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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1960
Page
2
Local notices list numerous visits across Sherman Dallas Denison Arling ton and nearby towns. Families including the Reeves Wallace Jones Russell Ingram and many others hosted relatives and friends with gatherings at Lake Lavon Pitts burg Fort Worth and area homes.
State of Texas to William H Futrell you are commanded to appear and file an answer by 10 a m on Monday June 13 1960 before the 15th District Court in Sherman Texas in the divorce case filed April 12 1960 by Claudia Bell Futrell case No 66701.
The phrase Philadelphia lawyer traces to Andrew Hamilton who defended John Peter Zenger in the 1735 seditious libel trial. Hamilton, the colony’s leading lawyer, took Zenger’s case without pay and challenged judges under Governor Cosby, shaping American legal history with truth as a defense.
Sheriff G W Blanton will auction on June 7 1960 between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm in Sherman Texas all right title and interest of T F Owens in 110 acres of land described as part of Block 40 Gunter Farms Grayson County on the waters of Little Elm Creek. The sale follows a 1955 judgment in favor of J B Kinnaird.
The 1735 Zenger case framed as libel led to not guilty verdict, cited as germ of American freedom by Governor Morris. Also notes the Sphinx at 240 feet long and 66 feet high, and New York’s Empire State Building at 1,472 feet with 102 stories.
Senator Ralph Yarborough backs doubling the $1,200 annual earnings cap for Social Security pensioners and argues the limit should be removed, asserting benefits are earned by workers. Separately an Oregon tax return joke notes a taxpayer’s grievance about hand cancellation while filing.
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