State Commission Asked To Take Over Fly-Ector Road
Ely and Whitewright delegates urged the Texas Highway Commission to designate the Whitewright Ely Ector road as a Farm to Market Road. Spokesman Julian Montgomery cited farming area needs and repayment by the state for maintenance. Chairman John S. Redditt promised careful consideration and possible future takeover.
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Texas Highway Commission
Ely
Whitewright
Whitewright-Ely-Ector
J. A. Harper
Dave Beazley
Clay Horton
Roy Blanton
Julian Montgomery
Austin
Montgomery
State Highway Commission
Fannin County
John S. Redditt
Highway Department
Revival at Bethel Baptist Church Begins Sunday
A revival meeting at Bethel Baptist Church led by Rev. Claud Johnston of North Park Baptist Sherman begins Sunday morning. He is assisted by Rev. John R. Stephens. Services run daily at 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel Baptist Church
Claud Johnston
North Park Baptist Church
Sherman
John R. Stephens
Sugar prices to rise for households and wholesale
Washington reports that the Sugar Rationing Administration will lift sugar prices, adding about 2 cents to a ten pound sack at retail. Wholesale prices take effect now, with retail hikes queued until new stock arrives. The rise reflects higher Cuban raw sugar costs faced by the Commodity Credit Corporation, with max increases set at 13.5 cents per 100 pounds for raw and direct consumption raw sugar and 1.0 cent per 100 pounds for other direct consumption sugar at primary distribution.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Cotton Damage in Rio Grande Valley Estimated $3 Million
McAllen reports a week of rains from a Gulf storm caused unofficially about 3 million dollars in cotton damage in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. State officials cannot yet assess losses due to surveys being blocked by showers. Growers estimate about 20 percent of the 75,000 bales awaiting picking to be lost, with 164,136 bales already harvested from an expected 240,000-bale crop.
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Mcallen
Rio Grande Valley
State Department of Agriculture
Harlingen
Greek Voice Warns of Soviet Hold on Balkans
Greek Ambassador Vassili Dendramis told the UN Security Council that Russia and its Balkan satellites could absorb Greece if action is not taken. He denounced Moscow's veto of a US watchdog plan, saying it aims to muzzle defense and feign a solution to lull the world into security.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Vassili Dendramis
Russia
Balkan
Greece
Dendramis
United Nations Security Council
United States
Balkans
Moscow
Funeral services held for Mrs Orlena Badgett 86 at Whitewright
Mrs Orlena P Badgett 86 died Friday at home. Funeral at 5 pm Saturday conducted by Rev W R Drake and Rev R L Gilpin at home. burial in City Cemetery. Survived by son D R Badgett of Whitewright, daughters Mrs L T Bishop of Stephenville and Pernie Badgett of Whitewright, six grandchildren. Burial arrangements by Glen Earnheart. Born 1861 in Springfield Missouri came to Texas at nine, lived Whitewright 77 years. member of Baptist Church. Confederate father died in Union camp. Out-of-town attendees listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlena P. Badgett
W. R. Drake
First Baptist Church
R. L. Gilpin
First Methodist Church
City Cemetery
R. A. Gillett
Edwin Badgett
Gomer May
Clay Horton
Cull Reeves
Roy
Denison
W. L. Gordon
Dallas
L. T. Bishop
Joe Dan
Stephenville
James T. Bishop
Amarillo
Mrs. H. E. Barker 71 Dies at Ector Home
Mrs. H E Barker aged 71 died at her Ector home Monday after which funeral services were held at Ector Methodist Church Tuesday at 4 p m conducted by Rev L E Howell and Rev Duke R Barron with burial in Carson Cemetery. Born February 11 1876 in McMinns County Tennessee she moved to Fannin County at age five and married H E Barker in 1898 who died eleven years ago. Survivors include five sons eight daughters twenty nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren along with three brothers and one sister. News of A A May of Altus Oklahoma brother of late Joe May Whitewright pioneer reached Tuesday. May 84 moved to Altus about fifty years ago was a land owner and Altus bank director. funeral in Altus at 4 30 Wednesday.
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H. E. Barker
Ector
Ector Methodist Church
L. E. Howell
Duke R. Barron
Honey Grove
Carson Cemetery
McMinns County
Tenn
Asa Cox
Fannin County
Lee Barker
Ollie Barker
Alvin
Ernest Barker
O. W. Barker
Whitewright
Clarence Barker
B. B. Anderson
J. A. Nichols
Dodd City
R. M. Moore
J. D. Simpson
T. M. Cox
Grand Prairie
Wiley Cox
Durant
Okla
Arizona
Lee Higginbothem
Amarillo
A. A. May
Altus
Joe May
Just a Shiner Anyway You See It
Amherst notes the proper term for a black eye as ecchymosis of the conjunctive and periorbital cuticular tissues as per extension service. The piece also advises using a tray to carry dishes from dining room to kitchen to save steps.
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Amherst
Mass
University of Massachusetts Extension Service
New Pastor Weldon Drake Joins First Baptist Church
Rev. Weldon R. Drake, newly elected pastor of the First Baptist Church, has moved into the parsonage. A former Greenville Texas resident, he served as Army chaplain in the Pacific and Japan with the 98th Evacuation Hospital and an Air Corps unit. Drake and his wife, also from Greenville, will continue seminary studies and aim to cooperate with area churches and residents as they settle in Whitewright.
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Weldon R. Drake
First Baptist Church
Drake
Greenville
Texas
Hunt County
East Texas State Teachers College
Commerce
Baylor University
Waco
Southwestern Baptist Seminary
Fort Worth
United States
Islands
Pacific
Philippines
Japan
98Th
Air Corps
Southwestern Seminary
Whitewright
Homecoming at Cannon Sunday August Seventeenth
The annual homecoming at Cannon will be held Sunday August 17 with a 10 30 a m program. Rev Clifton Mills of Naples will preach at 11 am. Dinner will be served in a grove. Afternoon speakers include Dr E C Miller of Detroit Tom Doggett of Denton Prof Butch Cooke of Whitesboro Taylor Emerson of Bronte and others. Singings precede the event on Aug 8 12 and 15. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannon
Clifton Mills
Naples
E. C. Miller
Detroit
Michigan
Tom Doggett
Denton
Butch Cooke
Whitesboro
Taylor Emerson
Bronte
Rayburn to Speak at Ely on Aug 12
Representative Sam Rayburn of Bonham will be the principal speaker at a noon barbecue and program in Ely on August 12. The event marks the formal opening of the community farm workshop built by the veterans farm class. The workshop will offer repair of farm machinery for local farmers.
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Ely
Sam Rayburn
Bonham
Rayburn
Washington
Veterans Farm
Farm Mortgage Debt In 46 Up But Still 50 P. C. Below Peak
New York report from the Institute of Life Insurance shows farm mortgages rose by 170 million last year to 5.25 billion. Debt in 1946, except 1945, was the lowest in 32 years, down about 20 percent from wartime totals and over 50 percent from the 1923 peak. Facts cited include larger average loan sizes from 2290 in 1940 to 4000 last year, a 92 percent rise in farm real estate prices since 1935–39, and uncertainty over price stability for farm products fueling the real estate boom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Institute of Life Insurance
United States
Sun Honor Roll Adds New Sun Subscribers This Week
The Sun announces new honor roll members including Rev Weldon R Drake Ear Blanton Dr F M Williams W W Compton T F May Lee Norris P L Owen Ernest J Smith Clyde R Gibson and several subscribers such as Mrs W E Rice Mrs R G Pennington Mrs Geo Key Sherman Chamber of Commerce T/Sgt W L England B V Griffith H G Skipworth J L McSpedden Grady Young W L Hatfield and E H Hughes welcoming them to the Sun reader family.
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Sun
Weldon R. Drake
Blanton
F. M. Williams
W. W. Compton
T. F. May Lee Norris
P. L. Owen Ernest J. Smith
Clyde R. Gibson
W. E. Rice
R. G. Pennington
Geo. Key
Food shortage warning from grain dealers head
F Peavy Heffelfinger of Minneapolis, head of the National Grain and Feed Dealers Association, warned in St Louis that America faces greater risk from food shortages than surpluses. He said the U S has been on an import basis for all foodstuffs for over a decade and blamed worn-out production theories centered on wheat. The report ends with a Civil War anecdote about Gen Grant ordering Lt Wickfield to eat Mrs Salvidge's pumpkin pie with an escort.
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ST. Louis
Grain and Feed Dealers National Association
America
F. Peavy Heffelfinger
Minneapolis
United States
Heffelfinger
Ulysses Grant
Wickfield
Babcock Store Becomes Whitewright Business Name Change
W E Stanford announced Wednesday that the White Auto Store in Whitewright would operate under the Babcock Store name. He will remain owner and operator, citing quicker merchandise access from the Denison headquarters and a larger stock. Babcock stores number over twenty in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma, with new merchandise arriving from the warehouse today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Stanford
Babcock
Stanford
Denison
Texas
Oklahoma
Wheat Exports Set U.S. Record With 450 Million Bushels
The United States will export more wheat in the year ending June 30 than in the prior decade, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Record harvest will cover domestic needs and reserves while leaving at least 450 million bushels for export as hungry nations demand more.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
U. S
Telephones Add 28 Lines In Whitewright Directory
The new Whitewright telephone directory lists 306 telephones, 28 more than a year ago, a sizable gain for the town. Years ago the total was under 200, marking growth over several years.
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Whitewright
Small papers held vital to communities in radiocast
New York report on a State Democratic overseas radio broadcast highlighted small newspapers as pivotal to towns. David Howe and J. S. Gray spoke of town pride and the role of weekly and small dailies in governing, commerce, and culture amid rising costs from newsprint and labor.
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New York
Democratic
Voice of America
David Howe
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Burlington, Vt
Free Press
J. S. Gray
Monroe, Mich
Evening News
Latin America
Europe
Far East
Howe
Gray
Saltis Death Reflects Dry Era’s Rise and Fall
Joe Saltis, 62, once a Prohibition era beer baron said to have amassed about 300000 from illicit trade, died in poverty at County Hospital. He controlled Chicago’s South Side beer business for years before police picked him up July 31 and admitted him with acute liver ailment.
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Chicago
Joe Saltis
Saltis
South Side
American Legion Rodeo Next Week in Whitewright
The Whitewright American Legion Post hosts an amateur rodeo at Legion Park on Thursday and Friday nights, August 14 and 15, at 8 p.m. Admission is 25 and 50 cents. A parade starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, with new stock including four real horses arriving midweek. Eligible riders include those who failed donkey punchers, and contestants may prove riding skill on bucking horses.
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Whitewright American Legion Post
the Legion Park
Oscar Mears
Tom Sears
Jack Meador
Kirk May
AFL Fears Loss Of Million Jobs
The American Federation of Labor warned that more than a million jobs could be lost unless consumers absorb higher production. Labor's Monthly Survey said gradual price cuts would boost buying power but food prices and rents are rising, presenting a pessimistic view on sustaining full employment.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Labor
War Synthetics Give Place To Genuine Spices
In New York the American Spice Trade Association reports the end of artificial pepper ginger nutmeg and cinnamon production in the United States due to ample fresh supplies. Early wartime shortages forced synthetic products, with a cereal base and flavored oils, used by packers and restaurants. The flavor faded over months, while real pepper retains strength for a century.
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New York
United States
American Spice Trade Association
Indies
J. M. Weyer
van Loan & Co
Edward B. Polak
Polak Trading Company
Sammy Christened And Launched In Texoma Fish Rodeo
Denison reports Sammy the black bass christened for Lake Texoma's $75,000 fish rodeo. Miss Denison's 1947 title sprinkles water as Sammy, tag No. 1500, weighs two to five pounds and one to two feet long. Laird nets the fish with a Whopper Stopper plunker ball amid ceremony led by Stratton and local officials.
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Sammy
Mr. Laird
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Brazil
P. C
Whitewright Sun
the Sun
THE
Whitewright, Texas
American Legion
Texoma Fish Rodeo
China
France
England
Holland
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