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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1968
Page
2
Advertising representative for the Texas Daily Press League begins the day with a focus on faith and morning routines. The item highlights a devotional theme used to start daily work and outreach.
Lighter Side notes a shift toward stronger vice presidential influence in U S government. It predicts Agnew will receive duties beyond past veeps, with a scenario of the vice president handling high profile ceremonial tasks and progressing to major assignments.
Local 258 of the United Plant Guard Workers of America added 1000 to a reward fund bringing the total to 6000 for information on the November 26 shooting of two Lone Star Steel Co guards Norris Tigert and W. E. Gossett. Both were treated for leg wounds at Good Shepherd Hospital Longview and listed in good condition.
Washington AP dispatch reports hearings on auto repair practices as lawmakers accuse shops of gouging women, using rebuilt parts billed as new, and inflating prices. Neal E. Mann cites bribery of appraisers and dummy estimates, with industry schemes ranging from inflated bids to mislabeling rebuilt parts as new.
Bailey Inglish PTA gathers Thursday at 7 30 for a Christmas themed meeting. Third grade students provide the program with Mrs Joe Campbell as chairman and Billy Cox presiding. Rev Paul C Cardwell of the First Methodist Church gives the devotional.
Mrs Kathryn Renshaw and Mrs Davig Shockley of Bonham are in Room 326 at Community Hospital Sherman with injuries from a Savoy Thanksgiving Day traffic accident. Shockley has a broken right arm and bruises, Renshaw a badly bruised hip. both expect release this week. Bud Renshaw and Larry Shockley were uninjured.
Fount Morgan Tarver 96 of Bonham died Monday December 2 1968 in a Bonham hospital after six weeks illness. Funeral services 3 p.m. Wednesday at Wise Funeral Chapel with Jack Sawyer officiating. Interment in Willow Wild cemetery. Survivors include son Farris J. Tarver of Bonham five grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Active pallbearers listed. Born May 16 1872 in Arkadelphia Arkansas he moved to Texas at age two and was a longtime horse and cattle trader and local parade rider for county fairs and year end sales.
Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Hembree 74 were conducted at First Baptist Church Bailey with Rev. Frank Casper officiating. Burial followed in Philadelphia cemetery. She died at home November 30 1968. Survived by husband three sons Ray Bailey Bill Paul Hembree daughter Mrs Billy Macon Hickory Creek three brothers three sisters five grandchildren two great grandchildren.
Adam Clayton Powell receives an eight day stay on a 30 to 90 day jail term for evading payment of a libel judgment. The Appellate Division pauses execution until December 10 for an appeal hearing while a separate judgment seeks immediate jailing. Powell had been ordered to pay $56 000 to Esther James, Harlem widow, after a 1960 TV remark.
Miss Sheryn Ruth Jones of Baylor University was initiated into Theta Sigma Phi, the national professional journalism fraternity. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Homer Jones of 110 Russell Ave, she is a senior majoring in English and active in journalism clubs and communications activities.
FAA imposes strict flight quotas at Kennedy LaGuardia Newark National Chicago O Hare from April 27 reducing hourly flights by up to 40 percent. The order targets private operators and shuttle services between Washington New York and Boston, altering daily travel patterns and seat guarantees.
The prime rate for business loans rose to 6.5 percent from 6.25 percent after Chase Manhattan Bank acted, with lenders nationwide following. Higher rates will raise costs for family borrowing and corporate finance, affecting best customers and higher risk groups.
The Women's Society of Christian Service of the United Methodist church met Monday at Mrs Fred Wagner’s home for the second lesson on John. Mrs E E Ohnhert accompanied for the hymn I Would Be True. Mrs H N Russell gave the devotional on John chapter one and related Harold Walter’s life. Mrs Wagner moderated the study from John and Mrs B F Butts offered the closing prayer.
Bush pilots waited for a weather break to recover 39 bodies from the wreckage of a Wein Consolidated Airlines F27 turboprop that crashed on Foxes Lake during a howling snowstorm. The twin engine plane was 18 minutes from landing at the native village of Tiamna, 175 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Tens of thousands strike and march across Rome Milan Genoa and other cities after a clash between police and farmhands in Sicily left two dead and 52 injured. A Genoa bomb and cries of police assassins mark the unrest as students protests widen.
A charter flight on the Alaskan peninsula carried 36 people including two infants and a three person crew. Most victims were from Anchorage with others from King Salmon Hiamna Dillingham and Big Mountain. The crew named are pilot Dave Stanley co pilot Gary Svengard and stewardess Sally Lamar all of Anchorage.
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