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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1969
Page
4
The Junior Class offers a free drawing of ten cakes during intermission next Friday. Signed admission tickets go into a box, sales end at 1 p.m. March 28. Sign tickets on arrival to be eligible. door admission applies without tickets afterward. Admission 75 cents or 50 cents for under 12. preschoolers free.
Russell Wayne Martin son of Clyde and Mrs. Martin celebrates February 1 birthday. He attends First Methodist Church and aims for aerospace or chemical engineering. He loves horses, building models, and dislikes untruthful people. His favorites include chicken fried steak TV actor John Wayne actress Elizabeth Taylor and the movie Green Beret.
Candidates face workouts starting March 31 with try-outs on March 31 and April 28 29 or 30 to be confirmed later. Drill team workouts begin May 5.
The Whitewright girls traveled to Trenet on Monday afternoon. The first team lost the first set but won the second. The second teams played a single set and Whitewright’s players emerged as winners.
Mr Jack Rogers named Teacher of Week focusing on his move to Whitewright school this year after three years at Wilmer Hutchins He teaches Agriculture 1 II and III and serves as Lions Club Junior Sponsor and church member First Baptist Church Rogers is a graduate of the local program.
Coach Clyde McMurray Louis and Larry Franklin fiddle champions and Mr Horace McDonald will entertain between acts at Honey Grove High School junior play. Clyde sings and plays guitar while Louis and Larry fiddle and McDonald handles bass.
WHS welcomed the Grayson County College Choir Friday during activity period. Under director Boyd Whitworth the group performed a medley with drums piano guitar bass banjo and tambourine.
Cathy Hicks daughter of Mr and Mrs Glenn Hicks active in Marvin Methodist Church. She has brothers Richard and Jerry and sister Glenda. Cathy plans to attend East Texas to major in English literature. She owns eight horses two dogs and belonged to Drill Team Seta Club F H A and Student Council. Her hobbies include reading and riding and her pet peeve is snobby people. Favorites include food chicken fried steak TV Peyton Prince Warren Beatty Paul Newman Natalie Wood The Graduate Gone With The Wind yellow shorthand and a quip: Just wait you Ugly.
Mr and Mrs Frank Dove ley of Paris and Mr and Mrs C B McPherson of Aurora Colo visited their aunt Mrs Dannie Renfro and friends Mrs Ted Amlin went to San Bernardino Cal to visit her daughter and family Sgt and Mrs Kenneth Whitehead Mrs Bob Jefferson Ft Worth and Mrs Ran Lambere son Borger with their mother Mrs H T Batsell who is in Allen Memorial Hospital The Wesleyan Service Guild met at the home of Mrs James Henson Mrs Henson and Mrs Lynwood Hogue attended the U M W annual conference in Dallas The Baptist W M A met at the church for their week of prayer Theme being The Living Church John Finnell recently discharged from the Air Force visited his grandparents and relatives Boy Scouts Group 158 met at the United Methodist Church for a covered dish supper and badge awards Tenderfoot recipients included Jimmy Dixon Larry Te ay lor Gary Tucker Glenn Bellows
House Bill 124 by Reps. Vernon Beckham and Bob Hendricks sets the Grayson County quail season opening on the second Saturday of November and extending through January. The measure has passed the House and moved to the Senate.
March brings baseball games at 2 p.m. with Trenton and 4 p.m. at Frisco. Career Day appears at East Texas State University and Graeson County Junior College. Track meets at Noco na and an Area F.H.A. meet in Arlington plus Junior Play rehearsals and a career day fill the schedule.
Mr and Mrs Rufus Short and children of Blue Ridge visited her parents Mr and Mrs Bennie Chesser Sunday. Mr and Mrs James Stuteville and children of Richardson visited his parents Mr and Mrs Grover Stuteville Sunday. Misses Gae Hollingsworth and Mattie Roddy of Denison visited Misses Winnie and Sallie Hamilton Sunday.
A three person injury and treatment event followed a single vehicle wreck on Baker Road four miles east of Sherman at 3 12 p m Sunday. Driver Dennis Burleson from Sherman and passenger Sandra Krum of Bells were treated and released at Wilson N Jones and Earnest Cox aged 18 from Perrin Air Force Base also treated. Alford McCurdy a Howard Payne Baptist College student in Brownwood will hold a three day revival at Enterprise Baptist Church April 4 5 and 6. The vehicle failed to stop at a T intersection and was investigated by Patrolman B F Wade.
Bonham Honey Grove and Sam Rayburn schools reopen on Monday after staying closed since Tuesday due to illness. Classes resume with students returning to classrooms and the district noting adjustments to the week.
A bill to raise retired teachers monthly benefits by 10 percent won approval from the House Public Education Committee on Tuesday. It advances to the House floor and changes retirement pay calculation from 6 to 8 percent of the best 10 years pay times years of service, and caps retirement contributions at 25 000 a year above the former 8 400 limit.
Grayson County Commissioner’s Court approved a low bid of 18 500 from Darr Equipment Co of Dallas for a new Caterpillar tractor with trade for use in Precinct 3.
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