Parcel rate hike expands 30 percent average increase
Parcel post rates rise effective today with an average 30 percent hike based on distance and weight across eight zones and 70 weights. Domestic parcels including APO and FPO shipments rise while foreign parcel rates from last August stay unchanged. Envelopes also increase with higher prices for printed stamped envelopes, sparking printer-government competition debate.
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John Biggerstaff
Post Office
Biggerstaff
Farm Fire Loss in Texas Reaches Five Million
Texas farmers could add up to five million dollars to annual gross income by cutting fire losses, says Norris W. Parker of the Texas Insurance Advisory Association. Fires in 1952 destroyed at least five million dollars of farm buildings and crops, with 1953 potentially higher. Nationally, farm fires cost one hundred million dollars. Parker urges safer construction, simple extinguishing equipment, and organized farm brigades. Fire Prevention Week runs October 4 to 10.
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Austin
Texas
Norris W. Parker
Texas Insurance Advisory Association
Parker
Bank Fee Increase Affects Farm Price Support Loans
The Agriculture Department raised bank charges on price support loans to farmers. Banks now receive 3 percent interest plus a 2 percent service payment, up from 4 percent. Cotton loan handling fee rose from 5 to 8 cents per bale.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Photographer Captures Fire Scene Near Topeka Office
Topeka photographer Harold Lyle rushed from the Topeka Daily Capital office when a fire engine pulled up. He found firefighters battling a blaze in the rear seat of his car and secured a striking photograph.
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Topeka
Kan
Harold Lyle
Topeka Daily Capital
Lyle
Tigers Travel to Rockwall for Tough Frame
Whitewright High School Tigers journey to Rockwall Friday night for their strongest test of the season after routing Commerce Bells and Leonard. A week later they start conference play against Whitesboro at Bryant Field, with six straight league games to follow.
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Whitewright High School Tigers
Rockwall
Commerce
Bells
Leonard
Tigers
Whitesboro Bearcats
Bryant Field
Wolfe City
Honey Grove
van Alstyne
Cooper
Farmersville
Bonham Publisher Missing After Two Weeks
T Frank Stewart publisher of the Bonham Favorite is missing with state police aiding private investigators. Stewart last seen in Denison after visiting a local car dealer and driving a staff car from Bonham. A Burns Agency detective questioned locals about his disappearance.
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Denison
T. Frank Stewart
Bonham Favorite
Stewart
L. T. Stewart
Atoka
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Burns Agency
Bonham
Sun Honor Roll Subscriptions Paid In Advance
Sun Honor Roll lists subscribers who prepaid for three years in advance including George Henry Turner Mrs L O Lackey Laude German Rev James L Cooper Horace Belew J W Jenkins J P Darwin J W Neves E H Smith Loubel Phillips L J Bryant Lucile Sinor T W Brown L V Smith C H Lewis Emory Christian J P Jared B C Chesser Harry Farrow M F Alexander Harold R Bowen O C Slaughter W M Taylor Mrs S O Pool Daisy Baker B C White Minnie Climer William King Bobby Rhody Kenneth Garner S T Food Store Ludie Kuhnell O L Jones. If you receive a renewal notice this week, please pay promptly.
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Harry Farrow
The
Sun
George Henry Turner
L. O. Lackey
Laude German
James L. Cooper
Horace
Daisy Baker Co
B. White
Minnie Climer
William King
Bobby Rhody
Kenneth Garner
S & T Food Store
Ludie Kuhnell
O. L. Jones
Glass Eye Capers Defraud Storekeeper In Bunco Scam
A Los Angeles bunco scam known as the glass eye caper fools storekeepers. A well dressed man feigns a lost glass eye and urges the clerk to search the floor then offers a $100 reward for the return. A second man pretends interest, finds a fake eye, and the proprietor pays $50 hoping for profit, only to learn the eye is not genuine and the hotel contact is bogus.
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Los Angeles
Eprietor
Duncan Hines Endorses Ice Cream for Breakfast
Detroit— Duncan Hines, famed gourmet, says a man should eat ice cream for breakfast to start the day right. He argues ice cream tastes good at meals, provides nourishment, and is easy to digest, often mixing it with corn flakes.
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Detroit
Duncan Hines
Hines
Riggins forecasts early winter and gas readiness
Richard Riggins of Lone Star Gas warns of an early cold spell as crickets swarm near street lights. He advises homeowners and businesses to prepare now by unsealing meters, lighting furnaces, and installing equipment to avoid a last minute rush when cold weather arrives.
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Richard Riggins
Lone Star Gas Company
Warren Accepts High Court Post
California Governor Earl Warren accepts President Eisenhower's nomination to be Chief Justice of the United States. He plans to resign his governor's office, travel to Washington for the oath, and says the Supreme Court's first term will tackle major issues including school desegregation. Warren advocates equal opportunity, supports health insurance and aid to education, and favors Taft Hartley reforms.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Earl Warren
Eisenhower
United States
Warren
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
Washington
First Sunday Singing Convention at Savoy Methodist
The first Sunday Singing Convention will meet at the Savoy Methodist Church at 2 p m Sunday. L L Wendell says several good singers have promised to attend and expects a large audience to boost the quality and reception of the event.
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Savoy Methodist Church
L L. Wendell
Weekday School Lunch Menu Highlights for October Week
The menu lists daily offerings from Monday to Friday including pork sausage with green beans and apple sauce on Monday, red beans with old southern cornbread on Tuesday, Irish stew on Wednesday, hot dogs with chili on Thursday, and pressed ham with mashed potatoes on Friday. The article notes that thirty three states had prohibition before the 18th Amendment was adopted.
Wilson Sees Possible Arms Budget Cut
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson said a cut of 2 to 3.6 billion dollars may come in the next fiscal year starting July 1. He noted current outlays near 43 billion and that the Joint Chiefs of Staff will complete a defense needs appraisal within a week to guide budget writing.
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Washington
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Pentagon
Wilson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nationwide Battle to Save SCS in Agriculture Reorg
A national campaign forms to oppose the dissolution of the Soil Conservation Service of the U S Department of Agriculture as a reorganization plan by Assistant Secretary J Earle Coke nears. Supporters warn the move could cripple the SCS and dissolve the service, affecting 2 500 districts nationwide including 165 in Texas.
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Soil Conservation Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
SCS
Texas
J. Earle Coke
Coke
Soil Conservation
Eisenhower rejects national retail sales tax
President Eisenhower on Wednesday rejected a national retail sales tax but left room to seek a manufacturers level levy. He cited Treasury studies that taxation at retail belongs to state and local governments while noting a possible general excise tax at the manufacturers level to fund defense after income taxes fall and the excess profits tax ends.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Treasury Department
Treasury
Herman P. Eberharter
Pennsylvania
Dem
House
Ways and Means Committee
President Denies Break With Durkin Amid Taft-Hartley Row
President Eisenhower denied knowingly breaking any agreement as he spoke at a news conference about the resignation of Martin Durkin from his cabinet. Durkin, resigning as Secretary of Labor, told AFL delegates that the President had backed away from a pledge to push 19 changes in the Taft-Hartley law while addressing the AFL Plumbers Union.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Martin Durkin
Durkin
AFL
AFL Plumbers Union
Thousand Bales Of Cotton Ginned In Whitewright Area
The Whitewright gins reported 998 bales ginned by 8 30 a m and the total exceeded 1 000 by press time with about 500 bales ginned in the past week. Cotton prices ranged around 32 5 to 33 cents per pound and cottonseed at 53 per ton amid a picker shortage slowing harvest.
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Whitewright
Denison
Death of Crawford Montgomery in Biloxi Veterans Hospital
News reached the paper of the death late yesterday of Crawford Montgomery at Biloxi Mississippi Veterans Hospital. He was the son of the late Dr and Mrs E P Montgomery, grew up locally, and worked for years at the Planters National Bank. He was a World War I veteran. Surviving are his wife and a son Edward Montgomery of Clute Texas.
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Crawford Montgomery
Biloxi
Miss
Walter Johns Dies at Slat. Rites Held for Local Resident
Walter Johns died at his home in Slat on Wednesday of last week and was buried Friday. He had lived in the community many years before moving to the South Plains. Surviving are his wife and one son, Raymond Johns of Lubbock, and a sister, Mrs. Vera Lathem of Dallas.
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Walter Johns
Slat
South Plains
Raymond Johns
Lubbock
Vera Lathem
Dallas
William J. Moore 72 Randolph farmer dies in Bonham
William John Moore died at 3 a m Tuesday in a Bonham hospital. A native of Georgia, he lived 38 years in Fannin County and was a Randolph area farmer. His wife died last year. Funeral was 3:30 p m Wednesday at Randolph Baptist Church. Survivors: four sons J R Moore Detroit Jesse Moore Edinburg Robert Moore Dallas Clifford Moore New York. four brothers Roscoe Oscar Jim G H Moore. two sisters Decia Haile Whitewright Mollie Kinnard Floydada. one grandchild.
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William John Moore
Lester Haile
Whitewright
Bonham Hospital
Randolph
Georgia
Fannin County
The
Baptist Church
Randolph Baptist Church
J. R. Moore
Detroit
Mich
Jesse Moore
Edin
Morris A. Lively dies at 58 in Amarillo
Morris A. Lively 58 longtime Whitewright native and Army chaplain died suddenly Saturday night at the Amarillo veterans hospital where he served since 1946. He held the rank of colonel and was ordained in the Christian Church. He was born September 20, 1895 in Whitewright and moved with his family to Durant Oklahoma in 1911.
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Morris A. Lively
Whitewright
Amarillo
Amarillo Veterans Hospital
Lively
R. M. Lively
Grayson College
Durant
Okla
Morris
The
Christian Church
Com
Dispose of Cotton Stalks Promptly
Cotton stalks should be destroyed immediately after harvest to control insects and improve soil. Extension cotton specialist Fred C. Elliott notes early destruction reduces boll weevil and pink bollworm populations, adds organic matter, and prepares land for winter legumes. Shredder or roller cutters both work to fragment stalks for thorough plowing.
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Fred C. Elliott
Elliott
Veteran World War I and II veteran dies. wife Eileen Thornhanger survives
The obituary notes the death of a veteran of both World Wars on January 11, 1923. Survivors include his wife Eileen Thornhanger, whom he married in 1921 at Haskell, and a daughter Mrs. Robert R. Hangen of Orlando Florida.
Durant postmaster Ralph Ownby dies after long illness
Ralph Ownby 58 of Durant Oklahoma died last Thursday in a Tulsa hospital after a long cancer illness. Funeral services were held Friday in Durant with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. He was born September 18 1895 at Pilot Grove and served as Durant postmaster from 1936 until about two years ago, with World War II service as a colonel. Survivors include his wife two sons his mother two brothers and a sister. He was a nephew of J P Ownby of Whitewright.
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Ralph Ownby
Durant
Okla
Tulsa
Oak Hill
Brothher Moore
Denison
Mr. Ownby
Pilot Grove
Ernest Ownby
Trenton
Whitewright
China- Burma-India
Ralph Ownby Jr
Richmond
Robert Ownby
Printer's Waste Bin Referred to as a Hell Box
An obsolete term for a printer's waste bin used for damaged type and defective material. The note also mentions rare cases of baldness present at birth that may persist through life.
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