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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1956
Page
4
United Steelworkers and major producers moved to settle local issues before 6,000 strikers return to work, aiming for a weekend completion. The pact would end the country’s fourth costliest steel strike, with annual wage gains, pension and insurance improvements, and a guaranteed rise in labor costs.
H. O. Hoover, a 1956 graduate of East Texas State Teachers College, is hired as a Whitewright high school teacher and basketball coach for the 1956-57 term. He is a Kansas native and will teach history and coach basketball.
WBAP TV Channel 5 Fort Worth prints a daily schedule with times and program names from 6:50 AM Let’s Go Fishing to 5:00 PM Mickey Mouse Club. The listing includes Sunup Ding Dong School Bandstand Home Kitty’s Wardrobe Texas Living Beauty School Noon News Tenn Ernie Plus Matinee Theater Queen for a Day Mod Romances Movie Marquee News & Weather Tricks & Tropes.
TV guide fragment lists programs and times for KRLD Channel 4 Dallas including weather sports world news Robin Nuoud Rudolph Charlie Ferrer News Stand Up As The World Turns and various afternoon and evening shows with few complete titles and unclear details.
City officials maintain close watch on Wolfe City water consumption as supply drops riskily. Residents urged to minimize use and avoid running water while waiting for it to cool, limit baths, and heed lawn watering and car washing bans. Paris asked about emergency water from the French capital if needed.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Wilson and their sons Charles and Don from McAllen visited friends in Bonham Monday. He is a former county clerk of Fannin County and Mrs Wilson served as county home demonstration agent. He currently owns a funeral home in McAllen.
Dr and Mrs Fred W Boling and their two children have moved back to Nowata Oklahoma to join a local hospital. The family resided here for two years and were active in church and social circles.
Mr and Mrs Hermann Tilger from Trenton and Wayne Roberts service agent for Fannin County Farm Bureau from Gober are in Mineral Wells this week to attend a Texas Farm Bureau institute.
R E Carreathers, vocational agriculture teacher at Washington High School, received his master's degree from Southwestern State College in Durant Oklahoma. He was among the class members to graduate Thursday morning, having earned a bachelor of science from Prairie View A M College and attended the University of California for summer work on his master’s.
Ladonia city officials, the fire department and civic library have moved into the new city hall built on the site of the 70 year old three story structure. Mayor W M Thomas notes no date for formal dedication but expects a program soon. Kitchen and recreation hall work remains and donors aided the recreation room. He emphasizes the city owes nothing on the project, financed by salvaged funds from the old buildings and a small cash payment.
Funeral services were held for Mrs Carrie Kelly in Commerce at 10 o clock Monday. She died July 28 1956 in a Commerce hospital. She is survived by her son Joe Kelly Bonham Rt 3 two brothers Breve Clutter Fort Worth and W W Clutter Bonham a sister Miss Almeda Clutter Bonham and five grandchildren.
The Honey Grove Chamber of Commerce approved a $500 purchase in shares of the Honey Grove Industrial Foundation Inc. Officials plan a future campaign to sell the voting shares at $5 each to raise funds.
Mrs Lillian McKeen, a 64 year old tenant on a 10 acre Iowa farm, was found at the bottom of a steep hill after lying six days following a fall during a ritual walk. She arrived at a local hospital in fair condition with shock and exposure and cannot walk without crutches due to a prior hip fracture. Farmers searched after neighbors spotted mail piling up on her porch and she cried for help in a vain bid to reach two sticks.
London reports at least 12 people dead as a severe gale lashes the English Channel. Sunday sailors in small boats and crews aboard yachts and a large sailing ship were caught off guard. several vessels capsized or sank amid one of the century’s worst storms.
Chadburn Mays fascinates clinic staff with his genius at organization while others fear a public clash over a new diagnostic clinic. Lacey Van Horn reads a critical newspaper piece on Wilkins-Smith’s attack on free clinics and plans a discreet discussion with John and Chad to control the narrative.
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