Local Social News Highlights From Bonham Area
Reports show numerous Sunday visits across Bonham Sherman Dallas and Irving with families gathering at homes in Gainesville Oklahoma City and Dallas. News notes include hospital stay for Mrs Brown who fractured a leg after a bed fall and church circle activities led by Mrs Gene Hughes with six members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
Joy Russell
Bill Johnson
Gene Hughes
C. J. Meador
Edgar Ayers
White Wright Home Demonstration Club Meeting Notes
Mrs. Ralph Wallace hosted the White Wright Home Demonstration Club last Thursday. President J. C. McMillin led the meeting with songs, prayer by Winnie Hamilton, and a pledge. Mrs. Maddux spoke on the day’s thought. lampshade making demos were given. Nine members attended. new member Mrs. Fred Garner joined. The next meeting, March 24, will be at Mrs. Earl Lyons.
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Ralph Wallace
Whitewright Home
J. C. McMillin
Winnie Hamilton
R. D. Maddux
Fred Garner
Earl Lyons
Little Rock H D Club Plans Lamp Shade Workshop
The Little Rock Home Demonstration Club met in regular session at the clubhouse with Mrs. H O Miller presiding. A lampshade making demonstration by Mrs Wortham and Mrs Wetzel, plus singing and refreshments, followed. The next meeting is March 24 at 10 am an all day session with sack lunch.
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Little Rock
H. O. Miller
Sims Wortham
O. G. Bow
Bill Ireland
Wortham
J. C. Wetzel
Little Rock Club
Educator Urges Big Overhaul for Colleges and Universities
Shannon McCune provost of the University of Massachusetts urges colleges to drop freshman English basic mathematics foreign languages and laboratory sciences and to abolish skill courses by 1964. He argues higher education should be institutions of learning not remedial skill schools and calls for real experimentation in the 1960s. Thirty years ago Miami Beach was a mangrove swamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shannon McCune
University of Massachusetts
Association For Higher Education
McCune
Lacto Bacilli Testing Aids Dentists In Texas Health Drive
Since November 1957 Texas dentists have access to lactobacilli test results from the State Health Department laboratory. Over 4 100 tests have been made. High counts prompt a mailed diet list to dentists with test results. Counts below 10 000 suggest caries immunity.
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State Health Department
Texas
Dental Health Division
The
Laboratory
Nickel buys a lot at the local service station
Aged readers are reminded that a nickel buys much more than fuel at today’s service stations. Across the country five gallons of gas cost about 1.58 dollars and cover roughly one hundred miles, plus service that funds employees, rent, and community contributions from a 27-cent markup.
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Petroleum Engineer Magazine
Tax slice of gas money and industry players
The piece explains that 51 cents of five dollars goes to federal and state items, leaving 80 cents covering highway funding plus pensions and education. It traces the pipeline, refinery, transporters, explorers, producers, engineers, and administration, noting slim profits for oil companies per Petroleum Engineer.
Farm Efficiency Advances Raise Output Per Farmer
The average farmer this year will produce enough food and fiber for himself and 25 others, ten more than 1950 and triple since 1920. Farm work totaled 11.1 billion man hours last year, down from 23.9 billion in 1920. Land area barely changed. Gains come from more machines fertilizer seeds and improved methods. Average corn yield hits 51 bushels per acre, up from 38.
Farm Production Changes Since 1940 Highlight 1949 Growth
In 1949 per acre sorghum yields tripled since 1939. Hens lay twice as many eggs as 1940. Cattle are beefier providing more meat. Dairy cows decrease in number, but average milk production rises by 397 pounds per cow vs 1940.
Whitewright Sun Announces Democratic Primary Candidates
The Whitewright Sun lists candidates for the May 7 1960 Democratic Primary for the 4th District Congressman Sam Rayburn state seats Tony Korsoth county attorney Dean Martin Joe M Joiner tax assessor collector Iva Davidson George Schumacher Frank Westbrook and for Whitewright city election April 5 1960 mayor Russell R Summers.
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Whitewright Sun
Iva Davidson
George Schumacher
Frank Westbrook
The
Sun
City of
Whitewright
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W. T. Nicholson
Rusk and
Garland
Jean Jarvis
Helen Glass
Sherman
Harold Doss
Irving
Bill Ross
Dallas
Lynn McKinney of
Jim Grider
Joe Miller
John Miller
McKinney
Sears Anderson
Martha
J. W. Slagle
Gainesville
Dee Smith
John Vestal
Mardell Pumphrey
Tom Norris
Sallye
Roy Hamilton
T. D. Caylor
Jerry Wilson
Fort Worth
J. P. Darwin
Ed Anderson
W. D. Williams
Thomas Ayres
Joe Jarvis
Ivanhoe
Marvin Jarvis
Jack Hayes
Harmon Hayes
Joe Cook
Fred Cook
Fred Cook Jr
Ennis
Paul Bowen
Grady Williams
John Ball
Beulah Huseman
Stala Ratjohn
F. E. Cathey
Aubrey O’niel
Texarkana, Ark
H-D
Chicago
Miami Beach
Fla
First National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Texas State Department of Health
Sam Rayburn
Grayson and
Cooke
Tony Korsoth
Dean Martin
Joe M. Joiner
Russell R. Summers
Humble Research Center
Esso Extra
Esso
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Sign OF Happy Motoring
Caraway Bros
Humble
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