Whitewrights oldest resident Aunt Mollie Jones to turn 102
Aunt Mollie Jones born 1870 in Murphreesboro Tennessee will celebrate her 102nd birthday on December 31. A long Texas resident, she lives at Whitewright Nursing Home after a fall five years ago and enjoys TV and visits from her large family including daughter Mrs. Fred Moore of Bells and four sons Charles Bonham Claud Trenton Clarence Pottsboro and O L Whitewright. The family plans a party with a decorated cake and several generations are expected to attend.
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Mollie Jones
Fred Moore
Bells
Saturday Drawing Concludes Series
The final drawing in this year s Christmas series was held Saturday conducted by Milton Simpson and Danny Berend. Drawings this month were sponsored through the Chamber of Commerce by local merchants and businesses. Participants included T. W. Ayres and Son Collins Grocery Pettit Grocery White Auto Store Walker Pharmacy Paulines Gift Shop and Nicely Mobil with complimentary donations from First National Bank the Whitewright Sun and Farley Grain. A large crowd attended five dollar certificates went to Mrs Ethel Green Ricky Newman and John Stephens while Sheila Ballard won the ten dollar certificate and Nancy Morris claimed the twenty five dollar prize.
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Chamber of Commerce
T. W. Ayres and Son
Collins Grocery
Pettit Grocery
White Auto Store
Walker Pharmacy
Pauline’s Gift Shop
Nicely Mobil
First National Bank
Whitewright Sun
Farley Grain
Ethel Green
Ricky Newman
John Stephens
Sheila Ballard
Nancy Morris
All-Sports Banquet Set by Pig Skin Club
The Pig Skin Club will sponsor the All-Sports Banquet on January 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Awards will honor sports program players. Guest speaker will be Bobby Fox, East Texas State Lions defensive coordinator and this year's NAIA. Tickets cost 2.50, available from club members and merchants. sales end January 4 with no door sales. Odell Caraway is club president.
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Pig Skin Club
Bobby Fox
East Texas State Lions
NAIA
Ernie’s
Steve Sullivan
Sullivan
Odell Caraway
DPS Warns About Holiday Deaths
Colonel Wilson E Speir director of the Texas Department of Public Safety urged motorists and pedestrians to prevent about 87 traffic deaths in Texas during Christmas and New Year holidays. He cited 46 expected deaths for Christmas and 41 for New Year plus enforcement and the Operation Motorcide safety education drive.
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Wilson E. Speir
Texas Department of Public Safety
Texas
Speir
DPS
Department of Public Safety
Rotary Club Christmas Dinner Brings New Member and Gifts
The Rotary Club held its annual Christmas dinner with 25 members and 10 visitors from Bonham Sherman and Houston. Steve Sullivan presented Franklin Harris as a new member. Contributions for the Shirley Holder Fund were received after the family home burned. Roy Blanton led the program and introduced Mrs Charles Pierce and her Sixth Grade Choir Ensemble who performed Christmas songs.
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Rotary Club
Bonham, Sherman
Houston
Steve Sullivan
Franklin Harris
Shirley Holder
Paul Ryan
Ethel Green
Roy Blanton
Charles Pierce
Mrs J Meador Hosts Christmas Art Class Dinner
Mrs J Meador entertained her art class with a Christmas turkey dinner and party at her home recently. Twenty of her 42 pupils attended a lavishly decorated event with a holiday buffet and gift exchange beneath a decorated tree. Mrs Arthur Gray of Blue Ridge told the Christmas story as carols were sung and gifts were presented to Mrs Meador.
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J. Meador
Arthur Gray
Blue Ridge
Meador
Whitewright Cub Scouts Pack 5 Hold Christmas Meeting
Cub Scouts Pack No 5 of Whitewright held a Pack Meeting and Christmas party in Firemen's Hall. Cub master Bobby Mathis led the gathering with 80 plus attendees. Awards were given for Bobcat Bank and various dens along with Citizenship and Craft awards.
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Cub Scouts
Whitewright Cub Scouts
Firemen’s Hall
Bobby Mathis
Weldon Meek
Trace Freeman
Dean Taylor
Cubs
Vince Freeman
Dolores Meek
Mathis
Santa
Freeman
W J Billner Cited for Work at Air Force Hospital
William J. Dub Billner, Whitewright native and World War II paratrooper and POW, received an outstanding performance rating from Colonel Harvey B. Nicely Jr., administrator of the Air Force regional hospital at Sheppard AFB, along with the Sustained Superior Cash Award. He later became a Civil Service hospital registrar and served at the facility.
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William J
Dub) Billner
Harvey B. Nicely, Jr
United States Air Force Regional Hospital
Sheppard Afb
Wichita Falls
Billner
Whitewright
Germany
Stalag 7
Moosburg
ETSU Awards Degrees At Winter Commencement
East Texas State University conferred 586 degrees at winter commencement Friday morning led by Robert Houston Darwin Jr and Gary Lee Holloway who earned BS degrees. The total included 455 bachelors 124 masters and 7 doctorates with 5 honors graduates and 24 in the top five percent. President F H McDowell spoke as W Graland Button awarded the degrees with invocation and benediction by Rev Walter Lazenby.
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Robert Houston Darwin, Jr
Gary Lee Holloway
East Texas State University
F. H McDowell
Etsa Board of Regents
W. Graland Button
Walter Lazenby
First Presbyterian Church of Commerce
Santalius Day Visit Delights Day Care Children
About 25 children at a Day Care Center welcomed Santa during a Santalius Day celebration. He handed out half pound packages of Christmas cookies while Mrs. Priscelle Riker and Mrs. Lillie Slaughter served refreshments. A gift exchange followed at VA Hospital in McKinney and Perrin AFB hospital before base closure.
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Santalius
Priscelle Riker
Lillie Slaughter
Local government and fire department meeting schedule
Happening Here lists monthly meetings: Vince Freeman presides at Firemen's Hall on the second Monday. Homer Ryan, fire chief, second and fourth Mondays at 7 p.m. Sonny Smith, mayor, meets first Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Bill Dyer presides third Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the school.
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Vince Freeman
Firemen’s Hall
Homer Ryan
Sonny Smith
Bill Dyer
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Bonham
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Aunt Mollie) Jones
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Milton Simpson
Danny Berend
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Gerald Armstrong
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Dan Kent
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Howard Hodge
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Mark McCollum
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AF Hospital
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Piday
Fire Dept
Lions Club
Town
Bethel
Hurricane Creek
Ladies Assoc
Pigskin Club
First United
Mable Vestal
Pansy Miller
Bethel Bapti
Linda Sullivan
Roy Martin
W. L. Hatfield
Butch Morgan
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E. Rhodes
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