Whitewright High School honors 1953 graduates
Whitewright High School names two honor graduates J Don Biggerstaff valedictorian with 93.59 average and Aubrey Burnham salutatorian at 93.30. Thirty one seniors graduate May 29 with Dr Lee J Wilborn as principal speaker. Other honor graduates include Norman Harper Beverly Bassett Ruth Cummings Myra Nell McKnight Kenneth Jones Joy Neal Shirley Pool and Pat Russell.
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Whitewright High School
J. Don Biggerstaff
Aubrey Burnham
Reflector
Austin
American Legion
J. Don
Whitewright
Montgomery
Norman Harper
Beverly Ann Bassett
Ruth Ann Cummings
Myra Nell McKnight
Kenneth Ray Jones
Joy Ann Neal
Shirley Ann Pool
Pat Russell
Harold Taylor
Lee J. Wilborn
Texas Education Agency
Whitewright Public School
Wilborn
Grayson County
Lucille LaRoe
Lucian LaRoe
White
Aubrey Lee Burnham
Larry Conley Cooper
Otis Lee Bass
Beverly Ann Bassett Margie Brownfield
Mildred Clem Ruth Ann Cummings
Martha Ann Garner Norman David Harper
Betty Jean Jarvis Kenneth Ray Jones
Joy Layman Neal Marjorie V. Neathery Dearle McKnight Myra Nell McKnight
Joe Morris Mazelle Musser
Billy Wayne Partridge
Shirley Pool
Lillian Roberson
William Loyd Simmons Walter Gene Stephens
VA Changes GI Loan Rules For Eligibility Certificates
The Veterans Administration announced a change requiring all veterans seeking GI loans to apply to VA regional offices in advance for certificates of eligibility. Previously discharge papers were sent to private lenders. The VA says this reduces processing delays by gathering necessary information to establish eligibility under the Korean GI Bill.
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Washington
The
Veterans Administration
Harvester Cuts Truck Prices Across A-Line Models
International Harvester announces price reductions on its A-line trucks from 3.5 to 10.6 percent. The cuts apply to light, medium, and light-heavy duty models from pickups up to 19 500 pound rated capacity, lowering former list prices by 87 to 152 dollars, about a 6.7 percent average.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
PTA To Have Final Meeting Tuesday
The last meeting of the Parent Teacher Association for this school year will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 at the gymnasium. Officers for next year will be elected, and other business matters will be given attention. The program will be given by the kindergarten pupils of Mrs Homer Gentry. Everyone interested in the schools is invited to attend.
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Parent- Teacher Association
Homer Gentry
Deaths Mrs Madge Braly 38 Funeral Rites Held
Funeral services for Mrs Madge Braly 38 were held at 2 30 p m Tuesday at Barnheart Chapel with Rev Lee H Smith and Rev Harold S Taylor officiating. Burial was at Oak Hill Cemetery. She died of a heart attack Monday morning at her Whitewright home. Born January 7 1915 in Whitewright she was daughter of T E Sears and Mabel Jones Sears. She taught music and directed the choir at First Presbyterian Church. Surviving: daughter Sandra Braly mother Mabel Sears brother Thomas Sears sister Mrs Cliff Emerson all of Whitewright.
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Madge Braly
Barnheart Chapel
Lee H. Smith
First Presbyterian Church
Harold S. Taylor
First Methodist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Bob Sears
C. B. Bryant III
Sears Anderson
Whitesboro
James Bryant
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
Whitewright
Braly
T. E. Sears
Mabel Jones Sears
Whitewright High School
TSCW
Denton
Ora Franklin Rice 75 Dies at Sherman Home
Ora Franklin Rice a 75 year old retired farmer died Wednesday at 6 a m at his Sherman home after a four day illness. A Scott County Virginia native he lived in Grayson County 65 years and was a Bells Baptist Church member. Funeral Friday at 2 30 p m Bells Baptist Church with burial Bethany Cemetery. Survivors include wife Doanie Isom three sons Ray Rice of Bells Guy and Earl Rice of Sherman a daughter Mrs Carl Brown of Sherman one brother J A Rice of Sherman seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren granddaughters Earline Rice and Geraldine Lankford of Whitewright.
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Ora Franklin Rice
Sherman
Scott County
Grayson County
Bells Baptist Church
Bethany Cemetery
Will Rice
Doanie Isom
The
Baptist Church
Lunchroom Menus for the Week
The menu lists daily offerings for Monday through Friday. Items include lunch meat and cheese with mashed potatoes and peaches on Monday. stew with pear salad and doughnuts on Tuesday. red beans with kraut onions and apple pie on Wednesday. turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce peas and French pastry on Thursday. and hamburgers with corn chips ice cream and cake cups on Friday.
Two Farm Units to Feel Pinch of Ike Economy
Washington officials say only the Production and Marketing Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration face major firing to fit the fiscal 1954 budget. About 700 PMA employees in Washington have already received dismissal notices, with further cuts likely after Congress acts on Ezra Benson's budget request of 682.2 million dollars, down from Truman's 752.8 million. REA faces the heaviest impact, while overall trims depend on program tightening and Benson's reorganization plan.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Production and Marketing Administration
Rural Electrification Administration
Eisenhower
T. Roy Reid
PMA
Reid
REA
Congress
Ezra T. Benson
Benson
Truman
Tioga Youth Tops Steer at Red River Valley Show
James Oliver of Tioga showed the top beef steer at the seventh Red River Valley Livestock Exposition in Sherman. The 965 pound steer sold for 26 cents a pound to Quaker Oats of Sherman. Other winners included grand champions in bulls and a blue ribbon breeding female, a grand champion sow with nine piglets, and several county winners in sheep. Prices for choice steers ranged 22 to 25 cents per pound, with Whitewright youths’ steers selling to local banks and merchants. overall prices trended lower than two to three years ago indicating cattle price drops.
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James Oliver
Tioga
Sherman
Quaker Oats Company
Charles Sherrard
Denison
Weldon Lane
Norman Guillard
Lonnie Schmitt
Dorchester
Suffolk
Hampshire
Harrison Davis
Johnnie Elmore
Whitewright
Norman Harper
Joe Hilburn
Jack Bartley
Citizens National Bank of Denison
William Russell
Merchants & Planters National Bank of Sherman
Gas Pipeline Tax Upheld By Court
The Texas Supreme Court upheld the natural gas pipeline tax, leaving an appeals court ruling intact and not releasing revenues immediately. The decision may influence a pending legislative session as lawmakers face a $600 yearly teacher pay raise without funding and possible special sessions after further litigation outcomes.
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Austin
Supreme Court
Shivers
Civil Appeals Tribunal
U. S. Supreme Court
Texas Farm Cash Earnings Fall Below 1952 Level
Texas farm earnings in the first quarter totaled 327.8 million dollars, down 80.6 million from the same period in 1952, according to the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Wesley College Ex-Students Homecoming May 17
Wesley College Ex-Students Association plans its annual homecoming at Wesley Methodist Church Greenville on May 17. Ex-students and families are invited to attend and bring basket lunches to be served in the church dining room.
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Greenville
Wesley College
Wesley Methodist Church
Paris Boy, 15, Athlete, Dies From Burns
James Sain, Paris High School freshman and athlete in football and basketball, died early Wednesday from burns sustained when he and classmate James Le Rue tried to burn trash behind a filling station using gasoline. Le Rue suffered hand burns while trying to extinguish the flames.
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Paris
James Sain
Sain
James LeRue
la Rue
Winter Cold Halts Early Cotton Planting in Town
A severe cold snap 52 degrees last Monday and Tuesday forced residents to revive space heaters. The cold rain slowed early cotton planting, with one grower predicting many plants must be reset. Yet grain corn gardens and flowers thrived, and roses bloomed profusely despite some frost setback to vegetables.
Ambrose Old Nesters Reunion Planned for June 14
The Ambrose community north of Bells announces an Old Nesters Reunion on Sunday June 14. Mary Gregory of Bells chairs the committee seeking former Ambrose residents including ex-teachers and ex-students for a noon basket lunch and social gathering.
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Ambrose
Bells
Old Nesters
the Sun
Mary Gregory
Route 1
Government Raises Home Loan Interest Rates Nationwide
The government boosted rates on most government guaranteed and insured home loans to 4.44 percent. Veterans using GI loan benefits face higher costs, while FHA insured loans rise to 4.75 percent with a 0.42 percent mortgage insurance premium. Total charges reach 5 percent for new loans. existing mortgages are unaffected. A veteran with a 20 year 9000 dollar loan pays about 2.43 dollars more monthly. a 10000 dollar FHA loan adds 1.30 dollars monthly. A builder group spokesman expects credit for buyers to increase.
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Washington
Federal Housing Administration
National Association of Home Builders
Shivers Bill Aims Aid to Radio and TV Stations
A measure to shield radio and television stations from libel liability for speeches they cannot censor was sent to the governor after the House approved minor Senate amendments. The FCC bans station censorship of political speeches, and the bill seeks to protect stations from libel claims arising from such broadcasts.
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Austin
House
Senate
FCC
Power Company Office Remodeling Completed
Community Public Service Company finished remodeling its local office and salesroom. Work included a lowered ceiling remodeled front tile floor and new fluorescent lighting. Mechanical air conditioning will be added to improve comfort and appeal of the business building.
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Community Public Service Company
Field Day Set At Camp Grayson
Explorer Field Day for scouts 14 years and over will be held at Camp Grayson on Lake Texoma Saturday. Sherman Area Council Boy Scouts activities committee chairman Jack Hammock says the program features bait casting archery rifle marksmanship and a discussion of survival foods.
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Camp
Grayson
Lake Texoma
Jack Hammock
Sherman Area Council
Boy Scouts
Considerable Cut In Foreign Aid Seen
Secretary of State Dulles told Congress he foresees considerable reductions in future foreign aid appropriations and planned substantial cuts in economic assistance. He testified on the administration’s 5.828 billion dollar program before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Harold Stassen, mutual security director, spoke to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. he said about 12 billion unspent and over four billion unobligated remain as of March 31.
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Washington
Dulles
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Harold Stassen
Mutual Security
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stassen
Truman
Canadian dollar falls to par with U S dollar in New York
The Canadian dollar slid to its lowest point in 13 months and dropped below par with the U S dollar in New York trading centers. Bankers attribute the decline to a strengthening of the U S dollar as American investors shift from Canadian to American securities.
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New York
U. S
Fannin Farmers Will Get Prizes
Bonham Fannin County Soil Conservation District awards dinner set for Thursday at 7 30 p m. with sponsorship from the district banks. Five outstanding farmers from zones one through five will receive awards W T Merrell Jethro Bryant Paul Nixon E O Morris and Eli Wood. George W Stewart named champion comeback farmer will get a special award. Dr Joe D Nichols Atlanta National Bank chair will speak on Healthy Soils and Healthy People Judge Choice Moore Bonham to preside over ceremonies.
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George W. Stewart
Joe D. Nichols
The
Atlanta National Bank
Choice Moore of
Bonham
Moonshiner Uses Potent Formula
Alabama woman develops a bootlegging moonshine rumored to rival Lucretia Borgia in strength. Police arrested her in late April after she admitted making and selling liquor for two dollars a pint. Her recipe mixed water orange juice lye gin sassafras flavor and sugar.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Alabama
Lucretia Borgia
Chamber Aims to Aid Grayson Reunion Planning
C B Bryant III, president of the Chamber of Commerce, offers chamber support to the Grayson College Ex Students Association for its annual reunion. He emphasizes keeping Whitewright Homecoming and Grayson College Reunion separate to preserve intimacy while hoping both events share the old homecoming spirit.
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Chamber of Commerce
C. B. Bryant III
Grayson College
Whitewright
Chamber of Commmrce
Grayson College Association
Bryant
Chamber
Senators Approve State Tidal Lands Bill
The Senate approved with a 56 to 35 vote a tideland bill returning submerged lands to Texas and other coastal states. The measure faces House action and possible conference, with Eisenhower expected to support and Lyndon Johnson pressing for the Senate version.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Texas
Truman
Eisenhower
Allen Shivers
Democrats
Democratic Party
House
Conference
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Wayne Morse
Cattle Peak Due in 1955 Expert Says
Washington report shows Agriculture Department economist Harold Breimger predicts cattle production will peak in January 1955 with total cattle on U S ranches and farms near 98 to 99 million. Slaughter rates and cow herd dynamics could delay a decline, matching a six year cycle since 1949.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Harold F. Breimger
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
U. S
Breimger
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Mrs. Madge Braly
Whitewright Public Schools
Sun
Red River Valley
Bill
Power Company
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