Faculty and Board Lose Members in School Resignations
Three faculty members and one board member quit at a Monday night meeting and were accepted. Gladys Ray resigns as English head. Jan Dawson of Comanche replaces her. Principal Cunningham resigns to join the Federal Soil Erosion Service with training before transfer. Bean elected to fill vocational agriculture vacancy. Bryant becomes principal. Mrs Cunningham resigns. Douglas exits as secretary. Gillett new secretary. board vacancy remains. Ray praised for seven years on staff and leadership roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Gladys Ray
Jan Dawson
Comanche
Okla
W. S. Cunningham
Federal
M. College
J. T. Bryant
Bean
Masonic
Fort Worth
Cunningham
Lindale
Greenville
F. E. Douglas
R. A. Gillett
Douglas
Miss Ray
Dallas
Masqueraders
Cotton Exemption Certificates Notice From County Agent
The Sun reports that cotton growers must apply for tax exemption certificates to gin cotton between May 21 and May 27. All cotton farmers should file, even if not on a reduction contract, and those who signed applications should also sign their 1935 acreage reduction contract during the same period with local committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun
B. F. Gray
PT Association To Meet Tuesday
The Parent-Teacher Association meeting, postponed from last Tuesday due to rain, will be held next Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Grammar School auditorium. The program includes a piano duet by Lucile Giles and Tommie Chenoweth, talks by Mary Dale King, Sara Kathryn Atterberry, and others, a rhythm band, and installation of officers. Mothers and Camp Fire Girls interested are especially invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teacher Association
Grammar School
Lucile Giles
Tommie Chenoweth
Mary Dale King
Sara Kathryn Atterberry
Marjorie Nell Blanton
Dorotha Darwin
Mary Alice Harrison
William Janway
Charles Harrison
Jarvis D. Maddux
Sherman Camp
Commissioners to Decide Tax Problems Soon
Sherman commissioners vote to sit as a board of equalization May 27 to June 1 to hold tax values near 1935 levels. The tax rate will be set later and will include a levy to retire courthouse bonds. The burden will be slight for four years as payments and interest are small. The board will not blanket raise or cut valuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Commissioners’ Court
Board of Equalization
Detroit Wea settled black sees Wassy Cadilac in
A fragmentary Detroit notice mentions a black sedan and a Cadillac shown in a rural or suburban setting. Readable details are limited, but the item appears to describe a vehicle sighting or incident with local context unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Wassy Cadilac
Music Club to stage Immortality cantata Sunday night
The Whitewright Music Club presents the Community Chorus in a religious cantata Immortality at Baptist Church Sunday evening May 19 at 8 o'clock. The program features Ethelmere Adams Will Kennedy Olvin Gross Linwood Massey and R W Grant with Mrs Newton Manning at piano and R W Grant directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Music Club
Baptist Church
Bonham
Ethelmere Adams
Will Kennedy
Olvin Gross
Linwood Massey
Newton Manning
James German
R. W. Grant
Lord
Jewel Kennemer
Clyde Montgomery
Life Forevermore
Guy Hangston
Robert Grant
J. C. McMillin
Floyd Bassett
Charlie Ayers
Tommie Chenoweth
George German
A. L. Jackson
Frances Bryant
Ben Hall
Texas PWA Office Emerges Under New State Setup
Washington announces decentralization of the public works administration plan with miniature PWA offices to be established in each state. In Texas the main State PWA hub centers at Fort Worth with Julian Montgomery as State engineer and a state director to be named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PWA
Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Congress
Texas
Fort Worth
Julian Montgomery
Eyes of Love closes Ely School program and honors top students
Closing exercises for the Ely school featured the play Eyes of Love. Several students across grades are named for earning all A’s and B’s, including Jean Blackerby, Etha Louise Brown, Q. D. Hughes, Lotta Faye Brown, and others. The report also notes the camel is referred to as the Ship of the Desert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely Public School
Ely School
Jean Blackerby
Billie Ruth Holcomb
Truman Partridge
Etha Louise Brown
Paula Jean Booker
England
Q. D. Hughes
Una Fae Blackerby
Dale Marie Robbins
Lotta Faye Brown
Ruby Mae Holcomb
Tommie Dee Booker
Bells Road Work to Begin Ready for Highway 160 Link
Denison to Bells highway completion moves ahead as E W Hable of Corsicana secures a 34316.94 contract for grading and drainage. About five miles remain to Bells and a surface type awaits decision with concrete favored for durability and long term economy. The effort reflects a prolonged Texas state funded campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Big Sums Set for State Appropriations Totals
Texas appropriations for the biennium reach an all time high with key totals including 10 445 120 for educational institutions and 10 000 000 for rural aid and equalization. Other major allocations cover departmental biennials 12 500 000 eleemosynary institutions 10 850 127 relief bonds 5 500 000 and Centennial 3 000 000. Governor’s reductions unlikely to trim these large bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Judiciary
Tom Bean Boy Drowns In Rescue Attempt
Funeral held for J. F. Gregory of Tom Bean who drowned Sunday near Tom Bean while swimming with youngsters. He sacrificed his life to save his younger brother A L Gregory who was pulled from the water in a semi conscious condition. Surviving are his parents five sisters two brothers and a half sister all of Tom Bean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Gregory
Tom Bean
Gregory
A. L
Pete Parnell
Tom Langford
J. F
Opal Rice
Sherman
Robert Mathis
Whitewright
Gladys
Mary Ellen
Wallace
Gene Gregory
Earl Allen
Jail’s star boarder back in fold again for 99th stretch
Sherman man, 38, Grayson County jail’s most frequent inmate, returns Monday for the ninety ninth time for drunkenness. He has spent about a third of his life behind bars, with terms from 18 to 120 days. A Century Club member, he boasts of surpassing 100 incarcerations and has 17 times in the city jail second hundred. Police report two stints in the Texas penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
Shermanite
Century Club
Texas
Farmers Cheer Roosevelt as AAA Critics Face Off
Washington saw 4 500 farmers rally on the White House lawn and at Constitution Hall to defend the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. President Roosevelt urged education about the AAA while boos greeted Huey Long and Gov. Eugene Talmadge, and Wallace urged flexibility amid possible changes to the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
White House
Constitution Hall
Henry Wallace
AAA
United States
Long
Talmadge
Villians
America
Huey Long
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Wallace
Iowa
W. A. Shiver
Cairo
Old Talmadge
Franklin Roosevelt
Huey
Texas
Shiver
Arkansas
Addison Lansdell
Richmond County
Farmers of America
Roosevelt Agricutural
Bonus Advocates to Seek New Bill if Veto Is Upheld
Washington report notes veterans leaders plan a compromise bonus bill as an amendment to a routine appropriation if the Senate sustains President Roosevelt's expected veto of the Patman inflationary bonus bill. They consider financing options including bonds or currency and using relief funds to win enough votes to override the veto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
White House
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Elmer Thomas
Dem
Oklahoma
Thomas
Bennett C. Clark
Missouri
Vinson
Clark
May rainfall totals delay farm work in Whitewright
Whitewright records 5.09 inches for May with half the month ahead, normal May rain 4.66 inches. Year to date 17.42 inches vs 16.65 normal. Rain of 1.73 inches Tuesday and Wednesday delayed farming. cotton planting pushed to about a month late. Onion farmers fear rain harms crops while statewide rain affects growth areas in the Middle West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Grouth
Middle West
Seventh Grade Honors and Activities Highlight May Events
Valedictorian Marjorie Nell Blanton and salutatorian Charles Harrison lead seventh grade honors with averages above 90. Sara Kathryn Atterberry also excels, while May tests loom and a class day program in the auditorium includes jokes and prophecies. Faculty open house is set for May 17 in the school building. Mary Dale King, fifth grade, earns top state score in a Dallas music tournament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Kathryn Atterberry
Rudolph Taylor
Bubbles Ford
Marjorie Nell Blanton
Ruth Waldrum
Key
Trade Tour Brings Dallas Group Here
A Dallas group representing 55 institutions visited Whitewright on Friday for 45 minutes arriving by train at 2 35 p m They paraded the business district led by a brass band and were welcomed by W L Stowers Musicians radio entertainers accompanied the party Several hundred people including Whitewright students greeted the visitors and many toured downtown shops Souvenirs were distributed to children as the group toured under WFAA program director Alex Reese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Whitewright
W. L. Stowers
Alex Reese
WFAA
First 1935 Cotton Checks Begin Arriving in Lamar Texas
Checks totaling 96800 have been received by Lamar County farm agent A. L. Edminston in Paris on Tuesday. They represent about two thirds of the initial cotton farm retirement payments due in Lamar County this year. Lamar is the first Texas county to receive 1935 cotton farm payments with Grayson and Fannin counties expected within 30 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamar County
A. L. Edminston
Paris
Texas
Grayson
Fannin County
Graduation Exercises Honor Grayson County Seventh Grade
At Sherman Friday night Grayson County held graduation exercises with the seventh grade quartet performing Hail and Farewell. Students Marjorie Nell Blanton Charles Harrison Sara Kathryn Atterberry and William Janway led the song as Misses Chenoweth Pumphrey Montgomery and Mrs Roddy accompanied. Memory books and school pictures abound as teachers anticipate writer's cramp from signatures. Seventh grade finals began Wednesday and finish this week with other grades late next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Nell Blanton
Charles Harrison
Sara Kathryn Atterberry
William Janway
Grayson County
Sherman
Chenoweth
Pumphrey
Montgomery
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PT Association
Music Club
ELY
Desert
BELLS
Tom Bean Boy
American Legion
P.T. A
Renouf
Mary Dale
Lamar
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