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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1950
Page
5
Local notes show T A Gray visiting Whitewright, numerous trips to Dallas Sherman Bonham and Oklahoma City, and family visits including Darst Nossaman and May family. A hospital stay, navy leave, births and church event also appear amid community greetings.
Daingerfield visitors R. H. May and T. J. Lilley were listed as visiting last week. Many others traveled or hosted gatherings, including Plano residents with relatives in Dallas and Vernon, Dallas visits, and a large weekend of family news. A lightning strike damaged the Spinks home in Amarillo. medical checks and hospital stays were noted for several locals.
Guests unable to attend sent gifts while Sun day school classes delivered a collective present. Refreshments of coke and ice cream served to 21 attendees. Mr and Mrs Bennie Chesser hosted a Sunday dinner with a large group from Whitewright and surrounding towns including Dallas Norman Watkins Dixie Lee Watkins Jim Watkins Frank Ross Watkins H J Ford L A Watkins Jr and families. Others were from Anna Foard City Sherman Blue Ridge and more.
Miss Cora Lee Head daughter of Mr and Mrs Tom Head of Whitewright and James Ray Meeks of Sherman were married July 25 in the county judge's office in Durant Oklahoma. The bride wore rust crepe and navy white accessories with white carnation corsage. She is a Whitewright High School graduate and worked at Denison. The groom, a Corsicana High School graduate, served in the Navy in the Pacific and is employed in Sherman.
Viva Phillips of the H D Club welcomed members of the Whitewright Home Demonstration Club Friday. Rain delayed the gathering. Mrs. Milam led the business portion. A cake decorating demonstration by Mrs. Stanford and Phillips impressed the group. Refreshments for 12 members and three visitors were served. The August 10 picnic at Mrs. Hefner’s lawn may be postponed if weather fails.
A frantic caller said Junior the pet skunk is missing and may be unsafe. Police questioned why anyone would want to kill him while noting Junior is odorless friendly and valuable for breeding. Alaska fisheries produce salmon halibut herring and shellfish.
Pvt. Alfred C. Meek of Walla Walla Washington describes a six hour isolation of a battalion in Korea under heavy enemy fire. He recalls disorganized North Koreans turning into a mass assault with mortars artillery and small arms. Meek witnessed killings bayoneting and prisoners being taken as survivors fled through the night.
Report notes that the quantity of oil believed to lie beneath the earth today surpasses one million gallons.
Washington report says regular canned pink salmon provides Vitamin D as rich as cod liver oil. The Fish and Wildlife Service notes that one eighth of a pound of canned salmon daily meets the average vitamin D requirement for children and pregnant or nursing mothers.
Alfred Thompson's spectacles traveled 1000 miles after slipping from a halted conveyor at Ashington colliery. The case fell into a tub, moved by rail to Blyth, loaded into a collier, and shipped to the Isle of Wight where dock workers recovered the intact case with his address and returned it.
The Copey oak, a white oak by the Inter-American Highway in Central America, was unknown to science as a distinct species until 1942, according to the National Geographic Society.
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