Local social notes and weekend visits in Texas towns
Mrs Ed Kent III of Sherman visited in Whitewright on Monday. Families from Ardmore Oklahoma Denison Fort Worth and Denison areas spent weekends with relatives and at church events. Senior class fundraising and a birthday surprise for Mrs Floyd Bassett featured among civic and church activities.
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Ed Kent III of
Sherman
Whitewright
Frank England
Miss Betty
Denison
Floyd Bassett
Jimmy
Dixie
Beverly
Gertrude Stapleton
Fort Worth
Nellie Zuver
Platter, Okla
Bill Thornhill
J. P. Thornhill
Edna
Bob Young
Cindia and
Patty
Mary McCullough
D. P. Williams
Stamford
J. W. Wilson
Williams
Florence Wilson
Local Footnotes and Visits from Whitewright to Dallas
Notes list residents and guests across Texas and Germany. Families and friends visit Denison Paris Dallas and Fort Worth. military mentions include Lt. C. D. Herrera in Stuttgart and Pfc Ray E. Jones in Germany. Jacks family leaders and Mrs J Kaiser ill highlight community ties.
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Beverly Herrara
Ken
New York
Germany
C. D. Herrera
Stuttgart
Army
Ray E. Jones
Jessie Fuller
Whitewright
4Th Armored Division
Jones
41St Infantry
New Ulm
Burglary Targets Local Car Firm Weeks After Move
Edwards Chevrolet Company suffered a second break in since moving last fall. Thieves stole a 1955 Chevrolet pickup and used it and possibly the other vehicle to haul away 188 tires including recaps. Carl Edwards estimated losses at about 3500 dollars including cash and travelers checks.
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Edwards Chevrolet Company
Carl Edwards
Bethel Senior Banquet Honors Life Of School Seniors
The Bethel church hosted a Tree of Life themed senior banquet for high school seniors and families with Rev H B Fuller Jr as MC. W H Munn gave the invocation and Rev Don Howland delivered an address amid a program featuring several seniors and guests.
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Bethel Church
H. B. Fuller Jr
W. H. Munn
Don Howland
Bobby Kay Cawthon
Donna Kay Franklin
Pattye Bartley
Bethel
Bob Cawthon
Louis Franklin
James Williams
J. P. Williams
Tom Bean
H. B. Fuller
Hope, Ark
Smiles and Frowns Poem About Boxes and Brightness
A playful verse imagines a box kept in a distant place that holds smiles to scatter across lands and seas, brightening children's faces for days. It contrasts gathering frowns from nursery to street and sealing them away by a giant dropping box into the deep sea.
Little Lines by Margie B. Boswell
A reflective verse showing that depth comes from thoughtful action not noise. The short lines compare habits to rabbits and praise steady growth through sowing good deeds. It notes Noah’s silence and ends with a reminder that wisdom lies in balanced mistakes.
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Margie B. Boswell
Noah
Fidelis Church Weekly Schedule and Events
The schedule lists activities for Fidelis Church including a Thursday April 28 pot-luck at 7:00 p m. Sunday events begin with Sunday School at 9:55 a m and worship at 10:55 a m. Choir practice at 6 00 p m and Training Union at 6 30 p m. Evening service at 7 30 p m. Monday features a workers conference in Van Alstyne at 10 00 a m and WMS Royal Service at 3 00 p m. Wednesday hosts teachers meeting at 6 30 p m prayer meeting at 7 30 p m and adult choir rehearsal at 8 00 p m.
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Fidelis
van Alstyne
Bethel Baptist Church Service Schedule
Sunday School at 10:00 a m Morning worship at 11:00 a m Prayer meeting Friday at 8:00 p m Bethel Baptist Church announces weekly gatherings for worship and study.
Church Schedule for Morning Worship and Meetings
First Methodist Church lists morning worship at 10 55 a m Youth Fellowship at 6 00 p m on Sundays and fourth Sunday 5 30 p m The Women s Society of Christian Service meets first and third Mondays at 3 00 p m The Wesleyan Service Guild meets every other Monday at 7 30 p m
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Methodist Youth Fellowship
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Wesleyan Service Guild
Worship Service and Ladies Aid Schedule Update
Worship service at 11 a.m. followed by Ladies Aid meeting at the church on Monday at 4 p.m.
Church of Christ Sunday Schedule
Bible study at 10:00 a.m. Worship and communion at 11:00 a.m. Evening worship at 7:00 p.m. Bible study for all ages at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday Services Times
Sunday School at 9 45 a m Worship at 11 a m Worship at 7 00 p m Christ Ambassadors meet Saturday at 7 00 p m and Wednesday Prayer Meeting at 7 00 p m.
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Christ Ambassadors
Kentuckytown Baptist Church Evening Services
Training Union at 6 00 p m Worship service at 7 00 p m in Kentuckytown Baptist Church schedule listing reflects two services for the evening.
Sit-ins Healthy says Democrat Party Chief in Kansas City
National chairmen of the Democrats and Republicans clashed over Negro sit-in protests in the South. Democrat Paul Butler called the sit-ins a healthy reaction to an un American situation while Republican Sen Thruston Morton called them unfortunate during a regional telecast sponsored by Rockhurst College.
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South
Paul Butler
Thruston Morton
Butler
Morton
Rockhurst College
Putty Tat Comes Home With Kittens In Bird House
Mrs. Oscar Brown found a stray cat used her bird house as a den for kittens. The tale mixed with a note on energy shares, contrasting 1900 reserves with 1958 figures where petroleum and natural gas rose to 37 and 31 percent respectively.
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Austin
Oscar Brown
United States
Curious woman pays $100 fine in court
Christine Johnson of San Antonio testified in county court that she fired a revolver at the ceiling of an east Austin restroom to test if the gun was loaded with blanks. The resulting hole in the ceiling earned her a $100 fine.
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Austin
Christine Johnson
San Antonio
East Austin
Highway accidents blamed on driver error in 1959
Studies by The Travelers Insurance Companies show driver error caused 85 percent of highway accidents in 1959.
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Travelers Insurance Companies
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Claud Riddle
Ardmore, Okla
Jim Grider
R. B. McMurry
Memphis
T. J. Giles
Jimmie Phy
Andy of
Irving
Hone, Ark
Lena Mae Gowdy
Allen T. Short
Holmes Connelly
Trenton
Mrs. Connelly
George Hight
Humble Station
Weldon Bartley
Tom Barnes
H. O. Miller
Sammie Maxwell
Ricky
J. C. Wetzel
Cecil Bartley
Manuel Alexander
J. H. Gosnell
John Jarvis
Tanya
Mack Williams
Bethel Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Jack England
Mary Lynn
W. M. Pierson
Mrs. Floyd Housewright
Dallas
Frank White
Daughters of
Paris
T. J. Lilley
E. A. Shaw
Gerald
Red Oak
R. L. Lowe
Lancaster
Willie Cargile
Tennessee
Bass
Mozelle Jacks
Metropolitan Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Miss Jacks
L. F. Jacks
J. A. Stuteville
D. T. Waddle
Misawa Air Base
Tokyo
Japan
Stateville
Mollie Wright
J. J. Kaiser
Martin P. Rosso
Huntington, Ark
Charles B. Estes
Calvert Joyce
Marshall
Y. B. Kaiser
Denton
Mac Kaiser
Richardson
Charlie Kaiser
Pilot Grove
Weldon Kaiser
Clarksville
Emmett Owen
Sons
Commerce
Kaiser
White Swan Tea
Donald Duck
Maxwell House
Keith
Grayson Oleo, JR
Morton’s
KOBEY
BIG Tex
Kraft Coleslaw Dressing
Pillsbury Pan
Eula Andrew
Ben Braden
Eva May of
Berniece Davis
Baptist
Lottie Moon Circle
Oran Sears
W. L. Hatfield
A. L. McCurdy
Paul Stephens
Western Beauty C. M. EF
S. T. Taylor
Florence Huckaby
Mercie Maxey
Venda Hamilton
Nettie Blanton
Ella Mae Patterson
Dale Clower
Clifton Sanderson
Fuller
Dennie Buchanan
Boyd Sanderson
O. G. Alexander
Jess Franklin
M. W. Williams
T. B. Autrey
L. L. Wendell
O. G. Bow
Edgar Bow
Moody Clinton
Eula Porter
T. L. Cowart
Jewel Jarvis
R. H
First Methodist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Ladies Aid
Church OF Christ
Assembly OF God Church
Kentuckytown Baptist Church
Democrat Party
Kansas City
Whitewright Cleaners
Grayson
Oleo
Griffin
White Swan
Crocery & Market
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