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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1961
Page
1
Tonight at 7:00 p m the Chamber of Commerce holds a dinner meeting at Firemen s Hall open to all with a 1 25 per person charge. The business session starts at 7 30 and is open to those not partaking of the meal.
Bonham Daily Favorite reports Russell Summers of Whitewright made a quirky golf shot Sunday as a wind gust pushed a rolled putt past the hole and back into it, prompting arm twisting to count the score.
Mrs. Robert Veazey formerly Mary Mitchell, granddaughter of Whitewright’s Mrs. Sears, is praised as Van Alstyne’s top female citizen at the chamber banquet. She leads welfare work as supervisor of the Van Alstyne Welfare Center. Clyde Little notes slow member drives toward the 100 member goal with $4 annual individual dues and $10 business dues.
Grayson County Sheriff Woody Blanton warned residents about illegal trash dumping on county roads. He said complaints will be filed against violators and fines range from 10 to 200 dollars. He urged those who dumped trash to pick it up regardless of how long it has been there.
Governor Price Daniel proclaims March 4 to 11 as 4-H Club Week highlighting leadership, citizenship, and practical skills in agriculture and home economics. The program, started in 1914, involves about 100,000 Texas 4-H members guided by county extension agents and adult leaders.
Four major Texas electric utilities announce a 25 million dollar project to build a 350000-volt transmission line linking Dallas Fort Worth with Houston. The system will tie into existing lines and add 6.5 million kilowatts of capacity. Construction starts next year and will cover about 800 miles. Wildcat wells were drilled in 216 of Texas 254 counties in 1959.
Texas Highway Department invites bids in Austin for sub-base base and asphalt surfacing on F M Highway 1281 from Randolph to Bailey a 6.559 mile section. Grading and structures were finished in 1960 but base and surfacing delayed. project aims to finish by October 1 1961 per Joe C Clark senior resident engineer Bonham.
The Grayson Society For Crippled Children directors met with Joe Joiner presiding to announce the March 5 ground breaking at 3:00 p m. for the new Sherman Treatment Center at Hillcrest and McKown near Wilson N Jones Hospital. Dallas visitors Martin Ricker and George Cullum Sr. will attend as guests. Joe Joiner to lead ceremonies with Sherman center children participating. Local service clubs, mayors, doctors, PTA members and Sherman Denison Grayson County residents are urged to attend.
President Kennedy urged Congress to keep current motorist taxes and raise heavy truck levies to fund the road program on a pay as you go plan. He sought to halt an $800 million annual diversion from fuel taxes to the highway fund and warned the four cent gasoline tax would fall to three cents this July without action.
The world spends 330 million dollars daily on arms and armies, about 120 billion annually, to guard hunting grounds or threaten others. The United States and the Soviet Union together account for about 88 billion, roughly 73 percent of total spending. The arms race costs each person about 40 dollars per year.
A Edinburgh man received 1400 from a court after claiming a head injury from a pick axe robbed him of his taste for whisky. The passage also states the mouse is the most common mammal in America.
A reader from Tom Bean comments on United Nations funding, noting American contributions dwarf Russia's. He critiques farm policies, daylight saving, and global politics, warning about living costs and parity figures, and ends with a quip about misquotation in the press.
Tom H. Stroud 70 died at 3 p m last Thursday in a Sherman hospital. Funeral services were held at Earn heart chapel at 2 30 p m Saturday conducted by Rev Bill Johnson pastor of the Baptist Church. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery with Masonic rites. Born June 8 1890 in Knoxville Tenn he married Virgie Vaughan Sept 27 1908 in Bells and they moved to Whitewright nine years ago. He was a nightwatchman here eight years and a member of the Baptist Church Odd Fellows and Masonic Lodges. Surviving are his wife a son Henry Stroud of Houston two daughters Mrs Edwin Badgett of Whitewright and Mrs John Drake of Sherman five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Saturday at 10 a.m. for Mrs. T. H. Fowler 82 of Lubbock formerly of Nobility south of Whitewright. Burial was at Indian Creek Cemetery. She was born Sallie Golden September 18, 1878 in Fannin County and married in 1900 in Galveston. Survivors include four sisters.
Louie David Tate 80 of Van Alstyne died Friday in a Dallas hospital. He was a retired farmer born March 11 1880 in Texas. Services were Saturday in Van Alstyne Cemetery. He married Gertie Skipworth April 19 1930 and survived by his wife three daughters four sons 19 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Ellis Campbell Jr. of the IRS urges Dallas taxpayers to include all social security numbers on federal 1960 returns. He notes April 17 is the deadline and warns omissions often occur on joint filers. Social numbers are required regardless of tax payment status, with overpayments potentially refundable.
The Whitewright PTA met in the high school library with four Cub Scouts and fifteen Boy Scouts participating. Scoutmaster Wallace Mynatt directed the program as Jack Hammond of Sherman spoke on scouting highlights. Awards were presented by John Biggerstaff with Tenderfoot Second Class First Class and Merit Badges awarded to named Scouts and their mothers.
New York four of five business men believe the recession has bottomed or the economy is recovering. Dun's Review reports in its March issue that more than a quarter feel a recovery is well under way, with even those predicting deeper revivals expecting improvement by midyear. A survey of 1100 leaders across manufacturing, wholesale, and retail shows confidence among executives, echoing patterns from 1949 1954 and 1958 cycles.
In Austin Senator Wardlow Lane wins a 10 to 8 committee vote for a bill making parents of more than one illegitimate child a misdemeanor. Both father and mother face 20 to 90 days in jail and fines up to 1000 dollars. Opponents fear possible harm to children in aid programs.
Detroit report notes major U S automakers will fit front seat belt anchors in all 1962 passenger cars. Anchors affixed to frame with universal specs, reducing installation cost. Belt units cost about 3.50, while anchors remain inexpensive. New York Senator Edward J Speno advocates law for year start. safety estimates show deaths cut 50 percent and serious injuries 60 percent. Ford GM Chrysler American Motors Studebaker Packard pledge standard equipment.
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