Tornado warnings and civic notes in Texas papers
A Dallas Morning News editorial cites postage costs while Denison Herald reports on tornado warning signals adopted by local civil defense, the three blasts guiding residents to shelters. Articles discuss racing budget talk and misstatements about local gang fights alongside reflections on media warning practices.
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Civil Defense Organization
Clarence
Junior) Tillett
Dallas Morning News
the News
The
News
P. O
Whitewright
P. O. Department
Community Hospital Sherman Patient Mrs Vestal
A short item notes Mrs. W. R. Vestal is a patient at Community Hospital in Sherman. The clipping mentions a historical fact about Japan where tattooing replaced clothing and a comparative note that the Missouri male is twice as efficient as the Armenian ox.
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W. R. Vestal
Sherman
Missouri
Whitewright High bids farewell with baccalaureate and commencement
Whitewright High School holds a baccalaureate service at 8 p m Sunday May 26 at First Methodist Church with 23 graduates listed as ushers and a program including processional invocation hymn sermon and benediction. Commencement follows Monday May 27 at 8 p m in the gym with diplomas presented by the school board and various special speakers and recognitions.
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Whitewright High School
First Methodist Church
Trellis Dixon
Darlene DeBerry
Jean Scott
Priscilla Blanton
Clara Jean Kelly
Narvin Alexander
Benny Simpson
Jack Hyecock
Jimmy Bassett
Darrell Warrington
Paul Ryan
John Biggerstaff
R. P. Childress
C. C. Dooley
First Presbyterian Church
Perry Kite
J. W. Polk
Jackie Andrew
Mark Ayres
Dixie Jane Bassett
Lloyd L. Bryant
Verna Lee Buchanan
Phyllis Carol Bush
Patricia Ann Farley
Mary Grace Gates Russel
Rusty
May Nelda Ruth McCurdy
Gene McKnight
Willie Jean Melton
Ronald Dee Neal
Betty Lumpkins Pitman
Bill Polk
Laura Bess Rich
Don L. Selman
Ella Mae Sims
Eldon Smith
Betty LaVerle
Thurman
Donna Wetzel Don Eugene Whipple
Betty Ann Williams
Edna Mae Hood
Peggy Hansard
Lynda Pannell
Patsy Sinor
Peggy Wilkinson
Willie Cox
Lowell McKini
Noel McKinney
James Norvell
Eill McDowell
Processi
Gayla Wren Sears
Carol Bush
B. R. Vestal
Ed Broome
Parkside Baptist Church
Denison
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Philip Earnheart
David Johnson
Thomas Sears
Whitewright School Board
Guyla Wren Sears
Social Security Disability Benefits To Be Paid July 1
Roy Westerfield of the Sherman Social Security office says disability benefits will be paid starting July 1. Applicants may file now and must meet work history and disability duration rules. those under 50 may freeze rates, while those 50 and older should file for benefits.
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Roy Westerfield
Social Security Office
Sherman
Congress
Westerfield
Man Donates Blood to Reach Five Gallons in Debt
Sidney Flum of Norfolk Virginia donated his 44th pint of blood to the Red Cross bringing his total to five gallons. He says he was wounded on the USS Yorktown during the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 and received many transfusions and plasma.
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Norfolk
Sidney Flum
Red Cross
Yorktown
Whitewright graduation set for May 27 at grade school gym
Graduation exercises at Whitewright Elementary on Monday May 27 at 10 am with Rev C C Dooley delivering the address. Eighth grade graduates include Judy Ayres Patty Bartley Barbara A Clark and many others. Negro school ceremony follows Friday May 24 at the Colored Methodist Church with Clyde Sanders as speaker and students Donald Hugh Stinnett Carol Ballard Elmer Ray Ballard and Ralph Boxon listed on the program.
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Whitewright
C. C. Dooley
First Presbyterian Church
Judy Ayres
Patty Bartley
Barbara A. Clark
Bobbie Coggins
Richard D. Cook
Thomas DeBerry Bryant Dollarhide
Clifton Emerson
Barbara Erwin Paula Ann Geers
Linda Harrelson Olea Harvey Omie
Ruth Hess
Theodore Kelsey
Bessie Lee Kirby
Barbara Lumpkins
Charles McColl
Colored Methodist Church
Clyde Sanders
Sherman
Donald Hugh Stinnett
Carol Ballard
Elmer Ray Ballard
Ralph Boxon
Cotton Meeting Set at Gober in Fannin County
Gene Graves the Fannin County agricultural agent announced a cotton meeting at Gober at 8 00 p m Tuesday May 28 sponsored by the A and M College Extension Service and the Fannin County Farm Bureau National Cotton Council of America staff will address the gathering All farmers ginners and seed handlers are invited including Grayson and Fannin County farmers Gober lies eight miles south of Bonham
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Gene Graves
Fannin County
Gober
A. & M. College Extension Service
Fannin
Bonham
Cornbelt Farmers Ignore Controls on Corn Acreage
Midwest planting starts as Illinois Iowa Indiana and Minnesota total 19.2 million acres 16 percent below last year. An Iowa grower says price supports are ruined by the small allotments. Grain dealers report about half of Illinois farmers will ignore controls. Only 44 percent of commercial corn growers complied in 1956. Benson faced backing non compliant corn and may act again.
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Midwest
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Minnesota
Benson
Death trap in car over cricket leads to tragedy
In Sacramento California Robert Mathis created a carbon monoxide trap by directing exhaust into a car rear window to kill a cricket he says was driving him to distraction. He exclaimed to sheriff deputies that the cricket had driven him to the act.
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Sacramento
Calif
Robert Mathis
Blasketweaving Class Offered At Local High School
Mrs Earl Blanton announces a basket weaving class in the Homemaking Department starting June 4 at 8:30 a m. Enrollment is available at that time. Lessons are free and material costs will be kept to a minimum.
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Earl Blanton
Texoma Quits Rising At 634 Feet
Denison reports Lake Texoma level at 634.40 feet above sea level after an eight hour hold, with revised crest projections of 636 to 637 feet by Saturday. Engineers warn conditions remain ripe for rapid rises if more rain comes.
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Engineers Corps
Eisenhower warns against foreign aid cuts in TV address
President Eisenhower defended a mutual security program worth 3.865 billion dollars in a nationwide TV and radio speech. He warned lawmakers against cutting foreign aid as dangerous to peace and freedom, noting the high cost of peace and the risk of war in the atomic age.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Army grants haircut exemption for Apache Pvt Brokeshoulder
The Army exempts Pvt Harold Brokeshoulder of Fort Carson Colorado from standard regulation haircuts. He may keep the tribal strip of hair down the center of his scalp due to his Apache heritage.
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Fort Carson
Colo
Army
Pvt
Harold Brokeshoulder
Brokeshoulder
Local student’s mother dies in traffic collision near Cannon store
Mrs. Mary Anderson, 45, mother of Virginia Kay Anderson 10, died after a two-vehicle crash between Whitewright and Van Alstyne. Virginia Kay survived with minor injuries. Mary’s husband Clarence O. Anderson, 48, was critically injured. Funeral at Cannon Cemetery. survivors include four sons, one daughter, siblings, and two grandchildren.
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Cannon Store
Whitewright
van Alstyne
Mary Anderson
Virginia Kay Anderson
Clarence O. Anderson
Anderson
Frank Doyle McBroom
Howard Chane
Cannon
Calvin E. Anderson
James T. Anderson
Dallas
Harold S. Anderson
Port Arthur
William E. Anderson
Albie Rossier
Edell Elmore
Wynell Carter
Bonham
Hattie Barnes
Windom
R. B. Stone
Ben Stone
S. E. Stone
Bert Stone
Miami, Fla
Texas Woman's University Opens After Name Change
Gov Price Daniel signed a bill renaming Texas State College for Women at Denton as Texas Woman's University making it the nation s first university for women. Senator Floyd Bradshaw sponsored the measure as a delegation from the North Texas school witnessed the signing event.
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Austin
Texas State College For Women
Denton
Price Daniel
Texas Woman's University
North Texas School
College of Industrial Arts
Floyd Bradshaw
Weatherford
State funds patch teachers pay raise without new taxes
State officials found a method to approve a 399 dollar yearly teachers raise without new taxes before adjournment. Governor Price Daniel vetoed a 4 million dollar bond payment to preserve the states credit rating, while keeping a 2.3 million dollar interest payment. The plan uses franchise tax receipts and delayed tax refunds to reduce a nearly ten million dollar shortfall. Receipts exceed prior estimates by about 2.5 million. George Washington received an honorary degree from Brown University in 1790.
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Austin
R. S. Calvert
Capitol
Calvert
Price Daniel
Daniel
Permanent School Fund
Veterans Land Board
George Washington
Brown University
Rhode Island
Hail and Rain Hit Whitewright Area Tuesday Night
A storm lashed the Whitewright area with more than two inches of rain and golf ball sized hail causing roof damage. Nuell Skaggs recorded 2.40 inches at the town edge while homes and businesses suffered peeling paint and water intrusion. Farmers resumed field work as rainfall totals in May reached 7.21 inches by Thursday morning.
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Whitewright
Nuell Skaggs
A. A. Hudgins
Masonic Hall
Ernest Smith
Grayson youths receive Duroc gilts under Sears Roebuck program
Eight Grayson County 4-H boys were given Duroc gilts in the Sears Roebuck swine program. Ernest Strawn Jr. of Dorchester received the boar. Gilts went to Bobby Gilmore, Paul Olier, Danny Ainsworth, Merrill Hazelton, Carl Neal, Billy Corbin Jr., James Clark, and Dewey Ray Griffith.
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Melvin Maples
Gunter
Jerry Smith
Joe Kinnard
Ida
Doyle Wayne Burk
van Alstyne
Leon Whitney
Whitewright
Jerry Wheeler
Elmond
Harvey Clark
Tioga
Roger Emmons
Dorchester
Democrats of Texas form liberal group within the party
More than 1,000 liberal Democrats organized as Democrats of Texas with Keynoter Byron Abernethy pledging no new party. U S Senator Yarborough praised free speech while Party Chair Jim Lindsey said the DOT is a splinter group and not part of the state party.
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Abernethy
DOT
Democratic Advisory Committee
Allan Shivers
Democrats
Sam Rayburn
DAC
U. S
Johnson
Yarborough
Texas
Jim Lindsey
State Party
Drake and Franklin cited as early maritime and postal pioneers
The record notes Sir Francis Drake as the first Englishman to sail around the world and Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster of the United States.
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Sir Francis Drake
Benjamin Franklin
United States
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Fannin Counties
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