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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1959
Page
1
Local item recalls a rainfall driven oddity on Main Street where two inch bream were found after Tuesday’s downpour. It notes 4.28 inches fell by 11 am and June totals reach 7.33, plus agricultural impacts and a safety warning from Cr. K. Smith about plastic bag suffocation.
Savoy edges Whitewright 4 to 0 as Walker strikes out 17, Tillett 12 for Whitewright. Trenton defeats Randolph 15–9 with 12 hits. Tuesday games postponed by rain. Whitewright Junior League tops Sherman Rotary 7–6 and sits third behind Sherman Concrete and Amvers.
Virginia Senator Byrd warned in South Bend that the U S fiscal situation deteriorated faster than any peacetime period. He projected deficits of 15 to 20 billion dollars this year and total debts near 350 billion public and 500 billion private, arguing insolvency could trigger revolutionary change.
Sheriff Woody Blanton warns hunters not to shoot from county roads. He cites numerous complaints of rifles fired from roadside, narrowly missing homes, and a calf valued at about 300 dollars killed by a shotgun blast. He notes similar farm animal deaths and urges prudent hunting to protect residents and livestock.
New York the steel industry proposed an indefinite extension of contracts due to expire at midnight Tuesday. Chief negotiator R Conrad Cooper said there would be no employment cost increase and that plants may close Friday unless the union agrees to extend negotiations.
President Eisenhower warned Congress has placed the national road program in a 4.2 billion dollar jam by resisting a 14.2 cent per gallon gasoline tax increase. He said without the rise the interstate program will limp toward a near halt over the next two years.
A mail order summer catalog markets Nudies ice cube trays featuring four nude female shapes. The item has drawn attention in Hollywood. Separately, Stephen Collins Foster the writer of Southern songs is noted to have Towanda, Pennsylvania as his boyhood home.
Senate clash as Everett Dirksen rebukes Stephen Young for alleging James Hagerty, White House press secretary, gets free medical care. Dirksen says Hagerty pays 21 dollars daily at Walter Reed for an appendectomy recovery while Young asserts Hagerty was treated without charge by Maj. Gen. Leonard Heaton.
Speaker Carr of Lubbock aims to have a general tax bill ready for House debate Monday morning and to send its version to the Senate by Wednesday in the second special session. He warned of throwing out bills if no compromise is reached and noted dissension over franchise and sales taxes. Independence, Missouri, is noted as the Santa Fe Trail’s starting point in 1831.
Uncle Dan of Tom Bean writes to gauge public concerns from soap shortages to rising taxes. He jokes about tighter pants and a grazing price scheme, notes Rhode Island’s low traffic deaths, and mocks retailers while promising to print signs.
David Edwards nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Carl Edwards of Whitewright is hospitalized in Sherman Community Hospital after a bicycle he rode was struck by a pickup driven by Gene Blanton 22 of Bells route one. He suffered several broken ribs and other serious injuries with a satisfactory condition reported later. A charge of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle was filed against Blanton who said he did not see the boy give a hand signal. a witness said the boy signaled. The accident occurred on West Main street in front of the Edwards home about 9 30 a m. David was dragged 40 feet and received first aid from Dr Paul E Geers before being taken to the hospital by Earnheart ambulance.
Mrs. Virginia McCleary, a 34 year old former music teacher from Luling, Texas, considers entering the gubernatorial race. She calls for open meetings and records, repeal of the poll tax, and scrutiny of state agencies to lower taxes. Her push stems from a band instrument racket she exposed in Freeport.
Farm Journal urges cotton farmers to press Congress for 1,893,000 dollars to fund a boll weevil research laboratory at State College Mississippi. The July issue promotes a national effort to eradicate the boll weevil with federal support.
A 2000 acre site two miles north of Savoy in Grayson and Fannin counties was selected for a 125000 kilowatt TP&L generating plant. The project includes a 1020 acre lake fed by Brushy Creek with a 2900 foot dam, 57 feet high, and 300 construction workers plus 35 operators. Water rights involve Red River access and negotiations with Oklahoma. the plant sits near Virginia Point church, with a million pound turbine and seven million pound boiler, plus support facilities.
Gov. Price Daniel approved the Caney Creek flood reten tion reservoir plan recommended by the Soil Conservation Service. Fifteen dams will be built in Grayson and Fannin counties with lakes of 10 to 49 acres normal size, financed by bonds or landowner taxes via the Watershed Control Improvement District.
Bonham Texas restocks Bonham State Park Lake after an aquarium kill operation. J S Searcy from the Lewisville hatchery placed 12000 bass fingerlings into the lake along with prior stockings of several thousand channel catfish from Lewisville and Eagle Mountain hatcheries.
Burlington Massachusetts family Mr. and Mrs. George H. Ganley celebrate a letter from President Eisenhower praising them as parents of ten in military service. Six soldiers, three sailors and one marine represent the Ganleys’ sons.
An English device can transmit sharp pictures from 1000 feet depth using remote controlled underwater tele vision equipment.
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