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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1959
Page
1
The report notes only 1.72 inches of rain so far with snow adding a quarter inch, compares to 4.30 to 4.76 inches in prior Febs. Updates include Whitewright building activity and a March 6 high school stage event, plus social commentary on schooling and labor.
A fire record credit of 10 percent on fire insurance in Whitewright has been granted for the insurance year beginning April 1. This is 5 percent less than the credit for this year. The State Board of Fire Insurance also announced a 35 cent key rate for Whitewright, down 2 cents.
A list of income types not required to be reported or taxed in 1958 include advances repaid, alimony to the husband, government allowances, annuities returning costs, Nobel prize awards, bad debt recoveries, employer furnished board and lodging, campaign contributions, charity, gifts, life insurance dividends, estates, inherited sums, employer paid medical, social security, pensions, veterans benefits, unemployment, and other specific refunds and subsidies. The material outlines exceptions and tax treatment for these items.
Dr John Ziegler requested a copy of a federal handbook and received 15700 copies at his home. Two weeks later on September 13 1847 Marines stormed through the Halls of Montezuma en route to Mexico City.
A Clovis woman burst into an all night gambling game firing a shot into the floor and forcing players against the wall to retrieve her husband. She managed to bring him home but was fined 25 dollars for firing a gun within city limits.
Senator Williams of Delaware cited federal price supports paid in 1957 to three large farm operators in Arkansas Mississippi and California totaling 3 400 000. He highlighted the top recipients including Producer's Rice Mill Inc of Stuttgart Arkansas and Delta Pine Land Co of Scott Mississippi with payments over a million dollars each and Westlake Farms of Stratford California receiving 854 450. He argued these large corporations collected far more than all farmers in Delaware Maryland Pennsylvania and New Jersey combined and noted a list of 51 other operators in the South West and Midwest earning over 100 000.
The Eye Opener at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester reports four new books added to the prison library. A librarian footnote jokes for the thief to return the last book mentioned.
The Whitewright Rotary Club elected new officers for the rotary year starting July 1. Dick Walker will be president with Lloyd Alexander as vice president and Russell Summers as secretary. Ed LaRoe remains treasurer, Sears Anderson and Glenn Doss are directors, Clint Hennig becomes a director after retiring as president.
The House banking committee backed a large Democratic housing bill amid GOP opposition calling it budget busting. The measure would lower minimum down payments on FHA loans over 13,500 and expand public housing while authorizing 2.1 billion dollars for slum clearance college housing and related programs, costing about 4 billion more than Eisenhower’s proposal.
The Methane Pioneer delivered 32,000 barrels of liquid methane to Carney Island near London in under three weeks from Lake Charles Louisiana. The cargo will be vaporized at a near London plant and sold as gas to consumers. The carrier is a converted dry cargo ship built by Constock International Methane Ltd with Continental Oil holding an interest.
Uncle Dan writes to the editor musing on a Georgia wood barrel maker going out of business and traders selling only metal drums. He rails at Congress and party swings, notes voter worries, estate claims, and half jokes about a future broadcasting station. He ends hopeful for change.
Prices fell as local stations reduced regular gasoline to 21.9 cents and ethyl to 25.9 cents, ending weeks of cuts in Sherman and expanding to Whitewright and Denison. Station operators warn the cuts may be temporary as oil companies typically raise prices after price wars.
Monday offers tuna casserole with English peas fruit salad cookies and ice cream. Tuesday features hamburgers lettuce tomato pickles onions potato chips and chocolate cake with icing. Wednesday serves steak chopettes gravy creamed potatoes green beans hot bread butter and syrup. Thursday includes Spam lima beans mixed greens pickled beets corn bread and cherry cobbler. Friday presents chicken salad sandwich corn chips and cheese pineapple on lettuce with doughnuts.
In College Station the USDA March plentiful foods list highlights protein rich items. Eggs lead the list with supplies 2 to 4 percent higher than a year ago, alongside meats like turkeys broilers fryers pork and canned sardines. Vegetables such as cabbage potatoes celery and canned peas are in good supply, with dairy peanuts and peanut products walnuts honey and apples completing the list.
Rep Bill Kilgarlin is drafting a bill to let Texans buy liquor by the drink in food-serving venues in counties over 100 000 and in cities via local option votes. The measure would allow county opt out while Gulf Coast counties and cities share license revenues. Local options could permit city sales even if the surrounding county bans them.
Baltimore report says Harriet Hewitt won nickels from a slot machine but had a purse stolen from atop the machine. Her handbag contained $100.
Whitewright Public Schools invite the community to Public Schools Week March 2 to 6 with open houses daily 8:30 am to 3:00 pm and a Friday evening open house 7 to 8 pm. Superintendent S T Montgomery Jr urges parental participation to understand the schools' role in citizenship and growth.
College Station report explains that unused cotton allotments affect a local economy by limiting the multiplier effect of farmer income. It outlines 1959 release and reapportionment rules, urging farmers to contact ASC offices or county agents for details on reallocating released acreage to sustain county and state planting histories.
In Houston Mrs. J. L. Alexander reports her 3-year-old daughter Vicki asked who shot her grandmother after a discussion of death, suggesting the child associates real events with television as she grows curious about family loss.
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