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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
5
Local residents report visits from family and friends across Jefferson Sherman Sherman and Durant plus trips to Dallas Paris and Austin. Notable changes include employment moves in Sherman and Plano and a 60acre land purchase near Whitewright.
J E Arterberry of Tompkinsville and daughter visited son H T Arterberry. A W Stedham and family plan to join wife here from Salina Kansas. First National Bank added eighty steel safety boxes, totaling 180, with two-key security for customer access. The infant of Pvt Walter Robbins was buried at Burns Cemetery after a caesarean birth. mother in critical condition at Sherman hospital. Mrs Alfred Schwiening Jr returns to Denton for TSCW summer school. Major Dan Scott McMillin to wed Dorothy Dean Robinson on June 19 at Country Club Congregational Kansas City. Billie Hatfield, trained at Hunter College, returned from New York Marines training with failed later physical.
The Sun lists new honor roll subscribers including Mrs. J. L. Bennett, Dan Hollingsworth, Hugh Trotter, M. O. Carpenter, Fred Cook Jr., Manton Fain, E. L. Buchanan, Jack D. Braden, William G. Andrew, J. B. Cates, Mrs. Lela Ryan, Archie Burden, George W. Ford, Lowell Watson, and Dorothy. The page ends with a quip about marriage and thirty.
Rev Alexander McFerran, born Belfast Ireland 1869, died in a Dallas hospital. Services were at Wieland Chapel Dallas with interment at Restland Memorial Park. He pastored Whitewright First Presbyterian briefly after serving Celina and St Jo churches. Survived by three daughters two sons a sister brother and eight grandchildren. Attendees from Whitewright named.
Major J. L. Sandlin, chaplain of the 10th Army Corps, Sherman, spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon. He used Biblical characters to contrast right and wrong living and urged placing God first, country second, and self third. About 100 guests attended, including Major P. A. Maxey and Col. Ed Rushing.
Readers are advised to use a large oiled silk bowl cover over the head during showers or baths to keep hair and curls dry when bathing is difficult due to scarce bathing caps.
The church lists Rev. E. P. Wootten as pastor with Sunday school at 10 a.m. led by superintendent W. T Simmons. Morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening service at 8:30 p.m. The Methodist Church shows Rev. W. W. Adcock as pastor with Sunday school at 10 a.m. worship at 11 a.m. young peoples sing song at 6 p.m. and night service at 8:30 p.m.
Lawton Oklahoma hotel manager A R Pool learned that American soldiers who knocked out a German tank in North Africa mailed him a key found in the desert. Sixteen soldiers signed the note claiming responsibility for returning the key to Pool.
A wartime safety appeal warns the public to avoid accidents at home, work, and on streets. It stresses the dangers of slips and recklessness, urging vigilance as a patriotic duty to reduce deaths and injuries on the home front.
Churchill traveled aboard an eastern Canadian port ship bound for Washington to meet President Roosevelt along with nearly 400 German prisoners of war including high ranking officers. The voyage was kept from publication until Tuesday by censorship as the ship carried officials and prisoners from North Africa.
The British prime minister was so closely guarded that observers barely glimpsed him throughout the entire voyage across the Atlantic.
Grayson County National Farm Loan Association will restore par value of stock for about 150 farmers. The plan, by the Federal Land Bank of Houston and National Farm Loan Associations, also pays cash to 42 fully paid borrowers and to others owed through insolvent associations. Decentralized offices aim to save about 195000 yearly in Texas operations.
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to about 1000 New York students, defining a great person as one who keeps a community doing the right thing. She urged that greatness lives in small communities and is earned by character and service.
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