Rotaryanns Guests At Annual Banquet
The White Wright Rotary Club held its annual banquet in the First Baptist Church basement on Thursday evening. The Fidelis Class served a turkey dinner and decorations included holly and evergreens. The event honored Rotaryanns with the largest new member list since 1925, as husbands of members were introduced by chairman Cr B Bryant Jr. Guests included R A Gillett Roby Childress Joe T May and several others. Rev R L Gilpin delivered the after dinner talk with sleight of hand tricks. The banquet was praised as one of the club’s best, despite a rain delay that briefly shifted plans to Wilson's Cafe before the church venue was confirmed.
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Whitewright Rotary Club
First Baptist Church
Fidelis
Rotary Club
Cr. B. Bryant Jr
R. L. Gilpin
H. B. McMahan
Newell Skaggs
Paul Simpson
Wilson Kaiser
Wm. L. White
R. A. Gillett
Roby Childress
Joe T. May
A. M. Bryant
Anna Ruth Johnson
Bryant
Rotaryanns
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
B. W. Newman
James Bryant
W. E. LaRoe
Roy Blanton
Janis Jayne Horton
C. B. Bryant Jr
Sun Announces Early Next Week Press Date
The Sun will go to press Monday afternoon next week so rural routes can receive papers Tuesday. It will feature Christmas greeting advertisements and requires news and ads in before noon Monday to ensure publication. Call early with any news.
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the Sun
Christmas Sugar Outlook Is Soured
Washington officials say they cannot advance the sugar stamp date to Dec 20 due to heavy workload and ongoing shortages. The OPA extended canning stamp periods to Dec 31 to assist home canners, but the sugar supply is improving only gradually and not back to normal.
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Washington
Office of
Temporary Controls
Sugar-Control Division
OPA
American Legion to Give Away Ford Deluxe Sedan
At a Legion meeting plans were made to give away a new Ford Deluxe Sedan at 4 30 p m Tuesday December 24. Tom Sears commander said three World War II veterans from Ashburn General Hospital at McKinney would assist in the handoff. Veterans wounded in action will be honored guests.
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American Legion
Legion Hall
Tom Sears
Post
Legion
Ashburn General Hospital
McKinney
Roy Blanton
Curl Reeves
Rev. R. L. Gilpin
Burning a tobacco can costs man two bills
W C Wilson of East Whitewright lost a $100 and a $50 bill when his wife hid the money in a tobacco can under a rug. A daughter swept the can from under the rug and burned the ashes in a fire. The bank will forward the ashes to the Treasury in Washington in hopes of recovery. The cotton boll weevil is preyed upon by 66 bird enemies.
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W. C. Wilson
East Whitewright
Britain Faces Food Shortage In Bitter Winter
London reports Britain confronting one of its worst food scarcities, with bread as the hardest hit. After a damp summer, a cold winter exacerbates rationing fears. an American grain pledge delays famine but leaves a 16,000 ton shortfall for next month and possible bread ration cuts. Brazil’s 19th century history and coastlines are noted separately.
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London
Britain
Many Farmers Lose Meat After Cold Spell
Reports from Whitewright say many farmers who slaughtered hogs during the last cold spell are losing their meat including joints ham and shoulder and the middlings. Warm weather and rains after butchering are blamed. Some fields show volunteer oats and johnson grass sprouting as spring returns. The cold front earlier this week is expected to ease these conditions.
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Whitewright
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town In Whitewright
At a Whitewright booster club meeting on Tuesday the First National Bank directors approved a ten percent Christmas bonus for six officers and staff, with a dividend of 20 percent on year end. Santa will head a parade and gift distribution at 12:45 pm, followed by a football game at Bryant Field and an auto giveaway at 4:30 pm. Christmas lights adorn Main and Sears, the first since 1940 due to wartime shortages, with bulbs supplied postwar.
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First National Bank
Santa Claus
American Legion
Whitewright
Bryant Field
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Bells
Booster Club
Main
Sears
Ex-Service Men Football Game Here Next Tuesday
The American Legion Post of Bells and the VFW and American Legion Posts of Whitewright meet on the local field at 2 p m next Tuesday to decide the championship between the teams. Gate receipts go to both organizations for worthy causes and the clash follows a 6 to 6 Thanksgiving tie. The winner will be decided before the 4 30 p m ceremony when a new Four Door Ford automobile is given away by the Whitewright American Legion Post.
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American Legion
Bells
VFW
Whitewright
Whitewright American Legion Post
Eight Die When Car and Bus Collide Near Eugene
Eight persons crowded in a single car were killed and seven bus passengers injured in a head on collision near Eugene Oregon late Saturday night. Seven of the eight in the car died instantly and one woman died later in hospital. The bus driver suffered a broken jaw and six others were slightly injured as the impact forced the bus off the highway.
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Eugene
Ore
Here
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Brazil
Portugal
United States
Ex-Service Men
WEN
Groen Sterns
Hi-Way Grocery
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