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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1963
Page
4
Bethel Baptist Church outlines Sunday School Worship Training Union and choir events with times throughout. First Presbyterian Church postpones services until August 25 due to the pastor's surgery, announced by C. C. Dooley.
Bible study and communion held every Sunday at 11 00 a m directed by Ross Orendorf and Dr C J McKis sack of the First Christian Church of McKinney and Lewis Cummings TCU Fort Worth.
Kentuckytown Baptist Church and First Methodist Church publish their weekly services and gatherings. Kentuckytown lists Sunday school at 10:00 a m worship at 11 and 8 pm, while First Methodist shows worship at 10 55 am youth fellowship 6 pm and 5 30 pm on fourth Sundays. Women and Wesleyan groups meet on specified Mondays. Christ Ambassadors meet Saturdays at 7 pm and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 pm.
Sunday services include Bible study at 10:00 a m and worship with communion at 11:00 a m. Evening worship follows at 7:30 p m. Wednesday Bible study for all ages is at 7:30 p m.
A collage of short items notes events and trivia from history including two air conditioner units in a McAlester church, a loudspeaker for sermons, Arizona's state emblem, Cape Canaveral's first missile launch in 1950, global blindness figures, mackerel biology, jet fuel costs from exterior dirt, drive-in bank quirks, monarch butterfly mass, flight surgeon tips for blackouts, and the 1859 U S mail by air experiment ending with balloon failure.
A National Industrial Conference Board study tracks the U S work week from about 70 hours in the 19th century to 60 hours in 1900, then 40 hours by 1950. Between 1950 and 1960 the decline slowed to about 39 hours, reflecting a gradual shift in labor norms.
The Dallas IRS notes about 60 000 office audits and 18 000 field audits yearly. Most audits involve simple questions about deductions, and taxpayers are advised to mail in documents and stay calm. Fewer than a few hundred face fraud investigations, with audits driven by large deductions, big refunds, or new data matching.
The TV industry will begin to market a flock of small portable transistorized sets. General Electric has a new 12lb 11-inch model at $99.50. Sony offers 5 and 8 inch sets. Other makers will follow.
A collection of regional humor and tall tales from Texas era newspapers. Highlights include a funeral dead rise gag, office secretary joke, Cotton Ed Smith quip, bloopers about hotel fires and piano keys, a potato onion experiment pun, and early bird versus worm chatter.
A brief street exchange shows a Stranger declaring an honest living while a Native notes scarce competition, capturing a moment of market humor and tension.
A humorous tale about a dachshund’s draft and doors leads to a family moving to a larger home. The ten year old son notes each child has a room but jokes that his mom remains sharing with their dad, revealing a light domestic moment.
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