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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1956
Page
5
A parade of regional residents are listed with visits and weekend stays across Dallas Denison Sherman McKinney Royse City and Greenville. Notable item notes Thomas W Ayres of Fort Carson headed to Europe October 13 as part of Operation Gyroscope.
A string of weekend visits spans Apple Valley Denison Dallas and Bells as families carouse across towns. Notable mentions include A R McMurry and A G McMurry, May Badgett, Douce Thrasher, the Chisms, Hargetts Murphys and Baxters. The entry notes ETSTC commerce student Obie Rutledge Jr and Paul Stephens, plus church delegates J W Polk and J W Polk II to the North Texas Conference in Sherman on Oct 19.
C C Childress, ministerial delegates, Clint Hennig, lay delegate, and Sears Anderson, alternate, attend as church conference members. William D Russell, 1955 Whitewright HS graduate, joins The East Texan staff at ETSTC Commerce. Gladys Ray hosts Tuesday Night Bridge Club. Pernie Badgett high score. Glen Earnheart bingo winner. Ross May substitute. Next meeting with Lena Mae Gowdy.
Cub Scouts of Den 4 met at the high school Tuesday at 4 o clock. Mickie Meador called the meeting to order and welcomed new member Ronnie Phillips. Members and guests were served refreshments by Mrs. Jack Meador, keeper of the buckskin. Den 2 Pack 5 met Wednesday afternoon in the Cub Scout room with Den mother Mrs. Bill Holloway in charge. Denner John Holloway led the pledge and dues were collected as each Cub made a puppet for the October puppet theme. The club dismissed with singing America and treats were shared by several Cubs and adults.
New York report says promoter Bill Veeck plans to buy Ringling Bros for 2.5 million dollars and revive the Greatest Show on Earth as a tent show if the deal closes. Veeck, famed baseball promoter and former Indians and Browns owner, would revive the circus after it folded last July. The note adds railroads are the largest users of treated forest products.
Dr. William Feinbloom of New York unveiled a new optical device at the Illinois Federation of the Blind convention in Chicago. The glasses feature twin windows per lens with a rear mirror and a forward magnifying lens to increase light, enlarge images, and widen the visual field.
A reflective poem notes time passing softly like a pantomime. The verse muses on truth in darkness and the elusiveness of a day’s travel as ideas fade with dawn. It oddballly references whales weather industry and a historical line about Germany becoming a kingdom in 843 A D.
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