Presbyterians Load Up for Sunday Afternoon Play
The Presbyterian Church Vesper Service Sunday Dec 21 at 5 00 pm features the one act fantasy The Street of Hearts presented by the choir and Junior Church Society. Guest soloist Robert Grant of Bonham performs with Mrs Madge Braly and Miss Janis Horton on piano and organ. Rev Lee H Smith invites the public.
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Presbyterian Church
Judusee
Junior Church Society
Robert Grant
Bonham
Madge Braly
Janis Horton
Lee H. Smith
Texas Carries 1 Auto In 4 On Tax Rolls
A Texas Legislative Council report on local government problems shows in 254 counties about three cars go unassessed for every one on tax rolls. For 1950 only 883,717 vehicles were assessed, 28.2 percent of 3,132,577, totaling 236 million dollars with an average 267 dollars per vehicle.
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Austin
Fort Worth
Texas Legislative Council
Friday Literary Club Christmas Meeting Held at Braly Home
The Friday Literary Club met December 12 at Mrs. Madge Braly’s home with festive decorations. President Mrs. Griffin Dollarhide Jr. announced a goodwill basket for a needy family, to be distributed by civic welfare chairwoman Mrs. Alton McDowell. The program featured a piano medley, performances by club children Nancy Dollarhide and Jack Davis, readings of The Birthday, and Handel’s Halle Chorus. Gifts, coffee, and holiday treats followed around the tree. Mrs. Lily Gardner of Dallas attended. four weeks’ adjournment announced.
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Madge Braly
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
Alton McDowell
Civic Welfare Committee
Electoral College Makes It Official For General Ike
The Electoral College chose General Eisenhower as the 34th U S President with a likely 442 to 89 tally. The official count occurs January 6 in a joint Congress session. if Ike dies before taking office Nixon would be president per electors.
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Washington, D. C
General Eisenhower
U. S
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Congress
Electoral College
Senate
Tennessee
J. Strom Thurmond
Truman
Nixon
Whitewright Schools Close Early for Christmas Holidays
Whitewright Public Schools will close at 2 30 p m Friday for Christmas holidays. School resumes December 29 for three days then New Year’s Day on January 1. Regular classes resume January 2. The high school will play its first conference basketball game at Wolfe City on January 2.
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Whitewright
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Time to gift The Sun for Christmas orders
Still time to send The Sun as Christmas gifts with delivery to relatives or friends. Cost is 2.50 outside Grayson and Fannin Counties and 2.00 to subscribers in those counties. A gift card can accompany the subscription and renewals are appreciated for due payments.
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Grayson
Fannin
Fannin Counties
Two Prisoners Witnessed Bonham Hotel Fire
Two men jailed in the county jail saw flames from a second floor window during the Bonham hotel fire that destroyed three buildings. Sheriff M D Anderson said the prisoners could not wake the jailer or attract help, leaving seven businesses homeless.
curb relaxed on steel use early in 1953
Washington reports the Defense Production Administration will raise civilian steel use in Q2 1953 to 70 percent of prewar levels. The plan foresees 1.25 million passenger cars and 315,000 trucks produced, plus expanded school hospital and public works construction and the largest highway program to date.
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Washington
Defense Production Administration
Ralph Trigg
DPA
Two Christmas Programs at First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church hosts a Sunday 7:00 p.m. carol candlelight service with carols and a candlelight ceremony. A Tuesday December 23 Christmas communion runs from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. for all visitors. Rev. Harold Taylor invites the public to both services.
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First Methodist
Harold Taylor
Ike and MacArthur Discuss Korea War
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower met with General Douglas MacArthur for a three hour luncheon at John Foster Dulles home to hear a clear solution for the Korean War. Both leaders spoke of peace and said the meeting aimed to bear fruit in settling the conflict.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Korea
General MacArthur
Ike
Kefauver Seeks Study On Tidelands Ownership Change
Senator Kefauver of Tennessee seeks bipartisan support for a resolution delaying tidelands ownership action until a new study by a nine member state federal commission is conducted. He invites many senators to back the inquiry, including some who voted for the quitclaim bill, proposing California Texas and Louisiana each gain a seat aboard the panel.
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Washington
Kefauver
Tennessee
California
Texas
Louisiana
Cantata Tonight At Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church choir presents The Story of Christmas by H R Evans tonight at 7 45 thanks to director Paul A Robertson with guest Fort Worth soloists Ed Nelson Harry Kong and Jim McCaleb Local solos include Mrs O L Jones and Mrs James Cooper Organist and pianist are Mrs Guy Hamilton and Mrs James Gosnell The program ends at 8 45 and all the community are invited Robertson will leave next Sunday to become Minister of Music at Heavener First Baptist Church Oklahoma
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First Baptist Church
H. R. Evans
Paul A. Robertson
Fort Worth
Ed Nelson
Harry Kong
Jimmy McCaleb
O. L. Jones
James Cooper
Guy Hamilton
James Gosnell
Claud Dillon
Nuell Skaggs
Charles Skaggs
B. W. Newman
Adah Gillespie
Jennie Crittenden
Paul Robertson
J. P. Darwin
Houston Darwin
George Hight
Ches Pope
Heavener
Okla
Date in law keeps off cotton production controls
Washington reports that only a legal deadline remains for enforcing cotton controls. Secretary Brannan in October announced no planting allotments or marketing quotas for 1954, but updated crop size and export prospects may force a quotas plan after a growers referendum. Last use of controls was 1950.
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Washington
Charles Brannan
Brannan
Whitewright Christmas Party Parades With Candy Prizes
Whitewright hosts its annual Christmas party December 22 at 9 30 AM with a Santa led parade and high school pep squad. Local merchants fund candy and prize giveaways totaling several hundred dollars with 500 pounds of candy distributed via tickets and placards.
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Whitewright
Santa Claus
Monopoly suit filed against 3 soap firms
The Justice Department filed monopoly charges against Procter and Gamble Colgate Palmolive and Lever Brothers seeking dissolution into separate companies. The suit in Newark federal court cites 75 percent of household soap and 93 percent of synthetic detergents controlled by the firms since 1926.
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Washington
Justice Department
McGranery
Procter & Gamble Company
Cincinnati
Colgate - Palmolive - Peet Company
Jersey City
N. J
Lever Brothers Company
New York
Newark
FDRs Dream House Sold at Hyde Park Area
Oil executive Philip S. Potter purchased President Franklin D. Roosevelt's dream house a hilltop cottage overlooking the Hudson. The late president designed the one story retreat used as a personal hideaway. Located about five miles from the Roosevelt estate, Potter plans to move in after decorating.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Philip S. Potter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Top Hill
Hudson
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Potter
Propeller Era Nears End as Air Force Trains Last Propeller Pilots
The U S Air Force will pin wings on the final class trained for propeller driven fighters at Craig Air Force Base Alabama. The move marks obsolescence of propeller planes as the service widens all jet development and jet pod use in aircraft.
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Waco
U. S. Air Force
Wright Brothers
Air Force
Craig Air Force Base
Ala
Flying Training Command
Chevrolet predicts 6.3 million cars to be sold in 1953
W. E. Fish of GM Chevrolet forecast 1953 auto sales at 6.3 million cars and trucks with dealers sold out by Christmas. He spoke at a preview of 1953 models ahead of January 9 showroom appearances and said industry growth will be profit driven rather than record breaking.
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Washington
Texas Panhandle
Virginia
Weather Bureau
Continental Divide
Dakotas
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific Northwest
Plains
Detroit
W. E. Fish
Chevrolet
General Motors Corporation
Fish
93 year old father welcomes 13th child in Des Moines
Luis A. Carrizales aged 93 became a father again when his wife Mary aged 28 gave birth to a daughter on Monday. The couple married in 1945 and have five other children. Carrizales, of mixed Cherokee and Spanish heritage, has seven living children from two previous marriages and still works at a farm equipment firm.
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Des Moines
Luis A. Carrizales
Mary
Carrizales
Angler Dies in Texoma Drowning Near Willis
Leonard Peppin a 75 year old Oklahoma fisherman from Roff falls from a rocky bluff into Lake Texoma at Limestone Gap near Willis while preparing to leave. C W Ritter also from Pontotoc County witnessed the accident and Peppin is named the lakes forty first drowning since 1944 as Game Ranger Curly Everett recovered the body.
Court Upholds Wounds Over Waltztime Juke Box Dispute
In Jackson Mississippi the State Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of Huddle Hall for wounding George Topps at a Negro dance hall. The court ruled that playing The Tennessee Waltz repeatedly on a juke box did not justify shooting after Topps kept inserting coins and Hall chose a faster tune provoking the altercation.
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Jackson
Miss
Supreme Court
Huddle Hall
George Topps
Topps
Hall
Siamese Bodie twins separated in historic operation
In Chicago a 15 month old Bodie twin pair underwent a 12 hour 40 minute separation surgery after a year of planning. Doctors successfully separated the Siamese babies who were joined at the top of their heads, marking a first of its kind.
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Chicago
U.S. Britain Halt Talks on Iran Oil Dispute
An eleventh hour attempt by the Truman administration to resolve the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute failed with no solution in sight after talks in Paris ended. The report notes no agreement between the United States and Britain. Also cited is Bolivia’s gold production totaling $2.225 billion from 1540 to 1900.
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Paris
Bolivia
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