PTA Opens New Year Meeting Tuesday At Whitewright High
The PTA will hold its first meeting of the new school year at 7 30 PM Tuesday October 14 in the Whitewright High School study hall. It will thank the board faculty and staff and invite all school patrons to attend with babysitting and refreshments provided. The Pet Show is set for October 21 at the football field with prizes and entries urged. notify Mrs J C McMillan PTA president by noon on the show day.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Board of Education
Whitewright
PTA
J. C. McMillin
Lunchroom Menus for Whitewright Public Schools
The weekly menu lists meals for Monday through Friday with dishes such as Macaroni and Cheese English Peas Lettuce and Tomatoes Hot Bread Butter Honey on Monday and Hamburger Bake Slaw Potato Chips Hot Bread Oatmeal Cookies on Friday Milk is served with each meal.
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Whitewright Public Schools
Motor Carriers Granted 8 Percent Freight Increase
The Railroad Commission approved an 8 percent rise in motor freight rates for all carriers on regular schedules in the state. Minimum charges rise from $1.40 to $1.50, effective Oct. 10, as carriers sought higher operating costs including salaries.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texoma Nearing Its All Time Low
Denison reports Lake Texoma expected to reach a new record low within two weeks unless heavy rainfall occurs. Current level 608.18 feet, with the 1949 low of 607.33 feet as the milestone. Normal pool sits at 617 feet and past wet-season highs reached 629.04 feet in 1945.
Contrast Drawn Between Adlai And Eisenhower
Washington notes the campaign crowds react differently to Ike and Adlai. Ike draws exuberant, cheering audiences by speaking in plain terms and identifying with the common voter. Stevenson attracts attentive, respectful crowds, relying on intellect, careful argument, and wit to persuade before the crowd decides.
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Andrew Tully Washington
Ike Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Ike
Governor Stevenson
Scarcity feared as potato crop outlook shifts in 1953
Washington reports a potential spring potato shortage due to bad weather in Maine and late crop regions. Farmers hold fewer potatoes in storage while demand stays high, but officials hope early crop states may offset losses. Cabbage lettuce onions and tomatoes are listed with steady canning stocks. canned peas prices rise while corn prices soften. The Bible's Revelations is titled the Apocalypse and early steam auto mobiles predate 1800.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Maine
Deaths Claude W Phillips 62 services at First Presbyterian
Funeral services for Claude W Phillips 62 were held at 3 p m Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church. Burial followed in Oak Hill Cemetery. He died suddenly of a heart attack at a pasture pool where he had been fishing. He is survived by his wife Clara, his mother, two sons C W Phillips Jr of Florida and Earl of Las Vegas, a daughter Mary of Whitewright, a brother Henry, two sisters Viva Phillips and Frances Stephens, and three grandchildren.
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Claude W. Phillips
First Presbyterian Church
Lee H. Smith
James L. Cooper
First Baptist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Wilson Kaiser
Robert Reynolds
Joe Browley
W. T. Farrow
Lloyd Alexander
Thomas Sears
Phillips
Clara Phillips
C. W. Phillips Jr
Florida
Earl Phillips
Las Vegas
Mary Phillips
Whitewright
Henry Phillips
Viva Phillips
Frances Stephens
Funeral for Harold Hill 34 in Westminster
Harold Davis Hill age 34 of Westminster died at McKinney hospital. Funeral held 3 p m Tuesday at Earnheart Funeral Chapel with W E Lemmons and other ministers officiating. Burial in Elm Grove Cemetery. Survivors include wife, five children, parents, three sisters and six relatives. He was born June 30 1918 in Tom Bean. He belonged to the Church of Christ.
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Earnheart
Harold Davis Hill
Westminster
McKinney Hospital
Earl Hill
Sherman
W. E. Lemmons
Walnut Street Church of Christ
Clifton Igo
Baptist Church
Elmont
Tildon Mce Ferrin
Church of Christ
Whitewright
Elm Grove Cemetery
John Pace
Clarence McMillin
Bill Barrett
Joe Hestand
Lewis Durham
Cecil Ward
Hill
Tom Bean
Emma Ruth
Margaret Ann
Danny Joe
Davis
Billy
Albert Laughlin
Tom Harrison
Helen Hood
Funeral Held for Vern Snodgrass in Oklahoma City
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hunter and family attended the funeral of Vern Snodgrass 44 in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. Snodgrass a former resident died of a heart attack and is survived by his wife the former Tola Fay Hunter and his parents and several siblings.
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Hugh Hunter
R. D. Maddux
Billy Muirhead
Vern Snodgrass
Oklahoma City
Snodgrass
Tola Fay Hunter
Obituary: John Medford Smith Jr. Dies in Denison
John Medford Smith Jr. 38, operator of Little John's Bait Shop on Highway 75 A north of Denison, died Wednesday in a Denison hospital after a heart attack. Known as Little John to local fishermen, he sold minnows for six years. He is survived by his wife a son and his mother.
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John Medford Smith Jr
Little John
Highway 75
Denison
Mr. Smith
Whitewright
Texas Will Have Its Car Plates
Texas prison system will have 1953 auto license plates ready for delivery on schedule after a six week steel strike delay. Officials expect 7,500,000 plates for delivery before April 1, providing double plates for 3,500,000 vehicles and single plates for motorcycles and trailers. Total registrations this year reached 3,300,000 and may rise to 3,500,000 by next April.
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Austin
Texas
R. W. Weddell
State Highway Department
U. S. Officials Promise To Bring Binion Back
Justice Department officials say gambler Benny Binion will be returned to Dallas for trial on a 1946 income tax evasion charge. A spokesman noted the plan aims to avoid a repeat of Binion’s Carson City trial on another tax evasion count. Binion is a native of Pilot Grove and known in Whitewright.
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Washington
Justice Department
Benny Binion
Dallas
Binion
Carson City
Pilot Grove
Whitewright
Light Frost Here Tuesday Night In Whitewright
A 35 degree reading early Wednesday marked the coldest weather since Oct. 8 and frost touched low areas. Cotton leaves were black in Bois d Arc bottom, and residents noted frost-bitten vegetation smell. The norther that arrived Sunday brought light rain and then cleared with no rain expected soon.
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Roy Blanton
Bois d’Arc
Whitewright
School Tax Office Opens in City Building
Mrs. B. W. Newman, assessor and tax collector for Whitewright Independent School District, has opened her office in the election room of the city building to collect school taxes. Tax statements have been mailed. payments may be made from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday each week.
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B. W. Newman
Whitewright Independent
Restrictions to come off staple cotton in 1953
Washington authorities announced that in 1953 farmers may grow and sell both upland and extra long staple cotton without federal marketing quotas or acreage allotments. Brannan cited a normal supply outlook, noting 16,451,000 bales in the 1952-53 year with a 2,682,000 bale carryover and an estimated 1,632,000 bale surplus below normal. Acreage planted will count toward base acreage for future allotments.
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Washington
Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
Brannan
Agriculture Department
Shivers backs Ike in historic Texas GOP shift
Governor Allan Shivers announces he will vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower in November joining South Carolina’s James Byrnes and Louisiana’s Robert Kennon in opposing Adlai Stevenson. He condemns Stevensonism and Trumanism with a Harvard accent citing policy criticisms and names multiple Democratic figures. It marks the first time a Texas Democratic governor publicly backs a Republican for president.
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Austin
Allan Shivers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shivers
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Robert Kennon
Louisiana
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dean Achison
Harry Vaughan
Oscar Ewing
Oscar Chapman
Tidelands
Charlie Brannan
Brannan
Texas
88 per cent of nation’s farms have electricity
The Rural Electrification Administration reports over 20 000 farms were electrified in the year ending June 30 leaving 12 per cent unconnected Now 4 740 000 farms are on power lines with 641 000 still unelectrified Since 1935 when REA began only 10 9 percent were electrified And 2 534 000 farms are served by rural power systems
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Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Fire Insurance Rate Reductions Expected Nov. 3
Texas fire insurance rates for dwellings and related buildings are set to be announced on November 3 by the State Board of Fire Insurance Commissioners. With a favorable loss ratio, home rates are expected to be somewhat lower, though overall changes aim to keep insurers’ income near current levels amid various revisions.
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Austin
Texas
State Board of Fire Insurance Commissioners
Paul H. Brown
Draftee Age Lowered as Safety Measure
State Selective Service lowered the maximum age for draft physicals to nineteen years eleven months to prevent boards from running short on men. Local boards will first examine those twenty-one and over, then twenty-year-olds, then younger draftees if needed. The change takes effect in November with 7,655 men called and a 2,802 induction quota.
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Austin
Morris S. Schwartz
Adlas Backers Seek Large Fund in Stevenson Push
Democrats urge a nationwide telegraphic appeal to raise funds for Adlai Stevenson campaigns. Volunteers for Stevenson plan half hour radio and TV broadcasts two to three times weekly until election day costing about 60000 dollars per 30 minute slot. Signed by Senators Kefauver Fulbright and Douglas, the appeal asks large checks payable to Volunteers for Stevenson Television Radio Fund.
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Dallas
Stevenson
George Ball
Washington
Adlai Stevenson
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Local Cotton Gins Report 1181 Bales Through Morning
Whitewright gins processed 1181 bales of cotton by 10 AM, up 9 cents weekly. Prices stood at 36 cents per pound for cotton and 75 dollars per ton for cottonseed, down one half cent from last week and three cents per pound since September 4.
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Whitewright
Texas Cotton Crop Up 100 000 Bales In USDA Estimate
The USDA raised Texas 1952 cotton to 3 600 000 bales from 3 500 000. National crop set at 14 413 000 bales, up 524 000 from last month but below 1951. Texas acreage unchanged at 10 144 000 acres with yield raised to 171 pounds per acre.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Texas
U. S
USDA
Kefauver Critiques Truman Whistle Stop Tour
Sen Estes Kefauver arrived in San Francisco and said President Truman's whistle stop tour has had a negative effect on Adlai Stevenson. He stated he would not have wanted that campaign style if he were the candidate and that the appearances likely hurt Stevenson's prestige.
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San Francisco
Calif
Estes Kefauver
Truman
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Tennessee Democrat
Newsmen Assert Search for Truth Growing Harder
Panel of topflight newsmen at the National Press Club debate whether freedom of information has declined. Kenneth L. Dixon says individuals must reveal both bad and good. Russell Wiggins notes less access to reliable government data. George Sandifer sees more information but questions its factuality. Clark Mollenhoff cites suppression by big government. Carroll Binder warns of lower global information volume impacting policy decisions.
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National Press Club
Kenneth L. Dixon
Lake Charles
American Press
Russell Wiggins
The
Washington Post
Wiggins
George Sandifer
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Clark Mollenhoff
Cowles
Carroll Binder
Minneapolis Tribune
Yearso Front Shrdlu
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