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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1959
Page
1
A Friday showings drama recounts the Whitewright Van Alstyne game via a free noon Friday film at Linda Theatre as Rotary Club hosts the day program. The item also notes local school board rules on high school car use and other community updates.
The Friday Literary Club heard Mrs. A M Bryant recount a trip behind the Iron Curtain describing eight million square miles and 235 million people with no private enterprise. She noted Moscow Kiev and Leningrad museums subways and that Americans in Russia numbered 10 000 to 15 000 this year. The meeting adopted by law revisions and next speaker will be Mrs L E Dudley of Abilene.
In a called board meeting Grayson County Farm Bureau reelected Albert Laughlin of Southmayor as president Charles Skaggs of Whitewright as vice president Weldon Rutherford of Howe as second vice president and Ernest Embry of Sherman as secretary for 1960 Plans include attending the State convention in San Antonio.
The menu lists daily offerings for the school week. Monday features Barbecued Beef on Buns with Scalloped Potatoes and Doughnuts. Tuesday serves Meat Loaf with Green Beans Creamed Corn Hot Rolls Butter and Syrup. Wednesday includes Lima Beans Boiled Weiners Cheese Sticks Green Salad and Fruit Cobbler. Thursday presents Hamburgers Lettuce Tomato Pickle Baked Beans Potato Chips and Banana Pudding. Friday offers Salmon Loaf with Celery Sauce Blackeyed Peas Pickled Beets Pineapple with Grated Cheese on Lettuce and Ice Cream.
S/Sgt. James Thomas Tague 22 Perrin AFB airman was acquitted by a 15th District Court jury in Sherman after about half an hour of deliberation on burglary charges tied to the Tillett Grocery in Van Alstyne. Thirteen Sherman Democrat front page coverage noted the trial with Whitewright attorneys Jack Nossaman and Robert Doss among the defense.
New York reports from Iron Age and National Metalworking Weekly warn of shortages in consumer durables such as cars and appliances due to the marathon steel strike. Production cuts and delayed shipments will curb model availability into 1960 with dealers lacking new models and limited choices for refrigerators washers and dryers.
The agriculture department declared eight crops in surplus to activate a new $50,000 ceiling on regular price support loans for farmers. The listed crops are cotton, extra long staple cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco, corn, rye, and tung nuts.
The Tigers defeated the Van Alstyne Panthers 21 to 6 last Friday. No game Friday. next week they face Bells at home and then Frisco Coons for the District 13 B title. Whitewright crushed Van Alstyne while Frisco routed Princeton 60 to 0, signaling tough upcoming games.
Funeral services for James Ernest Worsham 81 arise Friday at Barnheart Chapel with Rev. Trompler Kuhn and Roberson presiding. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Survivors include Maude Henry Worsham wife and five children. nine grandchildren seven great grandchildren and several siblings. Worsham was a former Fannin County commissioner and longtime farmer.
The Post Office Department urges mailing to overseas military personnel their dependents and civilian staff in November to ensure Christmas delivery. Surface items should be sent by November 20 and airmail by December 10. Include a contents slip with recipient name and address. Prohibited items list available at any post office.
A letter to the editor from Uncle Dan of Tom Bean jokes about Japanese beetles and new alarm clocks that crow for 55 seconds. He laments threats to American agriculture and complains humorously about his wife and TV fixation, ending with a quip on language.
Touat Mohand Said, 109, walked 93 miles from Soumann to Algiers to claim his old age pension. He said, I wish to enjoy the remainder of my life peacefully, and I need money for that.
Funeral services were conducted at 10 a m Tuesday in Bonham for Mrs Dorothy Ryan Whitt 42 of Lubbock born Whitewright native who died Sunday in a Lubbock hospital The burial was in Willow Wild Cemetery She was born January 16 1917 daughter of Mrs Lela Patterson Ryan and the late Milim Ryan She married Roy C Whitt February 20 1935 in Durant Okla Survivors include husband mother three sons Kenneth Whitt Danny Whitt Roy Whitt a daughter Dorothy Marie Whitt three brothers Paul Ryon Jack Ryon Murl Ryon one sister Mrs Wallace Wilson and one grandchild
Funeral services for Mrs Maggie Graves 81 of 9320 Homeplace Drive Dallas were held at Earnheart Funeral Chapel at 2 p m Sunday conducted by Rev Floyd C Irwin Baptist minister of Dallas Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery Pallbearers were Kenneth Booher Bobby Booher J D Russell Benton Russell Maxie Cotton and Ross Booher She died at 2 30 p m Friday at her sister Mrs Jim Russell home where she had lived nine years Ill since last March Born in Virginia July 11 1878 daughter of the late I W and Alice Booker Came to Whitewright community in 1901 and was married to John Graves in
Roy D. Benson 75 of Howe route 1 dies Tuesday in a Sherman hospital. Funeral services are Thursday at 2 30 p m in Sherman. He was a deacon at Tom Bean Baptist Church and a retired farmer who worked for Hardwicke-Etter Co. Survivors include his wife, a foster son, Cecil Walker, three sisters, four foster grandchildren, eight grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Leon White, chairman of the Whitewright United Fund campaign, announced 85.8 percent of the $3300 goal had been raised. He urged captains to contact remaining prospects and end the drive by Tuesday Nov. 3. Contributions can be given to Sears Anderson, treasurer, at the First National Bank.
The Supreme Court refused to compel the Steelworkers Union to fast‑track its appeal from the back‑to‑work order in the 106‑day steel strike. The action preserves a six‑day delay granted by a Philadelphia appeals court and keeps the dispute moving toward possible further review or settlement.
Homer L Kent aged 64 died last Thursday in Olney after a long illness and was buried there. A son of E B Kent of Whitewright he moved from Trenton to Olney 31 years ago and was a retired oil well driller. He belonged to the Church of Christ. Surviving are his wife Lizzie Hammond and four children.
Funeral services were held in Avinger last week for Robert Charlie Waldrop. Survivors include his wife and two children Billy Burk Waldrop of Avinger and Ava James of Dallas. He was father to Rev. Fred Waldrop of Gainesville and uncle to Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Young.
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