Schedule of Food Stamp Issuance For Plan Starting Soon
The Food Stamp plan for WPA, old age assistance and other relief clients in Grayson County will begin June 1 with possible start June 16. About 2,000 Grayson County families will be notified to participate, with Whitewright grocers accepting stamps. Orange stamps buy food, blue stamps cover surplus commodities. Stamps dispensed twice monthly from county offices, with schedules for WPA employed cases, commodity only cases and public assistance clients, listing minimum and maximum orange and blue stamp amounts per family size. The Sun.
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WPA
Grayson County
Whitewright
Chambers of Commerce
Whitewright Grocers
U. S
Whitewright Students Shine at Commerce College Events
Ralph Kent of Whitewright danced the tango and rhumba with Laura May of Texarkana before about 1500 spectators at the East Texas State Teachers College dance recital. J Garland Smith of Whitewright, editor of the 1940 East Texan, attended a weiner roast and formal dance, while college co-eds Winnie Ruth Morgan and Drunette Farley, both Whitewright, were named Latin American fiesta queens representing Mexico and Costa Rica.
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Whitewright
East Texas State Teachers College
Sun
Ralph Kent
Kent
Laura May
Texarkana
J. Garland Smith
East Texan
Paragon Club
Smith
Texas
Winnie Ruth Morgan
Drunette Farley
Miss Morgan
Mexico
Miss Farley
Costa Rica
Rotary meeting review highlights club deeds and plans
Dick Montgomery chaired the Rotary lunch program outlining the year’s achievements including three student loans crippled children work and donations. A fish fry set for Thursday at 6 pm in A. M. Bryant pasture north of Tom Bean drew plans and local members plus wives expect a big turnout. Visitors included Lee Simmons Arthur Hopkins and C. R. Van de Mark of Sherman Rotary Club.
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Dick Montgomery
Rotary Club
A. M. Bryant
Tom Bean
Ed LaRoe
Glen Earnheart
Gomer May
Lee Simmons
Arthur Hopkins
C. R. van de Mark
The
Sherman Rotary Club
Reunion of Savoy College Students Set for June 15
Savoy: The fourth annual reunion of the Savoy College Ex-Students Association will be held Sunday June 15. President Lee A. Clark will open at 9 30 a m in the high school auditorium with descendants of founders as honor guests. Luncheon plans are handled by a women’s committee and W L Cullar oversees seating. At 2 30 p m Mrs Guy Hamilton will lead a sing song followed by officer elections and further business.
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Bob Paxton
Haskell
W. A. Hawkins
Savoy
J. Benton Maxey
Atoka
Okla
May
Mark McMahon
Fort Worth
J. F. Hendrix
W. C. McLemore
S. H. Montgomery
J. A. Stinnett
J. W. McMurray
L. A. Clark
S. J. Reynolds
Gus W. Thomasson
Ed McMahon
W. L. Cullar
Guy Hamilton
Whitewright
Texas Petroleum Workforce Reach Nears 225 Thousand
About 225000 people are employed in the Texas petroleum industry and their families, totaling nearly one million Texans who rely on petroleum for their livelihood.
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Texas Petroleum Industry
Election Called to Vote Airport Bonds in Sherman County
Sherman County commissioners ordered an election for June 10 to decide issuing up to 60 000 in bonds to buy an airport site near Pottsboro if a national defense project locates there. Bonds eight years, tax levied to a sinking fund, interest 1.5 percent, sale to Merchants and Planters National Bank of Sherman. County seeks an army flight school and has committed to the air corps to purchase 1 153 acre tract within 15 days of site acceptance, with much land under option at 25 per acre.
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Army Air Corps
Pottsboro
Men Coming of Age By July 1 Slated To Sign For Draft
President Roosevelt orders about a million men who turn 21 by July 1 to register for possible military training on July 1. The process will use 6 500 local boards and a national lottery to rank new registrants beside existing draft lists.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Selective Service System
National Defense
United States
Alaska
Presbyterian Church South Rejoins Federal Council
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern) voted 154 to 101 to rejoin the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. It had withdrawn about ten years ago over concerns about the council’s political and social activities.
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Montreal
N. C
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the
United States
Southern
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Summer Library Hours at Grammar School
The Grammar School Library opens for public and student use this summer starting June 2. Mrs. Sarah Kilgree leads a story hour for preschoolers on Tuesdays and Fridays 9 to 10. Books from the High School library are available without fees through school and WPA cooperation.
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Grammar School
Sarah Kilgree
High School
WPA
Grayson College Exes to Meet Here Sunday
Grayson College Ex-Students Association will hold its 1941 annual meeting on Sunday August 24. Dr W C French of George Washington University will be principal speaker. The group organized in 1939 with homecoming in September. 1940 meeting in June. E L Silliman is president and J B Hamilton treasurer.
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J. C. Gillespie
Grayson College Ex-Students Association
Grayson Exes
W. C. French
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
E. L. Silliman
Sherman
J. B. Hamilton
Whitewright
Funeral for Ran Roberts Held Monday
Funeral services for James Ran dolph Roberts 60 were held Monday at 2 p.m. at Wittitee Cemetery south of Kentuckytown. He died Sunday afternoon in Dallas after a May 19 automobile accident that left him with a fractured skull. He had been chief deputy sheriff under the late Sheriff Tom Roberts and served in the Texas House of Representatives. He married Carrie Hargraves in 1939. survived by wife two sons Randolph and E J Roberts of Sherman a daughter Alma Curry of Fort Worth two brothers Barlow and Palo Roberts and a sister Mrs J A Abernathy. His first wife Alice Pope died years ago.
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James Randolph Roberts
Dallas
Wittitee
Kentuckytown
Roberts
R. L. Badgett
Central Christian Church of
Sherman
Mr. Roberts
Joe B
Florentia Langford Roberts
Tom Roberts
Texas House of Representatives
Carrie Hargraves
Reserve Officers Receiving Notice For Active Duty
Army reserve officers are asked to prepare for possible active duty with a probable call around July 1. Exemptions cover key defense industry personnel who would join a reserve pool and be called only in a heightened crisis unless their replacement would take over within a year.
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Washington
Army Reserve
War Department
Farmers Win 85 Percent Parity Loans For Five Main Crops
President Roosevelt signs a one year measure guaranteeing farmers of cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco at least 85 percent parity through mandatory government loans. The package combines parity loans, cash parity payments of 212 million dollars, and soil conservation cash, with penalties for overcropping.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Bureau of the Budget
House
AAA
Scientists Develop Will-Proof Tomato
Jacksonville reports new tomato research with fifty seven varieties at the leaf disease laboratory. Dr P A Young heads the lab at the city airport studying diseases remedies and insect control to aid farmers and consumers. A hybrid wilt resistant tomato may reach seed market in a year. The city seeks a permanent site for expansion and tours accompany the Jacksonville Tomato Festival June 8 10.
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Jacksonville
P. A. Young
Texas
Grayson County Eyes $300000 Road Bond Plan
A county citizens committee urged Grayson County commissioners to place a $300,000 road bond issue on the ballot to widen Highway 75 to four lanes Sherman to Denison and fund local improvements. The plan relies on $100,000 annual county construction with WPA funds, extending over about 2.5 years.
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Sherman
Grayson
H. M. Scott
Work Projects Administration
Mr. Scott
WPA
Savoy Cyclone 51 Years Ago
Fifty one years ago Wednesday night at 10 p m a cyclone struck Savoy. The town was badly damaged with only one weatherboarded log structure remaining. George R Wear then a local photographer in Sherman recalls the disaster while staying in the house that survived.
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Savoy
George R. Wear
Sherman
Pensions Slashed for June in Texas Welfare Change
The public welfare department announced a June pension reduction. About 140,000 people will receive an average of $9.60, down $2 from May, due to insufficient state funds. Officials expect July revenue from a new tax bill to restore payments toward $13.60 on average and release $1,000,000 monthly.
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Austin
Public Welfare Department
Boom in goats in Denison town diet trend
W M Pierson of Whitewright remarks that many in town are buying goats. He says a few started the trend and it caught on as people pursue goat milk for dieting or weight gain. Typewriter carbon at Sun office.
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Denison Herald
W. M. Pierson
Whitewright
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Presbyterian Church
South
Council
Grayson College Exes
Ran Roberts
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Jake J. Loy
D. T. McElligott
Bells
L. T. Cook
Dorchester
Bill Gardner
J. P. Buck
Collinsville
E. J. Cappleman
Henry Ball
Tioga
John Pitts
Cedar Mills
Frank Clements
Foy Wallace
Gunter
A. W. Long
Denison
L. S. Omohundro
P H. Luby
John Umphress
van Alstyne
Frank C. Marshall Sr
Whitesboro
Dan Steedman
Hagerman
Sun Office
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