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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1960
Page
1
Whitewright Holiday Observance Impacts Local Business
The Whitewright business pause Monday marks Christmas observance nationwide with Christmas on Sunday and speculation that New Year’s Day may not receive the same universal recognition. Sub freezing temperatures hit early as a new winter arrives with 20 degrees noted, while local grasses show uneven response. A late home-building surge begins led by Dr Paul Geers and builders O W Barker Renee Morgan Wilson Kaiser and Grady Durett as Whitewright edges toward growth. Residents share pet peeves about remittance staples and short phone rings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Paul Geers
O. W. Barker
Renee Morgan
Wilson Kaiser
Grady Durett
Kennedy Victory Official as Electors Confirm Win
The Electoral College certified John F. Kennedy as president with 300 votes to Nixon’s 219 and Byrd’s 15. One faithless elector affected Hawaii’s tally, delaying final determination possibly until January 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John F. Kennedy
United States
Kennedy
Dixie
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Harry F. Byrd
D.- VA
Hawaii
Byrd
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Alabama
Child Draws God Comic Sketch
A mother asks her six year old what he is doing and he replies he is drawing a picture of God. She says no one knows what God looks like, but he insists people will when his drawing is finished.
When You Order Filet American Abroad
In Belgium a filet American arrives as raw chopped beef seasoned specially. The dish is served as a cold preparation for diners seeking seasoned raw beef.
Lighting Contest Winners Named
Outdoor Christmas lighting contest results announced Saturday night with first place going to O. V. Barker, second to Mrs. Glenn Doss, third to Mrs. Griffin Dollar hide Jr, and fourth to B. W. Newman. Sherman judges were Miss Zelma Moore, Miss Bess Miller and Mr. Joe Doby. Prizes donated by Community Public Service Company, Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce and Friday Literary Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. V. Barker
Glenn Doss
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
B. W. Newman
Zelma Moore
Bess Miller
Joe Doby
Sherman
Friday Literary Club
Community Public Service Company
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Christmas Sunday Worship and Music Schedule
The church announces Sunday school at 9 55 a m and worship at 10 55 a m on Christmas Sunday with music including Christmas Fantasy by Mrs. David Johnson and Miss Gayla Sears a solo by Jimmie Bassett Sweet Little Jesus Boy and Down From His Glory by Mrs Floyd Bassett Evening service is dismissed Mid week prayer on Wednesday December 28 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Bill J Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Johnson
Gayla Sears
Jimmie Bassett
Jesus Boy
Floyd Bassett
Bill J. Johnson
Sunday and Wednesday Bible Study Schedule
Sunday schedule includes Bible study at 10:00 a m worship and communion at 11:00 a m and a worship service at 6:00 p m Wednesday offers Bible study for all ages at 7:30 p m
Church Activities and Schedules
First Methodist Church offers Sunday School at 10 00 a m and Methodist Youth Fellowship at 6 00 p m on Sundays. The fourth Sunday monthly gathering is at 5 30 p m. The Women’s Society of Christian Service meets the first and third Mondays at 3 00 p m. The Wesleyan Service Guild meets every other Monday at 7 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Wesleyan Service Guild
Cross Roads Presbyterian Church Service at 11 AM
Preaching service at Cross Roads Presbyterian Church scheduled for 11:00 a.m. with worship and sermon to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cross Roads
Presbyterian Church
Bethel Baptist Church Sunday Worship and Training Times
Bethel Baptist Church lists Sunday services with Worship at 11:00 a.m. Training Union at 7:00 p.m. Evening Worship at 8:00 p.m.
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Bethel Baptist Church
Sunday Services and Christ Ambassadors Schedule
The notice lists Sunday School at 9:45 a m Worship at 7:00 p m Christ Ambassadors gathering Saturday at 7:00 p m and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7:00 p m for the church community.
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Christ Ambassadors
Kentuckytown Baptist Church Service Schedule
Worship service 11:00 a m Training Union 6:00 p m Worship service 7:00 p m Wednesday night officers teachers meeting 7:00 Prayer meeting 7:30
Texas Drys Win Five November Elections
The Texas Liquor Control Board said five November local option elections failed, keeping 24 of 32 areas dry through November 1960. Six votes allowed alcohol sales and one extended beer sale to all alcoholic beverages.
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Austin
Texas Prohibitionists
Texas Liquor Control Board
TLCB
How Do So Many Wise Guys Work For Dumb Heads
A reflective note on workplace personas with a train whistle metaphor. It contrasts smart talkers against ineffective bosses and questions how sharp workers endure unreasonable leadership while rail signals echo the call of caution.
Uncle Dan on Christmas Peace and Good Will
A reader letter from Tom Bean mulls peace on earth and Christmas cheer. Neighbors debate worry about threats from Khrushchev and the value of security, while advocating forgiveness, neighborly good will, and gratitude for loved ones at home this Christmas.
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Everbody
Zeke Grubb
Zeke
Deaths Doss Esther Geneva Thompson Doss obituary
Funeral services for Esther Geneva Thompson Doss 85 were held at Earnheart chapel. She died Thursday after a long illness and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. Surviving: son T Glenn Doss daughter Cecil Doss two grandchildren Robert Doss and Claire Simmons sister Bertha Pritchett. Born Feb 3 1875 in Watson Indiana she moved to Savoy in 1878 and married Dr William J Doss in 1894.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earnheart Chapel
Esther Geneva Thompson Doss
Bill Johnson
First Baptist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Earl Blanton
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Dick Walker
Royce Lay
Elbert Bennett
Russell Summers
Watson, I
Doss
William H. Thompson
Savoy
William J. Doss
Old Savoy College
T. Glenn Doss
Cecil Doss
Whitewright
Robert Doss
Denison and
Claire Simmons
Vernon
Bertha Pritchett
Austin
Funeral Services for Eva Hughes At Lubbock
Funeral services were held for Eva Hughes 76 at 2 p m in Lubbock with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. She died at George Air Force Base Hospital Victorville California after visiting daughter Mrs Reichman. Survived by three sons F H Hughes Lubbock R G Hughes Sherman Gene O Hughes Whitewright a daughter Mrs Reichman Victorville Calif two brothers Clay Fitch Bonham Jack Fitch Fort Worth and six grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Hughes
Gene O. Hughes
Whitewright
Lubbock
Resthaven Memorial Park
F. H. Hughes
R. G. Hughes
Sherman
O. J. Reichman
Victorville
Calif
Clay Fitch
Bonham
Jack Fitch
Fort Worth
Women students outnumbered by men in South Dakota colleges
A Springfield South Dakota item notes women seek husbands in college and reports men outnumber women nearly two to one in the state. It adds that some schools show a four to one male predominance and mentions Sweden's church ordaining its first three women ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
S. D
South Dakota
The
Church of Sweden
Meador Art Club Hastsmas Meeting At Mrs Christian Home
The Mabel Meador Art Club held a Christmas party at Mrs J E Christian home with a covered dish lunch. Guests admired decorations and enjoyed a program including Luc Oliver Merson story The Arrival At Bethlehem and a gift exchange. The club presented Mrs Meador with The Smiling Cavalier painting by Frances Thompson and door prize went to Mrs Mary Davis. Members listed include Mrs Ed Erickson Mrs M J Bryant Mrs Marie Malone Mrs Cleta Gilliam Mrs Ruby Jones Mrs Vera Allen and many others from towns across Oklahoma and Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Meador
C. J. Meador
Mack Neely
Bonham
J. E. Christian
S. E. Wallace
B. J. Johnson
Jack Biggerstaff
C. C. Dooley
W. B. Newman
Percy Darwin
Whitewright
Private Jimmy W Brown joins 1st Cavalry Division in Korea
Army Pvt. Jimmy W Brown, 19, of Tom Bean Texas, arrived in Korea and serves as radio carrier and relay operator with the 13th Signal Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division. Born 1940s, he enlisted September 1959 after basic at Fort Riley Kansas and is a 1959 Trenton High School graduate. His parents, Mr. and Mrs Ralph T Brown, live Route 3 Whitewright.
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CAV
Korea
AHTNC
Army
Jimmy W. Brown
Tommye
Tom Bean
Tex
1St Cavalry Division
Brown
13Th Signal Battalion
Fort Riley
Kaw
Trenton High School
Ralph T. Brown
Route 3
Whitewright
World’s largest living Christmas tree in Wilmington
Wilmington basks in a 75 foot oak claimed as the world’s largest living Christmas tree. Botanists estimate the tree’s age at about 400 years and say decorating it takes 10 men two weeks each year with colored lights and Spanish moss.
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Wilmington
N. C
East Texas men vie for U S Marshal post in Tyler
Ten candidates from East Texas compete for the U S Marshal for the Eastern District of Texas, a $12 990-a-year post. Names include Noble Crawford Longview Woody Blanton Sherman Earl Brown Paris Harlan Long Tyler Earl Franklin Marshall, Texas Ranger Louis Rigler Gainesville, plus Peck Green Quitman cattleman. The incumbent James Crawford Jr. awaits January replacement as a new Democratic administration takes over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Earl Brown
Paris
Harlan Long
Tyler
Earl Franklin
Marshall
Texas Ranger
Louis Rigler
Gainesville
Peck Green
Kennedy selects J Edward Day postmaster general in youthful cabinet
President elect John F Kennedy unveils a 10 member cabinet with an average age of 47.3 years. J Edward Day of Los Angeles named postmaster general, age 46. Others include Ribicoff Hodges Rusk McNamara Goldberg Freeman Dillon Kennedy and Day in Palm Beach remarks on postal efficiency. The cabinet is the youngest of the century, surpassing Wilson and McKinley lineages.
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John F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
J. Edward Day
Kennedy
Day
Palm Beach
Fla
Post Office Department
Connecticut
Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
North Carolina
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Labor
Arthur J. Goldberg
Afl-Cio
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Minnesota
Minnesota, 42. Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Robert F. Kennedy
Prudential Life Insurance Co
Western Operations
Pierre Salinger
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
McKinley
Eisenhower
Florida drivers set own fines in Lawtey
Lawtey Florida adopts a self policing traffic system where motorists caught for violations determine their own penalties. Officials say the plan is functioning well as most drivers act as fair judges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Lawtey
Fla
U. S. 301
Officials nip kissing course in the bud
In Den Helder Netherlands police halted a kissing course run by 18 year old Ype Minkema described as a self styled beatnik. He planned doubling the price for lesson two after taking 900 responses to his ad in Tuney Tues with girls sending 7e in stamps for guidance on how to be bused by their boyfriends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
den Helder
Netherlands
Ype Minkema
Ype
First National Bank Increases Surplus Account
Kenneth Frisby president of the First National Bank of Whitewright announced the bank increased its surplus fund from 50000 to 100000 effective January 2, 1961. The transfer came from the reserve for contingencies and undivided profits. The bank notes past reductions in 1938 and cites Whitewright’s housing boom and new industry as factors behind larger loan limits to support farmers and growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Frisby
the First National Bank of Whitewright
Whitewright
Frisby
Sherman
Denison
Bonham
North Texas
Mr. Frisby
Essay Contest on Soil Conservation Announced
The Upper Elm Red Soil Conservation District Board announces an essay contest for youths 19 or under who are not high school graduates. Prizes are 15, 10, and 5 dollars, with all entries advancing to the Fort Worth Press awards for a chance at 200 dollars. Entries due February 1, 1961, to Willard Kemplin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Upper Elm Red Soil
Soil Conservation District
Willard Kemplin
Upper Elm Red Soil Conservation District
Valley View
Texas
Upper Elm Red
Soil Conservation Service
Kemplin
E. C. Chandler
Bowie
John Crownover
Nocona
Tony Walterscheid
Muenster
Harold Skaggs
Sherman
Groceries Outpace Drugstores in Retail Shift
A congressional study finds grocery supermarkets gaining on drugstores as they sell more health and beauty aids and non food items. The House Small Business committee notes 43 percent of dentifrices 41 percent of baby powder and 37 percent of razor blades come from food stores, with about 90 percent of supermarkets selling such products. Drug items account for roughly 44 percent of non food items in grocery chains.
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Washington
House Select Committee On
America
Swahili Incorporates Words From Many Languages
The article notes Swahili as a language rooted in Africa yet enriched with vocabulary from Arabic Persian Portuguese German English and Indian tongues.
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Africa
India
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