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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1952
Page
2
A roundup of visitors and relatives arriving and staying with residents across several towns. Names include Hooper Dallas Head Rockie McMillin Nicholson Livingston Ireland Kite Thompson Montgomery Blanton Hill Thaxton Watson Sears Muirhead Watson Hinton NTSC Denton Roberts Simpson Carilli Shaw Horton Blatcher Ingram Chitwood Starnes Rice and others visiting in Sherman Fort Worth Dallas McKinney Mineral Wells Silver City N M and California.
The 1951 Texas weather year featured record heat and cold, heavy rains, destructive ice storms, and tornadoes with vast property losses. Frost and freezing extended into the Rio Grande Valley, citrus and vegetable crops suffered, and damages exceeded 100 million dollars.
A vintage style recipe uses nonfat dry milk to enrich a Crisp Apple Bake. It combines Starlac with flour sugar and spices for crumbs and adds two serving toppings Ginger Spice Topping with candied ginger. The bake yields six portions and can be served warm or chilled.
A weather stretch in late 1951 reports sub normal rainfall in Texas with high winds in West Texas and record heat in Whitewright while Dallas notes the warmest year for the period. The other document is Citation No. 59353 listing the Texas court summons directed to Georgia A. Shannon and heirs in a land dispute in Sherman Grayson County, with plaintiffs Tom H. Smith and George S. Brown seeking title and possession.
The piece notes a long held Chinese custom urging debts to be settled by New Year. It describes how not clearing debts by midnight on New Year’s Day was said to cause loss of face. It also recalls lunar calendar timing and Lantern Festival customs, including greetings and gifts.
A Temple Texas Agricultural Experiment Station study in 1950 shows 5.5 inch row spacing yielded 1,274 pounds of seed cotton per acre, compared with 1,000 pounds at 11.4 inch spacing, while 8.3 inch spacing produced 1,173 pounds per acre.
A garbled notice surveys social milestones from visitors and events such as engagements divorces parties purchases and memberships. It hints at transactions and life events across households without clear dates names or places, leaving a fragmented snapshot of personal activity.
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