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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1953
Page
5
Many local residents spent time with relatives and friends in cities such as Dallas Sherman Clarksville Denison Paducah and McKinney. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Cecil Watson Mrs Lee Wilson and others with trips to Oklahoma Alabama Mississippi and Arkansas.
Mrs. Amos Redding and George Pierce of Sherman visited R E Pierce. Opal Mae Page and Jo Ann Page spent the week in Dallas with Norma and Doris Johnson. Mrs. J L McSpedden returned from Wilson N Jones Hospital. Ed Martin returned from Marshall and Shreveport. Mattie Hastings and Elmer Sanderson spent Wednesday in Dallas. Harold Noe and Joan Lee Powers of Whittier are visiting H L Crittenden. Clara Jean Kelly visited Tioga with Paul Oliver. Frank White and children of Paris visited her parents. Weldon Chumbley and children of McKinney spent the weekend with C V Burchfield. Margaret Perkins and son Danny of Dallas visited. Grant Hoover and daughter Sarah Kay of Nocona visiting Wallace May. Jerry Mac Thornhill of Fort Worth spent weekend with Thornhills. N B Nicholson will present her dance pupils in a recital next Monday night. Visitors at Joe Brookins included Brookins of Leonard, Ross of Ector, J W Brookins of Borger, and Edward Dockery of Trenton. Lee Brown of Denison High School won the athletic cup for highest scholastic average and lettering. He is grandson of M R Smith of Whitewright. Loreen Hitt of Lubbock, Horace McMillin and two children of Wolfforth, Charles Hill and Hill McMillin of Garland, and Alva Cartwright of Farmers Branch visited R E Pierce.
Social notes list visits and family travels among Whitewright and area residents. George M Hight and kin attended a granddaughter’s Dallas recital. J W Hight rode home with his father. Other visits span Dallas Muskogee and Sherman areas with couples and families cited along with a leave date from Indian Springs AFB and a move from Whitewright to Sherman.
The Sun invites readers to announce visits and items sent in as courtesy notes. The message frames notices as friendly gestures, encouraging community sharing of travel and social visits.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wallace and A L Scott visit Lake Jackson with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cole and daughters from Sherman. Miss Babe Beazley of Dallas visits her parents and has taken a job at Union Terminal in Dallas with Miss Tommie Beazley. The BB Club met at Colbert Boat Club on Lake Texoma for its annual picnic supper hosted by Mrs. S E Wallace with bingo games following.
A Whitewright youth James O Huseman married Mary Gianferrari in Stella Maris Chapel St George s Bermuda on Thursday June 4 Father Jerome officiated at 6 30 p m The couple attended by families from Manchester England and Whitewright Texas The altar display featured white gladioli marking the ceremony.
O Burch headmaster at St David's School led music for the ceremony. Doris Watkins sang Ave Maria with duties as soloist. Attendants included Miss Theresa Bruggen a Dutch nurse at Kindley Field Hospital in cyclamen net and carrying cyclamen cornflowers and carnations Maureen Maguire as flower girl in blue net with a blue and white nosegay Lee Lancaster a staff sergeant at Kindley Air Force Base served as best man. Afterward a reception at Greig Hall St George's hosted about one hundred guests under a fern and white wedding bell. The couple will live in St George's until December before returning to the United States. The groom serves in the United States Air Force at Kindley AFB. the bride teaches domestic science at St David's School.
National Geographic Society notes New Guinea remains largely unvisited by whites with air surveys revealing Stone Age villages where inhabitants have likely never seen a European.
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