Whitewright Red Cross Drive Under Way With Shortfall
The Whitewright Red Cross campaign reported 340.98 collected of 650 by Thursday morning. Mrs. Floyd Everheart said Pilot Grove Bethel and parts of Whitewright not yet reported and urged committees to contact everyone on their lists to meet the month end quota. Donations can be made to Harold Doss at the city office. Last year Whitewright raised 640.
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Whitewright
Floyd Everheart
Pilot Grove
Bethel
Ely Pie Supper Plans Red Cross Fund Drive
Ely schedules a pie supper to aid the 1953 Red Cross campaign. Mrs. J. O. Wallace announces the event at the community center Friday at 7 30 p m with all proceeds to the Red Cross fund.
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Ely
Red Cross Fund
American Red Cross Fund
J. O. Wallace
Benson seeks more flexibility in farm price supports
Secretary Ezra T. Benson told Congress that farm price support programs need more flexibility and less Washington-driven responses. He cited large government stocks and market dislocations, insisting price supports are a long-term stabilizing tool and insurance against agricultural distress and a secure national food supply.
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Washington
Ezra T. Benson
Congress
Benson
Agriculture Department
House
H. Carl Andersen
Minnesota
Capitol Hill
Eisenhower
Andersen
Texas Schools Cost Per Student About 1.45 a Day in 1951 52
Texas public school costs for 1951 52 totaled 318 963 078 with an average daily attendance of 1 213 002. Calculations show 262 spent per student per year and 1 45 per day across 180 days. Hourly cost comes to 21 cents. Charles H Tennyson notes education cost is less than babysitting hourly rates.
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Austin
Texas
Charles H. Tennyson
Texas State Teachers Association
Tennyson
Texas Education Agency
Lunchroom Menu for Whitewright Public Schools
Weekly menu shows daily offerings from Monday to Friday. Items include Vienna sausage with mashed potatoes and peas. Tuesday features lima beans and slaw with cherry pie. Wednesday serves turkey with dressing and mashed potatoes. Thursday offers hot dogs with fruit salad and doughnuts. Friday presents pimiento cheese and tuna sandwiches with chips and prunes. Milk accompanies all days.
The Food Mart Ends Locker Service on April 1
The Food Mart will discontinue its frozen food locker service on April 1 following letters to locker holders. In a store ad Thomas Sears known as Its y says please remove locker contents by April 1 and that only locker renting will be discontinued while other store operations continue.
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The
Food Mart
Thomas Sears
Price controls end after two years in United States
Washington reports price ceilings lifted on steel machine tools cans and several defense materials ending two years of controls. OPS says decontrol will raise consumer costs by about 3 billion yearly with taxes and higher munition costs. Steel prices expected to stay steady due to output and competition.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Korea
Red
Tryouts Scheduled For Twins Baseball Club Next Monday
Sherman area warms to the Twins tryout camp at 10 a m as about 40 youngsters compete for a contract. Owner Art Willingham and Manager Al McCarty invite area boys to attend with just a glove and shoes. Players cover their own expenses but contract signees receive a refund. Spring training begins March 28 after the camp.
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Sherman
Sherman- Denison
Twins
Art Willingham
al McCarty
Willingham
Blood Donations Fall Short of Quota in January and February
The Red Cross reports blood collections from all sources fell 110,000 pints below quota in January and February. If donations remain low, the Defense Department emergency stockpile could suffer and polio prevention using gamma globulin GG may be reduced next year. GG will be used this summer to aid polio prevention and Red Cross has boosted monthly quotas to 400,000 pints to cover 1,000,000 children this year and 2,000,000 in 1954.
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Washington
Red Cross
Defense Department
She Caps a Prize Policeman in Quip Night
A humorous exchange unfolds as a girl teases a policeman about authority and a speeding arrest, with flirtatious lines highlighting witty back-and-forth and social banter.
10 Days Left To Register Cars In 1953
Grayson County citizens face a 10 day window to register autos and trucks for 1953. Harold Doss, deputy tax collector, had registered 186 vehicles by noon yesterday and will continue issuing plates until March 31. The Whitewright tax station, set up by Iva Davidson, aids East Grayson owners.
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Harold Doss
Grayson County
Whitewright
Iva Davidson
East Grayson
Doss
Tidal Draft Would Give Shelf to U S
Washington notes a House judiciary subcommittee approved a tidelands bill restoring submerged lands to states within seaward boundaries while granting the Federal Government control over the outer shelf. Texas and Florida would gain up to ten and a half miles offshore in the Gulf, others three miles. Texas lawmakers regret no oil revenue share beyond state limits. The full House committee plans to review the measure next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Judiciary
Texas
Florida
Gulf
J. Frank Wilson
Judiciary Committee
Wilson
Walter
Russians Seen Stalin's Bier in 72 Hours Claim
Accountant Frank Baker joked that Russians rushed to view Joe Stalin's body, citing a report that 5,000,000 people saw the bier in 72 hours. He computed that two lines would have to move at 22 miles per hour to pass the bier, far exceeding record speeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mangum
Okla
Frank Baker
Joe Stalin
Baker
U S on Verge of Total War Says Johnson
Senator Lyndon Johnson warned the Senate that the cold war has reached a point where the United States could be drawn into total war within hours. He urged bipartisan support for a belt tightening effort to strengthen national defenses after Communist attacks over Germany last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Senate
Eisenhower
Johnson
U. S
Germany
Tax free but sends in 50 dollars to government
An 80-year-old Omaha farmer sent a 50 dollar tax payment with a note praising the government as "the best" in this "mixed-up world." Officials say the man has enough deductions to owe nothing.
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Omaha
Nebr
Seed Fumigation Scheduled Here Monday Tuesday
Farmers may have their cotton planting seed fumigated free by the two gins in Whitewright next week. A fumigation station will be set up on Monday at the Donigan Gin and on Tuesday at the Kimbell Mill. The process uses methyl bromide to kill pink bollworms and requires sacks and overnight treatment finished by 4 p.m. The program aims to prevent spread of the cotton pest found in nearby counties.
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Whitewright
Donigan Gin
Kimbell Mill
Fannin
Grayson
Texas
Texas Department of Agriculture
Eisenhower Backs Balanced Budget Stand Against Tax Cuts
President Eisenhower reaffirmed opposition to tax cuts until a balanced budget is in sight and warned of price increases as decontrol unfolds. He told the Commerce Department advisory group that lowering revenues before balancing the budget is not acceptable and urged steady resolve to hold the line through the coming economic shifts. The White House circulated transcripts after the informal speech.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Commerce Department
Business Advisory Committee
Congressional
Daniel A. Reed
New York
House
Ways and Means Committee
United States
White House
Neighbor Gossip About Mrs Green's Lost Husband
Mrs Blobbs recalls Mrs Green's misfortune as her husband ran away and stole her money. Mrs Nobbs expresses shock while noting the marriage arose from fear of burglars.
Funeral today for W. T. Beazley in Whitewright
Funeral services for W. T. Beazley 76 are at 3 p m today at Marvin Methodist Church conducted by Rev. Harold K. Davis. Burial at Oak Hill Cemetery by Barnhart Funeral Home with Masonic graveside rites. Beazley died at home in Ely after six weeks illness. He was born January 25 1877 in Clinton County Kentucky and married Dora Riley in 1897. He came to Fannin County in 1916 and farmed in Ely. Surviving are wife five sons two daughters two brothers 12 grandchildren one great grandchild.
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W. T. Beazley
Marvin Methodist Church
Harold K. Davis
Savoy
Oak Hill Cemetery
Barnheart Funeral Home
Masonic Lodge
S. D. Blackerby
C. A. Massey
Jack Robbins
George Hicks
Lennis Clark
Calvin Moon
Beazley
Ely
Clinton County
Kentucky
Mr. Beazley
John Beazley
Dora Riley
Fannin County
Church of Christ
Whitewright Masonic Lodge
David Beazley
N. B. Beazley
Chat Beazley
Curtis Beazley
Johnny Beazley
Trenton
Riley Smith
Whitewright
Y. W. Reagan
Oscar
Okla
Thackerville
Morris Beazley
Fort Worth
Ten Candidates for Alderman at Bells in April Election
Bells voters must select five of ten alderman candidates for the April 7 city election. Five incumbents seek reelection J. T. McBroom H. E. Washburn Grady Young W. R. Skipworth E. F. Cross face challengers R. N. Tarpley Cass S. French M. G. Ramsey Roy Wagner and Clifford Galyon. Mayor J. E. Dopson runs unopposed for a third term as city marshal George W. Duncan and Frank Ferguson contend for the marshal post.
U S Demands Reds Pay For Lost Plane
Washington demanded 1 275 788 dollars from the Soviet Union and Communist Hungary for damages when an American plane was forced down in Hungary in November 1951. The U S asked 637 894 dollars from each country, arguing equal fault. The plane was not returned but the four airmen were freed after ransom money was paid by the U S government.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Soviet Union
Hungary
Russia
Scientists Describe Chicken as Heroine
ST. LOUIS scientists hail the chicken as the heroine of the barn yard noting hens now produce about 194 eggs yearly, use 6.9 pounds of feed per dozen eggs, and meat production has risen by about one fourth. Dr. R M Bethke cites faster broiler production and improved feeding, disease control, and new feed elements as key factors.
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ST. Louis
National Farm Chemurghc Council
R. M. Bethke
Ralston Purina Co
General Hershey wins diaper pinning championship title
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, was crowned diaper pinning champion at a Red Cross campaign workers meeting. The grandfather participated using dolls as models in the sponsored contest. A shorthorn cow at Fairview Montana calved five calves, a veterinarian called a one in a million event.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Red Cross Campaign
Hershey
Red Cross Nursing Service
Fairview
Mont
Rainfall in March So Far Totals 2.25 Inches
Rain in March through today measures 2.25 inches according to the Cates brothers gauge at the city water plant. The figure trails the 1952 level of 3.02 inches for the same date by .77 inch while year to date 1953 total rainfall is 3.81 inches versus 5.23 inches in 1952. Farmers hope for fair days to plant corn and complete farm work despite the rainfall deficit.
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Ray
Charley Cates
Railway Workers Granted 4 Cent Wage Increase
About 1 250 000 rail workers receive a 4 cent raise retroactive to December 1 based on an arbitration ruling by Paul N Guthrie of North Carolina University. The decision costs carriers an estimated 120 million dollars annually with retroactive pay around 20 million.
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Washington
Truman
Paul N. Guthrie
North Carolina University
Guthrie
Lawmaker Targets Mutuals Over Squeeze Rate Hikes
Rep. Reuben Talasek of Temple accuses mutual assessment insurers of raising rates to push out older policy holders. He says a House subcommittee will hold public hearings to draft a regulating law as hundreds protest with premium hikes claimed up to four hundred percent.
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Austin
Reuben Talasek
Temple
Mutual
Talasek
House
State Insurance Department
New Alcoholism Among Women Poses Problem
In St Paul the gospel missions face a rising issue as Pastor George L. Bolton of Bowery Mission warns that increasing numbers of alcoholic women will require a nationwide system of rescue missions to aid those affected. he says women will suffer as men have from alcoholism.
Britain rejects post office cat cost of living raise
The House of Commons dismissed a bid to increase the 2 shillings weekly maintenance for thousands of post office cats. Prime Minister Churchill's government argued the cats are well off and should keep catching mice with current pay.
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London
House of Commons
Britain
Post Office
Winston Churchill
Sick of People: Detroit Bus Driver Quits After Outburst
Ernest Hazelton a Detroit Street Railway System bus driver quit after an on bus confrontation with women riders. He told the passengers drive the bus if they want to, then abandoned the vehicle and later returned to the terminal saying he was sick of people. About 30 riders witnessed the incident.
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Detroit
Ernest Hazelton
Hazelton
Detroit Street Railway System
Home fire deaths largely in bedrooms and stairs in 1951
Nearly half of the fatal home accidents in 1951 occurred in bedrooms or on stairways, highlighting danger zones in domestic settings and suggesting focus areas for safety measures and public guidance.
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Whitewright Sun
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