Trades Day Draws 4000 as Gold Prizes Are Awarded
A 4000 crowd attended trades day as the Commercial Club distributed 250 in gold prizes. Winners included J. W. Burden 100 Ben Means 75 Mrs. R. L. Sears 40 C. W. Farr 20 Mrs. J. J. Jenkins 10 and A. K. Haliburton 5. Also notes on local illness births deaths and civic events follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Sun
Commercial Club
J. W. Burden
Ben Means
R. L. Sears
C. W. Farr
J. J. Jenkins
A. K. Haliburton
Maude Biggerstaff
AMA Ad Campaign Against Socialized Medicine
The American Medical Association launches a million dollar campaign opposing compulsory health insurance. Ads will run in about 11,000 newspapers, 30 national magazines, and 1,600 radio stations nationwide over two weeks, with total outlays exceeding 3 million dollars.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
AMA
United States
Hawaii
Alaska
Association
Administration
Truman
Cost Per Pupil In Public Schools Rises In 1949
The U S Chamber of Commerce education committee reports the 1949 cost to educate a pupil averaged 206 dollars, up 134 percent from 88 dollars in 1940. The share of national income spent on education fell from 2.55 percent in 1940 to 2.27 percent last year as income grew faster than school expenditures.
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Washington
Education Committee
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
WCTU to Send GIs Fruit Juice Not Beer
In Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Esther M. Madsen leads the WCTU pledge to supply GIs in Korea with canned fruit juice and water soon, replacing promised beer. The note appears amid local notices and legal postings in Whitewright and Sherman, Texas records.
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WCTU
Columbus
Ohio
Korea
United States
Esther M. Madsen
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Clark County
Springfield
Pepper Prices Up As Government Pepper Stockpile Stays Shut
The 95 cent four ounce can of black pepper costs 42 percent more than before Korea and more than double the price a year ago. Officials say the stockpile is not large enough to lower prices and the munitions board did not plan to control prices. President Truman could release it by executive order.
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Washington
Secon
Munitions Board
Congress
Truman
Korea
1600 Naval ROTC Scholarships For High School Seniors
Four year scholarships begin fall 1951 for 1600 high school seniors and graduates through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Program. Recipients receive 600 dollars annually for personal expenses plus free tuition books equipment and uniforms at cooperating colleges including University of Texas Rice Institute University of Oklahoma and Tulane. Exams require one Naval Science course each semester and two years active duty after graduation. Applications available at high schools junior colleges and Navy Reserve Stations with national exam due November 14 1950.
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Naval Reserve Officer Training Program
University of Texas
Rice Institute
University of Oklahoma
Tulane University of Louisiana
Navy Reserve
May Be True Dialogs on Low and High Brows
A humorous exchange defines low-brow as someone who enjoys funny papers and snappy stories and is vocal about it. The reply for high-brow reframes a high-brow as a low brow who won’t admit it, highlighting social pretensions in simple terms.
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Papa
Dead River Flows Backward Delta at Its Head
Kent, Ohio. A Maine stream named Dead River flows backward when the Androscoggin River rises higher than Androscoggin Lake during spring freshets. The creek, six to seven miles long, normally drains lake into river but reverses direction, carrying rock silt back into the lake for that period.
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Kent
Ohio
Maine
Science
C. N. Savage
Kent State University
Androscoggin Lake
Androscoggin River
Androscoggin
Renewal Push At The Whitewright Sun Office
The Whitewright Sun reports renewal time with subscribers paying $1.50 per year in Grayson and Fannin Counties and $2 per year for mailings outside those counties. New subscribers are being added daily as renewals arrive by mail or in person.
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Whitewright Sun
Whitewright
Texas
Congress
State of Texas
Grayson
T. G. Doss
Iown
May M. Badgett
Notary Public
The
Fannin
Delta Formation in Dead River Creates Long Inland Reach
A river delta forms where the Dead River meets the lake’s still water. The delta extends about one and a half miles in length and a quarter of a mile in width as sediment settles and the current decelerates.
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Rachel Montgomery
Fountain Kimbell
Groesbeck
B. S. Montgomery
W. T. Noe
George Nicely
Wichita Falls
Census Bureau
Grayson College
Cameron
Susan D. Fulton
Joe Hamilton
First National Bank
Planters National Bank
W. A. Stuckey
Methodist Church
North Texas Methodist
Greenville
R. G. Hoyle
Convention of Texas Chiropractors
Dallas
J. A. Dickey
Church of Christ of
Denison
the American Legion
Omaha
Nebraska
G. M. McNeilly
Baptists
Grayson County
Sherman
J. F. Lilley
Mobilglass
Mobilwax
Mobilgas
Mobilois
G. C. Stateville
Magnolia
State of
Tommy Ray Ingram
Willie L. Ingram
Said
Said County
J. C. Buchanan
Marguerite Berry
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
Pascal Farley
Sinclair
Sinclair Opaline
Sinclair Pennsylvania
Bassett Station
Sinclair Products
American Jersey
Fantastic Entertainment
South Pacific
Ice Cycles
Sally Rande
Pan
Robert L. Doss
Western Union Building
Denison, Texas
Now
New Gas Range
Lone Star Gas Company
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