Mangrums Plan Move to Sherman and Local Ties
JOE MANGRUM and Mrs. Mangrum will move to Sherman tomorrow to new home at 1808 North Travis. They sold their Whitewright-area residence to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bodine, with Mangrum longstanding in town since 1893 and a history in local grocering before retiring. Also note license plate deadline April 2 and a lighthearted weather jab at national politics.
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Joe Mangrum
T. J. Smith
J. W. Davidson
Will Mangrum
Bells
White
Weekly School Lunch Menu Details
The menu lists meals for Monday through Friday. Items include Frito Pie and pineapple cake on Monday, veal cutlets with gravy on Tuesday, chicken pie and cherry shortcake on Wednesday, hamburgers with sides on Thursday, and oven baked fish sticks with jello on Friday.
Hard Sell History Aids Cream Separator Pitch
In 1908 Montgomery Ward used a cow versus price comparison to sell a cream separator. The catalog argued a buyer paying the agent's high price effectively gives the agent a cow, while offering a $29.90 separator as a better deal at $79.90 for both separator and cow.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward
Flame of Love Rides on Wings of Pension
Fire Commissioner Robert J. Quinn doubts a widow’s claim of marriage to a retired Chicago fire officer to gain his pension. He received a letter from a Los Angeles widow asking if she may inherit the pension after his death and how long they must be married.
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Chicago
Robert J. Quinn
Quinn
Los Angeles
Chicago Fire Department
Two Elections To Be Held Next Week In Whitewright
Residents vote Tuesday in the city election for a two year mayoral term. Mayor Russell Summers seeks reelection as the sole candidate. On April 5 voters choose two members of the Whitewright Independent School District Board. Kaiser seeks reelection and Wallace Wilson competes for Sears' seat. Vestal to preside as judge at City Hall election room.
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Whitewright
Russell Summers
Whitewright Independent School District
Wilson Kaiser
Wallace Wilson
Thomas Sears
Manuel Alexander
Lennis Clark
Lakey Edwards
Bill Holloway
Louis Durham
R. C. Vestal
Funeral for Mrs. Sarah Lou Ross in Royse City
Funeral services for 88 year old Mrs. Sarah Lou Ross of Royse City were held at the local Methodist Church with Rev. John W. Polk and Rev. John Roberson officiating. Burial followed in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Friday in a Kaufman hospital. She was born October 11, 1869 in Tennessee and had lived in Orangeville and Whitewright. Surviving are four daughters and several siblings.
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Sarah Lou Ross
Royse City
Methodist Church
John W. Polk
Talco
John Roberson
Oak Hill Cemetery
Kaufman Hospital
Tennessee
Ross
John
Nancy Julian
W. T. Ross
Orangeville
Whitewright
Explorer II satellite likely to burn up in weeks
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla America launched its third satellite Explorer II aboard the Jupiter C rocket at 12 38 p m EST. Army officials warned the 80 inch tube carrying instruments may fall from orbit within two weeks while Caltechs Dr William H Pickering noted it went too high and at an angle, risking early reentry as it completes a shallow orbit.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
America
John B. Medaris
Army Ballistic Missile Program
Medaris
William H. Pickering
California Institute of Technology
Washington
Pickering
Earth
Congress Votes End To Overplantings Of Wheat in 1958
The Senate approved a bill to remove acreage penalties for overplanting the 1958 wheat crop and align with the House and Administration. The measure would grant planting history credit for 1958 only if excess wheat was stored under current marketing quotas, preventing future allotment cuts.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
White House
Whitewright Schools Set One Day Easter Break
Whitewright schools will cancel classes for one day on Monday April 7 to shorten the Easter vacation due to illness. At a board meeting superintendent S T Montgomery Jr had his contract extended to a three year term. Principal B R Vestal received a two year extension and O V Barker was reelected as grade school principal with further faculty elections planned.
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Whitewright
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Board of
Montgomery
B. R. Vestal
Cropland Drop Seen By Expert
Washington conservation expert D. A. Williams told a Senate subcommittee that farmland to feed a growing population will shrink. He forecast U S land per person dropping from 3.3 acres now to about 1.4 acres by 2000 due to population growth and slower productive land expansion. He said advances in soil and water management will prevent hunger.
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Washington
D. A. Williams
Soil Conservation Service
Senate Agriculture
Williams
Texas reports drop in traffic deaths for 1957
The Texas Department of Public Safety said 1957 traffic deaths fell by 72 from 1956 to 2,539 despite a 6 percent rise in total miles driven. The death rate declined from 6.5 to 6.0 per 100 million miles.
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Austin
Texas
Department of Public Safety
DPS
Baptist Revival Set At First Baptist Church
A revival begins Sunday at the First Baptist Church and runs through April 6. Rev. Fred Waldrop announces the event with services at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Evangelist Rev. Wesley Hodges from Queen City Texas leads, with Rev. Bill Perrin of Trenton in charge of singing. A nursery will be provided for children.
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First Baptist Church
Fred Waldrop
Wesley Hodges
Queen City
Texas
Bill Perrin
Trenton
Waldrop
Social Security Disability Rules and Local Office
The article outlines Social Security Act disability benefits available at age 50 for workers unable to perform substantial activity. Eligibility requires five of ten years with social security, with at least 1.5 years in the three years before disability, plus filed application. A June 30 1958 deadline may forfeit rights if not filed. The Sherman office at 503 Commercial Building serves Grayson Cooke and Fannin Counties. Alexander the Great founded Macedonia. Oslo 1957-58 mink and blue fox pelts sales expected.
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Social Security Office
Social Security Administration
Sherman Social Security Office
Commercial Building
Grayson, Cooke
Fannin Counties
Farmer Life Jests On Time Bugs And Moon Myths
Uncle Dan of Tom Bean writes that farming remains an occupational peril with farmers juggling sun time daylight saving time and cosmic timing. He riffs on clocks forecasts and the moon as he laments farming demands and recalls the weekly news from London via Daniel Gilmore.
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American Public Health Association
Daniel F. Gilmore
United Press
London
Mister Gilmore
Benson
Uncle Dan
Meeting to Study Schools Set For Monday Night
Whitewright Public Schools Superintendent S. T. Montgomery Jr. schedules a public meeting at 7 30 in the high school library to evaluate the local school program. The session will cover teacher supply, construction and finance as county and state committees hold parallel meetings.
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S. T. Montgomery Jr
Whitewright
Montgomery
Texas
Eisenhower Says We Are In The Worst Of The Slump
President Eisenhower assessed the recession as the worst of its kind and signaled only a vague possibility of a tax cut. He urged buying on product value and stressed expansion through better sales, packaging, and advertising while rejecting a stampede to tax relief. He noted higher spending and did not answer if lower prices would spur buying.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Methodists Raise Funds for Sherman Camp Site
At the First Methodist Church in Sherman a foundation banquet drew 250 attendees and about 11,000 dollars was raised to develop a 58 acre Methodist camp site for the Sherman and McKinney district. Whitewright youth pledged 100 dollars and several local adults contributed nearly 600 dollars.
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Sherman
First Methodist Church
Sherman and
McKinney
Whitewright
Don Walker
Jimmy Clark
Martha Anderson
Louisa Lackey
MYF
John Roberson
Clint Hennig
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
J. C. Bryant
Dick Walker
A. M. Bryant
Bryant
Farmer challenges Soil Bank action in federal suit
Roland K. Cronk of Strasburg Colorado files in U S District Court challenging Congress authority to pass the Soil Bank Act. Cronk, penalized $7095 last year for alleged over seeding his ranch, claims the legislation exceeds constitutional power.
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Denver
Strasbourg
Colo
U. S. District Court
Congress
Roland K. Cronk
Cronk
Judge Acquits Woman in Drunken Driving Case
Raleigh North Carolina Judge Albert Doub acquitted a woman charged with drunken driving after a witness testified the defendant was sober enough and that the witness compared her to a judge.
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Raleigh
N. C
Albert Doub
Whitewright United Fund drive falls short of goal
Clint Hennig reports the Whitewright Community United Fund raised 3125 dollars, 89 percent of its 3500 goal, with allocations approved for Boy Scouts, Polio Foundation, Salvation Army, Crippled Children's Fund, Red Cross, and local youth and therapy programs totaling 2679.18 dollars. One third of Salvation Army funds stayed for local charity work, and no campaign expenses were incurred.
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Clint Hennig
Whitewright Community United Fund
The
Sun
Boy Scouts
Polio Foundation
Hasiecrey Salvation Army
Crippled Children’s Fund
American Red Cross
Rae Oe
Benee Department
Salvation Army
Hennig
Charlie Ayres
Bigger National Debt Won't Make Us Richer
A Saturday Evening Post piece argues against deficit spending as a cure for economic woes. It notes ten-year deficits 1931–1940, unemployment peaks, and wartime spending 1942–1945, warning that armed conflict inflates budgets and inflates prices, creating only temporary relief.
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Congress
Congressional
Paul B. Trescott
Kenyon College
Armed Services
F. D. Roosevelt
Saturday Evening Post
Alexandria reads old traffic rule on headlamps
City officials in Alexandria examine a vintage traffic ordinance amid the advent of late model four headlamp autos. The law requires motor vehicles to have two headlights.
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Alexandria
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the Sun
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Grayson
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