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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1959
Page
1
A column cites odd home remedies from a Texas Dispatch collection and reports Oklahoma moves toward legalizing liquor. It notes 3.2 beer allowed, bootleg crackdowns, hotel convention impacts, and a tax driven path to repeal prohibition to boost state revenue.
Monday offers Vienna sausage pinto beans spinach eggs corn bread and apple cobbler. Tuesday serves stew crackers Waldorf salad banana pudding. Wednesday features meat balls with mushroom sauce corn green beans hot rolls butter and syrup. Thursday includes hamburgers lettuce tomato pickle onions pork beans potato chips cookies and peach halves. Friday presents tuna sandwich cheese sandwich lettuce tomato salad strawberry jello. There is a quote about wives who cook or won’t.
The Texas Press Association outlines common errors on 1958 income tax returns. Check arithmetic, file separ ate checks for Forms 1040 and 1040 ES, attach W-2s, and ensure names, Social Security numbers, exemptions, and schedules align. Include district office payments and signatures to avoid processing delays.
Three Grayson County officers and their wives will attend the Texas Farm Bureau state kickoff in Dallas at the Adolphus Hotel Thursday. Albert Laughlin president and Mrs Laughlin, Charles Skaggs vice president and Mrs Skaggs, M H Norman service agent and Mrs Norman, and Mrs Amy Sullivan secretary, all of Sherman, are listed. Governor Price Daniel has proclaimed Farm Bureau Week Feb 15 to 22. The Grayson County rally will be Feb 17 in Sherman with Millard Shives addressing. Grayson County aimed for 850 members in 1959 after last year’s 805.
Three Whitewright students Wesley Harold Ballard Joe H Cook and Bobby Wayne Gentry were named to the East Texas State College Dean’s List for the fall semester in Commerce. Tom Bean resident Lottie Dale Vincent also earned the honor.
Oakland man George Matthews, age 94, urged Judge Chris B. Fox to hasten his divorce, saying he wants to spend his final years in peace after a marriage described as lasting 512 years.
In Hobbs New Mexico newborn Zane Edward Cargile joins a lineage of eight relatives: four great grandparents and two great great grandparents. The baby was born locally, linking multiple generations in the town.
The Whitewright Independent School District board called an April 4 election to elect three trustees. Incumbents Lewis Durham and Louis Franklin seek reelection, Lennis Clark retires, S B Blackerby runs to succeed him, and other candidates may file by law. Public School Week runs March 2–6 with a call for parents to visit.
U S Surgeon General Leroy E Burney warned health officers that outbreaks sweeping Europe may reach the United States. He cited World Health Organization reports of various influenza outbreaks in Europe and urged vaccination for the aged chronically ill pregnant women hospital staff and service industry workers.
A reader letter from Tom Bean criticizes U S Army and Navy land holdings as grazing land waste. He jokes about retired generals, whittling, and inflated furniture costs. He mocks Congress on inflation and urges saving money to lower prices. He recalls a country store social and a 35th wedding anniversary event.
Grady Langford of Tom Bean and Bob and Paul Langford of Sherman established a rest home at Tom Bean. An open house is scheduled for Sunday February 15 and the public is invited to attend.
Texas cotton producers were urged to use all allotted acreage for cotton. At a Dallas meeting, Texas Cotton Federation members warned the cotton economy could suffer if farmers do not utilize their full allotments. 1958 statewide harvest reached 5.4 million acres, with 352,561 acres unused and over 1.73 million left to the soil bank. Farmers may return unused acreage for reallocation or seek credit for crops if they do not plant.
Mayor Russell Summers ordered a city election in Whitewright for Tuesday April 7 to elect two City Commissioners. Incumbents Charlie Ayres and Jack Meador face term expiration in April. Candidates must file by March 7, 30 days before the election.
Funeral services were held at 2 p m Wednesday for Mrs. P M Jarvis 84 who died at her home Tuesday after a year long illness Rev John Roberson and Rev Fred Waldrop conducted burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery Earnheart directed Pallbearers named include P M Jarvis Wilson Jarvis John L Jarvis Morris Moreland Otto Russell Jr and W J Billner Survivors include two sons five daughters a sister 23 grandchildren 29 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild
R. M. Noe aged 92 died after two weeks illness in a Denison hospital. Funeral services were at First Baptist Church Denison with burial in Fairview Cemetery. He was a retired Denison druggist, ex Grayson College student, and longtime deacon. Surviving: wife, one son Robert M. Noe Jr, four daughters, a brother, a sister, 11 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Gordon Slagle, 56, brother of Mrs Sears Anderson of Whitewright, died Monday in a Houston hospital after a long illness. His home was in Houston. Funeral services were held Tuesday in Houston. He was a son of Rev J W Slagle, a former Grayson County Methodist minister. Survivors include his wife Louise Prather of Denison, his parents, three brothers Grady Ralph and Oscar Slagle, and three sisters Grace Anderson, Glenn Autry and Margaret Clack.
Cranford New Jersey board of education requires kindergarten and first grade pupils to receive initial polio inoculations before admission. Sept 1 for first injections, second by mid October, and third before next school year. Board president Channing Rudd notes religious and medical exemptions permitted by state law.
Harry A. Shuford vice president and general counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas was guest speaker at the Rotaryana banquet in the American Legion Hall. He spoke on business and the dangers of inflation.
The Texas A&M Agricultural Extension Service urged lawmakers to boost funding to raise salaries to a competitive level. The service warned it must cut staff and services if the Budget Board’s 1960 recommendation stands, after losses of 114 county agents in 1956 and 119 in 1957.
A U S Navy spokesman in Naples Italy said the hepatitis outbreak among 6th Fleet personnel is not unusual and should not alarm. He reported 106 men and officers hospitalized with the contagious liver disease and one death has been reported. He called the outbreak not an epidemic.
Atlanta. Travis B. Davis faced a $50 fine after waving a slow down sign to alert motorists near a police radar zone. Judge Frank White offered to waive the fine if Davis displayed the sign eight hours daily for five days in the city center.
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