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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1954
Page
5
We list numerous visits and arrivals across Hale Center and nearby towns. G D Bennett and J A Creecy visit Hale Center. residents host relatives from Sherman Dallas Van Alstyne and Ardmore with multiple family and hospital notes throughout the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Roy Watts of An son and several others from Stamford Sherman Fort Worth Dallas visited relatives including Mrs Georgia Monday and son who returned to Conway Arkansas. Postmaster and Mrs John Bigger welcomed daughter Jane born at 8 20 this morning at M and S Hospital Bonham.
The Rotary Club moved its meeting to the First Baptist Church dining room to honor Mrs. Rolla C. Vestal of Whitewright as Texas mother of the year. About 60 members and guests attended as a Golden Rule Foundation representative presented the award.
The piece notes radio and newspaper ads for hair restorers and similar products are vague and non committal about results. It warns that only physicians can diagnose and prescribe, and questions the legality of mail fraud risks in such marketing.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Giles hosted a surprise party at their home on Sunday with relatives and friends from across the area. Mr. Giles turned 88 and Mrs. Giles 82 as guests from Garland An na Greenville McKinney Celina Camp Hood Fort Worth and other nearby towns attended with food gifts and well wishes.
New York report says six of every ten Americans, 94,842,845 people, are listed on church rolls. The Yearbook of American Churches notes record religious participation as mid century revival. Editor Dr. Benson Y. Landis credits a public shift toward a spiritual life as the key factor.
A glassed portrait of President Eisenhower was splattered with overripe tomatoes in Boston's federal building on Tuesday. Police say the act was a protest against his veto of a 5 percent pay raise for government workers. The building includes the main post office and several federal offices.
President Eisenhower signed legislation outlawing the Communist Party and promising to root out conspiracies against the government. The bill also aims to crack down on Red infiltrated labor unions.
Sen. James O. Eastland defeats Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin for a new term in Mississippi after a key early tally from 1,490 of 1,805 precincts shows Eastland with 118,862 votes to Gartin’s 68,853. A young challenger claimed Eastland sided with Republicans and became an absentee senator.
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