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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1957
Page
1
Community notices from Whitewright include a charity barbecue fundraiser by the Volunteer Fire Department on April 6 from 6 to 9 pm with adult tickets at 1 and children 50 cents to fund firefighting equipment. Also listed are auto registration deadlines, vehicle inspections, school attendance notes, weather and crop remarks, and local opinions on inflation and labor issues.
The Whitewright Post Office will close windows at 5 p m starting March 25 1957. Mail is now processed earlier with most mail arriving in the morning and a small late batch after 9 a m, prompting the change to speed up city deliveries. Postmaster John Biggerstaff urges residents to mail earlier to ensure timely dispatch.
Monday features Barbecued Pork on Buns with English Peas Peach Salad and Doughnuts. Tuesday serves Pimiento Cheese and Ham Sandwiches with Potato Chips Lettuce and Tomato Salad and Banana Pudding. Wednesday offers Red Beans Kraut and Weiners with Peach Cobbler. Thursday includes Fish Sticks Mashed Potatoes Pineapple Salad Cookies and Ice Cream. Friday presents Hot Dogs and Chili Twistes Chilled Jello Salad and Doughnuts.
April 15, 1957 is the inspection deadline in Texas. In Grayson County only 38 of registered vehicles have been inspected since the program began September 15. Motorists are urged to use pleasant days to visit inspection stations and obtain a safety check to avoid last minute lines.
J Sinclair Armstrong chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission testified before a House subcommittee that criminal actions are being prepared against stock scammers amid a mood of get rich quick in the market. He warned of a 1920s style boom bust and said injunctions have been obtained, though no specific cases were named.
In Austin Land Commissioner Earl Rudder states there is no deadline for the Veterans' Land Program. A Texas veteran may participate if funds are available, and may use the program only once. The comment answers frequent questions about time limits.
The new world record antlers span seventy seven and five eighths inches, confirming the largest moose antlers ever documented. Measurements place the specimen among the world’s most notable arctic wildlife trophies.
Grayson County officials schedule a first fall fair in 10 years for the first week of October. Texoma Exposition and Livestock Association and Sherman Chamber of Commerce leaders approve the event at Old Settlers Park with tents. Bob Magers of Quaker Oats named show superintendent. The fair will include livestock and exhibits in crops handicrafts homemaking canning youth commercial educational and industrial categories.
Mrs Cora Lee Heard Payne about sixty died at her Dallas home last weekend. Funeral services were held in Dallas Monday morning and burial occurred at Oak Hill Cemetery Monday afternoon. She died alone and her body was found after being dead a day or two. Born in Whitewright she was the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Hoard. She married Jay Payne in 1918 and had lived in Dallas since then. She is survived by a daughter.
Rash Burnett of Sudan died February 26 at his home after a heart attack. Born in Fannin County in 1888 he married Nellie Maude Means in 1908 and raised fifteen children. Survived by his wife thirty one grandchildren eleven great grandchildren two brothers and two sisters. Funeral at Church of Christ in Sudan conducted by Rev Terry Blake with burial in Sudan Cemetery Friday at 3 p m. Relatives from here attended.
A community message urges every citizen and business to join the Chamber of Commerce and participate actively. It argues progress comes from collective effort, not solitary action, and that the organization thrives only when people contribute.
Glen Olson 28 told police he stopped for a man lying on the highway as another man waved a flashlight. The flashlight man drew a revolver and took 25 dollars from Olson. both suspects fled in a nearby parked car. The text notes the Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886.
The Whitewright Tigers reveal a ten game 1957 football schedule announced by Coach 8S. T. Montgomery Jr. The season runs Sept 13 to Nov 15 with five home games against Farmersville Wylie Princeton Bells Anna and five away matches at Celeste Leonard Farmersville Royse City Frisco Anna Van Alstyne.
The House passed a 219 to 178 resolution urging President Eisenhower to indicate where substantial budget cuts may be made. Texas Democrats voted for the measure while Rep Bruce Alger sided with Republicans. The vote followed a partisan clash over who should decide spending cuts.
The Institute for Safer Living estimates U S air accident costs last year at 10 8 billion equal to the net income of the nation s 135 largest railroads utilities and corporations. The figure would fund 1 million homes 300000 school rooms or a 200 ship merchant fleet and vaccine programs for all people.
Governor Daniel signed two bills on Tuesday. One tightens penalties for selling liquor and narcotics to prison inmates, with a five to ten year sentence. The other bill regulates commercial feed to improve enforcement against adulteration and mislabeling, effective immediately. There are no tigers in Africa.
Three Whitewright churches join area churches for Civic Righteousness Field Day with the Texas Alcohol Narcotic organization of Dallas. Speakers include Mr. Allen Griswood at First Presbyterian, Rev. E R Kelley Jr at First Baptist, and Mr. E L Robertson at First Methodist. The agenda notes rising temperance interest and Texas dry status shifts.
President Eisenhower formally adopts a Middle East policy to deter overt Soviet aggression and protect oil resources, signaling a more active U S role in regional affairs. The move puts Russia and allied states on notice and draws Soviet denunciation.
The Federal Trade Commission has quietly investigated coffee prices for four months on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. FTC investigations chief Harry A. Babcock told a House Appropriations Subcommittee the agency subpoenaed 68 principal members. Details of possible actions were removed from the public record.
Attorney General Wilson ruled that buying a drink in a wet area and consuming it in a dry area is legal within legal hours. The opinion states a violation only if the beverage is transported again after the initial transfer from wet to dry area.
A California used car dealer invites parents to trade Elvis Presley records for credit toward a used car. The ad promises to accept up to 10 records at $5 each against the purchase price, claiming a special offer to parents and asserting quirky claims about bees and ship weights.
Whitewright Texas residents vote April 6 at City Hall for two Whitewright ISD trustees as Earl Fields and Manuel Alexander near term expirations. S. T. Montgomery Jr. notes reelection uncertain. R. C. Vestal to preside. clerks Elmo Wallace and C. A. Massey assist. Dick Walker seeks reelection to County School Board to fill M. B. Hasty’s unexpired term.
The Parent Teacher Association sponsors a games tournament Monday night March 25 at the gymnasium starting 7 30 pm. An admission fee applies. Adults can play forty two and dominoes while children join in other games. Cake candy cold drinks and coffee will be sold.
The administration proposed Congress boost both normal and first class rates by one cent an ounce, raising first class letters to four cents per ounce and air mail to seven cents. The plan would generate about 527.5 million dollars yearly by 1961, with details for second class, third class, and fourth class rates and bulk mailing. A league is about three miles.
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