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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1941
Page
5
Numerous social visits and travels across Dallas Savoy Bristol Tenn and Shamrock with relatives and friends. Local moves include residents buying homes in West Maple and West Main streets and a consolidation discussion for Whitewright schools. Several service members and civilian workers are noted with recent duties and training.
Comic dialogue shows Jinks revealing a man keeps two books in the closet and two drawers in his chiffonier for himself. Blinks remarks on the wife, prompting the humorous rebuttal about shared space and private treasures.
An automobile driven by Clyde Gibson and carrying Ed Stine Van Claborn and Bill White overturned on the slab between Denison and Red River around 6 p m Tuesday while returning from Oklahoma where they had looked at cattle. The 1940 Chevrolet sedan owner Gibson escaped with minor injuries.
The post office department announces H. D. Ray as postmaster at Ector succeeding the late R. R. Morgan. Ray is a merchant and president of the school board.
The W. M. S. of the First Baptist Church hosted the 1941 graduating class and guests for a dining room banquet. Decorations featured a cross arrangement of white and yellow flowers with miniature diplomas at each plate. Speakers included Mrs Olive Myrick and Rev E P Wootten, with readings by Mrs L B Morris and a capella singing finale by L B Morris and D R Russ.
The Fidelis Class of the First Baptist Church met in a Thursday evening business and social gathering at the home of Miss Lena Mae Gowdy. Co-hostesses were Mrs. D. A. Vowell Mrs. Ted Spinks and Mrs. O. L. Sears. Twenty three guests attended and enjoyed a program of songs devotionals readings and solos followed by refreshments.
The Hickman Class of the First Presbyterian Sunday School met at Mrs. Frank Smiths home Tuesday evening with co host Mrs. Floyd Bassett. Officers for the year were elected: Miss Margaret Lilley president Mrs Dick Montgomery vice president and Mrs Wilson Kaiser secretary treasurer. After games refreshments were served to 12 members.
The T E L Sunday School class met in a home for a business and social meeting with 17 members and five associates present. Miss Effie Maynard led the devotional and Mrs. S T Montgomery offered the prayer. Refreshments followed.
The Whitewright Chapter of Future Farmers of America met Tuesday morning and discussed summer plans. A monthly meeting schedule was approved for summer and a Woodlake encampment set for August 4 to 6. Billy Ray Conner and Edward Kent were elected as delegates to the State F F A convention at Marshall in July.
An old man dropped something on the theatre floor and made a scene trying to recover it. A nearby woman asked what he had lost. He replied that it was a chocolate caramel and said his teeth were in the carrel.
Sunday school at 10 a m taught by Dr Alan Harvey-Brooks. Worship at 11 a m and 7 30 p m. Prayer meeting and evening service on Wednesday evening.
Dr. B. Wrenn Webb, pastor, leads Sunday School at 10 a. m. with R. P. Montgomery as superintendent. 10:50 a. m. sermon on Preserving Power of Salt. 7:45 p. m. Prayer For Deliverance service.
The state selective service system promotes prehabilitation urging registrants to seek physical exams before local boards call them. General J Watt Page backs the practice as improving public health and personal living. National HQ aims to cut rejection rates by encouraging self testing and remediation before duty.
Officials warn of a fresh outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis in South Texas. The Brownsville area reports losses of 2 to 8 percent with several thousand horses affected as vaccines are rushed to Victoria Brownsville and Del Rio areas along the Gulf Coast. Mosquitoes transmit the organism. vaccination and occasional quarantines are the main controls.
New York reports National Retail Dry Goods Association backs Leon Henderson’s plan to cap combed cotton yarn at 40 cents a pound, while yarn sells at 52 cents. Lew Hahn says the industry faces a showdown and criticizes manufacturers for not justifying current prices.
The text notes strong demand for goods and buyers fearing shortages. Prices are set by market reactions and many buyers feel forced to accept prices they believe are too high, amid expectations of a long-term surge.
Texas state officials advocate a four year Texas State School of Aeronautics and Engineering in Grayson County near Sherman. A $300000 first year and $200000 second year appropriation are proposed with federal matching. The planned 500 student program would include liberal arts and aeronautical engineering, supported by a $1 million plant with ties to a second Randolph Field in Grayson.
A Sunday School crowd welcomed several visitors. J. W. Gunter has been ill. Many families visited relatives including the Rich, Harper, Alexander, Hicks, White, Bussey, Hunter, and Willard White Jr. with the couple moving north of Sherman this week.
Farmers completed planting and plowing before a weekend of rain halted field work. Doris June Hunter and Elaine Russey visited Dallas with Elaine’s grandmother Mrs Russey. Rain prevented many from attending the Whitewright bac calaureate. Three Hicks girls Gennette Genelle and Sarah are in the graduating class. A large crowd enjoyed last Thursday’s school program praised as one of the best in years.
Hal H Collins of Mineral Wells withdrew from the United States Senate race just two weeks after entering it and less than a day after Governor O Daniel announced his candidacy. He left open a path to run for Governor in 1942 while stressing loyalty to O Daniel and the need to keep Texans from choosing between O Daniel and Collins.
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