Whitewright High School Commencement and Baccalaureate Services
Commencement exercises for Whitewright High School are set for 8 p m Friday in the gymnasium marking the close of the local school year. Baccalaureate was held Sunday at the Methodist Church with a sermon on Decisions of Character and a choir from area churches. Students will travel by bus to Galveston for a few days of activities before returning mid next week.
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Whitewright High School
Grammar School
Methodist Church
Leonard Mullens
Church of Christ
B. Wrenn Webb
The
Presbyterian Church
E. P. Wootten
Baptist Church
Ben Bell
N. L. Manning
Mary Dale King
Laverne Kilgree
Leroy Martin
Lewis Vestal
Jesus
Guy Hamilton
Sarah Kilgree
Kilgree
L. E. Ricketts
American Legion
Tom Cunningham
Hamilton
Jewell Kennemer
Claire Doss
Mary Alice Harrison
Dorotha Darwin
Louise McSpedden
Velma Holland
Rudolph Russell
Glee Club
Girls’ Chorus
J. E. Montgomery
H. W. Key
Kennemer
Galveston
WPA Projects Highlight Local Value This Week
The community observes This Work Pays Your Community Week with school recreation projects, daily programs from 1 to 6 p m at the High School playground, a Monday opening party, a hobby show, Rotary day contests, and open libraries and sewing displays at the Masonic building and grammar school lunchroom.
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WPA
Trenton Recreation Project
Rotary
Grammar School
Merchants Buy Brahma Cattle for Whitewright Rodeo
Whitewright merchants raised a fund this week to buy Brahma cattle for the fourth Monday rodeo. Four head were purchased in Hugo Oklahoma and brought to Whitewright on Tuesday. Two more will be bought this week if located. Cattle will be used in roping contests and riding with prizes per rodeo rules. Riders must be at least twenty one.
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Whitewright
Brahma
Hugo
Oklo
Aims and Purposes of Texas Mothers and PTA
Mrs. Bob Sears, president, requests publication of aims and purposes of the Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations. Goals include raising home and school standards, training parenthood, improving schools, establishing kindergartens, promoting child welfare, and securing legislation to raise educational and social standards in Texas.
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Bob Sears
Parent-Teacher Association
Texas Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations
Texas
Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers Associations
Whitewright Future Farmers Elect Officers
Officers for the coming year were elected at a Whitewright Future Farmers meeting Tuesday morning. President Gillett. vice president Lynal Moore. secretary Philip Earnheart. treasurer Albert Chornton. reporter Birt Russell. parliamentarian Billie Ray Conner. watch dog Eugene Anderson. historian Wilton McFarland. Delegates J H Gosnell and Philip Earnheart were chosen to represent the club at the State F F A convention in Houston July 5 6 and 7.
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Whitewright Future Farmers
Brother Gillett
Lynal Moore
Philip Earnheart
Albert Chornton
Birt Russell
Billie Ray Conner
Eugene Anderson
Wilton McFarland
J. H. Gosnell
Houston
Fergusons to Open North Texas Campaign Saturday
Mrs Miriam A Ferguson and her husband James Ferguson will launch her North Texas gubernatorial campaign with speeches Saturday night in Dallas. Former State Senator John Davis, now a U S commissioner, will introduce Mrs Ferguson.
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Dallas
Miriam A. Ferguson
James E. Ferguson
North
Texas
John Davis
United States
Ferguson
Rev R G Hill Soldier Pastor Writes Book Under The Eagle's Wing
Mrs R G Hill of Groesbeck sent The Sun a clipping about her husband Rev R G Hill former Groesbeck Christian Church pastor and Legion chaplain. Confined to home three years he wrote essays that become a manuscript now in printers for a book titled Under The Eagle's Wing priced at 1 00. The work promises spiritual and patriotic value and advance orders are being taken.
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R. G. Hill
Groesbeck
The
Sun
Veterans’ Hospital
Legion
Grand Jurors Impanelled for May Term in Sherman
A grand jury for the May term of Fifteenth District Court was impanelled Monday by Judge R. M. Carter and recessed subject to call. J. M. McLemore of Van Alstyne named foreman with members Ben Price Gunter Y. R. George Howe J. P. Autrey Whitewright W. R. Ford Tom Bean E. T. Cally Denison George Wade Whitesboro Cal Autrey Tioga Prince Kinsey Sherman R. B. Aston Sherman Grover Caddell Preston Bend and Bill Brown Bells. The term ends August 12 and the jury will convene prior to then to return indictments.
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Sherman
R. B. Aston
Grover Caddell
Preston Bend
Bill Brown
Bells
Flaxen Haired German Parachutist Captured in Belgium
The German girl parachutist, 17 and flaxen haired, was captured with another parachutist at Malines between Brussels and Antwerp. Gaby Barthelemy, daughter of a Belgian-born Canadian, described the capture in Belgium.
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London
Belgium
Gaby Barthelemy
Malines
Brussels
Antwerp
Final Appeal for Census Enumeration in Sherman Texas
Will Leslie district census supervisor asks residents not counted in the sixteenth census to fill a form and return it by May 25. The notice requests omitted family members also, with space for former addresses and date changes, directed to Sherman Texas.
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Will Leslie
Sherman
Texas
Grayson County Population Through the Decennial Census
A summary from the Denison Herald notes Grayson County's population trends across the last fifty years with a peak of 74 165 in 1920 and expectations for the upcoming sixteenth census. The article traces census records from 1890 and mentions the ongoing enumeration.
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Grayson County
Denison Herald
Uncle Sam
Grayson
Assembly of God Revival Meeting Starts Sunday
Rev. L. O. Ballard announces a revival at the Assembly of God Church to begin Sunday night led by Rev. Chas. E. Wilson from Winnsboro. Evening services at 8 o clock daily with Sunday school in the new church building near the High School, and an 11 o clock sermon by the pastor.
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L. O. Ballard
Assembly of God Church
Chas. E. Wilson
Winnsboro
Ballard
Rainfall totals reach over two inches in Whitewright
Rainfall in Whitewright through 8 am Thursday reached 2.13 inches since last Thursday. Additional amounts were 0.13 inches on Friday 0.61 inches Friday night 0.50 inches Monday night 0.59 inches Tuesday night 0.30 inches Wednesday and Wednesday night. The season total to date in 1940 stood at 18.80 inches with 14.52 inches recorded in April and May.
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Whitewright
Fire From Skies Engulfs Northern France Towns
German forces unleash total war in Northern France with parachute troops torching towns around Arras Amiens and other cities. Incendiary bombs devastate villages factories rail hubs and fuel dumps as 50 000 to 60 000 German troops push toward the English Channel while Allied forces withdraw to secondary lines.
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Paris
Germany
France
Arras
Amiens
English Channel
Picardy
Flanders
Cambrai
Sea
Channel
Britain
Navy Orders 15000 More Workers Hired
Washington reports the Navy directed shipyards to boost the civilian staff by at least 15 000 within three months to speed construction on 66 warships as part of the rearmament push announced by President Roosevelt.
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NAVY
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy Today
Whitewright Future Farmers win area singing contest title
The Whitewright Future Farmer quartet won first place in the Area V F F A leadership contests at Arlington. Members are Brazwell Alexander James Birt Phillips Buss Thornhill and Leroy Martin. They will enter the state singing contest at Huntsville this summer.
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Whitewright Future Farmer
Arlington
Brazwell Alexander
James Birt Phillips
Bussy Thornhill
Leroy Martin
Huntsville
A. & M. College
Albert Thornton
Billie Ray Conner
Rudolph Russell
Philip Earnheart
Brother Gillett
Billie Jack Harper
T. H. Cunningham
Lynal Moore
Whitewright Future
Whitewright
Thursday Morning Rushes Sun Office News Copy
The Sun reports a busy Thursday morning as late-week submissions arrive, causing omitted news items and three missed advertisements. Editors urge readers to send news early in the week and advertisers to submit copy by Tuesday or Wednesday to avoid delays.
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Sun
The
P T A to Present Talent Pageant Announcement
Mrs. Bob Sears, president, announces the Parent Teacher Association will sponsor a personality and talent pageant on June 7. Contestants should contact Mrs. Sears. Divisions include babies 1 to 10 years, young ladies 14 to 25, and an open talent division. Local winners advance to a state meet.
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Bob Sears
Parent-Teacher Association
Sears
Bigger and Better Rodeo Promised for Whitewright Trades Day
On Monday May 27 Whitewright hosts trades day with a bigger rodeo at 3 pm free to all. Manager Van Claborn says the show will exceed last fourth Monday’s performance as wild horses bulls and Brahma cattle are gathered. Farmers and others are invited to bring stock and goods to trade.
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Whitewright
van Claborn
Soil ballot due Saturday in Texas districts vote
Texas farmers controlling 34,257,756 acres in 35 areas will vote Saturday on establishing soil conservation districts under a new state law. A 67 percent majority is needed for final approval by the State Soil Conservation Board.
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Temple
Texas
State Soil Conservation Board
State Board
Texas’ Soil Conservation Program
W. C. Marshall
Mann
Marshall
Soil Conservation District
WPA
Grayson-Collin-Rockwall
Fannin-Grayson
Hollingsworth Announces Candidacy for State Representative
J W Hollingsworth of Sherman announced Wednesday his bid for state representative place 1 from Grayson County. He served as Grayson County tax collector 1910 to 1914 and is now in the livestock business. J H Waggoner of Whitewright currently holds place 1 and seeks re election, having announced in January.
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J. W. Hollingsworth
Sherman
Grayson County
Hollingsworth
J. H. Waggoner
Whitewright
Radio Stations Shut If War Declared
Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold told a Senate committee that all U S radio stations would have to be shut down in event of war. He said stations invite hostile planes to strike a point on the airwaves, posing a disadvantage to national security.
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Washington
United States
H. H. Arnold
Senate
Army Air Corps
Montgomery to Rest on Advice of Doctor
Julian Montgomery state highway engineer was given a leave of absence until July 1 after an influenza illness and heavy workload. He will rest at home then travel to the coast, with T. H. Webb filling his post temporarily.
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Austin
Julian Montgomery
T. H. Webb
Montgomery
State Receives Social Security Funds for Texas Pensions
AUSTIN The state treasury reported June receipts of 615000 from the Federal Government as social security matching funds for Texas old age pensions and an allocation of 30750 for state administration costs.
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Austin
Texas
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