Whitewright voters face tax equalization election this Saturday
The Whitewright Independent School District holds a Saturday election to equalize the district tax under the Gilmer Aikin law. The editorial urges turnout, notes rate capped at $1 per $100, and cites statewide moves toward uniform tax levels. It also mentions first cotton bales arriving in North Texas and a violence incident in Alice, Texas.
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Whitewright’ Independent
Gilmer-Aikin
Whitewright
Texas
Whitewright Independent
Eight charged after Sherman gaming raid at Hi-Life Club
Texas Rangers raided the Hi-Life Club in Sherman after weeks of investigation. Eight counts of operating a gaming place were filed, Ranger Captain N. T. Gonzaullas and four men led the operation. Thirty patrons were fined 18 dollars plus costs on misdemeanor complaints.
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Sherman
Texas Rangers
Here
N. T. Gonzaullas
Dallas
Gonzaullas
Hi-Life
Practical MacTavishs Consider Boy Adoption Twist
Donald and Mary MacTavish sought a girl at the orphanage but a sudden suggestion to take a boy arises from a remembered lad's cap found on the train. The moment hints at a change of plan and a new possibility in their adoption decision.
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Donald
Mary MacTavish
Mary
Navy Pilot's Polio Ordeal Ends in Death
Lt. (jg) James Olin Chiles died after a two day progression of infantile paralysis. He kept a written log noting blurred vision, inability to swallow, rising throat mucous, and neck paralysis as doctors pursued a possible cure while his wife Dorothy cared for him in Memphis.
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Washington
James Olin Chiles
Navy
Dorothy
Chiles
Memphis
Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary for Mr and Mrs H D Moore
Mr and Mrs H D Moore of Bells celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary this Sunday with relatives and surviving wedding party guests from Aug 6 1889. Attendees include Moore sisters from Bells Denison and Dimmitt. family members from Waurika Clovis Wheeler and Whitewright. The couple, active in stock raising and community life, have two sons Earl and Fred, a daughter-in-law Beulah Allred and five other children, eighteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
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H. D. Moore
Bells
Ellen Graves
Nannie Wilburn
Bessie Isom
Denison
Moore
Charlie Footen
Waurika
Okla
Mattie Francis
Clovis
N. M
Violet Ware
Wheeler
Lavona Carruth
Dimmitt
Spartanburg
S. C
Texas
Calamus
John Wooten
Whitesboro District Hikes School Taxes Vote Passes
An election in Whitesboro approved a uniform $1 tax across consolidated areas. The Gilmer Aikin plan brings Prairie Valley Sandy Springs part of County Line Grayson County Red Branch Rock Creek Collinsville Nancy Prairie and Macomb into Whitesboro. Tax rates rise in Prairie Valley Sandy Springs Macomb Rock Creek Red Branch and County Line to $1.
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Whitesboro
Gilmer-Aikin
Prairie Valley
Sandy Springs
County Line
Grayson County
Red Branch
Rock Creek
Collinsville
Nancy Prairie
Macomb Common
Macomb
Divorce Petition in Grayson County Texas Seeks Cruel Treatment
Citation No 57495 commands Arnett C Monroe to appear by September 19 1949 before the Grayson County District Court in Sherman Texas in a divorce action filed July 20 1949 by Lorene Owens Monroe against Arnett C Monroe alleging cruel treatment. The clerk is S V Ernest and deputy Nancy Drake.
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State of
Texas
Arnett C. Monroe
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Lorene Owens Monroe
S. V. Ernest
Nancy Drake
Local Church Services and Schedules
Churches listed with pastors and service times. Assemblies of God and First Presbyterian periods include Sunday school, morning worship, and evening services. Ashley Jameson and Weldon Drake noted as ministers and leaders alongside Youth Fellowship and training union activities.
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E. A. Doty
First Presbyterian Church
James I. Logan Jr
J. R. Wright Jr
Ashley D. Jameson
Weldon R. Drake
W. T. Simmons
W. R. Drake
Training Union
Carl May
Roy Blanton
Brotherhood Presient
Births and civic notes from Denison and Whitewright
Announcements include the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Caylor on July 21 and another birth to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Pierce. Will Cox goes to Dalhart for wholesale grocer work. D. A. Ray ships lumber for a residence near the telephone building. P J Pierce & Sons install bakery machinery. A drowning near Floyd Everheart pool claims 12 year old Frank Smith. Local civic events: prayer for railroad strike end. library hours in Whitewright. Farmers Council organized with N E Skaggs president. Dentists Dr Jack Spindle and Dr J F Spindle to practice in Whitewright. Forty-one infantile paralysis cases reported in Texas this year. Typewriter carbon at Sun office.
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Ray Caylor
Will Cox
Dalhart
D. A. Ray
P. J. Pierce & Sons
Oscar Pierce
Cull Reeves
Gordon Clothing
Denison
Frank Smith
Floyd Everheart
Bruce Pember
Austin
May Belle
W. H. Stedham
Alabama
W. H. Horton
J. W. Blakey
Blakey
Whitewright
N. E. Skaggs
Arthur Badgett
F. T. Harris
Jack Spindle
Baylor Dental College
J. F. Spindle
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T. Glenn Doss
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Grayson
Fannin
the Sun
Alice
Jim Wells County
Grammar School
Craig’s Cafe
J. I. Case Farm Machinery
Spain
Portugal
Iberian Peninsula
Assembly OF God
Chuurch
Enterprise Baptist Church
Church OF Christ
Therman Healy
Central Christian Church
First Methodist Church
First Baptist Church
Lester Haile
Oran Sears
A. & M. College
Sun Office
Palace Theatre
Stratton
William Eythe
Laura Elliott
George Reeves
Secret Service Extra
Mr. M
June Allyson
Peter Lawford
Margaret O’brien
Elizabeth Taylor
Janet Leigh
Cosmopolitan
Seventeen
Parents’ Magazine
Look Magazine
Extra
Dick Powell
Marta Toren
Vincent Price
Rogue’s Regiment” OF the
French Foreign Legion
Lex Barker
Brenda Joyce
Tarzan
Cheta
Whitewright School Board
Tom Sears
F. G. Hoover
Alonzo Harper
E. W. Fields
M. V. Williams
Russell Summers
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