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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1945.
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May 1945.
A turkey has 3,860 feathers.
Two Sets Brothers
Assume Offices In
Masonic Lodge
Subsidy Payments
Now Being Made
Senate Confirms
Secretary Bymes
Fire Alarm Gets
Big Night Crowd
Whitewright 25
Percent Over War
Bond Sales Quota
Old Age Pension
Is Expected To
Bring Out Vote
Newspaper Mailing
To Navy Restricted
Wickard Sworn In
As REA Chieftain
FOUR DWELLINGS
SOLD FOR TAXES
U.S. REPORT
GLOWS ABOUT
SOUTH’S FUTURE
DEATH TAKES
JUDGE LOY
AT SHERMAN
Inscribed on the east face of the
aluminum cap crowning the Wash-
ington Mdunment are the two words
■“Laus Deo” meaning “Praise God.”
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in
Pfc. Aubrey Page has returned to
the McCloskey hospital at Temple,
"after a visit with his wife and chil-
dren.
A pelican will eat about ten pounds
of fish daily.
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has
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NHA INCOME WAS
18 MILLION OVER COST
TRUMAN’S ANTIDOTE
FOR GOING HIGHHAT:
LUKE 6, TWENTY-SIX
bond
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Announces Safety
Rules For Texoma
Grayson College
E-Students Will
Meet Here Aug. 26
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VOLUME 60, NUMBER 27.
Pfc. Clyde Russell,
tioned at Courtland,
visiting her parents,
Otto Russell.
It requires 40 cubic feet of space
to hold one ton of anthracite coal,
45 cubic feet for one ton of bitumi-
nous coal.
Takes Option On
Building Here For
Food Locker Plant
Education Called
50 Years Behind
Time It Serves
ROTARY HEARS TALK TEN DAYS OF GRACE
ON SOIL CONSERVATION BUY AUTO TAX STAMPS
work to the colleges and con-
the
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been
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He is a member
“The Sun is just like a fur-
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J. Y. Russell, who has finished his
boot training at the San Diego Naval
Training Station, is visiting his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Russell, and
his wife and daughter.
.Cpl. and Mrs. Jack Dickerman and
daughter Jacquelyn returned to San
Antonio Monday, after a visit with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hol-
land of the Kentuckytown commu-
nity.
The 11th Air Force Headquarters,
. Aleutians, announces that Lt. Philip
R. Eamheart has recently arrived in
that theatre and has been assigned to
combat duty as a B-25 pilot. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Earn-
heart.
is a
The
Pyt. J. D. Hughes of Fort Sill,
Okla., visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Hughes, here this*week.
Cpl. Jarvis D. Maddux,, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. D. Maddux, has arrived
in India where he is on
Air Force.
””3 . . .
The annual meeting of the Grayson
College Ex-Students Association will
be held at the Whitewright High
School building on Sunday, Aug. 26,
and plans for the meeting were per-
fected at a meeting of association
members on Monday. Roy Robinson
of Trenton presided over the meet-
ing in the absence of the president,
Dr. Wilbur Carter of Sherman. Com-
mittees were appointed as follows:
Joe B. Hamilton, general chairman;
Mrs. Emmet Penn, arrangements
chairman; Miss Gladys Ray, pro-
gram chairman. Mrs. R. E. Hickman
is secretary of the association.
Sgt. Robert B. Simmons, son
Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Simmons,
been transferred from Burma
Assan, where he is on duty with the
The “House of Seven Gagles” is
located in Salem, Mass.
WASHINGTON. — The National
Housing Agency reported Saturday
it took in $18,745,100 more than it
spent in 1944.
Income for insurance premiums,
fees and investments amounted to
$29,596,327, while operating expenses
totaled $10,851,227.
The net was added to various in-
surance funds, which now exceed
$97,000,000.
The amount of sway at the top of
the Washington Monument is less
than one inch.
SAN ANTONIO.—Cai' owners who
have not yet purchased their $5 fed-
eral automobile use tax stamp for the
coming year will be allowed a 10-
day period of grace, after which
time those drivers who refuse to buy
will be penalized through federal
court action, it was announced Mon-
day.
Frank Scofield, collector of inter-
nal revenue for the First District of
Texas, in making the statement from
his office in Austin, declared that a
drive is already under way by dep-
uty internal revenue collectors to
check cars not displaying the green
federal use tax stamp for motor ve-
hicles.
Joe Tate of the Soil Conservation
Service, who is stationed at Bonham,
was guest speaker at the Rotary Club
luncheon Friday. Mr. Tate was in-
troduced by Russell Summers, who
had charge of the program.
Mr. Tate told how the soil service
was operated and how districts were
organized and how the work is
planned. He said each district was
in charge of a committee of farmers
in the district, who were elected by
the farmers of the district. Mr. Tate
said already enough soil -conserva-
tion work had been planned in Fan-
nin County to keep group now as-
signed to the county busy for three
or four years, and that more farmers
are to be signed up every month.
Twenty-eight farms between White-
wright ahd Trenton have been signed
up, Mr. Tate said. He predicted that
more men would be assigned to soil
conservation work at the close of the
war and that great strides would be
made in soil conservation within the
next few years.
The attendance at the luncheon
Friday was 100 percent, which was
the third 100 percent meeting in the
past month. New officers for thd
ensuing year will take charge Friday.
B. W. Newman will succeed Dr. Ross
R. May as president.
Roy Blanton will have charge
the program Friday.
S/Sgt. Obe A. Hefner, who is sta-
tioned in Germany, writes The Sun
to change his address to a new OPA
number,
lough home to me.
wright friends my best regards,
hope to be home by the first
1946,” Sergeant Hefner said.
WASHINGTON. — The S'enate
Monday confirmed the nomination of
James F. Byrnes to be Secretary of
State.
In an unusual burst of speed, the
Senate unanimously approved Presi-
dent Truman’s appointment of the
66-year-old South Carolinian after
Democratic Leader Alben W. Bark-
ley, asked for confirmation without
the usual committee hearing.
The former senator, Supreme
Court Justice, and war mobilization
director succeeds Edward R. Stetti-
nius Jr., who resigned as Secretary of
State to become the U. S. delegate to
the United Nations security council.
Republican leader Wallace H.
White Jr., endorsed Barkley’s request
for unanimous approval of the nomi-
nation without hearings. He said
Byrnes comes here now after a rec-
ord of public service that leaves no
doubt in the minds of anyone as to
his superb qualities.
Barkley, in asking for immediate
confirmation, pointed out that “we’re
without a Secretary of State.”
Procedure for confirming a presi-
dential nomination normally includes
a review by a Senate committee be-
for presentation to the Senate.
AUSTIN.—Education is still fifty
years or more behind the times com-
pared with other lines of human in-
terest, Dr. Frederick Elby told a
conference of junior college instruc-
tors here Wednesday.
Dr. Elby, University of Texas edu-
cation professor, challenged junior
college instructors and administra-
tors to reorganize for more efficiency
and for more economic use of funds.
“Our institutions are in the hands
of men who have little vision, and
not 10 percent of the execuives have
studied educational philosophy and
science,” he said.
Dr. Elby suggested a reorganiza-
tion of the school systems which
would make for more efficiency and
more economic utilization of funds,
as follows:
(1) . Kindergartens should
up for children from 4 to 6.
(2) . Six-year elementary
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Alabama, is
Mr. and Mrs.
The response to the fire alarm
Thursday at 12:15 a. m. was one of
the best in Whitewright for a num-
ber of years. Night officers dis-
covered the Kirkpatrick Pharmacy
full of dense smoke and turned in the
alarm. The alarm was sounded un-
usually long because of it being in
the business district. As citizens
learned of the location of the fire,
they dressed and rushed to town, and
soon a large crowd was present.
Luckily the smoke was coming from
a refrigerator motor in the rear of
the store, instead of from a blaze.
Firemen broke open the front door
and when the trouble was located
windows and doors were opened and
the building was soon cleared of
.pmoke. The damage was minor, ac-
cording to Gomer May, manager
the store.
ST. LOUIS. — Claude R. Wickard,
former Secretary of Agriculture, was
sworn in as rural electrification ad-
ministrator Monday in the REA of-
fices.
The oath of office was given by
John W. Asher Jr., chief of the REA
personnel division.
After the brief ceremony, Wickard
read a statement asking for “support
of everyone who wants the Rural
Electrification Administration to
reach its goal of providing electricity
to the 6,000,000 still unserved rural
homes.”
Wickard succeeds Harry Slattery,
who resigned last December.
schools
should be set up, followed by a four-
year intermediate school; and a four-
year college set up, taking the place
of the last two years of high school
and the present junior colleges.
(3) Universities should make ar-
rangements to shift (within the next
twenty years) freshman and sopho-
more
fine themselves to work from
junior year to the master’s level,
junior year to the doctorate level.
SHERMAN.—Jake J. Loy, Gray-
son County Judge since 1932 and a
member of the Texas Legislature
from 1926 to 1932, died Wednesday
at a Sherman hospital where he had
been a patient since June 25. Death
was attributed to a heart attack and
pneumonia. Judge Loy was a vet-
eran political leader and civic work-
er and was well known over North
Texas as the county’s chief booster.
Funeral services will be held at 10
a. m. Friday in the Waples Memorial
Church in Denison, with,the Rev. Ed
Barcus, pastor of the Travis Street
Methodist Church, Sherman, officiat-
ing, assisted by Dr. J. A. Ellis, pas-
tor of the First Baptist Church, Sher-
man. Burial will be in Fairview
Cemetery, Denison.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Mrs. Ida Calvert Ewing of Austin,
whom he married May 27, 1927, at
Georgetown, Texas; one brother, Joe
Loy of Bonham; five sisters, Mrs. H.
T. Hoskins, Denison; Mrs. Della
Estes, Dallas; Mrs. Allie Marks,
Knoxville, Tenn.; Mrs. Carl Fielden,
Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Lillie
Rodgers, Zanesville, Ohio.
Judge Loy was a native of New
Market, Jefferson County, \ Tenn.,
and came to Grayson County in 1909.
He was an employee of the Missouri-
Kansas-Texas Railway, in Denison
and served as a department store
manager in Denison before starting
his career in Grayson County poli-
tics.
Judge Loy was elected to the Tex-
as Legislature in 1926 and since has
achieved national fame as a booster
for good roads, free bridges and gen-
eral improvement in county govern-
ment. He served in the Legislature
from 1926 through 1930 and was the
sponsor of the law for free bridges
and the road bond assumption law.
He became Senator for Grayson
County in 1930 and held that until
his election to the county judgeship
in 1932. As County Judge for thir-
teen years, he rendered outstanding
work in juvenile court matters, gen-
eral county administration and par-
i ticularly in the affairs pertaining to
county highways.
Judge Loy served as president of
the National Association of County
Officials, president of the Texas
County Judges and
Association and on
Civilians Will Now
Have Hard Time
Using Railroads
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Sleeping-
car travel soon will be a thing of the
past for most civilians.
Army plans to take over many-
Pullmans, use them for troop trans-
portation. Railroads will face the
problem of using what’s left for civ-
ilians where they’ll do the most good.
Present plan is to eliminate sleepers
on all night runs up to six hours. For
longer runs some berths will be
available. But traveling public will
learn more and more about sitting up
all night. Army hopes public will do
less traveling.
Office of Defense Transportation
has stepped in with ban on railroads’
selling or allocating passenger space
more than five days ahead of depar-
ture time. Reservations had been
taken 30 days in advance. ODT Di-
rector Johnson said action was to as-
sure maximum use of limited space
‘ available to civilians.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President
Truman Friday told a luncheon club
here that his antidote for going high-
hat was found in the Bible:
“Whenever I am threatened with
going highhat,” he told the Jesters’
Club, “I turn to the gospel of St.
Luke, sixth chapter, twenty-sixth
verse. I recommend it highly to you.
That’s where I go when I’m in dan-
ger.”
The verse which he told members
to go home and look up for them-
selves: “Woe unto you when all men
shall speak well of you! For so did
their fathers to the false prophets.”
Air Transport Command. His broth-
er, Sgt. Buford W. Simmons, also of
the ATC, is stationed on Guam. An-
other brother, S/Sgt. Jefferson P.
Simmons, 'is attending an Air Force
school at Long Beach, Calif.
Sgt. Byron Teague, route four, has
returned home * on a furlough, after
serving several months as a prisoner
of wai’ in Germany. Sergeant Teague
was first reported missing in action,
then later a prisoner. His plane was
shot down over Germany. Sergeant
Teague is a son of Mrs. Maggie L.
Teague.
Facing gigantic mail problems, the
Navy put into effect Monday regu-
lations restricting the mailing of
newspapers and magazines to Navy,
Marine, and Coast Guard personnel
overseas. Post offices will accept
only publications that are requested
in writing by the addressee.
The new plan will release approx-
imately 1500 men from the distribu-
tion and directory service of second
class mail to process letter mail
which has increased 108 percent in
the last year.
Figures from the Fleet Post Office,
San Francisco, reveal that total mail
has risen from 49,719,867 pieces
May 1944, to 100,129,789 pieces
Cpl. Orval Nicely is spending a 30-
' day furlough with his
Nicely, route one.
overseas two years, serving in
Persian Gulf area.
of the 39th Truck Company and will
of report to Camp Shelby, Miss., for re-
assignment. Corporal Nicely served
in Africa before going to the Persian
Gulf area. He visited Palestine and
other interesting places. Corporal
Niceley entered service in November
1942, and this is his first visit home.
Col. Francis J. Wilson, Tulsa Dis-
trict U. S. Engineer, has announced a
set of regulations which will govern
Lake Texoma, effective July 1.
“These regulations have been estab-
lished for safety reasons and are ap-
parent to anyone who has visited
the Denison Dam area,” he said.
The use of firearms on the lake or
federally owned shoreline, except for
shotguns during the duck and goose
hunting season, is prohibited. “This
is the most important regulation,”
Col. Wilson said, “because we have
received numerous complaints from
picnic groups and others that their
lives have been endangered by per-
sons shooting at targets, rabbits and
at random.”
Other regulations are as follows:
Do not damage or remove trees,
shrubs or plants.
Dispose of all burnable refuse in
campfires; bury all non-burnable
garbage, cans, bottes and other trash.
Extinguish all fires before leaving.
The occupation of a camp site on
government property is restricted to
a maximum of two weeks, unless
prior written approval has been ob-
tained from the officer in charge.
Before the following objects can be
placed on or in the water of Lake
Texoma, a permit must be procured
from the officer in charge: Boat,
boathouse, landing, duck blind,
houseboat or mooring.
Fishing from the dam is not per-
mitted.
Parking of automobiles on the dam
is not permitted. '
father,
He has
Four Whitewright residences were
sold to the highest bidders at the
west entrance to the county court-
house Tuesday afternoon to satisfy
judgment for County, State and City
•of Whitewright delinquent taxes. L.
M. Graham bought the May place on
South Bond street, Mrs. John Vestal
bought the A. L. Byers house on
North Blanton, Pascal Farley was
high bidder for the Alice Yates prop-
erty on South Sears, and Dr. C. P.
Johnson acquired the O. Wellington
jhouse in Northwest Whitewright.
Several Whitewright citizens
tended the sale and bidding
spirited.
Capt. W. W. Adcock, who
chaplain in the Army, writes
Sun to change his APO number on
his address. “I am now with the
Third Army near Nurnberg, Ger-
many, and am living in a 200-year-
old castle of the Price of Bavaria,”
he said. Captain Adcock is a former
pastor of the Whitewright Methodist
Church.
the
Commissioners
the advisory
council of the Texas State Employ-
ment Service.
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Whitewright with a total quota
$107,000.00 in the 7th War Loan had
total sales of $136,068.25 Thursday
morning with two more days to go
before the close of the drive. When
Whitewright and communities
reached their quota more than two
weeks ago, it was predicted the total
sales would exceed the quota by
$10,000.00. The over quota Thurs-
day morning was $29,068.25, which
is a fine showing, especially since no
special campaign was put on during
the drive.
The quota for E bonds was $67,-
000.00 and for other bonds $40,000.00.
E bond sales totaled $68,868.75 and
other bonds $67,200.00, making a
grand total of $136,068.25. Thus
Whitewright maintains her record of
going ovei' the top in every
drive in World War One and
present war.
AUSTIN. — More than 1,000,000
Texans have voting privileges to go
to the polls Aug. 25 for popular ex-
pression on constitutional amend-
ments.
The last Legislature adopted the
amendments which must receive ap-
proval of voters before they can be-
come a part of the state constitution.
More than the usual number of
voters are expected at the polls in.
this “off election year” mainly be-
cause of an amendment which would
permit the state to increase old age
pensions.
Actually the amendment has four
main points:
1. It places a ceiling of $35,000,000
a year on state funds which may be
appropriated for Federal matching
and use for the welfare program of
pensions, aid to dependent children
and aid to needy blind.
2. It increases from $15 to $20 the
amount which the state may allocate
for Federal matching to pay old age
pensions.
3. It abolishes the present $1,500,-
000 a year which the state may ap-
propriate for aid to dependent chil-
dren, raises the eligibility age of chil-
dren from 14 to 16 years and makes
one year’s residence in the state by
the child or the mother ,if the child
is less than a year old conditional to
receiving aid.
4. It removes the ceiling of $15 a
month which the state may grant to
a needy blind person.
Fixing of the amounts is left to the
Legislature. If the amendment is
adopted the 50th session, convening
in 1947, will have the duty of speci-
fying new and increased amounts for
welfare grants.
The present Legislature appro-
priated a total of $28,720,000 for the
three welfare projects. Of this $26,-
400,000 was for pensions, $1,500,000
for dependent children and $820,000
for the blind.
R. W. Burelsmith of Turkey, Tex-
as, has taken a purchase option on
the LaRoe building on lower Main
street and proposes to construct a
frozen food locker plant to serve the
Whitewright territory. Mr. Burel-
smith and his wife and three boys,
11, 7, arid 3 years old, were here this
week looking the town over and
meeting local people. Anxious to
find a good little town with good
schools and churches, they have se-
lected Whitewright after looking
over numerous available locations.
Mr. Burelsmith, who operated a
locker plant and ice plant at Turkey
for five years and who was in the
ice business there for 10 years prior
to installing a locker plant, intends to
start construction of a locker plant
here as soon as 60 percentt of the 400
lockers are contracted for. He has
already contacted WPB and a locker
manufacturer, and said he would
have the plant in operation within 90
days from the date permit is granted.
The LaRoe building is an ideal lo-
cation for a locker plant, Mr. Burel-
smith said, and the fact that no
building will have to be constructed
will make it possible to have the
plant in operation next. fall. He ex-
pects to invest about $25,000 in the?
plant.
Some months ago a movement to
install lockers by a local grocer re-
sulted in the signing up of a suffi-
cient number of customers to obtain
the plant, but the idea was finally
abandoned because of lack of space
in the building for processing and
cooling rooms.
Persons who signed up for lockers
at that time will be contacted within
a few days, and it is hoped they will
transfer their contracts to Mr. Burel-
smith.
v-
For probably the first time in his-
tory, two sets of brothers were in-
stalled Monday night as officers of
Whitewright Lodge No. 167, A. F. &
A. M. E. M. Badgett was installed as
worshipful master, and his brother,
.Arthur J. Badgett, was installed as
junior warden. Harry Farrow was
installed as senior warden, and his
brother, W. T. Farrow, as senior
deacon.
Other officers installed were W. H.
Stedham, treasurer; R. R. Summers,
secretary; Othele Mahan, junior dea-
con; Lewis C. Cooper, senior stew-
ard; Jess Blakey, junior steward;
Paul Cook, tiler, and Rev. E. P.
Wootten, chaplain.
Committees to serve
Masonic year are:
Finance committee: Emory Chris-
tian, chairman; B..W. Newman, and
O. L. Jones.
Sick committee: E. M. Badgett,
chairman; B. W. Newman, and Paul
Stephens.
Membership and attendance com-
mittee: E. M. Badgett, chairman; R.
R. Summers, Paul Cook, Emory
Christian, and Harry Farrow.
Building committee: E. M. Badgett,
chairman; Paul Stephens, and Dr. C.
P, „ Johnson.
Sgt. Samuel D. Phillips, who re-
cently returned from the European
front, where he spent four months,
and Sgt. Robert O. Phillips, who is
stationed at Camp Howze, are visit-
ing their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Phillips. At the conclusion of his
furlough Sergeant Samuel Phillips
will report to Fort Sam Houston for
reassignment.
WASHINGTON. — The Commerce
Department made a glowing report
Wednesday on economic opportuni-
ties in the South after the war and
advised Southerners to concentrate
on developing small businesses.
“There is not a village or hamlet in
the entire South too small for a small
processing plant, provided the raw
materials are there and markets are
near by,” it said.
The department cited these points
concerning the South’s future: The
South is an area with., abundant raw
materials; it has ample manpower;
the war has greatly stepped up its
management know how; skills,
plants and equipment.
The thirteen states covered up the
statistics include Louisiana, Texas,
Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Dairy feed subsidy payments are
now being made at the AAA office in
Sherman for months of April, Mal-
and June.
Payment rates for the month
April are as follows:
Butter fat, 17c per pound.
Whole milk, 70c per 100 pounds.
Payment rates for the months
May and June:
Butter fat, 10c per pound.
Whole milk, 35c per 100 pounds.
Producers can either bring or mail
in their applications. If they are
mailed in, the applications will be
returned to the producer for his sig-
nature who will in turn, after sign-
ing it, return it to the county office.
A draft will be mailed to the pro-
ducer just as soon as it is possible to
make them up and mail them out.
In all cases the producers must, on
the sales slip, show the date of the
sale, the name of the purchaser and
the amount. In cases where these
slips are mailed to the county office
the producer must remember to
show his correct name and address.—
W. W. Gunn.
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