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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1960
Page
7
Article guides home owners on lawn care focusing on mowing height for St Augustine and Bermuda grasses, and a steady watering plan to keep soil moist. Recommends higher cuts in heat, shaded areas, and watering with a sprinkler to deliver about one inch of rainfall per week. Emphasizes gradual watering at times that maximize soil moisture.
The piece praises a live-wire Chamber of Commerce as the town’s engine for growth and services across business climate schools recreation and farming with a reminder that complacency hurts progress. It ends noting the Liberty Bell weighs 2 080 pounds in Independence Hall Philadelphia.
An improved Nike Hercules air defense missile defeats a Corporal ballistic missile at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The test provides data for anti-missile defense development and marks the first known kill by one guided missile of another.
The article explains how lawyers must object and move to quash indictments or suppress evidence during trials to preserve the record for possible higher court review. It emphasizes protecting the record so life liberty or property remains at stake, with appellate justices someday evaluating trial decisions.
James A. Turman of Gober near Bonham seeks the Texas House speakership, aiming to follow Sam Rayburn’s long tenure and possibly succeed him as Fourth District congressman. Turman won another term in the Texas Legislature this summer, while Rayburn’s career looms as a backdrop.
Friends of Turman backed by County Judge Choice Moore start an Appreciation Fund as Turman and rival Wade Spilman of McAllen campaign from Austin for the Texas House speakership. The race mirrors the close 1959 contest between Waggoner Carr and Joe Burkett. Population figures note Egypt at about 18 million and Jefferson’s self designed portable writing desk.
Citation in No. 66788 directs James A. Stewart to file a written answer by August 8 1960 in the 15th District Court Sherman Texas. Dorothy L. Stewart seeks a divorce on grounds of cruel treatment. Published in The Whitewright Sun on June 23 30 July 7 and 14 1960.
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