Rangers Reminisce 1925 Armistice Day Clash
Jack Lackey recalls Whitewright High School Rangers loss to Highland Park 12 to 7 in Dallas on Armistice Day 1925 for the 14 county District 5-B title. Starting lineup included Lackey Coffman Bailey and Ben nett Spindle and others in a 18-man squad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Lackey
Whitewright
Highland Park
Dallas
Jack
Rangers
Leon Bennett
Leon Spindle
S. H. Montgomery Jr
Jake Keeling
Homer Craig
Bonnie Nicholson
John W. McMurry Jr
Raymond Coffman
Willis
Pie) Bailey
Tommy Bradley
Weldon Binion
Houston Blanton
Tigers Face Bells Panthers to Close District Schedule
Buoyed by a 34-6 win over Celeste last week the WHL Tigers travel to Bells Friday night to finish the regular season. Friday results in District 11-B will decide the district champion or determine the runner up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celeste Blue Devils
WHL
Tigers
Bells Panthers
Bells
Enterprise Church To Have Supper Saturday Night
The annual Thanksgiving supper of the Enterprise Baptist Church will be held Saturday night at 7 o'clock at the Ely Community Center. Members and former members are invited to attend.
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Enterprise Baptist Church
Ely Community Center
U. S. Casualties Mount in Vietnam
U S casualties in Vietnam rose to over 1 100 battle deaths this week with more than 5 000 wounded 102 missing and 20 captured In a Nov 12 report Defense Secretary McNamara said Johnson authorized more troops raising potential U S strength to 250 000 by next summer Pentagon figures show 133 planes lost in air combat since February a 3 2 per 1 000 sorties rate Governor George Romney warned the war may worsen before improving and called the military campaign in its early stages
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Vietnam
U. S
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
Pentagon
North Vietnam
George Romney
Michigan
Christmas Gifts Sought By State Hospital
Terrell State Hospital seeks volunteers and donors to supply 2715 patients with Christmas gift packages. E. J. Lyon says gifts aid 31 counties and notes many patients have no other gifts. Lists of desired items include combs brushes toiletries and personal care products.
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Terrell State Hospital
E. J. Lyon
Dallas
Lyon
Championship Playoff Details at Celeste Game
The Reflector notes a championship playoff in Celeste with game details to follow on its pages. Identified teams and exact scoring will be provided in the paper's later edition.
Edison Quote on Genius Shifts with Air Conditioning
A quip notes Thomas Edison once put success at ninety percent perspiration and ten percent inspiration. The speaker suggests the line would change in the air conditioned era as sweating becomes less fashionable.
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Thos
Edison
Death notice for Pascal F. Cox retires salesman and family
Pascal Franklin Cox 70 died suddenly of a heart attack at his Henderson home. Funeral services were held at Earnheart chapel with Rev Howard Adams and Rev C C Dooley officiating. Burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife Ollie Paschall Cox three daughters two sisters and three grandchildren. Will Cox brother died in World War I.
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Pascal Franklin Cox
Earnheart Funeral
Howard Adams
C. C. Dooley
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mr. Cox
Whitewright
William M
Cordelia Ingram Cox
Ollie Paschall
Royse City
First Methodist Church
Henderson
Bobbie Nell Dunn
Bells
Billie Jean Wills
Mary Edna Pool
Edna Bailey
Charleston
S. C
Ruth Cox
Will Cox
France
Funeral Rites Held for Mrs Effie Frances Jones
Funeral services were conducted at Barnheart chapel for 82 year old Effie Frances Jones mother of Emory Christian of Whitewright. Burial followed in Reisel Cemetery at Waco. She had lived in a Tom Bean rest home since her husband Berryman H. Jones died in 1961. Surviving are her son two grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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Barnheart Funeral Chapel
Effie Frances Jones
Emory Christian
Whitewright
Reisel
Waco
Mrs Wirt May 82 Dies in Savoy Ex-Student of Hassell College
Mrs Wirt May age 82 died at her Savoy home Monday. The Hassell College survivor was born Mary Agnes Wrenn in Savoy December 27, 1882. She married Wirt May in 1901 and lived in Savoy. burial was in Savoy Tuesday. Surviving are husband a son Erwin May Nocona a daughter Marjorie Sue May Savoy a brother R W Wrenn Savoy and three grandchildren.
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Wirt May
Hassell College
Savoy
O. L. Jones
Whitewright
May
Mary Agnes Wrenn
Robert Wrenn
Erwin May
Nocona
Marjorie Sue May
R. W. Wrenn
Game Season Opens In Texas This Week
AUSTIN The annual Texas big game season opens with deer and turkey hunting in most areas. State biologists estimate about 2 225 000 deer, the largest native population, and a strong supply of wild turkeys statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Mary Dale Circle of Bethel Baptist Met for Missions
The Mary Dale Circle met Monday with eight members to discuss stewardship and community missions. Plans were made for Thanksgiving and Christmas projects including a package sent to Bill Wetzel in Vietnam and a Thanksgiving prayer service for November 24 with Pilot Grove.
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Mary Dale Circle
Manuel Alexander
J. C. Wetzel
Ralph McKinney
McKinney
Wetzel
Ronald Pierce
Bill Wetzel
Vietnam
Bethel Baptist Church
J. P. Williams
Circle
Pilot Grove
Cecil Bartley
Uncle Dan Proposes Harvard Plan To Train Unemployed
A letter to the editor from Uncle Dan of Tom Bean questions Senator Robertson of Virginia and his job training costs. He compares training programs in Crewe and nearby towns, totals the $388 365 spent for 152 people, and suggests sending all unemployed to Harvard or other colleges as a cheaper alternative. He jokes about football and asks the editor to investigate and report back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Robertson
Virginia
Crewe
Richmond
Senator Robertson
Harvard
Lyndon
Michigan
Uncle Dan
Burglaries Hit New High School During Football Game
Thieves broke into the new high school through an east gym window during a Friday night football game. Mud on walls, a broken candy machine, and a half-burned matches clue the entry. A desk drawer of loose change was left open after the intrusion.
Hunters Warned About Drinking
The Texas Safety Association warns hunters that gunpowder and alcohol don’t mix. Hunting under the influence is very dangerous as two drinks can impair visual acuity, judgment, balance, and reflexes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas Safety Association
Post Office Plans 1966 Stamp Issues Wide Range
The Post Office Department in Washington announces 1966 stamp designs including Johnny Appleseed and Mary Cassatt. Seven of fifteen stamps will honor Indiana statehood migratory bird treaty National Park Service humane treatment of animals American circus the Bill of Rights and the Sixth International Philatelic Exhibition.
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Post Office Department
Washington
Johnny Appleseed
Mary Cassatt
Indiana
Canada
National Park Service
Marriage Bureau Machines No Good
In NICE France Suzanne Roy a professional matchmaker has given up electronic machines at her matrimonial agency. She says machines find brides quickly but cannot account for what men truly want in a wife as hearts and other organs decide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nice
France
Suzanne Roy
Down Memory Lane News Recap from 1920 and 1930s
A collage of local notes recalls 1920 first grade honor roll names Lois Truett and others, a highway contract for Ida Whitewright link, a serious wheat drill accident with amputation, and a wedding of George Gattis and Ruth Dicus. It also notes Navy groom Thomas Simmons and Ruby Haliburton, plus 1930 crowds, a death in Kentuckytown, a birthday dinner surprise for Mrs Norris, and a birth in Orangeville on November 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Truett
Johnny Dossey
Margaret Pierce
LaVern Henderson
Bertha Clabhorn
Grady Haliburton
Evan Jane Skaggs
Thomas Smith
Edwin Baldwin
George Gattis
Whitewright
Ruth Dicus
Gordonville
Miss Ruby Crowell and John Kerr wed in 1925
40 Years Ago item notes Miss Ruby Crowell of Whitewright and Mr. John Kerr of Sherman marriage last week, plus Mr. Robert Taylor and Miss Esta Tate married on Saturday, and a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Kirkpatrick on November 15. The piece lists Lucile Myrick Julian Everhart Haskell Thomson Guy Stedham Mrs Annette Harp Raymond Hoyle Miss Tommie Chenoweth and the Glee Club at the school chapel program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Crowell
Whitewright
John Kerr
Sherman
Robert Taylor
Esta Tate
Ira Kirkpatrick
Lucile Myrick
Julian Everheart
Haskell Thomson
Guy Stedham
Annette Harp
Raymond Hoyle
Tommie Chenoweth
Glee Club
Obituaries and Local Notices From Grayson County
Obituary for J. W. Henry aged 72. Local counts show 46 503 bales of cotton ginned this season. Fifty three residents approved for old age pensions. Henrietta Jackson hosted a birthday party for ten. Kelous Watson buys Gates shoe shop. Mary Alice Harrison and Leslie Andrew wed on October 30. J. W. Taylor couple marks 63rd anniversary. Billy Muirhead and Bess Marley wed November 12. Arthur B. Ford dies at Route 2 home.
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J. W. Henry
Grayson County
Henrietta Jackson
Kelous Watson
Gates Shoe
Mary Alice Harrison
Leslie Andrew
J. W. Taylor
Billy Muirhead
Bess Marley
Arthur B. Ford
American Legion Meeting Tonight In New Hall
Ever heart Thornhill Post American Legion holds business meeting this Thursday at 7 in the new American Legion Hall. The two story building, formerly a drug store downstairs and physicians upstairs, was purchased after the park hall burned. It has undergone remodeling and repainting at substantial cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everheart-Thornhill Post
American Legion
American Legion Hall
The
Post
Thanksgiving Service at First Presbyterian Church
The First Presbyterian Church with Pastor Rev. C. C. Dooley hosts a Sunday School at 10:00 and a worship service at 11:00. A Thanksgiving service is set for 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 24.
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First Presbyterian Church
C. C. Dooley
Church Schedule for Mrs Janice Hall
Pastor Mrs Janice Hall leads Sunday School at 9 45 a m and worship at 11 a m. A second worship service is at 7 15 p m with a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m.
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Janice Hall
Whitewright church weekly schedule with Rev Dale Gore
Pastor Rev Dale Gore leads a week of services and activities at Whitewright including Sunday classes and worship at 9 55 and 11 00 morning worship 4 15 play rehearsal 5 15 choir rehearsal 6 00 Christian Life development 7 00 evening worship WMU meeting Tuesday 2 00 Rex Ray Circle 5 00 play rehearsal 7 00 deacons dinner parsonage Wednesday 6 00 play rehearsal 7 00 city wide Thanksgiving service at the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday
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Dale Gore
Whitewright Nursing Home
Christian Life
WMU
Rex Ray Circle
The
Presbyterian Church
Church Schedule for Rev Howard Adams Week
The notice lists a church week led by Rev Howard Adams with services Sunday School at 10 and Morning Worship at 11, a noon all church dinner, Junior MYF and Methodist Youth Fellowship, Sunday Bible study, an Official Board meeting Monday, and an annual Thanksgiving service Wednesday at First Presbyterian. A hymn sing and missionary speaker Miss Jeanne Lowrance are planned for Nov 28, with district conference on Nov 29 at Denison's Waples Memorial Methodist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Adams
Jeanne Lowrance
Waples Memorial Methodist Church
Denison
Sunday Worship Times and Christ Ambassadors Meeting
The schedule lists Sunday School at 9 45 a m and worship at 11 a m with a 7 p m service. Christ Ambassadors meet Saturday at 7 p m and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 p m. Prayerful worship continues each Sunday at 9 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ Ambassadors
Church of Christ Service Times Listed for Sunday
Minister W. E. Mynatt leads Bible study at 10 a.m. Worship and communion at 11 a.m. Evening worship at 7 p.m. Bible study for all ages at 7 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church OF Christ
W. E. Mynatt
Bethel Baptist Church Sunday Worship and Training
Bethel Baptist Church schedules worship at 11:00 prior to a 6:30 Training Union session and a 7:30 worship service. The day centers on two services with a midweek Bible training component.
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Bethel Baptist Church
Sunday Church Schedule Remains Unchanged
The bulletin lists Sunday School at 10 a m Worship Service at 11 a m Training Union at 7 p m and an evening Worship Service at 7 45 p m for the congregation.
End of Devil's Island Penitentiary Era in 1945
The notorious Devil's Island penal colony in French Guiana was abolished in 1945 and most prisoners held there at that time received amnesty.
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Devil's Island
South America
French Guiana
Annual Union Thanksgiving Service to be Held at Presbyterian Church
The annual union Thanksgiving service is set for 7:00 p m Wednesday November 24 at the Presbyterian Church Cooperating ministers are Rev Howard Adams Rev C C Dooley and Rev Dale Gore The program includes Prelude Congregational hymn Invocation and Scripture announcements offering for the school library solo by Harold MacNabb sermon by Rev Howard Adams and benediction and postlude by Mrs Johnson
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Presbyterian Church
Howard Adams
C. C. Dooley
Dale Gore
David Johnson
Harold MacNabb
Small Precautions Big Help in Coping With Kitchen Fires
A dated home safety item explains basic steps to handle stove fires using baking soda and a hot pad. It lists three cardinal rules: avoid high heat, do not leave fat foods unattended, and keep the range and surrounding area clean and clear of flammables.
Spoils System in Congress Staffing Draws Reform Push
About 1 400 congressional workers including elevator operators policemen and pages are chosen under patronage. Most appointed by Democrats. When members die or lose, appointees are discharged. Two year turnover forces loss of experienced staff. Some Congressmen seek a merit based hiring and firing system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
House
Health costs in billions rise to 38 in 1965
Harvard medical school estimates Americans spend about 38 billion dollars annually on medical and health services. The figure, ten times higher than 25 years ago, is expected to grow to around 38.4 billion by 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical School of
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
Singapore's population by race in the 1.8 million figure
The article notes that about 1.8 million people live in Singapore and three quarters are Chinese, highlighting the ethnic composition of the city state.
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Singapore
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LBJ
Enterprise Church
State Hospital
Pascal F. Cox
Mrs
Effie Jones
Mrs. Wirt May
Bethel Baptist Circles
Dan
Tom Bean
NEW High School
Post Office Dept. Plans
W. M. Cox
Thomas Simmons
Ruby Nell Haliburton
Navy
W. L. Lyons
Kentuckytown
R. C. Norris
Jim Brown
Orangeville
New Hall
Assembly OF God Church
First Baptist Church
Kentuckytown Baptist Church
Devil's Island End
Union
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