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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1949
Page
8
County Commissioner E P Jackson says a salvaged steel bridge will replace the Choctaw crossing east of Carpenters Bluff on the Ambrose route. Dismantling occurs on the Whitewright to Sherman road over a 100 foot span needing new timber approaches after a prior collapse.
London reports the will of Countess Peel, Britain's wealthy noblewoman, setting aside 10 guineas to prevent burial alive. Executors are to pay the sum from a vast estate to a surgeon to cut her jugular vein or perform another act to confirm death before burial.
R. K. Perry reported a rattlesnake bite while he bit into rabbit meat in Tucson. He felt a quarter inch fang lodge in his lip but suffered no poison, suggesting the snake had exhausted venom before striking the rabbit on a hunting trip a week earlier.
Scientists in Washington report that continents once may have floated like ships around Earth. Dr. Vannevar Bush of Carnegie Institute cites a Maryland rock formation with a magnetic branch suggesting origin 350 million years ago in South Africa.
A nine year old Glendale girl Mildred Sisco was stung three times by a scorpion and doctors credited a new drug with saving her life after she was rushed to St. Monica's Hospital. The child suffered convulsions and frothing at the mouth before sodium pentothal eased her condition. Her five year old sister Myra was bitten but escape the toxin.
Wistol Jerrett Minton, longtime Sherman newspaper publisher and frequent public office candidate, died Tuesday at age 83 in Sherman.
Classified items include for sale and for rent notices, farms and houses for sale, used goods, auto parts and services, two local businesses, plus a card of thanks for J. E. Coggins. Names include Norman Harper W. H. Stedham Clay Horton Tom Barbee Stephens Bryant Dawson Babcock Sun Lang Ford Nursery Mrs J E Coggins and family.
A longtime resident and former candidate for the Legislature and governor, Minton arrived in Sherman in 1905, published a weekly newspaper intermittently, and drew comment for his derby hat and cane. His Courier newspaper ceased publication several years ago.
Washington report quotes Surgeon General Dr. Leonard A. Scheele urging Americans to seek exams and watch for cancer symptoms. He cites that early warning could save up to 100,000 lives yearly as readers are directed to a new pamphlet series on cancer signs.
A speaker urges calm and routine health checks with statements about common symptoms and annual physicals. The text notes aging individuals should get yearly exams and makes analogies about decay in pine knots versus logs.
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