Spring Brightens Whitewright After Heavy Winter
The worst winter ends with a rainstorm in Whitewright and a bright calm first day of spring. Candidates lament low campaign interest while readers recall past elections. Community Public Service completes a building renovation adding a front office and assembly room. Sun ads show local sales of trash barrels and electric brooders. The piece notes historic federal travel allowances and helicopter purchases, and Congressman Wright’s circulars to The Sun.
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Whitewright
Community Public Service Company
SUN
Luther Armstrong
David
Cecil
B. M. Dean
Tom Bean
Grover Brown
Roberts says he may vote against parts of tax bill
Congressman Ray Roberts reports constituents want him to oppose certain tax bill provisions such as 20 percent withholding on interest and dividend withholdings. He notes the bill may come with a closed rule and pledges to weigh overall merit before voting, warning against tolerating a harmful mix.
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Ray Roberts
Fourth District
Former Poster Boy for Polio Dies at 12
Delbert Ray Davis of Gooding Idaho died at Salt Lake General Hospital age 12 after a life marked by polio since infancy. He underwent four major operations in the last year. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Davis, who have five other children.
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Salt Lake City
Delbert Ray
Debbie) Davis
National Foundation
Gooding
Idaho
Salt Lake General Hospital
Davis
Reunion Planned For 1943 WHS Class
The 1943 graduates of Whitewright High School plan a two day reunion June 9 and 10 1962. A children free gathering is set for June 9 at the American Legion Hall with a family style picnic on June 10. Organizers include Mrs. Ron Faison Mrs. Ann LaRoe Faison Mrs. Helen Maddux Bilmner Charles Skaggs and John Bigerstaff of Whitewright.
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Whitewright High School
Ron Faison
American Legion Hall
Faison
Ann LaRoe Faison
Helen Maddux Bilmner
Charles Skaggs
John Biggerstaff
Whitewright
Drugs Linked to Blood Damage Warned by AMA
The American Medical Association tied 48 drugs to blood damage, including Chloromycetin, common tranquilizers, and anti-diabetes pills. The expert group cites direct evidence of a cause and effect and urges cautious prescribing amid risks from mild anemia to aplastic anemia.
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Washington
American Medical Assn
AMA
AMA Group
Dillon Says U. S. Can't Cut Taxes
Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon argued in a prepared speech that the United States cannot afford a substantial cut in total tax payments in the near term. He noted that even faster growing allies carry heavier burdens and that broad reform aims to reduce rates while preserving revenues, by closing loopholes and ending special benefits.
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Washington
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
United States
Dillon
Tax Executives Institute
Kennedy
Congress
Fourth Sunday Singing Convention at East Shady Grove
The Fourth Sunday Singing Convention will be held at East Shady Grove Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon starting at 2. Robert Burgess is in charge and the public is invited.
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East Shady Grove Baptist Church
Robert Burgess
Nero Begins Coin Debasement of Roman Currency
The article notes that Nero was the first ruler to alloy and debase Roman coins, marking a shift in currency policy and monetary stability under his reign.
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Nero
Superior Bulls for Whitewright Area
Four local businesses joined to procure 13 bulls from Murray State College of Oklahoma to boost cattle quality in Whitewright. The herd includes two Angus, three polled Herefords, and eight Herefords, weighing 850 to 1,000 pounds each, aged about a year.
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Whitewright
Edwards Chevrolet Co
C. J. Meador Truck & Tractor Co
Farley & Donaghey
First National Bank
Murray State College of Oklahoma
Carl Edwards
Tishoming
Oklo
Edwards
Bill for Teacher Benefit Planned
Rep. Herbert Zelenko announced he would introduce a bill to cut about $300 a year from teachers income taxes. The measure would exempt the first 1500 of earned income for educators from elementary to postgraduate levels.
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Washington
Herbert Zelenko
D-N. Y
Hair Grooming Traced to Ancient Vanity Across Cultures
Historians report grooming as an early vanity from Rome 300 years before Caesar to Han dynasty China. Women used horseshoe hairpins. Congo belles used pointed chopsticks as back scratchers. Vast areas of Earth remain uninhabited.
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New York
Rome
Julius Caesar
China
Belles
Congo
Nixon maintains book claim on Kennedy briefing Cuba invasion
Former Vice President Richard Nixon reiterates in his book Six Crises that President Kennedy was told about U S plans to invade Cuba. Nixon cites Eisenhower authorization for full briefing of Kennedy on foreign problems. White House and Allen Dulles deny Kennedy was briefed before his October 20 stance and say briefing came after his election.
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Los Angeles
Richard M. Nixon
Kennedy
U. S
Cuba
Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
White House
CIA
Dulles
Death of Mrs. Annie McGaughey at Memphis
News from Memphis Tenn reports the death on February 15 of Mrs. Annie McGaughey. She once ran a millinery shop in Whitewright. Surviving is her son Wayne McGaughey.
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Memphis, Tenn
Annie McGaughey
Whitewright
Wayne McGaughey
Uncle Dan Touts Corn Eatin And Food Reform
A letter from Uncle Dan of Tom Bean jokes about Washington pundits on corn eating and notes a coal based food proposal from the NIH. He suggests such food could aid starving nations and undercut Communism, then remarks on family supper and politics.
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National Institute of Health
China
Harvard
Bobby Kennedy
Uncle Dan
Kennedy proposes broad plan to protect buyers nationwide
President Kennedy sent Congress a jumbo package of consumer protection proposals costing about 10 million dollars annually. He urged safer drugs, safer cosmetics, better TV reception, transparent loan rates, and wider meat inspections, plus a consumer advisory council and pilot post office displays. He noted many cosmetics lack safety testing and urged premarket proof of effectiveness as well as safety.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
America
Council of Economic Advisers
Postoffice Department
White House
March 31 Final Date For Feed Grain Signing
College Station report notes corn and grain sorghum growers must declare intent to join the 1962 Feed Grain program by March 31. Nonparticipants may plant all acreage and sell at market price with no government support. Cooperators must convert 20 percent of feed grain base to conservation use to receive 50 percent of normal production and price supports on reduced acreage.
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College Station
C. H. Bates
Extension
ASCS
Bates
Teachers Elected By School Board Whitewright ISD
At a Whitewright Independent School District board meeting, all faculty from three local schools were reelected except two retiring teachers Mrs Sarah Kilgree and Miss Sallye Hamilton under compulsory retirement at age 63. The board reappointed multiple teachers and granted contracts to superintendents and principals.
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Whitewright Independent School
Martha Jo Emerson
Dorothy Lackey
Robert Sivley
Joe Crouch
O. V. Barker
B. E. Range
Sammye Maxwell
Leta Harper
Lillian Neathery
David Johnson
B. R. Vestal
S. T. Montgomery Jr
J. L. Huckaby Jr
Supt. Montgomery
Vestal
Johnson
Patricia Tolar
Tolar
Bethel Baptist Church
Senator Curtis Values U S Debt At 1 Trillion Crowned By Total
Senate critic Carl T. Curtis argues the national debt exceeds 1 trillion when unfunded retirement and other future obligations are added to the official 300 billion debt limit. He cites 30, 40, 300, 150, and 250 billion figures for retirement, pensions, housing, public works, and Social Security.
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Washington
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Congress
Kennedy
Curtis
Senate Finance Committee
U. S
Peter Cooper rocks a chair with bent metal frame
In 1830 Peter Cooper began a lasting trend by building a rocking chair using a bent metal frame. Also in 1830 Algeria fell under French control after an expedition landed to subdue Barbary pirates.
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Peter Cooper
Algeria
Doctors seek St Louis firm to gain tax relief
Four St Louis physicians plan to form a corporation to practice medicine as employees and gain tax advantages. The group includes Drs Robert H Lund Willard B Walker Lawrence O Neal and Richard V Bradley with attorney William A Boles. State AG Thomas Eagleton said the plan would be legal, and the filing dates back to last June.
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St. Louis
Robert H. Lund
Willard B. Walker
Lawrence O'Neal
Richard V. Bradley
William A. Boles
Thomas Eagleton
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Jim Wright
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Superior Bulls
Whitewright Area
Europe
Dan
Washington Column
Wimmen
Whitewright, Texas
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Fannin Counties
APO
Tex
Mds
St. Louis Farm Company
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