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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1967
Page
4
A driver who learned karate knocked a man with a karate chop after a collision. The injured man grabbed a tire tool and struck back. Women favor beautification yet avoid covering knobby knees. Faith healer Cone and a friend discuss the uncle who thinks he is sick, then dead. A joke about Bernard Shaw and a broken heart ends the column.
A Thursday publication notice states the paper is issued weekly with second class postage paid at the Whitewright Texas post office and lists Tex. Press Association membership for the publication.
Subscription rates listed show Grayson and Fannin counties at 2.50, outside counties at 3.00, and foreign subscriptions at 5.00. No further details or context provided.
A string of light anecdotes from a dinner party and PTA circle lampoon parental woes and child behavior. A pediatrician cites mothers as the principal ailment of children. A hotel lobby meeting recalls a familiar PTA father. A babysitter and a city transit promo closing the piece, detailing futuristic stainless steel bus shelters with heaters and phones in Detroit.
Classified items include rebuilt motors for Chevrolets and life insurance ads, real estate offerings such as the Mrs Guy Hamilton house on West Spruce street and a 68 acre farm south of Trenton, local businesses promoting furniture repairs water heaters and appliances, farm and ranch sales outreach by J A Alexander Inc and Grayson Co Bank, a card of thanks for Mary Burchfield’s family, plus military service statistics noting 3.2 million personnel and 2.3 percent of total food use in July 1966.
Lowell Watson is reported seriously ill in Sherman Community Hospital. The item lists several local visits and family connections, noting social visits by Mrs. Nellie Leath, Miss Tittia Belle Blanks, Mrs. Mary Lou Ayres, and others to and from Iowa Park, Denison, Sherman, Farmers Branch, Plano, Bells, and Chickasha during the week.
No 144443 Notice to those indebted to or holding claims against the estate of Louis J Weems Sr deceased. Original Letters Testamentary granted May 9 1967 by Grayson County Texas. Claimants must present claims by law at 512 East Main Street Whitesboro Texas. s/ Mary L Weems.
Mrs. Guy Allen of Lake Dallas visited relatives here Tuesday. Seattle visitors Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moore and children Jay and Lisa stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Hardcastle. Mrs. Moore is Kay Davis of Whitewright. Sue Gentry will attend summer school in Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Otto Russell returned from Richardson to visit her ill daughter Mrs. Robert Curtis. Mrs. Bruce Dixon of Bells is in Sherman Community Hospital. mother of J. B. Dixon of Whitewright. Homer Gentry and daughter Sue returned from visiting Navy Lieut. Mickey Gentry in Norfolk, Virginia. Brenda Myrick and Carolyn Maxwell of Irving visit Hardcastle household. Cecil Doss hosted a B-B Club gathering. high score by Mrs. Elmo Wallace. bingo by Mrs. C. K. Smith. guest Mrs. Otto Krumm. Next meeting at Mrs. Krumm’s, substituting for Mrs. J. C. McMillin hospitalized in Sherman. First Baptist Church plans a kindergarten and day nursery starting Sept. 1 if parents show interest. Brooks family reunion at Firemen’s Hall with 60 attendees from Phoenix, Wichita Falls, Big Spring, McAlester, Tulsa, California, Dallas, Sherman, Blue Ridge and Trenton. Keith Brooks marked his 13th birthday.
Two sociologists from Pennsylvania State University and North Carolina analyzed the 1960 census. They report that disrupted marriages decline as men’s income and occupation rise, and that marriage remains less stable among Negroes than whites at all levels, with lower class stability notably weaker.
Barbara A. Phares is commanded to answer a petition filed May 10 1967 in District Court Grayson County Texas case No 72880. Plaintiff Tom Phares seeks divorce on desertion grounds. Citations issued May 10 1967 and returnable June 26 1967 at 10 a.m. in Sherman courthouse.
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