The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1954 Page: 4 of 8
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, March 25, 1954!
Bootlegger Praised
Phone 5-2276
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Your Orders Appreciated.
We finish any way you want!
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LOOK FOR THIS TAG
FREE DOOR PRIZES
ON A USED CAR
For First 100 Ladies Coming to the Store Saturday Morning!
CONFIDENCE!
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7 Cu. Ft. Crosley Refrigerator. . . .
$198.50
$259.95
8 Cu. Ft. Crosley Refrigerator. . . .
$349.50
$469.95
$309.95
$419.95
11 Cu. Ft. Servel Gas Refrigerator. . . .
$229.95
$359.95
Magic Chef Gas Range, Fully Automatic. .
$99.50
$149.95
Apex Washing Machine & 1 Case of Tide.
$239.50
$299.50
$169.95
$229.95
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We Need Used Pickups.
We Need Used Cars.
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Drastic Inventory
Reduction
Big Reductions on Other Merchandise!
Easy Terms
Universal Electric Percolator To Be Given
Away at 4 P. M. Saturday, April 3rd. Just
Register—You Don’t Have To Be Present!
SPA Discontinues
Office in Denison
As Economy Move
Ike Insists He Won’t
Want a Second Term
4-Pc. Bedroom Suite, large vanity, chest,
panel bed and vanity bench.........
WALL PAPER ‘DRYING
OUT’ GOT VIOLENT
For Weddings, Birthdays,
Parties, Funerals, Anni-
versaries and all other oc-
casions.
Thornhill Laundry
Phone 5-2917
Pickup and Delivery
Service
• Thoroughly Inspected
• Reconditioned for Safety
• Reconditioned for
Performance
You Are Assured Factory Care
of Your Car at Hasty Chevrolet
Co. We service all makes. Our
mechanics are Factory Trained.
Trade Yours Today—for a New
Chevrolet!
Travel broadens one—but then just
sitting at home in an easy chair does,
too!
as an oak, she still needs some sap to
support her.—Harry Sosnik.
A gentleman farmer is one who has
more hay in the bank than in the
barn.—The Four Lads.
When a mule has it, no one calls it
will power.—Frances Rodman.
The best way to show that a stick
is crooked is not to argue about it, or
spend your time denouncing it, but to
lay a straight stick alongside of it.—
Dwight L. Moody.
The proper function of a govern-
ment is to make it easy for the peo-
ple to do good, and difficult for them
to do evil.—William E. Gladstone.
If we should repeal all the regula-
tory laws on our statute books and
enforce only the Ten Commandments,
in ten years we would become the
most law-abiding nation on earth.—
James R. Page.
1948 Oldsmobile Club Coupe.
Invest in Safety.
1947 Chevrolet Club Coupe. It’s
ready to go—any time and
anywhere.
1953 Chevrolet Belair 4-Door;
Powerglide, Powersteering
EZ Eyeglass, Radio, Heat-
er, New Tires.
and buy with
WARRANTED
1936 Ford 2-Door. Easy to buy,
if you get here First!
For the Best in Every Way,
Visit Hasty Chevrolet
Phone 5-2227
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$159.95
BLANTON HOME & AUTO SUPPLY
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fliction.
The taxpayer asked the agent to
help him with his return. When the
taxpayer’s hearing aid battery went,
dead, the agent lent him his spare. A
few minutes later the taxpayer said
goodbye and walked off with the bat-
tery.
11 Cu. Ft. Servel Electric Icemaker Refrig.
His Favorite
On the other hand, the Buffalo, N..
Y., bureau has a favorite taxpayer,
even though it’s never been able to
discover who he really is.
Ever since 1943 the bureau has re-
ceived a check or money order from
a man who signs his name “Richard
T. Roe.” The mysterious Roe has
never sent in an income tax return.
Director George T. McGowan said
repeated attempts to discover Roe’s,
real identity have failed, but his ac-
count is “awful nice to handle.”
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Duties belonging to the Denison |
office will center in Tulsa.
Small boy approaching father with
bad report card: “Here’s my report
card, and I’m tired of watching tele-
vision anyway!”
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The honeymoon is over when the
husband stops calling his wife dear
and thinks of her as expensive.—
Dave Crown.
The first lesson in the art of self-
defense is to keep your glasses on.—
Town journal.
WASHINGTON.—President Eisen-
hower has been teling White House
visitors that one term is enough, that
he does not choose to run in 1956.
The famous Eisenhower grin dis-
appears when the subject of another-
term comes up. A deadly serious
President explains that he would be
70 years old at the end of a second
term, and that he does not intend to
carry the burdens of office into those
latter years.
It is fair to say that Republican
politicians
pressed by Mr. Eisenhower’s mid-
term plans. Some of them have heard,
it before from other presidents. Few
would doubt Mr. Eisenhower’s sin-
cerity. But they don’t believe he cart
make it stick—nor that he really will
feel that way in the spring of 1956
when he surveys the accomplish-
ments and failures of a first term.
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AUTHORIZED DEALER
Hasty Chevrolet Co
GILLINGHAM, England.—Lamp-
lighter Harry Danson went home last
night after lighting the lamps and
slammed his front door. The living
room wall fell into the garden.
“At night my wife and I sometimes
heard creaking noises,” Danson said,
“but I told her it was the wall paper
drying out.”
1942^Ford 2-Door. We’d like
your opinion of this bar-
gain.
Husband — “You’ll have to admit
that I carried you safely over the
rough places of life.”
Wife—“Yes, and you didn’t miss a
single one.”
7-Pc. Livingroom Group, sofa, matching
chair, coffee table, 2 end tables, has-
sock and smoking stand .....'......
The Whitewright Sun
T. GLENN DOSS, Editor and Publisher
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas, post office
as second class mail matter.
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and enclosed a penny. Director Lynn.
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cents to process the penny.
The 30-year-old Newark, N. J., fac-
hard of hearing met his match in a.
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wonder if we mean what we say.
We have seen many chambers of
commerce in Texas advocate econ-
omy in Washington and at the same
time (sometimes at the same meet-
ing) appoint committees to go to
Washington for their favorite river,
dam, highway or government hous-
ing.
We have seen chambers of com-
merce endorse government economy
and fight to the last ditch every at-
tempt to save money in government
operation if it affects their towns.
We have seen owners of great bus-
iness institutions and believers in free
enterprise go to Washington ,in some
government job connected with
grants in aid or government hand-
ohts, and very soon catch Washing-
tonitis and go over to the do-gooders
in the name of welfare.
We have seen business men get
rich on government contracts and
then support political policies in
which they do not believe.
Recently it was reported that five
counties in Arkansas refused Federal
Government gifts of dried milk, but-
ter, cheese and shortening. It made
headlines. When the first govern-
ment “Emergency” Relief program
was started in late 1932, a district
meeting of the East Texas Chamber
of Commerce at Kellyville, near Jef-
ferson, adopted a resolution refusing
this government aid and condemning
it as Socialistic. Later, we regret to
state, we got into it up to our necks.
At a conference of regional cham-
bers at Austin a few months ago at
which the subject of economy in gov-
erhment was discussed, one local
chamber manager said: “Let’s be
realistic, fellows. In my town a hos-
pital is under construction with the
help of government funds. Our doc-
tors, who yell loudest about socialized
medicine, are all for this new hospi-
tal. My members are for it. Do you
think I am going to fight it?”
Today the general attitude toward
government economy seems to be
that nearly everybody is for it ex-
cept where it affects his pet project.
Do we really mean what we say?
Do We Mean What
We Say?
By HUBERT M. HARRISON
Manager, East Texas
Chamber of Commerce
The General Federation of Wom-
en’s Clubs has launched a new move-
ment for economy in government un-
der the name of IGHAGS—I’m Gona
Holler About Government Spending.
Local clubs are being formed
throughout the country. The program
was discussed in March at Waxaha-
chie at the convention of the Texas
Federation of Women’s Clubs. We
wish the ladies success in their un-
dertaking.
Former President Herbert Hoover
said recently that if 200 pressure
groups would take a holiday for two
years the Federal Government could
save more than five billion dollars
year and perhaps balance the bud-
get. Knowing human nature to be
what it is, we have little hope of
these groups ceasing or slowing
down.
All chambers of commerce publicly
espouse the principle of free enter-
prise and at least give lip service to
the proposal of getting the govern-
ment out of business. But after 35
years of professional chamber of
commerce work in Texas, I often
DENISON.—The Denison office of
the Southwestern Power Administra-
tion will be closed, effective April 30,
Raymond Perdue, acting manager,
said.
Perdue received his orders from
the Tulsa district office which said
personnel was being trimmed from
300 to 86 in an economy move.
The Denison office works in Texas
and Louisiana with power contract
holders, many of them REA co-
operatives. Power sales from gov-
ernment sources, such as the Denison
Dam, also come under the Denison
office jurisdiction.
The maintenance emit here was
transferred to Adh, Okla., in Decem-
ber.
Lee Simmons held the post of man-
ager here until he resigned about a
year ago. Perdue, his assistant, and
Miss Erma Crooks, who has been in
the office since it was established
here, both announced they had no
immediate plans.
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character or
standing of any person, firm or corporation
will be gladly and fully corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the publisher.
Here Are a Few of the Sensational Bargains
Reg. Price
$199.95
Who is wise? He that learns from
everyone. Who ils powerful? He that
governs his passions. Who is rich?
He that is content. — Benjamin
Franklin.
“Could it be that adolescence is
when a boy goes from a Mickey
Mouse watch to a Marilyn Monroe
calender?”
Barron’s, the business weekly, has
this to say:
“Selling a toaster oi' a waffle iron
—or even a 1954 Studebaker or
Dodge—at less than list price is
scarcely on all fours with rum-run-
ning. But much more than semantics
is involved here. What is in question
is nothing less than the basic prin-
ciple of the free market. . . .
“These are the common-sense pre-
cepts which over the years have built
up the American market to its pres-
ent vast size. To find businessmen
chipping away at them is not far
from shocking. Yet today, in the
guise of a crusade against ‘bootleg-
gers,’ ‘chislers’ and the like, that’s ex-
actly what is happening.”
According to Barron’s there is
something good—not bad—about the
fact that some merchants “are will-
ing to sell to the public at lower
prices than those charged by their
angry competitors.”
Of course, the test of the goodness
or badness of price-cutting is not in
what the seller gets out of it but what
the buyer gets out of it. If, by rea-
son of the “bootleg price,” the boot-
legger is unable or indisposed to give
to his customer the same maintenance
and guaranty services which the
“regular” dealer offers, then bootleg-
ging of such an article as a car or a
radio is bad. But if the customer is
satisfied and the seller is satisfied,
the protests of other people do seem
out of line.—Dallas News.
Lifetime Service Policy on O. K. Used Cars
i Income Tax Return
Although a girl may be as strong! Sometimes Funny
Internal revenue officials reported taxpayer suffering from the same af—’
today that taxpayers are often funny
—at least to the tax collectors.
The officials came up with the fol-
lowing stories to prove their point:
There was the confused gentleman
with a foreign- accent who showed up
at the Milwaukee internal revenue
office and asked to see the “Lone
Ranger.”
After considerable questioning the
collectors found the man was worried
because he didn’t have enough in the
bank to pay his taxes. He wanted to
see the loan arranger.
In Chicago the tax collectors broke
a rule by complying with a man’s re-
quest for a nine cent refund.
He’s a “Slave”
Usually the limit is $1. But the
man had described his occupation as
“slave” and the bureau head figured
maybe he needed the nine cents.
Two taxpayers tried to get their
dogs into the act.
In Chicago, a dog lover asked
whether he could deduct his pet’s
veterinarian expenses. Told that
medical expenses apply only to hu-
mans, he protested his dog was “al-
most human.”
A New York taxpayer was even
more ambitious. Asking for permis-
sion to deduct funeral expenses for
his dog, he said the beast was much
closer to him than his wife.
Strange deduction requests also in-
cluded:
The couple who wrote: “We hired
a baby sitter who drank a bottle of
our Scotch and ruined our davenport.
Can we deduct the expense?”
Double Exemption?
The well dressed man who wanted
to know if he could deduct DDT used
for personal delousing after a camp-
ing trip (he could).
A revenue agent in Newark who’s
tory worker who claims a $600 ex-
emption for himself and $1200 for his
wife. He explained he had married
his widowed father’s 65-year-old girl
friend and she was entitled to double
exemption for old age.
Sometimes the taxpayers find odd
ways to trip up the collectors.
At Wichita, Kan., a couple wrote
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1954, newspaper, March 25, 1954; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1354437/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.