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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1954
Page
1
Citizens mistake this newspaper office for a light bill shop and a variety store. Nuell Skaggs notes one inch of rain and showers hindered farm work. Whitewright visitors and Rockwall Youth Day plans are announced. Linotype help, catfish reports, and insurance law tweaks are covered along with a Ike popularity poll.
Mrs. T W Ayres 76 died after a long illness at her son Charles Ayres home in Tren ton. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Methodist Church in Trenton with burial in Canaan Cemetery. She was a Grayson College graduate and taught school before her 1905 marriage to T W Ayres. She later ran the T W Ayres dry goods store and was active in church and community service. Surviving are her son Charles E Ayres, a granddaughter Patricia Ayres, a sister Mrs J A Cagle, a brother Walter Jopling, two half brothers Charlie and Lem Jopling, and a step sister Mrs Lila Godfrey.
Mrs. Ina Connelly Southerland, 79, native of Trenton, died after a long illness in a Bonham hospital. Funeral services were held in Trenton and burial followed in Burns Cemetery. She was married in 1894 to Will Southerland. he died in 1933. Surviving are two sons Will and Edward, two daughters Lucille Wilson and J M Gee, a brother Jim Connelly, seven grandchildren and a great grandchild.
Mrs. E G Loveall died in Phoenix Arizona on Friday and was buried there on Saturday according to information received by her nephew Hugh Hunter. She was a former resident of the Whitewright area, with her family having lived on the German place southeast of town many years ago.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 11 30 a m in Lamar Smith Funeral Chapel Dallas for Mrs Zilpha Lillian Hopkins a Whitewright native who died at home in Dallas Sunday Rev Boyd R DeVore and Rev C O Schugart officiated Burial followed at Laurel Land Memorial Park Dallas Survivors include three daughters Miss Irene Hopkins Miss Ora Hopkins and Miss Bernice Hopkins all of Dallas and two sons Clyde Hopkins of Dallas and Ivan Hopkins of Van Alstyne
Seventy five attendees braved bad weather for the first soil conservation field tour in Van Alstyne. Paul Walser urged applying conservation farm wide, citing observed practices such as a forty acre cool season pasture and waterways, plus legume treatment comparing water runoff. A Bar B Cue dinner followed at Hynds Ranch.
Memorial Day falls on Sunday so Monday is observed as a holiday in Whitewright with the First National Bank post office and most businesses closed. Post office operations will follow Sunday hours including early mail pickup, while the northbound 10 05 train brings no mail on holidays. Whitewright businesses recently added Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year’s to their observed holiday list.
Charlie Arterberry 25 year old service station employee drowned Sunday at a rock pit near the Katy underpass south of Whitewright. Kenneth Jones and Larry Cooper recovered the body after 40 minutes. An inquest verdict ruled accidental drowning.
The Fifth Sunday Singing Convention will meet at Ambrose Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock. L. L. Wendell notes these events draw larger crowds as there are few fifth Sundays in a year and urges attendance to hear favorite songs.
Grayson County politics show modest campaign spending with 29 candidates filing first accounts totaling 1933.67 dollars. Largest expense so far is 358.50 by Cecil R. Walker for sheriff. many races under 100 dollars with filing fees looming and 20 day accounting cycles ahead.
The navy reports 91 dead and 201 injured aboard the aircraft carrier Bennington after a mid sea explosion and fire. Investigations are ordered by the Navy and by Senate and House armed services committees. Survivors describe hatches jammed with bodies and trapped men suffocating.
Lyndal Pierson led fifteen Scouts and two fathers on a three day two night excursion to Turner Falls and Sulphur Oklahoma. Attendees included Steve Edwards Don Hennig Tom Sears Scotty Phillips Cliff Emerson Thomas Ryan Jerry Lee Bennett Bryant Dollarhide Bobby Phillips Jimmy Clark David Blackerby Jim my Smith Jackie Robinson Billy Tillett Richard Cook Homer Ryan and Noble Bennett. At the Monday meeting the group presented Mr Pierson a farewell gift as he graduates high school and leaves the group.
The Supreme Court extended desegregation momentum by ordering public colleges universities theaters golf courses housing projects opened to Negroes on a nonsegregated basis. Houston low rent housing and a municipal golf course were specifically affected while lower courts were urged to apply last week’s school desegregation ruling to education and entertainment cases.
Bobby Burchfield, a junior, received first and second degree burns Tuesday while welding an iron gate in the vocational agriculture class. A gunpowder can in a trash barrel exploded from torch heat, igniting his nylon shirt and causing facial and chest burns. He was taken to Wilson N. Jones Hospital in Sherman for treatment. his cotton undershirt limited injuries. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Burchfield of Pilot Grove.
In Austin the secretary of state drew the order for 11 proposed Texas Constitution amendments to appear on the November 2 general election ballot. The top proposal would raise the welfare ceiling from 35 to 42 million dollars and open old age assistance rolls for public inspection.
Whitewright High School's 27 member graduating class will hold exercises Friday at 8:00 p m in the gym. Dr John Moseley Austin College Sherman delivers the address with a full program including diplomas presented by Thomas Sears and other campus officials. Graduation scenes include baccalaureate earlier at First Methodist. grade school graduation at 9:30 Friday and a senior class trip from Monday through Saturday visiting Galveston San Jacinto Houston San Antonio Bandera and a Dallas sightseeing trip for room mothers and sixth grade. May include additional remarks by Rev Harold Taylor and Principal B R Vestal.
Washington DC publishers protest a liquor advertising ban before the House Commerce Committee. Spokesman Peyton R. Evans warns the measure could invite bans on tobacco ads, bathing suits, corsets, and Roy Rogers pistols, as other products might follow.
The Department of Agriculture predicted a better world coffee situation over the next two years. For 1954 55 prospects are more promising than current world buying, with Brazil’s production likely to drop but offset by larger crops elsewhere. New trees coming into production over five years boost 1955 56 outlook.
The Louisiana Legislature voted to continue public school segregation in defiance of the U S Supreme Court ruling. The Senate approved 32 to 1 while the House had already passed 84 to 3, denouncing the high court decision.
New York Republicans will serve milk at their state committee meeting to back Gov. Dewey’s push for more milk and less coffee. About 2800 attendees are expected to drink roughly 700 quarts.
A gunman looted a theater cash register, escaping with $125 after flashing a pistol at cashier Jo Ann McCollum. Police arrived too late as the suspect and money had vanished.
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