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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1976
Page
4
The Red River Valley Button Society gathered at Mrs. Kay Bryant's Whitewright home with eight members. Virginia McFatridge presided as president. new officers elected include Kay Bryant as president and Betsy Lytle as recording secretary. Irma Stoll led the program on small china buttons.
The Rev. Dale Gore led the monthly birthday party at Trinity Baptist Sher man for honorees Georgia Barry Estella Erwin Earl Benson Bill Freeman Ola Paynter Martha Ersch Emmett Walker Blanch Jinkins Arnold Tate Lola Frair and Lochie Queener. The Whitewright Nursing Home ball team won their first game of the year Friday night.
The Whitewright 200 Club sponsors a Country Musical on April 22 at 8 p.m. in the high school gym featuring Louis Franklin Horace McDonald and the Rhythm Boys and Tom MacHolmes of Trenton. Admission is 1 for adults and 50 cents for students. Proceeds support the new 200 Club.
Legend says if a family member can bring his first and fourth fingers together over the back of his hand, he is considered a good cook. The saying reflects a quirky belief about cooking talent tied to a hand gesture.
Principal Mac Woodruff announced that registration for next year's high school students will be held soon. He urged parents to encourage third and fourth year mathematics and science courses to boost ACT scores, noting Whitewright High School students in those courses outperform peers and ex-students at major universities report no difficulty with college work.
A belief from antiquity holds that rubbing a sty with a gold ring could cure it. The lore reflects early surgical folklore and the value placed on precious metals in healing rites.
Senior Spotlight services honored Odell Powell 62 a wholesale food salesman who died Thursday at a Dallas veterans hospital. Funeral held Saturday Barnheart Funeral Home Whitewright with Rev. Dale Gore presiding. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery Whitewright. Powell a World War II veteran and Star Farmer allied with Gen MacArthur. Surviving wife Dorothy Keith daughter Mrs. Joe Maglio sister Mrs. Hubert Rainey three grandchildren. Pallbearers listed. The week’s Senior Spotlight features Ronnie Fortner son of Mr and Mrs G W Fortner born Oct 17 1957 in Van Alstyne and raised in Desert.
Services were held Wednesday at Ardmore Oklahoma for Archie Barnett 72 of Houston who died in a Houston hospital April 13 1976 He was son of Wash Barnett of Trenton and a former master mechanic He headed Spartan Aircraft shops in Dallas during the war and led Cadillac shops in Denver Survivors include his wife cousins Grady Houston Young of Bells uncles Hugh Hunter Whitewright and Walter Hunter Henrietta Oklahoma
Services for Mrs. Mary Bula Strickland 90 of Whitewright, died Monday in a Sherman hospital. Funeral at Beck Funeral Chapel Pilot Point with burial Belew Cemetery. Born in Archer City, daughter of Otis Johnson, married Robert L. Strickland in 1901 at Good Hope. Survived by sons Lee of Anna Glen of Aubrey, daughters Davie Cain Wichita Falls Dora Dean Kelley Paris Ruth Kreig Luther OK. 20 grandchildren 0 great grandchildren 10 great great grandchildren. Pallbearers were grandsons.
Ronnie lists chicken fried steak football and baseball as favorites. He cites Movin On Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry Clint Eastwood Karen Valentine and an Electra 225 Buick as favorites. His Irish setter is a pet and Round About is his song. After graduation he plans to work and settle down.
The Town and Country club met at Mrs. Pat Alexander’s home with R J Hagood, District 22 State Representative candidate, as guest speaker. Attendance included 150 at a chamber blood pressure clinic and plans for a mini park work day and future April events.
Whitewright High School girls win district track title at Bonham with 206 points, qualify for regionals in Stephenville April 23. Cheri Floyd, Vicki Hames, Bev Blanton and others set multiple district records in sprints, jumps, and relays, while the boys team earns runner-up at Pottsboro.
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