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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1962
Page
4
Weak community notes list visits among residents from Duncan Palm Springs Bonham Dallas and Sherman. Attendees include Mrs Carl May Mrs A R McMurry Mr and Mrs Alton McDowell Edward McDowell and many others with events at churches a Pigskin Club meeting and a Chamber of Commerce gathering.
Local residents and visitors are listed in a string of calls and brief congratulations. Names include Cook, Gattis, Phillips, Wilson, Dixon, Hill, Vestal, Gowdy, Connelly, Pierson, Lilley, White, Jones, Melton, Glidewell, Hargett, Alexander, and Rozena with attendances at funerals and receptions across Sherman, Dallas, Garland, and nearby towns. One wedding reception gag ends with a joke about in law family loss.
Public schools in Whitewright started classes on Tuesday with enrolled students and schedules assigned on Friday. Superintendent S. T. Montgomery Jr. reported 396 white students and 44 Negroes enrolled through Tuesday, a small increase from last year.
The Church Week schedule lists services and groups led by Ross Orendorf and Dr. C J McKis sack with Lewis Cummings at First Christian Church of McKinney. Readings include Sunday school at 9 55 A M and worship at 11 A M and various circles and meetings through the week.
Sunday School at 9 45 a m Worship at 11 a m Evening service at 7 p m Christ Ambassadors meet Saturday at 7 p m Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 p m Local church activity calendar.
The notice lists a weekly church timetable with Sunday Bible study at 10:00 a.m. worship and communion at 11:00 a.m. and evening worship at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. Wednesday Bible study for all ages is at 7:30 p.m.
Bethel Baptist Church schedule lists Sunday School at 10 00 am Worship at 11 00 am Training Union at 7 00 pm and a second worship at 8 00 pm The Wes leyan Service Guild and Women's Society meet on alternating Mondays and the Youth Fellowship gathers Sundays at 6 00 pm with a 5 30 pm fourth Sunday event in the same month
A forwarded note from a fictional Statue for Freedom Committee mocks Kennedy, Roosevelt, and Columbus with humorous, pointed quips about debt, socialism, and taxes. A psychiatrist receives a postcard from a vacationing patient asking why the doctor is not there to explain the wonder.
Washington reports a growing adoption of retirement policies by businesses with many setting mandatory ages around 65 to 70. Larger firms more often require fixed retirements while top executives may become consultants at 40 to 60 percent of prior salary.
The British Medical Journal report from a Cheshire county medical chief disputes common causes of coronary thrombosis. Analyzing deaths over 17 months he cites smoking and sedentary work as factors but finds no evidence that family circumstances holidays fat alcohol tea meals or work type affect thrombosis risk. He notes bowls may help and coffee drinkers show fewer deaths.
In a sharp election day twist residents accuse officials of ballot box stuffing after noting the city zoo has imported 324 monkeys baboons and chimpanzees so far this year. The exchange hints at deeper concerns about oversight and political integrity.
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