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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1959
Page
1
Mayor Summers announced curbside pickup will begin Monday with residents placing cans in alleys for free hauling by Caro Maxey. Western Week ends with a gym Variety Show featuring grade and high school king and queen, and tickets cost 50 cents adults 35 cents students.
The Whitewright Parent-Teacher Association elected officers for the next school year at a meeting in the high school library. Officers include President Mrs Wallace Wilson First vice president Mrs James Bryant Second vice president Mrs J D Marlow Third vice president Mrs Irvin Slaughter Secretary Mrs Bill White Treasurer Mrs Wayne McLauchlin Reporter Mrs Bull Range Parliamentarian Mrs Carl Edwards The third grade won the room count.
Sen Thurston Morton of Kentucky was chosen as national chairman. Chicago was set as the 1960 Republican nominating convention city with July 25 as the start date, two weeks after the Democrats begin in Los Angeles. Morton pledged support for Eisenhower and Nixon on the budget issue.
The Martian tells the American he is from West Mars and wants to meet the leader. The exchange underscores a playful spacefarer encounter with a humorous punchline about origins.
Guy Stedham of Los Angeles reports a pamphlet found in a cafeteria ad that rewrites the Gettysburg Address as a tax march. The spoof laments Form 1040 pressures, urging higher brackets and more deductions while praising the revenue service in a satirical tax pledge.
Federal tax officials said they will question more income tax returns this year as part of an expanded audit effort. Commissioner Dana Latham aims to involve every taxpayer with substantial income in a cycle of reviews within a few years, despite budget uncertainty.
John Van Hausman hauled 191 silver dollars and 41 copper pennies to the internal revenue service to pay his federal income tax. IRS collector Reese Lloyd accepted the payment, noting the coin tribute to Colorado’s centennial mining era.
President Eisenhower dedicated a 10-foot bronze statue of Senator Robert A Taft and a towering white bell tower near the Capitol to the memory of the late Republican leader. The ceremony also featured former President Hoover Vice President Nixon Speaker Rayburn and others as bells named Big Bob and 25 smaller bells rang for Taft.
Robert Doss of Whitewright and Denison was elected president of the Episcopal Churchmen of the Diocese of Dallas at the Laymen's Conference in Denison. He served as vice-president previously and is a St. Luke's Denison vestryman. Thomas J. Mayfield, also of St. Luke's, was named a director among twelve. The Diocese of Dallas covers 54 counties in North and East Texas.
Modesto California note says Gilbert Brazil of Cares petitioned Stanislaus Superior Court to change his name to Gilbert Brazil. The item also explains the origin of the nickname Hamburger from Hamburg Germany and mentions 44 years of corny jokes.
A letter from Uncle Dan of Tom Bean argues against a proposed law requiring drivers who hit unattended vehicles to leave a note. He cites practical chaos, favors letting drivers go, and mocks the idea of penance via written contact. He urges Editor to dismiss the note-writing campaign.
At the May 12 Whitewright PTA meeting the School Board will award service pins to teachers and staff for 5 10 15 20 and 25 years of service. Recipients include David Johnson B R Vestal Caleb Thornhill Tass Farrow and Mrs Pebble May 5-year pins and Mrs Harold Thornhill Miss Mardell Pumphrey Mrs Eva Blanton Mrs Audra Bennett and O V Barker 10-year pins. 15-year honors go to Mrs Sarah Kilgree Mrs Dorothy Lackey S T Montgomery Jr and Miss Lillian Neathery with Lucyle Sanders earning a 20-year pin and Sallye Hamilton and Mrs Nana Francis a 25-year pin. In the Negro school Florene Huckaby and J L Huckaby Jr receive 15 and 10-year pins respectively. Dick Walker joins the School Board to replace Wilson Kaiser who resigned for pressing business. Walker also serves on the Grayson County School Board.
Funeral services for Carl D. Carraway 40 were conducted at the First Baptist Church by Rev. Fred Waldrop. Burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. Carraway died April 9 in a Concordia hospital after being burned while priming a truck carburetor with gasoline. He was a truck driver for O. K. Feed Mill, Whitewright. He was born September 20, 1918 in Hubbard, Texas. He married Myrtle Page on October 15, 1937 in Whitewright. Surviving: wife, two daughters, one son, four grandchildren, and several relatives.
Mrs Mary Jane Moore Cherry 81 wife of the late W O Cherry died in a Sherman hospital. Funeral at 3 p m Thursday at First Methodist Bells with Rev William Davis Rev Baxter Bryant and Rev J B Hibbert officiating. Burial Rose Hill Cemetery Earnheart Funeral Home directs. Born July 31 1877 in Maury County Tennessee she came to Texas in 1888. Married W O Cherry in Sherman Oct 29 1895. Survived by four daughters four grandchildren six great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
The week lists a school lunch menu with items for each weekday including Vienna sausage and fish sticks. A bar joke follows about a man with a pet mynah bird who orders a drink and receives a witty response from the bartender about serving mynahs.
Wolfe City placed second at the District 43 B track meet held April 15 at East Texas State College. Wolfe City scored 70 percent to Whitewright's 56 with Ladonia Celeste and Leonard following. several Whitewright athletes qualified for the regional meet in Denton on April 26.
A Texas House committee voted to send a bill on rural electric cooperatives to the Attorney General for a ruling, effectively killing the measure for the session. Co op supporters argued it would protect service continuity after city annexation. utility groups opposed it. Three million bats emerge nightly from Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
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