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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1955
Page
8
The Sherman Community Hospital invites the public to tour the facility Sunday from 2 to 5 pm. Refreshments will be served as the hospital plans to begin admitting patients on Monday or Tuesday. The building, once St Vincent's, faced possible nonhospital sale after two bond defeats.
Reopening of the hospital will ease the badly over crowded condition at Wilson N. Jones Hospital in Sherman where patients have been stacked in hallways at times.
Ambridge, Pennsylvania resident Victor Dionise, 47, has endured hiccups for 24 years. Once brief, episodes now interrupt nearly every breath while he works as a crane operator and runs a nearby car repair shop. He has tried many remedies and clinics without relief.
Governor Allan Shivers said public opposition to a proposed 20 cent per gallon gasoline tax hike is mainly a Legislature issue. He urged the tax to fund highway construction and predicted the House bill raising the tax from 4 to 6 cents will advance after committee review.
New York reports the Reader's Digest for the first time carries advertisements in its 34 year history. Thirty full page ads and two pages in color appear at the front and spread through the book. Ads will total about 32 pages in the first year and bring in roughly $11 million.
Spanky McFarland was moved from Monday to Friday show at Linda Theatre. A Dana Andrews Piper Laurie feature "Smoke Signal" screens at 7:00 p m followed by Spanky’s stage performance. The star is best known for The Little Rascals comedies.
Multiple small ads list items for sale and services in a period tone. Entries include two wheel trailer yard work by R J Wallace, five room home on East Main Street by Bennie Thornhill, several houses priced 1750 to 6000 by Stephens Bryant, generator service by Dixon Service Station, a near new 10 foot Hot Point refrigerator from Lem Titts Worth, and a range of tires, floor polishers, gas appliances, plumbing needs, and auto parts from local merchants. A note mentions Friday registration with no Saturday presence.
Walter White, longtime executive secretary of the NAACP since 1918, died Monday at age 61 from heart disease. Known as the ranking Negro diplomat, he was viewed by many as the national Negro leader after Booker T. Washington.
Three Dallas men were saved from drowning in Grapevine Lake after a wave toppled their boat while testing a new outboard motor. Constable Lloyd Tillery said the men spent about twenty minutes in the water before a cabin cruiser operator heard their cries and brought them ashore.
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