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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1958
Page
11
A roundup of local social visits shows Mrs. W. T. Nicholson in Sherman on Sunday. Many residents traveled to Dallas Fort Worth and nearby towns, including the Dyer-Hickman wedding at Farmersville and weekend stops in Celina Ada and Gainesville.
The Sun prints full text and a brief digest of nine proposed amendments for the November General Election. Descriptions cover state legislature sessions, county retirement funds, vacancies, official term limits, city charter terms, pensions for Texas Rangers, state advertising of resources, expanded medical vendor payments, and hospital districts in Amarillo Wichita Jefferson counties. Also note volunteers patrolled British countryside during grouse season and a Sun office note about typewriter ribbons.
Senator John William reveals 1956 wool subsidy payouts to Texas raisers. Thirty five Texas producers received over 10 thousand dollars each, totaling more than 500 thousand dollars for the state. Top recipients include J. E. White & Sons of Marfa and Ray H. Willoughby of San Angelo.
A poem reflecting on scapegoats and ideas that fail under scrutiny. It contrasts thinking as a muscle strengthened by effort with misbeliefs crashing on wisdom. It uses paradox about sheep and grass to critique complacent thinking and resilience.
AEC medical chief Dr. Lewis K. Dahl warns Americans eat two to four times too much salt, tying salt appetite to social habit. He notes high blood pressure rises with excess sodium and that reducing salt can lower it, urging Americans to use only a half to a quarter as much salt. Two Navy balloon ascent records and opera Intermezzo are also noted, with a Texas citation listing plaintiffs led by Lloyd L. Neathery in a land suit filed July 2, 1958.
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