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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1951
Page
5
Fort Worth residents Kay Kimbell and Ray Smith visited here on Thursday. Many local families and others from Dallas McKinney Sherman Denison and Tulsa share weekend visits and hospital stays. A Cross Roads Desert singing event is announced and community visits continue with birthday and travel news throughout the area.
Mrs Lee Wilson and daughter Jean and Mrs Frank Phillips attended the funeral of Guy Riddle at Blue Ridge Sunday. Numerous local families visited the ill A L Scott over the weekend. Pvt Charles Lewis Nash completed Leadership School at Fort Jackson after enlisting Oct 6 1950. Mrs Lanius Kincaid injured March 25 remains in critical condition in Bonham hospital. C C Burchfield and family visited son Virgil and daughter in Bonham and Cotton Center millet seed trip. Local visitors to Joe Ross home include Jace Howard Patterson and many from nearby towns. Mrs Mangrum celebrated 103rd birthday with 25 guests at J E Mangrum home.
Pvt Billy R Lewis son of Mr and Mrs C H Lewis has an APO number showing he is overseas after finishing training at Fort Bliss Texas Truman Tomlinson is gravely ill in Wilson N Jones Hospital Sherman son of Mr and Mrs E E Tomlinson formerly of Whitewright A new mimeographed eight page High School publication Spring s Spring appears this week edited by Mary Lou Brown with student comments cartoons and information
The Whitewright Music Club met Wednesday at 3 00 PM in Mrs Guy Hamilton's home with Mrs James Cooper as co hostess. Seventeen members answered roll call. Mrs Floyd Bassett directed the program including piano quartette vocal solos Beethoven sketch and Ninth Symphony analysis. Refreshments followed and April 11 was set for the next meeting with Miss Carrie Hamilton as program director.
The Dobson family gathered for a reunion with Mrs Ida Dobson as host. Attending were W C Wyatt of Oakland California J T Burnam of Maywood California Howard Thompson and daughter of Blooming ton Dr and Mrs Jack Dobson of College Station Marie Jinkins and Jack Dobson of Whitewright. Grandchildren included Carl Pangle and Bruce Pangle of Fort Worth.
Den 1 met Tuesday at 3 15 in the Cub Scout den at the Grammar School with seven cubs present. Chancy Corse attended and the group made bracelets from craftstrip. Cubs Robbie Phillips Scottie Phillips and Jerry Lee Bennett received their wolf badges at the pack meeting Thursday March 29.
The Women's Society of Christian Service gathered at the Methodist Church for a covered dish luncheon and kitchen shower. Gifts and cash donations were received for the church kitchen as the business session elected new officers: E. F. Everheart president, Griffin Dollarhide Jr vice president, James Bryant corresponding secretary, L. O. Lackey promotional secretary, and Jack Lackey secretary.
The list includes Mrs. F. M. Williams as secretary of Christian social relations and local church activities, Mrs. Mary McGaughey as secretary of spiritual life, Mrs. Owen Hull as secretary of student work, Mrs. A. D. Jameson as secretary of youth work, Mrs. R. P. Childress as secretary of children's work, Mrs. Ross May as secretary of literature and publications, Mrs. H. C. Willis as secretary of supply work, Mrs. I. L. Neathery as secretary of status of women, and Mrs. Olivia Whedbee as treasurer.
The government via the national production authority imposed three controls. First, 80 percent of cotton duck production reserved for defense orders effective April 1. Second, new glass container designs banned to conserve capacity for canned goods. Third, reduced use of Molybdenum in certain stainless steels and its removal from others. Tungsten substitutes rising due to Korean conflict cutoffs.
In Cincinnati Winton Terrace, 327 residents faced a rat and mouse surge in winter. Tenants bought many cats to control pests. rats and mice vanished but cat numbers grew. Management now orders removal of the cats to restore balance.
A government petroleum expert said civilian motor gasoline quality cuts are inevitable due to a shortage of tetraethyl lead. Reid Brazell, director of refining for the Petroleum Administration for Defense, said the cut is necessary to conserve limited fuel supplies.
Tokyo police report a 35 year old housewife, Tomi Isobe, killed her husband, a school teacher, by feeding him hair fragments mixed into meals over months as an ancient Oriental poisoning method. The suspect is under arrest for murder.
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