Local Exemption Board Sends 208 Men to Camps
An exemption board orders 208 men to army training camps within two weeks. In local voting 82 cast ballots on a new school tax of ten cents per $100. 67 supported and 15 opposed. Other items note marriages, deaths, and local notices including lost items and a breadth of community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Izetta Gillett
Silas Wilson
Dan Gillett
Tom Brice
Bonham Exemption Board
Camp Travis
M. Jones Roberts
Lloyd Wright
Camp Sheridan
Chicago
Robert Gordon
Bigger Third Monday Trades Day Set for July 17 Parade at 10 A M
A larger Third Monday Trades Day is planned for July 17 with a morning parade and an afternoon free rodeo. Alexander farm near town saw a gas accident as Gross Alexander and his son Manuel were overcome while digging a well. Manuel helped rescue his father after being pulled from the well. Birth of twins announced for July 9 by Mr. and Mrs. C D Binion. Hefner and Lorelle Trotter noted as residents nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gross Alexander
Manuel
Alexander
C.D. Binion
Wilburn Hefner
Lorelle Trotter
Marriage and obituary notices from Madill and vicinity
Tom Bean married on Wednesday morning. Mrs Estelle Stitzel Cox wife of T M Cox died at the family home northwest of town Wednesday morning. Announcement of the marriage of Guy Stedham and Miss Mineola England at Madill Oklahoma on July 25 1932 was made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Bean
Estelle Stitzel Cox
T. M. Cox
Guy Stedham
Mineola
England
Madill
Okla
Tax take in North Texas shows six month decline in 1953
Federal corporate and individual taxes not subject to withholding fell by 49.1 million dollars in the first half of 1953 in the 144 county North Texas tax district. Total taxes for 1952-53 surpassed one billion dollars for the year. First six months of 1953 total taxes were 625.3 million, down 33.8 million from the prior year, with a 16 million gain in withholding. Analysts link the drop to Drewth and worsening regional economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Texas
Ellis Campbell Jr
Drewth
Texas
Lotta Trouble at a Tourist Camp
A man at a tourist camp is observed grooming with a comb and brush, toothbrush, a nail file, and a whisk broom. A bystander comments, asking if he is always that much trouble to himself.
Condemnation Suit Against Whitewright Officials
Housing Authority of the City of Whitewright sues J. F. Anderson et al for condemnation of property in Grayson County Texas to build low rent housing. Citations issue to several defendants and unknown heirs, with auction notices and dates in Sherman court. Publication dates listed July 2 9 16 23 1953 in The Whitewright Sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Texas
J. F. Anderson
F. E. Butler
E. T. Kemp
J. W. Smith
W. M. Ellis
City of
Whitewright
A. D
Court House
Sherman
Housing Authority
Grayson College
Grayson County
Grainger McDaniel
J. C. Buchanan
O. L. Jones
Housing Authority of
City of Whitewright
I. Boyd Newman
Olive Myrick
Ada Gillespie
Pearl Johnson
Charles Truett
Fred Truett
Affiant
Iry Newman
Plaintlt
Walleyed Pike Show Growth in Texas
Aquatic Biologist Bill Brown reports walleyed pike in a sunfish pond near San Marcos grew an average 3.25 inches in six weeks. The fingerlings hatched there slipped through a trough into the sunfish tank and were not planted with the main stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
the Game and Fish Commission
Bill Brown
San Marcos
Brown
Fred Richan
San Marcos Federal Fish Hatchery
Citation for A J Kerr and Mrs M S Kerr Heirs
Court citation directs A J Kerr and Mrs M S Kerr heirs to answer by August 3 1953 in Grayson County Texas. Plaintiff A G Hudspeth seeks title and possession of Lots 12 13 and 14 in Block B Town Company Addition Whitesboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Texas
A. J. Kerr
M. S. Kerr
A. D
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
A. G. Hudspeth
Whitesboro
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
Whitewright Sun
New Army Regulation Keeps Buddies Together
Washington reports a new regulation allowing four man overseas teams to train, eat, sleep, and fight together. The measure aims to preserve camaraderie by permitting teams to stay assigned and quarters arranged to keep bunkmates together, with efforts to keep four man teams from the same training camp aboard ships and in rehearsed proximity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bob Mitchell
Johnnie Cowan
John Hoard
Savoy
Ruby Augusta Ryan
G. S. Ryan
Joe Mangrum
Ellis May
C. S. Blanton
R. May
Diamond Harpin
J. D. Badgett
The
Baptist Church
Eddie Badgett
Ely News
American Legion
Ben Hall
Rotary Club
Lee Weathers
Wolfe City
Elizabeth Clark
Leonard
Walter Blackworth
Mary Lou Russell
Trenton
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Mollie Burris
J. B. Burris
Bert Allen
Denison
Mary McGaughey
John Reeves
Feed Headquarters
Pascal Farley
Triwell
Whitewright Lumber Co
U. S
ARMY
S. H. Montgomery Agency
United States
General Electric
U. S. Public Health Service
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Schenectady 5
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