Memorial Day closures and school graduation on Monday
Whitewright stores close for Memorial Day with schools continuing. Elementary graduation at 9 30 AM and high school commencement at 8 PM.
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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1960
Page
1
Rayburn predicts Johnson for president on fifth ballot
House Speaker Sam Rayburn states that the Democratic convention will nominate Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson on about the fifth ballot. He notes Johnson has broad nationwide support, strongest in the South and border states, while dismissing Kennedy’s six primaries as eyewash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
South
John F. Kennedy
Mass
Rayburn
Truman
Baccalaureate and Commencement Plans for Whitewright High
Whitewright High School outlines baccalaureate services at First Methodist Church Sunday evening and commencement in the gym Monday at 8 p m. Speakers include Rev Bill Johnson and Rev C C Dooley with presentations by school officials. Valedictorian Doris Burchfield and saluta torian Don Walker lead the class of 33 with eleven graduates averaging 90 or better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright High School
First Methodist Church
Bill Johnson
First Baptist Church
Paul Ryan
John Roberson
Wallace Mynatt
Church of Christ
Philip Earnheart
George Hight
Sandra Montgomery
David Blackerby
C. C. Dooley
First Presbyterian Church
Lewis Durham
B. R. Vestal
Supt
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Amy Alexander
Patty Bartley
Linda Neal
Stephen Brown
Cliff Emerson
Doris Burchfield
B. G. Burchfield
Don Walker
B. G. Walker
Steve L. Edwards
Sarah Erma Stephens
Louise Vestal
Bobbie Kay Cawthon
June Gail Bond
James Vernon Williams
Jimmy Clark
Charles Copeland
Donna Kaye Franklin
Dan Hennig Leonard Jarvis
Louisa Vesta Lackey
Douglas McCurdy Helen McKinney
Donald Walker Ruth Elaine Williams
Barbara Jeane Wilson Helen Faith Cripe
Donnie Lewis Doris Jane Burchfield
Phyllis Jean Brown
David Wagoner Blackerby
Linda Bennett
Martha S. Anderson Dee Anna Alexander Curless Lynn Aldridge
Mickey Gentry
Sandra Sue Range
Collins Church Get Key Dem Roles At National Convention
Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida named chairman of the Democratic National Convention to bridge party factions. Senator Frank Church of Idaho named keynoter as a 14 member arrangements committee selects leaders for the July 11 Los Angeles event. Church noted as a strong orator and Collins viewed as a moderate on civil rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
LeRoy Collins
Florida
Frank Church
Idaho
Los Angeles
Collins
Church
Adlai E. Stevenson
John F. Kennedy
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Rayburn
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Boggs
Paul Butler
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Senate
West
Collins Forces
Whitewright Recreation Plan Starts June 6
The Whitewright area schedules a summer recreation program for children from first grade to 14 years old, running weekdays from June 6 to July 29, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Joe Crouch will supervise, with activities indoors and outdoors. committee members and sponsoring groups listed. A swimming plan at Sherman pool is undecided and to be discussed. a female assistant supervisor is yet to be found.
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Whitewright
Joe Crouch
the Sun
Clint Hennig
Paul Geers
Kenneth Frisby
Joe Cureton
Carl Edwards
Chamber of Commerce
Whitewright Community United Fund
Sherman Municipal
Crouch
Texas Vehicle Registrations Rise 207 183 in 1959
The Bureau of Public Roads reports Texas added 207 183 motor vehicles in 1959, lifting total registrations to 4 350 573. Private and commercial vehicles numbered 4 296 566 with 54 007 publicly owned. National total reached 71 502 394, up 4.3 percent from 1958. California led with 7.4 million, New York had 5 million.
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Washington
Texas
Bureau of Public Roads
Bureau
Pilot Grove Home Coming Planned for May 29
Pilot Grove Texas near Whitewright hosts a community home coming on Sunday May 29 with morning church services by the Church of Christ Methodist and Baptist churches. A noon ham dinner at the Pilot Grove School Building will raise funds for a perpetual care trust for Pilot Grove Cemeteries. Residents and former residents are invited to attend and send ham dinner counts to Post Office Box 291 Whitewright Texas.
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Pilot Grove
Church of Christ, Methodist
Baptist
Whitewright
Texas
Uncle Dan’s Loyalty to the Nation and a Laughing Reporter
Uncle Dan laments government spending, foreign aid totals, and TV scandals in a humorous regional column. He cites 54 billion given to foreign lands, mentions France 6 billion and England 7, Egypt 126 million, notes Time Magazine on telephone use, and complains about 2.7 million dollars per second of tax money spent. He mocks Congress and calls for juvenile delinquency reform after Atlanta judge Woolfolk.
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France
England
Egypt
Congress
Time Magazine
Ed Doolittle
Atlanta
Georgia
Woolfolk
Solomon
Washington
Uncle Dan
Whitewright Elementary School Graduation May 30
Graduation exercises at Whitewright Elementary School will be held in the gymnasium at 9:30 Monday morning May 30. The program lists processional invocation music awards diplomas address and benediction with ushers and two top graduates Joyce Bennett valedictorian and Shirley Janway salutatorian.
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Whitewright
Sandra Montgomery
David Johnson
Harry Lander
Bill Johnson
Montgomery
Mr. Lander
Diane Slaughter
Jeannie Deeds
Joe Clint Hennig
Terry Edwards
Joyce Bennett
Shirley Janway
Johnny Aldridge
Jim Bilmner
Mike Burchfield
James Clark
Lynda Crawford
Tressa Cureton
Anna Franklin
Roy Fryen
Brenda Geers Billy Joe Gideon
Evelyn Harvey
Ronnie Hendrix
Roy Hess
Charlotte Hopkins
Patricia Jarvis
Charley McLean
Carolyn Mullins
Harold Page
Sue Pool
Tornado Leaves Heavy Damage Around Penny Farm Canaan
A strong tornado struck the Lee Penny farm in Canaan three miles north of Whitewright damaging barns and buildings. The house survived but roofs chimneys and windows were damaged while a water tank and equipment were overturned. Nearby farms owned by Marvin Everheart Sherman and Hugh Norris Ada also sustained damage.
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Lee Penny
Canaan
Whitewright
Penny Place
Oldtimers
Jack Everheart
Homer Sears
Penny
Pennys
B. D. McBroom
Marvin Everheart
Sherman
Hugh Norris
Ada
Okla
Gosnell Elected to American Angus Association
James H. Gosnell of Whitewright has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association at St. Joseph Missouri. He was among 20 Texas breeders of purebred Aberdeen Angus welcomed during the past month.
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James H. Gosnell
Whitewright
Grayson-Fannin Little League Opens May 28
The Grayson-Fannin Little League launches a 15 game season starting Saturday May 28 with six teams. Games are at Whitewright Bells Savoy and Trenton at 8 p m with several new lighted fields including Whitewright in American Legion Park. Players and community ask for funds to cover lights fences and dugouts.
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Grayson-Fannin Little League
Randolph
Trenton
Whitewright
Bells and Ector
Bells
Savoy
Whitewright Field
American Legion
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Clint Hennig
Wayne Bruce
Worsham
Joe Richards
L. D. Selman
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Bull Range
Walter Bunch
Houston Darwin
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