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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1970
Page
2
Whitewright prepares to choose a new mayor as Russell Summers, in office 20 years, announces he will not seek re election at age 72. He vows to help a smooth transition while urging continued town progress and leadership against Texas small town pessimism.
Two homes under construction in Highland Park Addition are for sale. Buyers may choose color schemes during construction with Paul Stephens handling the sale.
A legal note explains that ordinary and necessary business deductions typically do not cover illegal acts such as speeding tickets. It cites mail fraud cases where legal defense costs were allowed, and kickback payments were not deductible, stressing public policy and ethics in tax deductions. The column then segues into a regional fishing forecast for northern Texas and southern Oklahoma, highlighting lakes, seasons, and safety notes.
Legal notices from Grayson County Texas include a divorce petition by Patricia Ann Holloway against Roy Lee Holloway with a return date set before the 10 AM Monday after 42 days from issuance. Also appears notice to creditors for the estate of Arrie M Layne with executors Herman Lee Layne Sr and R C Staegle Jr inviting claims by mail.
A pair of quotes rail against peaceful assembly and violence. H. F. Doherty of The Cavalier County Republican decries marches for peace as the most violent. James E. Patterson warns a single nut can scatter 2000 bolts on the highway in The Big Sandy and Hawkins Journal.
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong is appointed state chairman of Texas Easter Seal Society to head over 20 000 volunteers in the 1970 appeal. He is a NASA astronaut and former Gemini 8 mission pilot with a record of space achievements and a 1955 aeronautical engineering degree.
This devotional urges reliance on God for strength and learning. It links faith to productivity, healing, and health, suggesting rest in divine life as a path to expressing good through us and attracting positive outcomes.
The Texas State Historical Survey Committee awards a nearby marker for Olive Ann Oatman Fairchild to be placed at West Hill Cemetery in Sherman. The inscription notes her 1837–1903 life, kidnapping by Yavapai Indians at 13, ransom by the Army, marriages, and later move to Sherman where her husband founded a city bank.
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