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VOL. 59, NO. 11.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1944.
5c a Copy, $1.50 a Year
Sun.
RED CROSS
Air Power Proves
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
$300,000,-
high last
had cost
Board’s
I
Whitewash Formulas
One leaky faucet may waste over
Sun advertising is economical.
Eisenhower And
Montgomery See
Victory Next Year
Draft Deferments,
18 to 25, Limited
Navy And Other
Branches of Service
Need Many Men
Farmers Collecting
Cotton Insurance
TREAT SEED FOR
GREATER YIELD
Sgt. Lester Martin of Hensley Field
spent the first of the week with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Martin.
Tuberculosis, which once ranked as
the most deadly disease, now occupies
eighth place in the list.
The first foreign organization per-v
mitted by the French to march under
the Arc de Triomphe was the Ameri-
can Legion, in 1927.
The croquet craze, imported from
England, began in America in 1866.
The first public school in America
was the Boston Latin School, estab-
lished in 1635.
day off
to
and
their
and
who
. G.
Dr. Walton Defies
Board to Resign
Thanks Committee
Destroying Cassino
3
Red Cross Chairman Roosevelt Polls
States on Soldier
Vote Compromise
c7he Xdhrtev/uqht
YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER fl ESTABLISHED IN 1885
Pvt. Grover L. Lindsey, who has
been stationed at Indiantown Gap,
Pa., has had his Sun address changed
"to an APO number, indicating that
lie is going overseas. He is the son of
“Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lindsey, route 2.
Aubrey Hansard of Grand Prairie
has been inducted into the Army and
will leave for Camp Wolters March
16. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elbert Hansard of Whitewright.
Myrick Fogle, who is stationed at
Bort Monmouth, N. J., has been pro-
moted to corporal in the Army. Cor-
poral Fogle is the son of Stanley
Bogle, formerly of Whitewright, and
a grandson of Mrs. C. C. Bogle of
Whitewright.
Parents of War Dead
May Get Gold Stars
James H. Clabom, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Van Claborn, has been promoted
to the rank of technical sergeant. He
is stationed at the Army Air Force
Command’s four-engine pilot school
at Hobbs Army Air Field, Hobbs, N.
“M.
300 Million Daily
Cost of War for U. S.
The Air Medal for five combat mis-
sions over Europe has been awarded
to Lieut. David W. McKinney, Flying
Fortress navigator based in England.
Lieutenant McKinney was principal
of Whitewright High School at the
■time he entered the service in April,
1942. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
’ Sewell R. McKinney of Van Alstyne.
His wife is teaching in the Arlington
public schools.
Reeves of Camp
and
and
Pvt. John C. Owens, who has been
stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., has
been transferred to Camp Bowie,
Texas. In writing The Sun to change
his address, Private Owens had the
following to say: “For the past sev-
eral months The Sun has been coming
to me regularly, and I enjoy every
part of it. Being so far from home,
everything in it is news to me, and it
helps me keep up with the happen-
ings on the home front, and this
.means a lot to me. Onp thing es-
pecially that I have noticed is the fact
"that Whitewright is doing more than
her share toward purchasing war
bonds, and has gone over the top in
every drive. Thanks, citizens of
Whitewright and section.”
Cpl. Edwin H. Goodwin, who has
been stationed at Tampa, Fla., has
been transferred to New York, N. Y.
He is a ground mechanic in the Air
Corps and has been in service two
years. He is a brother of Mrs. Ben-
nie Chesser.
WASHINGTON.—Parents of serv-
icemen killed in the war would be
awarded Gold Star medals under leg-
islation introduced by Sen. Arthur H.
Vandenberg, Republican, Michigan.
The measure would affect parents
of any member of the armed forces
dying from injury or disease caused
by military service at any time be-
tween Aug. 27, 1940, and six months
after the end of hostilities.
time between Aug. 27, 1940, and six
months after the end of hostilities.
A maximum fine of $250 or six
months’ imprisonment or both would
be imposed upon any unlawful wear-
ing, manufacturing or selling of the
medals. . .
WASHINGTON. — Mounting man-
power requirements of a Navy ex-
panding at the rate of nearly 12 sea-
going ships a day and of the 80,000
landing barge program, to say noth-
ing of the other armed forces and
other phases of the industrial war ef-
fort, call for enactment of “some sort
of national service law,” Secretary of
Navy Frank Knox said today.
“It is my personal view and that of
the Secretary of War and the chair-
man of the Maritime Commission,”
Knox said at his news conference,
“that we are bound to have to face
the large phase of the whole problem
and enact some kind of national serv-
ice law.”
Knox said the Navy will need al-
most 500,000 more men to meet its
goal of 3,006,000 men by the end of
the calendar year.
Clifton Page of the U. S. Navy, who
is stationed at San Diego, Calif., is
visiting his- wife and other relatives
here.
Pfc. Noble Page, who is stationed
in Virginia, is visiting his wife and
other relatives here. Private Page
has been in service three years.
Jack Sears, yeoman third class in
the Navy, visited in the home of Mrs.
T. H. Sears from Sunday till Thurs-
day. He flew from Pensacola, Fla.,
to Dallas with a Navy officer.
Cpl. Albert L.
Claiborne, La., spent Sunday
Monday here visiting his wife
little daughter.
Cpl. George W. Hansard Jr., •
has been stationed at Fort Geo.
Meade, Md., has been sent to Miami
Beach, Fla., where he will begin
training to become a flyer.
Pvt. and Mrs. Horace Ashlock and
baby son of Sherman spent the week-
end visiting her mother, Mrs. W. A.
Martin. Private Ashlock has been
transferred to Camp Beale, Calif.
Joe B. Dillon, grandson of Mrs. W.
A. Kirkpatrick of Whitewright, has
been promoted to the rank of chief
warrant officer in the Army Air
Force communications department.
He is stationed in North Africa.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sanderson
have been informed that their son,
Thomas Sanderson, has been pro-
moted to staff sergeant. Sergeant
Sanderson is stationed at Avon Park,
Fla., and is radio operator on a B-17
bomber.
Carlton Johnson of the U. S. Navy,
who recently completed his boot
training at San Diego, Calif., is at
home on a furlough visiting his wife
and little daughter.
SHERMAN.—Applicants for cotton
insurance payments for 1943 for
Grayson County farmers numbered
1,200. Of this number, 240 applica-
tions for losses have been made cov-
ering 215,775 pounds of cotton, aver-
aging 899 per claim.
At the present prices, total claims
amount to $45,525.60, averaging
$189.69 per claim. Premiums at the
rate of 10 percent are deducted from
claim payments, the usual method of
payment.
field Mrs. Fitch is living with her
parents. Private Fitch was a border
patrolman on the Texas-Mexican
border and had been stationed at El
Paso recently.
Diversified Farm
Plan Urged F or
Grayson County
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WASHINGTON.—What every tax-
payer should know:
The war now is costing
000 a day.
War spending hit a new
month of $7,808,000,000.
Up to March 1 the war
$168,600,000,000.
The War Production
monthly report on spending for war
purposes, issued Wednesday, showed
that February outlays were $14,000,-
000 greater than the previous high,
which was in November.
The daily rate of spending was
$312,000,000, based on the twenty-
five days in February on which the
Treasury issued checks.
Total war
from the start of the
gram on July 1, 1940.
outlays are reckoned
defense pro-
Robert D. Montgomery, SM/2c, has
been transferred from San Diego,
Calif., to New York where he expects
to be assigned to a ship. His brother,
Jack Montgomery, will leave for San
Diego tomorrow to begin his boot
training in the Navy. ;
John R. Taylor, seaman second
class, visited his mother, Mrs. Nellie
Taylor, en route from Gulfport, Miss.,
to the West Coast. He has been
transferred to a Seabees unit for
service with the Marine Corps.
Pfc. Jarvis D. Maddux left Monday
for Fresno, Calif., after spending sev-
eral days’ furlough with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Maddux. He was
stationed at Burbank, Calif., until
recently.
Lloyd Fitch, son-in-law of Mr. and
:Mrs. J. E. Smith, has entered the
Army as an aviation student, and
.pending his assignment to a training
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Congress
passed a servicemen’s vote bill lean-
ing heavily to States’ rights Wednes-
day but President Roosevelt indicated
the matter was far from settled by
starting a telegraph survey to find
out how many men could vote under
it.
The chief executive wired all Gov-
ernors an inquiry whether they be-
lieved their state laws authorized use
of supplementary federal ballots.
The President has indicated that
the decision on a veto depends on
whether more men can vote under
new legislation than under existing
laws.
Proponents of a simplified federal
ballot have argued that the bill which
passed the House on Wednesday by a
vote of 273 to 111 repeals an existing
waiver of registration and poll tax
payment for servicemen, and that
fewer can vote under it than under
present law.
The bill provides in brief that
service people must make their own
applications for state absentee ballots,
which the services will expedite to
them and back to the States, and that
the federal short form shall be avail-
able for use only by those who apply
for the state ballots but do not get
them in time, and whose Governors
certify that the federal form will be
acceptable.
In his telegram to the state execu-
tives, the President asked them to tell
him also, so he might form an opin-
ion as to the effectiveness of the
measure, whether steps would be
taken to authorize use of the supple-
mentary ballots, if state laws do not
now do so.
Former President T. O. Walton of
Texas A. & M. College Wednesday
challenged its board of directors to-
resign in a body in the best interest
of the institution and the state.
If such action is taken, he added,
he will immediately abandon any
planned court action involving what
he termed a voided contract on his
position as president emeritus of the
college.
Dr. Walton flayed the board’s
practice of making contracts for all
staff members of A. & M. College on
a one-year basis, a rule, he said,
which had lowered the morale of the
staff and made difficult the obtain-
ing of top-flight educators.
Directors of the college at Fort
Worth last Saturday said in a formal
statement that the school had gone
off and left Dr. Walton. In reply, he
suggested in Dallas that the board
resign.
H
H With the Men
in Uniform
1
Gasoline Ration
Cut to Two Gallons QUOTA ASSURED Effective By
Week For A Coupons
Pfc. Jack L. Dickerman has re-
turned to Kelly Field, San Antonio,
after spending a fifteen-day furlough
with his wife and little daughter,
Jacquelyn, in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Holland. He also visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Dick-
erman of Sherman. Mrs. Dickerman
and daughter accompanied Private
Dickerman to San Antonio.
Pvt. Millard A. Sanders of Camp
Livingston, La., is visiting his moth-
er, Mrs. Beulah Sanders, and other
relatives here. He was accompanied
by his wife.
Pvt. and Mrs. Clyde T. Vestal have
concluded a visit with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Vestal and Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Wilson. Private Vestal,
who has been stationed at Camp Lee,
Va., for the past five months, was en
route to Marysville, Calif., for fur-
ther training. Mrs. Vestal has em- |
ployment in Dallas. ; 400 gallons of water a day.
Whitewash always answers the
question of how to remove the ■ run-
down, neglected look from oubtuild-
ings and other structures — at the
lowest possible cost and the least la-
bor. The secret of a good whitewash
job, of course, is in the mixing.
In mixing whitewash for rough
work all that is required is hydrated
lime, salt and water. Add about three
pounds of salt to each 10 pounds of
lime used and then add water and
stir well. It is best to add only
enough water at first to make a thick
paste. After this has been stirred
until all of the lumps are gone, dilute
with more water until it is of the de-
sired consistency.
A mixture more resistant to weath-
er is made by mixing together 12
pounds of salt, one-half pound of
powdered alum and one and one-
fourth pounds sugar. Dissolve in 10
quarts of hot water into which 50
pounds of hydrated lime has been
thoroughly mixed. After stirring
well, dilute with more water.
For inside work, dissolve two and
one-half pounds of glue in 10 quarts
of water and then combine with five
gallons of water into which has been
stirred 50 pounds of hydrated lime.
After it has been thoroughly mixed,
thin it by adding water as needed.
SHERMAN. — A plea that small
farmers not abandon diversified
farming in favor of the old, danger-
ous, one-crop system was voiced here
last week by Ernest H. Gunn, Gray-
son County supervisor of the Farm
Security Administration. ■
“Some farmers are being tempted
by especially high prices for certain
crops and livestock items to special-
ize in those products at the expense
of their other farming enterprises,”
Mr. Gunn pointed out. “Diversified
farming, which means a well-
rounded program of many small
farming enterprises, is the only safe
way for little farmers to follow,” the
FSA supervisor emphasized.
FSA since its inception has advo-
cated diversification. It charges the
one-crop system with responsibility
for many of the ills of southern ag-
riculture in depression and pre-de-
pression years. FSA families, ac-
cording to Mr. Gunn, are shown the
advantage of having many, rather
than one, enterprise. Cows, poultry,
hogs, feed, cash crops and vagetable
gardens are part of every FSA fam-
ily’s inventory.
“The only way the small farmer,
the family-type farmer who is the
true backbone of our democracy, will
survive and make a contribution to
the- nation’s food needs is through
diversification,” the supervisor said.
“Let the big industrialized farm do
the specializing. By diversifying, the
little farmer has protection should
one or two of his crops fail in a cer-
tain year.”
WASHINGTON.—A long expected
move was taken Tuesday by the Of-
fice of Price Administration to equal-
ize gasoline rations throughout the
country and place motorists on an
■equal basis. The value of the basic
A gasoline ration coupon value was
changed for all the states outside of
the eastern ration area by extending
the period in which a series of cou-
pons will be valid for two months to
three months. This is the period as
prevails for A coupons along the
Eastern Seaboard.
The value of each coupon will re-
main at three gallons and will be the
same throughout the country. But
each numbered series of coupons—
eight coupons—will be valid for three
months instead of two. This in effect
will limit each holder of an A coupon
book to two gallons of gasoline a
week. The changes in coupon values
become effective on March 22.
With the reduction the OPA will
end the requirement that sixty miles
a month of occupational mileage be
taken out of the A ration before the
motorist becomes eligible for a sup-
plemental B or C ration.
Motorists holding a B ration who
meet the requirements on car-pooling
and needed additional gasoline may
apply to their war price and ration-
ing board for coupons to make up
gasoline lost through the cut in the A
ration. They will be issued B cou-
pons allowing up to 475 miles a
month of driving. The adjustment in
the B ceiling from 460 to 475 miles a
month being made necessary since B
rations are issued each three months
in coupons worth five gallons each
and representing seventy-five miles
of driving.
No change is made in C rations
anywhere, and no change is made in
the actual gallonage value of A, B or
C coupons.
LONDON. — General Montgomery
declared Saturday that “we have got
this war absolutely gripped in a firm
hold and the enemy can not escape,”
but he predicted that the fighting
probably would extend into next
year.
In another confident expression,
Eisenhower, supreme commander of
the Allied invasion forces, told grad-
uates at the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst that he hoped to meet
them soon, east of the Rhine.
Montgomery, commander of British
ground forces under Eisenhower, told
war workers on a tour of tank and
gun plants that: “I have not the
slightest doubt that if the battlefront
and homefront really get down to it
this year, we can get the thing almost
finished—held so tightly that next
year we will just topple it over.”
“At the end of this year, if not
sooner, we shall have it just about
right for toppling over,” he added.
Eisenhower told the young officers
at Britain’s “West Point” that “a
small unit of leadership will win the
forthcoming . ground battle. You
must master your job, and master it
quickly.”
Montgomery, who took a
from training the invasion force
inspect and chat with the men
women making tools for the attack,
was cheered when he remarked on
the changes that had occurred since
the days of Dunkerque.
“I got pushed into the sea myself
at Dunkerque—very unpleasant. But
we are doing the pushing now,” he
said.
Subscriptions to date of $1121.17,
with the substantial community of
Pilot Grove yet to report and other
contributions still trickling in, makes
it evident that the Whitewright area
will send its full quota of $1300 to
the County Red Cross chairman.
With the promise of a more com-
plete report next week, The Sun is
publishing in this issue only the
names of local school pupils who
have contributed to the fund.
Miss Inez Ray, chairman of the
Red Cross War Fund campaign in
this area, has requested The Sim to
publicly express her thanks to the
following workers for assistance and
cooperation in making a canvass of
the town and surrounding communi-
ties:
Mrs. A. L. Jackson, Mrs. Minnie
Patterson, Mrs. Glenn Doss, Mrs. J.
H. Waggoner, Mrs. Grace Roberts,
Mrs. Jack Nossaman, Mrs. G. C.
Stuteville, Mrs. Vera Hickman, Mrs.
R. L. Sears, Mrs. Cloy Horton, Mrs.
Jennie Crittenden, Mrs. A. M. Bryant,
Mrs. C. J. Meador, Mrs. L. O. Lackey,
Mrs. Fred Clark, Mrs. T. E. Sears,
Mrs. Gomer May, Mrs. Ross R. May,
Mrs. B. W. Newman, Mrs. Annabelle
Turner, Luther Gordon for Bethel,
Miss Viva Phillips for Kentucky-
town, and Dave Taylor for Pilot
Grove.
If any persons were overlooked in
the canvass they may make
contributions at the city office
receive sticker and lapel button.
Sun editor has received the follow-
ing letter from William Pirtle Hum-
phries, who is stationed on Attu Is-
land, in the Aleutians: “Have just
finished reading The Whitewright
It is really something to read
about the folks at home in this far-
away land. It has been 16 months
since I was at home. I have been
saving The Sun, hoping some day I
would see someone I knew to give
them to. Was I surprised a few
■weeks ago when I heard someone call
my name while I was at ship services.
It was a boy from home—Ray Far-
row. We were really glad to see each
other. It was like okd times, and
when I told him I had a bunch of
Whitewright Suns, you should have
seen his eyes light up. It was like
giving him a transfusion. He is get-
ting along fine and so am I. He says
tell all the boys hello for him, and the
same goes for me.” If some of Pirtle’s
friends should want to write to him,
his address is 52nd Naval Const. Bn.
C-3, care Fleet Post Office, San Fran-
cisco, Calif.
WASHINGTON. — Selective Serv-
ice Tuesday night prohibited occupa-
tional draft deferments for men
aged 18 to 25, inclusive, except when
approved by state draft directors or
when engaged in an occupation spe-
cifically excepted from this policy by
the director of Selective Service.
This extended to men aged 23-25,
inclusive, a policy already in effect
for those 18 to 22.
The move was announced coinci-
dent with reports that a new plan is
in the making to ration occupational
deferments to war plants in much the
same manner that scarce materials
are now rationed to them—on the ba-
sis of the greatest needs at the mo-
ment in the light of shifting trends
in arms production.
President Favors Idea
President Roosevelt indicated favor
for this idea.
Announcing the tighter restrictions
on occupational deferment for men
under 26, Major Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, Selective Service director,
said state directors are expected to
recommend deferments in the case of
men without whose services the pro-
duction requirements of critical in-
dustry cannot be made.
“The making available for induc-
tion of registrants under 26 years of
age will permit deferment of regis-
trants 26 years of age and over in
critical industries with progressive
consideration for their relative irre-
placeability and increase in age,”
Hershey said.
The idea of rationing deferments
developed as a result of concern by
production officials that many key ■
industries would be hard hit by re-
cent orders for a review of all occu-
pational deferments.
COLLEGE STATION. — Chemical
treatment of seed is an inexpensive
insurance against certain seed-borne
diseases which cause poor stands and
lower yields. According to E. A.
Miller, agronomist for the A&M Col-
lege Extension Service, the treatment
also protects seed against molds and
fungi in the soil and makes for better
germination, especially with early
planting in cold or wet soil which is
not in condition for quick germina-
tion.
Experiments and demonstrations
show that seed treatment will in-
crease cotton yield considerably at an
additional cost of only 10 to 15 cents
an acre. The treatment method is
the use of two or three ounces of 2-
percent ceresan per bushel, or one to
one and one-half ounces of 5-percent
ceresan per bushel. The seed should
be treated in a steel drum or similar
container having a tight-fitting lid
and arranged to revolve on an axis.
The container should not be filled to
more than one-half capacity so that
the seed will fall continually as it re-
volves and receive a uniform cover-
ing of the chemical dust.
' Miller says that the treatment us-
ually has the further effect of causing
a certain amount of seedling vigor.
The resulting quicker growth allows
earlier chopping.
Grain sorghums and sweet sor-
ghums often are affected by a disease
called kernel smut. Evidence of the
disease is kernels filled with smut
spores instead of sound seed. Plant-
ing seed not treated to destroy the
spores will transmit the smut to the
next crop. The treatment consists of
either two ounces of 50-percent cop-
per carbonate, or one-half ounce of
5-percent ceresan per bushel.
Miller says the ceresan must be
used strictly according to directions
as an overdose, or poor distribution
of the chemical may injure the seed.
Finely ground dusting sulphur at the
rate of three ounces per bushel also
has been found effective against
smut. Any tight container may be
used for the treating process, the im-
portant thing being to get a good
covering of dust on all of the seeds.
in
Naples, Italy.—The Allies destroyed
i Cassino Wednesday, dropping more
than 2,500 tons of bombs on the
: strategic fortress town and targets
above it in the greatest aerial assault
in history.
Wednesday night American tanks
and Allied infantrymen were moving
into the smoking ruins of the town,
long the keystone of the German de-
fenses in Central Italy, and a new all-
out drive on Rome was under way.
Official 'photographs released
Wednesday night showed there were
no buildings left in the town after the
virtually all-American air attack, in
which nearly every plane of the Al-
lied Mediterranean force took part.
Making a total of 3,000 trips, the
planes dropped 1,400 tons of bomb's
in the one-mile-square Cassino alone,
and the remainder on towns, bridges
and communications centers to the
north and northwest. The total load
of 2,500 tons was announced by Lt.
Gen. Ira C. Eaker, Mediterranean air.
commander.
“Undoubtedly,” said Eaker, “never
in warfare have air forces concen-
trated so much destruction on a tar-
get of comparable size in a single
mission.”
The historic assault was begun by
thirty-six medium Mitchells at 8:30
a. m. Soon all types of planes, in-
cluding the big four-engined heavy
bombers, were blasting away.
Time Out for Lunch
There was a pause at noon after
the last of the heavies had finished its
job, and then a terrific artillery bar-
rage was poured into the town, last-
ing nearly three hours.
With this big gun cover, the ground
forces began to move in. The first
American tank entered the northern
outskirts at exactly 1:25 p. m. Later
in the afternoon medium and light
bombers resumed the attack at se-
lected targets.
By Wednesday night there was
nothing left of the town. “Cassino is
dead,” an observer’ with the Fifth
Army radioed.
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