Whitewright News Briefs and County Notes
Christmas ads and calendar notes frame Whitewright life with local notices. Texas Mason John T. Bean advances to Grand Master as schools aid Goodwill clothing drives and a public safety reminder follows. The Texas general fund deficit stands at 26 million as Calvert certifies funds for teacher raises.
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John T. Bean
Texas Masonic Lodge
Waco
Whitewright
Johnny Bean
Whitewright Lodge
Texas Masons
D. S. McMillin
Bean
Fort Worth
Rotary Club to Pick Local Courteous Employees
The Rotary Club will select a man and a woman as the most courteous local employees in coming weeks. Members voted to sponsor a survey and will announce winners around year’s start. Judge A M Harrison spoke on Texas probation law and county probation officers at the luncheon.
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Rotary Club
Clint Hennig
Hennig
Paul Stephens
A. M. Harrison
Paris
Harrison
Texas
Assembly of God Revival Soon With Evangelist Hamm
Harlan Duncan pastor of the Assembly of God Church announces a revival starting Sunday December 14 for two weeks. Services will be at 7:00 PM each night seven nights a week with Rev Roy L Hamm as evangelist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan Duncan
Assembly of God Church
Roy L. Hamm
Deaths Graveside Services for 1-Day-Old Robert Smith
Graveside services are set at City Cemetery at 3 00 p m Friday for Robert Dean Smith infant son of Mr and Mrs Garland Dean Smith He was born Tuesday at Wilson N Jones Hospital Sherman and died Wednesday night Funeral by Rev Fred Waldrop Survivors include brother David Wayne Smith paternal grandparents Ernest and Mrs Smith Whitewright and maternal grandparents Gerald and Mrs Castellucci Anaheim California who will attend the funeral
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City Cemetery
Robert Dean Smith
Garland Dean Smith
Fred Waldrop
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Sherman
David Wayne Smith
Ernest Smith
Whitewright
Gerald
School Lunch Menu for Week
Monday offers baked ham creamed potatoes English peas hot rolls butter and peach halves. Tuesday features Weiners and kraut pinto beans cornbread stewed apples and orange cake with icing. Wednesday serves salmon loaf celery sauce green beans creamed potatoes gingerbread and apple sauce. Thursday includes pimento cheese sandwiches vegetable soup crackers and an ice cream bar. Friday serves turkey and dressing English peas cranberry salad giblet gravy hot rolls and date pudding.
Bachelor Bernard Tuck wins third washing machine
Outwell England report notes Bernard Tuck, 59, famous for entering contests, claiming a third washing machine prize. The Sun mentions a joke about sending wash to the laundry and hints at broader political language about Texas budget provisions and a Safety Sunday proclamation for December 14 encouraging church members to heed traffic rules.
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Outwell
England
Bernard Tuck
Daniel
Texas
Don Benton
Dallas
Sufficient Postage On Yule Cards Warned By City Postmaster
City Postmaster Biggerstaff urged residents to mail Christmas cards with four cents for enclosures and return addresses. He noted a record season, new 5 15 p.m. daily cutoff, and urged early drop offs by 4 p.m. to ensure same-day dispatch. The office will stay open Saturdays if traffic justifies.
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Biggerstaff
Whitewright
Lone Star Gas Seeks City Gate Rate Hike
Lone Star Gas filed with the Railroad Commission of Texas to raise the intra city gate charge from 30 to 40 cents per thousand cubic feet. The request cites higher wellhead gas costs and steeper taxes and expenses since 1951. residential and commercial rates would not rise immediately, though future rate filings may follow.
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Lone Star Gas Company
Railroad Commission of Texas
Texas
Lone Star
Railroad Commission
Chesher Family Funeral Services Held at Trenton
Funeral services for James Thom as Chesher 36 and his four children were held at the Trenton Baptist Church with burial in Burns Cemetery directed by Barnhart Funeral Home. The five remembrances listed birth dates three ministers and 22 pallbearers. The family died when their car was struck by a Katy train at a street crossing near Trenton.
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James Thomas Chesher
Trenton Baptist Church
Burns Cemetery
Barnheart Funeral Home
Judy Carolyn
Thomas Darrell
Connie Diane
Patricia Ann
Trenton
Grand Prairie
Mr. Chesher
Harrison Chesher
Uncle Dan's Letter on Tax Forms and Memory Mishaps
In a humorous missive Uncle Dan of Tom Bean laments tax time and the simplified forms that still stump him. He confesses mislaid records on fertilizer costs and egg sales, wind blowing a hen house door away, and a catalog misplace turning figures to dust. He plans to rely on memory to balance last year's taxes and promises an update next week.
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Washington
Sears and Roebuck
Ed Doolittle
Whitewrighter Woman of Year in Cochabamba
Nora Bryant Dickson of Whitewright is named Woman of the Year by Cochabamba Bolivia Womens Club. Her career spans teaching Home Economics English and Religion, leading clubs, authorship, and three children born in La Paz, with ties to Texas Womens University and the American Institute in Cochabamba. The piece chronicles her arrival in 1943, community work, and plans to return to Cochabamba after a year in 1959.
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Nora Bryant Dickson
Whitewright
Women’s Club
Cochabamba
Bolivia
South America
Dickson
Fitz Bryant
Jewel Little Bryant
Whitewright High School
la Cronista
Women’s Club of
Nora Dickson
Plaza Colon
Nova
Calvert School
Pan-American Union of
Frances
Margaret
George
American Hospital
la Paz
Texas Womens University
Denton
Texas
Wesley Players
United States
States
Castellano
Dicksons
American Institute of 1958
Friends of
Avenida America
Wesley Foundation
University of Texas
Methodist Church
American Institute
New York
Letter From David Woodson to Santa
A child writes to Santa describing his family and desired gifts. David Woodson lists his two brothers Phillip and John and their ages 9 7 and 4 respectively. John wants Have Gun Will Travel firearms and a 9 piece police uniform plus a cowboy suit. Phillip desires a Zorro suit a Fanner 50 and a cowboy suit. David requests a Fanner 50 a cowboy suit and a football suit.
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Santa
David Woodson
Phillip
John
Philip
Judge Acquits Man After Night Out Celebration
In Greenwich England a judge finds Sidney Allday not guilty after he admits celebrating his impending 80th birthday with an all night outing. He explains he was drunk but had a good excuse and the court wishes him luck.
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Texas
Pappy O'Daniel
Calvert
Greenwich
England
Sidney Allday
Allday
Tigers Place Six On District Teams
Whitewright and area players earn all district honors as Tigers place six on the District 13 B teams. Jimmie Wilkinson and Jimmie Clark make the first team. Thomas De Berry Donnie Lewis Dan Hennig and Bobby Durham are on the second. Coaches adopt next season schedules and a tie breaker rule based on penetrations.
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Whitewright Tigers
Harry Lander
the Sun
Jimmie Wilkinson
Jimmie Clark
Thomas DeBerry
Donnie Lewis
Dan Hennig
Bobby Durham
Tigers
Leon Zellers
Frisco
Bobby Crowell
Royse City
Jerry Shaw
Bob Purdom
van Alstyne
Jimmy Wilkinson
Whitewright
Roger Elliott
Robbie Walker
Harold Smother
Donnie Davidson
Gene Bell
Zellers
Wilkinson
Walker
Davidson
State deficit rises by 10 million dollars in November
State Comptroller Robert Calvert reported the deficit in the general revenue fund rose about 10 million dollars by November 30, totaling 26,062,159 in the red. Revenue for the year edged down from 242,174,568 to 237,602,075 while spending reached 294,237,758, up from 260,172,126.
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Texas General Fund
Robert Calvert
Calvert
Austin
General Revenue Fund
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