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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1954
Page
8
President Eisenhower vetoed the 5 percent raise for about 1,750,000 federal civilian workers. He cited inequities and lack of revenue, estimating a $312 million annual cost, with $112 million more to the Post Office Department amid a $400 million deficit. He urged his seven point personnel program be enacted.
Texas to draft 1,122 men in October, up from 1,060 in September, as part of a national call for 23,000. State Selective Service announced that men twenty years old or older will be drafted, with younger men called only if the older bracket is exhausted. Brig. Gen. Paul L. Wakefield directed the program.
About 3000 people gathered in Little Compton Rhode Island to honor the breed's 100th birthday by eating 1500 of its descendants at a barbecue held on the village green. The Rhode Island red originated from the first bird hatched in this 300 year old town.
In Le Harve France Rob ert Boulestin 45 could not dispose of stolen seafood including 384 boxes of lobster and 195 boxes of salmon so he ate 137 boxes of lobster and 17 boxes of salmon before police caught him He was rushed to a hospital after arrest.
A high ranking military source in Tokyo said the United States would back the 7th Fleet with all available strength if Communist China attacked Formosa. He warned the Communists would face a terrible beating and stressed that all forces in position would assist the fleet.
Classified listings include Frigidaire refrigerator for sale in good condition by May Badgett, four houses in Whitewright offered by Stephens & Bryant, 1 ton and 1/2 ton International Harvester air conditioners at Meador's, used refrigerators on easy terms from Johnson Jewelry & Appliance, improved 1955 GE TV sets at Babcock Auto Store with 10 percent down, and a card of thanks from Mrs J W Sanderson noting Avon Products transfer to Mrs Carlton Johnson in Whitewright.
Whitewright residents are invited to a 6 p m groundbreaking for a new Arthur Gavrin Press plant on Highway 75 A north of Denison. Denison Chamber of Commerce president Charles Gullett says the informal ceremony marks construction start for a carbon interleaved business forms plant expected to employ about 300 at full production with key personnel from New Rochelle New York.
The country, with under seven percent of the global population, generates more than 42 percent of world electricity, four times Russia's output, and ranks second in production.
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