contour cultivation
lines, dehorning 80 head of cattle,
castrating 104 hogs and 50 calves,
pruning 40 trees, vaccinating 83 hogs,
spraying 138 trees, spraying three
gardens, culling 266 hens, treating 2,-
470 pounds of planting seed, and
vaccinating 27 head of cattle for
farmers in the Whitewright commu-
nity.
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Commencement exercises for
Whitewright High School will _
held at 8 p. m. Friday in the gymna-
sium, bringing to a close the activi-
ties of the local schools. Grammar
School graduating exercises are to be
held at 8 o’clock tonight in the
(Grammar School auditorium.
Baccalaureate exercises were held
at the Methodist Church Sunday
night, Minister Leonard Mullens of
the Church of Christ delivering a
sermon on “Decisions of Character.”
.Dr. B. Wrenn Webb, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church; Rev. E. P.
Wootten, pastor of the Baptist
Church, and Rev. Ben Bell, host pas-
dor, also took part in the services.
Mrs. N. L. Manning \jlayed the pro-
cessional and recessional. The choir
was composed of singers from all the
churches. A quartette composed of
Mary Dale King, Laverne Kilgroe,
Deroy Martin and Lewis Vestal, sang
"“There’s No Friend Like Jesus.”
Program for the graduating exer-
cises tonight follows: Processional,
' Mrs. Guy Hamilton; invocation, Rev.
E. P. Wootten; class song, specials by
honor students; presentation of read-
ing certificates, by Mrs. Sarah Kil-
groe; presentation of seals, Mrs. Kil-
groe; presentation of honor certifi-
cates, by Principal L. E. Ricketts;
presentation of American Legion
Awards, by Tom Cunningham, post
commander; presentation of diplo-
mas, by L. E. Ricketts; recessional, by
Mrs. Hamilton.
Following is the commencement
program: Processional, Mrs.
Kennemer; invocation,
Bell; salutatory, Claire Doss;
Mary Alice Harrison, Mary
King, Doretha Darwin, Laverne Kil-
groe, Louise McSpedden and Velma
Holland; valedictory, Rudalph Rus-1
sell; “I Hear the Bees a Humming,”
glee club; “Keep on Hopin’,” girls’
chorus; address, Rev. J. E. Montgom-
ery; awarding of scholarships, Prin-
cipal N. L. Manning; awarding of di-
plomas, Supt. H. W. Key; benedic-
tion, Rev. E. P. Wootten; recessional,
Mrs. Kennemer.
Members of the senior class, ac-
companied by some of the High
-School teachers, will leave Saturday
morning in a school bus for Galves-
ton where they will spend two or
three days, returning about the mid-
dle of next week.
sus statistics can be taken while the lage and community in the Picardy
and Flanders lowlands, military dis-
patches said.
At the same time .giant air trans-
ports unloaded aerial incendiaries in-
structed’to race through the country-
side and set fire to factories, railway
stations, munitions and fuel dumps
and other such objectives in scores
of cities between Cambrai and the
sea.
In the triangle between the
i frontier, the channel
Rainfap jn Whitewright up to 8 a.
m. Thursday totaled 2.13 inches since
a(j_ j last Thursday. It rained .13 of an
, .50
retail I Monday night, .59 Tuesday night, .30
Wednesday and Wednesday night.
The 1940 precipitation to date was
18.80 inches, 14.52 inches of which
was recorded in April and May.
tendance, and next Monday
larger crowd is expected.
The rodeo is only a part of the
regular fourth Monday trades day.
Traders will be here from far and
near with everything under the sun
to sell or trade. Farmers are invited
to bring anything they have to sell or
trade and make use of the trade lot.
City
Note: If you have moved to
above address since April 1,
please give the following informa-
tion:
Former address
public awaits the results of the latest
tabulation.
Grayson Cuonty’s population has
been fairly stable during the last half
century, reaching a peak of 74,165 in
1920. Census Bureau records for the
county go back only to 1890.
The census score for Grayson has
been as follows:
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
Grayson County’s p o pu 1 a t i o
showed an 11.2 per cent
from 1920 to 1930, and a 12.4
cent gain from 1910 to 1920. The
area was listed at 942 square miles in
the 1930 survey with an average of
69.9 persons per square mile.
Denison had an estimated popula-
tion. of 3,500 a year after the sale of
the first lots—Sept. 23, 1872. The
city’s score through six decennial
counts follows:
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
Sherman has been
seven census round-ups with results
as follows:
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
For
The Whitewright Future Farmer
quartet won first plade in singing in
the Area V F. F. A. leadership con-
tests at Arlington last Saturday.
Members of the quartet are Brazwell
Alexander, James Birt Phillips, Bus-
sy Thornhill, and Leroy Martin. The
boys will enter the state singing con-
test at Huntsville this summer.
Entries in the F. F. A. judging
tests at Arlington this year won sec-
ond place in crops, seventh in soil
conservation, and twenty-first in
dairy judging. The crops and soils
teams then competed in the state
contests at A. & M. College where
they both won twelfth place in their
respective divisions. Members of the
teams were: Crops, Albert Thornton,
Billie Ray Conner, and Rudalph Rus-
sell, and soil conservation, Philip
Earnheart, Brother Gillett, and Billie
Jack Harper. The teams were
coached -by T. H. Cunningham, local
vocational agriculture teacher.
Certificates of merit were won in
the judging contests by Billie Ray
Conner, Lynal Moore, and Rudalph
Russell.
Other activities of the Whitewright
“This Work Pays Your Community
Week” is being observed by the local
WPA projects. The recreation proj-
ects at the schools have had daily
programs from 1 to 6 p. m. at the
High School playground. A party
was held at the High School Monday
night to officially open the week’s
activities, the Trenton recreation
project cooperating with the local
groups in presenting the program.
This afternoon a hobby show is being
held, and Friday afternoon, desig-
nated as Rotary day, there will be
various contests and games at the
‘playground.
The sewing room has some of its
work on display in the windows at
the Masonic building.
The Grammar School lunch
has invited various groups to
lunch this week, and today the lunch
room was open to the public in gen-
eral.
Libraries at both schools are also
open for inspection.
Mrs. Bob Sears, president of
local Parent-Teachei' Association, has
requested publication of the aims and
purposes of Texas Congress of Moth-
ers and Parent-Teacher Associations,
as follows:
To raise the standards of home and
.school and to bring parent and teach-
er into closer relation with each
other, that they may co-operate more
intelligently in the education and de-
velopment of the child.
To develop a wiser, better trained
parenthood.
To increase the efficiency of
schools and to extend their service
into the life Qf the community.
To promote the establishment of
kindergartens.
To arouse men and women to
sense of their responsibility for
■ditions which affect childhood.
To create a public sentiment ■ for
such legislation as will advance the
educational, economic and social
standards of Texas.
To enlist sympathy and enduring
help for the blamelessly dependent
and neglected children.
The Texas Congress of Mothers
and Parent-Teachers Associations is I
4" In o znynm r-» i rr<-» 4-4 4-K 4-l~ ~ 4.
works exclusively for child-welfare.
We are not only builders of human
lives, but we are in truth, town, city
and state builders. While the com-
mercial bodies are promoting busi-
ness interests for the purpose of in-
creasing our population, we are pro-
viding conditions which will attract
and hold a desirable citizenship.
Good homes, good schools,
wholesome community life, are the
objects of our concentrated effort
and these are the influences that
guide parents in the selection of a
new home.
TEMPLE.—Texas farmers control-
ling 34,257,756 acres in 35 areas of
the state will vote Saturday on the
issue of establishment of soil conser-
vation districts under the new state
law enabling land owners to wage
war against erosion.
A majority of 67 per cent is neces-
sary if a district is to obtain final
approval of the State Soil Conserva-
tion Board, which has offices in
Temple.
This is the second group of elec-
tions held for districts since the state
board began operations last May 29.
The first group was held in April
when 16 districts were approved.
These districts include 14,197,800
acres of Texas farm land.
Public hearings have been held in
these districts and most of them have
put on educational meetings to ob-
tain a representative vote. The state
board requires a widespread interest
be shown in the district before it is
created.
Texas’ soil conservation
is a farmers’ program, V. C. Mar-
shall of Temple, administrator, says.
It is controlled by farmers from
the state board to the district super-
visors who are in charge of districts
after they begin operation.
A recent ruling by Attorney Gen-
eral Mann that the soil districts do
not have power to levy taxes or
create debts has stifled some opposi-
tion which has been voiced in scat-
tered sections of the state, Marshall
said, and as a whole the program is
meeting with hearty approval.
The state board recently has been
informed that WPA labor will be
available to districts for soil con-
servation work. This is the first time
in history the farmers have been able
to get government aid in work of this
type, Marshall declared, and they can
get it now only if the districts are
formed.
“The soil conservation district law
gives the farmers the same opportu-
nity cities have to get federal aid.
The Government will not deal with
individuals and as the farmer never
has had any representatives to deal
with agencies, he has been unable to
get help,” he pointed out.
The state board will meet here
June 3 to discuss federal aid possi-
bilities with WPA officials and rep-
resentatives of state and federal ag-
ricultural agencies operating in
Texas.
Among the districts to vote May 25
are the Grayson-Collin-Rockwall
district and the Fannin-Grayson dis-
trict. \
Mrs. R. G. Hill of Groesbeck sends
The Sun a clipping concerning, her
husband, Rev. R. G. Hill, who was
recently sent to the veterans’ hospital
at Legion. Mrs. Hill is the former
Mary Lee Nichols of Whitewright,
and has numerous friends here.
The clipping from the Groesbeck
newspapei' contained Mr. Hill’s pic-
ture and the following story:
Above is pictured R. G. (Bob) Hill,
former pastor of the Groesbeck
Christian Church, and a past Chap-
lain of the American Legion, who
has been confined to his home for the
p^st three years as an invalid.
Though scarcely able to move, Mr.
Hill has kept his mind active by con-
tinuing with his writing. He has
written many essays during his long
confinement, the best of which are I
being incorporated into a book which
will be entitled “Under The Eagle’s
Wing.”
. Mr. Hill has recently been sent to
the one organization in the ^state^ that i the hospital at Legion, Texas, but
completed the manuscript ■ before
leaving. Mrs. Hill has turned it over
to the printers and publication of the
book is now undef way.
The book will contain approxi-
mately one hundred pages. It will be
attractively bound and its pages will
be found to be both inspirational and
entertaining, of high spiritual and
patriotic value.
Mrs. Hill is now taking advance
orders for the book, which will retail
at $1.00 per copy.
AUSTIN. — Friends said Tuesday
Julian Montgomery, state highway
engineer, had been given a leave of
absence until July 1 in ordei' to take
a rest which was advised by a physi-
cian.
The highway engineer recently was
the victim of an influenza attack and
the press of work prevented his com-
plete recovery. His associates said he
planned to remain at his home for
several days and then take a trip to
the coast.
T. H. Webb, assistant highway en-
gineer, will fill Montgomery’s post
temporarily.
State Gets Pension Funds
Officers for the coming year were
elected by the Whitewright Future
Farmers at a meeting Tuesday morri- I was named foreman and
ing. They are as follows: Brother 13‘D”;— xr
Gillett, president; Lynal Moore, vice-
president; Philip Earnheart, secre-
tary; Albert Thornton, treasurer; Birt
Russell, reporter; Billie Ray Conner,
parliamentarian; Eugene Anderson,
watch-dog; and Wilton McFarland,
historian.
J. H. Gosnell and Philip Earnheart
were elected as delegates to represent
at
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