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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1951
Page
4
The Fort Worth Press questions Sam Rayburn's boast of record prosperity. It notes last year's national income at 236 billion dollars but omits the public debt, asks if current dollars buy less, and warns fixed income and pension receivers fall behind. It faults foreign policy and warns of Soviet pressure.
Five Grayson County cemeteries earned cash awards in a cemetery improvement contest by the Grayson County Memorial Association marking the first year of the group. Tioga won $100 for best kept and best appearance, first. Gunter $100 second. Bells $75 third. Hall $50. Forty cemeteries entered the event limited to towns of 1,000 or less. Officials reelected include Sherman’s Lee Simmons president and Joe Durning secretary treasurer.
Budget Bureau experts predicted the federal government will spend 70 billion dollars in the current fiscal year. The estimate is 1.5 billion higher than the initial 1952 projection, driven by rapid defense spending, with possible further revisions and additional appropriations when Congress reconvenes in January.
Local churches announce schedules and leadership updates including Rev. Don Riesinger Rev R L Hamm Linley E Vowell James L Cooper W T Simmons and Rev Lee H Smith activities such as Sunday school worship morning and evening services youth programs training unions midweek prayers and a Harvest Festival program in Leonard with a hospital chaplain speaking Paris Presbytery meeting and licensing of James Logan with ordination planned next spring choir rehearsal Judason event details listed for community notice.
In a businessmen's club card room a member spots three men and a dog playing poker. He notes the dog’s performance, but the owner scoffs that the animal is not clever, quipping the dog only wags its tail when it gets a good hand.
The pioneer villages of Boston and Philadelphia each had printing presses before English cities like Liverpool and Birmingham allowed them. Andrew Bradford founded the American Weekly Mercury in Philadelphia on December 22, 1719, as the first American newspaper outside Boston.
Los Angeles police officer Tex Bjorklund unveils a two piece pistol trigger lock designed to prevent cocking and firing by kids. The device blocks the trigger on both sides and requires a key to remove, aiming to curb tragedies after a child shot his father, killed his younger brother, and wounded their mother.
Published every Thursday the notice shows subscription rates for Grayson and Fannin Counties and outside areas. One year costs 1.50 within the two counties and 2.00 elsewhere while six months cost 1.00 locally and 1.25 outside.
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