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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1958
Page
3
M H Mullins brought in the season’s first 1923 cotton bale grown on the R H May farm northeast of town. Businessmen awarded Mullins a 30 dollar premium. Several local births deaths appointments moves and events are listed including new nightwatchman W A Hamilton and upcoming Whitewright District Fair September 17 to 22.
Ed Kent, living on Mrs. W. H. King's farm north of town, delivered the first 1938 cotton bale Tuesday and earned a premium of 27.10 dollars. Paul Reeves, 46, was found dead at his Whitewright area home four miles away Wednesday. Homer May, 56, died at a Sherman hospital Wednesday. Funeral services for Mrs. R. R. Hicks, 97, are set for Friday at 2:30 at Enterprise Baptist Church. she died Wednesday at Groom. Victor Biggerstaff of Dallas announced the birth of a son on August 7, grandson of J. H. Biggerstaff of Whitewright. A family reunion occurred Sunday at the Raymond Walt home, and the Blanks family reunion took place April 7 at the old Blanks homestead on Amg. 7, marking Miss Alice Blanks’s birthday.
The proposed Texas constitutional amendment HJR 17 would add Section 66 to Article XVI authorizing a pension system for retiring Texas Rangers and their widows not eligible for the Employees Retirement System. Pensions capped at $80 monthly and funded from a special Confederate pensions fund. voting set for the November 1958 general election with For and Against ballots.
The Agriculture Department estimates the 1958 U S cotton crop at 11 583 000 bales up 6 percent from 1957 with yields averaging 466 pounds lint per acre on 11 928 000 acres. Texas leads with 4 150 000 bales and a record 395 pounds per acre. There is no cotton shortage expected and carryover about 8 700 000 bales. A joke about a pregnant wife follows.
Legal notices span two matters. First, R C Wilson dba North Side Grocery assigns property for creditors with four months to consent and six months to file claims. second, a mortgage dispute in Denison Bank & Trust Co v Christman with citation to appear by 15 September 1958 in Grayson County District Court over land in Denison on Iron Ore Creek.
Mr and Mrs W K Alexander visited in Midlothian Sunday. Lena Mae Gowdy Gladys Ray and Mrs John A Ray visited in Dallas Friday. James Bryant and son Murry Dallas visitors Friday. Phyllis Dennis Morris of Garland visiting grandmother Mrs T S Compton. George Riley Whitesboro visited Mrs Jim Simmons Friday and Saturday. Bobby Booher and children Sherman weekend with Ern Booher. Carol Virginia Bobby Connelly Sherman visiting grandparents Pascal Connelly. Garland Dean Smith and son Bonham weekend with Ernest Smith. Minnie Fay Hinton visiting son in law Ludie Kuhnell Rancho Cordova Calif. E T Blanton and children Shafter Calif and J B Blanton Fort Worth visiting parents Tom Blanton. Earl Blanton and daughter Becky at family reunion Durant Okla. F G Hoover Noe cona weekend with Wallace May and others. C M Bussey and children Fort Worth weekend with George Bennett. Ralph Judd and daughter Oklahoma City weekend with Charlie Ayres.
Sturgis Journal publisher Mark P. Haines plans to form the Constitutional Party to pursue political integrity fiscal realism and local self government He envisions conservatives in one party liberals in the other and urges realignment He notes editors Zarry and others discuss the idea amid criticism of national party figures and centralized government concerns
A Wisconsin publisher backing the Constitutional Party lists Nixon, Knowland, Byrd, Lausche, Smathers, Goldwater, Stratton and Collins as potential leaders. He also suggests former Utah Governor J Bracken Lee as an independent U S Senate candidate. The Munester Enterprise is quoted on party differences and tax policy amid global transistor radio trades.
The State of Texas issues a citation to W. T. Adams and successors and unknown heirs in Grayson County. Plaintiffs J. D. Olvey et ux seek judgment for title and possession of Lots 4 5 and 6 in Block 5 3 of the W. D. Arnspiger Addition in Howe Texas. Court details and publication dates in Sherman and Whitewright Sun August 14 21 and 28 1958.
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