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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1948
Page
6
Local residents travel to Dallas Sherman and Athens for work hospital visits and events. Names include Meador Sears Arney Melugin Page Echols Johnson Ashlock Benson Armstrong Short Quick Pennington Kaiser House Ford and others across Sherman Dallas Denison Commerce and Chicago trips.
Grayson County Health Unit delayed the Whitewright rat poison campaign planned for March 11 and 12 until favorable weather returns. Dates will be reset and notice issued. Also noted are brief local social notices about visitors from Arizona and San Francisco, family guests in Denison and Sulphur Springs, and travels of Mr. and Mrs. L Laubaugh.
Griffin Dollarhide Jr. served as program chairman at the Rotary Club lunch. A Sherman recruiting officer presented a World War II submarine warfare image. Sherman Rotary visitors included Jack Hammond Hank McLean and Chan cy Corse.
Joe T. Meador assistant professor of architecture at Texas A and M College will lead fifteen students on a field inspection trip to Arizona and California from March 13 to 28. The journey is part of a research project on school building codes for Texas directed by Dr. Arthur Meloh of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station.
Jesse Bow reports Truman Tomlinson remains ill at his parents residence in Sherman. The Tomlinsons moved from Whitewright about three months ago. E. E. Tomlinson, partly paralyzed since a 1943 stroke, shows some improvement per Bow's account.
Weather slows Red Cross fund drive as solicitors complete tasks or make little headway. Mrs. Floyd Everheart expands the list and appoints workers for Pilot Grove Bethel and Kentuckytown to reach White Wright area quota of 400 dollars with confidence of meeting obligation.
Bell-Grammer Miss Joanne Grammer and Billy Ben Bell were married at 8 p m Monday at the groom's brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs David Burns Sherman The double ring ceremony was performed by Rev Bell and Rev Noe of Paris Hugh McNeese of Sherman was best man and Miss Joan Huseman of Whitewright was maid of honor The bride wore a white gabardine suit with navy accessories and a pink carnations corsage The maid wore a tailored grey suit with red accessories and a white carnation corsage A reception followed at the Burns home
Miss Marjorie Large presided at the bride's book as the couple wed. Mrs. Smith, aunt of the groom, served punch. Mrs. Bell, graduate of Whitewright High 1947, works in the Texas Telephone Co office in Sherman. The groom, Greenville High 1946, studied at ETSTC and Austin College, Sherman. He works at the Ritz Theatre in Sherman. They will reside at 1002 North Harrison, Sherman.
The Bethel Home Demonstration Club held an all day meeting at the Bethel schoolhouse. Ten members and three visitors attended with Miss Zelma Moore leading demonstrations on outdoor living room ideas and glass etching. The group plans a March 22 meeting at 2 o'clock in Mrs. Horace Miller’s home featuring a cake demonstration.
Twelve women of the Presbyterian Missionary Society gathered at the home of Mrs. J. W. Henry Monday with Mrs. Homer Sears presiding. Mrs. James I. Logan led the program, gave the devotion, and shared an unsigned letter by Wilbur LaRoe Jr. about women in church work. Logan presented readings and spoke on missionary opportunities in Japan.
Under Miss Margaret Moore the Senior 4-H Club met in the seventh grade room of the grade school on Friday. The meeting opened with roll call and minutes, finishing touches were added to skating party plans, Moore gave a talk on the art of changing pictures, members passed papers, and the meeting adjourned with the club prayer.
Miss Glyodene Goodnight and Billy Hamilton wed Friday at 4 p m in the home of Dr and Mrs A R Hill Sherman. The ceremony took place before an altar of palms and Easter lilies.
Rev Claude Johnston officiates at the North Park Baptist Church. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Goodnight of Whitewright route 2, wore powder blue with white carnations. Best man Randolph Hamilton and sister in law Mrs Randolph Hamilton attended, couple to reside at 102 North McKown Sherman after a Dallas honeymoon.
The Whitewright Music Club met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs John Wilson's home with co hostess Mrs Floyd Bassett. Mrs Homer Sears presided as business meeting leader. The program included a Sigurd Romberg sketch, guitar and mandolin duo, readings, a solo by Mrs Vera Hickman, and close with refreshments for 15 members.
C E Mauk of 2320 West Bend became Denison’s third entrant in the Precinct 2 county commissioner race. He told the Herald he will file Monday to have his name on the July 24 primary ballot. Mauk has worked as a real estate dealer since 1945. Prior to that, he...
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Grayson County since age two, he was a farmer before joining U. S. Engineers for the Denison Dam project. Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Mauk of Denison, he has five children and attends the Methodist Church. This marks his first entry into politics.
Denison reports Roger T. Glance, 23, arrested in Sherman on liquor stamp violations with possession of a die for counterfeit stamps. T. L. Ferguson, 31, of Denison, charged with possession of counterfeit stamps and a forging plate. Case noted as rare in a dry Texas county.
The WSCS of the First Methodist Church will hold its regular social meeting Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. L. Gilpin. All Methodist women are invited to attend.
The Sun announces candidates for the Democratic Primary on July 24 1948. E P Edgel Jackson seeks re election and F M Fat Work is listed for County Commissioner Precinct 2.
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