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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1946
Page
5
Local residents and visitors fill weekend tables with names and places from Sherman Dallas Waco and beyond. Returns from Colorado San Antonio and Nebraska mingle with births, moves, and shop news across the area.
Mrs Helen Metzger visits her mother in California with Miss Janice Howard after a four month East Coast tour. Mrs Bessie Norwood moves to Durant Oklahoma and sells her Whitewright dwelling to Charles Caldwell. Mrs Logan Johnson and son Ross return to San Angelo after surgery in Sherman and convalescence with the Ross family. First Lt Billie G Lambden earns the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement in the 1945 Lyte Province and Luzon campaigns with the 82nd Field Artillery Battalion.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Russell of Route 1 Van Alstyne announce the marriage of their daughter Guana to Carl A. Pierson son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. M. Pierson of Whitewright. The Rev D Rudolph Russell performed the double ring ceremony at the groom's parents home Sunday. The bride wore royal blue velvet with navy accessories and carried a gold locket given by her aunt as something old while borrowed pear cluster earclips served as something new. Geraldine Lane and Edward Montgomery attended the couple. A turner Falls wedding trip will be followed by Pierson’s return to a naval station in Virginia. Mes Pierson is Van Alstyne High School graduate and Seaman Pierson is Whitewright High School graduate.
A Saturday Loy Park picnic and fish fry honored Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Henderson and Mr. and Mrs. Laster Minyard and their son from Arvin California visiting relatives. Attendees included J. A. Henderson Bells. Jack Henderson and son Van Alstyne. Ray Henderson. Dave Henderson and sons. Bill Henderson and children. Bow Henderson all of Sherman. Albert Reeves and daughter. Mrs. Lillian Reynolds and children. Mrs. Grace Sloan.
Mrs D Blanks and children, Mr and Mrs Charley Short and children, Mr and Mrs Luther Short, Mrs Ella Blanks, Mr and Mrs S Wortham and son, Mr and Mrs Horace Miller, Mr and Mrs Simon Reynolds, Mr and Mrs Harvey Reynolds and children, all of Whitewright.
Announcement of the marriage of Mrs. Davie Mae Hollingsworth and Grady P. MecCorstin on August 24 in Denison. The Rev. Tom Litsey officiated the single ring ceremony. The groom, a farmer, will continue farming while they reside in Whitewright.
Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace told independent unions in Washington that the South could become the nation’s greatest reservoir of liberalism. He predicted the poll tax would be eliminated there and noted a wind of progressivism blowing through the region, despite noting it would be a mistake to...
Wallace voiced disgust with the South, predicting eventual sentiment shift. He expressed regret over the defeat of Dr. Homer P. Rainey, former University of Texas president, in the gubernatorial race.
Walter S. Gifford began as a ten dollar a week clerk and rose to president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, tracing a remarkable rise in a leading firm.
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