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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1936
Page
1
Whitewright adjusts parking rules after state condemnation. Center parking on Main Street No 42 is prohibited and traffic hazards are cited. Long trucks and parked vehicles with trailers urged to use alleys or vacant lots until a new ordinance is formed. The city offers free space on a trade lot and seeks motorist cooperation.
Democrats announced a recount request after Wallace White, Republican, defeated Gov. Louis Brann, Democrat, in Maine. Senator Joseph Guffey led the effort to seat White or challenge the result in Washington. Brann criticized funding by the Liberty League while echoing President Roosevelt's November prospects.
Witty exchange shows editors shaping news by what they publish and omit. The dialogue frames press discretion as restraint, highlighting editorial judgment over sensationalism.
The Sun asks readers to report any address changes promptly to avoid misdelivery and wasted 2c per misaddressed copy. If a reader expects a change within a week, they should inform the paper in advance to prevent missed issues and save postage.
At a Wednesday noon meeting for the W H S Tigers captains were chosen. Mark Montgomery Walter Tom Holmes Clifton De Berry Jack Meador and Albert Lea Jackson will lead two games each Merriwell Vineyard named co captain for all games. The first game Friday is against the Tom Bean team at the American Legion picnic grounds with 15 and 25 cent admission. Only injured regular is Mark Montgomery, hurt in a scrimmage earlier this week. Coach A M Gaddis says the squad has stiff workouts and about twenty five men are practicing this week for the four home games.
Gray son County Democrats call meeting in Sherman courthouse Saturday at 2 pm. Lee Simmons and Earl Whiteacre chair the event to perfect plans for raising the national campaign quota of 2638 dollars. All loyal Democrats invited.
Representative Jesse James of Cameron began conferences on revision of the omnibus tax bill amid the special session opening Sept. 28. The plan would raise rates and divert 400000 from beer licenses and marble machines to old age pensions, with further increases on natural resources and utilities.
The Palace Theatre programs announce Tonight and Friday showing Shirley Temple in Poor Little Rich Girl. Saturday features Tim McCoy in Prescott Kidd. Saturday preview and Monday presents Herbert Marshall Simone Simon and Ruth Chatterton in Girls Dormitory. Tuesday and Wednesday show Charlie Chan At the Race Track. Thursday and Friday next week feature Clark Gable and Janet McDonald in San Francisco.
Grayson County crop land survey is about one third finished according to county agent B F Gray. Forty five supervisors are measuring about 90 farms daily and roughly 1 200 farms have been surveyed since September 1 under the Federal Government soil conservation program.
Governor Allred in Austin said he will not grant clemency to convicts who used contingent contracts to gain freedom. He announced clemency will be merit based, calling such arrangements a reflection on the pardons board and himself.
The report shows September rainfall at .74 inches, bringing year to date to 11.68 inches, possibly the lowest on record. It notes three summer months yielded only 2.44 inches, with May near normal and July mostly light showers. A record high temperature streak precedes a forecast of a cold, wet winter.
Heavy rains across Central Western Texas caused widespread flooding and road washouts. Bridges collapsed near Junction and Llano, trains halted to Sonora and Alpine, and creeks, rivers, and the Colorado River watershed faced rising water threatening Roy Inks Dam and nearby homes.
Vice President Garner shed his usual ten gallon hat in Washington and appeared in a gray Homburg at a noontime lunch with the President. He said the hat was a gift from a good friend who insisted he wear it.
Former Lieut. Gov. Edgar E. Witt suffered a fracture of the left leg after slipping on a rug at his home. His knee cap was split, Witt is chairman of the special Mexican Claims Committee and arrived from Washington for a month’s vacation.
Whitewright lists over twenty students enrolling in colleges and universities. Names include Sara Everheart Edith Sears Martha Bryant Vivian Echols Margaret Lilley Sonny Hancock W B Bixler J Y Russell Leslie Holland Eugene Hall Paul Pierson A N McCoy Thomas Sears Homer Sears Kermit Hollingsworth Anther Hudgins Jr J Lee Vestal Loleita Coffey and others at Dallas Denton Waxahachie College Station Dallas Commerce Arkansas Kansas.
A raid in a Sherman area negro section led to Mandy Cummings facing federal charges in U S District Court. Officers found nine half gallon jars of non tax paid bootleg liquor in her home and she pled guilty before Commissioner Catherine Wharton with a $300 bond.
Four Whitewright church pastors reorganized the Whitewright Pastors Association after a year of inactivity. Rev. G. B. Bradshaw of the Baptist Church was elected president and Rev. J. R. Waldrum of the Church of Christ became secretary. The other members are Rev. C. W. Dennis of the Methodist Church and Dr. B. Wrenn Webb of the Presbyterian Church.
The Singing Convention at Canaan has been moved to Sunday September 27. It will include the regular third Sunday singing and the old folks singing from the fourth Sunday. Preparations are underway with the piano in good shape and the quartet rehearsing new numbers. Many singers are expected from across the county. Everyone is invited to attend.
Road crews surface the precinct end of the Whitewright Van Alstyne road prompting traffic to Dallas to detour via Tom Bean and Howe. The Van Alstyne road remains passable but rough due to new rock on the bed. Work to extend 13.5 miles toward Pilot Grove should finish in about 30 days. Another 10 mile Whitewright Ida road project with rock gravel should wrap in 30 days.
Grayson County officers broke up a dice game Monday night at Van Alstyne with 13 white men involved. Deputy sheriffs John Bass and Roy McDaniel arrested the group after breaking in a locked door. All men posted bonds. Fort Prince of Wales took 38 years to build in Hudson Bay country.
Five state primaries defined national lines for November. Michigan saw Senator James Couzens lose renomination to former Gov. Wilber M. Brucker while La Follette momentum boosted in Wisconsin. New Hampshire rejected Moses, Massachusetts pitted Curley against Lodge, and New York defeated Townsend and Coughlin hopefuls.
County commissioners meet to apportion the 85 cent levy among funds including general, road bonds, building and jail, jury, and maintenance. The 24 cent 1927 road bond portion is divided among 1935 series and 1927 issues with specified amounts. An election in Elmont approved an extra 20 cent tax per hundred, and salaries for two assistant county auditors were increased as ordered by the district judge.
Researcher Dr. A J Lotka analyzes birth outcomes and paternal lineage. He projects two out of three boys grow into fathers, with probabilities for one son two sons up to ten, and estimates about nine in ten names may eventually die.
Whitewright Public Schools started the fall term with 190 high school students, about twenty more than expected, while grammar school enrollments sit at 219, down 41 from last year. Vocational agriculture has 75 boys. home economics is well filled. Superintendent H W Key praises small class sizes and a hour period plan with 45 minutes for recitation and 15 for supervised study. Library emphasis will target the grammar school.
Two highway accidents near Whitewright Wednesday afternoon caused substantial property damage with no serious injuries. An oil truck from Buck Williams Oil Co. collided with a wagon load of cotton, injuring a mule and wounding Jim Chaney with a head cut. The other crash involved Miss Loletta Coffey's Chevrolet coupe near Peniel, a head cut but no serious harm.
Texarkana shoe salesman R H Enochs was found guilty on a double murder charge after a June drunken drive struck a car carrying W H Pressley his wife and 11 year old daughter Mary Louise. The wife and daughter died days later, Pressley survived.
In Phoenix Arizona Mrs Archie John Thaxton feared her 2 year old was in danger in an irrigation ditch. She alerted relatives and searched the area. Moments later the lifeless body of the child was recovered from the ditch about one and a half blocks from the home.
In Joplin Missouri dairymen from Jasper and Newton Counties report 30 milking cows stolen over recent nights. Victims organize vigilante patrols around milk sheds and swear in special deputies with help from state police to patrol highways.
Rome reports Italy will resume cooperation in League of Nations affairs if the Ethiopian problem is not raised to embarrass Italy. The agreement was reached in talks between Premier Mussolini and League secretary general Joseph A. C. Avenol.
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