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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1955
Page
4
Subscription rates listed for Grayson and Fannin Counties at 2.00. outside counties 2.50. foreign subscriptions 5.00. The publisher offers full correction of any erroneous reflection upon any person firm or corporation brought to attention.
A Baltimore department store janitor, trapped on the roof after a trap door shut, signaled for help by raising the American flag upside down. The flag SOS prompted Miss Eleanor Wilson and others to call for aid, and the janitor was eventually rescued.
The 114 year old Brooklyn Eagle announced permanent cessation of publication after a CIO American Newspaper Guild strike over wages. Publisher Frank D. Schroth said the strike destroyed the paper and it would not resume. The strike began January 28 with workers setting picket lines around the plant.
A Maryland country club sent out its annual membership list missing its best known golfer. A spokesman blamed a typo graphical error and said a corrected list will include President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The House Armed Services Committee labeled the super carrier program a must. The panel approved a bill 34 to 0 for 34 new Navy ships, including a 60,000 ton Forrestal class carrier and three additional nuclear submarines.
Governor Shivers named three statewide observance weeks. April 3-9 marks Careers in Home Economics Week. April 24-30 designates Retail Credit Education Week. May 1-7 proclaims Chamber of Commerce Week.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules segregation in public parks and playgrounds illegal, placing it in the same constitutional category as school segregation.
Mrs. Pierandera Marzulani, married one month in Massa Carrara, tells police her husband forces her to wear a muzzle to curb her chatter. She reported the abuse and sought assistance from authorities.
The Labor Department told Congress its investigators found wage and hour law violations in more than half of 40,000 firms checked last year. Labor Secretary Mitchell testified that employees were underpaid about 13.77 million dollars, with about 6.49 million dollars already agreed to be paid.
Oklahoma City reached a historic end as Mrs. Gussie Summers, who had filed for divorce in 1916, appeared to learn her case had been dismissed due to her presumed death. She refiled, and District Judge A P Van Meter granted the divorce from George Summers, now living in Wichita Kansas, after decades-long delay.
A 32 year old service station attendant slept with the door open and awoke to discover his pocket missing. A thief entered through a window, cut away the sleeping man's pocket containing about 35 dollars.
Gussie Culver, about 40, became the first Galveston County woman to plead guilty to cattle rustling. District Judge W. E. Stone sentenced her to five years and placed her on probation after she took a call belonging to Constable Sam Popovich. Pronghorns, native to North America, are noted as among the swiftest four-legged animals.
The First Street neighborhood in New Orleans has long troubled residents as a 15 foot alligator roams nearby. It reportedly grew from a man moving away 20 years ago and remains at large with a den under a nearby house. No capture method exists.
In Chesterfield an inquest heard farmer Harold Wilcokson hanged himself after distress over his income tax bill. Police Constable John Drabble testified he arrived as a mailman delivered a letter notifying Wilcokson he was entitled to a tax rebate.
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