The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1948 Page: 1 of 8

                                
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 63, NUMBER 44.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1948.
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Tigers Will Meet
Republican, Take Your Choice
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CHICAGO.—Paul Nelson Jr., who
Appreciation
Buy your Printing from The Sun.
‘Unkindest Cut’
ber 30, 1947.
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Mrs. H. H. Sears
Chairman SGTA
Army Says Draftees
To Be Treated Better
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Photographs Fail
To Convince Sect
Earth Is Round
U.S. FIRE LOSSES
FOR 12 MONTHS
REACH NEW HIGH
$70,000 AWARDED
IN VET’S DEATH
TAX DISCOUNT
DEADLINE NEAR
POLL LISTS AND
BALLOTS BURNED
SELF-STYLED HOBO
BOSS HAS PLATFORM
HE’D LIKE CANARY
BIRD “THAT’D BE SINGING
WHEN I WAKE UP”
WRECK RESULTS
IN $88,550 SUIT
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Former Grayson
College Teacher
Dies Near Denison
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Misleading reports from California
led Charles E. Hughes to believe that
he had been elected president of the
U. S. in 1916.
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one parked by the road-
side, were involved in the accident.
‘Put Up or Shut Up’ on
Johnson, Tyson Says
Republicans Will Give Dewey a Rough
Ride. Should He Reach White House
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Heads County FFA Strong Foe Friday
Sherman Oil Field
Adds Three Wells
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until June 28, the restoration of Louis I—Whitewright Parent-Teacher Asso-
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THOMAS E. DEWEY
SHERMAN. — Damages totalling
$88,550 are sought in three suits filed
Tuesday in Fifty-ninth District
Court against Paul Ellis Jr. and J. E.
Pratt, in connection with a traffic
accident which occurred on June 10
on Perrin Field road.
Plaintiffs in the suits, which ask
personal injury damages, are: David
G. Griffin and wife, asking $26,600;
J. B. Hollensed and wife, asking $31,-
250; Raymond Stephens and wife and
four minor children, asking a total
of $30,700.
Four cars,
J. R. Westbrook, 77, former mem-
ber of the Texas Legislature, former
Grayson County commissioner and a
pioneer college teacher, died at 7:40
p. m. Saturday at his home at Oak
Grove, southwest of Denison, after
16 years of illness. He had been con-
fined to his bed for several years.
Mr. Westbrook was born Jan. 20,
1871, at Spring Garden, Ala. He at-
tended a college at Athens, Tenn.,
where he received his Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1894 and his Master of
Arts degree in 1896.
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the three percent discount on state
tax payments, Robert Dean, Grayson
County tax officer, warned today.
The discount is allowable on state
taxes only, with a two percent de-
duction allowable in November and
a one percent in December, Dean
said.
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While there are other candidates for President and Vice President on
the Nov. 2 election ballot, the voter actually has only two choices: The
Truman-Barkley Democratic nominees and the Dewey-Warren Repub-
lican nominees. One of these tickets will be elected. If you want a
change, vote Republican. If you are satisfied, vote Democratic.
Democrat or
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Imaginary Interview
Russian Fisherman (observing
American creel full of fish)—“Why
do you catch so many when I—just
across the same stream—can’t get
even one bite?”
American—“Well, the fish
side aren’t afraid to open
mouths!”
CORSICANA. — Tom L. Tyson,
secretary of the State Democratic
executive committee, said Monday it
is past time to “put up or shut up” in
talk that Lyndon Johnson is not the
Democratic nominee for U. S. sen-
ator.
“Not until this good hour has any-
one gone into a Texas court to con- |
test that nomination or offer proof of
wrongdoing in the conduct of the
election,” Tyson said in a statewide
radio speech.
It was the first of a series advocat-
ing the Democratic ticket in the gen-
eral election, sponsored by the state
and national Democratic committees.
GATE WIDENED
FOR RESERVISTS
TO WIN BARS
ALBANY, N. Y. — If Governor
Dewey is elected president Nov. 2,
the first great crisis of his adminis-
tration probably will come when
Senator Taft of Ohio thins his lips at
a White House conference and says:
“That’s nonsense.”
Taft can snap that out with the fi-
nality of the Supreme Court saying
“petition denied.”
Most observers believe the honey-
moon between Dewey and Congress
will be short-lived, assuming that the
Republicans control both branches of
the 81st Congress.
This belief is based on some ob-
vious political'facts.
7 First, Congress has come into its
own as a policy-making branch of
the government after years of rub-
ber-stamp status under the Roose-
velt adfninistrations. It is less than
likely what congressional leaders will
submit to anything resembling a
dominant position for the executive
branch of the government.
Second, Dewey has made promises
to the electorate that the extreme
right wing of his party may be un-
willing to redeem.
When you boil all the sweet talk
•out of Dewey’s utterances, you get an
^uptown version of the New Deal.
Dewtey is methodical. He believes
in planning. The hard-shell Repub-
lican members of Congress have been
raging against “government plan-
ners” ever since the first New Deal
co-ordinator showed up on Capitol
Hill with a briefcase and a chart.
Dewey proposes to add a new de-
partment to the government to han-
dle all social services under one roof.
He says his plan for a “department
i of social progress,” with full cabinet
status, would economize and stream-
line the administration of federal
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does not know that doctors have told
his parents he is near death, will be
17 next Wednesday—probably his
last birthday.
“I’d like to get cards—lots of cards
from anybody,” said the youth, who
has been completely paralyzed from
the neck down for 14 months as the
result of an automobile accident.
“And I’d like a canary bird—one
that would be singing when I wake
up.”
The walls in Paul’s room are lined
. with cards, messages and gifts from
sympathizers all over the country.
down for firewood in the city’s
three blockaded western sectors.
A lot of Berliners feel <’
hearted about it. But the loudest
outcry of protest came from the
Communists. “Criminal,” cried Ber-
lin’s Communist press, which tried
to put the blame on the British,
French and- Americans.
in 1894, Mr.
Westbrook taught in Franklin Insti-
two years
later joined the faculty of Grayson
where he
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ZION, Ill. — It is going to take
more than rocket photographs to
convince members of the Zion Chris-
tian Church that the earth is spheri-
cal.
M. J. Mintern, church overseer,
said the earth still appeared flat aft- • -
er he had studied photographs r$ade
from a rocket 57 miles over ’ the
White Sands proving ground. He
added:
“When you have something really
worth while in the way of proof that
the earth is spherical, let me know.”
Members of the sect base their be-
lief that the earth is flat on what
they termed a “literal translation” of
the Old Testament.
Mintern’s .predecessor, the late
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, offered $5,000
to anyone who could prove to his
satisfaction that' the earth was not
flat.
He still had the money when he
died six years ago.
welfare activities. But it also would
have some elements of the “expand-
ing bureaucracy” that is so painful to
all Republicans.
The social security system that
will be administered by this new
cabinet office will be “overhauled”
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NEW YORK. — Fire destruction
throughout the nation increased 4.1
percent during September over the
same month a year ago, according to
the monthly estimates of the Nation-
al Board of Fire Underwriters an-
nounced by W. E. Mallalieu, general
manager. Losses totalled $49,945,000,
as compared to $47,990,000 in Sep-
tember last year.
September’s fire waste brought the
total for the year to date to $536,-
923,000, an increase of 3.6 percent
over losses of $517,982,000 during the
first nine months of 1947. Septem-
ber’s losses represent an increase'of
.8 of one percent over losses of $49,-
543,000 recorded during August 1948.
The total for the past 12 months
was brought to the unprecedented
level of $711,376,000, the greatest
fire destruction ever recorded in the
LINCOLN, Neb. — Bob Benson,
who claims to be the “official” king
of America’s hoboes, offers an eight-
plank platform to other monarchs in
the world.
Benson credits his platform for his
reign as king of the migratory men.
Other rulers, might find their paths
smoothed if they, also, advocated:
1. Four hours work a day.
2. Four days work a week.
3. Three-month vacation.
4. $1 hourly minimum wage.
5. $100 pension for all over 60
years of age.
6. A 10-cent glass of
nickel.
7. Free transportation for the un-
employed.
8. One hundred percent Ameri-
canism.
and his administration will “go for-
ward to extend its coverage and in-
crease its benefits,” Dewey has said.
The 80th Congress did not share in
these aspirations for a bigger and
better social security system.
Again, Dewey is going to “make
the Labor Department equal in ac-
tual cabinet status to commerce and
agriculture.”
This will take a little doing, since
the Republicans have cut the Labor
Department down to the size
minor agency.
The trees which made Berlin fa-
mous for urban beauty are being cut United States in one year,
j------ j;— jjj-------j                     This huge fire loss is $40,686,000
greater than losses of $660,890,000 for
down- the 12-month period ending Septem-
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The Whitewright High School Ti-
gers will meet a strong foe in the
Whitesboro Bearcats Friday night at
8 p. m. on Bryant Field. This game
will mean much in the race for
championship in District 15-B. The
Tigers and Bearcats are fighting for
top place in the conference and the
winner of this game will be in the
lead. Both teams have perfect rec-
ords up to the present in conference
games, neither having lost a confer-
ence game.
The Tigers have played six games,
winning five of them and losing one
by one point. They have stacked up
a score of 152 against their oppon-
ents’ 34, 20 points being made by
Honey Grove, which game the Tigers
lost by a one point margin. The
Whitesboro Bearcats have not been,
scored on but one time this season,
and this wTas by Van Alstyne, which
the Bearcats won by a 7 to 6 score.
A number of Whitewright mer-
chants are sponsoring a page adver-.,^
tisement in this issue of The Sun ad-
vertising the game' Friday night.
More names could have been added
to the advertisement, if the solicitor
had had time to see all the mer-
chants. Not one said no when it was
presented. Whitewright is behind
the Tigers and appreciates the fine
showing they have made and the
sportsmanship they have shown. The
Tigers have received a minimum of
penalties for infractions of the rules
of the game, for which they are to
be commended.
The largest crowd at a football
game in Whitewright in many years
is expected at the* game Friday night.
Whitesboro will be well represented.
Whitewright and section will be well
represented, too.
The Tigers know they have a hard
battle facing them, and they will be
in it from start to finish giving their
best. Be present and lend them your
moral support. They will appreciate
it.
SHERMAN. — For the death of
Leonard Ray Phillips, 23, Sherman
war veteran killed in a New York
subway accident on Oct. 20, 1944, his
estate was awarded damages of $70,-
000 against the City of New York in
a jury verdict returned Tuesday in
the Supreme Court of New York
County.
The suit was brought by Phillips’
mother, Mrs. Myrtle Mitchell of
Denison, formerly of Sherman, as
administratrix of her son’s estate.
Also parties in the action were Phil-
lips’ wife, now Mrs. Ruth Seals, and
his minor son, Marvin Ray Phillips.
Phillips, a native of Kentucky-
town, had been released from mili-
tary service and was en route home
when the accident occurred. News
of the verdict was recevied Wednes-
day by Spearman Webb, associate
counsel with a New York firm of at-
torneys for the plaintiffs.
It is not often a newspaper re-
ceives compliments and words of
commendation. Since this is true,
the publishers of The Sun take pleas-
ure in printing the following “thank
you” card received Tuesday:
“We wish to express our apprecia-
tion for your kindness in helping our
association. We are indeed grateful
from Elba, i to you for all the publicity given us.
“We will press forward in solving
the problems of race relations,”
Dewey says.
This gun is loaded. Dewey estab-
lished the first state fair employment
practice commission and it has been
very effective in opening job oppor-
tunities for Negroes. The New York
law provised for court penalties
against employers who discriminate
in hiring, but persuasion rather than
prosecution has been the method of
gaining acceptance of the law.
“We will remove the fears that are
being spread among our people of a
boom-and-bust cycle,” Dewey prom-
ises.
There are strong men within the
Republican fold who frown upon
any government meddling with the
economic tide.
Dewey and his specialists will have
less than unanimous support from
the Republican right wing when they
set out to “remove the fears” of the
people about a depression.
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19 and 28, who are high
school graduates or the equivalent,
are now eligible for Officers’ Candi-
date School, Col. Oscar B. Abbott of
Austin, senior Organized Reserve in-
structor for Texas, has announced.
Formerly applicants were re-
quired to be at least 20% years old
and to have'had previous military
experience.
Candidates without previous mili-
tary training must take basic train-
ing before attending the school. All
candidates will have a grade of ser-
geant or above while at school.
The course consists of six months
regular training and three months
specialized training in the branch se-
lected. Graduates will be given a
second lieutenants’s commission in
the Reserve Corps and will be re-
quired to serve two years active
duty. Distinguished graduates will
be offered commissions in the regu-
lar Army.
Applicants will be interviewed at
Camp Hood, Fort Sam Houston and
Fort Bliss.
Eligibility requirements for Or-
ganized Reserve officers have been
reduced also, Colonel Abbott stated.
SHERMAN.—Three more oil wells
have been completed in Grayson
County’s rapidly growing field.
All the wells were bottomed at
just better than 4,300 feet in the Rif-
enburg sand.
Completed wells in the field north
of Sherman now totals 27.
The I. C. Bates No. 1 was com-
pleted at a total depth of 4,338 feet
int Rifenburg sand. The well has
been flowing its allowable since
Monday.
The Dr. J. H. Carraway No. 1 was
completed at 4,309 feet in Rifenburg
sand and should be producing by the
first of next week. The casing has
been run and the drilling crew is
waiting on cement.
The third well this week to be
completed is the Rebecca Newman
No. 1. It was bottomed at 4,352 feet
in Rifenburg sand. Standard of
Texas is waiting on cement and the
well should be in production by the
first of next week.
Mrs. H. H. Seears will again serve I
as chairman for the South Grayson'
Tuberculosis Association in White-
wright. This work covers health
■education for the prevention of tu-
berculosis and case findings to be
reported to health authorities, ac-
cording to Mrs. Sears.
Literature will be supplied all
teachers in the schools to be used in
connection with their regular pro-
gram on health education.
association will provide excellent
movies to be shown in the schools
■when tlie new projector is received.
All students were given the patch-
tests last year, so only selected
grades will be tested this year, in-
cluding all new students in both the
white and colored schools. Any stu-
dent showing a positive reaction is
reported to the County Heealth Unit
and a visit made to the parents by
the County . Health Nurse to insure
proper attention. Where the nurse
finds a family financially unable to
have . the necessary X-rays made,
these are paid for by the Tuberculo-
sis Association.
Funds for the work of the Asso-
ciation are secured from the sale of
Christmas Seals and from volunteer
contributions. The seals are sent
through the mail as far as possible,
and for those not receiving them in
this way, Mrs. Sears will arrange to
have the seals on sale in one of the
local stores during the month before
Christmas.
Whitewright 4-H
Girl Wins Trip
Betty Blackerby, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alva Blackerby, route two,
junior in Whitewright High School,
has won another prize in her 4-H
Club work. This time it is a free
ti;ip to the meeting of the National
4-H Club convention to be held in
Chicago November 27-29. She is one
of twelve boys and girls in Texas to
win this honor. They will be accom-
— panied by four sponsors and
Also the leave Fort Worth November 26.
er the convention they will
places of interest in Chicago
nearby places. The trip will
i sume eight days.
ALICE.—Duval County records of
the August 28 Democratic runoff
primary have been burned, it was
learned Wednesday.
Campbell King, chairman of the
county Democratic executive com-
mittee, confirmed the destruction to
W. H. Mason, Alice newspaperman.
The records were subpoenaed
Tuesday by Arthur E. Broer, chief
investigator for a U. S. Senate sub-
committee on elections. Duval is one
of five South Texas counties where
Coke Stevenson has charged election
frauds in his senatorial race with
Lyndon R. Johnson. Johnson was
■pronounced winner of the runoff
I primary by a margin of 87 votes.
60-Day Law
Mason said Broer was told at first
that J. O. Trevino, Duval County
Clerk, was ill and was referred to
King. King informed Broer that the
records, including ballots, poll lists
and tally sheets, had been destroyed.
Texas law provides that records be
kept for 60 days after an election.
There has been some disagreement
among officials as to the actual ex-
piration time of the 60-day period.
Broer went to adjoining Duval
County Tuesday after seizing avail-
able records of the election in Jim
Wells County from county and Dem-
I ocratic officials here. He did not
obtain the poll sheet and tally list of
Precinct No. 13, where Stevenson
charged that about 200 votes fraudu-
lently were added to Johnson’s total.
Stevenson asked for the U. S. Sen-
ate investigation after Johnson had
stopped an earlier federal investiga-
tion by appealing to the United
States Supreme Court.
The following names have
added to The Sun honor roll
week:
Ji. R. Summers
R. E. Barbee
B. C. Reed
F. L. Starr
F. L. Starr Jr.
Mrs. J. F. McSpedden
E. A. Hansard
Lawrence Burden
H. B. Barnett
J. A. Harper
J. Lee Smith
John Manning
S. E. Wallace
Mrs. Jerome Peschke
Virgil Smith
Mrs. Jack Henderson
Miss Dorothy Hamilton
Mrs. I. L. Neathery
D. Blanks
Mrs. Kathryn Roddy
Miss Lillian Neathery
Mrs. Leia C. Hall
Mrs. Walter McDaniel
College at Whitewright
served eight years.
Mr. Westbrook was elected as
Grayson representative in the Legis-
lature in 1920 and served six years.
He was an active supporter of agri-
culture and education movements
while at Austin.
In 1926, he was elected to the
Commissioners Court, representing
Precinct 2, and remained in that of-
fice until January 1933.
It was during his stay at Mt. Ver-
non that he married Miss Willie P.
Devall, who died three years later.
Mr. Westbrook married Margaret A.
Ragsdale, then assistant postmaster
at Whitewright, in 1901. He had
been a member of the Methodist
Church since boyhood. He also was
a member of the Woodmen.
Surviving are five sons, John, Ted
and Leroy Westbrook, Denison;
Frank Westbrook, Sherman, and Bill
Westbrook, Waco; a daughter, Mrs.
Zella Spencer, Denison; and six
grandchildren and two great-grand-
children.
Funeral services were held at the
Bratcher-Moore Chapel, Denison,
Monday at 2:30 p. m., with Dr. H. C.
Henderson, pastor of Waples Memo-
rial Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial was in Fairview Cemetery.
Betty won in the 4-H Club record
contest. She first won in Grayson
County, then in the district contest,
which is composed of seventeen
counties, and then in the state-wide
contest. She was recently an honor
guest at a dinner given in Dallas by
the Texas State Fair.
Harper Wins Honors
Whitewright High School has an-
other student winning honors in boys
4-H Club work. He is Norman Har-
per, eighth grade student. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harper,
route three. He recently won a $30
prize with a flock of 100 chickens
through the Sears-Roebuck Founda-
tion contest. He won top honors in
a fourteen-county contest. He has a
flock of Rhode Island Reds and will
enter the Farm & Home egg laying
contest and the National 4-H Poul-
try Achievement contest.
Whitewright is proud of the rec-
ord these two youngsters are mak-
ing, especially the faculty and stu-
dent body of Whitewright High
School.
A county association of Future
Farmers chapters was organized
Monday night at a meeting of repre-
sentatives of eight chapters at the
Sherman High School.
William Hughes, vocational agri-
culture student at Whitewright, was
chosen president. Tommie Cloud,
Sherman, was elected secretary.
Other officers are: Joe Davidson,
Whitesboro, vice president,' Albert
Harwood Jr., Denison, reporter;
Adolph Jaresh Jr., Gunter, treasur-
er; Bobby Baldwell, Van Alstyne,
historian; Harold Groner, South-
mayd, parliamentarian, and Bobby
Akeys, Tom Bean, sentinel.
The new county association will
sponsor a county livestock show,
county judging contests, a county
basketball tournament of teams com-
posed of chapter members, and will
elect a county sweetheart.
Jack Stephens also represented
the Whitewright F. F. A. chapter at
the meeting.
YORK.—The mothers of America
had top level Army assurance that
youthful draftees will be treated as
/ persons “of individual dignity and
feelings.”
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of
army field forces, sounded this re-
assuring note in a speech Friday
night before the state convention of
the American War Mothers. '
Gen. Devers, a native of York, told
■the mothers that the peacetime army
' is going to be “considerably different
from the army you have heard de-
scribed.” He painted this picture of
■what will happen to young recruits:
1. He will be sent to a post “as
near home as possible.”
2. His instructors will try “to es-
tablish a personal relationship with
the incoming recruit.”
3. He will be explained “the rea-
son for everything he does which is
new to him.”
4.. No matter how or when he ar-
rives, “someone will meet him” and
he will be given “a chance to ask
questions.”
5. “His uniforms are individually
fitted.”
6. The Army will insist “that he
write home.”
Gen. Devers said “American sons
are marching away again, not for the
winning of a war, but for the preser-
vation of the peace.”