Muddy road driving tips and local 1956 graduates named
Rural mail carrier Jed Johnson warns drivers on mud slick roads and recalls how cars slide into ditches after rain. National H D club week notes at Allen's Point. Bailey high school crowns Nancy Call valedictorian and Carla Jo Savage salutatorian with top averages and honors.
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Jed’ Johnson
Johnson
Fred
Nancy Call
W. R. Call
Carla Jo Savage
O. J. Savage
Bailey High School
Basil London
Miss Call
Miss Savage
London
Bailey
Future Homemakers of America
FHA
DAA
Bailey Schools
Bailey Baptist Church
East Texas State Teachers College
Future Farmers of America
Betty Crocker
Bailey Church of Christ
Tony L Moore Serving in Germany With 9th Division
Tony L Moore 21 son of Mr and Mrs Loyed Moore Route 1 Savoy Tex serves with the 9th Infantry Division in Germany as part of the U S Seventh Army Moore a tank gunner in Tank Company 39th Regiment trained in field problems and maneuvers entered the Army in November 1956 and arrived overseas in April this year He graduated from Savoy high school in 1954.
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Germany
Army
Pfe
Tony Ll. Moore
Loyed Moore
Savoy
Tex
9Th Infantry Division
U. S. Seventh Army
Moore
Savoy High School
Bodacious Snuffy Smith Joins Favorite Comic Page
The Bonham Daily Favorite adds Barney Google and Snuffy Smith drawn by Fred Lasswell and syndicated nationally. Snuffy, now mayor, debuts with neighbor Pierre Loyair as a new character. The strip replaces Secret Agent X-9 next Wednesday and aims to become a daily favorite.
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Bonham Daily
Barney Google
Snuffy Smith
Fred Lasswell
Kings’ Features Syndicate
Bolachious
Snuffy
Flatland Furriner
Pierre Loyair
Smiths
Weather Brief for North Central Texas
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers in east and south Sunday. No important temperature changes.
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Texas
Prizes Drawn For Bonham First Monday BBBB Day Event
Bonham merchants stage First Monday BBBB day features with two prizes totaling 150 dollars. A 75 dollar prize is awarded at 10 a.m. and another 75 dollar prize at 3 p.m. The fiddling contest may be canceled if fewer than three entrants register by 9 a.m. Monday. Forty merchants participate, with prize structure adjusted from five smaller prizes to two larger ones.
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Bonham
Fannin County
Hutch Leatherwood
Dick Grunert
BBBB
Grunert
Leatherwood
Scouts Explorers Close Out Camporee in Bonham Area
About 100 Explorer and Scout units in the Bois d Arc district wrapped a successful Camporee at the Boy Scout camp in Boyd. Dr. O H Box directed the event with Scouters Fred Johnson John Glenn and others ensuring activities from Friday to Saturday. Various units and leaders from Bonham and surrounding towns attended with 30 plus visiting leaders and parents.
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Bois d’ Arc
Fannin County
Boyd
O. H. Box
Dr. Box
Fred Johnson
John Glenn
John Arledge
Don Knecht
Don McAlister
Wendell Leeman
James Davis
F. W. Bolin
Grady Fisher
Aubrey McAlister
Denton Williams
Willis Daff
Diels Higgins
Tom
I. K. Turner
Box
McAlister
Jodie Birgers
Bonham Glen Hodge
Eugene Ball
Gary Childress
Joe Bowden
Billy Wells
Ray Newsom
Richard Danner
Richard Haggard
Carl Payne
Jerry Snodgrass
James Glover
Bill Bybee
Leonard
Connie Hollis
W. M. McBroom
Tommy Ensminger
Jimmy McBroom
Joe Morris
Jimmie Heard
David Bramfett
Tin
Johnson Takes Lead In Texas Rural Precincts
Honey Grove school leader Alvin Barker 49 died of a heart attack in his office at the high school. Barker served 21 years as Honey Grove superintendent and held prior roles in Tioga and Fannin County education. Funeral set for Monday at Honey Grove Methodist Church with interment in Carson cemetery.
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Honey Grove
Spl
Earnest
Alvin Barker
Fannin County
Hig
Barker
Fannin
Tioga
North Texas State College
Denton
The
Couny
Luher Burkett
Wichita Falls
Curly Cummings
Supt. Barker
Randolph
H. E. Parker
Ketor High School
George Peabody School
Nashville, Tenn
University of Texas
Southern Methodist University
Missy Nadine Morgan
Martha Jane Barker
Farnestine Barker
Froney Grove High School
Northeast Texas Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges
Lions Club
Methodist Church
Honey Grove Methodist Church
James M. Simpson
Kenneth Thomas
T J. Wattes
Carson Cemetery
Ector
Cooper Funeral Home
Texans Favor Johnson Over Shivers in Rural Precincts
Rural precinct meetings across Texas leaned toward Lyndon B. Johnson for Democratic state leadership over Gov. Allan Shivers. Early tallies show Johnson leading with broad delegate strength in many counties, while Shivers trails in others as precinct conventions prepare to choose delegates for county and state conventions leading to the May 22 state gathering.
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O. B. Lloyd JR
United Press
Hae
Texas
Allan Shivers
U. S. Senate
Democrat
Lyndon B. Johnson
Clusioa
Johnson
Shivers
Dallas
Fannin Democrats Back Johnson For Dual Role
Fannin county Democrats endorsed United States Senator Lyndon B. Johnson for chairman of the Texas delegation to the national convention in Chicago and as Texas favorite son for the presidential nomination. The Bonham precincts reported record attendance and unanimous support, with Speaker Sam Rayburn urging Johnson’s candidacy. The unit rule was adopted for county conventions and three Bonham precincts held large meetings with notable female participation. See FANNIN, Page 2.
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Texas
Shivers
Eisenhower
Johnson
America
Dawson
Lumesa
Johnson Fannin Johnson
Sam Rayburn
South
West Bonham
Angelina Johnson
Fannin County
United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Chicago
Bonham
Sen. Johnson
West
East
South Bonham
Rayburn
Allan Shivers
Raydurar
Ector
Ladonia
North Honey Grove
South Honey Grove
Trenton
Dodd City
Fannin
NATO Ministers Approve Plan to Broaden Alliance
Paris AP reports NATO ministers approved Secretary Dulles plan for a three man committee to modernize NATO for a peaceful and war ready era. Canada Italy and Norway named as the three wise men to study political and military roles and aid for backward nations with a late summer report.
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Paris
NATO Council of Ministers
Atlantic Alliance
Selwyn Lloyd
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Gaetano Martino
Italy
Halvard Lange
Norway
John Toster Dulles
NATO
Russia
France
Belgium
Dulles
Lloyd
Hospitals Week Observed With Civic Club Tours
Bonham VA Center plans National Hospital Week events from May 6 to 12 with civic clubs visiting the center. Kiwanis Rotarians Lions and other groups will tour facilities, take noon bus rides, and join Florence Nightingale’s birthday themed observance emphasizing hospital services to communities.
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Bonham VA Center
National Hospital
Charles A. Tosch
Bonham
Kiwanis
Rotarians
Lions
Tosch
Florence Nightingale
Texans Named To Crew For H-Bomb Airburst Mission
Two Texans, Paul Wignall of Fort Arthur and William R Payne of Plainview, are listed among seven aboard the MT McKinley for the 33 52 intercontinental bomber crew to release an H bomb over Bikini Atoll next week. Payne will be navigator timer, Wignall serves as official observer. crew from Kirkland AFB trained with dummy drops. Amelia airburst marks the first H bomb test for the program.
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MT Mckinley
Eniwetuck
Bitsini Atolls
Oaul Wignall 38
Fort Arthur
Wiliam R Payne
Plainview
Tex
Amelia
Kirkland Air Force Base
Albuquerque
Omar Jugit
Cucumber Acreage Drive Aims at Local Grading Facility
Efforts renew to secure 25 to 40 more cucumber acres in the Red River area of northern Fannin County to justify a grading shed by the Bree Pickle Company of Sherman. About 60 acres are pledged. total around 100 acres sought. Sign up with Hodge or Nixon at local firms or The Daily Favorite office by Tuesday noon to trigger technical help and market setup.
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Saaturday
Red River
Fannin County
Bree Pickle Company
Sherman Bob Hodge
Paul Nixon
Ravenna and
Mulberry
Atea
Sherman
Nixon
Erie Company
Hodge
Brown Tractor Company
Hutchison Farm Equipment Company
Manning’g Duplement Company
Sherman Firmang
Teia
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Choice Moore
Allen's Point
Allen's Chapel
Choice
Home Demonstration Club
Tony L. Moore
Favorite’s Comic Page
the Daily Favorite
Fannin Democrats
Youur Hospital
Toosch
Toxsch
Acre
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