Santa to Visit Whitewright December 23 at 3 p.m.
Grant Hoover, president of the Whitewright Booster Club, announced Santa Claus will visit Whitewright at 3 p.m. Tuesday, December 23. A committee led by Griffin Dollarhide Jr., C. B. Bryant II, and Clay Horton will arrange reception plans. Santa will distribute candy and carry a mailbox for letters to read before returning Christmas Eve. Christmas lights and decorated store windows enhance the event and residents are urged to note the time.
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Grant Hoover
Whitewright Booster Club
Santa Claus
Whitewright
Mr. Hoover
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
C. B. Bryant II
Clay Horton
Santa
Treasury Triples Income Tax Suits
Washington reports a sharp rise in income tax evasion prosecutions as the Treasury triples cases sent to the Justice Department to action, surpassing 100 weekly. A new sampling method scans random names from town phone books to flag broader evasion risks among professionals.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Justice Department
Miss Hush winner faces hefty tax bill in Fort Worth
Mrs. Ruth Annette Subbie, 47, won the radio program prize haul worth about $20,000 plus upcoming gifts. The Internal Revenue Bureau estimates taxes could reach a quarter of the winnings, amounting to roughly $5,000, though she says she does not mind paying. Her prizes include outfits for family members, a Luscombe two seater airplane, and future awards such as a Honolulu trip, a $1,500 fur coat, and a house trailer. Subbie has a 17 year contest history with prior wins including a San Francisco trip and $100 cash.
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San Francisco
U S Cotton Crop Estimated At 11 694 000 Bales
Washington The Agriculture Department released its final yearly report estimating the current cotton crop at 11 694 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, up 189 000 bales from last month. Last year’s crop was 8 640 000 bales with an average of 12 390 000 bales for 1936 45.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Schultz Divorce After Forced Sleep in Chicken House
Otto F. Schultz was granted a divorce by Circuit Judge James V. Bartley in Joliet Illinois after testifying that his wife Sally forced him to sleep on the floor and later in a chicken house. The couple wed in Crookston Minnesota on October 21 1946.
Whitewright Tops in County Boy Scout Fund Drive
Whitewright surpassed its $750 quota for the Sherman district Boy Scout drive and was the first town in the county to finish. About $12,000 is being raised district wide, with a quarter remaining for Whitewright local Boy Scout work. Committee members B. W. Newman Geo. M. Hight and C. B. Bryant III led the effort.
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Whitewright
Sherman
B. W. Newman
Geo. M. Hight
C. B. Bryant III
Grayson-Collin REA Loan Approved
Van Alstyne. A Rural Electrification Administration loan of 170000 will extend service by 170 miles to Grayson and Collin Counties. Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative manager E R Bobbitt announced the project, with construction to start in early 1948, spread evenly across both counties.
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van Alstyne
Grayson and Collin Counties
Rural Electrification Administration
Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative
E. R. Bobbitt
Washington
Associated Press
Bobbitt
Grayson
Collin
Prizes Offered In Writing Contest
The Texas State Historical Association announces a first prize of 100 for the 1947 1948 Junior Historian Writing Contest. Seventeen papers will win awards totaling 420. Entries may cover any Texas history topic with local relevance. Open to any Texas youth under twenty one. Closing date April 1, 1948. Write for details to the Junior Historian Box 2131 University Station Austin 12 Texas.
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Austin
Texas State Historical Association
Texas
H. Bailey Carroll
University Station
Austin 12
Anti-Saloon League Targeting GI Bartender Training
Baltimore church speech cites GI Bill training for bartenders as a misuse of veterans benefits. George W. Crabbe, superintendent, claimed liquor interests have read into the GI Bill a right to fund bartender schools, saying one operates in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Anti-Saloon League of America
George W. Crabbe
Crabbe
Harlem Park
Liquor Stills Raids Surge Across Southern Districts
The Internal Revenue Bureau reported 570 illegal liquor stills seized in October. The Alabama Florida Georgia and South Carolina district led with 270 seizures, Arkansas Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma region followed with 50.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Army to Seek Disability Change
The Army plans to ask Congress to approve new disability pay procedures for retired officers. It would use Veterans Administration standards and tax exemption only on the sickness or injury portion of retirement pay. The report notes 620 American Legion posts in Minnesota.
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Washington
Army
Congressional
Bennett E. Meyers
Congress
Veterans Administration
College Dean To Address Book Club
Rollen Rolfe of Sherman will address the Current Book Club next Monday at 7 30 p m at the Church of Christ. He is Dean of Men at Austin College and dramatic coach with Little Theatre experience. He will review Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, a humorous look at Windsor women and their problems.
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Rollen Rolfe
Sherman
Church of Christ
Rolfe
Austin College
Windsor
New Mix Fatal To Cotton Bugs
Washington reports that a new pesticide mix of benzene hexachloride with 5 percent DDT and 3 percent gamma isomer achieved outstanding control of boll weevils and other cotton pests in tests at Waco Texas. Chlorinated camphene also showed promise, boosting field yields by 46 percent over calcium arsenate treated plots.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Waco
Texas
Bureau of Entomology
Bureau
Boy Scout Troop 1 Meets With New Scouts and Plans
Twenty scouts attended Troop 1 with Joe Morris Wallace directing opening exercises and Franklin D. Ford closing. New scouts Jerry Lee Doty and Jerry Thornhill welcomed. A parents night at 7 p m and a Saturday 9 am scout hut meeting urged. Turner Falls overnight trip planned for Christmas holidays.
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Joe Morris Wallace
Franklin D. Ford
Gene Darwyn Bush
Herman Musser
BSA
Jerry Lee Doty
Jerry Thornhill
Rotary Club
Chancy Corse
Sherman
Sheriff Submits November Report
Sheriff Fred Prestage announced the November department report detailing 38 arrests, 71 calls answered, and 65 civil processes served. Stolen property recovered valued at $600 against $831.75 reported stolen. fees earned and paid to the county totaled $802.95 and fines $1,077.20. Arrests included five for liquor law violations, six for driving while intoxicated, 15 for intoxication, two for theft, and single counts for threat to life, aggravated assault, burglary, desertion, vagrancy, driving without operator's license, and horse theft.
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Sheriff's Department
Fred Prestage
P T A Meeting To Be Held Tuesday
The Parent-Teacher Association will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday December 16 at the grade school auditorium. The sixth grade directed by Mrs Sarah Kilgree will present a Christmas program including songs and a playlet.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Sarah Kilgree
Whitewright Listed in Grayson Class B Football District
Whitewright is named in Region V for the 1948 Conference B football lineup alongside Bells Pilot Point Van Alstyne and Whitesboro. the University Interscholastic League outlines district criteria and notes 108 schools dropped and 83 moved from A to B. Superintendent B R Caraway has not signed the acceptance card yet hoping for a more favorable arrangement.
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B. R. Caraway
Whitewright Schools
University Interscholastic League of Austin
Bells
Pilot Point
van Alstyne
Whitesboro
Whitewright
Caraway
McDonald predicts two boom years for Texas cotton then decline
Texas Agriculture Commissioner J E McDonald forecast two strong years for cotton, then a downturn as Brazil expands and synthetics rise. He cited Brazil’s virgin land, cheap labor, and a gear-up in US machinery as keys to Brazil overtaking the South. He expected high prices to persist through 1948 and 1949, with demand outstripping supply until then.
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Austin
Texas Agricultural
J. E. McDonald
Texas
Brazil
McDonald
United States
Sun Honor Roll Adds List of Local Students
The Sun this week adds to its honor roll naming W. L. Smith Mrs. W. F. Wright Clifton DeBerry Marshall Hasty S. T. Montgomery Jr. C. E. Rice Printess Compton Mrs. Ben Savage Grady Stepp M. V. Williams L. A. Watkins Melvin C. Anderson H. O. Heard Paul Caylor Cull Reeves C. E. Cooper Elbert Bennett J. P. Thornhill J. W. Gordon Dr. W. M. Holland Mrs. J. W. Goree Miss Ona Bell Hampton.
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Sun
W. L. Smith
W. F. Wright Clifton DeBerry Marshall Hasty
S. T. Montgomery Jr
C. E. Rice
Printess Compton
Ben Savage Grady Stepp
M. V. Williams
L. A. Watkins Melvin C. Anderson
H. O. Heard Paul Caylor Cull Reeves
C. E. Cooper
Elbert Bennett
J. P. Thornhill
J. W. Gordon
W. M. Holland
J. W. Goree
Ona Bell Hampton
Special Lighting Adds to Holiday Cheer on Main Drag
Main street decorations bring Christmas atmosphere as city and boosters deploy $350 worth of prewar lighting gear. A damaged large street star is relocated to the city building seat, new colored globes purchased, evergreen shrubs lace sidewalks, and stores brighten interiors as Booster Club and Community Public Service Co. assist with installation and power supply.
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Booster Club and
Community Public Service Co
Lint Crop Seen Best in Decade
Texas cotton production is forecast by the USDA at 3,360,000 bales for the year the biggest in a decade with an increase of 110,000 bales from the Nov estimate. Ginnings before Dec 1 reached 2,823,000 bales, nearly double the prior year, led by the High Plains where late harvests boosted yields. The South High Plains show the largest crop ever indicated.
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Austin
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
High Plains
South High Plains
Fatal Accidents on Farms Increasing
CHICAGO Accidental deaths of farm people rose sharply from 15 800 in 1944 to 18 500 last year with motor vehicle deaths up 52 percent. Ned H Dearborn of the National Council of Safety urged an educational safety program as deaths could reach 20 000 for 1948.
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Chicago
Ned H. Dearborn
National Council of Safety
Methodists Complete 12500 Campaign for Church Improvements
Whitewright Methodists completed a drive to fund air conditioning for the church auditorium education building and parsonage plus repairs. Kay Kimbell of Fort Worth pledged 5000 if others raised 7500, and the goal was reached in days. Work already underway includes parsonage redecorating kitchen upgrades new entrance steps and flooring and other improvements to minor facilities. Local leaders praise the plant as among the best small town church groups in the North Texas conference.
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Whitewright Methodists
Kay Kimbell
Fort Worth
Whitewright
Kimbell
North Texas
Bailey Vets Ag Class Purchases Shop With Pie Supper
Bailey Vets Agriculture class held a Friday pie supper and awarded an eight cubic foot home freezer. Proceeds totaled 287.40 from the supper and 830 from the deep freeze unit, completing payment for a 30 by 60 foot red tile shop built by the class for about 2500 versus an estimated 5000 if contracted.
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Bailey
Bailey Veterans’ Agriculture
Peace cigarettes top selling brand in Japan report
Washington reports from Tokyo that the Peace is the leading cigarette brand in Japan. The note mentions rationing of matches with four per person per day. The Sun does Good Printing.
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Washington
Japan
U. S
Tokyo
Amending the Texas Constitution A Long Tradition and Debate
The Texas constitution has been amended repeatedly since 1876 with 94 changes since adoption. Amendments require voter approval, yet turnout has been low in some elections. Debates on a constitutional convention recur, led by the Dallas Texas Association of Commerce, as calls for a new basic document persist while feasibility and timing remain unsettled.
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Austin
Texas
College Building Fund
Texas Association of Commerce
Dallas
Ferguson
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Anti-Saloon League
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American Legion
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BOY Scout News
Turner Falls
Methodists
Bailey Vets’ Ag Class
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