Local Navy Veteran Returns Home and Area News
Ronald A. Vestal, serving in the Navy, arrived home Saturday. Others from the 36th and 90th Divisions, including Crawford Montgomery John Hollingsworth Percy Darwin and Virgil Montgomery, will be home soon. A BYPU program featured Miss Adah Truett Cordelia Yeager Olive Neff and others while Mr Simmons Powell wed Emma Davidson in Vernon Whitewright. Silas Wilson B H Thomson and Theo Miller returned from a Caddo Lake fishing trip. Jack Barbee and Blanche and Katherine Montgomery suffered minor injuries in a Wednesday night auto crash. City Commission awarded paving contract for the business district to Combs Glade of Wichita Falls.
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Ronald A. Vestal
Navy
Crawford Montgomery
John Hollingsworth
Percy Darwin
Virgil Montgomery
Adah Truett
Cordelia Yeager
Olive Neff
W. J. Epting
Lillie McFatridge
Jimmie Yates
Zelma McFatridge
George Garner
BYPU
Simmons Powell
Vernon
Emma Davidson
Whitewright
Silas Wilson
Slaton
B. H. Thomson
Theo Miller
Caddo Lake
Texas
Jack Barbee
Blanche
Katherine Montgomery
Combs & Glade
Wichita Falls
Confederate veterans attend annual Memphis convention
J. R. Andrews T. J. Mize L. O. Lackey and E. B. Martin joined the Confederate veterans convention in Memphis Tennessee recently. Misses Nell Montgomery and Genevieve Davidson hosted a bridge luncheon at the Montgomery home. Ed LaRoe chaperoned a fishing party at Devil's Den including LeFevre Gordon Jack Webster Claud Willis Louise LaRoe Emma David.
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J. R. Andrews
T. J. Mize
L. O. Lackey
E. B. Martin
Memphis
Tenn
Nell Montgomery
Genevieve Davidson
Montgomery
Ed LaRoe
Devil's den
LeFevre Gordon
Jack Webster
Claud Willis
Louise LaRoe
Emma David
Automobile rollover injures Benson family near town
Thirty years ago report notes Mr. Hal Benson and his three children and two daughters of O. L. Winkle in a southwest region were injured when their car overturned into a ditch Wednesday. Also, Mrs. Sarah C. Akridge, 82, died in a Sherman hospital earlier. An earlier item mentions the invention of gunpowder by the Chinese around 750 A.D.
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Hal Benson
O. L. Winkle
Sarah C. Akridge
Sherman
Civil Rights Bill Clash Over House Senate Reconciliation
As the civil rights bill nears final Senate passage the House faces three paths to compromise. A conference committee could iron out differences but risk a Senate filibuster. or the House could accept all Senate amendments, potentially reopening debates. or suspend House rules for swift passage though it requires a two thirds majority.
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Senate
House
White House
Sunday Church Schedules and Vacation Bible School Notes
Local churches list Sunday services and weekly activities. Notable entries include Bible study at CHURCH OF CHRIST and Vacation Bible School from June 22 to 26 for nursery through teens, with other denominations detailing service times and programs throughout the week.
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Church OF Christ
First Methodist Church
Assembly OF God Church
Christ Ambassadors
Kentucky Town Baptist Church Services Schedule
Kentuckytown Baptist Church holds worship at 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. with Training Union at 7:00 p.m. Bethel Baptist Church offers Training Union at 6:00 p.m. and worship at 7:00 p.m. on Sundays.
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Kentuckytown Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church
Church leaders probe birth control clash worldwide
The Catholic Church faces a major inquiry into birth control policy. Louis Janssens of Louvain doubts it violates natural law while Archbishop Roberts of the Vatican Council argues marriage aims to rear a limited number of children capable of being raised well.
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Louis Janssens
Catholic University of
Sun Will Last Six Billion Years Before Exploding
A poll of Catholics shows a 3 to 2 majority favoring a change in church attitude on a subject. An astronomer predicts the sun will endure roughly six billion years before a cataclysmic explosion.
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Son and
Artie Young
Homeowner’s
Complete Insurance Service
Stephens & Bryant
Insurance & Real Estate
Dodgers
Mortages
First Baptist Church
Church In Training
Lake Law
First Presbyterian Church
Central Christian Church
Harrow Discs
Long
Leonard Farm
Square
Leonard, Texas
P. O
Paul Cornelius
Whitewright Lumber Co
Whitewright, Texas
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