Friday Night at Western Week Variety Show
Western Week at Whitewright schools hosts a Friday Night Variety Show with ticket sales and raffles for cakes and items. Frost nips vegetation as a cold wave arrives ending the season. old-timers like Dr. J. N. Powell and Dr. Reynolds May are recalled. The piece argues education matters for future work and questions if Congress will pass the Civil Rights Bill amid Northern and Southern mail opposition.
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Whitewright
J. N. Powell
Ben Montgomery
Dr. Reynolds
Congress
Senate
Deep South
Deaths James Birch Allison 1877 195? Funeral at Barnheart
James Birch Allison 86 died Friday night at Whitewright Nursing Home. Funeral services held Sunday at Barnheart Funeral Home, burial in Pilot Grove Cemetery. Born July 18, 1877 in Tennessee, son of William and wife. Married Ocie Scott December 20 1916 in Pilot Grove. Survived by wife, son Taylor of Waxahachie, daughter Mrs Andrew Harris of Muskogee Oklahoma, two sisters Miss Beulah Allison of Trenton and Mrs John Stephens of Slaton, and two grandchildren.
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Barnheart Funeral Home
James Birch Allison
Whitewright
Pilot Grove
Allison
Tennessee
William Allison
Ocie Scott
Taylor Allison
Waxahachie
Andrew Harris
Muskogee
Okla
Beulah Allison
Trenton
John Stephens
Slaton
Contrasting Fates in Profumo Affair Duo
Christine Keeler 21 languishes in Holloway Prison nicknamed Heartbreak while Mandy Rice-Davies 18 enjoys a London mews flat and plans a cabaret act in Germany and an Italian film in Rome.
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Christine Keeler
Mandy Rice-Davies
Christine
England
Heartbreak” Holloway
Kensington
Germany
Rome
WHS Senior Class Has 19 Members
The White Wright High School graduating class numbers 19, smaller than last year’s 27 with one dropout. Invitations were ordered from The Sun. Members include Patricia Ann Jarvis and Tressa Van Cureton. Baccalaureate is May 24 at First Methodist Church and commencement May 25 in the gym, both at 8 p.m.
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Whitewright High School
the Sun
Patricia Ann Jarvis
Tressa van Cureton
Shirley Janway
Carolyn Sue Pool
Frances Wood
Jeannie Skipworth
Carolyn Louise Slaughter
Anna Louise Franklin
Linda Joyce Logan Evelyn Pauline Harvey
Brenda Joyce Bennett Loy Dan Turner William James Bilmner Jr
Charley McLean James Clark
John W. Hale
Mike Burchfield
Jimmy Calvin Kent
Johnny William Aldridge
First Methodist Church
Meadors Orchids Put CPS Magazine In Spotlight
Joe Meador of Whitewright Texas runs two back yard greenhouses housing about 4500 orchids. The CPS Farm Magazine feature highlights seed propagation value, cooling and humidity systems, and irrigation with a deep well pump and automatic fertilization setup.
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Meador
CPS Farm Magazine
Joe Meador
Electricity On the Farm
Whitewright
Texas
Dear Mister Editor and Gentle Follies of Washington
Uncle Dan from Tom Bean muses on a Yale professor’s quip about troubles and happiness and riffs on large budget figures for a new House Office Building. He notes court cases over constitutional rights and a New York doctor’s claim about women’s heels, then ends with hope drawn from Jimmy Hoffa’s early days.
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Yale
Washington
Pentagon
Empire State Building
Golden Gate
United Nations
Everbody
Maryland
New York
Wimmer
Jimmy Hoffa
Dean Martin Seeks Re election As County Attorney
County Attorney Dean Martin has authorized The Sun to announce his candidacy for reelection to a second term as Grayson County Attorney. He asks readers to consider his record and leadership.
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Dean Martin
the Sun
Grayson County
Las Vegas Fashion Show Invites 36 International Designers
Las Vegas invites 36 international dress designers from France England Italy Spain Greece Chile Japan to present a spectacle in April. Each designer will be accompanied by one model with all expenses paid for five days. Organizers will buy the clothes shown.
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Las Vegas
Nevada
Whitewright Raises 235 Dollars for Easter Seals Drive
Whitewright residents report 235.52 dollars donated to the Easter Seals drive led by Mrs. W D Maddox Grayson County Society for Crippled Children. Donations support speech and hearing therapy pre school and physical therapy at the Sherman center. Oraibi Hopi village in Arizona is noted as the oldest town in the United States.
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Whitewright
W. D. Maddox
Grayson County Society For
Sherman
Oraibi
Arizona
United States
Trained elephants recognize twenty to twenty five commands
A report notes that trained elephants can identify 20 to 25 distinct work commands and compares a tarantula bite to a hornet sting in terms of pain.
City awards water well contract to Denton firm
The City Commission awarded a 1200 foot Woodbine sand water well contract to J. L. Myers' Sons of Denton for 14600 dollars, underbidding Texas Water Well and other bidders due to existing drilling operations. Work starts immediately with 30 days to complete, followed by bids for pumping equipment and a pump house.
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City Commission
J. L. Myers’ Sons of
Denton
Texas Water Well Company of Houston
Layne-Texas Company of Dallas
Alamo Machine & Mfg. Company
San Antonio
Myers
Cotton Center
Fannin County
Russell Summers
Woodbine
Whitewright
Summers
Whitewright Set For Sonic Boom Corridor
Offutt Air Force Base SAC announces a new supersonic test corridor opening April 1, 1964. B 58 Hustler flights will run along a 40 mile wide path from Jefferson Texas to Frederick Oklahoma at Mach 2, 1300 mph above 35000 feet. Booms are weak and not expected to cause injuries though they may startle.
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Offutt Afb
Neb
Strategic Air Command
Jefferson
Tex
Frederick
Oklo
SAC
Free World
Whitewright
Lightning Comes In Different Sizes
University of Arizona researcher Martin A. Uman reports lightning varies in two sizes. Holes melted in a fiberglass screen around TV towers at Mount Bigelow show diameters from 0.08 to 0.20 inches and 0.80 to 1.3 inches, based on July to September 1963 observations.
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University of Arizona
Martin A. Uman
Mount Bigelow
Tucson
Aziz
Journal of Geophysical Research
India launches largest family planning program yet
India begins a massive family planning drive with over 9 000 clinics distributing contraceptives and 138 clinics offering free sterilization services as part of the new program.
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India
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