The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1951 Page: 2 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 23 x 16 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
■
I
z
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, March 8, 1951..
In all,
LOCAL NEWS
NEW SKIRT STYLE
the
that doorknob look.”
•■I
looks
Friday Literary Club
clean
PERFECT POSTURE SHOE STORE
7
AMERICA'S
salaries in
THUNDERING HERD!
4
cooks
'-t-
clean
k
. I
I ■
'//
&
IS
/j
clean
I
4.
HORSES
MILLSONS OF HARNESSED
automatic
America is Strong . . . It's Electrified!
gas range
COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY
I
: . «r
watt Power is all
great rearmament
set NOW for our
effort.
No wonder the production power of
the United States is the envy of the
world! Thanks to the businessmen who
rim America's electric industry, our
country has millions of horsepower
harnessed to the plants and factories
of the nation.
HEALTH SPOT SHOES
210 South Travis St. Sherman, Texas
Cox Thursday.
Mrs. Lucille Conner and children
of Arlington spent last week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dellin-
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hudgins spent
Sunday at the bedside of Mrs. J. H.
Hudgins at Madonna Hospital, Deni-
son.
377.03; two, $130,209.97; three
306.50; and four, $45,744.52.
man.
“Shorter skirts are fine,” she said,
Only last year, ELECTRIC COM-
PANIES ACROSS THE LAND ADDED
POWER EQUAL TO THE WORK OF
150 MILLION MEN! Yes, Reddy Kilo-
is
Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bryant Jr. of
Sweetwater spent the weekend here.
Lloyd Wright of Little Rock, Ark.,
was a weekend visitor here.
revenue to
to $2,818.89,
; allowed the
LONE STAR GAS COMPANY
Mrs. W. R. Lanthrip of Ackerman,
Miss., has concluded a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Carl Moses.
Charlie and Bill Cox of Bonham
visited in the home of Mrs. W. M.
J
!
I
li
J
44
/T
-r
We have 5 TIMES THE ELECTRIC
POWER OF RUSSIA, and 100 TIMES
THE ELECTRIC POWER OF CHINA!
Private enterprise has DOUBLED THE
AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY IN THE
PAST TEN YEARS . . . AND KEPT
THE COST LOW!
Yes, the electric industry is READY!
Jes One Question
“Niggah, befo’ Ah rolls up mah
total tax rate 90 bents on each $100
valuation.
Your kitchen is lighter, brighter,
cleaner the minute you put in a new
Gas range. Stays bright and clean,
too! Today...see the beautful new—
questions to ask?”
“Jes’ one, jes one, big boy. Is you-
1 all leaving any wife and chillun?”
J
Bryant Penn of Overton spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Emmet
Penn.
1
the road and
bridge fund as follows: Precinct one,
and two, $63,240 each; precinct
four,
Mrs. E. G. Gilley of Ector visited
her mother, Mrs. J. F. Spindle, Fri-
day and attended the funeral of a
cousin, Mr. Cunningham, at McKin-
ney.
Rev. and Mrs. James L. Cooper
and Mrs. Edgar Ayers attended a
Baptist convention in Greenville Fri-
day.
County Expenses
Last Year Show Big
Drop From 1949
Miss Janis Horton of Sherman
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Cloy Horton.
Miss Norma Smith of Detroit spent
the weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Smith.
Mrs. Johnny Hynds and daughter
of Van Alstyne visited her mother,
Mrs.' Marion Felker, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Simpson are in
Waco visiting Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Simpson.
Mrs. Boyd Newman and daughter
of Sherman spent Friday in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Newman.
HOLLYWOOD. — Film beauties
greeted with mingled cheers and
jeers today a fashion note that skirts
are going higher this year.
________ ________ ______ ___ “Everybody knows girls have legs
fund, three cents; road and bridge - so why keep it a secret?” said blonde
fund, 40 cents; permanent improve-, Marilyn Maxwell. , “You. wouldn’t
ment fund, one cent; road and bridge -------
refunding bonds, 1947 series, two * J”“ 1 1 ”
cents; road refunding bonds, 1934
series, one cent; good road refunding
bonds, 1927 series, two cents, com-
bined county courthouse and jail
funding bonds, 1936, three
bonds, 1948 series, 10
Foods don’t stick, boil over
or scorch because new Gas
burners give you accurately
measured heat. You get doz-
ens of heats to cook with ...
No matter how you cook, no
matter what you cook on ...
steam and grease-laden va-
pors come from foods being
cooked. To control them is
the secret of a clean kitchen!
9
All exterior surfaces of new Gas ranges are
coated with gleaming white porcelain that is
smooth as glass. No pores, no cracks or pits
to catch dirt and grease. Cleans with a damp
cloth. Plate-size burner grids, burner bowlsr
and burners lift out for easy dishpan sudsing.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hansard of |
Garland visited relatives here over
the weekend.
Jim Sears of Ropesville is visiting
his mother, Mrs. R. L. Sears.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Muirhead were
Dallas visitors Saturday.
Miss Sallie M. Cherry spent the
weekend in Whitesboro.
John Alverson of New York
visiting his parents, Mr. and
Finis Alverson.
Mrs. Robert Veazey and son of Van
Alstyne visited their grandmother,
Mrs. R. L. Sears, first of the week.
Mrs. Jim Simmons is visiting in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Riley at Whitesboro.
John Paul Stephens underwent
an appendectomy at a Sherman hos-
pital last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cook Jr. and
Mr. and Mrs. John Biggerstaff were
Dallas visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl May visited Mr.
andxMrs. Frank Powell at Durant,
QkA’a., Sunday.
Mrs. John Livingston is visiting
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Pete Landolt, at Silsbee.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dillinger and
children spent Sunday in Arlington
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Muri Ryon and
daughter of McKinney were Sunday
guests in the home of his mother,
Mrs. Leia Ryon.
ger.
Mrs. Mary Reeves returned Sun-
day from a six weeks visit in Dallas
with her daughter,. Mrs. J. R. Riddle,
and Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Reeves.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Gordon were
Greenville visitors Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Spindle of Den-
ison. were weekend guests in the
homes of Mrs. J. F. Spindle and
Misses Myrtle and May Badgett.
Mr. and Mrs. Houston Garner and
son of Mt. Grove Spent Sunday with
her parents, Mr. arid Mrs. Homer
Sanderson.
Mrs. W. C. Johnson of Dallas spent
the first of the week with her sisters,
Mrs. Olive Myrick and Mrs. Adah
Gillespie.
of Sherman.
The club will meet on March 16 in
the home of Mrs. J. W. Wilson.
a
Seaman 2nd Class Wesley Ray
Dillinger of the Navy is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dillin-
ger.
I
I
© rk \ Xir\
; a tent over a beautiful tree to
hide the branches.”
Agreeing with her were Jane Rus-
sell and Ruth Roman.
“I’m bucking for the dimpled knee
to replace the well-turned ankle ev-
cents" ' erybody talks about,” said Miss Ro-
*road bonds, 1948 series, 10 cents; i
right-of-way warrants, three cents;! . ,
total tax rate 90 bents on each $100 ^ust so they cover the knee to avoid
:r~r/. /
j k i y
1
j
.j
7
not just 5 or 7. Even choco-
late and butter can be melted
without scorching . . . with-
out a double boiler!
’’’A
The Friday Literary Club met at
the home of Mrs. B. W. Newman Fri-
day at 3 p. m. for their Texas Day
program. The home was beautfully
decorated with snapdragons and
hyacinths.
Miss Gladys Ray, president, pre-
sided during the business session. A
cash donation was made to the Meth-
odist Church at Bells and to the Red
Cross.
Roll Call was answered with cur-
rent events. Mrs. R. R. Summers,
leader, presented the following pro-
gram on Best Books By Texans:
Texas Authors of Fiction, Mrs.
the year, Robert E. Lee in Texas, by| are allowed. Grayson receipts went
Carl Coke I . , . " \ , .1
Carrie Hamilton; poem, “I’m Going ' and all the rest to
A small boy’s head bobbed up over
the garden wall and a meek little
voice said, “Please, Mrs. Black, may sleeves and sails into yo,’ any last
I have my arrow?”
“Certainly, where is it?”
“I think it’s stuck in your cat.”
With covered'saucepans and
precisely controlled Gas
flame, steam and grease-
laden vapors stay in the pan.
No escaping to settle on cur-
tains, walls and ceiling!
*7
$33,728.
Automobile sales tax
to 22 ■ the county amounted
members and two guests, Mrs. Boyd ' which is the two percent
Newman and little daughter Nancy ! county on the one percent sales tax
collected on the purchase price of
each motor vehicle which has
changed hands during the year.
Salaries for officials required $37,-
470 and salaries for their assistants
and deputies and clerks required
$84,855.08. Biggest item in the mis-
cellaneous account from the salary
fund was $11,496.15 spent for sta-
tionery, and office supplies. The to-
tal spent for salaries in 1949 was
$121,762.31.
The county attorney’s office
showed receipts of $17,765.28 and
disbursements of $17,765.28.
Office Fees
The county clerk earned $34,-
391.03, a jump of $1,105.47 over 1949
earnings. Of the amount taken in
last year, $17,758.30 was for record-
ing.
Fees paid to the county judge’s of-
fice amounted to $3,217.36 with dis-
bursements amounting to $7,234.72.
The district clerk collected $7,961,700
in fees, and his office spent $9,864.13.
The tax office led in fee collec-
tions, earning $65,632.59 during the
year and costing the county $43,-
840.55.
The sheriff’s office showed re-
ceipts of $9,629.60 and disbursements
of $36,352.39. Salaries for deputies
in this office totaled $20,191.60.
The precinct commissioners spent
$369,637.92 during the year com-
pared to expenditures of $221,382.29
in 1949. Last year’s expenditures
were divided: Precinct one, $105,-
s88- ! KNOB-KNEED GALS
<5uo.au; ano rour, $<±0, /‘iH.az. m all, [ r>>T
except precinct two, the major part ■ MAY NOT ENJOY
of the expenditure was for salaries.
Material and supplies expense topped
salary expense in precinct two.
Tax Levy
Fines brought $15,176.64 into
county road and bridge fund.
The tax levy for the year provided
for: General fund, 23 cents; jury
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Smith and
son of Wills Point and Wayne Cog-
gins of Dallas were weekend guests
in the home of their mother, Mrs. J.
E. Coggins.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Shanholtz and
daughter of McKinney were guests
Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Flem-
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hemphill and
son Robert of Dallas were weekend
guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Johnson.
Robert Ball, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. W. Ball, route 4, underwent sur-
gery at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sher-
man, recently.
Citation No. 3981
The State of Texas.
To the Sheriff or any Constable
within the State of Texas, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded, by
making publication hereof in some
newspaper published in Grayson
County, Texas,: for at least ten (10)
days before the return day hereof,
exclusive of the day of publication,
to notify and cite all persons inter-
ested in the estate of Roy Coffman,
Minor, that S. W. Skipworth, the
Guardian of said estate, did on the
28th day of February, 1951, file in
the County Court of Grayson Coun-
ty, Texas, his account for final set-
tlement of said estate which is duly
pending in said court, and numbered
3981 upon the docket of said Court,
And prays for the approval there-
of, and that said account for final set-
tlement will be heard by said Court,
on Monday, the 19th day of March,
1951, in the courtroom of said Coun-
ty Court, at the courthouse of said
County in Sherman at 10 o’clock a.
m. on said day, at which time the
said account for final settlement will
be acted upon by said Court,
And you will, by so publishing a
copy hereof, notify and cite all per-
sons interested in the estate of said
Roy Coffman, Minor, to appear in
said Court at said time and place,
and contest the said account for final
settlement and the approval thereof
should they desire to do so, and, by
so publishing said copy hereof, all
such persons shall be duly cited and
notified upon said account for final
settlement.
Herein Fail Not, but have you be-
fore said Court on return>day hereof
this writ with your return thereon
showing how you have executed the
same.
Witness J. C. Buchanan, Clerk of
the County Court of Grayson Coun-
ty, Texas.
Given under my hand and the seal
of said Court at my office in the City
of Sherman, Grayson County, Texas,
on this the 28th day of February,
1951. ,
J. C. Buchanan, Clerk of the Coun-
ty Court of Grayson County, Texas.
By Marguerite Berry, Deputy. / It
SHERMAN. — Grayson County
government expense during 1950 to-
taled $795,784.22, a drop of $304,-
846.65 from the year before, accord-
ing to a report of County Auditor
Weldon Williams, made Saturday to
Grayson County Commissioners and
judges of the district courts.
A large, portion of the drdp in .dis-
bursements during 1950 was due to
the difference in total funds spent
on Highway 75 right-of-way. In
1949, a total of $133,554.74 was spent
and in 1950 only $13,661.81.
Receipts for. 1950 from all funds
totaled $795,414.92, with transfers
bringing the total available to $1,-
385,801.76. The county closed the
year with a balance of $590,017.54,
with $149,630.23 of the amount in the
operating fund.
The 1950 expenditures were: For
operating, $680,409.82, to pay indebt-
edness interest and sinking funds,
$101,712.56 and for permanent im-
provements and miscellaneous ex-
penses, $13,661.84.
Taxable valuation for 1950 totaled
$50,916,420, a drop of $233,515 from
the 1949 valuation, which was $51,-
149,935.
Taxes levied totaled $458,247.78
under the 90-cent rate. Taxes col-
lected through the year totaled 438,-
077.81, slightly more than 95 percent
being paid before delinquent date.
Bonded indebtedness on December
31, amounted to $2,528,000. Sinking
fund cash on hand amounted to
$278,997.85. The state participates in
payment of road improvements
bonds, amounts varying from 20 to
70 percent of the debt.
Maximum on Mptot Fees
County receipts from 1950 automo-
bile registration fees amounted to the
Maurice Davis; non-fiction book of $175,000 maximum which counties
i d VLX L X_J • XXX X. Cl O kJ , CIX C ClX-Ld W Cd • v_TX Cl j bull X CL CljJ vO W CXX L
Rister, reviewed by Miss ■ for county engineers’ salary, $36,000,
1____7 -77 ____X X- IL. _____3 ____3
Down to Texas,” by Charles Evans,
Mrs. Olivia Whedbee; ’song, “Texas,
Our Texas,” Mrs. B. W. Newman and three, $50,592, and precinct
Mrs. Clarence McMillin.
Refreshments, carrying out the St.
Patrick motif, were served
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1951, newspaper, March 8, 1951; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1332554/m1/2/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.