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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1955
Page
3
Department store sales in the Dallas Federal Reserve District for the week ending last Saturday rose 4 percent from the same week a year earlier, with Fort Worth the sole city listed to decline 4 percent. For the four weeks ending last Saturday, district totals were 9 percent higher than the prior year.
Forrest W to Miss Lela Epley is highlighted as a devoted father of three and dedicated worker. Sherry, 8, Margaret, 6, and Debbie, 8 months, describe him as active in Sunday School and community work while attending a national veterans school three nights weekly. Local merchants offer prizes and Sherry submitted the 49th nomination for the first Fannin County Father of the Year contest, open to letters up to 190 words.
Peiping radio announced that three American and two Belgian prisoners who had chosen to stay with the Reds now want to leave Red China. One American cited a marriage issue. two Americans and the Belgian will return to the United States or go to Japan or Laso as directed. A news conference with 17 others who stayed expressed sorrow at the departures. Also noted was a death among the stayers and that Samuel P. Hawkins, Oklahoma City, plans marriage soon. Those quitting include Lewis W. Grigg, 23, Jacksonville Texas. Otho G. Bell, 24, Olympia Washington. and William A. Cowart, 22, Monticello Arkansas.
From across Texas counties Wolfe City Paris Dallas and Irving nominations arrive for the 1955 Father’s Day king. In county lines the field includes Bonham Gober Ivanhov Telephone Ector Windom and Honey Grove.
Babcock Brothers Auto Supply Co. marks 35 years in business with 16 company owned and 15 associate stores and 150 employees. The Dallas and Gainesville growth reflects founder F. O. Babcock’s early career moves from Kansas to Oklahoma, Texas and beyond, creating a regional auto parts network.
The first bloom of the 1955 Bonham area cotton crop arrived in town Saturday, brought by Mrs Collins from the WE Me Mahon farm. She said planting began April 18 and blooms appeared June 17 with many blooms in the field.
San Francisco reports a fuel potential between Nationalist China and neutralist India as United Nations talks begin. Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh expressed willingness to meet Indian roving ambassador V. K. Menon informally to discuss peace efforts. Menon, who just met with President Eisenhower, is expected to arrive soon.
Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas reports progress on the McGee Bend Dam project. The $1.5 million appropriation has House approval and Senate action is sought. The dam would provide flood control, water conservation, municipal and industrial use, and hydroelectric power, with estimated regional benefits of about $2.58 million annually.
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