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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1960
Page
3
A Health Information Foundation analysis shows Americans added 22 years to average lifetime from 1900 to 1958, nearing a biblical 70 years. Women outpaced men, whites narrowed the gap with nonwhites, and longer life strengthened families as retirement spans lengthened.
Senator Estes Kefauver says federal rules are needed to curb pharmaceutical quackery. He wants the FDA to prove a new drug is worthwhile, regulate manufacturing methods, and allow doctors to prescribe by generic names to cut costs. He notes a 15 percent price drop after hearings, saving billions on antibiotics.
A long list of holiday travel and visiting plans includes Mrs. Oscar Layman in Sherman visiting the Stepps, Imogene Jarvis spending Christmas in Ft. Smith with the McKaughans, and many others from Dallas, Marshall, Bells, and Texarkana planning to spend the season with relatives in McKinney, Houston, and nearby areas. The Bethel Training Union held a Christmas dinner with 44 in attendance. Raymond Elliott Jr. serves aboard USS Bathillo near Long Beach.
The Fidelis Class held its annual Christmas party last Thursday at the church. A turkey dinner was served with Mrs. George Hight presiding. Gifts were exchanged from a tree, and a gift was given to teacher Mrs. C. J. Meador. Thirty four attended including three guests from Sherman and Whitewright.
Mistletoe is a parasite on shade trees including hackberry osage orange oak elm and mesquite. It weakens hosts if excessive and cannot be chemically controlled pruning removes small infestations while careful cutting and wound sealing aid healing.
In 1937 Fairfield Connecticut Maggie Rudkin, then 40, unfamiliar with bread baking, followed a cookbook and recalled her grandmother’s method. She used whole wheat flour from an old mill plus creamery butter milk salt honey and cane syrup to bake bread for her asthmatic son at the doctor’s request.
Margaret Rudkin of Fairfield Connecticut sold Pepperidge Farm Inc to Campbell Soup Co in stock valued at about 28.2 million dollars. The sale keeps ownership with Rudkin her husband and a few associates as the company runs six plants with 1700 employees and annual bakery sales around 32 million dollars. The founder built the business from selling extra bread to neighbors to a major national operation.
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