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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
"VOLUME 79, NUMBER 4
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1964
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State Guard Gets
Training Date Set
FARM BUDGET
CUT 1 BILLION
U. S. Fire Deaths
Put At 11,800 In '63
‘Sun-Sit’ Years
“My husband would never chase
another woman,” wifey boasted.
“Of course not,” her lady friend
replied, “he’s too fine, too decent, too
old.”
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JOHN L. REEVES is looking for-
ward to Feb. 29 when he will have
his first birthday in four years. John
-was born Feb. 29, 1892 and has had
a birthday only every four years
since that time except for one per-
iod when he went eight years without
getting to cut a birthday cake.
WE DON’T understand why it is
that local merchants will let out-of-
town outfits plaster their show win-
dows with circulars advertising out-
of-town events. This week a bevy
of Leonard school children hit town
and plastered show windows with
circulars advertising a jamboree that
is in competition the same night with
a similar show at the Linda Theatre.
And to show their gratitude, the vis-
itors covered the theatre’s billboard
advertising the local jamboree with
their circulars. Show windows are
for advertising what the merchant
has to sell inside the store—not for
the benefit of everybody who comes
along with circulars.
DON’T GET too enthused about
the President’s announced reduction
in the federal budget. While he did
cut the new budget by several billion
from the total asked for by the
various governmental agencies, the
$97.9 billion set forth in the bud-
get is only half a billion less than is
being spent this fiscal year.
Fire killed approximately 11,800
persons in the United States in 1963,
the National Fire Protection Associa-
tion, a non-profit educational organi-
zation, reports.
It said another 1.8 million per-
sons suffered severe burns in fires.
Value of property destroyed by fire
during the year reached an all-time
high of $1.76 billion, according to the
NFPA’s preliminary estimates.
Well over half the fire deaths oc-
curred in homes and more than a
third of these victims were children.
The NFPA statistics show. While the
total deaths remained almost un-
changed from the 1962 figure, dwell-
ing fatalities rose by 100 and ac-
counted for a larger portion of all fire
deaths.
Time is a daily miracle. You wake
up in the morning, and lo! your purse
is magically filled with twenty-four
hours of the unmanufactured tissue
of the universe of life. It is yours. It
is the most precious of possessions.
No one can take it from you. And no
one receives either more or less than
you receive. In the realm of time
there is no aristocracy of wealth, and
no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is
not awarded by even one extra hour
a day. — Bennett.
WASHINGTON — President John-
son asked 5.8 billion dollars Tuesday
for the Agriculture Department in
fiscal 1965 — down about 1.1 billions
from this year — and said he will
spell out his farm programs later.
The budget request was the second
biggest cut for any agency, ranking
just behind the Defense Department.
The biggest reduction, about 532
millions, would come in the lower
price the Agriculture Department ex-
pects to pay to subsidize wheat ship-
ments abroad under the “food for
peace” program and the International
Wheat Agreement.
Jump From 1962
While final 1963 figureswillbeun-
available for some months, the NFPA
preliminary estimate of $1.76 billion
in U. S. property losses represents
an approximate jump of some $170
; million over the 1962 total. Thus, 1963
i became the fourth year in succession
in which property destruction by fire
has been more than $1.5 billion.
Of the year’s $1.76 billion total,
$1.44 billion represents damage to
buildings and contents •— a rise of
some $157 million 1962.
Non-building fires —■ those involv-
ing aircraft, ships, motor vehicles and
other similar equipment, plus forest
fires — rose nearly $13 millions
an aggregate of $320 million.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The fellers at the country store
Saturday night was in a state of con-
fusion over the political situation.
Most of the fellers was agreed the
political front was gitting as confus-
ed as the battle lines in Vietnam and
the Congo.
Zeke Grubb reported he had saw
in the papers where candidate
Rockefeller says he’s running again
the “Four-D Formation—debt, disas-
ter, deceit, and Democrats.” How the
so ever and at the same time, Zeke
said, Rockefeller allowed as how he
ain’t promising no miracles if he gits
to Washington.
After the miracles we’ve had in
Washington fer the last 12 year, like
Billy Sol Estes and Bobby Baker, fer
instant, I hope whoever wins will
give us a few small ones to taper off down or front from back about the
on so’s to keep us from breaking up
and gitting the heebie-jeebies.
It’s hard, Mister Editor, to figger
out them politicians. A Republican
candidate will git up on the stump
and say the country is zagging when
it ought to be zigging, and the Demo-
crat candidate will allow as how the
Democrats has been busy fer four
years trying to git the zag out of the
zig from Ike’s eight year in Wash-
ington. A heap of the candidates
ain’t got the answers to nothing but
I never knowed one that didn’t keep
a big stock of replies on hand.
Farthermore, it has got so the can-
didates at national level is using a
political double talk now going on
amongst the candidates. Ed says it
makes him recollect about the feller
in the cafe complaining to the waiter
the water was muddy. The waiter
jumped all over the feller, claimed
he couldn’t see good, said they wasn’t
nothing the matter with the water,
the glass was just dirty.
Zeke was of the opinion both sides
would have to set up some of them
Markus of Quenberry rules or the
water was going to git too muddy or
the glass too dirty fer the voters to
tell from nothing what it’s all about.
Yours truly,
The name of the Ku Klux Klan
originated from the Greek work “ku- I local officers are sworn in on various
klos”, meaning ring. | dates to begin their terms of office.
DALLAS IS apparently being pun-
ished further by the national govern-
ment for keeping a Republican con-
gressman in Washington, and maybe
for electing Republican members to
the Legislature. The General Services
Administration, with 583 employ-
ees, is to be moved to Fort Worth.
This follows on the heels of the re-
moval from Dallas to Waco of the
Veterans Administration. And there
may be more to come.
Texans go to the polls and to politi-
cal conventions in 1964 to help nomi-
nate and elect officials from the Pre-
sident of the United States to pre-
cinct peace justice.
The spring campaigns are devoted
to the nomination process through the
Democratic and Republican primar-
ies.
The county and state conventions
of both parties will determine the
makeup of Texas delegations to the
national conventions during the sum-
mer. These delegations will have a
voice in nominating candidates for
the presidency and in forging party
platforms.
The fall campaigns will lead to the
grand finale, election day 1964 on
Nov. 3.'
Many dates are important to can-
didates, and others are vital to the
general electorate. Some of the most
important political dates, as govern-
ed by the Texas Election Code, are as
follows:
Jan. 31 — Poll taxes must be paid
and exemption certificates must be
obtained to vote in the primaries and
general elections as well as the other
municipal and special elections be-
tween Feb. 1, 1964 and Jan. 31, 1965.
Feb. 3 — The filing deadline for
candidates who wish to have their
names placed on primary ballots.
Feb. 15 — Last day for candidates
to pay primary assessment costs to
their county chairman.
March 3 — First day to make ap-
plication to county clerk to vote ab-
senate by mail for the first primary.
March 16 — County executive com-
mittee to determine by lot the order
of candidates on the printed ballot,
the hour and places of holding pre-
cinct conventions on primary election
day, and the hour anad place of the
county convention on May 9.
April 7 — First day to make appli-
cation to county clerk to vote ab-
sentee by mail in the second primary.
April 12-28 •— Absentee voting by
personal appearance or by mail for
first primary begins 20 days before
election and continues through the
fourth day preceding election.
May 2 — FIRST PRIMARY ELEC-
TION. Candidates who receive a ma-
jority of the votes cast in their race
will be party nominees. The two top
votegetters in races where no candi-
date obtains a majority will be vot-
ed on in the second primary.
May 2 — Precinct conventions to
elect county convention delegates.
May 9 — COUNTY CONVENTION
to elect delegates to the state conven-
tion.
May 27-June 2 — Absentee voting
by personal appearance or by mail
for second primary.
June 6 — SECOND PRIMARY
ELECTION. Completion of nominat-
ing process except for canvassing and
contesting of vote outcome.
June 16 — STATE CONVENTION
to meet to elect delegates to the na-
tional convention.
Sept. 4 — First day to make appli-
cation to county clerk to vote absen-
tee by mail in the general election.
Sept. 15 — State Convention to
meet to adopt state platform for gen-
eral election.
Oct. 14-30 — Absentee voting by
mail of by personal appearance for
general election.
Oct. 24-26 — Sworn statement of
campaign expenditures must be filed.
Nov. 3 — General election day.
Dec. 14 — Presidential electors
convene in Austin to vote for Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United
States.
January, 1965 — Federal, state and
WE HAVE read the Muenster En-
terprise, published by R. N. Fette,
over a long period of time, and we
consider it among the top weekly
newspapers in Texas. Muenster must
be an unusual town, because several
years the people of the town started
a drive to build a hospital. Last week
the town celebrated the opening of a
$750,000 hospital, and we want to
congratulate Muenster people for
putting forth the tremendous effort
that must have been necessary to
build such a hospital in a small town.
Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
heap of new words that was confus-
ing to the voters. Fer instant, one
feller running fer Congress says we
need more “groupsmanship” amongst
our allies abroad. I reckon this is
a first cousin to that “togetherness”
business we been hearing about.
I may be giting old and set in my
ways but it’s hard fer me to see what
“groupsmanship” has got to do with
our books being $315 billion in the
red and $8 billion out of balance fer
the year. While the Guvernment is
fixing us up with fall-out shelters
agin what might come from Russia,
they ought to give us oxygen tents
fer what we know is coming from
Washington.
Even Ed Doolittle, that is a author-
ity on politics, special the Republi-
can brand, says he can’t tell up from
The school planning committe of
the Whitewright Independent School
District Board of Education met Fri-
day night and discussed building
sites, financing and other matters
pertaining to the problem of build-
ing a new high school plant.
Kenneth Frisby, member of the
committe, said that the school district
now owes approximately $90,000 and
has $45,000 in the bond sinking fund-
that could reduce the indebtedness to
$45,000.
He said that the committee has in
mind a location for the new school of
about 20 acres, in order to provide
for expansion in the event that con-
solidation with other nearby schools
might eventually be ordered by the
Texas Education Agency.
As of now construction would be
only large enough to provide for the
Whitewright High School. The com-
mittee will study the matter further
at a later meeting.
Other committee members are Dick
Walker and J. T. Holloway.
WASHINGTON — The Post Office
Department has won Interstate Com-
merce Commission approval for a
substantial increase in parcel post
mailing rates.
The increase averages 13.1 per cent
above the present rates, which have
been in effect four years. It also
would apply to catalog mailings.
It is now up to the Post Ofice De-
partment — faced with rising parcel
post deficits — to decide when the
rates shall take effect.
The ICC said the proposed rates
would promote service to the public.
More than that, the commission said,
they would help parcel post pay its
own way, as required by law. Parcel
post revenue is required to come
within 4 per cent of its cost — above
or below.
The postmaster general has author-
ity under the law to change parcel
post rates when he sees fit, but he
must obtain ICC approval for any
such change.
THERE ARE some ideas advanced
by presidential hopeful Barry Gold-
water that we can’t go along with,
but there is one that makes sense.
Barry, condemning what he terms
the “Santa Claus” of the govern-
ment handouts, has urged that able-
bodied persons on government relief
be put to work in payment for their
welfare checks. Even under the ul-
tra-liberal New Deal of the 1930s
men were required to work on public
projects in order to earn relief
checks. Under the current brand of
liberalism, reliefers can spend their
time playing dominoes, hanging a-
round bars and pool rooms, fishing,
or just sitting and rocking in the old
rocking chair. They do have to take
time out from loafing to pick up
their relief checks, but that only re-
quires them to sacrifice an hour or
so once a month. We believe in feed-
ing the hungry, but there is such a
thing as going too far. This, of course,
does not apply to retired persons who
have already earned their right to
loaf and enjoy life any way they can.
GUS HOLMES
Gus Holmes, 86, retired Trenton
farmer, died Monday in a Trenton
nursing home. Funeral services were
held at Trenton Wednesday after-
noon, and burial was in Pilot Grove
Cemetery, directed by Earnheart
Funeral Home.
Mr. Holmes was born Dec. 8, 1877,
at Pilot Grove, anad moved to Tren-
ton at the age of four with his
parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Holmes.
He married Georgia Ann Rhoades
of Pilot Grove Nov. 12, 1912. He was
a Baptist. He was a brother of the
late Tom Holmes, for many years
publisher of the Trenton Tribune.
Survivors include a son, Max
Holmes of Dallas; a brother, Fred
Holmes of Garland; a sister, Mrs.
Daisy Lemmon of Amarillo, and one
granddaughter. A nephew, Tom Me
Holmes, is currently publisher of the
Trenton Tribune.
R. I. SCOTT
Funeral services were held at 2
p. m. Tuesday in Earnheart funeral
chapel for Robert Irving Scott, 75,
who died in a Sherman hospital at
12:55 a. m. Monday.
Rev. Howard McSpedden of Aub-
rey and Rev. LeRoy Martin of Tren-
ton, both Baptist ministers, conduct-
ed the services. Burial was in Pilot
Grove Cemetery, with nephews serv-
ing as casket bearers.
Born Dec. 5, 1888, at Burksville,
Ky., Mr. Scott was the son of A. T.
and Jeslaine Bow Scott. He married
Alice Anna Smith Dec. 24, 1914, at
Liberty, Texas. He farmed in the Pi-
lot Grove community for many years
before retiring and moving to White-
wright. He was a member of the Bap-
tist Church.
Surviving are four sons, Sidney L.
of Irving, Robert L. of San Antonio,
Noel of Kaufman and Max Elvis of
El Paso; one daughter, Mrs. Joanne
Powell of Mesquite; two brothers,
W. H. Scott of Waxachie and Taylor
Scott of Sherman; one sister, Mrs.
Ocie Allison of Whitewright, and 12
grandchildren.
to pleasant weather areas, always
finding just the right weather condi-
tions for comfort. We never made it,
which is just as well for we have here
in Whitewright just about any kind
of weather that we could find any-
where. It’s always too hot, too cold,
too dry, too wet — what more could
anyone expect to find anywhere?
MRS. MATTIE FELMET
Mrs. Mattie Viola Felmet, 66, burn-
ed to death Friday morning at her
home in the Desert community south
of Whitewright. Her husband had left
her sitting in a rocking chair in front
of an openflame gas heater while he
went to the Desert store after gro-
ceries, and when he returned a half
hour later he found her lying across
the burning stove. She was dead
when found. She was partially para-
lyzed.
Mrs. Felmet’s body was taken to
Greenville for funeral and burial.
LAST WEEK’S 6-inch snowfall
brought back memories of yesteryear.
We used to enjoy playing in the
snow, building snow-men, and other
snow-time activities, but not any
more. David Smith of The Sun staff
told us he and Carole, his wife, got
outside and built a snow-man at 10
o’clock Wednesday night, then had
a snow-fight before going inside. At
our age it seemed utterly ridiculous
— it must be nice to be young and
full of vim, vigor and vitality. We
noticed that Rev. Howard Adams had
four snow-men in the Methodist par-
sonage yard on Thursday, but we
have an idea that he had some young-
sters helping him, maybe doing the
work while he supervised.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
■but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
IF YOU ARE among those who
contributed to the Tippit family fund,
you may deduct the amount you gave
on your income tax. So says the In-
ternal Revenue Service. The Ameri-
can people went overboard in con-
tributing to the family of the Dallas
policeman slain by Harvey Oswald
shortly after Oswald assassinated
President Kennedy. Already counted
for the Tippit fund is more than a
half a million dollars. This is just a
shade on the ridiculous side. The
Tippit family wouldn’t have been
exactly destitute if the public hadn’t
given them anything. Their pension
from the Dallas police department
plus Social Security payments for the
children would probably add up to
more than Tippit was earning in
take-home pay while he was alive.
asked by several
people what local business man we
referred to in the item in this column
about catching wolves on fishing
tackle. He is Floyd Flowers, owner
of Flowers Trim Shop, and he main-
tains that the story was true!
WE GET the Houston Post each
day, and we noted that Houston had
a record low temperature of 21 de-
grees Jan. 14. That is mild compared
to what North Texas had. But year
around we’ll take our climate over
Houston’s humidity any time, even
if we do have colder weather in win-
ter. One of our early ambitions was
to be able to move with the seasons
COLLEGE STATION — The 1964
edition of the Farmer’s Tax Guide is
now available, says C. H. Bates, farm
management specialist, at Texas
A&M University.
This handy, easy-to-read guide
contains information applicable to
every phase of farm income tax re-
porting, Bates explains. . It shows
sample returns completely filled out
with an explanation of the figures,
he says.
Investment credit, one of the newer
features of the tax structure, is fully
explained in the new guide. It points .
out that a reduction in taxes paid for
1963 is based on tangible personal
property and real estate acquired last
year. As much as seven percent of the
cost of these items is allowed as a
deduction but the percentage varies
with the useful life of the assets, says
Bates.
Another feature of the guide is an
explanation of how to sell a farm on
installments and examples are given
to help clarify the procedure for
computing taxable gain. Also an ex-
planation of depreciation methods
and the additional first year depre-
ciation is given, says Bates.
Other sections of the guide cover
the importance of good records, farm
business expenses, farm inventories,
casualty losses and thefts, an ex-
planation on completing the return,
and many more.
Copies of the Farmer’s Tax Guide
may be obtained without charge from
the county Extension offices or those
of the Internal Revenue Service.
Bates recommends that a copy be
kept handy for reference on tax mat-
ters concerning the farm.
President Johnson sent Congress
a trimmed-down 97.9-billion-dollar
budget Tuesday and called it “a giant
step” toward the elimination of red
ink spending.
As he had announced earlier, it
recommends reduced defense spend-
ing and calls for the start of a bil-
lion-dollar effort “to break the vic-
ious circle of chronic poverty.”
Spending for that program during
the first year is planned at about
300 million dollars.
Johnson said that an austere bud-
get — his own term for the 475-page
document — “need not and should
not be a standstill budget.”
Demanding “a passion for ef-
ficiency and economy” in govern-
ment, the President said determined
cost cutting would not only produce
the first federal spending cut in five
years but would release funds to
meet unfilled needs — notably the
war on chronic poverty.
As is always the case •— and par-
ticularly so in election years •— the
reaction in Congress pretty much
followed party lines.
As GOP Senate Leader Everett M.
Dirksen put it: “I’m intrigued by how
so much more can be undertaken by
the federal government in so many
quarters with so much less money.”
But the Democratic Senate leader,
Mike Mansfield of Montana, said: “A
lot of people have said in the past
that Johnson can’t do this and can’t
do that. But Johnson has done what
he has set out to do in most instan-
ces.”
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon
told a news conference Monday that
the spending rate will continue ris-
ing to a peak in the October-Decem-
ber quarter. He said it will turn down
in the next two quarters — the sec-
ond half of the fiscal year.
Asked when he expects a balanced
budget, Dillon said he thinks John-
son will “come pretty close to it next
year” and that by January 1966 a
black ink budget should be “well in
the cards.”
Terming his fiscal blueprint “a
budget of economy and progress.”
Johnson said it would slash the 12-
month deficit from 10 billion dollars
to 4.9 billion dollars and carry the
nation “a giant step toward ... a
balanced budget in a full-employ-
ment, full-prosperity economy.”
However, Johnson repeatedly
maintained that this rosy prospect
hinges on “the earliest possible en-
actment” of an 11-billion dollar tax
cut, “an integral and vital part of
my budgetary proposals.”
TOPEKA, Kans. — Just to keep
the record straight: it’s against the
law to eat snakes, lizards, scorpions,
centipedes, tarntulas or other rep-
tiles in public in Kansas.
In fact, a law forbids you to even
pretend to eat such items publicly.
Another old law requires every
theater, public hall or building in
the state to provide sufficient spit-
toons or cuspidors. The same applies
to railway cars.
And in Topeka, a city ordinance
prohibits citizens from running an
opium den — or frequenting one.
The annual field training for na-
tional guardsmen of the 49th Armor-
ed Division has been set for June 21-
July 5 at Fort Hood.
More than 7,000 officers and en-
listed men from 79 Texas cities will
take part in combat-like exercises
during the two weeks, along with
regular Army troops.
The 49th —■ ranked among the top
armored reserve divisions in the
nation — will be making its 16th en-
campment this year since World War
II. Maj. Gen. Harley B. West of Dal-
las is commander.
A motorized division review is
scheduled June 27 at midpoint of the
training period.
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