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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1948
Page
1
The city commission adopts a monthly clean up on the first Tuesday with curbside pickup of unburnable rubbish. Residents must place tied sacks or boxed waste at the curb. no loose trash. A local trucker will haul it away, replacing the former alley container system.
Grayson County could issue 750000 in road bonds with little or no tax rise. Judge J N Dickson outlined a plan to finance within the 95 cent 1948 levy, trimming several levies and using fund balances to provide an 8 cent leeway for the bond issue.
Denison resident C. E. Cliff Mauk visited Whitewright on Tuesday and authorized The Sun to place his name in the political announcement column as a candidate for County Commissioner Precinct No. 2. His formal announcement will appear later.
Veterans push for a state war bonus with bonds up to 500 dollars and a natural resources tax as revenue. In Austin representatives from 28 Texas colleges launched a statewide drive led by Zack Mason, aiming to recruit veterans groups and extend to junior colleges and trade schools.
At Friday's meeting the Whitewright Board of Education elected high school teachers including O V Barker Sam Montgomery Kathryn Roddy Percy Darwin Lillian Neathery Evelyn Burns and Sarah Kilgree for 1948 49. Grade school staff named Herman Bedford Lucyle Sanders Sallye Hamilton Mardell Pumphrey Sewell McKinney Nana Francis with one grade school vacancy. No high school principal was chosen though H M Gentry has served in that role. The board also applied to the State Department of Education for two new school buses.
Rev. and Mrs. Rudolph Russell of Kentuckytown Baptist Church are appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board to Canton South China for a three year term. Russell, a Baylor and Southwestern Seminary graduate, has led Kentuckytown in growth and building plans. They expect to depart the United States in August and will seek support from friends and church members as they prepare. The First Baptist Church plans a farewell service before their departure.
The Sun lists new members added to its honor roll after subscribing or renewing. Names include Howard Hedgpeth Dick Montgomery C. H. Thomson E. M. Taylor Mrs. Ray E. Schlosser and others with subscription dates like 5-48 indicating May 1 1948.
The Senate approved the news vendors bill 77 to 7 to exempt them from social security, after the House passed it 307 to 28 last week. It follows the tax reduction measure adopted earlier this session.
Rotary Club of Whitewright held a luncheon with Rev. James I. Logan as guest speaker on the theme Religion in Business. Tenderfoot badges were awarded to Thomas Cobb and Edward McDowell of the Whitewright Boy Scout troop.
John J. Caron a 36 year old shad fisherman on a Hudson River ferryboat coughed and dropped his false teeth overboard. He leaped into the water but was hauled out by the ship's crew wearing only his clothes, having also lost his glasses and overcoat in the incident.
The Whitewright Home Demonstration Club won first honors in the sixteen county district meeting of the Texas Home Demonstration Association at Sherman. President Mrs. R A Vestal reported the year’s achievements, including a community poultry show and a July 1947 summer festival with Denison Chamber of Commerce. Betty Blackerby, Grayson County 4 H Gold Star winner, spoke on her club work. the group hosted a tea and a wiener roast for 4 H and Boy Scouts. Over 600 club women attended the convention.
The Whitewright PTA held its last meeting of the 1947-48 year in the grade school auditorium. The seventh grade staged a playlet directed by Mrs. Sewell McKinney, and Rev. Gilpin spoke on cub scouting. The group thanked donors for school cot supplies and planned magazine sales to fund playground repairs.
The First National Bank will spend about $5,000 on a renovation improving the interior and exterior. The ceiling will drop four feet walls replastered and painted and glass block filled window openings on the east. Front large windows reduced by half with glass blocks above. New cooling heating lighting and restrooms planned. Additional upgrades may follow.
Four teenagers staged a cops and robbers ambush on a Maryland road, using a suitcase to stop motorists and brandishing toy pistols. A motorist complained, deputies fired at the youths, who were released with reprimands. Sheriff Baker said the episode ended with a harsher lesson for the would‑be criminals.
The Whitewright Booster Club schedules its annual meeting for Wednesday night May 19 at the High School gym. Dooley Dawson soil conservationist of the Second National Bank of Houston will speak on soil conservation. Attendance goal is 200 with tickets for members and spouses and local guests.
Lake Texoma's famed fish has a name the Ghost of Woodville and now carries a $1,000 cash prize after the Lake Texoma Sportsman's Club directors set the award during a Madill Oklahoma meeting. The event also approved a $125 monthly increase if the Ghost remains uncaught, with a May 2 release and invitations extended to state governors. A secondary prize trio will label the other tagged fish Mr Texoma and Jackpot, while normal rodeo prizes run from $100 to $200.
The Navy announced production of the F-6U-1 Pirate will begin soon at Dallas Texas with Chance Vought taking over plant B of the Naval Industrial Reserve May 1. The firm has built the jet fighter experimentally at Stratford Connecticut, and the move to Dallas aligns with defense policy to locate vital plants inland.
Platinum jumped $12 an ounce to $101 in New York trading as wholesale prices held at $98 and buyers faced the highest level since 1927. Supply from Russia, a major supplier with about 35 percent of world output, has been halted for months.
Oliver Cromwell rose as a key military and political figure ruling England from 1649 to 1658. The period established the Commonwealth and Protectorate after the Parliamentary victory in the Civil War.
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