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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
1
We spent a lazy vacation and are glad to be back to delivering The Sun weekly. News from Grayson County, local renewals, Christmas gifts, and letters from readers fill this issue, including prize notes and farm subsidy thoughts.
The Sun honors subscription payments received from numerous individuals including M. R. Smith, Mrs. J. W. Goree, Dr. John A. Ray, and many others such as Mrs. Olive Myrick, Cecil H. Craig, J. D. Withrow, Mrs. Betty Pannell, and Capt. J. Frank Wilson. Names span multiple families and local residents. The notice catalogs subscribers alphabetically by surname.
Four English Boy Scouts confessed to performing rainmaking dances at Melbourne's Pan-Pacific Jamboree causing rain and a muddy site. Reporters saw the troupe repeat the routine in sunshine, followed by renewed rain ten minutes after.
A Muskegon man tried to spy on his wife by hiding in the car trunk but the trunk locked. He needed his wife to help. she could not unlock it and drove to police headquarters where he was released. He said he merely wanted to check on her due to suspicions of infidelity.
Crescent editor Charles A. Owen urges residents to save the Ritz cinema on Main Street. He contrasts Crescent with nearby Marshall, notes dwindling businesses since the theater’s potential closure, and asks readers to act now to preserve a modern venue and local commerce.
President Eisenhower will send a new farm plan to Congress to cut surplus crops by up to 20 percent. The plan offers cash or in kind payments for reducing allotted acres of corn wheat cotton and rice. It aims to reduce plantings and deplete existing stocks as part of a soil bank and long term conservation program totaling 600 million dollars.
Parkland Sportswear workers received bonuses and gift certificates totaling eleven hundred dollars after a company Christmas gathering. The bonus formula emphasized length of service along with salary, rewarding long‑tenured staff. Uncle Willie quips about cemetery fences while noting the witty collection of trivia and facts follows.
The Chicago Motor Club reports registration data showing 43 percent of cars are four to seven years old, 23 percent are seven years or older, and 22 percent are two to three years old. New models under one year old account for 12 percent. Sun Want Ad.
District 13 A basketball schedule lists January and February games. Matches include Honey Grove Wolfe City Van Alstyne Cooper Farmersville Whitewright with dates January 6 10 13 17 20 24 27 31 and February 3 7. Opponents rotate through home and away venues.
Lewis M Magers a longtime Whitewright resident and ginner at Donigan Gin died at Sherman hospital on Christmas Eve Funeral services were held the following Monday at First Baptist Church of which he was a member Burial took place at Oak Hill Cemetery He was born July 8 1896 in Whitewright and married Bertha Wiggin s in 1919 Survivors include his wife four sons Roby Joe Cecil and Glandon Magers two daughters Louise Hutson Dorotha Barkley one brother Frank three sisters and six grandchildren
Mrs Rebecca Webb Myers daughter of B Wrenn Webb of Tucson Arizona and late Rev B Wrenn Webb former pastor here died Sunday in Tucson Funeral services were held there Tuesday She is survived by her husband Elle Myers and a son and daughter.
T B McCollum 66 of Savoy died 11 p m Sunday in a Sherman hospital after a four year illness. Funeral 2 30 p m Tuesday at Savoy Baptist Church burial Sunny Side Cemetery. Survived by wife Mary Ella Foster McCollum two sons Foster Grand Prairie Ernest Savoy two sisters Annie Sacra Sherman Martha Howard Durant Ohio a step mother Josh McCollum Durant two nieces Leland Dominick Lucille Westmorland Boswell Okla and two nephews Paul Clayton Kincaid Sherman.
Monday offers Tuna Salad with Car rots and Peas Mashed Potatoes Cookies and Ice Cream. Tuesday features Irish Stew Krispy Crackers Cabbage and Apple Slaw Stewed Apricots Doughnuts Chocolate Milk. Wednesday serves Red Beans Combina tion Salad Blackberry Cobbler. Thursday presents Steak and Gravy Green Peas Sweet Relish Baked Corn Cherry Shortcake Chocolate Milk Cheese Roll-ups PF Nutbutter and Cracker Sandwiches Potato Chips Tomato and Lettuce Salad Cinnamon Rolls.
A Black man pleaded guilty before County Judge W. B. Bristow to transporting sweet potatoes without inspection and was fined 35 dollars and 50 cents. The case marks the first under the new law in the country, with the potatoes reportedly hauled in commercial quantities from Van Zandt County to Houston.
Whitewright mayor Russell Summers reports multiple airgun shooting complaints violating Texas law. If not stopped, offenders will be prosecuted, with parents liable for children. State law bans firing any firearm, including airguns, inside incorporated towns. recent vandalism includes shot-out street lights and broken windows.
Mr and Mrs B L Sanderson of Whitewright Texas celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Christmas Day at home four miles south of town. They have eight children 19 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. One grandson Joe Key was killed in World War II. Many relatives gathered including families from Whitewright Fort Worth Dallas Mesquite Sherman and Colbert Oklahoma.
Social Security announces Schedule SE added to Form 1040 for self-employment tax on farm earnings starting 1955. Farmers using cash basis may report net earnings or measured gross, with several thresholds. even those with as little as $800 gross could qualify, potentially gaining benefits by 1957.
In Ogallala Nebraska Jack Lanigan spotted a live hen pheasant crouched in an open cabinet among shotgun shells inside his hardware store. The pheasant wandered in from the countryside where pheasant hunting was active.
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