26 Jun 1958
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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1958
Page
1
Reader notes warn against cheap paint mailings and itinerant roofers while urging dealings with trusted locals. Opinion columns mock anti allusion to moon voyages and criticize federal missteps on race and taxes amid drug company price fixing and paper-trade alarms.
A lighthearted quip about a new baby brother who cannot speak yet. The exchange highlights the humor of a crying infant delaying identification of the child's name.
A brief note explains that casual terms like buddy chum or pal reflect people forgetting your name not warmth. The piece observes social slips and suggests using names to reset friendly interactions.
Texas DPS plans all available officers on July 4th weekend patrols to curb high speed and drunk driving. Major Guy Smith notes radar units on duty and warns 28 expected deaths over July 4 5 6. He cites 1957 data: 57 percent speeding, 42 percent single-vehicle fatal crashes, 85 percent with law violations, 34 percent alcohol-related.
Subscriptions to the Sun Honor Roll are acknowledged for numerous individuals and groups including Joe Hamilton Miss Alice Blanks Mrs J O Maxwell Mrs F L Clendenning Edgar Lowells Leora Short Arba Orenduff Earl Wilson Mrs J W Everheart Mrs Reagan Torrance Mrs C H Lewis Olen White Mrs Paula Collins L H Darwin Miss Tommie Chenoweth Mrs Calvin Pearce Grover Gillett Mrs Joe T May Charles W Bryant Mrs Lela Ryan Lt James Barry Blanton Mrs L O Lackey Otto Russell Mrs W B Head James T Edwards Mrs W B Hest James Huseman Walter L Bunch A L Biggerstaff W E Stanford Quinton R Nicholson William M Blanton Mrs C W Pope Glen Earnheart Bill Wolfe C H Killam M Z Jones Mrs Guy Allen Mark Montgomery J R Pierce Boy Scouts Area Office Mrs Clara McBurnett Mrs W T Carroll Mrs Charles B Sydon Mrs Harry O Leuschner Mrs Jerry Wilson G W Renfro James A Reeves P H Connelly Jr R L Smith Jack Thrasher Norman Harper T L Lancaster Ewing T Blanton Mrs Leta McElligott Mrs Lola Myrick Pierce A S Conners Clifford Pheobus.
Bloomfield New Jersey The Eye Saving white bulb announced by F M Sloan Westinghouse Electric Corp vice president is cylindrical in shape with greater surface area and a coating of electrostatic silica to diffuse light evenly. It promises softer glare free illumination and improved seeing.
Gov. Price Daniel tours drought damaged Panhandle areas as grasshopper infestations threaten crops and pasturage across 26 counties. State agencies coordinate spraying at a daily cost of about three thousand dollars while seeking federal help. The Texas Supreme Court disqualifies Dist. Judge Graham Purcell from a Criminal Appeals race, ensuring Judge K. K. Woodley’s renomination. Also noted are closed Health Board meetings, veterans land bond sales, and a continuing state bonding program projected to extend to August 1959.
At a national Baptist convention in Fort Worth 2000 delegates approved a resolution commending the delay in integration at Central High School in Little Rock. The document, drafted by Florida, Texas and Arkansas seminary presidents, rebukes federal overreach and asserts states’ rights against enforced school integration.
A milkman's wife sues for divorce in circuit court claiming lack of sleep due to her husband who goes to bed early but keeps falling asleep while smoking, forcing her to stay awake guarding against fires. The article closes with a note about the colors of the American flag.
In Denison the Tuberculosis Association discussed limiting free chest X-rays to those 50 or older and using patch tests for younger people. No decision was made yet though the policy could shift for mobile units, with the state association studying the plan as TB cases rise in the 50 plus bracket.
A group of economists argues price stability must be a basic government objective to curb inflation. They propose amending the Employment Act of 1946 to add price stabilization alongside full employment and production. They favor better coordination of fiscal and monetary policy and some support a national wage and price policy commission.
The Veterans Administration searches for widows of Confederate veterans newly eligible for VA pensions under Public Law 85 245. Only two surviving Confederates, Walter W. Williams and John Salling, have filed claims. Widows under 70 receive 40.64 monthly, those over 70 65.00, and widows who married during the Civil War may get 75.00. Forms are available at any VA office.
Marion L. Harkey of the Sherman Social Security office explains filing at 62 is a personal decision. Reductions apply to 62 filers, with 80 percent for workers and 75 percent for wives, while widows on a dependent mother’s record face no reduction. Contact details for the Sherman office are provided.
The USDA announces July plentiful foods with peaches and ice cream leading the list as the largest peach crop since 1947 moves to market in July. USDA notes output in the nine Southern States will be 44 percent above 1957 and 53 percent above the 1947-56 average, with watermelons lemons potatoes and various vegetables also in good supply.
The Commerce Department announced the recession slump in sales and production has been arrested, with hope the decline has bottomed. It warned inventory liquidation remains a key aggravating factor and inflation may have leveled, while noting May data showed little change from April.
The Texas Supreme Court reversed itself in a 7 to 1 ruling, upholding optometrists' right to advertise eyeglass prices. It held the 1957 act bans only misleading price advertising, not all price ads, and dissolved a Jefferson County injunction against Lee Optical’s price postings. The case involved Robert K. Shannon and S. J. Rogers of Texas State Optical.
DETROIT Mich Passenger car output for this year's first six months totals slightly under 2 percent million units. In the first half of 1957 the industry built 3,358,976 cars. Through last week output rose to 82,969, up from 78,163. Year to date 2,139,485 cars produced versus 3,245,595 in the same period of 1957.
Public hearing opens August 7 at Fort Worth Public Library on Missouri Kansas Texas Railway request to discontinue passenger trains No 25 and No 26 between Denison and Waco via Fort Worth. Dropping the night trains would sever Fort Worth’s direct link to Austin and the north, due to financial losses. The notice was sent to M K T general counsel W A Thie of Denison.
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