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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1963
Page
1
The Sun will publish on Wednesday next week due to a Thursday holiday observed by local business houses. Readers are asked to submit news items church and club notices and ads a day earlier than usual. The paper only advances publication for Thanksgiving or when Independence Day falls on a Thursday.
The ZIP code for Whitewright posts is 75491. Carol Orenduff announces the permanent closure of her 15 year old shop offering women's and men's wear, jewelry and gifts, effective end of Monday July 1. She plans to rest awhile after the sale.
Dr Paul Geers warns of a whooping cough epidemic in Whitewright and urges booster immunizations for children previously vaccinated plus immediate vaccination for those unvaccinated. He notes infants face highest risk and announces a new one shot measles vaccine promising lifetime immunity to prevent future epidemics.
L. F. Jacks brought a Golden Delicious apple grown at his home. The fruit measures 11 1/2 inches in circumference, among the largest noted, and he reports it is the tree’s first year of fruiting with high expectations for future harvests.
The brief downpour dumped a half inch of rain in the gauge with scattered hail downtown. David, visiting from sandy West Texas, noted the event may please chiggers, though he has yet to learn they cause itching and scratching.
The piece notes enduring anti Jewish discrimination in U S hotels, cites New England and Massachusetts hotels including JFK's home state, Massachusetts. It references a Saturday Evening Post feature and suggests JFK and Robert Kennedy should heed the issue while stirring Southern tensions.
Sherman physician James V M Lay son of Royce Lay of Whitewright leaves for the South Pole to serve as ship's doctor and research student on a National Science Foundation project sponsored by Stanford University. He takes a year from Medical and Surgical Clinic as a pediatrician, traveling first to New York then Valparaiso Chile where the laboratory ship Eltania will base Antarctic work and return to Chile periodically.
Washington report shows consumer prices unchanged in May for the second straight month with CPI at 106.2. Deputy Commissioner Robert J. Myers notes prices only about one percent higher than a year ago and forecasts a June rise in foods fruits sugar used cars and medical services.
J. T. Stegall of Howe died after a short illness at 79. Born October 7, 1883 in Piedmont South Carolina he moved to Grayson County in 1902 and retired from farming 20 years ago. Funeral services were held with Rev. C J Graves and Rev. C C Dooley. Burial at Akers Cemetery. Survived by two daughters Mrs Homer Sears Whitewright and Mrs J F McCoy Mead Oklahoma four grandchildren a great grandchild and several nieces and nephews.
Rev Joe M Russell former local pastor died from a brain hemorrhage last Thursday. He served as pastor here when the current Presbyterian Church building was erected in 1930 and led churches in Terrell Dallas Fort Worth and Arlington before moving to Waxahachie in 1962 as field representative of the United Presbyterian Homes. Survivors include his wife two sons Edwin Russell of Garland and Joe W Russell of Dallas two sisters and six grandchildren.
Mrs Rex Ray a 72 year old retired Baptist missionary to the Orient died Sunday night in a Bonham hospital. Funeral services were held in Bonham and burial located beside her husband in Oak Hill Cemetery. She was born in China to Presbyterian missionaries and later taught in New York before returning to China. Survivors include Rev Don Ray of Chonan Korea, two daughters Lois McKenzie of Hawkins and Dee Dodson of King Cove Alaska, and a sister.
Word arrives of Tom Ford's death in Oklahoma City on June 20 and his burial there. He is survived by wife Lillian Ford, son Tom Bud Ford of Oklahoma City, daughter Gloria Ford of Houston, grandson Steve Ford, and a step-son and two step-children.
Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton said in Washington that U S motor fuel consumption rose 4.2 percent in 1962 and state fuel tax receipts climbed 6 percent. States reported 67.9 billion gallons consumed and $3.98 billion in tax receipts, both records.
Uncle Dan from Tom Bean writes letters critiquing a string of modern surveys. He cites a National Macaroni Institute report on per capita noodle consumption, a New York study on street gaze duration, and Commerce Department data on cigarette use and costs. He mocks public interest in such statistics and ends with a rural joke about a drowned cat reward.
The Senate approved a measure to extend corporate income and certain excise taxes at current levels for one year, preventing a $4.2 billion revenue loss. The House previously passed it, and the bill delays tax cuts until June 30, 1964, with rates on corporate income, spirits, beer, wines, cigarettes, autos, auto parts, and transportation unchanged.
Washington reports the U S government approved Lederle Laboratories three-in-one Sabin oral polio vaccine. The product aims to provide active immunity against all three polio types after the first feeding with stronger protection after a second dose eight weeks later.
Baylor University professor Dr. Daniel E. Jenkins said cigarette filters are mainly a gimmick useful only in advertising. He argued that current filters would need to be finer and more tightly packed to be effective and urged labels disclose nicotine and tar content on packages.
A new insurance industry report finds married men and women enjoy better health and longer lives. Married people experience less illness and shorter hospital stays than bachelors, spinsters, widowed, and divorced individuals.
Republicans wrapped up a Denver meeting naming San Francisco as the 1964 GOP national convention site with July 13 as opening day and William E. Miller in charge of arrangements. The committee backed Goldwater over Rockefeller and blasted the Kennedy administration on foreign and domestic policy.
The 1964 Democratic nominating convention was chosen for Atlantic City. Florida urged Miami Beach with $800,000 in lure funds but Atlantic City offered $690,000. The site committee favored Atlantic City six to three to one, in secret, then was approved by the national committee.
State actuaries recommended higher auto insurance premiums starting Aug 1 with an expected board approval in days. Nationwide increases target bodily injury 5.2 percent, property damage 9.7 percent, collision 8.4 percent, while comprehensive and medical payments fall 0.2 percent for an overall 7 percent rise.
Beginning July 6 Whitewright will switch to two rural routes replacing three. Route 1 merges with Route 2 under new numbering L and 2, with Roy Blanton and Elbert Bennett as carriers and sub-carriers. Route 1 will be served by Blanton, Route 2 by Newman with Florence Newman as sub.
Whitewright crushed Howe 26 to 9 with 15 hits and 4 errors while Whitewright pitcher David Woodson fanned 10. Howe’s Ronnie Corzine struck out 4 as Joe Jones, Lloyd Patterson and Corzine led Howe with multiple extras. Mon night Tom Bean beat Whitewright 14 2 as Larry Jones led Tom Bean with a homer and a triple.
The IRS issued the final installment of new business tax deduction rules as part of two major sections. The rules require evidence of a reasonable link between expenses and business activity and are expected to raise about $100 million in additional revenue from about ten percent of taxpayers.
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