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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1962
Page
11
The United Nations complex in New York City spans six blocks in Manhattan that were previously occupied by breweries slaughterhouses and tenements.
Charles Watson recalls Bonham’s 1910 electric scene with a 16 candle bulb in rooms and a 32 candle bulb kept in drawers. He notes street car power, a Russell Heights plant, a 32 candle street light, and a shift from local to Texas Power and Light control with few outages and candlelit nights.
Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Witam Patterson of Whitewright Texas is set to complete two weeks of annual active duty training at Fort Polk Louisiana on June 17. He serves as a section chief in Battery A of the 12th Artillery, an Army Reserve unit based in Sherman. Patterson attended Fred Douglas high school.
W L Barnett, 33-year TP and L veteran and Bonham Chamber of Commerce president, leads the Partners in Progress effort at Bonham and Fannin County. A Terrell native, he began with Texas Power and Light on Apr 16 1929 and later worked in Tyler, Taylor and McKinney before becoming Bonham manager on Dec 1 1957.
National Biscuit Co announces the acquisition of Griffin & Sons Ltd of New Zealand for about 6 million dollars. The deal includes over 2 million shares and Griffin & Sons operates three biscuit plants with annual sales around 8 million dollars.
In Los Angeles Superior Court an income tax settlement of 28743 dollars was approved from the estate of Jeff Chandler who died last June at age 42 after a series of operations. The estate was valued at about 500000 dollars.
During spring floods the three sections of Yosemite Falls scale the earth with the force of their 2425 foot plunge, North America's highest waterfall.
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