Whitewright Volunteer Fire Dept Receives New Truck
Biggerstaff reports Whitewright's volunteer fire department unveiled a two ton 1971 Chevrolet equipped with a 250 gpm Champion pump, 500 gallon tank, auxiliary pump, 60 hp engine, 800 feet of double jacketed hose, two speed rear axle, and priced at 14,598.00. Fire Chief Homer Ryan says the unit boosts firefighting efficiency as the department moves to secure city insurance and interest costs.
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Whitewright
Homer Ryan
Fire Appliance Company
Wichita Balls
Whitewright Class of 1943 Holds Reunion
The Whitewright High School Class of 1943 reunion was held Saturday June 26 1971 at the Fireman's Hall with 36 attendees and 17 members plus guests. Rev Leroy Martin gave the invocation and new officers were elected with Joan Brown president and John Biggerstaff secretary treasurer. A future three class reunion for 1942 1943 and 1944 is planned for the fourth Saturday in June 1973.
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Whitewright High School
Leroy Martin
Gainesville Baptist Church
Orville Woodson
Clarence Bonds
Joan Brown
Alice
Leo Howell
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Wallace Reeves
Pasadena
Tom Brown
Austing
Gomer White
Dallas
Una Faye Blackerby
Randolph
Azilee Smith Sydow
Garland
Troy Owen
Sherman
Mildred Kent Ates
Abilene
Jim Holmes
Paris
James Stateville
Richardson
Gainesville
Glenn Hicks
Jobn Biggerstaff
Helen Maddux Bilmner
Ann LaRoe Faison
Charles Skaggs
Whitewright
James Stuteville
John Biggerstaff
Independence Day Driving Toll Urges Texans to Drive Safely
Colonel Wilson B Spew of the Texas Department of Public Safety warned the July 4 holiday weekend could bring about 48 traffic deaths in Texas with hundreds to possibly over a thousand injuries and millions in damage across the period from Friday morning July 2 to Monday midnight July 3. He urged Texans to obey safety laws, avoid fatigue, and not drive while drowsy.
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Wilson B. Spew
Texas Department of Public Safety
Lone Star
Speir
DPS
Sherman crisis center opens for night listening calls
The Crisis Intervention Center in Sherman began operating to provide a night long listening service for people with problems from life crises to loneliness. Call 893-4636 between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. since opening June 4th the center has answered about 50 calls.
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Tun Oto
Sherman
New dumping facility to open on July
Whitewright residents may haul wash to the Whiterock dump grounds beginning today. A current paid water receipt not older than 30 days is required. Grover Cleveland staffs Thursdays through Saturdays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. A simple driving route via Ida road is described, with the dump site visible after a short gravel-road journey north and east.
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Whitewright
Whiterock
Grover Cleveland
Ida Road
Tavel
Pierson Honored as Lodge Installs Officers at 50-Year Pin
W N Pierson received a 50 year pin and certificate at a June 24 Masonic Lodge No 167 meeting. Community Public Service employees led by Clint Henning installed new officers Milton Simpson worshipful master Joe Canafas senior warden Leon Scott junior warden James Gosnell treasurer Lmory Christian secretary Joe Bodine chaplain Manuel Alexander senior deacon Jim Robinson junior deacon Robert Sale senior steward Jefferson Williams junior steward Floyd Flowers tiler. Secretary Russell Summers retired after 25 years and received a plaque. Mrs Summers also given a gift. John J Bean guest speaker and former Grand Master in 1960. Bean is superintendent of the Sonic Home and School at Port Worth. Bean presented Pierson with a 50 4 car service pen. Several Masonic Home students attended.
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Masonic Lodge No. 167
Pierson
Joe Bodine
Manuel Alexander
Jim Robinson
Robert Sale
Jefferson Williams
Floyd Flowers
Russell Summers
John J. Bean
Whitewright Lodge
Bean
Grand Lodge
Whitewright Masons Lodge No. 167
Fireman's Hall
John T. Bean
Milton Simpson
Joe Canatax
Leon Scott
James
Gosnell
Emory Christian
Manual Alexander
Jefferson William
East Texas State Elementary Music Workshop Attendees
Charles Pierce and Patricia Pierce are among thirty-two teachers or prospective teachers attending ETSU's summer term Elementary Music Workshop in East Texas. Dr. Dean Lowman leads daily sessions from 8:40 to 10:10 a.m., covering new children's recordings materials and instrument sets and reviewing five or six textbook series.
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Charles Pierce
Whitewright
Charles
Patricia) Pierce
East Texas State University
Dean Lowman
Etsu Music
Lowman
Lieutenant Colonel J Wilson Retires After 20 Years Service
Lt Col J Wilson retires after two decades in the service with recent stationing in Taiwan. He and Lt Col and Mrs J Franks Wilson plan a visit to Colorado Springs to see their son Ed Wilson. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Lee Wilson of Whitewright.
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J. Frank Wilson
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Ed Wilson
Wilson
Lee Wilson
Whitewright
Taiwan
District 4-H dresses revue set for Six Flags day
The 1971 District 4-H Dress Revue is planned for July at Six Flags Over Texas as part of District 4 4-H Day. About 1,000 4-H’ers from 19 counties are expected. Elizabeth Peabody will narrate at 10:30 a.m. in the Southern Palace. 54 girls compete. The four senior winners advance to the State 4-H Dress Revue in October in Dallas. National and local figures include Mrs. Tom Joyce Cunningham of Denton and State Fair of Texas director Elizabeth Peabody. Also, Whitewright Lodge No. 167 will meet at 8:00 p.m. with Vernon Beckham as speaker.
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Six Flags
Texas
Tom Joyce Cunningham
Denton
Texas Agricultural Extension Service of Texas
Akam University
Elizabeth Peabody
State Fair of Texas
Dallas
Whitewright Fire Dept Logs Three Calls This Week
The Whitewright Volunteer Fire Dept reported three calls this past week. A trash fire at the Red Rice home caused no damage. A grass fire at the Maggie DeHoney home Friday at 3 45 p m also caused no damage. Saturday evening a grass fire on the Mac Williams farm went out of control briefly before the new tuck was t ent and the fire was brought under control.
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Whitewright Volunteer Fire
Red Rice
Maggie DeHoney
Mac Williams
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Biggerstaff
Sun
C.B. Bryant
Bonham
Oleta Worsham Owen
Kirk May
Margaret Hanna Hines
van Alstyne
Whitewright Volunteer Fire Department
Sherman Center
Austin College
Grayson County Junior College
Harry Heiser
W. N. Pierson
Lodge
Summers
J. Wilson
Col. J. Wilson
Vernon Berkham
Mason Lodge
Vernon Beckham
Denison
Whitewright Lodge No. 167
Milton Sinpson
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