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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1953
Page
1
The two local gins had ginned 1923 bales of cotton by 8 30 this morning, a gain of 610 bales in the past week. Ginners are working late to keep pace with the crop as hog round buyers offer 31½ cents for snaps and 32 cents for picked cotton, with seed at $56 a ton.
The Agriculture Department reports harvests at third largest level in history with record crops of rice cranberries and pecans and higher farm wages. Wheat tobacco and cotton quotas are set for next year with votes on marketing controls December 15 for cotton and peanut quotas to follow. Dry weather hampers winter sowing while corn remains above average though trimmed by 20 million bushels.
Bryant III of Whitewright is named Grayson County chairman for the Texas United Defense Fund aiding USO drives to raise 775000 in Texas this year. He oversees USO collections in Grayson towns excluding Sherman and Denison. local funding varies by city. Dudley Woodward Jr. of Dallas serves as state campaign chair guiding the statewide drive and Chest campaigns plan to include a major portion of the goal.
Whitewright Tigers head to Wolfe City Friday for their second conference contest. They beat Whitesboro 19 0 in their opener, while Wolfe City lost 33 7 to Cooper. Cooper stays undefeated and favored for the District 13 A title with a Nov 6 rematch looming.
In Atsioiki Findland the Rev Y A Aittokallio seeks to build a chapel in a remote parish near the Arctic Circle. With no roads into the area a brick factory is told to mail bricks one by one to the distant site creating a slow unorthodox construction plan.
Harrisburg Pa Even the deceased will have to pay Pennsylvania s new sales tax when it takes effect Sept 1 50 percent of the lump sum charged by funeral director is subject to the one percent levy If a value is provided for the burial that cost is entirely taxable
A South Omaha restaurant near the livestock yards advertised a bold offer promising to serve drinks in a coffee cup if the boss or a client sits at the next table. The note contrasts with wartime norms noting the average Briton consumed about 3,000 calories daily, similar to prewar levels.
The Whitewright Sun received the National Safety Council and Advertising Council Accident Prevention Award for safety campaign promotion over the past year. Wesley I. Nunn, Stop Accidents Campaign coordinator, praised the paper for inspiring volunteer efforts to reduce accidents.
Texas gas firms hail Supreme Court action as a step to challenge the tax they call an unconstitutional interstate burden. The Texas Supreme Court upheld the tax, while the federal ruling delays dismissal of the cases. If the state wins, funds may fund buildings and teacher pay, prompting a possible special session. An English lord attended a Army-Navy game and quipped about giving each side a ball.
Secretary Ezra Benson announced a departmental reorganization to aid farmers in marketing crops. The plan groups services into Marketing, Stabilization, Credit, and Federal-State relations, consolidates units under a new marketing and foreign agriculture branch, and abolishes PMA and BAE while shifting duties to the new setup. It also consolidates crop controls under price support with quotas and removes seven regional soil conservation offices, scaling authority to state offices.
Senator Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina called on President Eisenhower to fire Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson and appoint a new official trusted by farmers. Johnston argued farmers had blamed Benson for their financial woes and now blame the President as well.
The Supreme Court, in its first full session under Chief Justice Earl Warren, refused to review a Georgia ruling that struck down minimum resale price fixing, casting doubt on fair trade statutes in 44 states. The term also includes cases on movie censorship and McCarran immigration act provisions.
Banks S. Rose sues for 100000 after waking in a taxi perched on a six foot high grease rack. He stepped out and struck his face in Washington.
Ezra T. Benson announced a national marketing quota of ten million bales for the 1954 cotton crop and set a Dec. 15 grower referendum. A two thirds vote is needed to operative quotas. The proposed quota accompanies a planting allotment of 17,910,448 acres, amid an acreage drop from 24,500,000 this year and a large carryover.
Funeral service for Emmett W. Clark aged 85 was held at First Methodist Church with Rev. Harold Taylor and Rev. Richard Poss. Burial in Van Alstyne Cemetery directed by Earnheart Funeral Home. Clark born February 27, 1868 in Tennessee moved to Texas at 21. He married Florence Walker in 1900 and was a retired farmer with family in multiple Texas towns.
Funeral services were held last Thursday afternoon at the Cannon Methodist Church for James W. Allen 77 brother of Mrs Mary Phillips and Mrs Betty Mooneyham of Whitewright A retired farmer he died Wednesday at home in the Cannon community where he had lived 60 years He was a native of niston Alabama son of B E and Kath erine Baldwin Allen He was a member of the Methodist Church Survivors include his wife five daughters three sons one brother two sisters twenty three grandchildren and five great grandchildren
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis plans a 1954 polio prevention program costing an estimated 26 5 million dollars. It centers on vaccine tests and gamma globulin use. One third of next Januarys March of Dimes funds will fund the prevention program, the rest supports research and emergency aid. The foundation projects 1954 needs at 75 million dollars, about 50 percent more than this year.
Ohio farmer Ferdinand Hackover sued the government claiming a flying saucer or umbrella like device fell from the sky on Oct 17 and knocked him over his harrow. The craft proved to be a U S Signal Corps weather balloon device used for radio signal experiments.
Free chest X-ray days set for October 21 and 22 at the Hasty Chevrolet showroom. Sponsored by the Rotary Club and Friday Literary Club, with gifts from local merchants, X-ray hours 9 am to 5 pm, for ages 15 and up.
Lester R. Johnson, 52, a Black River Falls attorney and former Progressive, defeats State Sen. Arthur L. Padrutt in the Ninth District to fill the late Merlin Hull’s seat. Johnson camps on Hull’s vote and opposition to farm policy, signaling a Democratic gain as the House tally displays 218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, 1 independent, and 2 vacancies.
Ohio Governor Lausche appointed Thomas A. Burke, Democratic mayor of Cleveland, to the Senate seat left by Taft's death. Burke's arrival gives the Democrats 48 seats to 47 Republicans with one independent, and provides the vice president with the deciding vote in a Senate deadlock.
At Mather Air Force Base California the night adjutant refused to release the football score of the Mather College of Idaho game. He cited secrecy and said no information could be given, amid reports the final score may have been 64 to 0.
Fred Moore Truett of Whitewright, Dallas based Southwestern Drug Corporation, was voted president of the National Wholesale Druggists Association at its 79th annual convention in Los Angeles. He has chaired the board previously and has led the company for eight years, in the wholesale drug business since 1916.
The National Retail Dry Goods Association urged its 7,000 member stores to join a pamphlet crusade against a proposed federal tax on manufactured items. Leaflets will be distributed in packages, with bills, or handed to customers and passersby.
Mrs. Clara Zietlow an egg candler in Valders Wisconsin reports finding a record five yolk egg. Harry Boyce of the University of Wisconsin poultry department says it may be the first such egg in history.
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