On Navy Duty Editor's Note by Don McAlister
Lieutenant Commander Don McAlister of the U S Navy Reserves is on active duty at Fort Belvedere near Washington D C and will not publish his column for three weeks. He is a Naval Academy graduate and managing editor of the Southwest Daily Times in Liberal Kansas and a director of The Sun Publishing Co which publishes The Whitewright Sun.
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Don McAlister
U.S. Navy
Fort Belvedere
Washington, D.C
Weeks
U.S. Naval Academy
Southwest Daily Times
Liberal
Kan
Sun Publishing Co
Whitewright Sun
Ice cream lids in Dixie cups sparked kid premiums
In the 30s 40s and 60s Dixie cup ice cream lids featured pictures of athletes animals or stars. Kids peeled the cover to reveal who was hidden, trading playing with or saving the cards as premiums.
Thomas Harvey Advances To Marine Rank
Marine Private First Class Thomas A. Harvey, son of Mr and Mrs Floyd W Harvey of Tom Bean, promoted while with the 3D Marine Aircraft Wing at El Toro CA. He joined the Marine Corps in August 1975. Dan LeDane concludes term as worshipful master of Whitewright lodge. Harry Butch Morgan to succeed. Herman Philley moved to senior warden. Ted Jenkins elected junior warden. James H Gosnell and Emory Christian re-elected treasurer and secretary. Appointive officers to be announced at the stated meeting.
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Thomas A. Harvey
Floyd W. Harvey
Tom Bean
3D Marine Aircraft Wing
el Toro
Marine Corps Air Station
Santa Ana
Calif
Dan LeDane
Whitewright Masonic Lodge
LeDane
Harry “Butch” Morgan
Herman Philley
Ted Jenkins
James H. Gosnell
Emory Christian
Annou
Revival at Bethel Baptist Church in Whitewright
The Bethel Baptist revival began Sunday at Bethel Baptist Church and will run through Sunday July 17 with Rev. Houston Garner of Hebron Baptist Church leading nightly at 8 PM and Donald Williams directing music. The Rev. Charles Pierce invites all to attend. a prior July 17 24 schedule error is corrected.
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Bethel Baptist Church
Houston Garner
Hebron Baptist Church
Donald Williams
Charles Pierce
Local Real Estate Sales and Community News
Memories estate sold for 19000 while another parcel fetched 25250. A three year old girl injured her hip in a buggy wheel accident near White Wright but is recovering. Durants Pascal Cox visits and plans relocation to Dallas for a dry goods job. Local travel and theatre notices follow with Norma Talmadge in The Way of a Woman at the Odeon next Tuesday.
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Whitewright
George Ball
Pascal Cox
O. M. Durham
Memphis
Texas
J. B. Hall
Clay Horton
Red” Pace
France
Norma Talmadge
Odeon
Ruth Cox 82 dies. services held at Earnheart Chapel
Ruth Cox 82 died July 11 1977 at Whitewright nursing home. Services Wednesday at Earnheart Chapel with burial at Oak Hill cemetery. Born November 5 1894 in Whitewright she was a Presbyterian member. Survived by three nieces and a nephew. Pallbearers named.
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Earnheart Chapel
Ruth Cox
Whitewright
William Fry
The
Presbyterian Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
William M. Cox
Nerces
Bobbie Nell Dunn
Sherman
Mary Edna Pool
Henderson
Barbara Davis
New Jersey
Bill C. Bailey
South Carolina
T. D. Caylor
J. T. Holloway
Floyd Bassett
Thomas Sears
David Reeves
Pete Ingram
First Baptist Church
Tom Bean
Eugene L. Burkett
Vittetoe Cemetery
Grayson County
Charles Burkett
Kentuckytown
Faye Fogle
James H. Chumbley
Robert Yowell
J. E
Anther Andrew Hudgins
Katy Railroad
Danny Weir
First United Methodist
Fairview
Denison
Elmont
J. H
Elizabeth Skaggs Hudgins
Methodist Church
Ileta Grimes
Santa Fe Railroad
Clovis
New Mexico
Anther Andrew Hudgins, Jr
Madrid
Donald Paul Hudgins
Big Cabin
Okla
Everett Hudgins
Lee Hudgins
Bokchito
Woodrow Hudgins
Cartwright
Anna May Hodges
Calera
Flora Linsteadt
Fort Worth
Gracie Holder
Murriel Brown
California
Bill Pettit
R. R. Summers
Harry Morgan
Dick Walker
Hermon Philley
Friday Referendum Deadline for Grayson County Cattle Owners
Grayson county cattle owners registered before the June 17 deadline must vote by Friday at 5 p.m. on a proposed 0.3 percent checkoff that would fund a Beef Board. The board would oversee about 30 to 40 million dollars yearly for research and market development in beef.
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Whitewright
Crayson County
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
ASCS
Sherman
Jim Key
Grayson County
Insulation Types and a History Note
The article explains two insulation types blanket and loose-fill with their R-value implications. It defines R-value as a material’s resistance to heat flow and contrasts prefabricated blanket insulation with loose-fill that must be blown to achieve a target R-value. It ends with a world history trivia: the first globe was made in 1491 showing Japan between continents.
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Japan
mid-Atlantic
Europe
Africa
India
Asia
Bodine Promoted To Manager At Wacker Store
Carlos Bodine and family have moved to Paris where he is named manager of Wacker Store on Clarksville street. Bodine, a Whitewright graduate with a BA from East Texas State, is the son of Mr and Mrs Joe Bodine. His wife Dianna Hendrix formerly worked at First National Bank.
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Carlos Bodine
Paris
Wacker Store, Inc
Clarksville Street
Bodine
Whitewright High School
East Texas’ State University
Joe Bodine
Dianna Hendrix
First National Bank
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Dallas
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West Texas
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