WHS Valentine Play Delights with Gossip Column Highlights
The WHS assembly featured a student play Miss Lonely Heart directed by Mrs. Roddy. Cast includes Gladine Harper as the senior with ad dated, plus Miss Lonely Heart’s family and supporting students. Local notes mention gossip on Fay Bow and Arlington trip, plus Peggy Parnell and Conway Craig profiles with playful quirks and future plans.
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WHS
Roddy
Jack Badgett
Barrie Blanton
Fairchild
Gwen Kent
Kitty
Carol Kilgree
Gene Bush
Harold Gene Ward
Laura Wilson
Carol Hughes
Molly Rutledge
Whs Gossip Flutters Over Bracelets And Date Rumors
WhS gossip hints four girls seen with heart shaped bracelets Carol Shirley Alice Beverly. Rumors swirl about Dallas purchases and Jos Fuller. Gene Darwin shows interest in Van Alstyne while Betty Judkins linked by locals. Nancy seems elated after dating her top crush Jerry Hart.
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WHS
Carol
Shirley
Alice
Beverly
Dallas
Dorotha
Joe Fuller
Gene Darwin
van Alstyne
Betty Judkins
Nancy
Jerry Hart
50 000 Visit Whitney As Dam Road opened
E N Jones a farmer becomes first to cross the new Whitney Dam and relocated Highway 22 on its opening day. He recalls crossing 36 years earlier the Brazos River Bridge at Whitney on horseback, a race to be first. The old bridge yields to the three mile road atop the $42 million dam.
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Whitney
E. N. Jones
Central
Divorce Petition Served in Grayson County Texas
Citation issued to T A Parnell by the Grayson County District Court. Plaintiff Bessie Fisher Parnell seeks divorce on cruel treatment, with appearance by 10 AM on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance, in Sherman Texas. Court file No 58736 dated March 3 1951.
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State of
Texas
T. A. Parnell
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Bessie Fisher Parnell
S. V. Earnest
Iva Davidson
Flies Cause Illness and Death Across Texas
Dr Geo W Cox State Health Officer warns that millions of flies spread typhoid fever and intestinal diseases in the United States and may cause thousands of casualties in Texas this year. He urges thorough sanitation measures such as sealed screens food protection covered privy vaults garbage containment and eliminating fly breeding sites to prevent illness.
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Austin
United States
Texas
Geo. W. Cox
Home haircut device straps onto head for DIY cuts
Inventor Jacob A. Altman of Los Angeles received patent 2,542,450 for a comb like head device. The unit fits the back of the head with neck and forehead straps and an adjustable outer frame guides a cutting blade to trim hair close at the neck and higher on the head.
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Washington
Jacob A. Altman
Los Angeles
Family dispute over missing money in pocket
A father accuses his son Ernest of taking money from his pocket. The mother protests that she might have taken it, but the father insists the money was still there with some left, implying the son’s guilt in a domestic quarrel.
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Ernest
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Mesdames Skaggs
William Harrelson
Harry Farrow
Morton Badgett
Ralph Brown
Guy Stepp
Mesdames
Jennie Crittenden
B. W. Newman
Adah Gillespie
M. R
Jack B
Fay Bow
Myra Nell
Dearle
Arlington
Mr. Barker
Dixie
Scott Mallard
Alice Marie
Randolph
Malcolm McGee
Jack
Jimmy
Ruth Ann
Bill
P. P
J. N
Peggy Parnell
Jerry Lewis
Whitewright
NTSTC
Denton
Conway Craig
Lana Turner
J. J
Mobil Tires
G. C. Stateville
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Standem Axle
la Plata
Highway Research Board
Highway Departments
District of Columbia
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
States
T. J. Kauer
Ohio Highway Department
Austin 66
la Plete
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