Here and There on Tubby Trails and Twin Calves Tales
Avinger resident recalls moving from Pilot Grove after a flood and mud, Otto Russell shows a 15 year old cow with 13 calves, a twin bull companion, and debate on rail and liquor traffic prompts calls for even enforcement. A Community Public Service warning urges fuse safety and criticizes penny tricks. The letter ends noting over 250000 annual visitors to Texas National Forests.
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Charlie Waldrop
Avinger
Fred Waldrop
Main Street
City Hall
Taylor Prigmore
Grayson County Road Plan Gets Highway Commission OK
Grayson County’s road program won approval from the State Highway Commission. The plan calls for 135 miles of Farm to Market roads over 10 years with annual bond issues to fund right of way and new all weather county roads on school bus and mail routes. The court also approved moving the Ray terminal bridge near Denison to Mill Creek at a cost of $79.80 per hour.
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The
Highway Commission
Grayson County
Ray Terminal
Denison
Calamus Road
Mill Creek
State of Texas
Wichita Falls
Stiffer Union Demands Signal Tough Bargaining Ahead
Washington reports show key unions preparing plans likely to end a period of labor peace. They aim for stiff wage demands through year end and into 1958, with other issues like shorter hours likely to spark controversy and tougher bargaining with employers.
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Washington
New Yellow Corn Hybrid Texas 38 Released
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station announces Texas 38, an early-maturing yellow corn hybrid with good drought and heat tolerance. The plant is about two feet shorter with ears one to two feet lower, reducing insect damage. seed available in 1958 and leaflets L-345 offered by the Agricultural Information Office in College Station.
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College Station
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas
Agricultural Information Office
Southwest Income Tax Take Hits Record
The IRS said federal tax collections in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico reached a record 4.346 billion for the 1957 fiscal year ended June 30, up 82 percent from 1956. Major gains came from withheld individual income taxes and excise taxes as wages and salaries rose for Southwestern employers.
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Dallas
Internal Revenue Service
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Tom Bean Highway Halfway Complete In Texas
The FM 1281 route from Whitewright to Tom Bean is 48 percent done, contractor R W McKinney reports after 67 work days on the 5.29 mile section. Other segments near Whitewright and the Fannin county line show 10 and 47 percent completion, with a new 14 mile contract awarded to finish from the Fannin Hunt county line to Commerce. The project follows the old Cotton Belt route, aiming to ease travel to Sherman and improve Tom Bean’s outlet.
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Whitewright
Tom Bean
DeWitt C. Greer
R. W. McKinney
McKinney
Fannin County
Grayson-Fannin County
Randolph
Highway Commission
Fannin-Hunt County
Commerce
Fannin- Hunt County
Sherman
Baptist Revival At Pilot Grove Church Opens
A revival started at Pilot Grove Baptist Church led by Rev. James W. Harper with singing. Evangelist Rev. Charles T. Jones from Logansport La. will preach through August 4. Morning services at 9 and evening services at 8, with the public invited.
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Pilot Grove Baptist Church
James W. Harper
Harper
Charles T. Jones
Logansport
Revival services at Enterprise Baptist Church begin July 26
Enterprise Baptist Church will host revival services from Friday July 26 through Sunday August 3 led by Pastor Rev. W. E. Thomas. Daily prayer at 7 45 p m followed by preaching at 8 00 p m.
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Enterprise Baptist Church
W. E. Thomas
Army Cuts Draft Calls To Meet Service Cut
The Army lowered its September draft call to 8 000 men from 11 000 in August the smallest since spring 1956 within a 100 000 man force reduction across the armed services the Defense Department said the Army will not end draft calls soon and some strength reductions come from selective personnel choices.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
Lone Star Farmer Degree Earned By Three Youths At Ft Worth
Barry Anderson Jimmy Bassett and Bill McDowell of the Wright Future Farmer chapter received Lone Star Farmer Degrees at the State FFA convention in Fort Worth last weekend. The local chapter ranked eighth in Texas and will send members to the national convention in Kansas City October 14 19. Bill McDowell placed third in the state public speaking contest won by Lewis Campbell of Sulphur Springs. Morgan noted Campbell led McDowell by a thin margin and that a later question on soil erosion surprised the contestants. Mrs. Jack Lackey and Mr. and Mrs. Alton McDowell attended the Friday session.
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Barry Anderson
Jimmy Bassett
Bill McDowell
Whitewright Future Farmer
Fort Worth
Texas
Kansas City
Joe Morgan
Jim Clark
Lewis Campbell
Sulphur Springs
Morgan
McDowell
Campbell
Jack Lackey
Alton McDowell
Asiatic Flu May Break Out in Texas
Texas health officials warned county officers to watch for Asiatic flu after exposure ties to a Grinnell church conference and Valley Forge Boy Scout Jamboree. Dr. Peavy noted several Texans ill, 350 to 500 Scouts with respiratory illness, and vaccine work ongoing for an expected fall-ready vaccine.
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Austin
State Health Department
Texas
J. E. Peavy
Grinnell
Iowa
Valley Forge
Peavy
Texas Boy Scouts
Grinnell Church
Voice prompts in Waco switch to new prefix
A screeching prerecorded voice warning Wa Coans to dial the new prefix overwhelmed the system Tuesday. The heavy load wore out the recording, producing gibberish, and the phone company replaced it promptly.
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Waco
Deaths Patrol Minnie May Patterson 69 Funeral Rites Held
funeral services for Minnie May Patterson 69 were held at 3 30 p m Wednesday at Barnheart Chapel with Rev C C Dooley and Rev Fred Waldrop officiating. Burial followed in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Tuesday at 3 30 a m at her brother in law and sister's home after a three year illness. She was born March 20 1888 on a farm north of Whitewright. She was daughter of Joe and Rosa May pioneer settlers. Surviving: one brother Robert H May two sisters T J Lilley and C C Hill and several nieces and nephews. Many relatives attended from Denison Sherman Irving Paris and other areas.
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Minnie May Patterson
Barnheart Chapel
C. C. Dooley
First Presbyterian Church
Fred Waldrop
First Baptist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Gomer May
Kirk May
Sherman
Joe Thomas May
Dallas
J. Alton May
Fender May
Jacksonville
Grover Stateville
Whitewright
Grayson College
Robert H. May
T. J. Lilley
C. C. Hill
San Antonio
Philip May Jr
C. R. Truett
E. J. Lilley
Nettie Groves
Ada Posey
Maybelle Howard
Jim May
George May
Bob Overturf
Denison
Walter Keeling
R. R. Waldo
Printess Compton
W. W. Dossey
R. T. Pennington
Sewell McKinney
Earl Stone
Durant
Okla
D. Leon Harp
William C. Meinkle
Curlee Cummings
Lubbock
J. W. Reeves
Tommy May
Frank White
Paris
Jack Pritchard
Bells
Longtime Whitewright Native Mrs. C. E. Cooper Dies in Muleshoe
Mrs. C E Cooper aged 68 died in a Muleshoe hospital July 20 after moving there in 1953. Born July 22 1888 in Knoxville Tennessee she was the daughter of James H and Nancy Key. She married Clarence E Cooper in 1912 and is survived by her husband a son J D Cooper Denison daughters Beulah Coker Denison and R G Bennett Muleshoe a brother George Key Whitewright two sisters Mary Johnson Bonham and Eva Chesher Pampa 17 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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C. E. Cooper
Whitewright
Muleshoe Hospital
Cooper
Knoxville
Tenn
James H
Nancy Key
Clarence E. Cooper
Muleshoe
J. D. Cooper
Bovina
Tex
Beulah Coker
Denison
R. G. Bennett
George Key
Mary Johnson
Bonham
Eva Chesher
Pampa
Obituary: F F Johnson 80 of Hedley and Whitewright
F F Johnson eighty native of Whitewright died last Wednesday and was buried Thursday. Survived by five sons three daughters two brothers Jeff Johnson Ardmore Oklahoma and K H Johnson Phoenix Arizona and two sisters Mrs S A Couch and Mrs Laudie Frederick Pauls Valley Oklahoma
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F. F. Johnson
Whitewright
Hedley
Memphis
Texas
Jeff Johnson
Ardmore
Okla
K. H. Johnson
Phoenix
Ariz
S. A. Couch
Laudie Frederick
Pauls Valley
Dallas Real Estate Operator Bernie Marcella Winburn Jr. Dies
Marcellus E. Winburn Jr. 54 a Dallas real estate operator and former band leader died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday morning of last week Funeral services were held in Dallas and burial was at Cumby He toured the country for 15 years as Bernie Marcella and his band playing at leading hotels in the Southwest He was son of the late Mike Winburn longtime Whitewright resident and was survived by his wife a brother FE A Winburn of Sulphur Springs a sister Mrs Ruth Clark of Oklahoma City a former Whitewright resident and his stepmother Mrs M E Winburn Sr of Whitewright
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Marcellus E. Winburn Jr
Dallas
Cumby
Mr. Winburn
Bernie Marcella
Mike Winburn
Whitewright
Lone Star Gas Company
FE. A. Winburn
Sulphur Springs
Ruth Clark
Oklahoma City
M. E. Winburn Sr
Lawmaker proposes higher Social Security benefits and wage cap
Senator Rem Kean of New Jersey proposes increasing and extending Social Security benefits and raising the maximum wage base to 4800 to trigger higher contributions. The report notes records mention the first English cook book appearing in 1498.
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Washington
Rem Kean
R.N. J
Early Aug 30 TB X ray unit to visit Whitewright
The State Health Department mobile X-ray unit will begin its annual tuberculosis drive in Whitewright on August 30 from 8 30 a m to start a county tour that includes Van Alstyne Whitesboro Sherman Gunter and Denison. The schedule was announced at a North Grayson Tuberculosis Association meeting in Denison on Tuesday afternoon.
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State Health Department
Whitewright
van Alstyne
Whitesboro
Sherman
Gunter
Denison
North Grayson Tuberculosis Association
Senate Bill Stripped of Enforcement Powers on Civil Rights
The Senate voted 52 to 38 to remove most enforcement powers from President Eisenhower's civil rights measure, leaving only voting rights provisions. The Anderson Aiken amendment cut section 3, limiting federal action to voting cases and injunctive relief, while other civil rights provisions remain debated.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
House
Clinton Anderson
New Mexico
Gerald Aiken
Vermont
Aiken
Jacob Javits
New York
Justice Department
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Joseph O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Commission
Navy raises standards to discharge sailors faster
The Navy will discharge more than 15,000 sailors to meet Defense Secretary Wilons directive cutting armed forces by 100,000. Secretary Gates ordered commanders to discharge enlisted men scoring below 42 on the general classification test as the Navy averages 48.9 of 77. The Sun invites reader submissions.
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Washington
Navy
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Thomas S. Gates Jr
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Otto Russell
Otto
Denison Dam
Lorey Edwards
Community Public Service Co
Sun
Federal Treasury
Texas National Forests
Grayson County Road Program
Southwest Income Tax
Pilot Grove
Enterprise Revival
Army
Lone Star Farmer
Ft. Worth
Whitewright, Texas
Whitewright Sun
Grayson
Fannin Counties
Mrs
Minnie Patterson
M. E. Winburn JR
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