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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956
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VOLUME 71, NUMBER 7
Burns James Dixon
Farm Bureau
Deaths
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Use This Order Blank
Name
Street
City
year in Jr’ayUni
House Bros. Buy
Smith Grocery
Tigers Win First
Playoff Game
Sponsors Rodent
Control Program
Some Children
Must File Income
Tax Returns
Baptists To Hear
State Leader
GOP Rates Edge,
Union Leaders Say
Special Session
Petition Fails
Kidd-Key Annual
Luncheon February 25
Sherman Masons
Plan Washington
Birthday Dinner
A Proclamation For
World Day of Prayer
TRUCKERS YELL
FOUL OVER BILL
HERE
and
THERE
SHERMAN.—Only about a third
of the required number of members
of the Texas House responded fa-
vorably to a proposal for a special
House session to investigate the in-
surance situation, State Rep. Charles
E.'Hughes of Sherman said Wednes-
day.
A total of 26 members had favored
the call as the deadline for returning
a signed questionnaire passed this
week.
Hughes said he would continue to
receive answers of those who had not
responded, but held little hope that
the number would increase appre-
ciably.
Hawaiians and Alaskans pay U. S.
federal taxes, the same as everyone
else, including residents of the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
and Fannin Counties.
$2.50 a year.
DEDICATION OF
BELLS CHURCH IS
SET ON MARCH 11
Teeth are the only part of the body
which does not repair itself.
on
and
TEXAS TO GET
MORE VACCINE
ONE LAWYER CAN
HANDLE BOTH CASES
Anyone
farm
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W. W. and G. A. House this week
purchased the Smith Grocery from
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Smith and are
now in charge of the business.
The store was established in April
1936, and for several years was lo-
cated at the old Luther Smith stand
on South Bond street. It has been at
the present location on Main street
for about 15 years.
Mrs. Smith said this morning that
they have no immediate plans for the
future. “First, w,e are just going to
rest, then I’m going to get to give my
home a first-class cleaning.”
Burglars Get Cash, Gasoline Fire
Guns at Meador's
Whitewright To
Randolph Highway
Bids Due Feb. 20
truck will do more damage to a high-
way than ten thousand passenger
cars. If you’ve ever followed one of
these big trucks on concrete paving
in this area during wet weather,
you’ve probably seen the pavement
go up and down under the heavy
load.
Dr. L. B. Cobb of Dallas, State Di-
rector of Stewardship promotion,
will be the principal speaker at a
stewardship supper to be held at the
First Baptist Church Monday, Feb.
20, at 7:00 p. m. This meeting will
be preparatory to a budget promo-
tion and enlargement campaign that
will be forthcoming in the very near
future.
Plans are underway for an every
member canvass of the church, which
will be led by the deacons and other
church officers. Dr. Cobb will out-
line for the church leadership a pro-
gram of stewardship promotion that
has proven very successful in many
other towns and cities within the
state. Roy Blanton, chairman of the
Board of Deacons, is heading up the
program.
James Dixon was painfully burned
Wednesday morning when a bucket
of gasoline caught fire at the Dixon
Service Station on Highway 69 north.
He was given first aid treatment by
a local physician and was then taken
to Community Hospital in Sherman.
He received first, second and third
degree burns on his hands and face.
A senior in high school, James is
associated with his father, J. B. Dix-
on, in the operation of the service
station. He was reported to have
been cleaning a motor with gasoline
when it caught fire.
FARM BUREAU
OPPOSES ROAD
BILL TAX PLAN
SOME OF these days the city wat-
-er department is going to lick that
problem of a water main leak at the
•corner of Maple and Gowdy streets.
For about two years the leak has
been losing thousands of gallons of
water a. week (maybe a day) in spite
of repeated efforts to stop it. It hap-
pens to be at the corner where we
live and we are hoping the leak gets
stopped before mosquito season. We
recall that the mosquitoes nearly ate
us up one whole summer because of
this leak.
The Whitewright High School Ti-
gers won the first game of a three-
game basketball playoff series in the
local gym Tuesday night, beating the
Cooper Bulldogs 42 to 40. Jack
Hayes with 14 points was high scorer
for the Tigers and Mickie Poteet with
16 points was high man for the visi-
tors. •
The second game of the series will
be played at Cooper at 7:30 o’clock
tonight. With James Dixon out of
the lineup because of burns, the Ti-
gers are expected to have tough go-
ing against the potent Bulldogs.
If the Tigers lose tonight, the third
game of the playoff for the District
13-A championship will be played on
a neutral field Friday night.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Pub-
lic Health Service Tuesday allocated
48,564 cubic centimeters of Salk polio
vaccine for use in Texas.
The vaccine will be made avail-
able for sale to public agencies and
commercial outlets under the volun-
tary control system, officials said.
The latest batch of vaccine, the
thirteenth to be distributed to the .
states since it was developed, was
manufactured by Eli Lily and Com-
pany.
Mrs. Dan Pool Jr., president, an-
nounces that the annual luncheon for
graduates and ex-students of Kidd-
Key College and Conservatory of
Music will be held at Hotel Grayson,
Sherman, Saturday, Feb. 25, at 12
noon. A program and business ses-
sion will follow the luncheon. Res-
ervations may be made by writing
the hotel.
AN AD appeared'in this paper Feb.
:2 and Feb. 9 admonishing the custo-
mers that the capital letter “O” and
the number zero (0) on the telephone
■dial “are not even related.” Appar-
ently some folks didn’t read the ad,
or they are absent-minded when they
try to dial a number. For instance,
on three occasions The Sun’s phone
has rung and when we answered the
parties at the other end . said they
were trying to dial Kimbell Milling
Co. Now, we like to answer the
phone when we are wanted, but we
•don’t like to keep answering it when
the party on the other end is trying
to get somebody else and just doesn’t
know how to dial. Kimbell’s number
is FO 4-2270 and The Sun’s is
FO 4-2276. On the dial is found the
number 6 and the letters MNO in the
same hole. The trouble has been
that the dialers have used the “O”
of the “MNO” instead of the zero at
the end of the dial when trying to get
Kimbell. It should be remembered
that the numbers are in RED and the
letters in BLACK—then nobody will
have any trouble.
Burglars broke into the C. J. Mea-
dor Truck & Tractor Company estab-
lishment Saturday night and got
$12.60 and two guns for their trou-
ble. Carl May said that much cash
was in the register when the place
was closed Saturday night. The two
guns were valued at about $90 retail.
If the burglars took anything else, it
wasn’t missed.
Entry to the building was gained
by breaking a rear window.
This is one of a series of burglaries
that have occurred here in the last
few months. No arrests have been
made in connection with any of the
burglaries, but if the pattern runs
true to form, when officers finally
solve the burglaries the culprits will
face a series of charges. At least
this is what has happened in the past.
WASHINGTON.— The American
Farm Bureau Federation Wednesday
opposed a bill to raise federal road
user taxes, contending the states
“should continue to have the primary
responsibility for financing high-
ways.”
The federaton, one of the nation’s
major farm organizations, advocated
instead “continuation of the present
level” of federal highway spending—
about $700,000,000 a year — and
“termination of the federal gasoline
tax so that this source of revenue
may be made available to the states.”
The federation’s position was set
forth in a statement prepared by
Matt Triggs, its assistant legislative
director, for the House ways and
means committee.
The committee opened hearings
Tuesday on a Democratic-backed bill
to boost levies on gasoline, diesel
fuel, tires, trucks, buses and similar
items by about $12,000,000,000 over
a 15-year period.
Added to an estimated $22,000,-
000,000 anticipated from federal road
user taxes under present rates, this
revenue would be applied to paying
the federal slice of a $51,500,000,000
highway improvement program. The
states would be expected to furnish
the rest.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—AFL-CIO
political strategists have decided that ■
“the Republicans will have an edge”
in the 1956 presidential race regard-
less of whether President Eisenhow-
er decides to run again.
The view is contained in an analy-
sis of the political situation submit-
ted confdentially to the 29-member
AFL-CIO executive council during
its winter session here by AFL-CIO
political co-directors James L. Mc-
Devitt and Jack Kroll.
A major reason for this appraisal
recommenda-
spending for
security,
WASHINGTON. — The American
Trucking Association (ATA) today
branded as “false and malicious”
charges that the Boggs bill would
favor the trucking industry at the ex-
pense of motorists.
But the ATA, in the same angrily-
worded statement, conceded that the
Boggs bill would force motorists to
pay a larger share of the cost of the
interstate highway program than the
Fallon bill, which the trucking in-
dustry lobbied to death last year.
The truckers’ group estimated the
average motorist would pay “less
than a dollar a year” more taxes un-
der the Boggs bill than under last
year’s ill-fated measure.
But the ATA did not indicate how
it arrived at this figure—or estimate
how much the truckers would save
under the Boggs measure.
(Actually, studies of the new tax
revenues proposed under the two
bills show that about $1.8 billion of
the highway program’s cost would
be shifted from truckers to motor-
ists under the Boggs bill.
(The bill would do this by impos-
ing equal tax rate increases on
truckers and motorists, whereas the
Fallon bill proposed graduated tax
increases with heavy trucks paying
the highest rates.)
Mount Mainer is the third highest
peak in continental United States.
CHARLES H. STUTEVILLE
Funeral services were held Satur-
day at Van Alstyne for Charles
Holmes Stuteville, 58, who died at
5 p. m. Feb. 9.
. Rev. Jimmy Duckworth, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, officiated.
Burial was in Van Alstyne Cemetery.
Mr. Stuteville was born Dec. 15,
1897, northeast of Trenton. He was
in the grocery business ■'in White-
wright for several years before go-
ing to Van Alstyne. He was a mem-
ber of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors are his wife, three
daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Enstrotn of
Illinois, Patty Ann Stuteville and
Laura Mae Stuteville, both of Van
Alstyne; two sons, Kenneth L. Stute-
ville and Billy Jo Stuteville, both of
Van Alstyne; two sisters, Mrs. Gill
Sudderth of Leonard and Mrs. J. F.
Guyed of Houston; five brothers, G.
C. Stuteville of Whitewright, L. C.
Stuteville of Van Alstyne, Grady
Stuteville of Long Beach, Calif.; J.
A. Stuteville of Dallas, and Overton
Stuteville of Florida.
THE SERIES of burglaries th&t
have been plaguing this area recent-
ly makes one wonder if those respon-
sible have lost their minds. Bur-
glarizing a local business house can
never be profitable in line with the
risk. The burglars are actually bet-
ting five years of penal servitude or
their life, against the few dollars they
realize from their venture. No bus-
iness man in his right mind is going
to leave enough cash in his store for
burglars to profit very much in case
they break in. Back some years ago
some business men adopted the prac-
tice of setting burglar traps to com-
bat a wave of burglaries, and one
burglar lost his life as a result. One
storekeeper said that he is thinking
of sleeping in his store with a loaded
shotgun which he intends to use on
anybody breaking in. Maybe that is
the answer.
for the Commodity
appointed by Han-
IT RAINED last night, in case you
weren’t awake. The city’s rainfall
gauge at the water plant registered
1.44 inches, the heaviest fall in many
moons. With 2.95 inches of rainfall
already recorded this year, plus
about a half inch of snow and sleet
moisture, Wednesday night’s rainfall
boosted the 1956 total to about 4.94
inches. Readers of this column, if
any there are, will remember that we
predicted some weeks ago that Feb-
ruary might see the end of the
drouth that has plagued the area for
many months. Well, it looks like we
called the turn.
I and call upon the people of our city
to observe this day by attending a
specific World Day of Prayer meet-
ing; and if the duties of some are
such as to make this impossible, I
urge the people to pause in their
work, or at home, for one minute of
prayer at 6:00 p. m., to ask that God
give us light to guide us, courage to
support us, and love to reunite us.
IN WITNESS'WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused to
be affixed the seal of the city of
Whitewright, this 17th day of Febru-
ary, A. D., 1956.
RUSSELL R. SUMMERS, Mayor.
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The County Line Singing Conven-
tion will be held at Ida Sunday aft-
ernoon at 2 p. m., according to L. L.
Wendell, who says: “We are hoping
to have all singers in all communities
in attendance. If you sing, we espe-
cially urge you to come, or if you do
not sing, we urge you to come. Sing-
ers can sing better to a large audi-
ence.”
The many inquiries received in-
dicates that there is a misunderstand-
ing regardng the taxpayer status of
dependent children earning $600 or
more, Dewitt E. Cornelius of Inter-
nal Revenue Service in Sherman an-
nounced today.
A child earning $600 or more
qualifies as a taxpayer and must file
a return and pay any tax due. This
is true whether the parent claims the
child as a dependent or not. ’’Par-
ents are responsible for the tax due
from minors,” Mr. Cornelius said.
“Parents may claim the depend-
ency deduction for a child earning
$600 or more under certain condi-
tions. The parent must furnish more
than half the support of the child to
qualify the child as a dependent. The
child must be under 19 years of age,
or if 19 or over must meet the quali-
fications of a student. A student
must attend a full-time school dur-
ing at least five months of the cal-
endar year. Such schools include
only institutions with a regular fac-
ulty and student body and do not in-
clude correspondence schools, night
schools and employer training
schools. ?
“For example, a child 21 attended
a college as a full-time student dur-
ing 1955 and earned $720 which he
used for school expenses. The fath-
er spent $850 for the child’s support.
The child is reuired to file an income
tax return and pay tax due on the
above earnings. The father can
claim the child as a dependent on his
return since he contributed over half
to the child’s support. A child earn-
ing less than $600 who has had tax
withheld should file a return so that
the tqx withheld may be refunded to
him,” Mr. Cornelius said.
WHEREAS, it is the conviction of
the United Council of Church Wom-
en, in fellowship with all those who
seek the divine guidance of our
Creator, that the many problems
confronting us today can be solved
only with the help of Almighty God;
and
WHEREAS, World Day of Prayer
has been designated on an interna-
tional, interdenominational, interra-
cial basis to join the people of the
world together in furtherance of the
doctrine, “The Lord Is Thy Keeper,”
and
WHEREAS, in order that the
Church may fulfill the important role
of exerting practical witnesses to the
fact of God’s purpose in human af-
fairs, thereby advancing the interna-
tional cause of peace on earth, it is
necessary that we be ever mindful
of the vast power of prayer in fur-
thering His word and His work and
in combating the forces of evil that
surround us:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Russell R.
Summers, mayor of the city of
Whitewright, Texas, do hereby pro-
claim Friday, February 17, 1956, as
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
in the city of Whitewright, Texas,
THE KICKOFF breakfast for the
Chamber of Commerce drive was at-
tended by 24 persons Wednesday
morning. Griffin Dollarhide Jr.,
chairman of the membership com-
mittee, assigned names of prospec-
tive members to those present and
asked that they be contacted as soon
as possible. Forty-seven member-
ships were already in good standing,
and Griffin said he hoped to see this
total boosted to 150. When the drive
is completed, a list of members will
be published.
ELDON HORTON of Spring Val-
ley, Calif., dropped in Monday io
visit with us. Knowing that he was
active in civil defense work in his
area, we brought up the subject, tell-
ng him that people hereabouts didn’t
seem to be interested. His reply was
that the people probably didn’t un-
derstand it—that while it was pri-
marily set up for wartime, it is val-
uable for peacetme as well. He
pointed out that in the event of a dis-
aster at Whitewright, such as a tor-
nado, if the civil defense forces
weren’t organized, nobody would
know what to do or how to do it. “If
you had an organization here which
was trained to do what was needed to
be done in time of emergency, lives
could be saved that otherwise would
be lost,” he said. He pointed out
that while no enemy would be likely
to aim a guided missile at White-
wright, such instrument of destruc-
tion might be aimed at Dallas or Fort
Worth and fall on Whitewright. “In
that event, if you had a few people
trained in what to do, it could mean
the difference in the saving or losing
of a good many Ives,” he said.
11 was announced from Austin
Monday that contract for building
farm highway 1281 from White-
wright to Randolph, a distance of
7.9 miles, will be awarded at a bid-
letting session of the Texas High-
way Department Feb. 20-21. This
road will follow the old Cotton Belt
rightofway on the Randolph end,
but from Bois d’Arc bottom to White-
wright it will traverse a route south,
of the railroad roadbed, connecting
with Highway 69 southeast of town.
Time allowed for completion of the
project, for which Joe Clark of Bon-
ham is resident engineer, is 220 days.
Also to be let at the same time is;
contract for a new Farm-Market
road from Denison to Ambrose, a.
distance of nine miles. ' It will con-
nect just south of Ambrose with an
improved road extending to Ravenna
and east to Bonham.
Two other Fannin County road
projects are slated for bid-letting at
the same time, as follows:
A seal coat for 8.75 miles of FM
824 in Fannin County from the La-
mar County line to Honey Grove.
A seal coat for 4.75 miles of FM
1550 in Fannin County from State
Highway 34 to Dial.
OUR OPINION on the current fed-
eral road building program would
not be considered important by the
legislative branch of the government
which has the task of financing the
program. But we have the opinion,
anyway. It is that the major portion
of the cost be borne by trucks and
busses. If the highways were used
only by passenger automobiles, con-
struction costs could be halved. It is
the heavy trucks and busses that tear
•up the roads, and construction has to
take this into account. One big
IF YOU have any doubt about this
being the coldest winter in many
years, the following from the Blue
Blaze, magazine published for em-
ployees of Lone Star Gas Company,
;should resolve that doubt:
“Lone Star customers used over six
billion cubic feet more gas' during
November, December and through
January 22, this winter, than.during
• the same period last winter. Total
consumption for the 1955-1956 peri-
or was 64,475,200,000 (billions) cubic
feet. In the same period in 1954-
1955 they used 57,984,100,000 cubic
feet.”
There have been winters with
colder days and nights, but no win-
ters recently with as great a number
of cold days and nights.
SHERMAN.—John G. Kemmerer,
Fort Worth, Grand Senior Warden of
the Grand Lodge of Texas, will be
the speaker at an observance of
George Washington’s birthday, Wed-
nesday night, February 22, at the
Masonic Temple in Sherman.
Hosts for the meeting are Travis
Lodge No. 114 and Andrew Randell
Lodge No. 1342, both of Sherman.
The observance will begin with a
dinner at 6:30 p. m.
George Blakey, Worshipful Master
of Travis Lodge, and R. J. Patrick,
Worshipful Master of Andrew Ran-
dell Lodge, have extended an invita-
tion to all Masons in Grayson, Fan-
nin, Collin, and Cooke Counties to
attend the affair.
HE JUST COULDN’T SEE
HAVING SPECS BUSTED
Grayson County Farm Bureau’s
regular Board of Directors meeting
was held in the Farm Bureau office
at 112 E. Lamar, Sherman, Tuesday
night at 7:30. W. H. Hanning, pres-
ident, presided at the meeting. There
was some more discussion on the ro-
dent control program that the Coun-
ty Farm Bureau is trying to get
started. Anyone interested in a
complete farm rodent control is
asked to contact the Farm Bureau
office or county agent’s office. There
will have to be approximately 200
farmers sign up for this control in
order that it may be self supporting.
Farm Bureau is merely sponsoring
the program. The rodent control
program is set up through the State
Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission.
In other counties where it is work-
ing the cost has averaged around
$20.00 per year. “This is only a small
percent of the damage caused by ro-
dents on the average farm,” states
Mr. Hanning.
Chairman
Committees were
ning.
A spring membership drive has
been set for the week of March 19-
24. Albert Laughlin is chairman of
the membership committee composed
of Offie Smith, W. H. Hanning, and
C. B. Ball. The Bureau is striving
for the 800 members this year.
Singing Convention
BELLS.—The Bells Baptist Church
will hold its dedication and corner-
stone ceremony on March 11, it is an-
nounced by the Rev. Clayton Hicks,
pastor.
Work on the attractive brick
church and educational building
started July 4, 1954, with the razing
of the old wooden structure.
“We didn’t expect to get into the
building before Christmas, but we
were able to vacate the school audi-
torium before the fall semester in
September,” the pastor said.
However, the finish-up work,
which is being done by volunteer la-
bor, has been slow.
is that Eisenhower’s
tion for increased
schools, housing, social
health and roads have “to a large ex-
tent deprived the Democrats of some
of their most appealing issues.”
“Although it is impossible to
evaluate the presidential election un-
til there is an announcement of Eis-
enhower’s intention,” the report says,
“the Republicans will have an edge
in the race.
“This will result from a shift in
the party character to provide more
appeal for city voters and from their
control of communications.”
BLAND, Va. — John Richardson
walked into his house here from
work yesterday, fell on his wife’s
freshly-waxed floor and broke his
leg.
He was back at work today,
though, at State Road Camp 31,
where he is a guard.
The leg he broke was his wooden
one.
WACO.—A 28-year-old Waco man
stood in front of the city hall early
Wednesday, carrying on a loud,
shouting conversation with a man in
the jail on the fifth floor.
The jailed man was his father.
Five minutes later irate police came
out and gave the two a forced re-
union in the cell.
The son, who was drunk, had been
trying to find out if the father need-
ed a lawyer.
HE PUT SNAP IN HIS FALL
LOS ANGELES.—Frank Riccobo-
no has won a divorce after testifying
he couldn’t see eye-to-eye with his
wife, Patricia, 32, because she fre-
quently broke his glasses.
“Each time she became angry she
would snatch my eye glasses and
smash them/’ Roccobono, 34, a tailor,
said. “She knew I couldn’t get along
without them.”
Superior Judge A. Curtis Smith
granted the divorce on cruelty
grounds.
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