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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
6
Local residents visit relatives in Sherman Denton Dallas and McKinney while others travel to Illinois Iowa Kentucky and Colorado. Several health updates appear including patients in St Vincent's Hospital Sherman and Wilson N Jones Hospital with ongoing illnesses and heart attacks.
Lt. Davis P Parrish visits Whitewright before duty, a 1949 West Point graduate. A subdistrict advance caravan is set for Bells with Women’s Society of Christian Service. Local families, school moves, and a Lamb County 4-H entomology team victory are reported, plus a May Selective Service registration count and a note on Hannah Adams the first American woman literature professional.
Mrs Ott Lackey and James Lackey are in Houston after an automobile accident left Mr Lackey with a knee injury and bruises. Whitewright sends a group to East Texas State College Commerce for summer school including Norma Smith Dell Sanderson Roby Lee Wilson N B Nicholson Elbert Bennett Doris Nicholson Mrs Louis May Mardell Pumphrey Lucyle Sanders S T Montgomery Jr Elizabeth Waggoner and Mrs D M Harrison.
At the Friday luncheon F G Hoover led a program featuring Sergeant Whitesides and Corporal Long of Perrin Field presenting a moving picture of the Berlin airlift. The film details the airlift operation delivering food and coal to the blockaded city. Clay Horton and Glen Earnheart were elected directors. Visitors included C D Landolt Sherman schools superintendent Melvin Sisk Sherman Chamber manager Harvey Martin Marshall May Rex Cruze and R A Gillett.
Jesse Joseph Walker 66 a longtime Greenville Public School faculty member died Monday in a Greenville hospital. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Central Christian Church with Rev. James L. Sandlin officiating. Interment at Forest Park Cemetery. Born January 25 1883 in Valley View he taught in Quanah Pottsboro Leonard and Dodd City before Greenville. He was principal of the Houston School in Greenville for 29 years. Married December 26 1906 to Casey German. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs Walter W Henry and Mrs Henry Williams one son James G Walker and four grandchildren. brother in law of James German and Lyda German of Whitewright.
Poughkeepsie N Y Vassar College awarded degrees to 269 women who were urged that the man must be the person whose career comes first Dean Austin McIntosh of Barnard College addressed the 85th commencement saying a woman’s biological role is to bear and rear children and she skipped a portion urging many children.
Mr and Mrs Geo W Brown and their daughter will depart Sunday for a vacation trip to San Antonio Galveston and other points.
Local church notices list services for several congregations. Assembly of God led by Rev. E A Doty with Sunday school at 10, morning worship at 11, evangelistic service at 7 30. Church of Christ led by Therman Healy with Bible classes at 10, morning worship at 11, Young People's at 6 30, evening worship at 7 30. Central Christian Church led by P R Wright Jr with Sunday school at 10 and morning worship at 11. The message topic is The Optimistic Way and scripture from Philippians 1 12 26.
Ashley D. Jameson delivers ministry with church school at 10 a.m. Youth Fellowship at 7 p.m. and Youth hour at 8 30 p.m.
First Baptist Church announces Pastor Weldon R. Drake Sunday school superintendent W T Simmons Training Union director Mrs W R Drake W M S president Mrs Carl May Brotherhood president services include morning worship at 11 o clock Training Union 7 15 p m Evening worship 8 p m and Wednesday prayer service at 8:00.
National Bureau of Standards notes odds are 422 million to one to be killed by lightning. Stay indoors in metal wrapped rooms or underground during storms, avoid lone trees, and seek ground caves or valleys if outside. Limit electrical fixture contact and use lightning rods when possible.
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