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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1961
Page
6
Residents of Sherman Dallas Denison and surrounding areas are noted visiting relatives and friends this weekend. The item lists multiple households hosting guests from Plano Fort Worth Rogers Arkansas Waco and Oklahoma City with several returning trips planned.
In Grayson County Texas the County Court issued Letters Testamentary for Violet Hodges Johnson on March 28 1961. Creditors must present claims within the legal period and mail them to Roy Dean Johnson independent executor 1220 South Crockett Sherman Texas. The notice appeared in The Whitewright Sun August 24 31 and September 7 14 1961.
CHICAGO Ill A man about to retire should be given a new career not a gold watch says Dr Wilder Penfield retired of the Neurological Institute of McGill University Montreal in Perspectives in Medicine He argues seniors deserve a well earned job not a well earned test He cites De Gaulle and Eisenhower as after sixty careers and advocates aptitude tests for retirement candidates
Original letters testamentary issued August 3 1961 Grayson County Court Texas to Catherine Reed Executrix. All claimants must present claims by mailing to Katherine Reed 535 East Sears Street Denison Texas. Published in The Whitewright Sun August 10 17 24 31 1961.
A collection of light vignettes and short exchanges from a small town. Jokes about naming a baby, a bridge club president’s science lesson, a student’s evasive reply, a two pants suit quip, and a rights reminder in domestic life.
In a light exchange, Bo jokes that a doctor's treatment did not remove specks before the eyes, but improved their quality, prompting a humorous reply from Jo about the ongoing condition.
The instructor loaded the class with numerous tasks to engage students for hours. After 15 minutes, when the instructor was unable to finish the first set, the class pressed on with the remaining problems.
Fore! Smith asks why the wedding was delayed by two days. Jones replies he realized his silver anniversary would fall on a Saturday, and he always plays golf then.
A gaudily dressed man is noted for a beret and smock with a luxurious beard. The description highlights a striking appearance without identifying his occupation or role.
A psychiatrist notes a visitor who insists he is an artist though he wears a beret and beard. A Miami Beach exchange reveals hotel sharp wit. A miner and an efficiency expert share a buffalo robe and a joke about warmth. A farmer and a professor play a riddle game on a train with a wager.
A farmer and a professor trade a series of bets over solving two leg riddles. Each offers money, the other failing to answer, until they settle with alternating payments and a circular wager.
Joe jokes about an incubator chick for Sunday dinner. Jack questions the odds. Joe replies that any bird with a mother couldn’t be that tough.
A captured tribe leader boasted of attending a U.S. college and explained he now uses a knife and fork, implying a meal still includes humans despite higher manners. The exchange highlights a grim joke about culture and appetite.
A colored preacher likens the fury of Hades to molten iron flowing from a furnace and says the same material is used for ice cream in the place he describes. The audience in the con gregation witnesses the vivid, startling comparison.
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