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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1959
Page
2
A flurry of weekend and nearby visits highlighted by Sherman and Dallas residents. Numerous pairs and families, including Clarence McMillin in Fort Worth and Grover Hardcastle in Whitewright, traveled to see relatives or friends. A girl, Linda Crawford, fractured an ankle at home.
Mrs. L. E. Dudley of Abilene headlined the Friday Literary Club guest day, with a fall decor theme at Mrs. C. P. Johnson’s home. Music, a Russian composers review by Mrs. Burgher Reed Vestal, and a book review of Ivy Baker Priest’s Green Grows the Ivy highlighted the afternoon before about forty members and guests.
Two year old Mary Beth Pyron daughter of Mr and Mrs James T Pyron of Florence Alabama is selected as the national poster girl for the New March of Dimes 1960 campaign. Her image will appear on posters canisters and coin collectors nationwide symbolizing the drive against birth defects arthritis and polio. Mary Beth was born with an open spine and water on the brain. Medical science has no cure but research funded by the March of Dimes offers hope. She enjoys riding her walking horse and has a 4 year old brother Tommy who is healthy.
Japan relies on foreign sources for about 20 percent of its food supply. Both statements note national dependencies on external resources.
A Dallas News column questions who owns Social Security funds and asks if earnings exemptions should rise to 2400 dollars yearly without reducing benefits. It argues the system effectively subsidizes part-time work after age 65 and criticizes hiring restrictions on retirees.
Letters Testamentary issued September 28 1959 by Grayson County Texas. Creditors must present claims by law. Mail claims to Frances Lenore Rainey 606 East Pacific Sherman Grayson County Texas. Executrix Frances Lenore Rainey. Published in The Whitewright Sun October 22 29 November 5 12 1959.
The Census Bureau reported as of March about 36.5 million U S households, roughly 73 percent, had telephone service. Phones were most common in urban, higher income households and in families. Median income for households without telephones was about 2 600. Diving for sponges began off Tarpon Springs Florida in 1905.
Citation No 66270 commands Elfriede Weirich to answer by 10 am on December 14 1959 in Grayson County Texas District Court Sherman. Plaintiff Lemoyne J. Weirich seeks divorce on cruel treatment with case filed August 28 1959.
New York reports that since 1810 more than 800 billion cans have been made in the United States. If stacked end to end they would reach beyond Mercury. There are over 600 can sizes and Americans open about 42 million cans yearly.
A quiet title action in Grayson County names A T Gordon Effie B Alexander H G Alexander Thomas J Secoy Flora Secoy J William Perry Dan Gorman Ellen Gorman and unknown heirs and representatives. Also named are Northwestern Baptist Association of Denison Texas and its trustees including Ernest Estell Sr G B Williams J L Holford B K Johnson Rev Westbrook and others. Plaintiffs seek title and possession to a parcel of land in Denison described by metes and bounds. Service issued and publication dates listed October and November 1959.
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