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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
VOLUME 75, NUMBER 3
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1960
5 CENTS PER COPY
Down Memory Lane
1
Deaths
Churches
WORKS BETTER NOW
tax
to-
Uncle Dan From Tom Bean Says:
CHURCH OF CHRIST
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UNCLE DAN.
County Employes
Get $10 Pay Raise
Ike Explains Why
He Hopes For $4
Billion Surplus
Dun-Bradstreet
Report Grayson
Business Gain
Electronics
To Keep Eye
On Chislers
1960 Inflation
To Take Nibble
To Elect C of C
Officers Tonight
THERE WILL be two basketball
games here Friday night, when the
Whitewright boys and girls play the
Pecan Gap boys and girls. “ The girls’
game will start at 7 o’clock and the
boys’ game will follow.
No Turning Back
Husband — “Have you made up
your mind to stay home tonight?”
Wife—“Nd, I’ve made up my face
to go out.”
PLASTIC BAG CLAIMS
ANOTHER BABY’S LIFE
Mrs. H. D. Perdue died at her home
here Friday.
NOBODY HERE BUT
US—HIC—CHICKENS
Tennessee, which was included in
the English grant to Sir Walter Ral-
eigh in 1584,_ also was once claimed,
by North Carolina.
BRANDY PUTS DOE
BACK ON HER FEET
HERE
and
THERE
SCHOOL CENSUS will be taken
next week by the teachers, according
to Supt. S. T. Montgomery Jr., who
requests the cooperation of all the
people in listing all the scholastics.
Any omissions should be reported to
Mr. Montgomery at the end of next
week.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
CHURCH
Sunday School—9:45 a. m.
Worship—11:00 a. m.
Worship—7:00 p. m.
Christ Ambassadors— Saturday at
7:00 p. m.
Wednesday Prayer Meeting—7:00
p. m.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Sunday School—10:00 a. m.
Worship Service—11 a. m.
meets
other Monday at 7:30 p. m.
SOCIAL SECURITY
INFORMATION
The Province of Ceraguas in Pan-
ama belongs in perpetuity to Chris-
topher Columbus and his heirs.
20 YEARS AGO
(From The Sun January 18, 1940)
Mrs. Louisa F. Hedgpeth, 85, died
in her sleep Thursday.
Mrs. J. A. Henderson, 62, died at
her home at Pilot Grove Saturday.
Friends of Miss Sallie Moore sur-
prised her Wednesday with a shower
of gifts in celebration of her birthday.
Mrs. Clara Myrick honored her son,
Lonnie Jr., Saturday with a birthday
party.
PETOSKEY, Mich. — A healthy
slug of brandy put a half-drowned
doe bapk on her feet, two deer hunt-
ers reported.
George Parker and George Weav-
er said the deer had crashed through
thin ice. They pulled her out and
fed her brandy. The doe downed the
shot, shuddered a trifle, and trotted
off into the woods.
“I do not agree with a word that you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.”—Voltaire.
Sunday:
Bible study—10:00 a. m.
Worship and communion—11:00 a.
m.
Evening worship—7:00.
Wednesday:
Bible study, all ages—7:30 p. m.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Vince Thom-
ason and his wife were confused with
their electric blanket, until they
realized they had it upside down and
were regulating each others controls.
THIS WEEK’S paper, such as it is,
.gets to you only because of the effi-
cacy of some of those $50-per-100
pills you may have read of. We’ve
bad a bout with what Dr. Paul Geers
diagnosed by remote examination as
the virus bug that’s been running
rampant in this community. It had
us down and nearly out the first three
days of this week. So, all we had
time to do on the paper after we got
back on the job was get four pages
together as best we could.
Grayson County employes were
voted a $10 across-the-board pay in-
crease by the Commissioners Court
last week, and six deputy sheriffs got
$20 raises.
Also raised was the salary of the
juvenile officer, Robert Noe of Den-
ison, to bring it back in line with that
of the chief sheriff’s deputy which
was raised last year. This was a $50
raise.
The $20 raises were voted for out-
side working deputies of Sheriff
Woody Blanton on the basis of the
extra hours they are called upon to
work.
There were no raises for any elec-
tive officials.
Judge J. N. Dickson noted that the
$10 raises and the juvenile officer,
boost were planned when the county
budget was adopted last September,
and available funds made the other
raises possible.
MRS. NELLIE TAYLOR
Mrs. Nellie Clark Taylor, 61, long-
time resident of Whitewright, died
last Thursday in Baylor Hospital,
Dallas.
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist Church here Friday at 2 p. m.,
conducted by Rev. Summerall. Burial
was in the City Cemetery, directed
by Earnheart.
Mrs. Taylor was born March 26,
1898, at Jonesville, Va., and came to
Texas with her parents in 1900. She
was married to the late Rufus Taylor
June 16, 1907.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
Ruby Davis of Whitewright, Mrs.
Ruth Todd of Leonard and Mrs. Wal-
ter Carr of Dallas; three sons, Edgar
Taylor of McKinney, John Rufus
Taylor of Big Spring and Ervin Tay-
lor of Dallas; 14 grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren.
BETHEL BAPTIST
CHURCH
Sunday School—10:00 a. m.
Morning worship—11:00 a. m.
Training Union—6:00 p. m.
Evening worship—7:00 p. m.
Prayer service, Wednesday.—7:30
p. m.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Income tax
cheats beware!
Electronic detectives will be used
in the future to put the finger on tax
chislers, if Congress goes along with
a proposal by President Eisenhower.
Eisenhower told Congress Monday
in his annual budget message that
Uncle Sam appears to be losing “a
considerable amount” of revenue be-
cause some businesses and individ-
uals don’t report fully the income
they receive.
Accordingly, he recommended an
additional $29,000,000 for the Inter-
nal Revenue Service, primarily to
strengthen the IRS enforcement pro-
gram. This would include installing
an electronic computer system de-
signed to maintain a consolidated
master-file of taxpayer accounts.
The President said this would pay
for itself many fifties over through
increased tax collections in future
years.
25 YEARS AGO
(From. The Sun January 17, 1935)
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Ward on Jan. 7.
Billie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emory
Christian, sustained painful cuts and
bruises on his face when he fell from
Otto Russell’s barn loft first of the
week.
Mrs. B. L. Sanderson, south of
town, celebrated her 59th birthday
Sunday, with 41 relatives present.
but the agriculture department of the
University of Arkansas has devel-
oped a new type of black-eyed pea.
Nothing seems sacred to them re-
search fellers. It ain’t possible to
improve on the black-eyed pea and
I wish they’d leave it alone.
And it seems the poultry depart-
ment of the University of Tennessee
has perfected a chicken meal made
from chicken feathers. This pamph-
let I got calls it “hydrolyzed feather
meal.” My chickens has been doing
pritty good fer 50 year on corn so I
think I’ll stick with it, mostly on ac-
count of I can’t pronounce “hy-
drolyzed” good enough to buy any.
And if that ain’t enough, the Uni-
versity of Georgia is growing wat-
ermelons without seeds. They’re
growing these melons from regular
watermelon seeds. What’s worrying
me is how they aim to grow ’em
when they git it to where there ain’t
no more seeds.
In the last two year I’ve got a
pamphlet from the Guvernment on
the “Economic Status of the Bald
Eagle” and one on “How To Tell The
Age of a Fish.” I didn’t read ’em on
account of I ain’t never saw a bald
eagle and my only interest in a fish
is his weight, not his age. But this
will give you a idea, Mister Editor,
of some of the mail us farmers and
ranchers gits. I’ll keep you advised
if they find out how to grow feathers
on a horse.
Yours truly,
35 YEARS AGO
(From The Sun January 15, 1925)
Miss Mamie Cox, Miss Teresa
Everheart, Miss Mabel Rector and
Miss Margaret Everheart were on the
Epworth League program.
Robert Cantrell, Winnie Belle Car-
ter, Mildred Chambers, Eula Ferrell,
Clyde Jones, Lucile LaRoe, Verma
Mangrum, Maurine May, Frances
Phillips, Mary Lou Ross, Evelyn
Wilson and Marvin Wrenn were on
the eleventh grade honor roll.
Rev. Robert Herdick of Ardmore,
Okla., and Miss Lalla Childress of
Bridgeport were married Saturday.
The bride is a daughter of Rev. and
Mrs. C. C. Childress, formerly of
Whitewright.
Martin Seay, Dorothy Juan Gillett,
Bernard Magar, Ila May, Edith Mae
Sears, Lula Lee Vestal, Doretha
Wood, Woodie Hopper, Robert Doss,
Elowell Murphy, Vondalee England,
Ralph Kirkpatrick, Billie Jean Cox
and Wilma Jan way were on the first
grade honor roll.
JESSE WALLACE, Whitewright
native who moved to Morenci, Arizo-
na, 17 years ago to work for Phelps
Dodge Corporation, writes us to
change the address of his copy of The
Sun to 1273 Newton street, Denver 4,
Colorado. Jesse is retiring and mov-
ing to Denver to enjoy his leisure in
the mile-high city.
RAY SMITH
L. Raymond Smith, 78, native of
Whitewright, died Monday at Lake
Charles, La., where he was visiting
his son. Funeral and burial service
were held Wednesday at Restland
Memorial Park, Dallas.
Mr. Smith was the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Eli Smith, early-day
residents of Whitewright. The fam-
ily moved to Dallas in 1907. He was
an ex-student of Grayson College.
Surviving are his wife; a son, L.
Raymond Smith Jr. of Lake Charles,
La.; two daughters, Mrs. Fred Kirbs
and Mrs. Rolf Gilhoe of Dallas; two
sisters, Mrs. Eugene Woods of Dallas
and Mrs. Orville Wood of Kerrville;
and seven grandchildren.
HUDSON, Mass.—Authorities
day blamed a plastic storage bag for
the death of 7-month-old Michael
P. Kadlik. Mary Kadlik told police
the bag slid into the crib and fell on
her baby’s face while she was clean-
ing a closet Monday.
LUTHER W. INMAN
Luther W. Inman, 61, of 3116 Rea-
gan street, Dallas, died Friday. Fu-
neral services were held in Dallas
Monday, and burial was in Cedar-
lawn Memorial Park, Sherman.
Mr. Inman was born Oct. 26, 1898,
in Williamsburg, Ky., and came to
Texas in 1918. He married Miss
Cecil Virginia Reeves, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Reeves of Whitewright, on Aug. 25,
1918. He was a veteran of World
War I, and a member of the Baptist
Church.
Survivors include two sons, Ray-
mond E. and George G. Inman of
Dallas; six grandchildren, three half-
brothers and a half-sister.
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
Preaching on second Sunday of
each month by Chaplain E. W.
Gorum, until further notice. Serv-
ices at 11:00 a. m.
WASHINGTON.—President Eisen-
hower disclosed in his fiscal 1961
budget how he hopes to ring up a
revenue surplus of $4,184,000,000, the
second largest in history.
The President is counting on a bus-
iness boom, some new federal levies
and holding the rise in federal spend-
ing to a modest $1,433,000,000.
He hopes a surging economy will
swell tax collections to a record 84
billion dollars, up $5,400,000,000 from
the current year.
Eisenhower proposed a spending
total of $79,816,000,000.
Underlying these figures were rec-
ommendations for Congress to:
—Jump the first-class letter rate to
five cents and the air mail rate to
eight cents, increases of one cent for
each.
—Put off scheduled cancellation of
the 10 percent tax on bus, train and
airplane tickets and a scheduled re-
duction of the local telephone
from 10 percent-to 5 percent.
—Fatten the aviation gasoline tax
from 2 to 4% cents per gallon and
slap a 4%-cent levy on jet fuels, now
untaxed.
Thus, achievement of the surplus
depends on two major if’s: the bus-
iness boom turning out to be as hefty
as the President hopes and the will-
ingness of Congress to go along with
his spending and tax proposals.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
You town folks that don’t git these
agriculture handouts like us farmers
and ranchers is bound to be pritty
ignorant on what the research folks
is doing to this country. Ever onct
in a while I aim to bring you taxpay-
ers up to date on where some of your
money is going in this field.
Fer instant, the United States
Army is now conducting a expensive
study on hollering. They’ve hired
what they call a “accoustic expert”
in New York to do the research.
I’ll grant that the Army has what
lawyers call a “vested interest” in
hollering. If any agency of the Guv-
ernment needs to know how far a
good holler will carry, it’s the Army.
But I don’t think this study will help
the civilian taxpayer none. He al-
ready knows all about hollering. He
ignores hollers mostly. A husband
will not hear his wife’s, hollering, a
pupil will not hear the teacher hol-
lering, and a worker tries not to hear
the boss hollering.
We already got the hollerinest
Army in the world. If they want to
improve on hollering, it should be
worked out fer the civilian, not the
soldier. A whole series of excellent
hollers, loud, long, and clear, won’t
even git the television set turned off
at my house. I think this hollering
project should be turned over to a
Household Defense agency or some-
pun.
And maybe you didn’t know it yet
CITATION NO. 66378
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To: MARY DUNNING TISCHLER,
Greeting:
You are commanded to appear by
filing a written answer to the plain-
tiff’s petition at or before 10 o’clock
A. M. of the first Monday after the
expiration of 42 days from the date
of issuance of this Citation, the same
being Monday the 8th day of Feb-
ruary, A. D., 1960, at or before 10
o’clock A. M., before the Honorable
15 th District Court of Grayson
County, at the Court House in Sher-
man, Texas.
Said plaintiff’s petition was filed
on the 20th day of October, 1959. The
file number of said suit being No.
66378.
The names of the parties in said
suit are:
LOUIS TISCHLER as Plaintiff,
and MARY DUNNING TISCHLER
as Defendant.
The nature of said suit being sub-
stantially as follows, to-wit:
Plaintiff prays judgment for a di-
vorce on the grounds of cruel treat-
ment.
If this Citation is not served with-
in 90 days after the date of its is-
suance, it shall be returned unserved.
Issued this the 22nd day of Decem-
ber, A. D., 1959.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court, at office in Sherman,
Texas, this the 22nd day of Decem-
Uat A H 1QSQ
S. V. EARNEST, Clerk, District
Court, Grayson County, Texas.
By GLADYS HAMILTON, Deputy.
(Published in The Whitewright
Sun December 31, 1959, and January
7, 14 and 21, 1960.)
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School—10:00 a. m.
Morning worship—10:55 a. m.
Methodist Youth Fellowship—6:00
p. m., and on fourth Sunday of each
month at 5:30 p. m.
Monday:
The Women’s Society of Christian
Service meets every first and third
Monday at 3:00 p. m., and The Wes-
leyan Service Guild meets every
J. E. DOPSON
J. E.. (Hap) Dopson, 53, mayor of
Bells for the last 10 years, died sud-
denly of a heart attack Monday aft-
ernoon while working on a trailer on
the shores of Lake Texoma. With
him at the time were his son, Jerry,
and Leon Ledbetter and Bob Cope-
land of Bells. They took him to a
Denison hospital where he was pro-
nounced dead on arrival.
Mr. Dopson was born in Arkansas
Aug. 14, 1906, and married Miss Gen-
eva Clark Dec. 27, 1927, in.. Collin
County. He had lived in Bells since
1931, where he operated a barbel’
shop. He was known far and wide
as a progressive, hard-working may-
or who believed whole-heartedly in
his town of Bells and worked tire-
lessly in the town’s behalf.
Surviving are his wife; two sons,
Jerry of Bells and James S. of Dal-
las; his father, G. F. Dopson of Bon-
ham; his mother, Mrs. Belle Long of
Dallas; four half-brothers, Louis, Or-
ville, Ozell and Archie Dopson of
Bonham.
Funeral services were held at 2:30
p. m. Wednesday in the Baptist
Church at Bells. Burial in Rose Hill
Cemetery, Bells, was directed by
Earnheart Funeral Home.
NEW PORT, Tenn.—Four alcohol
tax unit agents raided a chickenhouse
near here Tuesday and found the
poultry being crowded out by one of
the largest moonshine whisky opera-
tions found in East Tennessee in
years.
The agents found D. A. Cleven-
ger’s chickenhouse contained—be-
sides a few chickens—two 800-gal-
lon and two 500-gallon distilling pots
and about 2,500 gallons of mash.
Many a housewife spends two
hours a day telling her neighbor she
doesn’t have enough time to do her
housework.
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
Thursday:
Fidelis Class party—7:00 p. m.
Sunday:
Sunday School—9:55 a. m.
Worship—10:00 a. m.
Training Union—6:00 p. m.
Evening worship—7:00 p. m.
Monday:
Lottie Moon Circle 9:00 a. m., Rex,
Ray Circle 3:00 p. m.; Joy Russell
Circle 2:30 p. m.
District Pastors’ Retreat, Lake La-
von Encampment—Jan. 25-27.
Wednesday:
Prayer Meeting—6:45 p. m.
Choir rehearsal—7:30 p. m.
KENTUCKYTOWN
BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday School—10:00 a. m.
Morning worship—11:00 a. m.
Training Union—6:00 p. m.
Worship service—7:00 p. m.
Wednesday prayer meeting—7:00
p. m.
Never Fails
Steno Jo—“Did you ever see a lie
detector?”
Stena Flo—“Did I ever see
Huh, I married one!”
The annual meeting of the White-
wright Chamber of Commerce will
be held at 7:00 o’clock this Thursday
night, Jan. 21, in Ayres Cafe dining
room. Election of officers and three
new directors to serve for the next
year is the principal order of busi-
ness for the meeting.
Leon White, president of the or-
ganization, urges every person who
is interested in the future of White-
wright to attend this meeting and to
take part in it.
A nominating committee was ap-
pointed Monday night at a meeting
of officers and directors.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served at the conclusion of the meet-
ing.
WASHINGTON.—With good luck
the consumer will lose only a little
of his buying power to inflation in
1960.
Most government and industry
economists foresee continued but
moderate inflationary pressures
through the year, with living costs
rising perhaps 1% to 1% percent.
A few, relying on the government’s
policy and the seeming absence of a
runaway boom in any major segment
of the economy, see what one official
called “a fair chance for growth
without inflation.”
Administration economists' seldom
make price forecasts for the record,
and in their private predictions of re-
cent years generally have guessed too
low. This time most of them hedge
their conservative estimates by not-
ing that the recent steel wage settle-
ment could give extra momentum to
the wage price spiral.
$1.25 Buys $1 Worth
It now takes about $1.25 to buy
what $1 bought in 1947-49, the peri-
od on which the Labor Department’s
consumer price index is based.
About 1 % cents of that dollar de-
preciation came in 1959, as the coun-
try recovered from the third postwar
recession.
There have been some lulls but no
significant declines in the upward
march of prices since World War II.
The longest lull, a nine-month stretch
of almost absolute stability in the in-
dex, ended in March.
There are reasons to hope, most
economists believe, that another pe-
riod of reasonable stability, or only
moderate increases, lies ahead.
On one point at least all agree: the
government will maintain and' per-
haps intensify the squeeze on credit.
Interest rates may go a bit higher be-
fore they level off and turn down.
Sherman Man Heads
County Council
W. K. Phillips of Sherman, a re-
tired Navy admiral, was elected
chairman of the Grayson County De-
velopment Council at its annual re-
organization meeting at Whitesboro
Tuesday night.
Admiral Phillips succeeds John
Biggerstaff of Whitewright, who re-
mains on the council as the Precinct
No. 2 representative.
Carl Bryan, Whitesboro banker,
was elected vice president, and May-
nard Weitzel, due Feb. 1 from Kilgore
as new Sherman C of C manager,
was named secretary.
New council members introduced
included Lynwood Massey and Ben
McKinney of Denison, J. O. Sterling
of Van Alstyne, and David Brown of
Sherman. Fred Conn and W. E. Wil-
cox are retiring Denison members of
the council.
Joining the appointed members on
the council are the mayors, city man-
agers, and C of C presidents and
managers of Denison and Sherman,
plus the county judge.
30 YEARS AGO
(From The Sun January 16, 1930)
The following were injured by falls
on ice Friday and Saturday: Miss
Susie Noe, W. E. Hardcastle, A. L.
Scott, Mrs. Dan Dickerman and Ray
Truett.
“Persons applying for social secur-
ity payments can help speed action
on their cases by submitting neces-
sary proofs when applications for
benefits are made,” Charles J. Camp-
bell, District Manager of the Sher-
man Social Security office, said to-
day. A telephone call to his office
before the worker’s retirement may
save a great deal of processing time
by insuring that sufficient evidence
will be produced promptly.
In a retirement case, for example,
proof of age and recent earnings in-
formation is usually requested. If
a wife and children are eligible for
payment, evidence of their ages and
proof of marriage are necessary.
The social security office will
evaluate each case and explain what
is needed, and may be able to help
locate necessary information. Camp-
bell added that early inquiry may
avoid expense as well as delay, since
most documents are near or easily
obtained. In many cases the office
can suggest sources of evidence
which are immediately available.
For further information regarding
these proofs or any phase of social
security, consult the office located at
300 East Houston Street in Sherman.
It is open from 8:30 a. m. to 4:45 p.
m., Monday through Friday. The
telephone number is TWinbrook
2-5546.
The following Whitewright stu-
dents were on the Austin College,
Sherman, honor roll: Mary Pumph-
rey, Mardell Pumphrey, John Mc-
murry Jr., and Vernor Gordon.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Lonnie Myrick on Jan. 12.
The Dun and Bradstreet reference
book, lists all manufacturers, whole-
salers and retailers who seek or grant
commercial credit, shows Grayson
County with a .64 percent gain in
business population in 1959.
The reference book . count shows
1,048 firms in the county in Novem-
ber 1959, compared to 1,399 a year
previous.
Denison counted 480 firms last No-
vember, compared to 429 a year pre-
vious, 1.5 percent gain; Whitesboro,
91 compared to 86, a gain‘of 5.81 per-
cent, and Whitewright, 50 compared
to 45, an 11.11 percent gain.
The business count in Collin Coun-
ty is shown as 832 last November,
and 766 a year earlier, a gain of 8.6
percent. In Fannin County the
count was 475 in 1959 and 456 in
1958, a 4.2 percent gain.
The reference book, through phy-
sical count and frequently revised
ratings, gives the financial standing
of all firms listed. Also given is a
short history of each firm.
These credit reports are used by
businessmen for credit risk valua-
tions and by insurance underwriters
to review risks for fire and other
types of coverage. Dun and Brad-
street has been reporting on Ameri-
can business since 1841 at no cost to
the firms listed. Costs are paid by
suppliers’ subscriptions to the agen-
cy Service.
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