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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1963
ESTABLISHED 1885
VOLUME 78, NO. 43
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Be Rewritten Now
Bill Would Raise
Congressmen's
Pay $10,000 Year
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Council Meets
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TRICK-OR-TREAT
FOR UNICEF
The hotest areas in the world
in the deserts of North Africa.
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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CONYERS, Ga. — Charlie Goss
left his home, got lost in woods, fell
into a creek and was found 27 hours
later.
Despite his ordeal, he was reported
in good health.
Goss wil be 100 in January.
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WASHINGTON — Mail processing
equipment designed to increase pro-
duction and decrease costs has had
just the opposite effect in some cases,
government auditors reported Satur-
day.
The general accounting office said
studies of the conveyor systems in
Philadelphia and Detroit post offices
showed productivity dropped after
they were installed and costs increas-
ed.
Will you help in the fight against
hunger and disease, poverty and ig-
norance?
All the children of the community
are invited to come to the Methodist
Church on Halloween night and take
part in the UNICEF program to help
the underprivileged children of the
world.
Come at 7 p. m. and get your iden-
tification and materials.
People who care to participate are
asked to drop coins in the UNICEF
containers rather than to give treats.
Pay to the group who have their iden-
tification — arm bands and UNICEF
cartons. Only one group will call, so
give all your contribution at one
time.
One cent will furnish vaccine to
protect a child against tuberculosis.
One nickel will pay for 25 cups of
milk.
Refreshments will be served after-
ward at the church to all children
who take part.
—UNICEF Corpmittee
Youjth Sex Scandal
Stuns Missouri City
"I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
CHICAGO — The automobile driv-
er and his passengers always should
leave the car from the sidewalk side,
advises the Chicago Motor Club.
Opening your door in traffic not
only could cause a passing car to hit
you, but could cause an accident
when it swerves to avoid your open
door.
But David came back empty
handed, due, he said, to rain having
fallen all the time he was in the
hunting area — and anybody knows
that deer do not get out and
around in the rain to be shot at.
JOHN WILLIAM AYERS
Funeral services were held at 10
a. m. today at the Leonard Baptist
Church for John William Ayres, 83,
father of Edgar Ayers of White-
wright. Burial was in Indian Creek
Cemetery at Nobility.
Pallbearers were Dwight and Rus-
sell Braswell, James Darst, Bill Mi-
lam, Ray Pell and John C. Ayers.
Mr. Ayers died at 12:30 a. m. Wed-
nesday in a Sherman rest home after
a long illness.
He was born May 18, 1880, in Van
Buren County, Ark., the son of G. A.
and Susan Ayers. He married Miss
Emma Goetcher there Jan. 14, 1900.
They came to Texas in 1906 and liv-
ed in the Nobility community for
many years where Mr. Ayres farmed.
He had lived in Sherman for two
years. He was a 32-degree Mason.
Surviving are his wife; eight sons,
Edgar of Whitewright; William and
Woodrow of Sherman, Arthur L. of
McKinney, Alfred and J. A. of Dallas,
Burk of Memphis, Tenn., and John A.
of Irving; five daughters, Mrs. Ann
Barrett of Trenton, Mrs. Lois New-
man of Dallas, Mrs. Mac Dennis of
Fort Worth, Mrs. Elma Cullum of
Stockton, Calif., and Mrs. Mildred
Braswell of Rockwall; 33 grandchil-
dren and 23-great-grandchildren; and
two brothers, J. Y. Ayers of Sulphur,
Okla., and G. M. Ayers of Clinton,
Ark.
HIGHLIGHTS AND SIDELIGHTS
FROM YOUR STATE CAPITOL
By Vem Sanford, Texas Press Association
Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
DENISON — The greatest problem
facing Americans today is how to deal
with one another, State Senator
Ralph Hall of Rockwall told a crowd
gathered here Saturday for the dedi-
cation of Denison’s $200,000 county
office building .
“If we have a difference of opin-
ion, let’s respect it. Let’s not spit on
the person with whom we disagree or
strike with a placard,” he said, re-
ferring to the Adlai Stevenson inci-
dent in Dallas.
“Our greatest problem today is
not communism, or the European
Market or whether to give Madame
Nhu more millions. It is just how to
deal with one another,” Hall said.
“These walls we’re dedicating to-
day shelter a place of hard labor.
There will be some intrigue, some
dishonesty perhaps and there will be
successes and failures here. All of
these are necessary to get the
product,
WHEN THE spooks and goblins
come knocking tonight — Hallo-
ween — beware! As James Whitcomb
Riley warns in Little Orphan Annie,
they’ll get you, “ef you don’t watch
out.” They’ll get you, that is, for be-
tween $1 and $5 worth of assorted
candy and goodies. That’s how much
several retail chain stores figure the
average family nation-wide spends
to pacify the hordes of young trick-
treaters who’ll roam the streets
Thursday night. In Whitewright some
householders plan to confine their
Halloween trick-or-treat gifts to
money for UNICEF, some will dis-
pense both money and goodies, some
will not be at home, and others just
won’t answer the door bell. Hallo-
ween customs, in these parts at least,
have changed since we were of trick-
or-treat age. We just never heard of
it then. We did roam the streets and
alleys, making a lot of noise but do-
ing little damage. There were tricks,
but no treats.
The Whitewright High School
Tigers and the Van Alstyne Panthers
will meet Friday night at Van Alstyne
in the game of the year. It is always
the game of the year for these two
long-time rivals, but this year it may
determine who is to be District 16-A
champion. Neither team has lost a
conference game, but both have lost
a game — the Tigers to Wylie and.
the Panthers to Frisco, both non-
conference games.
Last year the Tigers and the Pan-
thers played to a 14-14 tie here, giv-
ing Van Alstyne a % game edge in
district standings. Only Honey Grove
stood in Van Alstyne’s path to the
championship, and Whitewright fans
went all out in rooting for Honey
Grove to beat the Panthers and give
the championship to the Tigers. But
it didn’t work out that way — Van
Alstyne defeated Honey Grove and.
earned the championship.
The winner of Friday night’s game
has only one more conference game
to play. If Whitewright wins, only
S&S stands in the way, and doesn’t
stand very tall.
Last Friday the Tigers defeated.
Honey Grove 19 to 8. See The Re-
flector page for details.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
You might recollect I was telling
you here awhile back about the U. S.
Education Department advising a
new kind of arithmetic fer the school
kids, claiming the old “tutem law” of
2 times 2 is four ain’t necessary true
in all cases. Well, we got another jolt
coming from the deep thinkers. A
science feller named Dr. Kaplan has
announced that what we been calling
the Big Toe since the beginning of
time ain’t always the Big Toe.
After studying this matter
measuring toes fer years, he says
about half the time the toe next to
the Big Toe is the longest. It’s gitting
to the place, Mister Editor, where
nothing me and you was raised up to
believe is sacred no more.
We was discussing these matters at
the country store Saturday night and
Ed Doolittle said the worst ain’t got
here yet. Fer instant, he reported he
was reading a piece in the papers
where the wimmen folks is gradual
taking over the pool rooms. Ed said
this piece claimed the heavy ma-
hogany tables with the green tops, the
dirty light bulb hanging from the
sealing, the windows with soiled cur-
tains, all was on the way out. Now
they was putting in pool rooms with
thick wall-to-wall carpets, sweet
music playing, soft lights glowing,
swanky lounging chairs setting a-
round, and furnishing college girls to
teach the wimmen all the fancy shots.
AUSTIN — A Houston federal
court’s order wiping out present State
congressional district lines and di-
recting all Texas congressmen to run
at-large until the legislature redis-
tricts on the basis of population alone
is on appeal to the U. S. Supreme
Court.
Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr’s re-
quest for a stay of the Houston judg-
es’ decision pending final disposition
of the appeal was granted by
Supreme- Court Justice Hugo Black.
Gov. John Connally conceded that
the present line-up is unfair, with
districts ranging from 213,000 to 960,-
000 population. But he argued that
it’s the responsibility of the legisla-
ture, not the federal courts. He felt
that the action by the Republican
majority on the court was politically
planned.
GOP members filed the lawsuit
attacking the population imbalance
among districts.
The Governor pledged to fight the
order to the last legal ditch. He
termed it “ridiculous” and unpre-
cedented. Connally stated he would
call no special session on redistricting
“until all other avenues of action are
closed.” He felt it would be a waste
of their time and $400,000 in tax
money.
His belief was that such a compli-
cated measure could not be worked
out in 30 days, especially since there
have been no decisions of the U. S.
Supreme Court to show what, if any,
rules will be placed on Congressional
redistricting.
A Georgia case will be argued in
November. This may provide guide-
lines.
Connally believes that once the
filing deadline has passeed in Febru-
ary the Supreme Court will not in-
terfere with the 1964 elections.
Top ranking Republicans found the
Governor’s tough words “shocking.”
State AFL-CIO President Hank
Brown said “complete and total an-
archy” is going to be the result of
failure to redistrict before the Feb-
ruary 3 filing deadline.
The Governor drew blasts of criti-
cism from major cities, which are
under-represented in Congress. But
there was approval from rural areas.
They will lose strength in Congress
when the districts are re-adusted to
be more equal in size, population-
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IT’S A LONG WAY to presidential
nomination time, and the Republicans
haven’t asked for our opinion. But
we’ll give it, anyway. Dick Nixon
lost last time by a very slim margin,
and it has been charged that an
honest count in two states suspected
of skullduggery with the ballots
would have given the 1960 election to
Nixon. This means that he was sup-
ported by all Republicans and a lot
of Democrats. It is doubtful that the
Republican front runners in the cur-
rent campaign could get the support
of all Republicans, and a party divid-
ed has already lost any election.
Goldwater is too far to the right, too
conservative, to get support from
liberal-minded Republicans. Rocke-
feller is too liberal to have support
from conservative Republicans. So,
don’t count Dick Nixon out.
wise.
FEEL RICHER?—Texans’ incomes
were at an all-time high in 1962 at
$20,360,000,000,reports the U. S. De-
partment of Commerce. This was
4.4% above 1961. It means that 4.6%
of the dollars earned by all Ameri-
cans belonged to Texans.
But when the massive figures are
put into averages, Texans fall back.
Teixas ranks third in population, but
sixth in total personal income. New
York’s $50,990,000,000 and Califor-
nia’s $49,180,000,000 mean that people
in those states have higher average
incomes than Texans.
However, back in 1929 the total
personal income of Texans was $2,-
700,000,000. Now it’s nearly 10 times
as much.
HOSPITAL FUNDS APPROVED—
State Board of Health has approved
$11,200,000 in applications for federal
Hill-Burton hospital aid funds on 21
projects. Grants usually finance half
the construction cost.
The Water Pollution Control divi-
sion of the Health Department found
that the U. S. Congress had voted
$340,000 more than earlier announced
for community sewage treatment
plant projects. It is finding funds for
several projects in addition to the 38
originally requested.
SLANT - HOLE OIL WELLS —
Roy D. Payne, field supervisor for
the Railroad Commission, now re-
ports that there are 900 oil wells shut
down in the giant East Texas Field,
and about 300 of them have been
found to be deviated.
Payne estimated that thousands of
barrels of oil from deviated wells is
in storage. He said operators are be-
ing given the choice of putting it
back into the reservoir, or giving it
free to the county from which it
came for use on roads.
WATER RECREATION — Gover-
nor Connally’s committee charged
with working out plans for full rec-
reational use of Texas lakes plans
to meet the third Monday of each
month.
Committee headed by Marvin Wat-
son, chairman of the Northeast Texas
Municipal Water District, asked the
Texas Water Commission to make a
recreation survey of all Texas lakes.
But it would be such a mammoth un-
dertaking the commission’s liaison
PASSAU, Germany — The Passau
city council yesterday offered to pay
$60 to any gravedigger who saves a
person from being buried alive.
An announcement said the council
decided to revive an offer first made
in 1871 by a court official named
Johann Schmidt, who apparently had
an obsession about the possibility of
living interment. His bequest has
never been claimed.
A committee to nominate new of-
ficers for the Grayson County De-
velopment Council was named last
Thursday night at a meeting of the
council here.
Chairman of the committee is Bill
Somers, city manager of Denison; Al-
bert Nibling of Sherman, and R. A.
Parker of Whitesboro.
The council h&ard reports on the
Junior College election and the Tex-
oma Livestock show.
Bob Fielder of Van Alstyne report-
ed that petitions are being circulated
over the county calling for an elec-
tion on the college December 7. He
urged members of the council as the
group which initiated the junior col-
lege program to give active support.
R. S. McAfee of Sherman reported
on the livestock show property at
Loy Lake. He said that vandalism
has caused considerable damage to
the women’s building. Methods of
protecting the property were discuss-
ed.
McAfee said for the show to grow
more buildings would be needed. He
noted that around $100,000 has been
invested in buildings so far.
Council president Clint Henning
reported that Tom Bean had desig-
nated a member of the council. Four
other smaller towns, which had been
written and invited to name members
to the board, had not answered, Hen-
nig said.
The Whitewright hosts served bar-
becued chicken at the Tom Sears
pasture east of town. Joe Kaufman
invited the group to meet at his home
at Sherman on November 21.
LONDON — Mrs. Agnes Crean,
knocked down by a car and badly in-
jured, went to court for damages. In-
stead she was ordered to pay 45
pounds 5 shillings ($127.40) to re-
pair the car.
Mrs. Crean had broken ribs,
broken leg, head cuts, shock, concus-
sion and bruises.
The car had a bent bumper and
dented fender.
Mrs. Crean charged that negligent
driving by Ronald Shear caused the
accident. Judge William Gorman ac-
cepted Shear’s version — that Mrs.
Crean dashed into the road without
looking.
JOE DOWNEY, butcher at the
Farley & Hardcastle food store, heav-
ed a big sigh of relief Saturday when
David Smith returned from a Colo-
rado deer hunt. David had made ar-
rangements in advance for Joe to cut
up and freezer-wrap two or three big
bucks, entailing a lot of work on Joe’s
part.
Farthermore, Ed reported they was
putting these fancy pool rooms —
which they was calling “salons” —
close to the automatical launderies,
shopping centers and places where
wimmen would be tempted to git
the pool habit. Ed said this piece
claimed they was 2,000 of these fancy
pool “salons” fer wimmen opened in
the last year.
Zeke Grubb told the fellers just
ever-day-life was gitting so con-
fusing he hated to hear the phone
ring, was afaid it was fer him. Bug
Hookum claimed about the only place
in the country where things was
normal and going according to plan
was in the Congress. Fer instant, re-
ported Bug, he had saw where they
was completing a 10-story office
building fer Congressman fer $83
million and the curtains fer the of-
fice windows was costing $700 per
window. Bug allowed as how this
was normal percedure fer the Con-
gress. He said he got this item from
the Wall Street Journal, in case we
wanted to check. I got to find out at
the next session how come Bug has
took to reading the Wall Street
Journal.
Well, Mister Editor, I got to stop
now and git the yardstick and see if
what I been calling my Big Toe fer
nigh on to 70 year is actual been
gitting credit where credit didn’t be-
long.
Yours truly,
BOY SCOUTS will deliver Good-
will bags to Whitewright homes Sat-
urday afternoon for use by the people
in contributing discarded clothing
and shoes to Goodwill Industries of
Grayson County. The Scouts will
pick up the bags Sunday afternoon.
Clothing and shoes donated will be
renovated by handicapped workers
for sale in Goodwill
WASHINGTON — A new colonel
in the Pentagon asked his young sec-
retary, a trifle green to military talk,
“What’s the normal complement of
this office?”
The girl looked surprised, but
finally said, “Gee, I don’t know. I
guess something like, ‘Good morning,
you certainly look pretty this morn-
ing’.”
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Authorities
blamed free and easy use of automo-
biles by teen-agers and “poor paren-
tal supervision” Wednesday for a
mounting sex scandal that had re-
sulted in 25 arrests and reached a
“crisis” stage in this historic river
city.
St. Charles County prosecutor
Donald Dalton urged the shocked and.
troubled community to enact a cur-
few law for juveniles.
County juvenile officer Edwin.
Stein said the number of persons in-
volved was “well, well over” the 25
now charged with statutory rape or
contributing to the delinquency of
minors, and the 6-week-old investi-
gation “isn’t even half over.”
“The scope of this thing is
ing,” Stein said. “I consider this
crisis.”
Stein said “poor parental super-
vision has brought about this situa-
tion” and called the scandal “evi-
dence of the deterioration of our
country’s moral structure.”
Dalton said a major contributing
factor was the unlimited use of auto-
mobiles by high school boys and girls
— frequently cars which were given
the youngsters as 16th birthday gifts.
The prosecutor also laid blame on
beer parties and criticized parents
for permitting high school junior and
senior girls to date older men.
Dalton called on parents to halt
“a serious situation which has come
about in connection with sex crimes
involving the boys and girls.
“It is unfortunate that the law pro-
hibits my giving details of cases that
are under investigation,” he said.
“However, something of the serious-
ness of the situation can be gathered
from the nature and number of
charges filed.”
Dalton said the investigation had
turned up cases of forcible rape. He
said there also were cases of un-
natural sex acts, but “I think we
have caught this before it spread very
far.”
In other cases, statutory rape
charges were filed because they gave
consent to intimacies.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce
is conducting a survey of public opin-
ion on the need for wholesome ac-
tivities for the 1,365 high school stu-
dents in this city of 21,000 — former
state capital on the banks of the Mis-
souri River.
man, Lewis Seward, demurred.
However ,the State Water Develop-
ment Board already has stated it will
take recreational potential into ac-
count when voting on loans for com-
munity water projects.
State Highway Department has just
authorized construction of 29 more
boat-ramp projects, in addition to the
56 now built or programed. Each
ramp project includes a parking
area, access road, incinerator, signs
and landscaping.
‘FISH-TO-MARKET’ ROAD — In-
creased requests to the State High-
way Commission for “farm-to-mar-
ket-type” roads,
with reservoirs,
Chairman Herb Petry Jr. of Carrizo
Springs to jokingly suggest a new
road classification, “Fish-to-Market
roads.”
Latest on the list of lake builders
is Brady, Texas. It will lose an old
mail and school-bus route just west
of town when recently-completed
Brady Lake is filled. The town wants
$200,000 to build a new roadway a-
round the lake and over the dam.
Seal two busloads of active young
Americans in a steel tube outside
Austin, Tex. . .
Hurl them at nearly the speed of
sound across an ocean and parts of
two countries . . .
Confine then — on penalty of their
first sergeant’s thundering displea-
sure — to hip-hugging, leg-twisting
seats with old comic books. . .
Feed them cold C-rations. . .
Unseal them 10 hours later in the
bleak cold of a German dawn on the
banks of The Main, outside Frank-
furt. . .
Feed them a hot meal and load
them onto trucks ...
And that’s Operation Big Lift for
the GI’s in one plane.
The entire 2nd Armored Division
was flown to Germany this week in
this manner without mishap, the first
mass air mobilization ever attempt-
ed.
WASHINGTON — The House was
handed a hot potato Wednesday — a
bill raising the pay of 1.8 million
government workers, including $10,-
000-a-year increases for members of
Congress.
Similar increases for the vice-
president, Supreme Court justices
and cabinet officers are included in
the bill, with the scale going down to
an average $100-a-year increase at
the lowest-level jobs.
What members of the House have
to decide is whether they want to
vote themselves a nearly 50 per cent
pay boost in order to give their col-
leagues in government higher
salaries.
One member gave a quick answer.
No sooner had the House Post Office
Committee approved the bill than
Rep. Eugene Silver, R-Ky., called it
“unscrupulous and untimely.”
He might get an argument on the
first, but very few House members
feel the bill is timely. Having pro-
mised to hold down spending when
they passed a big tax-cut bill earlier
this year, the congressmen hate the
thought of being called on to vote to
raise their own pay.
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