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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1956
Page
2
Texas Highway Patrol notes crowded highways as vacation travel climbs toward school start. Radar detection reduced speeding from 21 to 15 percent and cut accidents 3.4 percent and deaths 1.9 percent. August remains peak for risk and fatigue.
Charles H. Gullett seeks to appropriate up to 4000 acre feet annually from an unnamed Red River tributary in Grayson County for industrial use. A public hearing before the Texas Board of Water Engineers will be held in Austin on August 13 1956 at 10 a.m. Objections must be filed five days prior. Published July 12 19 33 and August 2 1956 in The Whitewright Sun.
Three rangers were stationed at Alice after George Parr stormed the Duval County courthouse armed with a rifle in search of his political foe Tom Molina. Parr was disarmed and faces a misdemeanor charge.
Marvin Methodist Church in Ely held a Sunday homecoming with Rev. Bill Douglas delivering the sermon to a near full house. Lennis Clark registered guests, W C Brown Jr taught the adult class, and Mary Pat Newell from Ector served as pianist during a basket lunch in the church grove.
The event included accordion music by Tommy Taylor and piano solos by Miss Mary Pat Newell. Readings by Mrs. Vic Morrow, singing by Lynn Stanford and Ronnie Bellows, and a Whitewright quartet provided selections. Rev. L L Vowell spoke and visitors from multiple towns attended. A note mentions Manitoulin Island and free road maps statistics.
The Sun announces candidates for county attorney in the Democratic Primary on July 28, 1956. Listed are L. D. Red Wilsford and G. W. Woody Blanton with Boyd Newman as the opposing candidate.
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