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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1960
Page
2
The First National Bank announces April 4 as the start of new hours from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday with Thursday closing at noon to keep total hours under 40 under federal wage hour rules.
The Whitewright Board of Education elected next year’s staff, retaining most current teachers except Miss Lucille Sanders who retires at 65. Re-elected are grade teachers, principals, and staff across elementary, high school, and Negro school, with a replacement to be chosen after attendance figures are finalized. Principal Montg omery notes current attendance is sufficient to avoid loss, urging parents to keep children in school daily.
District Supervisor Harry R. Scheid announces 1960 Advance Census Report Forms will be distributed this week to all area households. The form speeds canvass and gathers data on each person and dwelling. residents should complete and have ready for April 1. Household and dwelling questions cover name, birth, race, marital status, relation to head, rooms, facilities, and rent or ownership. A sample questionnaire goes to every fourth home. households mail it back in three days. Confidentiality is assured. only totals are published.
The British admiralty received a deposit from five pounds and a letter signed by Six Young Hopefuls asking for tonnage and fire power before they would act on selling the battleship Vanguard.
The Whitewright Chamber honors Carl McFatridge and family for their Carl's Tasty Sausage enterprise. From a Durant Oklahoma start in 1955 the firm grew to a Whitewright plant producing lard and pork products with 22 employees and a payroll near 88000 yearly, serving towns across Texas and beyond.
Funeral services were held at Earnheart Funeral Home for Clifford Pheobus 61 with Rev. C J Graves and Rev. Wesley D Thompson officiating. He died last Thursday at his Whitewright route two home. Burial was Wittitee Cemetery. Surviving are his wife a brother Charlie Pheobus Clark John A Clark James Clark 13 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Mrs. E A Rogers of Durant Oklahoma died Wednesday in a Durant hospital. Funeral services will be held in Durant Friday with burial at Cannon Cemetery southwest of Whitewright. She was the mother of Mrs H K Tate of Whitewright.
Robert Lee Clark eighty eight of Durant Oklahoma died in a Durant hospital March 7. Funeral services were conducted in Durant March 9 with burial at Whitewright. Born October 11 1871 in Pickett County Tennessee he was the son of Albert and Sally Clark. He married Sally Ann Sells in 1909 who died in 1955. He was a former Whitewright resident. Survivors include four sons Gene Clark of Whitewright and Dr Frank W.
Noel C Ownby 77 longtime Whitewright area resident died Sunday in Tulsa Oklahoma funeral services were held there Tuesday He was born in Tennessee moved to the Whitewright area in 1883 Grayson College graduate Survivors include son Noel Ownby Jr of New York director for the Jack Paar Show daughter Mrs W S Ronnardson of Bakersfield California brother Dr Warren D Ownby of Broken Arrow Oklahoma and three grandchildren
Will Smith 70 a well known White Wright Negro died Saturday in a Sherman hospital Funeral services were held at 2 30 p m Tuesday in the Western Beauty Colored Methodist Church and burial was in the White Rock Cemetery He was a native of Grayson County and a retired railroad employee Survivors include his wife Mrs Olivia Boyd Smith of Big Lake two daughters Mrs Katie Lee Barker Hollis Oklahoma and Mrs Jewel Creeks Wichita Falls three sisters Mrs Lizzie Owens Snyder Mrs May Ella Hall Oklahoma City and Mrs Maggie Redmond Whitewright one brother Will Goff Dallas and three grandchildren
Two men recount a neighborly dispute over alcohol that ends with a still exploding during a gathering. The incident disrupts a planned lesson about moderation and harms local relations. No injuries reported.
A humorous letter from Uncle Dan in Tom Bean recounts driving slow for a rude driver to attend church rain dampens attendance and a preacher’s sermon on poverty. He jokes about tax assessors and cannibals solving taxes by eating tax collectors, end with Confederate money counted by his wife.
Sheriff G. W. Blanton urges reporting of gun and airgun violations inside Whitewright city limits. Mayor Russell Summers will transmission reports of violators to him for enforcement.
The senior class hosts a pancake breakfast and supper on Saturday March 19 at Ayres Cafe. Breakfast runs from 6 30 to early morning and supper from 4 to 7 with butter syrup sausage bacon and milk or coffee for 60c. a children's stack costs 40c. Proceeds go to the senior trip.
The menu lists meals for Monday through Friday featuring Hamburger plates, Meat Balls with spaghetti, Lima Beans with Spam and greens, Scalloped Beef and Potatoes, and Hot Dogs with Chili. Each day includes sides like vegetables, rolls, fruit, and desserts.
Dr Harvey Flack of Family Doctor seeks couples for a six week trial named Operation Silent Night. The really bad snorers will perform pre sleep exercises while their partners stay awake to observe and record outcomes.
The Whitewright Chamber of Commerce met at First National Bank to discuss a proposed summer youth program with supervised playground activities for children under 14 and two weekly trips to Sherman pool. The group also reviewed Pascal Farley’s plan to provide an access road and land donations to connect a Negro cemetery, with work to be done in summer.
The Western Week kicks off Monday at 3 30 p m with a downtown parade featuring bicycles horses and western entries from freshman to senior classes Prizes go to best dressed riders oldest youngest and most unique entry A public and student invite with entry rules and contact details for Mrs Janis Johnson and Mr Barker and Mrs Blanton.
Jim D Bowmer 40 Temple lawyer campaigned this week for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A Baylor Law School graduate 1942 he taught Criminal Law and Procedure at the University and served as Bell County Attorney. He now practices in Temple with Skelton Bowmer Courtney and led a three county bar association while pushing reform of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.
An Egyptian explains that in his country going up means moving north toward higher ground, while going south actually follows the Nile upstream. The phrase reflects local geography and cultural usage in daily speech.
Sherman resident Tony Korioth visited Whitewright on Tuesday to meet voters and authorize publication of his reelection announcement. He serves a second term as state representative for District 49 F which includes Grayson and Cooke Counties and recently returned from Austin after taking the state bar exam. Paul Simpson of Bonham, district manager for Lone Star Gas, discussed gas service expansion to Tom Bean with Whitewright Chamber of Commerce officials.
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