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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1960
Page
5
Local social notes recount visits and travel from Mrs Alton McDowell in California to Mrs M E Winburn at Cumby. Families from Grand Prairie Dallas Madill Waco Denison El Paso and others gathered for reunions funerals and weekends with relatives in Sherman Denton Plano and Van Alstyne.
Austin relatives return from vacation with the Ayers family and other kin. Irving visitor Jean Stateville travels home with Sharon Stateville from Richardson. Hereford pair Paul and Aubrey Cook return from a trip to California Nevada Arizona. Charles Copeland Navy recruit graduates in San Diego then visits parents in Whitewright. Jerry Pierce serves with 3rd Armored Division in Germany. Church circles meet with parishioners in Whitewright, welcoming a new member and planningRoyal Service programs.
Rotary Club program chair Kenneth Frisby led last Friday's meeting with a talk on corporations and their tax structure. Visiting Rotarians included Charley Spence and J A Alexander of Sherman. James B Blanton of Liberia Louisiana was a guest of his father Roy Blanton.
Mrs Beulah Huseman hosted a Sunday birthday dinner for her mother Mrs P M Wrenn marking her 80th birthday. Attending were Mr and Mrs Jim Sadler and son Mark of Bowie Mr and Mrs Raymond Wrenn of Savoy and Mr and Mrs John Ball and daughter of Sherman. Refreshments were served to friends who called in the afternoon.
A family reunion took place Saturday at the home of Mrs. J. H. Hopper in Tom Bean. Attending were Mrs. Clarence Burden and sons of Trenton, Miss Florena Williams of Sour Lake, and Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Blanton with children of Wasco California.
Mrs. Billie White and Lynda of Tom Bean along with Mrs. W. E. Marlowe and Mrs. Reba Weatherly of Fort Worth appear. Also listed are Mrs. C. W. Mitchell and Phyllis, Mrs. Jim Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Maxwell with children of Whitewright. Absent is daughter Mrs. L. R. Worley and family of Carlsbad New Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crouch honored their daughter Donna Jean on her birthday Friday with a pink decorated dining room. Guests included Lana Lumpkin Richard Mynatt Allen Harper Jane Harper Mike Bass Susan Bass Kay Hulsey Jimmie Tarpley Sharon Tarpley Gary Christian Jan Bennett and Melinda Crouch. The pink cake with five candles was served along with ice cream cones and balloons as favors. Mothers present were Mrs. James Tarpley and Mrs. Clifton Bass.
Bethel W M U members met Monday with ten ladies attending. Mrs. J H Gosnell and others reviewed Woman's Missionary Union. New officers include President Laura Jo Alexander and Vice President Billie Jeane Bartley. Workers Conference set for Sept 12 at Fairview Sherman. Prayer observance Sept 13 2 PM and Wednesday night. Mrs Gosnell served refreshments. Reporter.
FDA chief George P. Larrick denounces bootlegging of amphetamine pep pills to motorists as a highway menace. He cites a 49 hour fatigue case near Tucson that killed nine and injured 31, and notes many fatal accidents are linked to stimulant misuse by truck drivers and others seeking to fight tiredness.
Evangelist Billy Graham told 15 000 listeners in Zurich that the world’s end is near citing warnings from recent sermons in Bern. He said many signs point to the prophesied end and urged prayer and repentance. The second fact notes a different historical reference: Paul Revere is buried in The Old Granary Burying Grounds beside Boston Common.
L. M. Manford of Nixon Texas, newly elected president of the American Poultry and Hatchery Federation, urged placing eggnog dispensers on street corners to boost egg consumption at the close of the American Poultry Congress convention. He hinted at more ideas for the 1961 convention in Minneapolis.
The Air Force announced a Texas-born monkey will be trained at the University of Texas for the nation's first animal in orbit. Picked from five candidates, the monkey is part of a Brooks Air Force Base medical program. An October launch would attempt to place a monkey-carrying rocket into orbit and recover the animal alive.
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