Here and There: Postal rates, horse trends, and Senate chatter
A mixed column notes soon four cent stamps wait on Congress action while current rates stay for all mail. It covers a Wall Street Journal piece on Quarter Horses and local breeder Dick Walker. Also critiques federal aid to education and a rumor about Mr Sam's retirement. It closes with an appeal about photo engraving costs and a plea for legislative proofreading.
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Wall Street Journal
Dick Walker
Daisy
Rotary Club Seeks Permanent Meeting Home After Cafe Shutdown
The Rotary Club met Friday in a school cafeteria with First Baptist Church women serving family style meals. The group plans future meetings in the lunch room as Craig's cafe closed last Thursday. S.T. Montgomery Jr. spoke on public school financing and a Texas teacher pay raise of about $8000 statewide, with the local district covering roughly $1300.
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Rotary Club
First Baptist Church
Charlie Ayres
Craig
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Texas
Deaths: Grover B. Smith 75 in Dallas Parkland Hospital
Grover B. Smith aged about 75 died at 4 00 a m yesterday at Parkland Hospital Dallas after months of illness. He lived at 402 South Marlborough Dallas and funeral services are today at Poole Funeral Home with burial in Restland Memorial Park. He formerly lived in Whitewright for years before moving in 1938. Surviving are his wife and four sons Grover B. Smith Jr Marvin Smith of Dallas David Smith of Phoenix Ariz and J B Smith in Germany with the Armed Forces.
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Grover B. Smith
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
S. Marlborough
Poole Funeral Home
Restland Memorial Park
Mr. Smith
Whitewright
Grover B. Smith Jr
Marvin Smith
David Smith
Phoenix, Ariz
J. B. Smith
Germany
Mrs Sallie Allen 71 Died Delta County Burial in Cannon Cemetery
Mrs Sallie Allen died Tuesday in Delta County at age 71. Funeral services are afternoon at Cannon Methodist Church with burial in Cannon Cemetery. Born August 8 1885 in Mississippi she lived in the Cannon community for many years. She was sister in law to Mrs Frank Phillips and Mrs D M Moon eyham of Whitewright.
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Cannon Methodist Church
Sallie Allen
Delta County
Cannon Cemetery
Allen
Mississippi
Cannon
Frank Phillips
D. M. Mooneyham
Whitewright
Bonham Man Pierce Donaldson Dies at Home
Pierce Donaldson died Wednesday at his Bonham home. He was a nephew of the late R. B. Gordon of Whitewright and J. W. Gordon, route one.
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Pierce Donaldson
Bonham
R. B. Gordon of
Whitewright
J. W. Gordon
Route One
Death of Henry Berry in Blytheville Ark
Mrs. D E McCoy learned this week that Henry Berry died at his Blytheville Arkansas home on June 16. Berry and his wife previously lived in Whitewright two or three years ago and had many friends in the area.
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D. E. McCoy
Henry Berry
Blytheville
Ark
British women in high tax bands show biggest busts study
Board of Trade survey of 200000 women over six years links income level to bust measurements. Findings note many women gain inches after age 30 with 850000 women over 42 inches bust and hips. The booklet aims to aid clothing industry and profiles Miss Average Britain. An extraneous line about elephants appears.
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London
The
Board of Trade
Britain
Bloopers Aplenty as Session Ends and Lawmakers Leave
The piece argues newspaper proofreaders would catch fewer errors in laws if they cannot catch errors in papers. It notes legislators do not read every bill due to adjournment and other duties. It calls for a system to scan bills for errors before statutes are filed.
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Itsy Sears
Rayburn Says Texoma Won’t Get Federal Funds This Year
House Speaker Sam Rayburn says Lake Texoma recreation will not receive federal funds in the current budget year due to a budget cutting mood. He notes past gains were hard won and urges reliance on the Engineer Corps for future recreation funding while acknowledging disaster relief may be unlikely. The piece also covers Eisenhower creating a cabinet committee to study crude oil imports potentially affecting national security, chaired by Secretary Weeks with Dulles and other cabinet members.
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Texoma
Rayburn
Engineer Corps
Bonham
Tulsa
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Commerce Weeks
State
Dulles
Defense
Wilson
The
Treasury
Humphrey
Interior Seaton
Labor
Mitchell
Fisenhower
The Wild Ride of Kirk and C. B.
Two White Wright boys Thomas Kirk May and C. B. Bryant III seize a buggy horse belonging to P. A. Short near a grammar school. The horse runs away through Sears street and an alley past The Sun office. C. B. falls from the shafts while Kirk clings to the dashboard until the animal is stopped. Both boys walk home unhurt aside from scratches. Emancipation of slaves in Latin America began in 1794. Entomology is the science which deals with insects. Etymology is the science of words.
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Grammar School
Thomas Kirk May
C. B. Bryant III
P. A. Short
Mr. Short
Kirk
C. B
Sears Street
Sun Office
Cost of Living Reaches New High in May
The Labor Department reports the May cost of living index at 119.6 percent of the 1947 49 average, up .03 of 1 percent from April and 3.6 percent from May 1956. Food prices lead gains with a .07 percent rise. services up .04 while commodities fall the same amount.
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Washington
Labor Department
Governors fail to agree on year round schools plan
48 states debated 12 month schooling to save costs and use buildings better. Southern governors Timmerman and Hodges supported pilots and argued benefits for students and pay for teachers. Opponents warned of heavy pushback from students and teachers despite potential to educate more pupils at minimal new cost. A separate note mentions a Montreal woman ordered to demolish half a bridge linked to smugglers across Belgium and France.
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Williamsburg
George Bell Timmerman Jr
South Carolina
Luther H. Hodges
North Carolina
Timmerman
Hodges
Montreal
Belgium
France
Traffic Drive Aimed At Drunks And Speeders
Texas Governor Price Daniel announces an all out war on drunk driving and speeding at the Traffic Safety Council first meeting. The panel plans July 4th and Labor Day safety campaigns and calls on law enforcement and courts statewide to join the crackdown.
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Austin
Price Daniel
Traffic Safety Council
Texas
N. K. Woerner
Department of Public Safety Statistician
J. W. Edgar
Daniel
Edgar
Col
Homer Garrison Jr
Department of Public Safety
Will Wilson
John Winters
Department of Public Welfare
D. C. Greer
Bingo and raffles in same category as slot machines
Galveston. A state attorney says bingo and raffles even for church or charity are illegal as tip books or slot machines. Asst. Atty. Gen. Cecil Rotsch leads a drive against Galveston vice and notes the attorney general must enforce the law impartially. He did not state if sponsors of charity games will be prosecuted.
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Galveston
Cecil Rotsch
Rotsch
Galveston Vice
Four Months of Texas Disasters Set Record
Texas faced the most widespread destruction in four months of 1957. Tornadoes from Feb 16 to May 21 totaled 120 with $91 million in direct damages and agrarian losses of $27.3 million, as 131 counties were hit and total costs may exceed $100 million.
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Austin
Texas
U. S. Weather Bureau
William L. McGill
Women’s and Youth’s Civil Defense Advisory Council
McGill
Graduation Address Quotation Echoed as Teen Dies Playing Tennis
In Troy New York Green Island, 17 year old Robert Halligan died last week after playing tennis in hot weather. His classmate Mary Ann Roda read his salutatory address quoting Grantland Rice about how you played the game.
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Troy
N. Y
Robert Halligan
Green Island
Grantland Rice
Halligan
Mary Ann Roda
Postal Service Raises Special Mail Charges
Postmaster John Biggerstaff says new fees for special services take effect July 1 and apply to registered insured mail money orders and related services. Postage for letters newspapers and parcel post remains unchanged though congress may raise those rates. specifics include registered mail scales insured mail certified mail money orders return receipt and delivery options and weight-based special handling fees.
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John Biggerstaff
Congress
Biggerstaff
Eisenhower rejects new controls to curb rising prices
President Eisenhower described the price rise as alarming but ruled out peacetime wage-price controls. He argued such measures would echo Khrushchev's forecast of socialism and urged business and labor to exercise statesmanship to avoid further inflation. He also urged continued hydrogen bomb tests for peaceful uses and stressed respect for Supreme Court decisions despite civilian doubts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Supreme Court
U S Trust Creditors to Get 33 Cents on Dollar
State liquidator J. D. Wheeler reported that about 33 cents on the dollar can be paid to creditors of the defunct U S Trust and Guaranty Co after litigation ends. He noted $2,449,221 is available for $7,292,385 in approved claims. A suit by claimants seeking payment priorities is on appeal, with other assets including A B Shoemake’s Waco home and a farm real estate to be distributed later.
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A. B. Shoemake
Teachers Assured Of September Pay Raise In Texas
An attorney general opinion confirms about four million dollars to fund general pay raises for teachers starting in September. The ruling says House Bill 103 takes effect August 22 and the comptroller may transfer one percent of the permanent school fund between August 22 and 31.
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Austin
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America
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Tenarte
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Tom Lilley
the Sun
Latin America
Whitewright, Texas
Whitewright Sun
Grayson
Fannin Counties
U.S
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