Great Interest In Baptist Revival at First Baptist Church
Rev Weldon R Drake reports the First Baptist Church revival in Whitewright continues with strong attendance despite weather. Services are at 10 am and 7 30 pm daily, with 50 worshippers Wednesday and 7 15 pm prayer meetings. Baptismal service follows the final message Sunday. Church groups urged to attend and support. Family Night Saturday. goals set for Sunday school and Training Union. largest family to be honored.
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Weldon R. Drake
First Baptist Church
Cox
Perry Kite
Training Union
Whitewright
Brown and King Stand Out as North Texas Powers
In North Texas football, Whitewright Tigers duo Brown and King form the standout backfield. Brown, 132 pounds, has 10 touchdowns in four games while King, 140 pounds, adds nine scores and two passing TDs. They pace Coach Sam Montgomery’s unbeaten squad as district favorites ahead of Thanksgiving showdown with Van Alstyne.
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Denison Herald
North Texas
Sam Montgomery
Whitewright Tigers
Army
Tigers
Billy Earle Brown
Brown
Bill King
King
Whitewright
van Alstyne
Wage bill to raise payrolls in Dixie states
Washington reports a 75 cent minimum wage bill pending President Truman could lift Southern payrolls by up to 150 million dollars annually. Officials say about 570 thousand workers in eight Southern states and 270 thousand in five Southwestern states would gain raises, with average increases of 5 to 15 cents an hour.
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Washington
Truman
Tennessee
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
William R. McComb
Tigers To Play Whitesboro Friday
The WHL Tigers travel to Whitesboro Friday night for their fifth conference game against the Whitesboro Bearcats. They have four conference wins including a forfeit by Collinsville.
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Tigers
Whitesboro
WHL
Whitesboro Bearcats
Collinsville
Tioga
van Alstyne
Bryant Field
Wolfe City
Truman Prepares For Strike Action
President Truman reportedly ready to intervene in steel and coal strikes if settlements fail this week. administration sources say pressure is rising and a weekend deadline looms, with no use of Taft Hartley injunctive provisions and no current White House plan disclosed. Government mediators continue talks with United States Steel leaders as coal negotiations stay at an impasse.
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Pittsburgh
Truman
White House
United States Steel Corporation
Rotary Governor to visit Whitewright Rotary Friday
Earl C. Reeves governor of the 188th district will visit the Rotary Club of Whitewright this Friday. He will confer with club officers on administration and service activities and discuss Rotary goals with local members. Reeves is a Terrell printer and charter Rotary member, part of a global network of 7 000 clubs serving 330 000 members in 81 regions.
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Rotary Club of
Whitewright
Earl C. Reeves
Rotary International
Texas
Joe Johnson
F. G. Hoover
Reeves
Reeves Brothers Printing Company
Terrell
Rotary
Rotary Club
North
South
Central America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Islands
Pacific
1949 State 4-H Leadership Award Winner Betty Blackerby
Betty Blackerby, 17, of Whitewright route two, wins the 1949 state 4-H Leadership Award for girls. Floyd Lynch announces with a gold wrist watch to be awarded. Betty is a senior at Whitewright High School with seven years in 4-H and multiple honors.
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Betty Blackerby
Alva Blackerby
Whitewright
Floyd Lynch
Texas A. & M. College Extension Service
Betty
Lynch
Chicago
Sherman
Mike
Government predicts $820 million price support loss
The Commodity Credit Corp forecasts an $820 million loss for farm price supports over two years ending June 30, 1951. It covers mostly 1949 and 1950 crops as surplus purchases are held and disposed at lower prices. The outlook also cites $370 million loss for the current year and $450 million for the next.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corp
Agriculture Department
President Signs Hospital Aid Bill Increases Federal Support
President Truman signed a bill authorizing 150 million dollars in federal aid for hospital construction. The measure allows the government to cover 33 to 66 percent of project costs, with states and municipalities funding the remainder, expanding a prior aid program.
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Washington
Truman
Draftees to be released ahead of schedule in 194? shift
Army Secretary Gordon Gray said about 30 000 soldiers will be discharged nine months early beginning December 1 turning the army into an all volunteer force. Maj. Gen. Hershey and Gray urged reenactment of the draft law due to expire next June, with President and Defense Secretary approved action.
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Montgomery
Ala
Army
Gordon Gray
National Guard Association
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Gray
Secretary of Defense
Full Length Mirrors Are Life-Savers
Frederick S. Kent of the Public Health Service says full length mirrors on every landing cut staircase accidents at a war plant. He cites pauses from mirror views as the reason for safer quitting time exits and notes a material drop in incidents.
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New York
Frederick S. Kent
Public Health Service
Washington
American Public Health Association
Kent
Pearson and Doss Form Law Partnership in Denison
Asa Pearson of Denison and Robert Doss of Whitewright announce the formation of Pearson and Doss a law partnership. The firm will occupy Pearson’s Security Building offices in Denison. Both men bring legal and wartime service backgrounds and prior roles in public and private sectors.
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Asa Pearson
Denison
Robert Doss
Whitewright and Sherman
Pearson and Doss
Pearson
Mr. Pearson
W. S. Pearson
Grayson County
Austin College
Sherman
E. J. Smith
Texas
R. C. Slagle Jr
Ralph Elliott
U. S. Navy
Rosemary Smith
Doss
Whitewright
Glenn Doss
Texas A. & M. College
University of Texas
Field Artillery
U. S. Department of Labor
Texas A. & M
Tom Thumb Wedding Set at Whitewright High School Gym
The Whitewright PTA hosts a Tom Thumb wedding at the high school gym Thursday night at 7 30 with Paula Collins as cupid and Joan Harrison as bride. Jerry Jones plays groom and a full cast of townspeople participates in an amateur show after the ceremony.
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Whitewright
Parent-Teacher Association
Paula Jean Collins
Cupid
Joan Harrison
Jerry Jones
Patty Jean Badgett
Joe Kaiser
Patricia Jarvis
Sharon Ann White
Gale Wilson
Jill Meador
Sandra Ates
Mary Elizabeth Holland
Patricia Coggins
Doris Tillett
Elizabeth Stephens
Kay Buchanan
Lynnis Jameson
Larry Garner
Karen Darwin
Linda Jane Lindsey
Jimmy Kent
Amy Jo Alexander
Jimmy Thrasher
Bobby Jo Smith
Little” Tillett
Linda Jo Stewart
Oogie Thrasher
Sammy Montgomery
Carson Healy
Parent- Teacher Association
Singing Convention At Bethel Sunday
The Fifth Sunday Singing Convention will meet at 2 p m Sunday at Bethel Baptist Church announced by M V Williams president All singers and lovers of singing are invited to attend
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Bethel Baptist Church
M. V. Williams
Skunks May Save Farmers From Pests
U S Fish and Wildlife Service urges farmers to value skunks along with owls hawks and weasels as natural pest controllers. Dr Joseph Linduska notes these predators reduce field and meadow mice saving millions of dollars and recommends less indiscriminate killing.
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Washington
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Joseph Linduska
Wildlife Research Branch
Diet Tip From Suspenders Doctors Question Waistline Truth
A Denver diet expert notes suspenders can influence waist size. He claims belt wearers unconsciously expand their stomachs to prevent trousers from slipping, and a group of 26 men switching to braces reduced waists by about one and a quarter inches on average.
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Denver
American Dietetic Association
LaRoe Family Buys Hamilton Interest in Lumber Yard
Mrs Lucian LaRoe and W E LaRoe of Whitewright along with L M LaRoe of Leonard have purchased the Hamilton share in L LaRoe & Company. The lumber yard firm operates yards at Whitewright and Leonard and dates to 1910 with Lucian LaRoe and Guy Hamilton as early stockholders. Remodeling plans include front of the building and office rearrangement.
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Lucian LaRoe
W. E. LaRoe
Whitewright
L. M. LaRoe
Leonard
Guy Hamilton
L. LaRoe & Company
Ever Heart Thornhill American Legion Meeting Debated
The Ever heart Thornhill American Legion Post invites all members to a Legion Home gathering on Wednesday night November 2. Important matters will be discussed and all members urged to attend.
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Everheart-Thornhill American Legion
Legion Home
Fannin Approves Farm to Market Road Projects
Fannin County Commissioners Court approved a 318 750 dollar farm to market road program and proposed a new project raising the total to over 400 000. The five projects cover 22 1 miles from Ravenna to Mulberry Cot ton Center to Bartley Woods Bailey to Hickory Creek Bailey to 3 P Highway 78 to Taylorville and cost 318 750 with 248 750 state funds and 70 000 county funds. The county would pay 16 750 on the first three projects and 53 250 on the Bailey pairs with 17 750 state share totaling 71 000. The county would supply right of way and perform heavy machine and grading work on the Bugrussel Dial road with up to 20 000 county costs.
Father of Local Minister Writes Book on Southwest
Almus Day Jameson of Premont writes under West Jameson and has a poetry manuscript for Naylor Publishing in San Antonio. The book The Land of the Southwest releases in February with art by John Jellico of Pittsburgh. The author, father of Rev. Ashley D. Jameson of Whitewright, is a pioneer Methodist minister and former West Texas circuit rider.
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Almus Day Jameson
Premont
West Jameson
Naylor
San Antonio
Southwest
Jameson
John Jellico
Pittsburgh School of Art
Ashley D. Jameson
First Methodist Church
Whitewright
West Texas
Oil industry data claim oil supply remains steady
The American Petroleum Institute released figures arguing the United States has ample oil. It cites a 2 to 1 replacement rate with 200,992 new wells drilled over twelve years and 115,442 reaching economic limits while 118,008 stopped flowing.
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New York
American Petroleum Institute
United States
API
Institute
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Dixie States
Oklahoma City
Methodist Church
Zelma Moore
Edward Foss Wilson
Red Sea
B. C
Pearson and Doss In Law Partnership
Tom Thumb
High School
Bethel
LaRoes
Hamilton
Lumber
American Legion Business Meeting
Fannin
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