Subscriptions and codes spark local and national notes
The column salutes long term subscribers like J. L. Pointer of Whitewright who renews yearly. It explains Pilot Point's building permits and why Whitewright is omitted from a construction list. It critiques Congress 85th for spending and hints at tax pressure. It revisits TV quiz shows and public doubt about contestant knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Pilot Point
Bureau of Business Research
Denison
Sherman
McKinney
Denton
Tax Guts Bill Signed By Eisenhower
President Eisenhower signed a broad excise tax revision bill cutting taxes for air taxi riders and easing taxes on movie tickets and whisky distillers. The package aims to reduce annual government revenues by 42 million dollars and becomes effective July 1, 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. I
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Texas Motor Vehicle Inspection Period Opens
Sept 1 marks the start of a new inspection period for over four million Texas vehicle owners. More than 4300 stations are authorized statewide to inspect cars and trucks through April 15, 1959. Col Homer Garrison Jr. urged residents to begin inspections to avoid long lines at the deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
Col
Homer Garrison Jr
Whitewright PTA Plans Meeting Next Tuesday Night
A reception for new teachers and parents precedes the first Whitewright High School PTA meeting at 7:30 PM next Tuesday. A membership campaign will start to enroll many in the association. Public invited. Officers include President Mrs. Houston Darwin and several vice presidents, secretary, treasurer, parliamentarian, and reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Parent- Teacher Association
Houston Darwin
Wallace Wilson
Clint Hennig
James Bryant
George Caldwell
W. M. Mce Lauchlin
Carl Edwards
Mardell Pumphrey
Sun Honor Roll Subscriptions Rise in Local Paper
Readers can have their name on the Honor Roll by paying a yearly subscription of two dollars in Grayson or Fannin County or two fifty elsewhere. Subscriptions acknowledged include a long list of valued subscribers such as O. S. Bass W. T. Farrow Dr. C. P. Johnson Mrs. R. L. Sears and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson
Fannin County
O. S. Bass
W. T. Farrow
C. P. Johnson
R. L. Sears
W. A. Martin
Howard Cook
J. B. King
Lena Mae Gowdy
E. Edens
H. O. Miller
R. L. McSpedden
Robert A. Nieman
Roy Whitt
George Key
W. T. Nicholson
S. D. Phillips
Robbie Brown
Florence White Roy G. Blanton Rob
D. F. Albaugh
E. O. Young
Frank Armstrong
Roland C. Blanton
James Q. Adams Wallace H. Reeves
Jack Biggerstaff
Ed Ikonen
D. L. Buchanan
Velmer
Jo Freeman
W. L. Crawford
S. O. Thomson
L. H. Grammer
Ralph Brown
J. L. Pointer
R. S. Morehead
Jack Meador
Walter C. Bailey
Clyde Brown
John J. Kaiser
Texas Tax Take Rises To 669 Million In 1958
The Census Bureau reports Texas state tax collections for the year ending June 30 at 669,485,000 with per capita 73.26 and a 2.6 percent rise from 1957. Major sources include sales and gross receipts 313,352,000 severance taxes 183,016,000 licenses 125,581,000 property 34,217,000 and death and gift taxes 10,812,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Texas
Census Bureau
One-man Team: Bobby Crowell Aims for College Ball
Orangeburg South Carolina high school star Bobby Crowell, 15, stands six feet five and 289 pounds and plans to play college football after graduating in 1961. He will suit up for Orangeburg High School this fall, drawing attention from coaches nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orangeburg
S. C
Bobby Crowell
Bobby
Weekend travel notes and visits scattered across Texas
We list numerous weekend trips and visits by residents and relatives across towns including Trenton Plano Dallas Fort Worth Denison Sherman Sherman Olney Bells Grand Prairie Mineral Wells Wichita Falls and Whitewright. Notable items mention James Norvell a Navy recruit from Whitewright scheduled to graduate September 4 at San Diego Naval Training Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Norvell
U. S. Navy
San Diego Naval Training Station
Norvell
Jimmie L. Anderson
Whitewright
Cotton harvest under way in Whitewright area
The Whitewright area reports 182 bales ginned by 9 a m today at two local gins. Government grade cotton brings 28.75 to 33.75 per bale with cottonseed at 45 per ton. Farmers nearing end of one of the best corn crops. buyers pay 1.00 per bushel, about 10 cents more than neighboring markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Renner Field Day Planned at Renner Sept. 10
Collin Soil Conservation District announces Renner Research Foundation Field Day on Wednesday September 10 starting at 1 p m. The public may tour the farm unit and hear information from Foundation staff and others at points of interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collin Soil Conservation District
Renner Research Foundation
Renner
John Wells
Collin Sdc Board of
Foundation
Rotary Club heard on rehabilitation film from Texas Employers
Rotary Club Lokey Edwards presented a film from the Texas Employers Insurance Association showing the rehabilitation of a Community Public Service Co. employee who was severely burned on a power line. The man learned to walk with artificial legs and returned to work as a meter repairman. President Clint Hennig announced upcoming events and Edwin Badgett attended as a guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lokey Edwards
Rotary Club
Texas Employers Insurance Association
Community Public Service Co
Clint Hennig
Rotaryann
Edwin Badgett
Concert Pianist Herbert Rogers Plays for Local Group
Herbert Rogers of New York City gave an impromptu piano concert at the First Baptist Church last Thursday. He visited Wichita Falls with his parents and is a Juilliard graduate who has toured the United States and abroad. He plans a Town Hall New York recital on December 2 and a 1959 Europe tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Rogers
New York City
First Baptist Church
C. C. Dooleys
C. A. Rogers
Wichita Falls
Denison
Philharmonic Piano Quartet
Paris
Denton
Dallas
Houston
Town Hall
New York
Europe
Deaths of Vestal and Hamilton in Whitewright and Freeport
Graveside rites for George Smith Vestal 51 were held at City Cemetery after dying in Freeport. Funeral held at First Baptist Church Freeport with pallbearers named. Vestal survived by wife daughter and relatives. Charles Hamilton 65 died at McKinney veterans hospital after 17 months illness. funeral scheduled at Western Beauty Methodist Church with wife Venda Maxey and several siblings and relatives listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Smith Vestal
Earnheart
Orangeville
Albert Vestal
Jimmie Johnson
Leonard
Dow Chemical Co
Jimmie Dale Bowman
Lone Oak
Dan Vestal
Fort Worth
H. C. Hymer
Whitewright
Charles Hamilton
McKinney Veterans Hospital
Western Beauty Methodist Church
Charles
A. H
Laura Hamilton
Currin School
Texas
Dallas
C. B. Bryant
Venda Maxey
Yorkie Murphy
Sedalia Lester
A. D. Hamilton
New Milk Controls Affect Producers
Texas dairy producers face new brucellosis control rules effective Monday under the milk code. Plan A requires slaughter of reactor cattle within 15 days. Plan B allows three years retention of branded reactors with calfhood vaccination mandatory. Enforcement rests with the State Health Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
U. S. Public Health Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
State Health Department
Division of Food and Drugs
Animal Disease Eradication Division
USDA
To Crack a Coconut
Instructions advise placing a coconut in a 325 degree oven for about 30 minutes until warm. A gentle blow will crack the shell open.
Butter milk quips stir town talk in readers letter
Uncle Dan from Tom Bean writes to the editor lampooning modern dairy laws. He mocks pasteurization rules for churned buttermilk, jokes about drinking habits, liquor law parallels, and a looming crackdown on rural dairy practices. He signs off noting he will hide his wife’s churn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother Smith
Mister Editor
Farm Bill Sets Lower Price Floors for Key Crops
President Eisenhower signed the omnibus farm bill to establish lower price support floors for cotton corn and rice and to extend acreage options. The measure freezes cotton parity floors declines to 65 percent by 1962 and creates a permanent cotton allotment while offering overplanting allowances under certain parity terms. Corn farmers will decide in December between current supports and a new plan with possible abolition of acreage allotments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
High Texas Car Insurance Assailed
Ves tal Lemmon of Chicago told the Texas Legislative Council that motorists pay 25 million dollars too much for auto insurance due to lack of rate competition. He said Texas still uses fixed rates, unlike other states with flexible systems that drive lower premiums for careful drivers and may invite federal regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Texas Legislative Council
Vestal Lemmon
Chicago
National Association of Independent Insurers
Lemmon
Social Security Bill Signed By President
President Eisenhower signed a bill to raise Social Security benefits and taxes. The 7 percent increase starts next February for about 12 million retired workers and survivors, with a minimum $3 monthly boost, funded by higher payroll taxes beginning Jan 1. He urged a review of federal financing for public assistance programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Flemming
Water jug starts fire in minister’s car
A jug of water placed on the front seat of Dr. Joseph W. Bailey’s car at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church acted as a magnifying lens in 95 degree heat. He noticed smoke, the fire was extinguished, and damage remained minor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Joseph W. Bailey
Columbus Avenue Baptist Church
Bailey
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Voltaire
Tke
PTA
Bureau
Mattie James
Trenton
Mrs
Turner Falls, Oklo
Mrs. Doyle Files
Arthur Mitchell
Longview
Joe Cook
Cleo Sims
Childress
W. J. Barbee
Plano
Minnie Lee of
Bonham
Mrs. Carson Burchfield
Mrs. Roby Childress
Mrs. Claud Willis
Bay City
Robert Willis
H. C. Willis
Russell Murley
Mollie Murley
Herman Taylor
Jack Thrasher
Y. B. Kaiser
Jack Nossaman
Ira Fleming
Luther Cambron
Dick Gibson
O. E. Head
Harold Thornhill
M. K. Richardson
Robert Allison of
Olney
Lynn Cooper
Bill Ireland
H. G. Vandagriff
Autry Dickens
Bells
Robert Allison
Grover Smith
Bill Bradshaw
L. C. Dozier
Mrs. Powell Dozier
Tulsa
Okla
B. V. Snider
A. B. Miller
Irving
J. H. Hayes
Mrs. James Vineyard of
Grand Prairie
C. K. Smith
Billy Glen Earnheart
Texas City
Glen Earnheart
Mrs. Bruce Crow
E. E. Chism
John Jenkins
A. B. Jones
American Legion
Grayson Hotel
Aubrey Page
John Culiber
Ollie Johnson
Ralph Judd
Oklahoma City
Charlie Ayres
Hollis Ashburn
Mineral Wells
W. C. Wilson
Mary Everheart
Lubbock
Ina Mae McCollum
Big Spring
Lillie Gardner
Grady Gillett
Roby Wilson
Lee Wilson
Jack Lankford
Eddie Lankford
Norman Lankford
Euless
Don Lankford
the Sun
George
Vestal
Dan
Tom Bean
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