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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1959
Page
1
Local teachers urge parents to ensure every child within the six to eighteen age group is counted for school funding. If overlooked, contact the teachers by Sept. 1 to be included. Reports note tax debates and local family visits, plus a birthday reminder for the FDIC on its 25th anniversary.
Readers send letters and renewal notes including Charles H. Lewis and Izetta Gillett Wilson. A long list of subscribers and a political column on federal spending appear, reflecting local engagement and community memory.
Carol Ann Taylor of Pilot Grove is named 1959 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow after top marks on a 50 minute homemaking exam. She gains a $1,500 scholarship, an educational trip to major cities, and becomes a candidate for All American Homemaker of Tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. George Earp bring home their newborn son Tuesday naming him Wyatt Earp in a nod to the famed frontier marshal. Dad Dy, a metal polisher, claims kinship to the legend.
Explorer Scouts and leaders from Sherman Bells and Whitewright joined the Sherman Area Council in a first Explorer Cabinet meeting. Sgt B L Ponce outlined six Perrin Air Base sessions focusing on aeronautics weather navigation map reading dead reckoning piloting and physiological training with dates Feb 4 19 March 4 18 and April 1 15. Roy May James Butts and Ronnie McLauchlin elected officers.
Rep Bill Jones of Dallas proposes a constitutional amendment to require two thirds approval from both legislative chambers for tax bills. He aims to prevent excessive taxation and cites the need to curb rising state government spending. Jones discussed the measure with Lt Gov Ben Ramsey who had aired the idea in campaigns and inaugural remarks. Rhode Island is noted for its long official name.
The Texas Department of Public Safety warns of long lines at inspection stations ahead of the April 15 deadline. Over 3,000,000 of 4,000,000 vehicles still need 1959 stickers, with 39 percent requiring repairs. Col. Homer Garrison Jr. notes improvement since six years ago and urges early inspections at 4,400 stations. Edwards Chevrolet in Whitewright is the official checking station.
Uncle Dan narrates a Saturday night country store session recounting Ed Doolittle’s wife’s appendectomy and a jest about the operation, then laments farmers and ranchers as the era’s greatest gamblers. He argues weather and markets trap farmers while outsiders profit, urging self sufficiency to raise only needs and curb speculation.
Funeral services were held at 2 30 p m Sunday at Barnheart Funeral Chapel for Mrs Minnie Lee Thornhill 82 who died at her home Saturday morning after a year long illness Rev Fred Waldrop officiated Interment was in City Cemetery A Kentucky native she lived in Whitewright since 1902 and was a member of First Baptist Church Survivors include five daughters six sons three dozen grandchildren and numerous great and great great grandchildren.
School lunch plan outlines daily offerings from Monday through Friday. Items include hot dogs and chili on Monday. Frito pie and chocolate pudding on Tuesday. barbecued beef on buns on Wednesday. meatballs with creamed potatoes on Thursday. and fish sticks with creamed corn on Friday.
Rep Walter H Judd of Minnesota will offer an amendment to veterans benefit law granting free college educations to children of fathers who died in the Spanish American War. He estimates about 25 eligible nationwide if passed.
Mrs. Francisca Torres, 67, was killed by an ax blow that severed her head early Monday in San Antonio. Her son, Porfirio Torres, 39, an epileptic, was arrested after telling police he was tired of her nagging. He slept several hours after the killing and was charged with murder.
Gov. Price Daniel outlines a package of one temporary and four permanent tax hikes to avoid general sales or income tax. New levies include a severance tax on natural gas and a tobacсо tax, plus increases to vehicle sales and liquor taxes, to fund the next biennium and close the current deficit.
A Riverton drive-in theater silences for winter with a marquee message reading Roses are dead violets are dropped Summer has gone and We are Pooped
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