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VOLUME 61, NUMBER 32.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1946.
5c A COPY, $1.50 A YEAR
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FLOYD EVERHEART
M. E. WINBURN
H. B. McMahan of Trenton has as-
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Floyd Everheart,
Former Sheriff,
Died Here Sunday
New Katy Agent
Comes From Trenton Found in Dry Well
Hog Prices Reach
All-Time High On
Fort Worth Market
Grafton Montgomery
Clings All Night
To Overturned Boat
Want a Big Price
For Your Old Car?
Sell It in Mexico
BOYCE HOUSE
HITS SALES TAX
FIRST BALE IN
LOUISIANA BRINGS
$8.99 A POUND
CANNED FOODS
PRICES RAISED
Louisiana Corn Yield
High, That’s the Trouble
COMPOUND DEADLY
TO CROPS EVOLVED
BONHAM FAIR SEEKS
GAINESVILLE CIRCUS
FIRST BALE AT WACO
NETS 45.5c A POUND
size
cost
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The services were held
ALL GOT STACKED
BUT THE HAY
HORSEMEAT WITH
GRAVY SHIPPED
TO GERMAN CITY
in
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FORT WORTH. — Hog prices
reached a new all-time high on the
Fort Worth market Monday as a load
of 23 choice hogs sold for $25 per
$114,985,547 CASH IN
STATE FUNDS JULY 31
1950’S SHIPS TO BE
DRIVEN BY ATOM POWER
Ex-Students Of
Grayson College
Will Meet Aug. 25
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Funeral services were held at 3 p.
m. Monday for E. F. Everheart, for-
American Legion
Elects Officers To
With Lone Star Gas Be Installed Oct. 1
M. E. Winburn, district manager of
the Lone Star Gas Company, retired
of | August 1, after twenty years service
NEW ORLEANS.—The first bale of
the Louisiana crop was auctioned off
at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange
after the close of regular trading
Tuesday, for $4,495. Bidding started
at 35 cents a pound and the bale fi-
nally was knocked down to Thomas
Jordan, New Orleans broker, at $8.99
a pound—or $4,495 for the 500-
pound bale. Farland de Jean of Ope-
lousas, shipper, sent the bale here.
AUSTIN.—Total cash in all state
funds at the end of July was re-
ported Tuesday at $114,985,547 by
State Treasurer James.
The general revenue fund, gener-
ally considered the barometer of state
finances, showed a drop from the
previous month’s $35,037,136 to $31,-
477,239 on July 31.
The treasury report showed $11,-
374,282 in the unallocated clearance
was • 4 placed | fund, an increase from the previous
\ aboard last week in Galveston-. I month’s $8,811,212.
At the regular meeting Tuesday
night of Preston Everheart Post No.
225, American Legion, officers were
elected as follows:
Thomas Sears, post commander;
Earl Blanton, vice-commander; El-
bert Bennett, adjutant; Griffin Doi-
larhide, service officer; B. W. New-
man, chaplain; Cloy Horton, histo-
rian and publicity officer, and Billy
Roberts, sergeant-at-arms.
The new officers will be installed
at public ceremonies to be held about
Oct. 1 at the High School gymnasium.
To Give Away Car
The post voted to give away a new
Ford sedan the last week in Novem-
ber in connection with the current
campaign for funds to build a home
for the post at the Legion Park. Den-
ison Auto Company has promised de-
livery of the car for that purpose.
The post also voted to add to its
name the name of the first White-
wright service man killed in action in
World War II.
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WASHINGTON. — Uncle Sam’s
Army will be the boys in blue again
in a couple of years or so.
Winter uniforms of that color to be
worn off the post have been author-
ized for 1948. The Army still is mull-
ing over details such as (a) the
shade, (b) shall the coats be dark and
the pants light, or (c) both of one
color.
A cape with a bright lining and an
overcoat in the new color also are
proposed. The colors of accessories
are another problem.
It may be later than 1948 before
the new dress is available. The Army
said it is not going to compete for
materials needed now for civilians.
Meanwhile, some of the. boys will
wear sample uniforms here and there
testing styles and the like.
The Army also is considering giv-
ing the WACs a livelier green uni-
form to be worn with russet things,
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
of Commerce Wallace said Saturday
the nation already is bound on a
“boom and bust” economic ride and
present-day full employment can’t
last long.
He conceded that the postwar goal
outlined in his book “Sixty Million
Jobs” is now achieved numerically,
but he said it is due to inflationary
pressure and has none of the stability
he advocated for an enduring pros-
perity.
Wallace told a reporter that the
United States is well along the infla-
tionary road it traveled after the
First World War though he felt sure
that careful planning can cushion the
shock he feels is coming.
“I feel that the bust following the
boom will not be as bad as some
economists think,” the former vice
president declared.
This is what Wallace sees ahead:
1. A temporary “boom of consid-
erable proportions, lasting maybe a
year or even two years,” with stead-
ily rising employment, prices, inven-
tories and plant investment.
2. An inevitable “bust” or read-
justment, with declining employ-
ment, production and purchasing
power.
3. A period of the kind “some peo-
ple like to think of as normal,” but
with purchasing power and demand
for goods weaker than he thinks they 100.
should be and prices, “favoring the —
stronger, more favorably-situated in-
dustries.”
It is when the nation enters this
third stage, Wallace said, that the is-
sue of full employment will become
most vital in order to. keep money in
consumers’ pockets and business fi-
nanced without “depending on a
high volume of deficit spending by
the government.”
CHICAGO, Ill. — Organic com-
pounds so lethal that one-tenth of a
pound could ruin an acre of crops
were tested at the University of Chi-
cago for possible use against any
enemies resorting to biological war-
fare, the university disclosed Tues-
day.
The Botanical Gazette, published
by the university, said the crop and
weed destructive properties of many
Discard old rags, rugs and papers.
They are fire hazards.
WASHINGTON. — Prices house-
wives pay for canned corn, peas, to-
matoes and tomato products were
ordered up 1c to 2c a can Wednesday
to make up for subsidies which have mer sheriff of Grayson County, who
— —„— I died at his home in Whitewright at j sumed his duties as station agent for
OPA made the increases effective .7:30 a. m. Sunday following a long'tz-,
illness. The services were held at
the Methodist Church, conducted by
Rev. R. L. Gilpin, pastor, assisted by
Rev. Duke R. Barron, former pastor,
of Honey Grove.
Pallbearers were J. P. Everheart,
Joe Durning and Erwin Johnson of
Sherman, Kay Kimbell of Fort Worth
and C. B. Bryant Jr. and Gomer May
Burial was at Oak
directed by Glen
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HOUSTON. — Thirty thousand
cases of canned horse meat today was
aboard the Steamship Alfred E.
Smith which' is destined for Bremer-
haven, Germany.
The ship’s manifest read:
“30,792 cases of canned
meat with gravy.” The vessel was
also loaded with flour, fertilizer and
asphalt. The cargo
On The Sun honor roll this week is
the name of J. W. McMurry, one of
The Sun’s oldest subscribers. When
he renewed his subscription Friday,
he asked this writer if he knew how
long he had been a subscriber to The
Sun. We had to tell him we did not
know, but we knew he had been on
the list 34 years. He said he had
been on the list ever since The sun
was established and that he was a
subscriber to The Plow and Hammer,
which The Sun succeeded. So, Mr.
McMurry has more than fifty years
to his credit as a subscriber to The
Sun. He had several nice things to
say about The Sun and said he would
not do without it. He is the kind of
subscriber that it appreciated by all
newspaper men.
The Sun has a number of sub-
scribers who have been on the sub-
scription list since the first issue was
published. We wish we
names of all of them.
The following names
added to The Sun
week:
Dr. Ross R. May
Cadet Davis Parrish.
W. C. Brown Sr.
Ralph Kaiser
M. T. Craig
Mrs. M. Greenway
W. G. Kaiser .
John J. Kaiser
W. L. Jenkins
M. A. Pierson
P. L. Feagans
J. W. McMurry
W. A. Blanton
H. B. McMahan
Robert Dean
the Katy Railroad here, but has not
yet moved to Whitewright. He wants
to rent a house to live in with his
wife and three children, and until he
can obtain a house he will continue
to live in Trenton. He succeeded C.
I. Witt, who resigned about a month
ago. The Trenton Tribune had this
to say about Mr. McMahan in last
week’s issue:
“H. B. McMahan, who has served as
station agent for the Katy at Trenton
since March 1943, is being trans-
ferred to Whitewright where he will
serve in a similar capacity. Trenton
never had a better or more accom-
modating agent than Mr. McMahan
and his numerous friends and the
family’s friends here will regret to
see him leave us. Because of hous-
ing conditions he will go back and
forth to his work in Whitewright un-
til he can find a house in which to
live here.”
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The hogs, sold by Raymond E.
Austin of Trackerville, Okla., were
handled by Nored-Hutchens Com-
mission Co. and went to an order
buyer for the Haley Packing Co. of
Lufkin. They averaged 201 pounds.
This tops a high of $24.50 paid last
week and is well above the World
War I high which was set in April
1918, when hogs sold for 23.50.
MEXOCO CITY.—American tour-
ists have a sweet racket in Mexico
City, though it’s a one-shot affair.
Here is the way it works:
An American drives a used car for
which he paid $800 in the States in-
to Mexico City. He sells it here for
anywhere from $1,500 up.
The buyer reimburses the seller for
the amount of the bond which he has
been required to sign and post at the
border guaranteeing that he will not
sell his car in Mexico.
The Mexico City buyer turns
around and sells the automobile for
$3,000 or more, for export to Spain.
Everybody is happy but the new
car dealers.
As for the American, he has to pay
a couple of hundred dolalrs to fly
back home but at that he’s still way
ahead of the deal.
have been
honor roll this
Egg Placed on Pavement Fails to Fry Winburn Retires
So It Wasn’t Hot Here on Wednesday After 20 Years
BONHAM. — Negotiations are un-
der way to secure the Gainesville
Circus for the first two nights of a
five-day fair to be given here, Oct.
1 to 5. The remaining three nights
will be set apart for the rodeo. Both
attractions will be staged in the
arena of the rodeo grounds.
Boyce House, Fort Worth candi-
date for lieutenant governor, Monday
declared that the issue in the runoff
campaign is the sales tax, and added,
“I am against it.”
House pointed out that the three
candidates eliminated in the first pri-
mary received 300,000 votes. ‘Trudg-
ing from the phone calls and letters
from all parts of the State, the bulk
of this vote will be cast for me,” he
declared.
“I wish to thank the 340,000 who
cast their ballots for me and to ex-
press my gratitude to the host of
friends who matched their loyalty
and hard work against the might of
the money of my multi-millionaire
opponent,” he said.
“Merchants and businessmen in
general are against the sales tax; so
are the housewives, farmers, indus-
trial and office workers—in short,
the mass of the people, on whom the
burden would press so heavily.”
BIKINI.—Ships will be driven by
atomic power plants in the 1950’s and
airplanes “much later,” Vice Adm.
W. H. P. Blandy, commander of Joint
Task Force One, predicted today.
He promised in a prepared state-
ment that the Navy “intends to press
development of these plants with all
possible vigor.”
Blandy said it was too early to
draw “final conclusions” from the
two tests conducted during Opera-
tions Crossroads. But he left no
doubt that the atomic bomb had
proved a fearful weapon against
naval formations.
The secretary of the Ex-Students
Association of old Grayson College is
receiving letters from former stu-
dents stating that they will be pres-
ent at the 8th annual reunion to be
held Sunday, August 25. From indi-
cations the attendance will be larger
this year than any year since the or-
ganization was formed.
The program for the reunion will
be announced soon. The feature of
the reunion will be the luncheon
.served in the high school gym. Well
filled baskets are brought by those
attending and spread on long tables.
When all the food is put together it
makes a feast fit for kings.
GREELEY, Colo. — The Andolsek
family’s troubles began Friday when
Ed Andolsek ran a haystacker into a
7,000-volt power line near Greeley
and was pinned to it by the charge.
Louis, his father, ran to his aid and
was severaly burned. A brother,
John, came to their rescue and he,
too, was burned. A brother-in-law,
John Adams, dragged the trio to
safety;
An hour after Ed was taken to the
hospital Mrs. John Andolsek was
taken there for an emergency appen-
dectomy.
All the Andolseks were reported
recovering satisfactorily Saturday.
SHERMAN. — Positive identifica-
tion of a badly decomposed body c.
an aged woman as that of Mrs. N. O.
Kreager, 81-year-old Shermanite
missing for the last eight weeks, was
made Wednesday afternoon by two of
her sons, Willis Kreager of Gaines-
ville and John Kreager of Sherman.
The body of the woman who dis-
appeared June 17 with nearly $9,000
in her possession, was discovered
Wednesday in an old dry well on an
unoccupied farm south of
Field, northwest of Sherman.
Willis Kreager, minister
Gainesville Church of Christ, identi-
fied the body through a missing toe
on the left foot and by fingers
both hands.
County Attorney Olan Van Zandt
requested the aid of the Texas De-
partment of Public Safety at Austin,
which is sending a specialist in crim-
inology to Sherman to work with of-
ficers.
The body was found by two farm-
ers, James C. Neely and Willis D.
Benedict, who reside south of Perrin
Field. They were looking for a miss-
ing cow belonging to Neely.
Indications were the body was sat-
' urated with lime before being thrown
into the well, Sheriff G. P. Gafford
said. A wooden lid to the well rested
on the body and partly obscured it
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Nation Is on Boom
And Bust’ Economic BLUE UNIFORMS
Ride, Wallace Says
Body of Mrs. Kreager
The following newspaper story
from Galveston will be of interest
locally, since Grafton Montgomery is
a native of Whitewright and the son
of the late S. H. Montgomery:
GALVESTON.—Two Houston auto
salesmen who clung to a small over-
turned boat in Galveston Bay for 12
hours owed their lives today to a
fishing party that chanced to toss out
an anchor near them.
All Saturday night Harvey A. Tay-
lor, 45, and Grafton Montgomery, 42,
clung to their boat two miles from
shore, overturned in 12 feet of water.
“We couldn’t have held on much
longer,” said Taylor. “Each had
slipped off several times during the
night. We agreed that the next time
one slipped off the other wouldn’t
try to rescue him. We were so
weak.”
Fred Waddell, a Houston baby
photographer, and his party of five
stopped their cruiser at 6 a. m. Sun-
day a half mile away. Waddell
heard a faint shout and through field
glasses located the overturned boat
which, except for its nose, was below
water.
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The weather isn’t considered hot in
Texas until you can fry an egg on
the street pavement. It hasn’t yet
reached that stage in Whitewright,
for an egg placed on the pavement
on Main street yesterday failed to
cook during the several minutes be-
fore it was run over by an automo-
bile.
However, it has been rather warm
here the'past few days, with ther-
mometers registering a high of 106 in
the shade Tuesday and 105 Wednes-
day. A thermometer placed in the
sunshine downtown yesterday regis-
tered 119.
Sherman reported official ther-
mometer reading of 107 Tuesday,
while Dallas reported 106. Henryet-
ta, in West Texas, reported 113, but
that thermometer must have been
crazy with the heat.
Public water supply is becoming
Grayson County farmers who
placed last year’s cotton crop under
a federal loan have until Oct. 1, 1946,
to pay off the loan and take advan-
tage of present high prices, according
to a reminder coming today from W.
W. Gunn, AAA administrator for
Grayson County. '
Mr. Gunn said that under terms of
the federal agreement, these cotton
loans matured on July 31, but the
farmer who borrowed money on his
crop still has nearly two months to
make the repayment.
All cotton remaining under the
loan on the deadline of Oct. 1 will be
pooled by the Commodity Credit
Corporation and sold on the open
market. Profits from this sale will
then be returned and divided propor-
tionately among the farmers whose
cotton was sold in the pool.
Most of the farmers of the Grayson
County area who placed their cotton
under the loan did so at the borrow-
ing price of about 20 cents per
pound, or slightly higher. Now, by
paying off the loan and selling at
present prices, these farmers will
realize a good profit, he said.
immediately, also raised price ceil-
ings 1c on twelve-ounce packages of
frozerf corn and peas.
At the same time, the agency
knocked out price controls on frozen
and canned snap beans packed be-
fore last March 1. Price ceilings on
snap beans packed since that time
were suspended several weeks ago.
The price increases on canned and
frozen vegetables meet terms of the
new price control act. The law re-
quires that when subsidies are can-
celed, retail ceilings must be
•creased commensurately.
As a result, OPA said, No. 2
cans of peas and tomatoes will
2c more, while corn and tomato juice
go up lc.
Increases of lc also were author-
ized for fourteen-ounce bottles of
•catsup, and six-ounce cans of tomato
paste.
In other actions Wednesday OPA:
Authorized retail price increases of
2c to 3c for cotton flannel work
shirts, effective Aug. 12.
Announced increases of 13per-
cent in wholesale and retail ceilings
on oilcloth and 5 percent on vege-
table and fruit insecticide sprays.
These increases also are effective
Aug. 12.
Approved higher ceilings for sev-
eral industrial items, including cer-
tain types of aluminum wire and
cable; radio capacitors, brass screw
machine products, nonferrous bush-
ings and commercial metal furniture.
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HAMMOND, La. — The corn on a
farm near here is so tall the farmer
may lose part of his crop unless he
rounds up enough stepladders to get
to it.
Duncan Robertson reported Mon-
day that his corn is so high “an ordi-
nary six-footer can’t reach the top to
harvest the ears.”
Robertson, sometimes referred to
as the Corn King, has the backing of
weed destructive properties oi many > the State Agriculture Department in
of the 1,100 chemical agents tested! saying, “Such corn as mine can’t be
for possible wartime use held “great! grown anywhere else —not even in
benefits” for peacetime agriculture. | Iowa-.” -i ■ '
of Whitewright.
Hill Cemetery,
Earnheart.
Mr. Everheart was born in the
Canaan community, north of White-
wright, January 7, 1884, where he
grew to manhood. His parents were
the late Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. Ever-
heart, pioneer settlers of the Canaan
community. In 1907 he was married
to Miss Alberta Bryant, daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bry-
ant, also pioneer settlers of the
Canaan community. He attended a
military academy in Nashville, N. C.,
and Grayson College. He was em-
ployed by a mining company in Mex-
ico for several years when a young
man. He was elected sheriff of
Grayson County in 1923 and served
two terms and for several years was
employed by the Railroad Commis-
sion in the East Texas oil fields.
No one had more friends than
Floyd Everheart. He was endowed
with a jovial disposition and made
friends easily. He was always jolly,
even during his long illness.
Survivors are his widow, his step-
mother, Mrs. J. M. Everheart of
Lubbock; two sons, Floyd Everheart
Jr. of Shreveport, La., and David
Everheart of Los Angeles, Calif.; two
daughters, Miss Patty Everheart and
Mrs. R. P. Montgomery, 530 West
Morgan, Denison; four brothers, Tom
Everheart of Lubbock, Thad E. Ever-
heart and Jack E. Everheart, both of
Socoro, N. M., and Eugene Everheart
of Mexico; two sisters, Mrs. A. L. Mc-
Carty and Mrs. Arthur Waggonhorne,
both of Lubbock; and one grandson,
Richard Montgomery of Denison.
The funeral services were attended
by a number of out-of-town relatives
and friends of the family, and the
large floral offering attested to the
high esteem in which Mr. Everheart
was held by his hundreds of friends.
WACO.—C. C. Stewart of Bosque-
ville, Texas, sold McLennan County’s
first cotton bale of the year here
Tuesday to W. N. Junghams of the
J. C. Hann Cotton Company for
45%c a pound.
Stewart also raised last year’s first ’
bale which sold for 25 %c, plus a $275
bonus.
. . Adding machine paper.—The Sun.
serious in parts of North Texas, due
to the extended drouth. Bonham,
which depends upon deep wells for
its water, has had to forbid watering
of lawns due to failure of its wells to
supply enough water. Dallas is in
water trouble, too, due to inability of
filtering plants to handle the volume
necessary to supply the city.
And that’s another good reason for
living in Whitewright where a water
scarcity has never been encountered
since the first deep well went into
production more than 40 years ago.
There has been no rainfall
Whitewright in more than
weeks, and lawns are parched
young shrubbery and young trees are
suffering where not watered regular-
ly. The dry, hot weather is causing
some cotton to open, and if it doesn’t
rain soon immature cotton bolls will
be popping open.
| with the company. On completing
his 20th year of service he was also
given a gold medal by the company.
Among the towns Mr. Winburn
looked after were Whitewright,
Trenton, Leonard and Celeste.
Mr. Winburn has resided in White-
wright most of the time he was em-
ployed by the Lone Star Gas Com-
pany. He came to Whitewright from
Cumby, Hopkins County. Mr. Win-
burn came near electing a governor
of Texas once upon a time. While
residing at Cumby his neighbor, R. R.
Williams, a blacksmith, announced
for governor and was sweeping the
state until he made a speech at a
public gathering in Cumby, which
was attended by, thousands. Mr.
Winburn still contends that if his
neighbor and friend had not made a
speech he would have been elected
governor. He was a candidate
against Gov. Tom Campbell for his
second term.
Mr. Winburn says his twenty years
with the Lone Star Gas Company
were pleasant ones and that no peo-
ple could have been better to him
than have the citizens of White-
wright, where he has resided 18 years
and will continue to make his home.
The successor to Mr. Winburn has
not been announced, but will be soon.
j Deadline On 1945
Cotton Loans Is
Set At October 1
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