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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1954
Page
5
Mrs. Edgar Wright of Paris visits Mrs. Emmet Penn while several residents from Greenwood Kaufman Dallas Wichita Kenil and other towns spend weekends here. A donkey basketball benefit planned March 27 supports girls basketball awards. Two broiler projects suffer losses to fire and misfortune among students.
Local residents spent weekends visiting relatives from Dallas Paris Sherman and other towns. Birth announcements include a son born to Bill and Bessie Jo Turner. An open house for Dr. Fred Dinkler drew about 250 people at the American Legion Home.
Rev C C Childress returns home from Sherman hospital after surgery awaiting convalescence with daughter Mrs H G Hedrick in Muskogee Okla. Airman 3/e William L Simmons son of Mrs George Simmons of Whitewright is training as Air Force technician at Warren AFB Wyoming. Mr and Mrs Raymond Walten host wedding supper for Mr and Mrs Bill Poague of Dallas with attendants Mr and Mrs Tryoce Walt of Dallas. Poague formerly Barbara Jean Blassingame. Sergeant and Mrs Lester Martin return from Japan after two and a half years. stationed in San Antonio after furlough. Women of the First Presbyterian Church visit Ladonia for a program with several local participants. Sun Want Ads gets results.
Reeves son of Mr and Mrs John Reeves Whitewright and Grace Marie Nunn daughter of Mr and Mrs H R Nunn 819 Martinez Dallas were married Friday night in Sherman Both couples are sophomores at East Texas State College Commerce Reeves attended Whitewright High School where he starred in football Nunn is a Crozier Tech High School graduate
May Owen Thomas Fender and Eleanor Owen, both of Jacksonville, married Saturday morning at the home of Mr and Mrs Arlis D McKnight in Sherman. Rev R Bry ant Twitty officiated before an improvised altar with pink gladioli and pink tapers. The bride is the daughter of Mrs Fay Owen of Jacksonville. The groom is son of Mr and Mrs Tom May of the Whitewright area and involved with May Drug Inc in Jacksonville. They will reside in Jacksonville after a wedding trip.
The Bethel Church ladies hosted a Saturday night bridal shower for Mrs. Maurice Cate, formerly Foy Jean Bow. Hostesses greeted guests at the foyer and registered them, with Mrs. Doyle Alexander presiding at the bride’s book. Refreshments featured a yellow umbrella centerpiece and a four tier white cake adorned with yellow roses.
Miss Foy Jean invited guests from Sherman Bells Van Alstyne Irving Whitewright Trenton Pilot Grove Bethel to a mock This Is Your Life event. Frances Hedgpeth presented Ralph Edwards role while Thelma Kite and Perry Kite staged breakfast sketches for the couple. The groom serving with the armed forces could not attend with 125 attendees present.
Nicholas Martin, 54, stepped to the cashier at the Internal Revenue office on Saturday, paid his 1953 income tax, and slumped to the floor dead. Coroner said he apparently suffered a heart attack. In 1950 census, 30 states showed a net population loss.
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