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THE EXAMINER, IvIcKINNEY, TEXAS, JULY 18, 1946
TWO
some delightful
Government Jobs
as
are
earth is such
a merry
beyond it
so su-
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than any artist’s
to clear it with
DURING a heated
campaign
the
To
go
—Louise Darcy.
in
our
Candidates for Office
per month.
1946 Primary
Senatorial
Precinet
He has
LONDON, July 15.—Priceless
Superintendent
of
| Jesse Lee Shelton of this city.
Wilson Chapel Cemetery.
1 last Friday evening.
Newsprint Paper
Price Is Raised
The Cranes of
Iddarus
When You Went
To The Fair
Food Shipped to
Overseas Needy
What Newspapers
Ancient Treasure
Seized By Crown
Texas Textile Mill
Has 16,000 Spindles
500 Looms, Etc.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE:
Inside Collin County (1 year) $1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.) 60c
McKinney Examiner
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
Outside Collin County (1 year)__$2.00
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.25
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) 75c
Board of Directors.
M. Scott and F. D. Perkins.
then stick to it.
to happen further
days
came
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR BABY SON
on
The
Nan
She
WHO IS GOING
.Sidney now?
FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS for
flood control and soil conservation
are now available in the upper reach-
es of the Trinity River in Collin Coun-
ty.
For Criminal District Attorney:
PAUL WORDEN
j. w. McCullough
For County Commissioner, Precinct
No. 2
JOHN B. BALL
Re-election for Second Teris*.
;as in
» and
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Hold That Temper
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play garment material, drapery fab-
rics, work, garment fabrics, cotton
and rayon fabrics and slip cover fab-
rics.
The Texas Textile Mills was organ-
ized by McKinney business men, and
| Thousands to Lose Thinks Jester
; The Best Man
I think of death
journey
That I shall take when all tasks
IN SPEAKING of the lack of inter’
est in contributing canned goods for
the needy left at the local Lone Star
gas office a .prominent citizen quoted
Emerson, who said:“Evil is wrought
by want of thought rather than want
of heart.”
UNDER NEW standards for
return of service men to the United
States, approximately 41,000 will be
shipped from Japan in the next two
months.
the
best policy is not to believe half you
hear and very little of that.
Jim Monroe has leased a building
on East Louisiana Street, from Luther
Lane and will open a Goodrich Tire
Store as soon as equipment can. be
installed.
Mr. Monroe will move to McKin-
ney with his wife as soon as housing
facilities are available.
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Miss Jimmie LaFolIette
Mr J. L. Stewart Marry
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Mrs. George Hendricks of Dallas
sends $2.00 for the Examiner for the
coming year.
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Bedford Wilson, Riverdale, Calif..
is a new subscrber to the Eixamner.
For Justice of the Peao
SID WILLIAMS
For Sheriff:
Wm. LEWIS BROWN
Re-election for Second Term
For District Clerk:
W. C. HAGY.
For Re-election, Second term.
For Flotorial Representative, Gray-
son and Collin:
ROGER Q. EVANS
Re-election for Second Term.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox;
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JUNE BRIDES
For Local Representative
DAVIS CLIFTON
DeWITT HALE
CAPT. J. A. BENTON
For Tax Assessor-Collector
DOYLE NEI/SON
Re-election for Second Term.
For Cofinty Clerk A
J. S. (RED) HAND®
:5T
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
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the finders of the treasure trove
wore substantially rewarded by the
treasury.
Gibson Caldwell,
som, Mrs. W. E.
Noble Spurgin.
Turn it over to
and get out. Maybe
forget it and go to
But it is awful hot
here where we are working.
JOB SAID, “Oh, but if my enemy
would write a book.” Did Job say
that? Any -way if Job were here now
he would likely exclaim, “Oh if the
world would just shut up and quit
talking so much.”
soul carries about
recording machine,
than any device of
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E. D. Eilenburg, of Wylieme
McKinney on business Mon®>
called by to set the date up on his
Examiner.
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Marion Johnson of Amarillo arriv-
ed in McKinney Friday night to spend
the week-end here with Mr, and Mrs.
Page Johnson.
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L. W. Kemp of the White Rock
community places an ad in our clas-
sified column and renews for the Ex-
amner for 12 months.
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their son, Louis Jackson and family
in Houston, and their daughter, Mrs.
H. C. Pope and family in Galveston.
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Mrs. J. W. Jordan, who makes her
home with her son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Douglas, or-
ders the Examiner for another year.
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Miss Madie Francis renews for the
Examiner. Miss Frances resides on
West Virginia Street. She is one
our city’s leading music teachers, giv-
ing special attention to little tots.
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Mrs. Wilma Bryson, proprietor of
Wilma’s Beauty Shoppe, extends her
subscription to Examiner for anoth-
er year.
No. 3:
WILEY E. GRIFFIN
C. C. WHITT
For County Commissioner Precinct
No. 4:
JESS HAGIN
F. E .(Van) COOK
V/. C. (Cotton.) LEACH
Re election for Second Term.
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thus: Pul
on the
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Miss Imogene Cupit and iMr. Joe
Montgomery, both of Anna, were
married Wednesday afternoon in
county clerk’s office. Rev. A. H. Sni-
der officiated.
Mr. Montgomery served in the U. SI
Navy.
WE become terribly excited over
the dropping of bombs in the Pacific,
as if Russia has not been dropping
verbal bombs every day at the peace
jference.—iPittsbijrjg Gaize|tei. And
come to think about it, the verbal
bombs are often more dangerous than
the A-Bomb.
Ro-
man silver described by an expert as
the finest collection ever unearthed
has been declared a treasure trove at
the inquest at Mildenhall and has
been seized by the coroner on behalf
of the crown-.
In England under the common law.
money, bullion and valuables found
in the earth or otherwise presumed
to have been hidden and the owner
of which is not known belongs to- the
crown. On the other hand a similar
treasure found in the sea or on the
surface of the earth, and therefore
presumed not to have been hidden
by design, belong® to the finder if
no owner appears.
The silver, consisting of 34 pieces
dating back to the fourth century,
was unearthed four years ago when
a tractor driver was plowing his em-
ployers field. The coroner said that
pital at 3:30 a. m. Thursday. Survi-
vors include the parents, two
threeofour own citizens are on the ! thers, Hughy Melvin and Jerry
Beard cf Dirccicre. T. E. Craig. A. i ton; two sisters, Joyce Elaine
THERE WERE 226 votes cast
the Tioga box in the county beer
election July 2, as follows: For sale
of beer, 80; against sale of beer, 146.
Judging from the above returns,
the people of the Tioga box believe
in patronizing home institutions.
They all drink Tioga mineral water.
Even Editor J. Hodges hah gone to
drinking Tioga water.
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Mrs. Jake Dyer has returned from
a visit with her daughter, Mis
Dyer, in Coronado, California,
also visited in San Francisco.
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Monroe to Open
Tire Store Here
For County
Schools:
LYMAN D. ROBINSON
For Re-election, Second Term
—MW»-
DELIGHTFUL JOURNEY
For State Senator, 10th
District
ARCHIE L. WELCH
G. C. MORRIS
Re-election, (Second Term
For County Commissioner
No. 1:
J. LEE HOWELL
CLINT LEWIS
JOE BUNCH
Re-election
L. L. RIFFE
bro-
Shel-
; two sisters, Joyce Elaine and
i LeQuita Joy Shelton; and the grand-
i parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Wilson,
j of Walnut Grove.
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L. C. Walker of Farmersville Is a
i patient in the City Hospital.
The next two months will see more
Texans on the way somewhere than
have been traveling in anyvacation
period since this good land was first
discovered,, says the Ft. Worth Star-
Telegram.
The railroads are going to be busy,
the buses are going to be crowded,
and even the airplanes probably will
see wartime travel peaks again.
The gasoline service stations report
a bigger demand for road maps than
ever in the past. The automobile club
secretaries are busy making reserva-
tions for their members. The girls’
and boys’ camps are filled and over-
flowing with reservations far ahead.
Dude ranches are getting a big play
through Labor Day, Sept. 1.
It is good for people to see the
world—any part of it; and it is good
for Texans to got out and discover
that other states and other people
are well worth knowing
But there is ONE IMPORTANT
THING to remember when starting
that vacation trip. That is to HOLD
YOUR TEMPER. Practically every
person with whom one comes in con-
tact on a summer travel spree is
OVERWORKED, OVER-BOTHERED,
OVER-HEATED; and people in that
condition are EASILY TEMPTED to
lose their tempers. The vacationists,
themselves find it difficult to main-
tain pleasant dispositions in the face
of the many difficulties which beset
them in ordinary times. ‘
those difficulties will be
Becoming
the worries of traveling
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Mrs. B. F. Strickland of Forest
Grove renews for Examiner another
year.
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Did you know the local plant of the
Texas Textile Mills is the largest
manufacturer of colored cotton goods
west of the Mississippi?
There are 16,000 spindles and 500
looms, a modern dye plant and san-
forizing unit, with approximately 550
employees and an annual pay roll of
$1,000,00'0.00. The plant consumes
10,0*00 bales of Collin County cotton
annually.
100 living units, from 2-room apart-
ments to 6-room houses, with all j
modern conveniences, are furnished
the employees at a cost far below the
usual rental prices.
The plant is now manufacturing
The Veterans Administration hav-
ing requested the Camp and Hospital
Council of the American Red Cross
to decorate the chapel for the ser-
vices each Sunday morning, plans
are being made to have the various
churches of McKinney do this.
Each church taking part is to be
responsible for the decorations for
one month. Mrs. Julius Purnell is
general chairman of the project.
Those serving on this committee
from the First Methodist Church in-
clude Mrs. W. Hammond Moore, Mrs.
Mrs. W. W. Ran-
Button and Mrs.
MONTREAL, July 13.—The price
of newsprint began to jump Thurs-
day and may reach a point 20 per
cent higher than Monday's rate with-
in the near future.
The Abitibi Power and Paper Com-
pany, one of Canada’s three largest
producers, announced that an in-
crease of $6.80 a ton over the pre-
vious price of $67 in New York and
other companies are expected to fol-
low suit.
This is working hardship on all
newspapers, especially the weeklies
and smaller dailies.
SOUTH AFRICA is facing another
destructive drouth. Something out of
whack all the time throughout the
world. Do you remember when you
were a boy and first learned to
swim? You were urged to learn
to float—turn over on your back and
just do nothing but lie there in the
water until you rested and decided to
go elsewhere. You hesitated. You were
afraid if you didn’t keep slashing at
the water you would sink. Remember
that? Well you found that you
wouldn't sink. The subject may point
to a course humanity is going! to be
forced to use. With all these Dou-
bles—natural, artificial and just, the
plain old “now you see it, now you
don’t” variety, people are becoming
desperate. Going crazy. And the
more they worry and flounder the
worse they suffer. But while this is
being written he hot breeze rolls in
through the windows from off the
sun-baked pavement, reminding us
that we are on our way towards an-
other winter. It will come. Cheer up.
Stop worrying. Just let yourself float
a little while.
Blessing on thee winsome bride,
Taking, marriage in your stride.
You say you never learned to cook,
But you’ve just bought a recipe book
Because you heard that love will les-
sen
With dishes from the delicatessen.
Study your cookbook carefully,
For there are meals: one, two and
three.
And daily menus must be found
help love make the world
round.
Well, it is hard to sse people' lose
their good jobs. Thousands of young
men and women will soon be coming
back home to papa and mama, and
will hardly have saved a dollar of
their salaries because of the high
rents and other living expenses.
Those who are now loafing around
and like the grasshopper, singing, had
better go up to see Mr. Stinson at the
USES office and try too land a real
job and then stick to it. There is
much to happen further down, the
> road.
lion Texans?
clashing with group,
hate:
hate.
Mr.
of us.
with
know from experience that campaign
promises are designed only to snare
votes; all of us know that seldom
does even a small percentage of cam-
paign promises develop into reality.
All of us know that we, as taxpay-
ers, must foot the bill for everything
the state does,- even to the using of
a 1-cent stamp.
Mr. Jester offers a sensibile and
constructive program of progress
which he, with the help of the legis-
lature, could develop without hate
and confusion.
There is no doubt that Mr. Jester
could work more effectively with the
legislature and other departments of
the state than any other man in the
race. He has the experience, the
character and the desire for public
service.
The Belden Poll shows that Mr.
Jester’s popularity is rising rapidly
and that some of the other candidates
are losing strength. On the basis of
this accurate testing of the opinion
of voters, it is obvious that Mr. Jes-
ter is rapidly gaining strength with
his constructive campaigning.
All the voters have the full right tt>
disagree with the Globe-News. We
do not seek to influence voters, but
simply to present the facts just as
fairly and honestly as possible. It is
our duty to our readers to do this. It
is the honest thing to come out with-
out reservation on issues like this.
Winning on a band-wagon never
makes the heart feel just right. Amar-
illo Daily News.
This little
planet,
The distances
preme,
I have no doubt that all the mighty
spaces
(Between us and the stars are filled
with faces
More beautiful
dream.
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Mrs. W. H. Lindley, Box 301, City,
orders the Examiner for the coming
year.
red and distrust and confusion by
yelling to high heaven for or against
any group, or groups.
Of course, there are persons who
have disagreed with decisions Mr.
Jester has made as a public official;
this happens to every man m public
office and to every individual in his
work. But no man has even intima-
ted a thoug|ht against Mr. Jester’s
fairness, honesty and righteousness.
His character is without blemish.
Hate and confusion can do Texas
no good. But some of the candi-
dates for governor are going about
the state singing the bitterest of
hymns of hate. Such a tiling makes
for a dramatic campaign; it attracts
attention. It may bring crowds to po-
litical rallies. But what can it do,
constructively, for the almost 10 mil-
We don't want group
We don’t want
all it can do is breed more
We are one people.
Jester wants to represent all
He hasn’t promised the world
a fence around it. All of us
This year
magnified
many times over. Becoming angry
over the worries of traveling may
easily ruin what should be a most
delightful trip. HOLD THAT TEM-
PER!
THE' LORD told people to labor
six days and go to church on Sun-
day. The contrary people now want
to knock off on Saturday and go fish-
ing on Sunday.
Paris News
Newspapers print what their own-
ers and editors believe people want
to read. If they did not do that, news-
papers would have very brief lives.
And news, according to the editor’s
definition, is what is of importance to
the people, first; and aftei’ that what
is unusual in the lives of people, out
of the ordinary in nature, and gener-
ally some opinions of others express-
ed in columns and letters to the edi-
tors.
That is why stories of homicides,
stickups and other crimes are pub-
lished; why stories of the churches
and schools are given a place; why
actions and words of lawmaking-body
members are revealed in print; and
why sports and society stories fill
such a large part of the succesful
newspapers.
Tile unusual is emphasized, just as
a fisherman brags about the big fish
he caught or the bigger one that got
away. That is why stories of price in-
creases always tell of the greatest
markups, instead of giving; space to
the many other® that do not rise or
that rise slightly. It would not be
news to say that meat was selling at
the same price as ten years ago un-
less prices of everything else had
soared. In that case meat would have
a unique position, which would be
worth remarking. So, when meat goes
up far above almost everything else,
that also is worth noting.
The trouble is that when people
read of these unusual price advances
they seem to think that everything
else is gone skyhigh and they make
a noise. ONE tenant charged an UN-
CONSCIONABLE rent by a GRASP-
ING landlord will make MORE
NOISE than HALF A HUNDRED who
have been given a slight advance or
no advance, and so his NOISE is
news and is printed.
We had as well STOP WORRY-
ING. It will all come out in the wash,
and when we have gotten over our
fear of inflation we will be ready to
worry about something else.
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W. Hammond Moore, secretary of
the McKinney Chamber of Commerce,
will attend the Southwestern Cham-
ber of Commerce Institute in Dallas
from Monday until Saturday. W.
Hammond will catch, on to some-
thing for. our old town.
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Mr. and Mrs. Doug Marley and Miss
Amanda England spent the week-end
in San Antonio. Mr. Marley’s moth-
er, Mrs. N. J. Marley, who has been
visiting there, returned to McKinney.
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Mrs. W. I. Keyes, 905 East Anthony,
expects to submit, to an operation at
(Denison Press)
Psychology tells us that one never
forgets. Every
with it a giant
more accurate
man placed on a machine to make re-
cordings. Time eats ati the man-
made device but not so those of the
Infinite One. “Out damned spot” is
the nemisis of all those recording®
one would wish to forget, while those
that are otherwise can not be hid.
Years may come and go and one may
think memory has effaced things,
but some day the acts of man will be
brought out and gone over again on
the giant recorder of the mansoul.
Many years ago a lone vendor of
jewelry was making his way across
the deserts of Italy. His name was
Iddarus and he had been spied upon
by a lone robber with well laid plans.
He slew Iddarus on the plains and
covered his body with the sands of
the desert after looting him. As he
busied himself at the digging a flock
of cranes flew over.
The crime defied investigators to
ferrit it out. One day while sitting
in the amphitheatre watching the
events the lone robber looked up and
saw a flock of cranes flying over. In-
voluntarily he leaped to his feet and
cried, My God, the cranes of Iddarus.”
The lone thread was pulled in and
it led to a garment and in the gar-
ment was found the slayer.
Always there is something down
memory lane to dig up the pleasant
as well as the unpleasant past. There
is no such thing as forgetting. That
fact is society’s best protection
against the criminal.
We have a friend who served aten-
year term on evidence of a strictly
circumstantial kind. His family suf-
fered along with him. His friends
did not believe him guilty of the
crime charged and he returned to hits'
old home after serving his term and
was received with open arms. He
was offered many positions and ac-
cepted one. He later went into busi-
ness for himself and today is well off
financially.
But the sequel is the part memory
played in the tragic thing. Down in
Waco years after most people had
forgotten the thing, a man lay dying
on a bed. He released memory’s
work and confessed to have commit-
ted the deed and outlined in detail
how it happened. Memory worked
but too late to spare the ten dear
years from a good man’s life.
When memory is kind to us and
brings its sheaves of yesteryears and
unfolds the books of our lives and
bids us read of the past, memory
alone should be a good prompter to
lead us to record only those things
which are to bring pleasure to
heart®.
Miss Jimmie LaFolIette, daughter
of Mrs. L. L. LaFolIette, and Mr. Jack
L. Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. D.
Stewart, also of McKinney, were mar-
ried at 10 o’clock Wednesday evening
at the Methodist Church in Dallas
with Rev. Mr. Boone officiating.
The bride was attired in a white
dress with white accessories and
a shoulder corsage of red roses.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Williams were
their attendants.
Mrs. Stewart graduated from Boyd
High School in 1945 and has been
with the Wilson Abstract Company
here. Mr. Stewart has recently re-
turned to McKinney after serving
with the armed forces 30 months, two
years overseas.
Funeral services were held at 1:30
p. m. Friday in the chapel of the Har-
... ris Funeral Home for Sammie Lee
denims, ticking, women’s slack and j Shelton, infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
vvraow xjtx, x>x xxxxxr x/xvj. Rev. eXpCULS LU bLLUlllll L<J CI.LI vpui xxxxxzxx <xv
Earl J. Rogers officiated. Burial in the Methodist Hospital in Dallas this
Z-— | week. Mrs. Keyes has been confined
Sammie Lee died at the City Hos- j fo her bed for the past 13 weeks and
~ " ’- has already undergone two opera-
tions. The operation was postponed
from last week when she suffered
from shock following the death of a
son-in-law, W. I. Scott, in Dallas.
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Miss Doris Jean Standley and Clif-
ford Thomas, both of this city, at-
tended the Starlight Operetta in Dal-
THOSE were the good old
when visitors to the Dallas fair
back home all fagged out, but suffi-
ciently alive to lu'g| home a basket of
Concord grapes.—Pittsburg Gazette.
Oh, yes! And told about having
.stopped off to attend that cyclorama
housed as a side show on the way out
on the “beltline” from the city. It
was worth the dollar we had to pay.
It was the biggest thing down there
in the picture line. One would as-
cend to a platform in the center and
look away off, apparently to things
in the distance—mountains, hills,
plains, and as you dropped your eyes
closer home you would be seeing
beautiful wheat fields, farms, parks,
etc. The light was dimmed to just
the point that caused you to shade
your eyes with your hand as you
looked into the distance, where the
objects were completed pictorially on
the huge canvas. It was a great
sight, and those of us who are now
living always recall that day at the
old Dallas fair—its first year—as our
happiest.
(Bonham Herald)
The plan of beaurocrats to maintain
a WARTIME PAYROLL in PEACE-
TIME has taken SETBACK from
Capitol Hill—but the battle still goes
on between the tax spenders and
ECONOMY-MINDED congressmen.
Hundreds of thousands of surplus
desk workers are now scheduled to
be lopped from the government pay-
roll under an employment ceiling set
forth in the Federal Pay Act of 1946,
which took effect July 1. This is
good news for the taxpayers, but ob-
servers in Washington say it is no
time for the economy igjroup to rest
on its oars.
The pay bill provides that the num-
ber of Federal workers at the end of
the next fiscal year, June 30, 1947,
shall not exceed 1,611,000 as compar-
ed with the present total of 2,500,000.
This provision is the achievement of
Senator Byrd and other members of
the economy group who served on the
'Conference Committee which re-wrote
the pay bill after the Senate and
House had passed bills with substan-
tial differences. These members of
Congress have not sought public
credit for the hard bargain they drove
with the tax spenders, but plenty is
due them.
When the bill went into conference,
the administration group renewed its
drive to give substantially higher pay
to top job holders, which both the
Senate and House refused to do. They
were met head-on with the argument
that the record of inefficiency in the
government indicated by the contin-
ued high level of government em-
ployment nearly a year after V-J Day
hardly justified such increases for the
TOP ADMINISTRATORS.
For a time, it seemed that, neither
side would bulge, but eventually the
administration group on the confer-
ence committee agreed to bargain1.
The result was the employment ceil-
ing was slapped on and that was
what the administration didn’t want.
Actually, it's up to Congress to
police and guard the ceiling. To
make it more effective, Congress
must not approve appropriations for
personnel expenditures in the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1947, which
will permit the employment of more
than 1,611,000 employees.
Senator Byrd recognizes this situa-
tion and hopes to have the Approp-
riations Committees screen funds for
government payrolls so that the con-
gressional INTENT will be carried
out.
This is IN LINE with predictions
freely made in Washington that the
ADMINISTRATION will make NO
EFFORT to carry out the LAW’S IN-
TENT, but will leave it up to Con-
gress to find ways and means for par-
ing down appropriation requests to
the desired end. ,
Approximately 300 pounds of canned
foodstuffs valued at about $100 was
shipped this week to a merchant ship
base in Maryland, from where it will
be sent to the needy in Europe, Rev.
Wm. J. H. Petter, president of the
McKinney Pastor’s Association, spon-
sor of the drive foil food, says.
The food will be sent to Geneva,
Switzerland, and distributed to those
in direst need through the United
Church Services. The food consisted
mostly of canned milk, other baby
foods and meat.
Rev. Mr. Petter has been represent-
ing the pastors’ organization of the
city and has been untiring in his ef-
forts to raise contributions.
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City Churches
The following editorial is from the
Amarillo Daily News and is being
published and paid for by friends of
Mr. Jester in McKinney. A large
advertisement is to be found
another page of the Examiner.
Amarillo paper says:
Beauford Jester is, in our opinion,
the most outsaanding man in the gov-
ernor’s race.
The Globe-New® does not pr >sume
to tell the people of the panhandle
how to vote in the Democratic pri-
mary of July 27. In our democratic
country we have the secret ballot so
that any man or woman can vote
exactly as he or she pleases without
any other person knowing how the
ballot is marked. But we do feel it
is the inherent duty of newspapers
to present unbiased facts on political
'personalities and campaigns. The
election of public officials is an im-
portant. privilege with which every-
one should be concerned.
Since the beginning of the current
campaigns we have carefully studied
the backgrund, the character, the
personality and the public service re-
cord of each leading candidate in the
race for governor. We have talked
personally with all the major candi-
dates. We have watched the cam-
paigns and checked carefully the
campaign promises.
With the exception of Grover Sel-
lers, Beauford Jester is the only man
who is not singing a hymn of hate.
But Mr. Sellers has lowered the dig-
nity -of his present office and the one
he seeks by stooping to worm-out
campaign methods. He came to high
state office mainly by accident. He
and Gerald Mann grew up in the
same town, Sulphur Springs. Mr.
Mann, was elected to the office of at'
torney general. He thereupon named
his home-town friend as one of his
assistants. When Mr. Mann decided
to resign the office, he specifically
designated Mr. Sellers as his suc-
cessor; he would not resign until he
was assured of the appointment by
the governor of Mr. Sellers.
Then, in 1944, M?. Sellers, in win-
ning his first election to the state of-
fice, made none too impressive a cam-
paign against a weak opponent.
We find no fault with Mr. .Sellers,
his sincerity or honesty, but we find
no distinction whatsoever. In his
campaign he has been promising
everything that seems likely to get
votes, from individuals and groups.
On the other hand, Beauford Jes-
ter has a distinguished record of un-
selfish public service. He is clean,
upright .friendly, with a native jovial
dignity that marks him of high cali-
ber. Moreover, he is. not singing a
hymn of hate. He represents no ex-
treme group; he is against no group.
He is not attempting to stir up hat-
done.
Though life has given me a heaping
measure
Of all best gifts, and n®y a cup of
.pleasure, ▼
Still better things await further on.
SEVERAL years ago the Examiner
announced a plan of financing the
country and making EVERYBODY
HAPPY. It was thus: Pul every
man and woman on the pay roll
with nothing to do but receipt the
bank or post office for a $200 per
month check. They could retire and
go fishing. Or if they wished to do
so they could continue to run their
business, work for wages for private
enterprises. As for the farmers they
would also be drawing pay at $200
Some farmers would be
like many others, not care to work
on the farm. And as we have to eat,
these would hire their ■work done.
Our plan was pronounced fine by
some short-sighted people. We felt
hoped up. But now that Truman has
vetoed the anti-strike bill we admit
we are somewhat discouraged. The
unions would start a cry for a raise
of say 18 1-2 cents.
Jno. L. Lewis
we had better
work. Whew!
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Thompson, Clint & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1946, newspaper, July 18, 1946; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1323477/m1/2/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.