Whitewright Chamber Sets Local Holidays for Businesses
The Whitewright Chamber of Commerce holiday committee listed Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year observances signed by 35 local businesses. Not all retail or outlying stores signed. automobile stations absent. For practical purposes town businesses will close six days in the next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Roby Childress
Edgar Ayers
Clyde Craig
Elbert Bennett
Joe Johnson
Satururday
Childress Pharmacy
Blanton Home & Auto Supply
Core & Davis Co
Johnson Jewly & Appliance
Carol’s
Anna Bassett
Whitewright Cleaners
First National Bank
Long’s Studio
the Food Mart Twins Beauty Shop
Whitewright Lumber
School Lunch Menu Week Highlights
Monday features pork sausage with English peas carrot sticks mashed potatoes cookies and ice cream. Tuesday offers cheese slice peanut butter crackers green beans golden corn hot rolls butter syrup jelly rolls. Wednesday serves red beans kraut and weiners sliced tomatoes textoes cornbread butter and apple shortcake with vanilla ice cream. Thursday presents steak and gravy potato chips black eyed peas sliced tomatoes doughnuts and ice cream on a stick.
Be Happy Treat Your Aching Feet
Coral Gables Florida Mrs Wilma Miller a former milliner now running a health establishment advocates foot care for happier marriages. She argues feet are where tensions begin and suggests a wife give a foot rubdown to calm a tired husband. If anger rises she advises go soak your feet to ease tempers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coral Gables
Fla
Wilma Miller
Sheriff Reports 87 March Arrests
Sheriff Woody Blanton reports 87 arrests in March with 1308 dollars in fines and costs. Drunkenness led with 18 arrests, driving while intoxicated eight, traffic nine, liquor law seven, swindling and investigation five each, extortion and juvenile four each, lunacy and aggravated assault three each, plus other departments non support and vagrancy two to three. Vital processes served totaled 102 with 40 county court 46 district courts four justice courts and 12 foreign courts. reported stolen property totaled 1292 dollars with 500 dollars recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woody Blanton
Want Ad Seeks Results In Local News
Classified help wanted notice outlines job opportunities and contact details in a concise local ad listing. It urges readers to respond promptly for openings across multiple positions.
Whitewright Gin to Sponsor F M Club Talk on Cotton Farming
The Whitewright Farmers & Merchants Club will hold a meeting next Thursday night April 15 at 7 30 in the High School Gym. The Whitewright Gin, Lloyd Alexander manager, will sponsor a prominent speaker and provide refreshments. Farmers and businessmen are invited. The talk will cover planting cultivating fertilizing poisoning and harvesting cotton. A social hour follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Gin
Lloyd Alexander
Whitewright Farmers & Merchants Club
Alexander
Training Course For Men Interested In Boy Scouts
The Sherman Area Council will hold an April 23 start training course for men in Whitewright and nearby towns with weekly Friday sessions through May ending in an outdoor supper. Mr Chaney Corse leads with Sherman area volunteers. Bells and Tom Bean residents invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Area Council
Whitewright
Chaney Corse
Bells
Tom Bean
John Biggerstaff
Clint Hennig
Lee Smith
N. L. Bennett
Richard Riggins
C. B. Bryant III
Chester Slaughter
Sherman Area
Grayson County
Denison
Sherman Community Chest
van Alstyne
Whitesboro
Circle 10 Council
Dallas
Dallas Regional VA Office Maintains Veterans Services
The Dallas Regional Office at 912 South Brvay street will continue to serve the 51 counties of Northeast Texas with all programs and services unchanged after the VA District Office moves to Denver. Insurance and death claims records will move, while outpatient medical and dental treatments pension disability and other benefits remain. Veterans may contact the Dallas office or nearest VA office for information on benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Veterans Administration
South
Brvay Street
Texas
Denver
Colo
Scott B. Harrington
S. Elvay
Doctor Weighs Operation Versus Pills for Urgent Life Save
A physician tells a patient only an operation can save his life. The patient asks about cost, and learns it would be about five hundred dollars. With only one hundred dollars available, the doctor suggests trying pills as an alternative.
New Street Lights For Business District
City plans five 30 foot creosoted poles with mercury lights on Main street in cooperation with Community Public Service Company. Lights start at Stateville corner then past Masonic Hall Linda Theatre Ayres corner and post office, removing current steel standards for reuse in American Legion Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
Main Street
Community Public Service Company
Stateville
Deaths Over two obituaries in Grayson County
Funeral services for Maurice L. Pete Davis age 42 were held at Earnheart Chapel. Burial was in Wittitoe Cemetery. He died Friday at the veterans hospital in McKinney after a long illness. Survived by his mother and siblings. World War II service with military police in Africa Sicily and Italy. Ollie Ray Walker age 62 buried in Van Alstyne Cemetery after services at Van Alstyne First Baptist. He died Thursday night in a Sherman hospital. Survived by wife four daughters three sons and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice L
Pete) Davis
Earnheart Chapel
C. J. Graves
N. J. Salyer
Wittitoe Cemetery
William T. Sanford
J. T. Thomas
Roy Duncan
Weldon Skipworth
Howard Feagan
Vestal Biggerstaff
Davis
Veterans Hospital
McKinney
Tom Bean
Bonnie Davis
T. D. Davis
Grayson County
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Presbyterian Church
Bells
T. G. Teague
Roswell
N. M
H. L. Scott
Whitewright
C. E. Davis
F. H. Davis
Borger
Guy Davis
N. H. Davis
Ollie Ray Walker
Dick Walker
First Baptist Church
van Alstyne
Herman Mayo
Grand Prairie
Jimmy Duckworth
van Alstyne Cemetery
Walker
Sherman Hospital
Mr. Walker
Jimmie
Sarah Marr Walker
The
Baptist Church
Funeral services for John F Newman held in Trenton
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 30 p m in Trenton for John Franklin Newman 83 who died at his home in Trenton Tuesday at 11 p m He was born in Tullahoma Tennessee son of the late R L and Emily Newman His wife was Etta Carroll He moved to Texas in 1895 farming in Fannin and Collin Counties before retirement Survivors include his wife four daughters Mrs George Childs Long Beach California Mrs O C Dunsworth Mansfield Louisiana Mrs Edgar Bow Whitewright and Mrs L B Westman Odessa a son C W Newman Temple and one grandson John Carroll Wilborn Trenton 24 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
John Franklin Newman
Newman
Tullahoma
Tenn
R. L
Emily Newman
Etta Carroll
Texas
Fannin
Collin Counties
George Childs
Long Beach
Calif
O. C. Dunsworth
Mansfield
Edgar Bow
Whitewright
L. B. Westman
Odessa
C. W. Newman
Temple
John Carroll Wilborn
Assembly of God Announces Revival Meeting
Rev. Elvis L. Hill of the Assembly of God Church announces a revival beginning Monday April 12 with Evangelist L. L. Ammons preaching each night at 7 30 oclock. The public is invited to attend all services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvis L. Hill
Assembly of God Church
Evangelist L. L. Ammons
South Grayson TB Association Plans April Meeting
The South Grayson Tuberculosis Association announces its annual meeting at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday April 13 at Travis Street Methodist Church in Sherman. All who buy Christmas Seals are members and invited to attend. Reports will be presented and the budget set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Grayson Tuberculosis Association
Travis Street Methodist Church
Sherman
44 States To Join In Vaccinations
New York report says all but four states will participate in mass polio vaccinations starting within a week. Massachusetts and Minnesota withhold authorization. Maryland Arizona and the District of Columbia opt out due to delays and early school closings. Start set for shortly after April 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Maryland
Arizona
District of Columbia
Foundation
South
Winchell
Walter Winchell
TV Indicating Companion Unit Across Stations Explained
FCC plan labels stations with TV after call letters when sharing a companion radio unit. Thus WCBS-TV New York appears with the TV symbol, while WPIX New York lacks a radio associate and uses no symbol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Federal Communications Commission
Wcbs—Tv
WPIX
WNBQ
Chicago
WMAQ
Bill collectors face tougher times in first quarter 1954
The American Collectors Association said merchants and professionals found it harder to collect debts in the first three months of 1954. Its collection index fell to 73.6 in March from 75.01 in December, with accounts referred to agencies rising 47.4 percent and dollar volume up 38.6 percent from a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
American Collectors Association
ACA
Association
Dallas Stations Plan Shared Tower Near Cedar Hill
Dallas television stations KRLD and WFAA have applied to the FCC to share a common antenna tower west of Cedar Hill. The proposed tower would rise about 1,685 feet above the average terrain, with each station retaining its own antenna on the structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
KRLD
WFAA
Dallas
Texas
The
Communications Commission
Cedar Hill
Whitewright City Increases Water And Sewer Rates
The Whitewright City Commission voted a 25 percent rise in the water minimum and a 50 cent uptick on sewer charges, effective with the next bill. Residential sewer goes to 1.00, business sewer 1.75, wagon-size water 50c, to fund general revenues and fund planned trash and street sweeping programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
Board On Sewer Service
Russell R. Summers
Charles E. Ayres
Jack Meador
General Revenue Fund
Southern Lawyer Chosen as Special Counsel in McCarthy-Army Row
Ray H. Jenkins a Tennessee lawyer and farmer was named Wednesday as the special counsel for the Senate investigations subcommittee to probe the McCarthy Army dispute. Hearings are set to begin April 21. Jenkins 57 is a leading Knoxville trial lawyer, Republican and Episcopalian who farms as a hobby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ray H. Jenkins
Tennessee
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
Senate
Karl Mundt
Rep
South Dakota
Jenkins
Knoxville
Tenn
Blanton Seeks Reelection as Grayson Sheriff
G W Blanton announced in Whitewright his bid for reelection as Grayson County Sheriff citing a three year service record. He said the formal announcement will appear later in The Sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W
Woody) Blanton
Whitewright
The
Sun
Grayson County
Blanton
Small Farmers Due for Break
Secretary Benson said the 18 member National Agricultural Advisory Commission will study small farm operator problems. He noted President Eisenhower’s message that about 3.5 million of 5.5 million farms produce so little they gain little from price supports. The commission’s recommendations will guide proposed congressional relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Benson
National Agricultural Advisory Commission
Eisenhower
Congress
Regardless of Name Its Hamburger
The popular hamburger travels from the German port city named Hamburg and accrues many variants such as beefburger cheese burger nutburger oliveburger tomato burger chickenburger ham burger lambburger fishburger and pickleburger. World War I patriots briefly renamed it salisbury steak to remove German tarnish, but the change did not endure.
Swollen Hock Slows Mule at Pilot Point
Pilot Point farmer L Hunn reports his 40 year old mule Kate still works but developed a swollen hock in recent weeks. He recalls the animal retired from field plowing in 1940 when he bought a tractor and suspected rheumatism as the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilot Point
L. Hunn
Kate
Hunn
Fancy Steaks Make Up Small Share Of 1000 Pound Steer
A 1000-pound steer yields about 450 pounds of retail cuts and 35 pounds of fancy steaks such as porterhouse and T bone. The remaining 550 pounds accounts for moisture loss and waste. Breakdown shows 55 pounds sirloin 50 round 30 rib roast 25 boneless rump 105 chuck 100 hamburger 50 stew meat and misc cuts.
Moth Proof Woolens While You Wash
College Station reports a new liquid moth proofing wash additive that leaves a small amount of DDT in wool to deter moths and beetles. EQ-53 is the common label seen. treatment lasts a year or more, re treatment needed after washing or dry cleaning. The product, developed by entomologists, aims to protect washable woolens and blankets year round. Lake Champlain is noted as a geographic reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Bernice Claytor
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
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Boy Scouts
Maurice L. Davis
John F. Newman
Assembly of God
L. L. Ammons
South Grayson TB Association
Dallas TV
Commission
Whitewright Board of Education
G. H. Turner
Nana Francis
Sarah Kilgree
Sallye Hamilton
Mardell Pumphrey
Pebble May
Audra Bennett
Lucile Sanders
Wilson Tarpley
David Johnson
Kathryn Roddy
al Eva Blanton
Lillian Neathery
Joe Morgan
Percy Darwin
B. R. Vestal
Manuel Alexander
Earl Fields
W. T. Loomis
State Highway Department
D. E. McCoy
Ayres
Whitewright Sun
Jerome McKinney
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
G. W. Blanton
Grayson
Josh Billings
Lake Champlain
Vermont
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