National 4-H Week Observed By Rotary Club
Joe Johnson led a Rotary Club program for National 4-H Week. Rev Lee H Smith introduced sponsors and club officers Bobby Phillips heads the Senior Club Jimmy Clark leads the Junior Club. officers include Jimmy Smith secretary and Beazley and Thompson among members. Thompson won a rifle match and will represent Whitewright clubs county meet in April.
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Joe Johnson
Johnson
Lee H. Smith
Phillips
Clark
Smith
Thompson
Beazley’s
Sam Montgomery
Buddy Stephens
Lee Smith
Chat Beazley
Chester Slaughter
Lennis Clark
Whitewright
Shivers Proposes Broad Tax Plan to Fund Teacher Pay
Gov. Allan Shivers urged Texas lawmakers to raise about 25.6 million dollars by taxing natural gas gathering, beer, and corporate assets to boost salaries for teachers and state workers. He backed a new gas levy, a 63 cent beer tax increase, and franchise tax hikes, while noting possible court challenges and a framework for tax law recodification.
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Austin
Allan Shivers
Texas
United States Supreme Court
Shivers
Robert S. Calvert
Joe Pool
Dallas
Tax Committee
Reuben E. Senterfitt
Buchanan
Uncle Sam
Senate panel backs plan to raise Texas teachers pay
The education committee unanimously approved a compromise bill to boost teachers salaries. The measure, drafted by a joint state committee led by Gov. Allan Shivers and the Texas State Teachers Association, aims to resolve key school financing differences. The House revenue and taxation committee scheduled public hearings next week on funding bills for the pay raise.
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Austin
Senate
Allan Shivers
Texas State Teachers Association
House Committee On Revenue and Taxation
Watermelon Marketing Standards Revised for Small Melons
The Agriculture Department announced updated marketing standards to cover small ice box type watermelons now produced in limited commercial quantities in the Southern States. It noted that 1953 fresh market watermelons valued over 43 million dollars were produced in the United States.
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Agriculture Department
United States
Religion in Public Schools Reemerges in The United States
A Muenster Enterprise report from Cincinnati notes Protestant educators pushing for religion to gain a proper role in public schools. Released time classes and teachers teaching sectarian religion are proposed steps to restore religious instruction within the public system. The piece argues the founders intended religious education as foundational, not secular exclusion.
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Muenster Enterprise
Cincinnati
America
Just a Minute He I Suppose You Dance
A playful exchange features a man and woman where he remarks on dancing and she eagerly affirms her passion for it. Their light banter centers on mutual enjoyment of dancing and a moment of cheerful rapport.
Last Minute Tag Registration Urges Sherman Area Residents
Deputy tax collector Carl Harold Doss reported only 238 license plate issuances, far below last year, urging area motorists to visit the Whitewright tag office set up by Iva Davidson. March 31 is the registration deadline and safety inspection deadline. failure to display a current sticker after April 1 may bring prosecution.
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Harold Doss
Whitewright
Iva Davidson
Sherman
Doss
Modern Moonshiner Cooking With Butane
Local butane dealer C P Dawson describes customers using gas for heating cooking and tractors but a Lamar County arrest reveals a man in a barn near Red River cooking whisky with butane as fuel. Revenuers note modern moonshining hides in plain sight despite fewer telltale signs.
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C. P. Dawson
Lamar County
Texas Liquor Control Board
Red River
United States
States
Don’t Admit Strangers Warns Whitewright Homes
Farmersville mayor warns residents after two women posing as religious workers forced into a home on Bike Street and demanded money. They took a salt and pepper set and left a coin for luck. Similar incidents affected two other local women earlier.
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R. B. Beaver
Farmersville
S. E. Bledsoe
Bike Street
Mr. Bledsoe
Bledsoe
Bledsoes
Beaver
Weekly School Lunch Menu Highlights
Listing of daily meals from Monday to Friday includes barbecue and salad on Monday with ice cream, pimiento cheese sandwiches on Tuesday, red beans and weiners on Wednesday, steak with creamed corn on Thursday, and hot dogs with chili on Friday. Menu features breads, chips, salads, desserts, and beverages.
Singing Convention at Bells Sunday Afternoon
The County Line Singing Convention will meet at 2 00 p m at Bells. Singers from Hoburn Ambrose Dripping Springs Cherry Mound Cannon Bethel and Whitewright will attend. If you sing or do not sing you are urged to come and fill the church Sunday afternoon.
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Bells
L. L. Wendell
Hoburn
Ambrose
Dripping Springs
Cherry Mound
Cannon
Bethel
Whitewright
Dems Clash Over GOP Tax Plan Benefits
House Democrats led by Sam Rayburn claim Eisenhower's tax program mainly aids the wealthy and will not trickle down. They press for a $100 boost in personal exemptions with Sen. Walter George proposing $200 now and $400 later. The debate comes as the House votes on Thursday on the GOP tax revision package projected to cost about $1.4 billion annually.
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Washington
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Nation
Eisenhower
Rayburn
Senate
Walter George
Georgia
Democratic Congress
GOP
Treasury
George
Senate Finance Committee
Jere Cooper
Tennessee
Ways and Means
Joseph Martin
Massachusetts
Teachers Study New Cotton Methods at East Texas college
About 60 vocational agriculture teachers attended an In-Service Education meeting at East Texas State Teachers College on March 13. Speakers urged integrated cotton practices including soil nutrients and insect control, and recommended solid drill planting for stripper harvests. Next sessions are March 20 and May 8 with Dr. V. A. Little to discuss cotton insects.
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East Texas State Teachers College
Whitewright
E. J. Morgan
Texas
C. B. Spencer
Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association
Spencer
Don Porter
U. S
Greenville
V. A. Little
Texas A&m College
Be Firm: Quote on exercise and germs by a famed specialist
The famous specialist asserts exercise kills germs but notes we have yet to learn how to make them exercise. The remark blends humor with a medical observation about germ control and physical activity.
Winter Freeze Returns Hit Garden, Farmers Hopeful
The area suffered a Saturday and Sunday freeze with 26 degrees and water froze in outdoor containers. Old timers debate moon phase effects. farmers worry drought and late rainfall may delay corn planting, while some plan maize if rain delays persist. Texas drought areas seek help as Ike faces blame for economic woes.
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Texas
Ike
Sheriff Warns on Highway Trash Dumping
Sheriff Woody Blanton issued a warning to violators who dump trash along highways. He said charges will be filed and the act poses a health hazard. Residents were urged to use city dump grounds, noting it is easy to drive to the proper disposal site. Blanton has license numbers of several offending vehicles and will pursue charges where possible.
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Woody Blanton
Blanton
Peach Crop Wiped Out By Freezes
Texas peach crop nearly ruined by March freezes surveys show temperatures dropped below freezing last week and again on Sunday and Monday. Horticulturists Hancock Hutchison and Roseborough report less than 10 percent of normal yield across major peach areas, with Stonewall Gillespie County spared.
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College Station
Texas
Bruford Hancock
John Hutchison
J. F. Roseborough
Steel Darts May Be Used In Next War
The Air Force unveiled Lazy Dog a small steel dart about 1 5 8 inches long weighing just over a half ounce. It resembles a mini torpedo with fins and is nonexplosive. Dropped from planes at 5000 feet it would have the penetrating power of a .45 bullet. The note adds 5000 students study at the U S free university in Berlin.
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Washington
Air Force
Robert DeBerry Wins Grayson County Ag Club Award
Robert DeBerry of Whitewright received an award for hybrid corn production at the Grayson County Agricultural Club meeting in Sherman. About 80 farmers and professionals attended with A. B. Jolly headlining as principal speaker. Johnny Schmitt was elected president and other officers named.
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Robert DeBerry
Whitewright
Grayson County Agricultural Club
Sherman
Young DeBerry
R. H. DeBerry
A. B. Jolly
Dallas Times Herald
Johnny Schmitt
Dorchester
Foy Wallace
Gunter
Nick Owen
C. B. Bryant III
John Trammell
Carl Fink
Pottsboro
Freeman Carney
Charles Sherrard
Denison
Bill Dennard
Whitesboro
Leon Huff
Sherman and
Schmitt
John Hynds
van Alstyne
John Perry
R. T. Rains
Nuell Skaggs
Fay Wallace
J. K. Williams
O. L. Yowell
Trenton Semi-Pro Baseball Tryouts Sunday
Tryouts for the Trenton semi pro baseball team set for Sunday at 2 30 p m in Trenton. Organizer Homer Gentry says Whitewright boys are invited to participate.
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Trenton
Homer Gentry
Whitewright
Eavesdropping On Rural Party Line May Be Stopped
Bell engineers plan a transistorized local telephone system near Americus Georgia to carry multiple conversations on one line without mixups. The system uses small transistors on poles to allocate frequencies automatically and prevent eavesdropping. Collaboration includes five operating companies and Western Electric.
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New York
Americus
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Jones
Mrs. Smith
Bell
Western Electric Co
Take Glass of Milk for Afternoon Snack
Ann Arbor report says a candy bar or soft drink is the wrong cure for mid afternoon hunger pangs. Dr Jerome W Conn of the University of Michigan Medical School recommends a glass of milk and mentions meat eggs and cheese as good options. He explains hunger often stems from spontaneous hypoglycemia caused by excess insulin. milk or meat protein counters it.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Jerome W. Conn
University of Michigan Medical School
Dr. Conn
Negro Confirmed in High U. S. Post
Washington Senate confirms J. Ernest Wilkins a Negro attorney from Chicago as assistant secretary of labor in charge of international affairs. He is the first Negro in forty years to hold such a high post and is sixty, a Republican. He has chaired the President's committee on government contracts since 1953 to prevent employment discrimination in government contracts.
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Washington
Senate
J. Ernest Wilkins
Chicago
Wilkins
Heady Gift Hearkening to Maud Legacy and Hats
The line notes Maud’s disposal of inherited funds by purchasing a dozen hats. Wit follows as a critic jokes the fortune may go to her head, reflecting light dialogue on wealth and vanity.
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Rotary
Levy
Carl
Farmersville Times
Singing
Winter
Free University
Berlin
Ag Club
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