Local Social Notes and Engagements Across Whitewright Area
Mrs. Preston Hefner visits Dallas Wednesday while Mrs. George Simmons visits relatives in Sherman. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Franklin and son visit Fort Worth, and the Cooks visit Dallas. Illness reports include Mrs. Frank Phillips with bronchial pneumonia and Mrs. Emory Christain’s health. Navy advancement for Raymond C. Elliott Jr. announced. wide range of visits, hunts, club activities, and engagements noted across Whitewright region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gordon Pope
Bonham
Katricia Ann
Clem Cecil Martin Jr
Clem Cecil Martin
Miss Pope
C. W. Pope
Whitewright
Bureau of Naval Personnel
Raymond C. Elliott Jr
R. C. Elliott
Route 4
USN
Clarksville Base
Clarksville
Tenn
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club Meets
The Whitewright Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs. Carl May’s home with prayer and pledge. Minutes approved. Mrs. Fred Cook gave a council report. The club sent boxes to veterans hospital in McKinney and State Hospital in Terrell, plus a gift to an adopted patient in Abilene. Plans set for Dec 15 Christmas program at Mrs. Ralph Wallace’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club
Carl May
Fred Cook
Council
Veterans Hospital
McKinney
State Hospital
Terrell
Abilene
Ralph Wallace
R. D. Maddux
County HD
Sherman
Ida Burchfield
Whitewright Club
Willard Young
Temperance group urges ban on liquor aboard flights
Mountain View California. The American Temperance Assn. urges banning liquor on commercial airline flights. It notes soberly that you cannot throw unruly drunks off planes as you can out of bars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain View
Calif
American Temperance Assn
Rotary Club hears Roscoe Gillett on school finances
Rotary Club program chairman Roy Blanton introduced Roscoe Gillett, longtime local school board secretary and First National Bank cashier, who spoke on school finances. He compared the thirty year old school operating budget with the present one, outlining changes in funding and accounting practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Blanton
Rotary Club
Roscoe Gillett
Gillett
First National Bank
Cancer hits heavy smokers hardest in lung deaths
New York cancer expert Dr. Charles S. Cameron of the American Cancer Society reports a study of 185000 people over 32 months shows lung cancer deaths among men who smoke two packs daily are 90 times those of non smokers. Among 4500 total deaths, 285 were lung cancer with 12 never smokers and 252 cigarette smokers.
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Oklahoma City
New York
Charles S. Cameron
American Cancer Society
Equal rights for men a comic verse plea from Pratt
A humorous verse argues for separate menus for men and women, suggesting women should follow strict diets while men receive generous servings. It skewers gendered dieting norms and calls for equal treatment in meal planning.
Eisenhower Struggles With Door Handle In Gettysburg Visit
President Eisenhower arrived at his downtown office in Gettysburg and found the door handle came off in his hand. He tried briefly to fix it, then left by the other door smiling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Anklam Remarks on Graft and Social Advice
The document contains sharp asides on graft framing a political plum as earned, a drugstore clerk warning a customer about a perfume, and cynicism about social status and progress. It closes with a quip that giving and leading cost similarly, and a jab at minorities steering conformity.
Gopher Harassment Ends With House Fire Near Las Vegas
Farmer Paul Thomas dropped a concussion bomb into a gopher hole in Las Vegas area. the gopher pushed the bomb out, it exploded lighting a hay pile. Firemen saved the house and barn, but 12 tons of hay burned. Thomas reports the gopher remains a nuisance. Forty percent of families own one or more musical instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Paul Thomas
Thomas
United States
Washington Listed 4-F by 18th Century Medical View
Medical historian Dr. Rudolph Marx argues George Washington would be classed 4-F today due to repeated malaria bouts smallpox tuberculosis influenza dysentery chronic infected tonsils and other illnesses. He notes Washington fought through the Revolutionary War despite poor health and attributes later fevers pneumonia a hip carbuncle and streptococcal throat to his death at 67.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George Washington
Rudolph Marx
Los Angeles
Calif
Washington
American Heritage
Magazine of History
Marx
Gilbert Stuart
Beings of Beauty and Boxed Kangaroos
Henry van Dyke critiques quarrels and praises nature and friendship as nearer heaven. The note adds a quirky contrast that captive kangaroos can be trained to box in exhibitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Heaven
Henry van Dyke
Schoolboy 15 Weds 29-Year-Old Teacher in Modugno
In Modugno Italy a 15-year-old boy named Giuseppe Aragno and his 29-year-old mathematics teacher Teresa Senarega disclosed to friends that they were married on October 10 after she proposed. Friends say romance began last summer and the pair are now living as husband and wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Modugno
Italy
Giuseppe Aragno
Teresa Senarega
Doctor's Advice Proves Accurate at 100th Birthday
Bridgewater New Jersey Dr Mary E Gaston who suffered a heart attack in 1908 retired per doctors order. On Thursday she celebrated her 100th birthday. The clipping also mentions the Clarks crow a gray and white bird with black trim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgewater
N. J
Mary E. Gaston
Gaston
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Preston Hefner
Dallas
Mrs
George Simmons
Louis Franklin
Fred Cook Jr
Richard
Frank Phillips
Emory Christain
David
Roby Childress
J. C. Annip
Charles E. Ayres
O. E. Head
Community Hospital
Luther Cambron
Denison
Ira Fleming
Madonna Hospital
Garland D. Smith
U. S. Navy
Long Beach
Ernest Smith
First Baptist Church
Manton Fain
Llano County
Doc Smothers
Garland
L. O. Lam
Clarence Metzler
Pottsboro
Manton
Philip Earnheart
Allen T. Short
Earnheart
C. P. Johnson
R. R. Summers
Jack Walker of
J. E. Henson
Ada Jones
Russell Summers
Joe Hamilton
Masonic Lodge
Waco
Terry Mac Miller
Joe Miller
Addison Vestal
Pittsburgh
R. C. Vestal
Charles McKenny of
Oran Sears
Calvert Joyce and Sons
John Martin Rosso
Houston
John Kaiser
Mac Kaiser
George M. Hight
Rod Earnheart
Luther Hight
Philadelphia
Grayson
Korn-Kist Bacon, Cello
White Swan
Betty Crocker
Heinz Baby Food
Libby
Turkey
United
William W. Pratt
Doc Anklam
PUREX
Scott Tissue
Griffin Coffee
Grayson Oleo
Kimbell
Sunvale Bacon
Schoolboy
Whitewright Cleaners
Resistos
Cole & Davis Co
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