Roundup of local notes from Denison and nearby towns
Dave Taylor visits his old Morrison Tennessee home with son Herbert and grandson Lyndon Taylor. The piece covers church closures, Woodville gathering near Lake Texoma, door closer repair by Ralph Aspley, weather talk, holiday business hours, a correction about J L Boone’s address, Linotype book return, driving warnings, farm parity forecasts, and a poke at interstate campaign fundraising.
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Dave Taylor
Morrison
Tenn
Herbert Taylor
Lyndon Taylor
Rice Institute
Houston
Taylor
Tennessee
Pilot Grove
Taylors
Ralph Aspley
Denison
Grasshoppers Ravage Farms North of Whitewright
Grasshoppers are damaging crops around Whitewright with worse destruction east toward Bois d Arc bottoms. Manton Fain notes farmers using poison with some success while others do nothing. He reports corn stalks stripped of foliage but ears untouched, and town vegetation including The Sun office yard suffers. A passerby warns spray may harm plants too.
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Whitewright
Bois d’Arc
Manton Fain
Mr. Fain
Sun Office
Texas
Wife takes up pipe after mate's study
LA JOLLA California Mrs Edward Clyler Hammond wife of Yale biostatistics professor and American Cancer Society researcher says the pipe helps cut her cigarette use from three packs to about half a pack per day She notes she still smokes some cigarettes and hesitates to smoke the pipe in public but hopes it starts a trend.
Banks show stronger deposits in Whitewright Bells and Tom Bean
The Sun reports June 30 deposits across three banks in Whitewright, Bells, and Tom Bean. Together they hold $2,779,752.27, up from $2,563,905.72 a year earlier, with Whitewright $1,351,188.34, Bells $640,485.05, and Tom Bean $788,078.88.
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Whitewright
Bells
Tom Bean
Whitewright Bank
Bells Bank
Tom Bean Bank
The
Sun
Baptist Parsonage to Open House Sunday Afternoon
Rev. Newton V. Cole of the First Baptist Church announces open house at the new brick-veneer Parsonage this Sunday from 3 to 5 pm. The old parsonage near the Methodist Church on West Maple Street was sold to Lakey Edwards of Community Public Service Company.
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Newton V. Cole
First Baptist Church
New Baptist Parsonage
West Maple Street
Lakey Edwards
Community Public Service Company
Lucian LaRoe
158 Year Old Will of Thomas Ownby
Copies of the 1796 will of Thomas Ownby filed in Franklin County North Carolina record show a life estate for his wife Anna Ownby with small legacies to son Walter Ownby and Willoughby Ownby. Betsey Robertson and Bennett Goodson are to share the remainder after the wife’s death, with Susanah Ownby a potential beneficiary if Bennett dies without issue. Executors named: Anna Ownby Richard Jones and Josiah Bucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Lane
Pilot Grove
the Sun
Thomas Ownby
Franklin County
North Carolina
Anna Ownby
Walter Ownby
Willoughby Ownby
Betsey Robertson
Bett
Bennett Goodson
Dieth
Susanah Ownby
Walker Ownby
Richard Jones
Josiah Bucks
Farmer's Witty Retort Reflects Busy Morning
A humorous scene shows a farmer replying to a banker with a quip about meeting himself coming to bed after a restless night. The joke plays on busy life and self encounter, reflecting lighthearted rural dialogue.
Five Injured In Car Truck Collision At Y Highway
A collision at the Y highway intersection injured five people including W. O. Carver of Sherman. Carver, a woman, and three children rode in the car to a hospital where Glen Earnheart said none were seriously hurt. Averille Mooneyham drove the truck. patrolman Wade investigated.
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Y Highway
W. O. Carver
Sherman
Glen Earnheart
Carver
Averille Mooneyham
Mooneyham
Highway 160
Wade
Ultrasonic Cavitron Promises Painless Dentistry Breakthrough
Columbia University announced the dawn of the jet age of dentistry with a silent dental drill demonstration. Professors Carl Oman and Edmund Applebaum described the cavitron, an ultrasonic device converting high frequency energy to rapid vibrations to remove cavities with an abrasive spray, reportedly painless.
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New York
Columbia University
Columbia
School of Dental and
Carl R. Oman
Edmund Applebaum
New York State Dental Journal
Farmers Field Day at Greenville July 22
The Annual Farmers Field Day at the U S Cotton Field Station at Greenville will be held on Thursday July 22. Field tours run from 7:00 AM to noon to show experimental work and test results with stops to discuss small grains insects rotations and fertilizers breeding and disease soil conservation corn performance tests and cotton varieties. An exhibit of cotton standards will be shown and USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service representatives from Dallas will explain standards for selling farmers cotton. The afternoon has no formal meetings but visitors may inspect the fields. Station personnel and specialists from the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas Extension Service will be available for informal Q A sessions.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Marketing Service
Dallas
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas Extension Service
Milk price rise posted in area
An increase of 19.7c a hundredweight was approved for producers in the North Texas milkshed spanning sixteen counties. B W Bain, regional administrator of the Federal Milk Market Administration, announced the move in Dallas. Retail milk prices in Dallas rose to a quart, while cream and by products kept current retail levels. Farmers had received $4.747 per hundred pounds of 4 percent butterfat milk. the new price climbs to $4.944 per hundredweight.
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Eisenhower
Midwest
Ike
Dallas
North Texas
B. W. Bain
Federal Milk Market Administration
Dallas Dairies
Postwar U S births reach thirty million milestone
The United States has recorded thirty million births since World War II. The under twenty population is now eleven million higher than in 1940, a growth roughly equal to the combined populations of Chicago Philadelphia Los Angeles Detroit and Cleveland.
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U. S
U.S
Chicago
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Detroit
Cleveland
Bond Issue Planned For Street Repair In Bonham
Bonham officials consider a 25 thousand dollar street repair and improvement bond. A 15 cent tax hike would raise the city rate to 1.15 dollars to amortize a 20 year bond with a 10 year option. Funds would repair the current blacktop system and add new streets.
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Russell Summers
The
Sun
Judd S. James
Dallas
James
Summers
Water reservoirs threatened by sediment buildup in Texas
Public interest in water problems has grown as erosion fills four major reservoirs Benbrook Grapevine Garza Little Elm and Lavon with sediment. Soil Conservation Service official H N Smith warns the life of sediment pools could reach 116 years with upstream flood prevention dams and conservation measures.
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Texas
H. N. Smith
Soil Conservation Service
Temple
Smith
Grapevine Reservoir
Trinity River
Mr. Smith
Corpus Christi
San Angelo
Waco
Abilene
Bexar-Medina-Atascosa
Eisenhower denounces Red China over Peiping UN seat
President Eisenhower blasted Red China and said he opposes admitting Peiping to the United Nations. He cautioned that U S withdrawal from the UN should not be pursued without careful study and doubted Congress would support automatic pullout. Senator Knowland urged recalling Congress if the Reds are admitted.
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Washington
Eisenhower
China
Peiping
United Nations
United States
U.N
Congress
U. S
U. N
World Organization
Knowland
California
Frome Woman Feigns Injury in Civil Defense Drill
Elizabeth Shortland, 52, pretended a compound leg fracture to stage a mock operation at a hospital in Frome England. Surgeons and staff watched as she hopped off the table and danced around, revealing the ruse as a make up prank for civil defense training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frome
England
Elizabeth Shortland
Rae Jenkins declines Senate bid in Tennessee race
Knoxville Tenn special counsel in the Army MacCarthy Feud Ray Jenkins says he will not accept a Republican draft to run against Senator Estes Kefauver. He states there will be no draft and he will not be a candidate this year, a definite decision.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Ray Jenkins
Estes Kefauver
Jenkins
Nudist Fashion Debuts Mosquito Net Hiking Ensemble
At Sunshine Gardens during the Midwestern homecoming weekend the latest nudist trend appeared. The ensemble featured a mosquito net paired with a spray gun for outdoor wear.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Sunshine Gardens
Death of Waxahachie mortician in his ambulance
Romney Rudolph a prominent funeral home owner and former Texas Funeral Directors Association president died here today in one of his own ambulances while en route to transport a patient to a hospital. The article notes an unrelated line about racial insanity ratios in Africa.
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Waxahachie
Romney Rudolph
Texas Funeral Directors Asso
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Tilden McFerrins
McFerrin
Church of Christ
Drewie Caylor
Woodville
Okla
Caylor
Old Woodville
Texoma
Denison Dam
Jack Meador
J. L. Boone
Preston Avenue
Princeton Avenue
Leonard Graphic
Opal Hammond
Leonard
Gainesville
National Safety Council
Yarborough
CIO Political Action Committee
Baptist Parsonage
Thomas Owney
Jonah Rucks
Elizabeth Rucks
Lord Mark
Greenville
Bonham
Texas Department of Public Safety
Bob Cantrell
Bonham Daily Favorite
Oklahoma
Senate
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