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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
1
Rain last night and again this morning brings .45 inch to the city water plant gauge, aiding a third straight year of likely strong grain yields as wheat and oats show promise. Finney's Bread debuts as a local advertiser amid community debates on advertising and quality.
June 1 is the deadline for students to transfer to districts other than their home area, says Caryl N. McAllister, Grayson County superintendent. About 500 transfers yearly, mostly high school grades nine through twelve, plus some elementary transfers, require county and local board approval. Application forms available at the superintendent's offices in town and Sherman.
Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 30 p m at First Baptist Church Van Alstyne for Mrs Susan Alice Wallace 88 who died Tuesday at her Anna route 1 home. Dr Harrison Baker Rev Ray Flaherty and Rev Jesse Pugh will officiate Burial is in Van Alstyne Cemetery She was born October 15 1866 in Weston Surviving are a daughter Mrs Harley James Anna a son J O Wallace Ely a sister Mrs J H Stinson Dallas and four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
The week lists meals for Monday to Thursday including Pimiento Cheese Sandwiches Salmon Salad on lettuce Potato Chips Doughnuts Orange Juice Milk Meat Loaf Green Beans Whole Kernel Corn Tomato Slice Hot Rolls Apricot Shortcake Milk Fish Sticks Mashed Potatoes Mixed Fruit Salad Cookies Ice Cream Milk Tuna Sandwiches English Peas Cheese Slice Potato Chips Ice Cream Jelly Roll Milk.
Dallas city officials contracted rainmaking services from Dr. Irving Krick for six months in 1952 1953 and a one year period ending October 14 1954. Generators at 10 12 points near the Dallas watershed will burn coke with silver iodide to seed clouds. The city may cancel on 30 days notice. criticism surrounded the project though rainfall has lagged stored water.
Washington announced it is ready to accept 10 Soviet farm specialists as official visitors. The State Department note to Moscow suggested midsummer, July 10 to August 10, as the most advantageous period for the visit.
In Austin on Wednesday the Senate State Affairs Committee killed all new taxes proposed by a subcommittee, resetting work for Friday to add about 20 million dollars in tax income to the House plan. The panel removed levies on department store gross receipts, manufacturers, hotels, airlines, and intangible assets, while keeping a gasoline tax increase for highway funds and smaller changes in cigarette taxes beer licenses and uranium royalties. The committee also left intact a planned gas production tax cut to 7 percent next year and eliminated tobacco and trading stamps levies.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated recent world events may mark a turning point in world history. In an unprecedented broadcast from the White House he said the Western Defense Community pacts give Western civilization a new lease on life despite Soviet opposition to rearming West Germany. The broadcast was a personal report to the President and officials with a nationwide radio audience.
More than 60 diseases of poultry diagnosed in Texas over two years from 11 037 birds submitted to state diagnostic laboratories at Gonzales Center and College Station between 1952 and 1954. Main diseases in chickens were pullorum hemorrhagic disease infectious bronchitis and coccidiosis. In turkeys common issues included fowl typhoid hexamitosis enteritis and botulism. A complete summary is in Progress Report 1780 from the Agricultural Information Office College Station.
Whitewright and Kentuckytown voters approved unopposed consolidation of Kentuckytown Common School District with Whitewright Independent School District. Kentuckytown 19 to 0 and Whitewright 44 to 0. Bond assumption and tax equalization election to follow in the consolidated district. date to be set. Supt. S. T. Montgomery Jr. informed The Sun yesterday.
The Whitewright Independents defeated Denison 8 to 4 on their home field behind Bud Neal's one hit pitching. It marked Whitewright fifth win against one loss in the Red River Valley League, with a next game against Pottsboro at Pottsboro scheduled Sunday at 3 p.m.
A TexasHouse bill to enact a liberalized teachers retirement program passed and awaits Senate action. If approved by voters in 1956, the plan would raise retirement and death benefits, provide survivor payments, and cost about 4.5 million dollars in the first year, with funding starting September 1, 1957.
Dr George V Mann and colleagues from Harvard School of Public Health report at a biology federation meeting that excess food with little exercise fattens middle aged men and hardens arteries. Four men underwent 10 weeks of cycles with big meals and high activity then big meals with light activity and all gained fat. When calories were reduced to match moderate activity they stopped gaining weight and felt better with improved sleep and energy.
Gov Allan Shivers signed a bill prohibiting carrying or possessing intoxicating beverages at athletic events sponsored or participated in by public schools. The report notes Michigan as the first state to ratify the amendment repealing prohibition.
The Public Health Service announced no further releases this week of Salk polio vaccine from any manufacturer. A spokesman cited a need for more tests and data amid a “very confused picture” and said reclearance remains pending for flagged lots.
Unemployed Cincinnati machinist Warnie Cleveland Sparks, 62, receives a $100 National Father’s Day Committee savings bond for having the most living daughters. His 12 daughters range from 5 to 27, and he has five sons. Other 12-daughter winners include Edward J. Bartels of Dyersville Indiana and Early Swanson of Randolph Mississippi, with large families and multiple sons.
Former President Harry S Truman and Mrs Truman will be interviewed by daughter Margaret on the Edward R. Murrow program Person to Person airing Friday May 27 over CBS. Murrow will be in Britain for elections, with the Trumans at home in Independence Missouri and Margaret in New York.
Police reported a Chicago crime where criminals used explosives and a blow torch on an office safe over several hours. They left a wall sign reading This safe can only be opened by Brink's and fled afterward.
Oklahoma legislators have passed a bill imposing a five percent gross production tax on any uranium mined in the state, even as no significant deposits have been found yet. The move signals readiness for future extraction.
Honor graduates announced for Whitewright schools with high and grade school valedictorians and salutatorians. School lists include Miss Johnnie Harper and Jack Ayres with top averages, Carol Taylor and Rochelle Alexander as grade school leaders, plus an 8th grade graduating class. Baccalaureate and commencement dates set for May 29 and 30 with brief details on schedule and last lunch day.
Detroit reports 182,960 passenger cars built lifting year to date to 3,239,124. Record volume hints at near 6 month output around 442 million, with 2 percent of second half needed to top marks. CIO United Auto Workers begins wage negotiations with General Motors and Ford as strike votes occur, though experts expect a compromise without a stoppage.
John K. Hennegger was recaptured after escaping Broward County jail by posing as a maintenance worker with brushes and paint cans. He tried to swim across a stream using a water hyacinth to conceal his head, but the plant was seen moving upstream, alerting officers. The piece notes an overall U.S. accidental death rate of about 57 per 100000 annually.
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