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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
5
Local notes report residents returning from a Rio Grande Valley visit and relatives visiting in Dallas and Denison. Community events include a Masonic meeting to confer the Master’s degree, hospital treatment for Ada Thompson, and beauty shop operations. Several local figures are mentioned with moves, taxes due, and a road incident near Tom Bean leaving Bill Washburn critically injured.
The Fidelis Class met at Mrs. Elbert Bennett's home Thursday evening with co hosts Mrs. Louis May Mrs. Royce Lay and Mrs. Newell Skaggs. After a business session games were played and refreshments served to twelve members five associate members and four visitors.
Mrs. C. W. Carpenters children hosted a Sunday birthday luncheon at her home. Present were Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Carpenter and children of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Junior Dodson and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Willie J. Schiller of the area.
Trenton and Mr and Mrs Noble Page of Paris attended with Mrs Carpenter’s son ill at home in Oklahoma and unable to be present.
Friday afternoon the Friday Literary Club met at Mrs B W Newman s home with the program focused on the North American Indian A member answered roll call with an Indian legend Mrs Alton McDowell read Walt Whitman s Poem Pioneers and Miss Gladys Ray reviewed Howard Fast s The Last Frontier detailing the Cheyenne flight to Wyoming in the 1870s and later safety granted by the U S Government President Mrs C J Meador presided at the business session and accepted the resignation of Mrs R E Lingenfelter The club voted to support forming a night book review club for working members Mrs Meador appointed a committee to arrange details including Mrs Grady Gillett chairman with assistants Mrs Griffin Dollarhide Mrs J C McMillin Mrs H H Sears Mrs Alton McDowell and Miss Gladys Ray After adjournment refreshments were served by the hostess and Mrs Russell Summers
James V. Lloyd of Denison and National Park Service supervisor spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon. He outlined seventeen planned recreational sites on Lake Texoma with private capital estimates of at least 500000 dollars, 10 000 to 60000 dollars per site, eight in Grayson County. The Federal Government will fund roadwork and beaches. Lloyd predicted rapid growth for the lake as a preferred Southwest resort. Grant Hoover noted the club’s December attendance of 96.02 percent.
Of the 32 members, 31 attended Friday as Gomer May, head of the Whitewright march of dimes campaign, reported the drive gaining headway. Visitors included C. P. Penrose, Jack Hammond, and J. M. Hollenshad of Sherman, plus A. J. Clark, Cotton Belt agent.
Nine Illinois farmers were fined $200 each for killing a Black war veteran four years ago. The victim, accused of peeping in windows, was shot by a posse, a crime labeled a mob in the South. The Commerce Journal reports the contrast in treatment of the case.
The Veterans Administration advanced plans for a $2,000,000 hospital in Bonham by exercising an option to purchase a large tract from the Lipscomb estate in Northeast Bonham. Congress authorized funds for a 300 bed domiciliary and a 50 bed general hospital in the 1947 fiscal year.
Doctors at Washington Children's Hospital examined Peggy Ann Ekerson, an eight year old who lives largely on beer, peanuts, and salted herring. The girl has no stomach and digests food in her intestines, nibbling constantly. She began malnourished at two months and improved after beer was introduced.
Harvard economist Prof John D Black predicts lower fluid milk prices in major markets when next spring's flood of milk arrives. He notes the decline could reach about two cents per quart in many key districts, signaling softer dairy costs for consumers nationwide.
Economists including Dr Black and others forecast a 8 to 10 percent fall in farm prices by June and another 8 to 10 point drop if a strong crop comes next fall. Despite a possible decline, the U.S. should aim for all-out production next year to avoid food shortages as wartime goals remain for most crops.
Farm groups attack USDA high goals and predict a price drop, while authorities see no serious break. Slightly lower food prices next summer and year aid farmers and workers by stabilizing wages. 1947 main ag problem remains boosting production for another good crop as in wartime. farmers to rise to the challenge. Two presidents show whisky ties, Washington distilling and Lincoln retailing.
The Amazon River drains about 2,500,000 square miles of South America, shaping vast rainforest ecosystems and influencing regional hydrology and biodiversity.
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