Dry May contrasts with historic rainfall and fires in Whitewright
The region reports no rain since April 30 while May records show wide variation from past years. Major Davis Parrish, a Cape Canaveral guide, helped verify Atlas booster guidance for Scott Carpenter’s orbit. Unclaimed bank funds lists appear for First National Bank of Bells and Tom Bean with Whitewright to follow. absentee voting for the June 2 Democratic runoff is available through May 29. Emmy awards noted as Academy judgments, with TV Guide later reflecting viewer opinion. AMA debate over the President’s health plan centers on hospital versus doctor bill coverage.
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Whitewright
First National Bank of Bells
First National Bank of Tom Bean
First National Bank of Whitewright
Warnings Issued On Young Wildlife Being Bothered By People
Law enforcement warns against taking young wildlife for pets or harming protected birds. Wardens will arrest violators and file cases as complaints rise about fawns being removed and nests destroyed. Also notes the Vasa ship, raised in 1961, to be restored as a monument.
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Austin
Game and Fish Commission
J. B. Philliips
Highland Lakes
Sweden
Stockholm
Whitewright Eighth Grade Graduation May 29
Graduation exercises for the Whitewright Elementary School eighth grade will be in the gym at 8 p m Tuesday May 29. Rev Dale Gore will deliver the address. Awards and certificates will be presented by Principal David Johnson and Supt S T Montgomery Jr. A musical number will be by Kay Buchanan Doris Tillett Delinda Blackerby and Gail Wilson with piano by Pattye Badgett. The class roster lists 32 members including Kay Alexander Bill Bass Derwood Berryhill Murry Bryant Peggy Clark and others.
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Whitewright
Dale Gore
David Johnson
Supt
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Kay Buchanan
Doris Tillett
Delinda Blackerby
Gail Wilson
Pattye Badgett
Kay Alexander
Bill Bass
Derwood
Berryhill
Murry Bryant
Peggy Clark
Charles Clinton
Donna Collins
Bonnie Cook
Karen Darwin Fernain
Robert Fruen Ommie Harvey Grady Head
Bonnie Hendrix
Susie Kaiser Thomas Kirby
Dickie Leonards
Janice Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Scooter McCurdy
Nancy McKinney
Mickey Meador
Bobby Melton
Jimmy Murphy
Eddie Range
Larry Ryan
David Samuels
Billy Skipworth
Charles Sneed
Troyce Spencer Kathie Wilson Weldon Wilson
Paul Ryan
Calvin Tolar
Bethel Baptist Church
Sharon White
Wallace Mynatt
Church of Christ
Judy Gosnell
John Streun
First Methodist Church
Bonnie Ely
Delores Denton
Laura Lewis
Morris Warrington
Jackie Meador
Leon Scott
Jimmy Burchfield
Amy Alexander
B. R. Vestal
L. H. Durham
Amy Jo Alexander
James Sparks
Glenda Hicks
Gene Sparks
Sammy Montgomery
Mike Holloway
Jimmy Williams
Manuel Alexander
Everett Sparks
Judy Durham
Deaths Mrs Alice Ashinhurst Smith Shot by Husband
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Alice Pauline Ashinhurst Smith 35 at Barnheart funeral chapel. She died after being shot with a .22 while at her parents home in Pilot Grove. Burial followed at Pilot Grove Cemetery. Survivors include her parents a daughter and a brother.
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Barnheart
Alice Pauline Ashinhurst Smith
Howard McSpedden
Bill Jackson
Pilot Grove
K. A. Jinkins
Wheeler Russell
Elmer Brown
Charles Cole
W. A. Smart
Miles Philley
Whitewright
Cecil Ashinhurst
Sherman
Services for John Hamilton Alexander
John Hamilton Alexander died early Thursday May 17 aged 84. Services were at 3 PM Saturday at Wolfforth Methodist Church with burial in Rest Haven Memorial Park Lubbock. Survived by wife Lula son Olan Wolfforth four daughters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. one son preceded in death in 1930. Pallbearers were grandsons.
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John Hamilton Alexander
Wolfforth Methodist Church
Lubbock County
Rest Haven Memorial Park
Lubbock
Alexander
Whitewright
Ray Farm
Lula
Olan
Wolfforth
Ethel Belew
Meadow
Virgie Robertson
Fort Worth
Raye Teague
Mildred Kingsburg
San Diego
Calif
J. W. Alexander
Graham
Etta Beckham
Modesto
Willie Rippey
Amarillo
Chester L. Alexander
Slaton
Mansfield on Private Affairs and Bankhead's Vegas Quip
Jayne Mansfield spoke in Rome about romance and affairs stressing privacy if affairs occur. Tallulah Bankhead reportedly quipped in Las Vegas that the new casino is a divine rumpus room, capturing the city’s splashy vibe.
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Rome
Jayne Mansfield
Miss Mansfield
Tallulah Bankhead
Las Vegas
Dahling
Whitewright VFD Receives 650 From Grayson County
The Whitewright Volunteer Fire Department received 650 from Grayson County to support rural fire fighting. A year-end payment will follow, based on runs outside city limits. The debt on a 9100 fire truck, bought in 1958, was reduced to 400 by this grant.
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Whitewright
Grayson County
J. B. Thornhill
the Sun
Thornhill
Linda Theater
Three Indicted By Grayson Grand Jury
A Grayson County grand jury indicted Denison teenager Michael Thompson 17 for the March 5 slaying of his aunt Blanche Ardell Thompson 45 and for murder with malice. John Sidney Garr is named as the hired bomber in the March 11 bait shop explosion. he was killed and charged posthumously with arson by explosion. Billy Bob Smith 27 of Sherman has been held since the fatal shooting of his wife Pauline 35 last Thursday at Pilot Grove.
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Grayson County
Denison
Michael Thompson
John Sidney Garr
Billy Bob Smith
Sherman
Pauline
Pilot Grove
Thompson
Blanche Ardell Thompson
South Denison
Garr
Homer Smith
Smith
Pettit Opens New Food Store on Highway 69 North
Bill Pettit, owner of a downtown store, opens a second Whitewright shop in the former Barkley veterinary building opposite the Humble station. Open daily 7:00 am to 10:00 pm, it stocks groceries drugs and dairy items and offers ice and a free television tube tester with tubes on hand. It marks the first such venture in Whitewright.
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Bill Pettit
Highway 69 North
John Barkley
Humble Station
Whitewright
Cutting Horse Show At Whitewright Sunday Afternoon
A National Cutting Horse Association event will be held at the Whitewright Riding Club Arena Sunday starting at 1:00 PM. The Lone Star Cutting Horse Association presents with cattle by Wallace Wilson and Sonny Gosnell. Judges are T. S. Smith and John Hart. Admission is free. a chicken dinner is served for $1.00 from 11 AM through the afternoon.
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National
Cutting Horse Association
Whitewright Riding Club
Lone Star Cutting Horse Association
Wallace Wilson
Sonny Gosnell
T. S. Smith
Paris
John Hart
Petty
Dick Walker
the Sun
Nuns Help Close Girls of Galaxy Show at Seattle Fair
In Menasha Wisconsin Sister Lucille Marie reports nuns in five Midwest states were asked to write protest letters to oppose the Girls of Galaxy sideshow. The Seattle World Fair attraction closed last weekend amid the letters and mounting local opposition.
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Menasha
Wis
Midwest
Lucille Marie
St. Mary School
Wisconsin
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Dear Mister Editor Uncle Dan on politics at the country store
A letter from Uncle Dan of Tom Bean satirizes partisan divides at the country store. He cites Ed Doolittle and a Harvard professor as examples, notes a comic book firm’s price hike, and riffs on public opinion and democracy with humor about voters, celebrities, and social trends.
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Congress
Ed Doolittle
Harvard
Washington
Clem Webster
Zeke Grubb
Bug Hookum
Bug
Frank Sinatra
Champaign
Uncle Dan
Final Programs For Whitewright High School
Whitewright High School schedules final programs for May 27 and May 30 in First Methodist Church and school gym. Senior class members include Amy Jo Alexander and James Sparks with valedictorian and salutatorian honors. Ceremony features processions, invocations, special selections, and diploma presentations.
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Whitewright High School
First Methodist
Amy Jo Alexander
Mike Dixon
Judy Durham
Guy Ely
James England
Judy Fulmer
Jerry Jones
Joe Kaiser
Vonnie Kelsey
Selena Key
Sammy McKinney
Gary Morris
Dwayne Rush
James Sparks
Mary Spencer
Sharlotte Spencer
Elizabeth Stephens
Carolyn Wetzel
Doctor Refuses Federal Taxes Over Immoral War Link
Dr Arthur Evans a 42 year old Denver physician announced Tuesday he will not pay federal income taxes citing a belief in non participation in global butchery He links nuclear warfare to crime against humanity and instead sent 200 to the United Nations Peace Corps and related agencies in a tax protest He warns he may be arrested for breaking the law but stands by his moral stance.
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Denver
Arthur Evans
Evans
Internal Revenue Service
United Nations
Peace Corps
Why an Editor Went Fishing
An Oregon editor explains to a Kansas weekly editor why his paper stopped publication. He cites labor trouble and ideological constraints, saying he saved enough to avoid the poor farm and went fishing. The piece closes with a note on puffins and ravens interlocking bills.
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Oregon
Kansas
Davis Parrish Receives Air Force Commendation Award
Major Davis P. Parrish of the 6555th Aerospace Test Wing at Patrick Air Force Base received the Air Force Commendation Award for outstanding service as Guidance Project Officer on Project Mercury. The award cites his role in the Atlas guidance station that helped place the MA-6 Mercury capsule in orbit, marking a first US orbital attempt. Parrish is the foster son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Ross May of Whitewright, Texas, and a West Point graduate with a family.
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Davis Parrish
Whitewright
Cape Canaveral
Scott Carpenter
John Glenn
Davis P. Parrish
6555Th Aerospace Test Wing
Patrick Afb
Florida
Air Force Commendation
Air Force
United States
United States Air Force
United States of America
Parrish
Ross May
Pauline May
Rice Institute
Houston
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Medicare Votes Seen Unswayed in House Committee
In Washington the Kennedy administration and the American Medical Association clash over hospital and nursing benefits for retired Social Security recipients, but committee votes in the Ways and Means panel remain mixed. With 13 of 25 members likely to back the bill, passage this year hinges on a few uncommitted members aligning with the administration.
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Washington
Kennedy
American Medical Association of Health Care For
House
Ways and Means
Understanding Social Security Disability Eligibility
A survey shows one in four do not know disability benefits may apply when a worker cannot engage in substantial work. Requirements include a six month qualifying disability, onset before 65, and five years of work under Social Security in the prior ten years.
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Social Security
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Tom Bean
Whitewright, Texas
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Tex
Medicare
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