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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1964
Page
2
Mr. and Mrs W M Pierson hosted visitors in Irving Sunday while Grady Stepp spent the day with Guy Stepp in Dallas. Numerous local families including the Stepps, Browns, Hennigs, McKenna, Stedham, Mullins and others entertained relatives and friends from Bonham Sherman Garland and beyond over the weekend.
A purge of a new racketeering method shows gangsters using fronts to buy on credit then move funds to Swiss accounts before filing for bankruptcy. They siphon large sums, with creditor losses rising from 100 million to 350 million annually over four years, a trend the Justice Department says is spiraling.
The court recess followed a flood of rulings upholding the 1959 open beaches guarantee and allowing public access from water to the vegetation line. It also kept in place liquor export regulation, reviewed optometry ethics actions, and overturned a city official contempt ruling in a drainage land case.
Sen George Moffett of Chillicothe calls redrawing state congressional maps the toughest task for the Texas Legislature. He chairs the special committee as its fourth hearing opens in San Antonio, reviewing five new plans with an August 20 session planned in Lubbock. Separate note cites Sen Louis Crump urging federal action to let states control apportionment. Another item announces a state mandate requiring burial and aid associations to raise rates by November 1 to strengthen mortuary funds, with 528 groups scheduled to justify rates by July 1, 1965. Additionally, trivia snippets note Early Greeks’ milk preference and a remark on East Texas maple trees.
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