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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1945
Page
5
A long list of residents and relatives visitations across Whitewright Dallas Sherman and nearby towns. Entries include births and medical events, hospitalizations and recoveries plus travel to St Louis Chicago Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Names span R.S. Morehead Sears LaRoe Nossaman Ball Tomlinson and many others with multiple family ties and community events.
Pvt. Charles Skaggs and Miss Jane Barrett married at 8 p m Saturday in the Barrett home in Trenton. Immediate family attended. newlyweds plan to reside with Barretts while Skaggs completes military training at Camp Roberts California.
A Rich, Route three home hosted a family reunion Sunday attended by Roy Billy Gladen and family from Camp Hood with his mother Mrs Gladen. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Welburn Anderson of Richmond California Mr. and Mrs. John Griffith and children of Concord Tennessee Mrs Freeman Griffith and son of Mena Arkansas D Griffith and John Paul Griffith of Utica Oklahoma and Miss Caroline Gladen plus friends Otis Davis and Mrs Davis of Denison and Misses Anna solid details trail off in OCR text.
Bell and Lorene Anderson of Austin join Mrs Tracy Stephens of Sherman and Mr and Mrs Jim Hicks in a series of local notices detailing residence events and community updates involving multiple households and individuals.
Central Christian Church lists Earl Bissex as minister with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching on the first and third Sundays at 11 a.m. All are invited to attend.
E P Wootten and Duke R Barron lead worship and church school with services at 11 a m and 8 15 p m. Young People meet at 7 30 p m. Choir practice and Wednesday activities at 8. Church school at 10 a m and morning service at 11 a m. Evening worship 8 15.
Lonnie L. Binion born and raised in Pilot Grove dies Sunday at the Southland Hotel in Dallas where he lived. Funeral services were held in Dallas at Sparkman Brand chapel with burial at Hill Crest Cemetery. He leaves a son L. B. Binion and daughter Dorothy Binion and siblings in Dallas Pilot Grove Farmersville Desert and San Antonio.
Richard Blake, 17, of the Bigby community near Bonham, was charged with murder with malice aforethought after Elmer Lumley, 20, of Bigbee, died from a Tuesday night stabbing. Blake was arrested by Sheriff Ed Whitley and Deputy L L Kilgore and brought to Bonham. He reportedly told authorities that he and Lumley had quarreled. Lumley was the son of Mr and Mrs Sam Lumley.
The Eighth Service Command announced it has hired three official tasters to sample and blend coffee for G I s. After grinding, the tasters taste and adjust the brew until perfection is reached, sipping only a teaspoon from each cup.
The Portsmouth Gazette, claiming status as the oldest continuously printed American newspaper, issued its first number in 1756, marking a historic start for the paper in Portsmouth New Hampshire.
H F Carmichael of the district Office of Price Administration announced a 1000-card spot check at each War Price and Rationing Board to curb possible over issuance of A gasoline coupons. The aim is to ensure mileage counts are eligible for the preferred basis amid nationwide checks and short civilian supplies. Offenders risk penalties by county OPA boards for misusing certificates of war necessity and gasoline rations.
Lt. Col. Burris C. Jackson of Hillsboro, head of the Statewide Cotton Committee, urged cotton mechanization to compete with substitutes. He announced final plans for the Cotton Congress in Dallas, saying costs must be lowered and mechanization offers the quickest path to lower production costs.
The Veterans Administration will establish offices in 16 Texas cities including Sherman. Senator Connally of Texas was informed in Washington. The office will have one contact officer and a clerk stenographer and begin functioning once space is secured and personnel trained.
Paris reports that the Combined Command of the Allied Expeditionary Forces and SHAEF will terminate around July 13. General Eisenhower will relinquish command of most ETO elements, but will keep control of U.S. 12th and 6th Army Groups, the 9th Air Force, the communications zone, and American components in the Allied Naval Command Force.
Washington reports nearly 43,000 Texas wives and children of service men have received or are receiving care under the federal emergency maternity and infant care program. Texas totals through May 1944 reach 42,825 cases, with 2,520 in May. nationwide 845,969 cases. Care includes medical, hospital services for mothers and infants until age one, at no cost, as a right.
About 1,000 veterans have requested surplus government property from the program so far, SWPC reports. Maury Maverick says more requests will flood in as the program is understood. Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana supply the initial cases valued at $1,850,000.
In Decatur Illinois Police Chief H J Schepper defends a ban on women in shorts on city streets. An army sergeant supporting the ban was injured when he ran into a tree during a jog after an evening stroll and sustained two broken ribs.
Lancaster Pa Joseph Lurie 79 died Friday his family says he never tasted water for sixty three years since arriving from Russia in 1882 he fed on beer with occasional milk tea or coffee his survivors drink water?_
London report details a back room scientific war run by British postal censors. At Liverpool headquarters scientists used chemicals and secret rays to detect German spy efforts, uncovering hidden messages in a chess problem, a doctored speech recording, literature, advertising, and even a damaged postage stamp.
A petition signed by 2,547,360 citizens to Generalissimo Stalin states German forces destroyed 1,215,200 houses and village buildings in the White Russian Republic. The figures may influence reparations talks in Moscow.
Houston Lee Daniel was born in Rockbridge County to Capt Price Daniel and his wife former Jan Houston Baldwin. Price Daniel, former Texas House speaker, now serves as judge advocate and instructor at the Army personnel school.
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