Whitewright Texas Community Publication Note
Published every Thursday and entered at the Whitewright Texas post office as second class mail matter.
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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1952
Page
4
Published every Thursday and entered at the Whitewright Texas post office as second class mail matter.
Sam Wood of the Waco News-Tribune challenged military overreach after civilians were denied access to a civilian bus crash report. The editor’s protest led Washington to curb self appointed censorship, underscoring a pattern of growing federal autocracy and public subservience to bureaucracy.
The speaker laments loss of freedom and warns slow erosion by small controls. He singles out Sam Wood of Waco as an obstacle to government domination and urges more like him to resist.
The Dallas News notes Governor Adlai Stevenson’s opposition to state tidelands ownership strengthens Eisenhower’s Texas campaign. Stevenson's federal control stance could unite Republicans and attract conservative Democrats seeking a split ticket at Amarillo’s September 9 state convention.
The Texas Democratic party may keep the same presidential electors as the GOP while some Democrats push to strike the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket from the Democratic ballot. Governor Shivers at the Chicago convention vows to use every honorable means to place the national nominees on the Texas Democratic ballot, though the upcoming Democratic convention could overrule him.
Mrs Christine Unger from Denton nominated for the Texas state Republican committee post by the 22nd District caucus. Her late husband served as Eisenhower’s airplane navigator in World War II and Eisenhower attended their wedding. Unger’s husband Captain Unger was killed in 1948 in Hawaii.
The Commerce Department bureau of public roads estimates Texas will have 3 252 000 autos licensed by year end 1952, up 3 percent from 1951. Texas would rank fourth nationwide behind California New York and Pennsylvania with a national total of 53 363 000 motor vehicles. The growth rate slows to 2 79 percent.
Wilmington Delaware reports heir Lammont DuPont left an estate valued around 75 million dollars. Unofficial estimates on Wednesday show inheritance taxes may consume up to 75 percent of the total or a bit more than 56 million. The piece notes John Alden as the first trained English woolworker to reach America.
A health piece explains invertebrates have no backbone and wear different teeth. Elephants use tusks like incisors, while canines like walrus and wolf teeth aid tearing. It covers molars gnawing, occlusion, enamel cement dentine and diseases like pyorrhea.
Dr. H. H. Mitchell a Bonham dentist recalls the 1909 drought as worse than today noting the city lake dried up completely and Bonham used water from the Bonham Oil Mill well before digging new wells. He recalls cracks in the lake bottom up to hip depth and a light June shower with the first real rain on Thanksgiving Day.
The early medicine man fades from modern practice as people turn to physicians for illness. Physicians follow honest methods and ethical principles, and patients should trust their judgment and place themselves in their care. Bring physician prescriptions to us for filling.
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