Fronts Painted In Step With Local Business
Local shops have been repainting fronts while The Sun building may receive a coat next. A light shower eased drought conditions, and residents welcome even partial rainfall. Reverend First Baptist Church honors Mrs. Guy Hamilton for years of service as pianist and organist with open house. Preschool day guidance urged for children starting school in September at Whitewright Elementary. The drought worsens as cattle water supplies dwindle. farmers expect rain to revive crops. Commentary on yellow journalism and legislative pay debates appears, plus views on a proposed national lottery and its potential revenue and legality.
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Guy Hamilton
First Baptist Church
New York
School Lunch Menu Week Highlights
Monday features Hamburgers with lettuce tomato pickle onion potato chips and banana pudding. Tuesday serves Meat Loaf with Blackeyed Peas hot rolls green salad butter and syrup. Wednesday offers Pinto Beans Vienna Sausage mixed greens cornbread and fruit cobbler. Thursday presents Pressed Ham slice of cheese green beans creamed corn hot rolls butter and peach halves. Friday includes Tuna Fish Sandwiches shoe string potatoes cheese pineapple salad and ice cream.
Bethel Cemetery Association Meeting May 10
The Bethel Cemetery Association invites all interested persons to attend the annual meeting at the cemetery on Sunday at 2 p m Officers and trustees will be elected in the short business session Decoration Day observance will follow.
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The
Bethel Cemetery Association
James U Jarvis 43 dies in yard accident near Whitewright
Funeral services were held for James U Jarvis at 2 p m Monday. He was killed Saturday when an automobile fell from a jack at the Dixon wrecking yard on Highway 69. He lived four miles south of Whitewright and was a WWII veteran. He is survived by his wife Leotta, a son Leonard, two sisters, and a brother.
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James U. Jarvis
John Roberson
Harlan Duncan
Oak Hill Cemetery
Earnheart
Perry Joe Caraway
Tommy Robertson
J. B. Dixon
James Dixon
W. B. Key
Lee Penny
Jarvis
Dixon Wrecking Yard
Highway 69
Leotta Bellew
Caddo, Oklo
Methodist Church
Leonard Jarvis
Frank Whitworth
Lewis Whitworth
Whitewright
Joe Jarvis
Ivanhoe
Funeral Rites Held for Mrs Walter A Fain Former Whitewright Resident
Funeral services were held at Earnheart Chapel for Mrs Myrtle Fain 81 of McKinney died Monday in Collin Memorial Hospital. She was born in Savoy in 1877 and married Walter Fain in Sherman in 1907. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery. Survivors include sister Mrs Bess Howard Dallas and brother Ernest Marsh Dallas.
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Earnheart
Walter A. Fain
Whitewright
Collin Memorial Hospital
McKinney
Fred Waldrop
John Roberson
Oak Hill
Manton Fain
Gomer May
W. H. Hancock
Gerald Howard
Walter C. Fain
Jack Bogle
R. M. Bronaugh Dies. Roff Obituary Noted
R. M. Bronaugh, early Whitewright resident, died at his Roff Oklahoma home on Tuesday. Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock this morning in Roff. He was the father of Mrs. J. C. McMillin of Whitewright, who with her husband attended the funeral.
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R. M. Bronaugh
Whitewright
Roff
Okla
Bronaugh
J. C. McMillin
President Eisenhower Warns on Inflation Spiral in Steel Talks
President Eisenhower cautioned the steel industry and workers that rising wages and prices could trigger government controls. He urged management and labor to show wisdom as contract talks began in New York, stressing all 175 million Americans are affected and must act.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
New York
Lion cub plays hunter game under watchful mother
In a playful scene a mother lion scolds her cub for chasing a hunter around a tree. The cub replies with a chirpy defense, illustrating a lighthearted wildlife moment.
McAllister Named To Eight-Member Textbook Group
Caryl McAllisterGrayson County School Supt named to the eight member textbook committee for 1959 by the State Board of Education in Austin Monday. Other actions include upholding the dismissal of Ray mond Christian Friona teacher who was ill and appealed, revising the sparse area formula to add a state paid teacher in districts under 107 pupils, and adopting an emergency influenza relief formula allowing districts to receive state aid based on three year attendance averages.
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Caryl McAllister
Grayson County
State Board of Education
Austin
Lorene Buttram
DeKalb
Kenneth Skinner
Corsicana
Claude Hall
LaMarque
Joyce Slam
Taylor
Ludie Pickens
Edinburg
Inez Parker
Midland
Clarice Brown
San Angelo
Raymond Christian
Friona
Edgar
Growth Urged After Grayson County Livestock Show Success
Sherman reports the Grayson County Livestock Show at Log Lake Park drew record livestock, with Texoma Exposition and Livestock Shows Inc. noting two barns were completed and two more needed for 1960. The event, first at Loy Park, marks Log Lake Park as permanent home amid county-wide volunteer effort. Salvador in Central America features volcanic ranges led by Santa Ana at 8,300 feet.
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Sherman
Grayson County
Log Lake Park
Texoma Exposition and Livestock Shows Inc
Loy Park
Salvador
Central America
Santa Ana
Texoma Quarter Horse Show Set
Major Thunder a $25 000 quarter horse tops a blue ribbon list of horses worth a quarter of a million dollars at the Texoma Quarter Horse Show Sunday in the arena between Sherman and Denison on U S 75 behind the Borden Milk Co. station. A junior show for amateur youth 20 and under runs Saturday from 11 a m to 6 p m. Prizes total 500 dollars in trophies and awards.
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Major Thunder
Texoma
Texoma Quarter Horse Association
Sherman and
Denison
U. S. 75
Borden Milk Co
Plan To Retire Then Read This Plan To Retire Then Read This
Charles J. Campbell urges people nearing retirement to inquire at their local Social Security office before retirement. Early inquiry helps gather age and earnings evidence to establish rights for a prompt first payment. Evidence may include birth certificates and tax records.
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Social Security Administration
Charles J. Campbell
Sherman Office
Campbell
Social Security
Uncle Dan Claims Taxes Decline Illusion In Election Year
In a letter to the editor Uncle Dan of Tom Bean argues that tax cuts are an election-year illusion, noting politicians shift crises after polls. He mocks spelling, laments language changes, and reflects on government subsidies and loans while signing as Uncle Dan.
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Harvard
Uncle Dan
Rev Fred Waldrop to Take Pastorate in Gainesville
Rev Fred Waldrop resigns as pastor of First Baptist Church after several years and will serve through May. On June 1 he becomes pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Gainesville and steps down as president of the Grayson County Missionary Baptist Association due to the move.
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Fred Waldrop
First Baptist Church
South Grayson County TB Association elects officers
Homer R. Caston Jr. of Sherman was installed as president at a Grayson Hotel luncheon. New officers include Anderson as first vice president Pedigo as second vice president Mrs Prentiss Compton treasurer and Mrs Homer Sears secretary. New directors on the 24 member board include Dr Neal Triplett and Dr Arthur Boyd.
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Homer R. Caston Jr
Sherman
South
Grayson County
Bill Rader
Charles Daniel
Neal Triplett
Arthur Boyd
A. A. Rolfe
T. J. Long
Fuel Use Vast by Jet Liners
The Convair 880 jet airliner consumes about 12 000 pounds of jet fuel per hour at top speed. A mass flowmeter from General Electric measures fuel flow to tight tolerances. a 1 percent error could waste 150 000 pounds annually.
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General Electric
Sun Want Ad Promotes Buy and Sell Listings
Classified notice invites readers to place or respond to Sun Want Ad listings for buying and selling items. Offers space for personal and business ads. Encourages quick responses and wide reach through the newspaper's classified section.
Governor Daniel Won’t Sign Primary Date Bill
Governor Daniel on Wednesday night declined to sign HB 158 as given, citing fairness concerns with a May state convention date in presidential years and how executive committee contests would be decided. Lawmakers say Johnson allies urged passage. Daniel says changes should ensure direct election of committee members. The bill would shift primaries 11 weeks earlier to May and June.
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Austin
Daniel
House
Senate
Johnson
Democratic Executive Committee
Executive Committee
Mother of Year Defers to Dad
Jennie Loitman Barron named American mother of 1959 deflects praise to fathers. In accepting at the Waldorf Astoria she praises her husband Samuel Barron Jr. and says being a good mother requires a father's help. Barron, a Brookline Massachusetts Superior Court justice and grandmother of seven, highlights the prize as a symbol for all states.
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New York
Jennie Loitman Barron
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Daniel A. Poling
American Mothers Committee, Inc
American Mothers Committee
Barron
Boston
Boston Public
Boston University
Barron & Barron
Texas House Seeks Federal Income Tax Abolition
The Texas House approved a resolution to abolish the federal income tax and urge U S government to exit the business field. If the Senate agrees, the measure moves to Congress to push a constitutional amendment. Sponsored by Rep. Jerry Sadler of Palestine.
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Texas House
U. S
Austin
House
State Senate
Congress
Jerry Sadler
Palestine
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Voltaire
Drouth
Arthur Badgett
Arthur
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Castro
Cuba
Bethel Cemetery Meeting
McAllister
Dan
Tom Bean
Dear Mister
Whitewright, Texas
Grayson Or
Fannin Counties
Gainesville
TB Association
Ford Savage
Caston
E. A. Johnson
State Laboratory
Area TB
Steve Davidchik
Charles Baum
Whitesboro
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