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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1952
Page
5
Local items list visits and travels of residents from Dallas Fort Worth Gainesville and Sherman with trips to Camp Hood Carlsbad and Bonham. Residents include Joe Meador Frank Trotter Ruth Cox and Ruth Meador among others as they visit relatives attend hospital stays or join events and gatherings across Texas and Oklahoma.
Community members and relatives from Sherman to Dallas, Fort Worth and beyond travel to visit relatives, attend surgeries, or spend weekends with kin. Notable mentions include Mrs. Ralph Wallace recovering at Wilson N. Jones Hospital, Joetta Russell visiting her grandparents in Beaumont, and Lt. J. Frank Wilson returning from Germany to join ROTC duties in Macon Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Riddle and their Ardmore son plus Miss Linda McKinney of Vernon were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Grider. Mrs. E. C. Webb of Tahlequah spent the weekend with her father W. H. Stedham and Mrs. Stedham.
Doris Earlene Jones daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarence Jones Floydada and Virgil Warren son of Mr and Mrs Everett Warren Floydada were married Sunday morning. They will live on a farm near Floydada. Clarence Jones a 1933 Whitewright High School graduate is the bride’s father.
President Grant Hoover reported on Rotary International’s Mexico City convention with a running travel account from departure with Mrs Hoover and the Meadors to return. Visitors included Bruce McGee and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Martin of Sherman.
Betty Jo Pierce became Mrs. Clarence W. Needham in a 7:30 p m Tuesday ceremony at Perrin Air Force Base Chapel officiated by Chaplain M G Folkers. The couple, with ties to Sherman Whitewright and Chicago, plan a home in Chandler Arizona after a trip to Chicago and Michigan. Needham serves in the Air Force.
The Little Rock Home Demonstration Club met June 11 with nine members. They plan a June 28 meeting, send gifts to Nellie Kincade, and discuss family recreation and the birthday budget for Mrs. Helen Hood who is hospitalized after burns. Members attending the Sherman dress review are listed.
The Church of Christ led by Tilden McFerrin schedules Bible classes at 10 a.m., sermons at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., with midweek services Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. The Methodist Church under Rev. Harold Taylor dismisses the 11 a.m. service for Homecoming with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and an 8 p.m. evening service. WSCS meeting postponed to June 23.
From June 16 to June 23 events will be hosted at the home of Mrs. James Bryant with Mrs. Floyd Everheart as co hostess. Installation of officers scheduled. Assembly of God Church under Pastor Elvis L Hill offers Sunday school at 9 45 a m worship at 11 a m evangelistic service at 8 p m midweek prayer at 8 p m and Saturday night services at 8 o'clock.
Otis D. Swisher leads 9:45 a.m. worship with sermon on Marks of a Christian Home. 10:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages. Encourages families to attend as “Church going families are happier families.” The fish will wait till after noon.
Rev. Lee H. Smith of Whitewright serves as Pastor-Director for the North Texas Larger Parish. Sunday School begins at 10:00 a.m. with Floyd Bassett as superintendent. Morning worship follows at 11:00 a.m. Missionary Society meets Monday June 2 at 2:30 p.m. at Mrs. Homer Sears’s home.
Pastor Director oversees Sunday Church School at 10 00 a m with Mrs Clifford Phoebus as superintendent Services at 9 00 a m except the fourth Sunday when it starts at 8 00 p m.
James L. Cooper is pastor Paul A. Robertson leads music and youth W. T. Simmons is Sunday School superintendent Mrs Edgar Ayres T U director Mrs O L Jones WM S president Charles Skaggs Brotherhood president T J Lilley deacons chairman L E Alexander financial secretary Sunday School 9 55 am Morning worship 10 55 Training Union 7 00 pm Evening service 8 00 pm Wednesday 7 30 pm Youth choir Saturday 5 00 pm Adult choir Saturday 7 00 pm
Miss Bess Brooks of Bagwell in Red River County was named home demonstration agent for Fannin County. County Judge Choice Moore announced the appointment after Brooks reported for duty last Saturday, filling the vacancy from six months ago. She is a graduate of North Texas State College at Denton.
State Selective Service reported that Texas college students posted far lower results than the national average for the 1950 51 college qualification tests. Forty six of every one hundred Texas students passed or better compared with sixty four nationwide. Only nine states fared worse, mainly in the Southeast and Southwest.
The 19 Scripps-Howard papers nationwide endorsed General Eisenhower for president. The New York World Telegram and Sun, part of the group, reported editors voted to back Eisenhower and urged the Republican Party to nominate him.
A pollster questions a housewife about a morning bits and pieces program. She says it helps because her husband now rises early and leaves the house quickly. A doctor advises rest and sun but the couple argues about affording it.
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