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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 69, NUMBER 43
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1954
5 CENTS PER COPY
Nine Youths Get
Pep Rally At 4.91 Inches of Rain|Tigers Will Face
Dairy Heifers
THERE
rec-
F. F. A. NEWS
Sun Honor Roll
the
Deaths
Colton Set-Aside
Reported Planned
A.
Harvest Week
The Sun does Good Printing.
THE PRINTER
School Lunch Menu
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City Officers Ask
Auto Tax Change
Rapiisis To Have
Observance
Food Price Drop
Cuts Living Cost
Bobby Witt Burned
In Explosion
AAA Man Opposes
Highway Radar
Local Sheep Place
At State Fair
HERE
and
Court Declines
To Rule On Fair
Trade Law Act
WARNING FOR
HALLOWEEN
A BEVY of beautiful girls are bus-
ily engaged in bedecking the main
business block with black and gold
■streamers as The Sun is put to bed
this morning. But don’t get the idea
that the decoration is for Halloween
just because Halloween colors happen
to be black and gold, the same as the
Whitewright High School colors. It
is all a part of the preparations for
the big football game Friday night.
You
the
In the average American home to-
day, electricity does the work which
would require the labor of 35 serv-
ants, each working a 40-hour work.
SMARTEST PEOPLE^
PERCY DAVIS of Fort Worth asks
us to publicize the annual reunion of
Battery F, 345th Field Artillery of the
90th Division, World War I, to be
held at Buchanan Dam, near Burnet,
Texas, Nov. 6 and 7. “We had a
number of boys from your part of the
country, but have been unable to lo-
cate many of them,” he wrote. Percy,
former assistant postmaster here
while his father, the late A. H. (Lon)
Davis, was postmaster, is auditor for
the Frisco Railroad, 700 West Vick-
ery Boulevard, Fort Worth. Battery
F personnel may write to him at that
address for further information about
the reunion.
Pigskin Club members are to
meet at 6:30 o’clock tonight at
Craig’s Cafe for a pep rally. All
members of the football squad
will be there, and refreshments
will be served. All members of
the Pigskin Club are urged to be
present.
Following the pep rally, there
will be a football game between
the sixth, seventh and eighth
grade Cubs and a similar team
from Bonham, at Bryant Field
at 7:30.
After the football game, which
will be over about 8:30, every-
body is invited to the bonfire at
the American Legion Park.
WASHINGTON.—A drop in food
prices lowered the nation’s cost of
living by three-tenths of one percent
from mid-August to mid-September,
the government reported Tuesday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said
it was the sharpest monthly drop
since last November for both food
prices and the overall cost of living.
Food prices declined 1.3 percent dur-
ing the month.
In a statement accompanying the
price report, Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell said the average
American factory worker in Septem-
ber “could buy more goods and serv-
ices with his take-home pay than in
the same month of any previous post-
war year.”
Tuesday at the Church of Christ, con-
ducted by Ed Holligan of
Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery, di-
rected by Earnheart. Pallbearers
were Earl Blanton, Homer Sanderson,
Bob Andrew, Wilson Kaiser, Hugh
Hunter and Jim Williams.
Mr. Huseman died at his home here
at 7 a. m. Monday after an illness of
about a year.
Born Feb. 5, 1892, in Lavaca Coun-
ty, Texas, he was the son of Gus and
Augusta Huseman. He was married
to Miss Beulah Wrenn on May 30,
1920, at Denison. He was a retired
employee of the Katy Railroad, and
a member of the Church of Christ.
Surviving are his wife; one son, J.
O. Huseman of Whitewright; two
daughters, Mrs. Grady L. Williams of
Dallas and Mrs. John Ball of Sher-
man; one brother, Gus Huseman of
Cameron; one sister, Mrs. Helen Vick
of Denison, and three grandchildren.
AUSTIN.—An official of the Texas
Branch of the American Automobile
Assn, has protested proposed use of
radar by state police to catch speed-
ing motorists.
He is William M. Coffey, Texas
division manager of the AAA who
said the mechanisms need “proper
safeguards” in legislation to prevent
them from being used as “speed
traps” bringing wholesale arrests
without improvement in law obser-
vation or- accident prevention.
State police have announced the
radar speed-measuring devices would
be in general use over Texas by mid-
November. They have denied they
plan to use them on a “speed-trap”
basis, and have defended radar as an
accurate control device that will help
keep motorists in line with the law
Three lambs owned by Jimmy and
Janet Smith, son and daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. Lee H. Smith, placed
in the showing at the Junior Lamb
Show at the State Fair last week.
Both of Jimmy’s lambs placed in the
first 15 percent of the class and Jan-
et’s in the first 50 percent. Jimmy
has shown lambs three years in the
4-H program for Grayson County.
This is the first time Janet has shown
a lamp. Cash premiums and pink
ribbons were given by the Fair jun-
ONE OF the proposed constitution-
al amendments to be voted on Nov. 2
■should have the support of all the
voters. It is the amendment that
provides for four-year elective terms
for certain county and district of-
fices instead of the two-year terms
now in effect. Under the two-year
setup, an office holder has to spend
so much time campaigning for re-
election that it interferes with his
duties. Usually when a good mail or
woman is elected to an office, the
voters reelect them, but that doesn’t
keep somebody from running against
them and causing the expenditure of
-a considerable sum of money and a
items for the chest x-ray days. He
thinks this might bring more people
to town to participate in the chest
x-rays.
NOT TOO long ago folks here
were hoping for, looking for, even
praying for rain, but we’ve had so
much of the stuff lately that every-
body’s now wishing for fair weather
—especially Friday for the Tiger-
Panther football game. There’s a
good sod on the field, but it has
soaked up so much water that a fast
field is already out of the question.
.A combination of slippery footing and
a slippery ball tend to give the coach
a headache, for anything can happen
and usually does under those condi-
tions. But come rain or shine, the
fans will be out in numbers to see
the big game of the year.
THIS COLUMN wants to apologize
to its readers, if any there are. Some
columns back we had something to
say about Whitewright’s good drink-
ing water, and as we recall the dis-
sertation we said it was the best
drinking water in the world. Well,
this week we ran out of milk and had
occasion to drink some of the stuff,
and it was awful! We don’t know
what the city dads are putting into
what has always been good water,
hut whatever it is, it tastes like a hos-
pital smells—if you know what we
mean. Personally, we had rather
take a chance of contracting some
dread disease through the untreated
water, than to have to drink the med-
icated water that comes out of our
faucet.
Reserved Seats
Sale of reserved seats in the new
steel stands at Bryant Field is still
under way, with slightly under 200
seats sold on a two-year basis to date.
The seats are priced at $5 each, and
are good for all games played here in
1955 and 1956, and for the game here
Friday night. Persons not holding
the two-year tickets may buy seats in
the reserved section of the stands for
Friday night’s game for 50c. About
100 reserved seats will be on sale at
the gate. There will be plenty of free
seats for those who don’t want to buy
reserved seats. Admission to the
game is 75 cents.
Cubs To Play Tonight
The Whitewright Cubs, composed
of sixth, seventh and eighth graders,
will play a similar team from Bon-
ham here tonight at 7:30. Admission
to this game is free to everybody.
Following this game, there will be
a bonfire at the American Legion
Park, at about 8:30.
The Cubs lost their game at Farm-
ersville last Thursday night, 19 to 0,
but will get another crack at Farm-
ersville here on the night of Nov. 4.
I KNOW ADVERTISE.
IN THIS PAPER.I!
^PATRONIZE THEM
[for satisfaction!
Eight boys and one girl received
registered dairy heifers at the awards
day program held in Sherman last
Saturday. Nine heifers were re-
turned to the circle started two years
ago by the Grayson County Livestock
Improvement Association, with the
original stock being sponsored by
business men. All nine of the young
people were on hand to receive their
heifers.
Receiving heifers were Robert
Clift, Denison route 3; Ruby Corbin,
Howe; Bobby David, Denison, route
1; Grady Moore, Sherman, route 4;
David Blackerby, Whitewright; Billy
Christman, Denison; Charles Turley,
Denison, route 1; Floyd Lowe, Van
Alstyne, and Larry Pettit, Sherman,
route 1.
Returning heifers were Lynn How-
ard Lowe, Van Alstyne; Charles
Bledsoe, Gunter; Ben Stratton, Deni-
son; Richard Blazek, Southmayd;
Dale Taylor, Van Alstyne; Kenneth
Marlow, Bells; Bobby Fletcher,
Bells; Eddie Ray Mullins, Van Als-
tyne and Auvern Baker, Sherman.
Sponsors in the order named for
the above calves are Pool Manufac-
turing Co. of Sherman, Gunter Com-
munity, J. W. Smith Wood Preserv-
ing, Denison, Line Material and Fant
Mill of Sherman; Whitewright Ro-
tary Club; Lawn Dairy Farms, Deni-
son, Kiwanis Club and Cabell’s Dairy,
Sherman.
WASHINGTON. — The Supreme
Court refused for the second time
Monday to rule on the constitution-
ality of state and federal “fair trade”
laws, which allow manufacturers to
fix retail prices of trademarked
goods.
Monday’s action leaves standing
decisions of the highest courts in New
York and New Jersey upholding the
fair trade statutes in those states. The
state courts also held valid the fed-
eral law which makes “fair trading”
applicable to goods crossing state
lines.
The court noted its decision in a
brief order. There was no opinion.
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Bobby Witt, 25, suffered third-de-
gree, burns Monday morning when an
explosion wrecked his small effi-
ciency apartment at 8584 Forest Hill
Boulevard, Dallas. He told fire de-
partment officials that the explosion
occurred when he got out of bed and
lit a cigarette. Bobby is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Witt of Nocona,
former residents of Whitewright.
Mrs. O. L. Jones was in Dallas to
see him Tuesday, and reported that
he is critically burned, about 60 per-
cent of the area of his body being in-
volved. His room number is 706,
Baylor Hospital. Mrs. Jones said
cause of the explosion had not been
determined at the time she was there,
and that while it was thought to be
a gas explosion, no gas leak had been
found in the apartment.
Bobby was to have been married
to Miss Peggy Cole of Irving this
coming Saturday.
OSCAR A. HUSEMAN
Funeral services for Oscar
In a recent meeting the White-
wright F. F. A. members elected their
F. F. A. sweetheart. The girl chosen
as their chapter sweetheart is Verna
Lee Buchanan, a sophomore. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. L.
Buchanan, route 1, Trenton. Other
nominees for F. F. A. sweetheart
were Donna Wetzel, Johnnie Harper,
Barbara Hasty, Alice Ayres, and
Trellis Penney.
In the local meeting two delegates
were also elected to represent the
Whitewright F. F. A. chapter in a
district meeting recently held at
Sherman. The boys representing the
Whitewright chapter were Orville
Head and Jack Bartley. The purpose
of the district meeting was to elect
district officers and elect a Sherman
district F. F. A. sweetheart.
At the district F. F. A. meeting held
at Sherman, Orville Head of White-
wright was elected president of the
Sherman District. Orville is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Head of White-
wright.
At the same meeting Verna Buch-
anan, Whitewright’s F. F. A. sweet-
heart, competing against ten other
girls, was elected Sherman F. F. A.
District sweetheart. She and Orville,
representing Whitewright as a voting
delegate, went to Denton Oct. 26,
where Verna competed in the Area 5
F. F. A. Sweetheart Beauty Contest
and Orville was to assist in the voting
to elect Area 5 officers and the Area
5 sweetheart.
Accompanying Verna and Orville
The First Baptist Church will ob-
serve Loyalty Day on Sunday, Oct.
31. All members of the church will
be asked to subscribe and pledge the
new ’ church budget which was re-
cently adopted.
Harvest Week will be observed at
the church Oct. 31 to Nov. 4. The
book, “These-Go-Together,” will be
taught in each department, and cli-
maxed by an inspirational message
each night by the pastor. Emphasis
will be on stewardship and evange-
lism, according to Rev. Newton Cole,
pastor.
A stewardship banquet will be held
at the church Tuesday evening, Oct.
28, at 7:00. All officers and teachers,
general church officers, deacons and
their wives are invited. Rev. Ernest
Potter, pastor of the Calvary Baptist
Church, Denison, will be the speaker.
Ordination Service Held
An ordination service was held at
2:30 p. m. Sunday for five new dea-
cons, with the pastor serving as mod-
erator. The new deacons are Ralph
Brown, Lloyd Alexander, Marshall
Hasty, Carl Holland and Jesse D.
Marlow.
Taking part on the program were
J. C. Walters of Sadler, J. I. Gregory
of Van Alstyne, Arthur Thomas of
Lamesa, Stacy Cole of Kentucky-
town, Jimmy Burton of Tom Bean,
Fred Thomas of Trenton, Clayton
Hicks of Bells, Paul Hunt of Sher-
man, B. N. Ramsey of Denison, By-
ron Hardgrove of Bethel, all minis-
ters, and B. W. Newman of White-
wright.
WASHINGTON.—The Agriculture
Department expects to set aside about
3,000,000 bales of cotton from Com-
modity Credit Corporation-owned
stocks, Frank Lowenstein told the an-
nutl Agricultural Outlook Confer-
ence here.
The set-aside will be excluded
from the carryover when computing
the price support level for the 1955
cotton crop, as provided in the new
agricultural act.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Ben-
son announced an initial set-aside of
1,000,000 bales last Sept. 15. Cotton
cannot be placed in the set-aside un-
less the CCC owns the cotton, and it
actually owned only 1,680,000 bales
last Sept. 10, Lowenstein said. Most
of the remainder, 5,147,000 bales, was
pledged as collateral against out-
standing loans. Loans on the 1953
crop will mature July 31, 1955.
MRS. BALCH MOORE
Mrs. Balch Moore, former Grayson
College student, died at' her home in
Bonham last Thursday and was
buried at Willow Wild Cemetery
there Friday. Mrs. Moore was the
former Stella Burton of Bells, and
was well known to many White-
Wright residents. A daughter, Mrs. and
Ben Kerr Wheeler of Houston, is the
only immediate survivor.
Huseman, 62, were held at 3 p. m. ior livestock committee.
One other Grayson County lamb,
Savoy, shown by Sandra Schmitt of Dor-
chester, placed in the show.
The Smith family spent the week
with friends in Dallas and attended
the fair in connection with the live-
stock show.
FORT WORTH.—Texas city offi-
cials Tuesday endorsed a proposed
constitutional amendment exempting
all motor vehicles from the payment
of ad valorem taxes.
The proposal was contained in res-
olutions passed by the annual con-
vention of the League of Texas Mu-
nicipalities.
The league concluded its sessions
here Tuesday night with a banquet
at which Mayor Fitzhugh Newsome
of McKinney was installed as presi-
dent for the new year.
While the league opposed ad va-
lorem taxes on vehicles, it proposed
at the same time the car owner’s an-
nual license fees be increased one-
third. Three-fourths of the increase,
would go to cities and one-fourth to
school districts where the licenses are
paid.
The league’s resolution pointed to
the difficulties being experienced by
cities in trying to collect car ad va-
lorem taxes and said they are
“mostly collected from persons asses-
sing their homes, resulting in many
automobile owners never paying any
ad valorem taxes.”
Ugh!
“Billy, if you’ll hurry up and eat,
maybe Grandpa will play Indians
bribed the little boy’s
Hungry fans leaving seats for
quick snacks at some ball parks this
summer will find TV sets at hot dog
stands, so they won’t miss a thing.
A Nagging Wife Pep Rally At 4.91 Inches of Rain]Tigers Will Face
May Save Your Life 6:30 Tonight Here During Week Toughest Foe Here
The above headline appeared on an
advertisement of the American Can-
cer Society in the American Press for
October, and was followed by this
sound advice:
“If you are over 45 and your wife
keeps insisting that you should have
two chest x-rays every year, don’t
blame her. Thank her! Semi-an-
nual chest x-rays (no matter how
well you feel) are the best insurance
you can have against death from lung
cancer.
“The cold fact is that lung cancer
has increased so alarmingly that to-
day you are six times more likely to
develop lung cancer than a man of
your age twenty years ago. Our doc-
tors know that their chances of sav-
ing your life could be as much as ten
times greater if they could only de-
tect lung cancer before it ‘talks’—
before you notice any symptoms in
yourself. That’s why we urge you
and every man over 45 to make semi-
annual chest x-rays a habit — for
life.”
with you,”
mother.
“That won’t be any fun,” replied
the child, “Grandpa is ■ already
scalped.”
Rainfall in Whitewright during the
past week totaled 4.91 inches on the
city’s gauge at the water plant, ac-
cording to Ray Cates and Ernest
Smith, who keep the rainfall records.
Total for the month of October is
5.09 inches, it having rained .07 of an
inch Oct. 1 and .07 on Oct. 5.
The combined September and Oc-
tober rainfall is 11.92 inches, the
heaviest recorded here for the same
period in many years.
Total rainfall here to date is 30.38
inches, only 3.10 inches under the 10-
year normal of 33.48 for the first 10
months of the year. Normal for the
year is 38.53.
Normal rainfall for Whitewright is
arrived at by taking the normal for
Grayson County and the normal for
Fannin County, as compiled by the
Texas Almanac, and averaging the
two.
Other rainfall gauges here regis-
tered varying amounts for the past
week. Percy Darwin said he got a
total of 5.7 inches on his gauge, lo-
cated at his home on South Bond.
Rainfall here by the month shows
2.62 inches in January, .59 in Febru-
ary, .67 in March, 3.88 in April, 4.92
in May, 5.02 in June, .09 in July, .67
in August, 6.83 in September, and
5.09 in October.
Rainfall last night was .27 of an
inch.
Free Chest X-Rays
The above bit of advice is especial-
ly good at this time, since there will
be a mobile chest x-ray unit in
Whitewright Nov. 9 and 10. This
unit, operated by the State Depart-
ment of Health, will x-ray your chest
free of cost to you.
All persons 15 years old and over
are eligible to get the free chest x-
rays, and local civic organizations
sponsoring the event hope to have at
least a thousand people take part.
The unit will be set up at Hasty
Chevrolet Company and will oper-
ate from 12 noon to 5:30 p. m. Nov.
9 and from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
on Nov. 10.
$50 in Prizes
The Chamber of Commerce, one of
the sponsoring organizations, will
distribute $50 in cash prizes to those
who participate in the mass chest'
x-ray. Each person x-rayed will be
given a ticket, and immediately after
the x-ray unit closes down on Nov.
10, a drawing will be held to de-
termine the winners of the cash
prizes. There will be a $20 prize, a
$10 prize, and four $5 prizes,
do not have to be present at
drawing to win a prize.
Edwin Badgett, secretary of
Chamber of Commerce, has suggested
that Whitewright merchants offer _
special prices on some merchandise- / ; _ 2 Z
to Denton to the Area 5 banquet held
at Hubbard Hall at TSCW, were Mrs.
D. L. Buchanan, E. J. Morgan, voca-
tional agriculture teacher; Annette
Smith, Dixie Bassett, Billy McDow-
ell, Jimmy Bassett, Delbert Musser,
John Brown, Jackie Garner, Willie
Russell, James Dixon, David Reeves,
and Dale Taylor.
There everyone enjoyed a fine
banquet before the meeting began.
During the area meeting Dale Tay-
lor, a graduate of Whitewright High
School in 1954, received a Lone Star
-Farmer award.
The sweetheart race was the last
thing on the program. Verna made
a very fine showing, but she wasn’t
elected.—Reporter.
CITY COMMISSIONER Charley
Ayres asks this column to tell his
constituents that he is just as unhap-
py over the telephone service as they
are, and there is nothing he can do
about it. It seems that every time
anybody’s telephone service fails,
they jump on Charley about it. He
thinks the telephone company ought
to keep a service man in Whitewright
to keep the system operating effi-
ciently. As a matter of fact, the City
Commission has been trying to in-
duce the company to do just that,
without success. When the company
proposed to establish dial service in
Whitewright, the City Commission
and the people were told that the
service would be even better than the
good service we had. Any time a
phone got out of order, we were told,
a service man could be here in 30
minutes to correct the trouble. But
it hasn’t worked out that way. That
30 minutes, it seems, was a typo-
graphical error. What the company
really meant was nearer 30 hours
than 30 minutes.
Subscription payments by or for
the following subscribers are ac-
knowledged:
John E. Smith
Rev. J. D. Fleming
J. Lee Smith
George Jarvis
W. L. Hatfield
E. R. Bow
Mrs. Ivy Taylor
Mrs. A. D. Asbill
Cpl. Jerry L. Neal
W. R. Milam
R. E. Pierce
R. L. Hall
Mrs. Beryl Hamblen
John Dale Reeves
Charles Skaggs
Mrs. E. E. Wilson
Hazel McLean
C. J. Davenport
Mrs. Loubell Phillips
Ray Roberts
Mrs. B. Wrenn Webb
Charles E. Harris
Ralph Aspley
Mrs. Edgar Montgomery
B. R. Caraway
Lloyd B. Cato
L. J. Bryant
Dave Beazley
Roy G. Blanton
N. E. Skaggs
Ivan Harvey
Fred Cook
Mrs. C. P. McGinnis
Guy Taylor
Lucian L. Vestal
Mrs. W. C. Anderson
M. O. Carpenter
B. E. Chesser
N. B. Nicholson
Dolten Hill
Lynn Ward
Roy Belew
T. W. Brown
Mrs. Eula Andrew
Mrs. Leon C. Wolford
Frank A. Smith
Clyde Vestal
Mrs. D. W. Smith
Mrs. John Vestal
Friday Night
The Whitewright Tigers and the
Van Alstyne Panthers, the two top
teams in District 13-A, will meet at
Bryant Field here Friday night in
what is to both teams the most im-
portant game of the season.
Rated strictly on the season’s
ord to date, the Panthers would have
to be given the edge over the Tigers
as number one team, since they are
undefeated while the Tigers lost a
nonconference game to Rockwall.
But Whitewright football fans are
unanimous in their belief that Fri-
day’s game will be taken in stride by
the Tigers, just as they romped over
highly-touted Honey Grove last week
20 to 0. The Tigers have scored 94
points in the last three games while
allowing their opposition no points
at all.
The Honey Grove game is covered
in detail in The Reflector section of
The Sun.
Monday, Nov. 1: Irish Stew, Baked
Apples, Crisp Crackers, Doughnuts,
Ice Cream Stick, Milk.
Tuesday: Meat Balls and Potatoes,
Green Beans, Creamed Diced Carrots,
Cookies, Chocolate Milk.
Wednesday: Red Beans, Onions,
Sweet Relish, Potato Chips, Bologna
Slice, Apple Cobbler with Dixie Cup,
Milk.
Thursday: Veal Cutlets, Gravy,
Mashed Potatoes, English Peas, To-
mato Slice, Jelly Rolls, Milk.
Friday: Hot Dogs, Chili, Potato
Chips, Mexican Style Beans, Peaches,
Doughnuts, Milk.
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About Halloween hi-jinks the Toy
Guidance Council Inc., has a few
suggestions:
Costumes worn by children should
be flame-resistant and should not be
too long for easy walking.
Costumes should not be worn when
the child is riding a bicycle.
Masks should allow good vision,
and should be removed for eating.
A small flashlight is safer than a
lighted candle in a jack-o-lantern.
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