Whitewright ties to spice firm and vintage town view
A Los Angeles Herald feature spotlights Ben Robert Jones of Whitewright, an official with Herbert Hischemoeller's HISMOCO importing spices after Navy service in Okinawa. The piece also presents a 67 year old pen drawing of Whitewright by T. M. Fowler and James B. Moyer, plus notes on local churches and landmarks. It ends with Senate action on postal rate increases and local primary cost details.
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Ben Robert Jones
Whitewright
Los Angeles
Calif
Herald & Express
Ben Robert
O. L
Pig) Jones
Herbert Hischemoeller
Hismoco (American Co
Okinawa
Orient
Hischemoeller’s
J.C. McMillin
T. M. Fowler
Morrisville
James B. Moyer
Moyer
Main Street
McMurry
Central Christian Church
Church of Christ
Katy
Cotton Belt
Senate
Candid Comment on a Cad and Convertible
A witty remark recounts a woman telling a friend that she knows the man is a cad but defends his convertible as part of his appeal. The quip underscores social observations of flirtation and material charm in a lighthearted note.
Police Publish Six Poses of Escaped Convict
Police released six photographs showing an escaped convict in different poses. A constable wired that five have been captured and the sixth is still at large, with officers pursuing him.
Farm to Market Highway 1261 Completed from Whitewright to Randolph
Joe C. Clark announces the Farm to Market Highway 1261 project from Whitewright to Randolph is finished by R W McKinney Construction Co. at a cost of 332646.95 dollars. The 7.660 miles in Fannin and 0.234 miles in Grayson counties feature graded sections, drainage, and asphalt surfacing completed in late 1957 with a second course added in May.
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Joe C. Clark
Whitewright
Randolph
R. W. McKinney Construction Co
Fannin County
Grayson County
Country
Cotton Belt Railroad
Sherman
Commerce
Tom Bean
Bailey
Wolfe City
Widow of T. J. McCafferty Dies in McKinney Hospital
Death reports state Mrs. T. J. McCafferty died in a McKinney hospital. Barnhart Funeral Home will handle the funeral in Whitewright where she had lived for many years after her husband’s death. No funeral arrangements had been announced by noon.
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McKinney Hospital
T. J. McCafferty
Barnheart Funeral Home
Mrs. T. M. Hansard Dies at 82 in Lubbock Hospital
Lela Ownby Hansard 82 died after a heart attack last week at a Lubbock hospital. Funeral and burial were at Chillicothe where she had lived 26 years before moving to Lubbock. Born November 23 1875 in Tennessee she was the daughter of the late Gube Ownby and wife of the late Mr. Hansard. She is survived by her sister in law Elbert Hansard and his wife of Whitewright.
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T. M. Hansard
Lubbock
Chillicothe
Tennessee
Lela Ownby Hansard
Gube Ownby
Whitewright
Elbert Hansard
Loy Lake Park Chosen as Permanent County Fair Site
Grayson County commissioners authorize a lease to Texoma Exposition and Livestock Assn. for about 40 acres at Loy Lake Park between Sherman and Denison. The plan includes permanent buildings, annual fair, and shared road-building equipment, with a county survey of the northwest park area before finalizing the agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
Loy Lake Park
Denison
County Commissioners Court
Texoma Exposition and Livestock Assn
Highway 75-N
Log Lake
School Lunch Menu Week Brightens Student Meals
The menu lists daily offerings for the week including Vienna sausage and beans with eggs on Monday, hamburgers and cake on Tuesday, veal cutlets on Wednesday, sliced cheese and spam on Thursday, and hot dogs with chili on Friday. Each day includes side dishes and a fruit or dessert item.
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Vienna
Payroll Window Dispute Over Deductions
A man at a payroll window tells a worker that after deductions for the Sunshine Fund Social Security withholding tax hospitalization savings bond union dues life insurance and a gift fund he owes $6.80. The exchange highlights payroll deduction items and an outstanding balance.
Science Teacher Added to Faculty at Whitewright High
Buell E Range of Callisburg has been elected by the Whitewright Board of Education as science teacher at the local high school. Range has 17 years in vocational agriculture and will switch to science. The board also plans a grade school principal from the faculty and sets a compulsory retirement age of 63 after the next school year.
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Buell E. Range
Callisburg
Whitewright Board of Education
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Range
Montgomery
O. W. Barker
Barker
Board of Education
William Russell Chosen Summer Editor of East Texan
William Russell a senior journalism major and son of Mr and Mrs W H Russell of Whitewright has been selected summer editor in chief of the East Texan at East Texas State College Commerce He will head the staff during both semesters of the summer term and has served as business manager associate editor publications artist and journalism teacher at Commerce High School.
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William Russell
W. H. Russell
Whitewright
East Texan
East Texas State College
Commerce
Russell
The
Press Club
Commerce High School
Dayton girl to record meetings as Sunshine Circle secretary
In Dayton Ohio a newly elected secretary of the Third Street Baptist Church Sunshine Circle for youths was asked to read the minutes at her second meeting. She read the minutes as "20 minutes, 6 seconds" then sat down.
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Dayton
Ohio
Third Street Baptist Church
Sunshine Circle For
Cotton Meeting Scheduled Monday At Van Alstyne
The National Cotton Council and Texas Farm Bureau sponsor a cotton meeting at 8 p m Monday May 28 in the Van Alstyne school gymnasium. Discussions focus on the cotton industry future amid acreage restrictions and synthetic fiber competition. If Congress acts cotton acreage may drop by about three million acres from this year's. Farmers and interested persons are invited to attend.
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National Cotton Council
Texas Farm Bureau Federation
van Alstyne School
Congress
Cotton Industry
Soil Bank
van Alstyne Meeting
Bobby Gentry Receives ETSC Speech Award
Bobby Gentry son of Mr and Mrs H M Gentry of Whitewright earned the Mask and Gavel award from East Texas State College Commerce through the local Alpha Psi Omega chapter and the college speech division. Frances Sullinger of Denison and Marice Sawyer of Greenville also received the award based on scholastic standing and performance quality.
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Bobby Gentry
H. M. Gentry
Whitewright
Alpha Psi Omega
East Texas State College, Commerce
Gentry
ETSC
Frances Sullinger
Denison
Marice Sawyer
Greenville
McDowell Elected State FFA Veep
Bill McDowell was elected State Future Farmers of America vice president from Area V at the area convention last Saturday. He joins a 36 000 member organization and will run for state president July 17 in San Antonio.
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Bill McDowell
Future Farmer of America
Bill
San Antonio
R. W. Adams
FFA
Hughes
Georgia
Smith-Hughes
Future Farmers of America
William Woody
Gainesville
Woody
Parent-Teacher Association installs officers in Whitewright
Mrs Houston Darwin was installed as president of the Whitewright PTA at the final meeting of the current term. Other officers include Mrs Wallace Wilson first vice president Mrs Clint Hennig second vice president Mrs James Bryant third vice president Mrs George Caldwell secretary Mrs Wayne McLauchlin treasurer Mrs Carl Edwards parliamentarian Miss Mardell Pumphrey reporter.
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Houston Darwin
Whitewright Parent-Teacher Association
Wallace Wilson
Clint Hennig
James Bryant
George Caldwell
Wayne McLauchlin
Carl Edwards
Mardell Pumphrey
Space age finances and a parking lot problem from Uncle Dan
Uncle Dan complains about space and money mania in 1958. He mocks a Senate parking garage cost and cites overblown space talk while noting small pay raises after deductions. He jokes about ICBM misreadings and Elvis prices, urging readers to question editorials.
Pat Murphy Receives VA Hospital Award for Traction Idea
McKinney Democrat Gazette reports Pat Murphy of McKinney Veterans Hospital Nursing Service won a cash award and certificate of appreciation last Thursday for proposing solid lead weights replace lead pellets in a canvas bag to provide patient traction. Murphy, a 1946 Whitewright High School graduate, served in WWII and lives with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Murphy of Whitewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinney Democrat-Gazette
McKinney Veterans Hospital
James P
Pat) Murphy
Virgil Murphy
Whitewright
Pat
Nursing Service
Whitewright High School
Holland Named Deputy for Civil Defense Region 5
Leslie T. Holland 39 of Whitewright was appointed deputy administrator for Region 5 based at the five state headquarters. He succeeds in aiding Region 5 Administrator Wel come W. Wilson to supervise civil defense across Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana and New Mexico.
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Leslie T. Holland
Whitewright
Friday
Region 5
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Carl Holland
Holland
Welcome W. Wilson
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Whitewright High School
North Texas State College
Denton
Corps of Engineers
Denison
Fort Worth
War Assets Administration
Red River Arsenal
Texarkana
Dallas
General Services Administration
Nancy
Mary Elizabeth
Be Your Own Economist as Baruch’s Economic Law Outlined
The passage recounts Bernard M. Baruch crediting a City College of New York professor for teaching supply and demand with two price-driven forces. It notes that rising prices prompt increased production and lower consumption, causing prices to fall, while falling prices trigger reduced production and higher consumption, restoring balance. Baruch later says he became rich by recalling those ideas.
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Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
City College of New York
Whitewright United Fund selects leadership and reports
At Ayres Cafe the Whitewright Community United Fund elected S. T. Montgomery Jr. president, James H. Gosnell vice president, Mea dor secretary, and Sears Anderson treasurer. Two year directors include Blanton New man Stephens Montgomery Jr. and Joe Johnson. one year directors include Ruby Cawthon Homer Sears Charlie Ayres David Johnson and Clint Hennig. The fund reported receipts of 3210.75 with 97.50 pledged. disbursements totaled 2060.18 to Boy Scouts Polio Red Cross Salvation Army Crippled Children and others. The Whitewright Polio Fund aids local polio cases after the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis declined participation.
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Whitewright Community United Fund
Ayres Cafe
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Clint Hennig
James H
Sonny) Gosnell
Joe T. Meador
Sears Anderson
Roy Blanton
B. W. Newman
Paul Stephens
Joe Johnson
Charlie Ayres
Boy Scouts
Polio
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Crippled Children
Whitewright Fire Department
U.S. C
Youth Fund
Heart Fund
Whitewright
United Fund
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Watkins Child
Bond Child
President Urges Comeback Effort By Businessmen
President Eisenhower urged a national rally to spur an early business upturn and warned against wage price spirals. He called for productivity based price hikes and said tax decisions may follow talks with congressional leaders. He urged business and labor leaders to share the burden of restoring prosperity.
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New York
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
White House
The
American Management Association
United States
Italian inmate jailed for damage during attempted suicide
Luigi Durante, 24, jailed in Perugia for two months after tearing a bed sheet into a rope and pulling it from a ceiling hook in a prison cell. The hook failed under his weight, damaging $2 of state property while he attempted to hang himself.
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Perugia
Italy
Luigi Durante
Safety rules for household advice and neighbors
A quirky list offers cautionary lines about smoking in bed neighborly talk and gifts. It wryly notes the risk of personal consequences and urges prudent behavior while hinting at social norms and small chance luck on the third try.
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Voltaire
Sul Ross College
Sul Ross
Whitewright-to- Randolph Road
van Alstyne
McDowell
FFA Veep
Dan
Florida
Spain
Elvis Presley
Rhode Island
Ed Doolittle
Whitewright, Texas
Grayson Or
Fannin Counties
Pat Murphy
S. T. Montgomery United Fund Prox
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