06 Aug 1964
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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1964
Page
1
A Whitewright column laments service delays after a new mail and water system, urges mosquito control, and warns households about national debt. It questions the value of the moon project and criticizes President Johnson as a shrewd political leader.
Philip Earnheart urged readers to join a Red Cross first-aid course to be taught in Whitewright. The 10 hour program would run in two hour sessions twice weekly, with signups through Mr Barnhart.
The Whitewright softball matchup features non juvenile players labeled old men. Grady McCorstin announced the game set for Thursday night at 8 at Whitewright baseball park with free admission and entertaining play expected.
VA figures from Waco show more than 164000 American flags issued to drape the caskets of veterans in 1963, up from 153000 the prior year. The long term rise in flags issued over 13 years reflects growing numbers of veterans with wartime service or peacetime enlistment. Flags available through VA offices, 15400 post offices, and overseas via State Department arrangements.
The article notes LBJ rejects a Bobby Kennedy bid for vice president citing South hostility including Texas. It discusses Kennedy as potential top ticket candidate, LBJ’s strategic move, impact on Kennedy family support, and concerns over rising 1964 food prices harming fixed incomes like Social Security and elderly pensions.
A reader lampoons Washington and manufacturers over shrinking pants fabrics and rising prices. He jokes about Congress and officials like Jackie Gleason as fashion models, notes shoppers’ woes, and criticizes political corruption and larceny of cloth amid rising costs.
State Senator Ralph Hall of Rockwall says he favors removing exemptions from the 1961 sales tax law to broaden the base. He argues this would be fairer than raising rates and would aid funding for teacher raises and higher education amid expected legislative fights.
Automobile insurers paid nearly seven million liability claims in 1963 according to Insurance Facts 1964. Per 1,000 insured cars 23 bodily injury claims averaged 1150 dollars and 77 property damage claims averaged 179 dollars, with total economic loss at 9 billion dollars.
General Henry H. Arnold, a U S Army officer, first reported ground troop movements observed from the air by radio in 1912. This early aviation milestone marks Arnold among the pioneers linking aerial reconnaissance to battlefield communication.
A Public Health Service leaflet from the National Heart Institute cites Framingham study findings linking cigarette smoking to higher heart attack risk and notes that quitting lowers coronary death rates. The leaflet explains heart disease and smoking while noting evidence for causality is not yet conclusive and calls for more research.
In Miami Florida Wright Sarvis sued for 350000 after his wife Cheryl a 20 year old mother was killed by a train. Economics professor Roy Lassiter testified a wife in such case could be worth over 400000 to a husband based on life expectancy and replacement wages. The jury awarded 250000. Eggs of the female octopus are about half the size of a grain of rice.
Five Grayson County teens vie for Farm Bureau Queen at Sherman Municipal Auditorium. Kathy and Gail Wilson of Whitewright, Lois Anderson Denison Route 1, Ann Matthews Sherman Route 4, and Judy Lynn Rasco Gunter exhibit 4-H and Future Homemaker leadership, athletics, and school honors.
An Agriculture Department report shows farmers will receive about 17 percent of net realized income as government payments in 1964, with total payments near 2.25 billion dollars. Net income averaged 12.3 billion in early 1964, below 1962 and 1947 peaks, as payments become a political issue.
Paris Texas lawmen will crack down on youths seen after hours this week. County Judge Lester Crutchfield announced the plan saying the move aims to curb rising juvenile crime. Police and sheriff's deputies will stop teens, check them out, and detain them at the station if needed. Some parents may be contacted to bail out their children.
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