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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1945
Page
5
Whitewright neighbors welcome Betty Lou Skaggs from Erwin Tennessee and Miss Merlyn Brown back to town. Residents return from hospital care, travel to Washington DC, and attend church events while local businesses advertise furnishings and sales.
Lee Wilburn, former Whitewright school faculty member, wins principal post at Allen Junior High School in Austin home to fifty six teachers and fourteen hundred students. He has long served in Austin public schools and advanced steadily. He is son in law of Mrs Lucian LaRoe of Whitewright. Mrs Wilburn is the former Miss Lucile LaRoe.
Funeral services were conducted at 3 p m Tuesday at the Pilot Grove Baptist Church for Mrs Lena R Fleeman who died after a two week illness. Pallbearers were six grandsons with honorary pallbearers named. Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery directed by Glen Earnheart. She was born 1869 in Kentucky and moved to Texas in 1878. Survived by six daughters two siblings and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Sunday school at 10 a m and preaching on the first and third Sundays at 11 a m. Invites all. First Baptist Church with Pastor E P Wootten holds worship at 11 a m Young People at 7 30 p m and Evening service at 8 15 p m.
Reverend W. A. Casseday invites the community to morning worship at 11 o clock and to consider making the church their home by joining all services offered.
Duke R Barron, pastor, announces church school at 10 a m worship at 11 a m evening service at 8 15 p m choir practice Wednesday 8 30 p m W S C S business meeting Monday 3 30 p m sermon at 11 oclock subject Dedicating New Claimed Areas to God evening sermon Choosing Between Two Ways of Life course on The Discipline of the Church taught by the pastor next Thursday at 8 p m
Texas lawmakers closed the session by approving a constitutional amendment for a self liquidating 25 million dollar land bond to sell land to veterans. They also advanced a tuition bill enabling veterans to receive free college tuition with federal funds, and created a veterans land board to oversee land purchases. The package includes measures to protect veteran tuition payments if reduced by bonuses, extended absentee voting for soldiers, free voter privileges, and other veteran support like free driver's licenses and GI Bill loans.
A clerk issued 44 marriage licenses in May. In district courts 59 divorce suits were handled, 31 divorces granted, and 28 cases, some docketed for years, were dismissed for want of prosecution.
In Austin the Forty-Ninth Legislature wraps after 148 days, third longest ever. Senate plans to meet without the House on Jan 8 to adjourn sine die and act on Governor Stevenson's interim appointees to avoid long delays into 1947. Weaver Moore notes the unusual session possibility and constitutional questions arise.
In Grayson County Sherman reports, marriage licenses issued in the county reportedly exceed the number of divorces. The item notes local trends in marriages and separations, with no additional specifics on dates or totals.
Chicago report quotes Northwestern University professor Dr. Paul A. Witty who contends bright children are physically superior and healthier, not misfits. He notes high IQ alone does not prove genius and cites tests showing 0.2 percent of public school kids have IQ at least 140, needing broader data on development.
Witty cites clinic findings showing gifted students shine in reading and language yet struggle with handwriting and spelling. He notes boys and girls share similar IQ levels and argues public schools must value individuality and diversify curricula to foster self direction and ongoing learning.
The Judge Advocate General's Office announced 115 American soldiers from a railway battalion who were convicted in black market trials last winter will be sent to the Pacific for early combat. They faced up to 50 years at hard labor for cigarette trafficking but received clemency from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve in combat.
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