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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 66, NUMBER 41.
5c a Copy, $1.50 and $2.00 a Year
Connection Made
BODY REACHES
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To New Water Tower AGREEMENT ON
4,8000,000 Bales
INCOME TAXES
WILSON FEARS
OVER-ARMING
WASHINGTON.—Government
of-
TAFT CALLED
Farm Income Up
Half of Texas
3 7 Pct. in 8 Months Cars Likely to
For Texas Output
Fail Inspection
erty was valued at $3,112.
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Phone or send in your news items.
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Auto Industry Has
$6 Billion Orders
U.S.Backs Britain
In Suez Canal Row
Big Dip Predicted
In Production of
Civilian Goods
Whitewright Will
Have Services Of
X-Ray Unit Dec. 15
Auto Production
Fixed at 950,000
U. S. to Have 5 Million
More Oldsters By 1975
Drunkenness Tops
Liquor Violations
In Arrest Report
Keep On The
Safe Side
A LOVELY WAY
TO GO VISITING
FAVORITE OF
DISSIDENTS
GOLFER STABBED
BY BROKEN CLUB
BLEEDS TO DEATH
FARMER SHOT TO
DEATH BY DOG
OPS Doubts Meat
Controls Here to Stay
“What
“How
Elford
18 MILLION WAR
VETS STILL
ALIVE IN NATION
The first printing press in America
was set up in 1638 in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Benjamin Franklin was the pub-
lisher of the Philadelphia Zeitung,
which in 1732 was the first foreign-
language newspaper in the American
colonies.
WASHINGTON. — House passage
sent to President Truman Tuesday
legislation doing away with a re-
quirement that an election must be
held before a labor union and an em-
ployer may make a union shop agree-
ment.
If you are a Breakfast Club listen-
er, you know it is easier to rise with
the lark than after one.
The publisher acknowledges re-
ceipt of subscription payments from
the following this week:
Lynn Ward
Mrs. W. E. Rice
Glen C. Cole
Lollace May
Jane Meador
Mrs. J. L. McSpedden
Albert T. Smith
C. H. Taylor
C. P. Dawson
R. W. Martin
Mrs. J. E. Everheart
Mrs. J. C. Waldrop
Cloy Horton
N. E. Skaggs
Clyde R. Owen
Wilson F. Walters
Arthur V. St. John
Mrs. J. H. Pennell
Mozelle Harvey
Minnie Climer
Mrs. A. D. Asbill
Ferdinand Moore
Mrs. Jetta B. Caraway
Robert Dean
W. C. Cummings
Mrs. C. A. Brewer
Mrs. Sarah Kilgroe
R. E. Barbee
Mrs. S. E. Wallace
Addison A. Vestal
Mrs. Addie Sweatt
Bun Alexander
J. P. Darwin
and Lane volunteered, but went no
further than their cars, returned with
not only “anything” but “everything.”
It will take several days for the
Lanes to clear out their refrigerator.
That’s a lovely way for people to
go visiting, as reported by Mrs. Lane.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1951.
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935 Bales of Cotton Cotton Estimate
Are Ginned Locally For Texas Stays
WASHINGTON. — Price Boss Mi-
chael V. DiSalle told House members
Tuesday there is “a real possibility”
price controls on meat will be drop-
ped unless slaughter quotas are im-
posed again.
But he said failure by Congress to
give the Office of Price Stabilization
quota-setting authority will not bring
san end immediately to meat price
ceilings.
“On the contrary we will do our
best to make them work,” the price
■control director said, “but I would be
less than frank if I did not tell you
that in the long run there is a real
possibility that the whole program
•will prove unworkable and have to be
abandoned if we do not get slaughter
quotas.”
STOP! when the school bus
stops to be on the safe side.
There is a state law which
reads, “The driver of a vehicle
upon a highway outside of a
business or residence district
upon meeting or overtaking
from either direction any school
bus which has stopped on the
highway for the purpose of re-
ceiving or discharging children
shall stop the vehicle immedi-
ately before passing the school
bus but may proceed past such
school bus at a speed which is
prudent, not exceeling 10 miles
per hour, and with due caution
for the safety of such children.”
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Veterans
Administrator Carl R. Gray Jr. cal-
culated Sunday night that 25,000,000
Americans have fought this nation’s
eight wars. He said 18,828,000 of
them are still alive.
Gray said 935,000 fighting men
have been killed on the field of bat-
tle.
In addition to the living war vet-
erans, Gray said, there are 396,000
widows and 288,000 dependent chil-
dren of deceased veterans.
The Veterans Administration still
has six Civil War veterans on its
rolls, and 407 veterans of Indian
wars. There are 15,228,000 surviving
veterans of World War II, and about
3,600,000 veterans of World War I
and other wars.
testing this group are available and
more effective.
The mass X-Ray not only discovers
many previously unknown cases of
tuberculosis but also reveals many
other chest conditions such as dis-
eases of the lungs and certain types
of heart disease.
Dr. D.- R. Reilly,- director of the-
Dick Doheny, rookie quarterback
for the New York football Yanks,
won the Moynahan Trophy as the
outstanding Eastern collegiate ath-
lete in 1950 while playing for Ford-
ham.
CITRUS CROP FORECAST
IS ONLY 500,000 BOXES
WESLACO. — An official of the
Texas Citrus Exchange predicted to-
day the state’s citrus crop this year
will be no more than 500,000 boxes,
compared to the 30 million boxes
normally harvested.
Lorne Hamme, general manager of
the exchange, said an official gov-
ernment estimate of the Rio Grande
Valley crop will be made within 10
days.
Grayson County Health Unit, was
appointed County Chairman for the
mass X-Ray. W. C. ummings was
named chairman for the Whitewright
area. Other chairmen will be ap-
pointed and committees organized in
the near future.
FRESNO, Calif.—Jesus Fabella di
Madera reported to authorities that
he had been robbed of $60 and then
returned home to go to bed. Within
an hour he was back at police head-
quarters to report that someone had
stolen his bed.
ficials warned Sunday “the most dif-
ficult six months of the emergency”
begins in January when civilian pro-
duction will be drastically reduced to
make way for the military program.
Top defense production experts
said output of most civilian products
—autos, refrigerators, washing ma-
chines and other items—will fall at
least 50 percent below that for the
same month in 1950.
Moreover, they declared a number
of manufacturers face plant shut-
downs until the nation’s supply of
steel and aluminum can be stepped-
up sufficiently to permit adequate al-
locations to all producers.
WASHINGTON. — Secretary of
State Dean Acheson said Wednesday
that an American-supported plan for
international defense of the Middle
East will be submitted to Egypt in a
few days.
He forecast that it will provide a
“sound basis” for a solution of the
dispute between Egypt and Britain
over the Suez Canal and the Sudan,
and contribute also to the defense of
the free world.
Meantime, Acheson made it plain
that the United States backs Britain’s
stand that the Egyptian government
can not legally cancel existing
treaties in its effort to evict the Brit-
ish from the Suez Canal area and the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
As Acheson spoke, news dispatches
told of Egyptian mobs swarming
through downtown Cairo Wednesday
attacking foreign business offices
with stick's, stones and bottles and
setting fires.
SEATTLE.—A young golfer bled to
death yesterday after be broke a
club he was using, accidentally stab-
bed himself with it and other golfers
mistook his agonized screams for help
as the cries of peacocks.
King County Detective Capt. Adam
W. Lyskoski identified the victim as
Edward M. Harrison, about 25, of
.Bellevue, Wash.
Lyskoski said Harrison apparently
was playing alone. When he came to
the ninth tee, he swung his driver
and it struck his golf cart. The metal
shaft of the driver broke.
The sharp, broken end of the driv-
er then whipped back and caught
Harrison in the groin.
NO BED OF HIS OWN
The two Whitewright gins had
ginned 935 bales of cotton up to 10
o’clock Thursday morning, a gain of
150 bales during the past week.
There has been no change in price
of cotton and seed from a week ago.
Buyers were paying 35.50 for picked
cotton, 34.50 for snapped cotton, and
$73 per ton for cotton seed.
There is still a lot of cotton to har-
vest in the Whitewright area. The
slowness with which it is coming in
is due to scarcity of pickers. Some
think cotton picking will last well in-
to December. There are some fields
in the area white with cotton that
have had no pickers in them yet. On
the other hand, some farmers have
about wound up their picking.
All Tax Statements
Have Been Mailed
WASHINGTON. — While the na-
tion’s estimated cotton yield dropped
360,000 bales since Sept. 1, Texas
crop prospects have remained steady
at 4,800,000 bales, the Agriculture
Department reported.
The department’s crop reporting
board predicted a national cotton
crop of 16,931,000 bales, down 2 per-
cent from last month’s forecast, but
still enough to meet anticipated do-
mestic and defense needs.
The October estimates compares
with the 1950 national crop of only
10,012,000 bales and the 10-year
average of 12,030,000 bales.
Since the Texas crop estimate has
remained steady, it is almost certain
that the yield will easily top by far
the 1940 to 1949 average for the state
of 3,049,000 bales.
The 1951 Texas crop will be har-
vested from 12,600,000 acres, almost
twice the acreage under cultivation
last year. No abandonment has been
reported since Sept. 1. Prior to that
time, adverse weather had forced a
drop of 210,000 acres in the Texas
cotton lands under cultivation.
Whitewright property owners have
now received all the bad news—tax
statements from the city, the school
district, and the state and county. The
city and Whitewright Independent
School District mailed tax statements
last week, and County Tax Officer
Robert Dean announced Monday that
all county tax statements had been
mailed.
Property owners are reminded by
Mr. Dean that poll poll taxes are not
•charged on tax statements, but the
obligation of paying poll taxes has
not been relieved. Two orders for
polls are on the reverse side of each
tax statement for the convenience of
taxpayers to remit by mail the appli-
cation for a 1952 poll tax.
The orders must be signed before
■ a notary public and $1.75 submitted
for each poll, Mr. Dean said Monday.
Another important reminder, ac-
■ cording to Dean, is that all Sherman
and Denison persons exempt from
payment of a poll tax because of over
age are required to secure exemption
renewals this year.
Persons living in cities of less than
10,000 population, and those living in
rural areas, are not required to get
new exemptions.
To be eligible for an exemption
because of overage, a person must
have reached the age of 60 by Jan. 1,
1951.
AUSTIN.—Almost half of the cars
now operating in Texas may fail the
new state-required inspection, an ex-
pert believes.
George Busby, chief of the inspec-
tion division of the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety, says he hopes
50 percent may be a bit high but that
he fully expects 40 percent to fail.
“A lot of the defects the inspection
will disclose will be minor. Some, of
course, will be major,” he said.
But minor defects will have to be
corrected just as major ones before a
certificate will be issued.
The certificate must be presented
to the county tax collector next year
as a requisite to securing new license
plates, just as a car title and the cash
have been requisites in the past.
The new requirement was voted by
the last Legislature.
Certificates are now at the print-
ers. As soon as they are ready, the
Department of Public Safety will
designate official inspection stations
and distribute the certificates—and
rejection slips.
The state has ordered 4,000,000 of
the certificates and 2,000,000 rejec-
tion slips.
The inspection, which costs the car
owner $1, will cover brakes, lights,
horn, windshield wipers and steering
gear.
If any of those things show defects,
the owner may take his car wherever
he wishes to get it fixed or fix it him-
self. But he must return in seven
days to the station where the rejec-
tion slip was issued to ge the faulty
item rechecked without additional
charge. If it goes more than seven
days, it’ll cost another dollar for a
complete new inspection of all items
covered by the law.
One state which recently passed a
similar inspection law found 44 to 45
percent of its cars defective, Busby
said.
It was that experience which led
him to get the rejection slip order
at 50 percent of the certificate order.
“It’s just a shot in the dark. We
had to start somewhere and that
seemed to be a reasonable supply that
would avoid a shortage developing,”
he said.
AUSTIN.—A 37 percent jump in
cash income to Texas farmers and
ranchers for the first eight months of
1951 over the comparable period a
year ago was reported Tuesday by
the University of Texas Bureau of
Business Research.
Cattle, cotton, cottonseed and wool
production income were principal
boosters. They were each up 50 per-
cent or more.
Other commodities yielding great-
er revenue for the period included
mohair, up 41 percent; hogs, up 36
percent; sheep and lambs, up 12 per-
cent; poultry, up 44 percent; eggs, up
45 percent cent, and milk products,
up 10 percent.
Grain sorghum scored the greatest
gain among field crops, registering
twice as much income as in 1950.
Wheat and oats, victims of wide-
spread dry weather, brought 57 and
18 percent less income, respectively.
Rice, peanuts, fruits and vegetables
each declined 15 percent. Flaxseed
was down 95 percent and corn down
2 percent.
The number of persons 60 and old*
er in the United States will increase
from the present 12 % million to be-
tween 17 and 20 million by 1875.
Philip Hauser, professor of sociol-
ogy at the University of Chicago,
made this prediction in addressing
Northwestern University’s Centennial
conference on “Problems of an Aging
Population.” •
Dr. Hauser’s talk was filled with
significant statistics pertaining to the
aging of the population in the United
States. Here are some of the facts he
reported:
In 1950, the average person in the
U. S. was over 30; in 1790 the aver-
age was about 16.
In 1850, 4.1 percent of all people in
the U. S. were 60 or older; by 1900,
the percentage had increased to 6.4;
by 1947 it was 11.5.
Death rates have been declining
for at least as long as any records are
available. In 1850, expectation of
life at birth was 38.3 years for white
males in Massachusetts; by 1900 it
had increased to 44.3 and by 1940 to
63.3.
For the original registration states
in 1900, life expectation for white
males was 48.2. By 1948 life expec-
toney for white males in the U. S.
had increased to 65.5 years.
Between 1850 and the present, ex-
pectation of life at birth has in-
creased by about 27 years for white
males. For white women, the in-
crease has been 30 years—an increase
of about 70 percent in average lon-
gevity.
The most phenomenal declines in
mortality have occurred in infant
mortality and through conquering of
infectious diseases. As a result, ex-
pectation of life has not increased
uniformly at all ages of the popula-
tion.
In the first half of this century,
while the expectation of life at birth
for white males increased by over 17
years, expectation of life for those at
age 20 increased by less than seven
years, at age 40 by three years, and
at age 65 by only one year.
UNION BALLOT BILL
SENT TO PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. — House-Senate
conferees reached tentative agree-
ment Wednesday night on a proposed
increase in personal income taxes,
breaking a deadlock that had threat-
ened to hold up action on the huge
defense tax bill.
Although the decision was not dis-
closed, one conferee indicated that
the agreement, for most taxpayers at
least, called for an increase of 11%
percent in individual income-tax
payments. .
Another conferee, who refused to
confirm or deny this report, said the
agreement was very tentative and
subject to change Thursday.
For most taxpayers, a tax increase
of 11% percent would mean splitting
the difference between the 11 per-
cent boost voted by the Senate and
the 12 12 percent increase approved
by the House.
Both versions tapered off this in-
crease in the upper brackets, with
the Senate version giving upper-in-
come taxpayers a better break than
the House bill.
IL™
A group of Whitewright people at-
tended a meeting at Sherman Mon-
day night to discuss plans for the an-
nual mass X-Ray in Grayson Coun-
ty. Attending from here were W. C.
Cummings, R. R. Summers, John
Biggerstaff, Mr. and Mrs. H. H: Sears,
O. V. Barker, B. W. Newman and F.
G. Hoover.
Milton Schwartz, president of the
South Grayson Tuberculosis Associa-
tion, presided, and representatives
were present from several towns in
the county. Charles Hoover, field,
representative of the Tuberculosis
Division, State Department of Health,
Austin, was present and outlined the
purposes and methods of procedure
in organizing the mass X-Ray.
Mr. Hoover told the group that the
X-Ray unit could be set up only at
Sherman and Denison, but after some
argument on the part of representa-
tives of other towns, it was agreed to
include Whitewright and Whitesboro
in theschedule.
The county is divided into the
north group and the south group by
the T. & P. Railroad, all towns on and
south of that railroad being in the
south group except Bells, while the
north group has only three towns,
Bells, Denison and Pottsboro.
Following is the schedule as ar-
ranged at the meeting:
Nov. 24, Whitesboro.
Nov. 28, 30, Dec. 1 and 2, Denison.
Dec. 5, Austin College, Sherman.
Dec. 7, 8, 11, 12 and 13, Sherman.
Dec. 15, Whitewright.
The purpose of the mass X-Ray is
to discover as many cases of tubercu-
losis as possible and by so doing take
the first steps in preventing the
spread of the disease. Everyone over
15 years of age is eligible for the X-
Ray examination which is provided
by the State and is free of any charge
to the individual. Persons 15 and
under are not X-Rayed because the
number of cases discovered in this
age group by this examination is
very small and other methods of
DETROIT.—The automobile indus-
try now has more than six billion
dollars worth of arms orders and
more are coming.
The industry is getting set to build
tanks, jet engines, bombers, cargo
planes, tank weapons, rockets, com-
bat and tactical vehicles and other
items. If the dollar volume seems
large it should be noted that last
year’s production of peace-time pas-
senger cars and trucks had a whole-
sale value of 10 billion dollars.
It should be remembered, too, the
auto industry’s current rate of mili-
tary production represents only a
fraction of the contract total.
As to why the auto industry’s de-
fense job hasn’t moved more rapidly
into high gear, company heads agree
machine tools represent the key to
the whole arms production program.
Materials, manufacturing space
and trained personnel, they say, will
be ready long before the full require-
ments of machine tools. Materials
are being stockpiled, new plant space
is being ’ set up and worker training
programs are under way.
And the industry executives have
an answer for anyone inclined to crit-
icize the huge new plant construc-
tion and the rehabilitation of many
World War II plants, more time and
money would be consumed in bring-
ing the military production program
to the volume level.
In World War II civilian car man-
ufacturing and assembly line facili-
ties had to be ripped out and re-
placed with entirely different kinds
of tooling. In some instances the
peace-time tools were “stored” in
open fields.
The conservation processes in-
volved tremendous costs that are be-
ing avoided in the present emergen-
cy, industry chiefs say. And, they
add, when the emergency is over
there will be no factory reconversion
problem.
The new 75,000-gallon overhead
water reservoir was connected to the
city’s water mains this week and the
reservoir was filled to capacity. It
was then shut off from the water
supply and the 75,000 gallons of wat-
er was sold to the road contractor
building the Whitewright-Trenton
road. The first filling was in the na-
ture of a test of the tank, and to give
it a washing out.
The city office didn’t know this
morning just when the new tower
would take over the job of supplying
Whitewright water customers, re-
placing the 50-year-old standpipe,
but it probably will be in use within
a few days.
The city plans to sell the old stand-
pipe as scrap metal.
At the church Sunday morning the
J. D. Lanes of Pilot Grove had ac-
cepted the invitation of friends to
have dinner with them. Intuition, or
perhaps habit, caused them to look
homeward. A car parked at their
own front gate caused a change in
plans, and they, with some trepedi-
tion, and frustration, had a mental
picture of the meager dinner prepa-
ration, not expecting company. Their
preparation had included only the
two of them, and the cat.
A few steps toward home, vision
seemed to multiply. There were two
cars, or was it three. Yes, it defi-
nitely was three. But curiosity, not
courage, kept them moving forward
rather than backward. Their guests
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Jaquess, Madill,
Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Elf ord Lane,
Plano, and Mr. and Mrs. Lane
Jaquess and baby Rita Carolyn, Dal-
las.
The next thing after greetings was,
Overpreparedness presents as great
a problem as the threat of another
world war, Charles E. Wilson, presi-
dent of General motors Corporation,
warned in Dallas Wednesday.
Speaking at a civic luncheon in the
Hotel Adolphus, the chief executive
of the largest single armament pro-
ducer in the last war, charged that
the present emergency was being
used to promote regimentation “un-
der the false assumption that it is the
best way to get the job done.”
Some regimentation may be nec-
essary in war, he admitted, but “all
regimentation is fatal to free society
in peace.”
Wilson spoke under the auspices of
the Dallas Chapter, Society for the
Advancement of Management. A
crowd of nearly 600 filled the grand
ballroom for the address.
In his luncheon talk Wilson said
the Korean war and defense program
were being used to justify “more and
more government restrictions and
controls, more and more state plan-
ning, and more and more policies that
are inconsistent with the fundamen-
tals of a free society.
He said many people are coming to
believe that danger of a third world
war was lessening, and even more
believe the danger of losing “our free
society” through “our -own internal
policies” was increasing.
“Due to our great industrial capac-
ity and the initiative and spirit of our
people,” Wilson said, “we can have
great military power when we are
forced to organize it.
“By organizing that strength now,
we hope to avoid a third world war.
“But if in organizing our strength
to avoid war we lose the freedom that
Americans have enjoyed for 175
years, we lose the very values for
which we would be willing to fight a
war.”
For the first time in several
months, arrests for liquor law viola-
tions were not at the top of the list of
arrests reported by Sheriff Woody
Blanton. The chief offense in Sep-
tember was being drunk.
In a total of 81 arrests, 14 were for
violations of the liquor law and 15
for being drunk. Driving while in-
toxicated was next with 11 arrests.
Traffic violations resulted in nine
arrests, forgery 4, assault to murder
1, perjury 1, attempted assault on a
minor 1, attempted burglary 1, swin-
dling 4, aggravated assault 5, non-
support 2, vagrancy and investigation
2, affray 2 and lunacy 5.
The department served 91 civil
processes. Fines, costs and fees col-
lected amounted to $3,543.
Property reported stolen was
valued at $2,745, and recovered prop-
WASHINGTON. — The Defense
Production Administration has set-
tled tentatively on the figure of
about 950,000 automobiles as the pro-
duction ceiling in the first quarter of
1952—a cut of some thirteen percent
from present output.
Officials disclosed that the decision
was made Wednesday. It revises
earlier plans to cut production to ap-
proximately 800,000 passenger cars
and station wagons because of the
shortage of alloy steel.
“Somebody go to the store.”
do you want?” “Anything.”
much?” “All you can get.”
WASHINGTON.—Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio is more popular among
dissatisfied Democrats than any other
Republican, two Taft lieutenants said
Wednesday as they urged the Ohio
Senator to announce his candidacy
for the GOP presidential nomination.
David Ingalls, multimillionaire
cousin of Taft, and Ben Tate, treas-
urer of Taft’s campaign for the Sen-
ate in 1950, said they had found after
a political survey covering thirty-
eight states and 55,000 miles:
1. Taft is the preferred choice of
the Republicans who will participate
in the GOP convention.
2. He’s the best vote-getter the
GOP has, as shown by his sweeping
victory for re-election in Ohio in
1951.
3. If nominated, a united Republi-
can party would score a landslide
victory next November.
The statement of Ingalls and Tate
climaxed a series of moves to induce
Taft to openly ’ announce for presi-
dent that has erupted in various parts
of the country.
Sun Honor Roll
MARSEILLE.—Abel Chomat, 30-
year-old farmer, was shot to death
Monday by his dog.
Out hunting, Chomat placed his
gun against a tree and bent down to
peer through bushes. His dog
knocked the gun down. It went off.
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