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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1952
Page
2
Local notes list numerous visitors and social visits across Sherman Bonham Dallas Denton Purcell and other towns. Names include Mrs W H Horton Mary Perkinson Russell Summers Del McKnight Y B Kaiser Jack Hansard Lucy Craig Prilla Ann Hinton and NTSC students among many others. Bathtubs and sinks advertised by Lem Tittsworth Bonham.
The town and Balesville resolved a dispute over SHOP IN BALESVILLE bus signs by agreeing to display SHOP HERE IN TOWN. The franchise bus line operates locally and both sides credit dialogue for the peaceful compromise.
A national TV industry group calls for reviewing mystery programs and warns that carnival pitchman style ads belong on the midway not on television. The National Television Code Board of Review, meeting under a 94 station voluntary code, urged subscribers to limit drinking and killing scenes during times children may view.
The report notes that 60 percent of auto accidents occur at night despite fewer vehicles on the road. It also lists legal notices from Grayson County Texas including a 1952 probate citation for Charles M. Snyder and a divorce suit citation between Joseph R. Watson and Marie L. Watson, with key dates in October and November 1952.
In a Korea Mobile Army Surgical Hospital ward a 19-year-old soldier shares his confusion after his right arm is amputated above the elbow. He speaks of feeling lucky to be alive while wondering what the sacrifice will mean. The story contrasts surgery details with a grim image of hands and legs buried, and closes with a political joke about voting.
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