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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1943
Page
5
Local residents report Illness improving for OCALS Charlie Layman. Many visits and travels surround Whitewright, including Fort Worth trips, family visits in Gainesville Sulphur Springs Dallas and Dallas areas. Community members announce births and deliveries and sell farm feeds seed including cotton seed meal and starter growing mash.
Miss Edith Harper visits her parents Mr and Mrs J A Harper in Denton after school. Miss Dorothy LaRoe, of Denison U S Engineer's Office, stays home with a light pneumonia at her parents Mr and Mrs W E LaRoe. Mrs Albert L Jackson hosts a Friday evening at her mother Mrs R May's home honoring daughter Henrietta Jackson with guests Janis Jayne Horton Betty Margaret Sears Norma Lou Smith Katie Kincaid and Betty Lee Jones.
Dawson Brown of Whitewright and W T Dawson of Fort Worth married in a June 13 double ring ceremony at Fort Worth. The Rev Harold Munger officiated. The bride, a Whitewright High School and Commerce Teachers College graduate, taught in Bells elementary for five years. The groom, son of the late Charlie Dawson, is a Bells High School and Southwest Aeronautical Institute graduate and works as an inspector at Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft in Fort Worth. They reside in Grapevine.
Jesse S. Smith died at his Savoy home Saturday morning after a long illness. Funeral services were Sunday at the Savoy Baptist Church with Rev. A. W. Cunningham officiating. Interment was Sunnyside Cemetery. Survivors include four children and forty grandchildren.
Scott F Sadler 65 died at 8 30 p m Friday at his home in Tom Bean after an illness of two months Funeral services were held at 3 p m Sunday at the Tom Bean Baptist Church conducted by Rev C Chumbley Interment in Wittitoe Cemetery produced by Earnheart Survivors include wife two daughters three sons and three grandchildren born December 28 1878 in Tennessee came to Tom Bean as a boy married Fannie Smith December 25 1899 later Ada Gregory May 1929 engaged in farming prior health decline
Sgt James E Hughes of Langley Field Virginia is named in the obituary. Mary Lee Hughes of Sherman and Vera June Sadler of Abilene are listed as survivors. He is survived by three stepchildren Robert Gregory of Lubbock Edith Abernathy of Lorenzo and Ruby Smith of Houston plus one brother and two sisters in Tennessee.
The First Presbyterian Church of Denison announces that Rev. James E. Spivey will preach at the Presbyterian Church at 8 p m on Sunday.
Rev. E. P. Wootten presides with Sunday school at 10 am led by W. T. Simmons. Morning worship follows at 11 o'clock and a later evening service at 8 30.
Regular services will be held at the Methodist Church Sunday with Rev. C. C. Childress of Ector in the pulpit. Rev. W. W. Adcock, pastor, conducts a revival meeting at the Methodist Church in Ector.
In Washington, Senator Reynolds introduced a bill to lift the first child allowance from 12 to 18 dollars a month and increase additional child payments from 10 to 11 dollars. The measure, backed by War and Navy officials, estimates annual cost at 393 million dollars and aims to aid dependents of service members as Pearl Harbor draft concerns loom.
Johnson explains a new B-1 classification for collateral dependents who rely on the serviceman for support. The bill sets weekly payments by family setup from one parent to two parents with siblings, adding 11 dollars per extra sibling and capping at two for many categories. He notes the aim to ensure mothers or fathers may receive as much or more support than a wife.
Texas egg producers face heavy heat damage to fertile eggs from high summer temperatures. Poultry expert George P. McCarthy advises disposing male birds to reduce fertility, proper cooling, gathering eggs two to three times daily, and using homemade coolers. Do not store eggs longer than one week and turn them daily to prevent yolk settlement.
A quotation from J D Riley MD notes that when a man lacks organized knowledge the more information he accumulates the more confused he becomes. The line reflects on the challenges of ill structured understanding.
Excerpt from Dorothy Thompson's Let the Record Speak argues the United States created a unique American race through diverse ancestry. It extols mobility, restlessness, inventive push, and a fondness for sport while critiquing war and uniformity, noting freedom expressed in movement and invention.
A tongue in cheek exchange shows an employer accusing an office boy of a month delinquency and the boy retorts that he would remind the boss if unpaid, highlighting a humorous take on responsibility and memory in the workplace.
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