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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1962
Page
5
Local social notes list visitors from Dallas Sherman Denton Oklahoma and beyond. Names include Mrs Ivey Taylor Mrs Ida Stevens Miss Viva Phillips Rev T H McSpedden Dean Watson Barrie Blanton and many families visiting relatives and friends across Terrell Port Arthur Fort Polk El Paso Commerce Richardson Levelland and Van Alstyne over a weekend period.
Miss Frances Hedgpeth celebrated with a Sunday afternoon tea hosted by her sister and Mrs. Canafax. The event at the Hedgpeth home announced her engagement to Leo Taylor of Celina with a June 22, 1962 wedding date and drew more than a hundred guests from Fort Worth Dallas Garland McKinney Sherman Denison Bonham Trenton and Celina.
The piece critiques federal income tax rules and a tax exemption for government owned power projects. It argues withholding on interest and dividends aims to curb tax cheating, while tax exempting a federal plant creates a large revenue loss and shifts taxes to other ratepayers. It ends with short notices about local residents Howard Hedgpeth and Taylor family ties.
A verse from Kleiser highlights persistent worry about weather health business wealth family finances taxes pets future debts and social concerns. The refrain notes that much of what is feared never comes to pass.
A grandfather narrates legends of the old West and Billy the Kid who allegedly killed 21 men by age 21. A boy asks what kind of car he drove, reflecting a blend of frontier myth and modern novelty.
The Presbyterian Missionary Society gathered at Mrs. Lydia Henry’s home with Mrs. H. H. Sears presiding. Miss Mardell Pumphrey spoke on The Mother of Jesus from The Five Marys. Next meeting is July 9 at Mrs. H. H. Taylor’s home with Mrs. T. A. Gray leading.
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