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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1976
Page
1
In Whitewright the Rambler notes women can meet at the high school gym from 8 to 10 am for physical fitness with jogging walking ping pong and basketball no charge and all are invited. Public School Week is March 15 with lunch invites for civic groups. Also reminders on tax payment deadlines and a 1919 file about Communist Rules for Revolution cited in context.
Whitewright school board seeks public input on the old three story Whitewright college building on the middle school campus. It is unsafe for students, leaks, cracked walls, vandals target it, fire insurance costs are high, and annual maintenance ranges from 2000 to 2500 dollars. Some favor repairing for history, others see perpetual costs as waste. Public viewing hours are 7:30 to 3:30 daily, and opinions can be sent to Supt. Capps or board members.
Services for Lewis Henry Donaghey 74 were held at First United Methodist Church with Rev. Fred Durham officiating. Burial in Burns cemetery. Donaghey died in Sherman hospital Jan 22 1976. He was born Jan 19 1902 in Trenton married Elizabeth Wheeler May 3 1932 in Lancaster. Survivors include his wife a son Lewis Donaghey of Trenton three brothers two sisters. He led First National Bank of Trenton 1962 to death and earlier worked there since 1925. He was a Mason Shriner and Texoma Bankers Association member. Active pallbearers listed.
Members of the Whitewright Community club gathered at Mrs. Florence Lewis home on Friday and toured the Heard Museum near McKinney. The display featured nature prints seashells butterflies and art objects with a doll exhibit including international dolls and Japanese dolls by Mrs. William Rhea. Before the visit the group lunched at a downtown cafeteria with officers and members including Edith Grider Florence Lewis Fred Garner Velma Sadler Faye Vestal Viva Phillips and Winnie Hamilton.
Two Whitewright students Rhonda Bonds with 3.37 and Jimmy L Spann with 3.40 earned Dean's List honors at East Texas State University for the fall semester. Other area scholars include Bells residents Woodye Gilliam 3.83 in business admin Vanita Martin 3.41 and Nancy Gray 3.40 in education and Lloyd White 3.61 in liberal arts. The list spans 699 undergraduates with at least 15 hours and a 3.25 GPA.
Charles Roe Vincent 51 died Monday at a Garland hospital. Services were held Wednesday at Eastern Hills Baptist Church of Garland under Williams Funeral Home. A Tom Bean native, he was a veteran and a Baptist. Survived by his wife, brothers Dewey Vincent of Dorchester, J C Vincent of Tom Bean, Horace Vincent of Tom Bean, T S Vincent of Irving, Howard Vincent of Casa Grande Ariz, sisters Mrs Grover Harden and Mrs Lee Bodson of Tom Bean, and Mrs Hugh Cobb and Mrs Hoyt Skipworth of Whitewright.
Whitewright received 725.33 from State Comptroller Bob Bullock as its January share in the city sales tax. Bullock mailed checks totaling 11.4 million to 493 cities and announced a cooperative effort to collect hotel occupancy tax. Van Alstyne Anna Gunter Bells Howe Tom Bean did not receive checks this month.
Committees have begun work for the Wilson N. Jones Hospital Telethon on KXII scheduled for February 8 to raise funds for the building. The Talent committee engages acts and hospital staff will present, with several live acts already secured. Collection centers will be at KXII Studios McDonald Restaurant the hospital lobby and Barrett Drug parking lot Denison with signs reading WNJ BANK FOR BETTER HEALTH.
State officials met with All-Mark Corporation and Sherman police to discuss the U S 75 82 and 271 projects in Grayson Lamar counties. The plan covers 62.693 miles with 8661 pavement markers at 30 40 foot centers, costing 30140 28 and 60 working days. All highways stay open with inner lanes closed in work zones. T R Rudd of All Mark Corp aims to start on U S 82 March 15 with 75 then 271 in Lamar completing the sequence.
Grayson County Red Cross designates Whitewright high school junior high and Fireman’s hall and other sites countywide as disaster shelters under a new preparedness plan. Areas listed include Bells Tom Bean Van Alstyne Sherman Denison Southmay Collinsville Pottsboro Tioga Whitesboro and more. Volunteers for shelter work or surveys are invited to contact the Denison Red Cross office.
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