Sun editor’s health prompts temporary production changes
The Sun reports its editor underwent gall bladder and appendix removal after a Friday hospital visit. The paper will print from Whitewright with upcoming weeks produced in Trenton, and staff notice reduced pages and columns. The Sun office will operate three days weekly for news, ads, and mailing, with contact numbers for advertising and news.
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Sherman Community Hospital
Sun
Ethel Short
WHS Class of ’54 Holds Dance Reunion
The WHS Class of 1954 plans a December 26 dance at the American Legion Hall in Whitewright to mark its 10 year reunion. Members listed include Babe Beazley Foy Jean Cate Morris Wayne Bowen Jerry Ray Brown Martha Burchfield Lillie Carpenter and many more.
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WHS
American Legion Hall
Whitewright
Babe Beazley
Foy Jean Cate
Morris Wayne Bowen
Jerry Ray Brown
Martha Burchfield
Lillie Carpenter
John Charles Chesser
Bobby Clark
Betty Harris
Robert Hull
Dortha Hughes
Kenneth Hyepock
Edward McDowell
Lela McFerren
J. B. Mullins
Joyce Mullins
Darrell Neal
Jim Nossaman
Mary Pennell
Lyndal Pierson
Paul Prock
Garland Smith
Clydean Selman
John Paul Stephens
Dale Taylor
Jerry Thornhill
Delores Whipple
Larry Turner
Whitewright Tigers Open 1964 Season at Wolfe City
Whitewright High School Tigers open the 1964 football season with a Friday night game at Wolfe City. Coaches Joe Crouch and Harold McDaniel lead a large roster of 12 seniors as Wolfe City already beat Farmersville 12 to 8 in their opener.
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Whitewright High School Tigers
Wolfe City
Whitewright
Farmersville
Joe Crouch
Harold McDaniel
Jack Frisby
Bob Darwin
Jan Buchanan
Curtis Tillett
Gary Ryan
David Haston
David Woodson
Chuck Watkins
Richard Hicks
Donald Williams
Larry Garner
Ray Bunch
Scooter McCurdy
Joe Hennig
John Holloway
Paul Griffin
Larry Deeds
Mickey Meador
Terry Edwards
Jimmy Flatt
Larry Ryan
Randy Bryant
Murray Bryant
Bob Andrew
Weldon Wilson
Danny Carraway
Robert Mathis
Kenneth Gunter
Danny Bunch
Teddy Blackerby
Charles Williams
Bill Montgomery
Bill White
Don Albaugh
del Sears
Mike Bow
Wallace Mynatt
Gary Holloway
Kenneth McKinney
Three Injured In Head-On Collision At Rural Intersection
Three persons were injured Saturday night in a head-on collision at the intersection of U. S. Highway 69 and Farm Market Road 151. Charles Ray Francis, 22, of Bells, and Judy Fulmer, 19, of Randolph, were treated and reported in good condition at Wilson N. Jones Hospital in Sherman. Terry Lee Dodson, 20, of Van Alstyne route 1, was treated and released at Geers' Clinic.
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U. S. Highway 69
Farm Market Road 151
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Sherman
Charles Ray Francis
Bells
Judy Fulmer
Randolph
Francis
Terry Lee Dodson
van Alstyne
Uncle Dan Declares Fifty Years Of Married Life In Letter
An aging reader signs off as UNCLE DAN praising 45 years of marriage with a plainspoken view of domestic life. He recalls family changes, warns against arguing with wives, and jokes about politics and elections while predicting November highway watching instead of TV returns.
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Denver
T. V
Uncle Dan
Local Aggie Senior Heads Committee Leads Camp Trip
About 125 Texas A&M freshmen travel by bus to YMCA Freshman Camp at Lakeview Assembly near Palestine. Fifty upperclassmen and 12 faculty join sessions ending Tuesday. Clifton A. Emerson of Whitewright chairs the three man student committee planning the program.
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A&m
Clifton A. Emerson
Whitewright
Martha Sears Emerson
Pistol Accident Wounds Mrs Sanderson at Store
Mrs. Sanderson injures her right leg when a pistol kept at Elmer Sanderson’s Sander son Grocery Store falls from a table and fires. The bullet grazes her calf and lodges in the ceiling as the couple’s nursing graduates from Wilson N Jones Hospital gather in Sherman.
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Sanderson
Vocational School of Nursing
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Sherman
Holiday Inn
Whitewright
Marie McCurdy
Omitine Spencer
Unusual hip joint surgery helps Whitewright wife recover
Mrs. Howard Adams wife of a local minister underwent a mold arthroplasty at Methodist Hospital Dallas to correct a hip joint frozen in a 90 degree position for 24 years due to infection. The operation, first of its kind in the area under these conditions, used a metal vitallium mold to create a new hip joint. She is expected to walk with aids for six months and has thanked Methodist doctors and staff for their care.
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Howard Adams
Methodist Hospital
Dallas
First Methodist Church
Whitewright
Methodist
Whitewright ISD Buys 20 Acre Tract for New High School
The Whitewright Independent School District buys a 20 acre tract in Highland Park Addition for a new high school at a cost of 13000. The sellers were O W Barker Renee Morgan who had acquired the land from Findley Haile and others. Preliminary floor plans are done and bids may be opened by mid October for construction before winter.
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Whitewright Independent
Highland Park
O. W. Barker
Renee Morgan
Barker
S. T. Montgomery
Obituary for Mrs. Ruth Moore King of Whitewright
Mrs Ruth Moore King 71 died after a lengthy illness. Funeral 10 30 am Friday at Barnheart Chapel with burial Oak Hill Cemetery. Born November 19 1892 daughter of Tom B and Emma Dale Moore maiden name Ruth Moore. Married James Bryant King in Whitewright November 3 1915. Survived by son William H King Houston daughter Mrs Earl R Jansson Dallas sister Mrs Zach Langston Dallas four grandsons. Pallbearers named T D Caylor Thomas Sears Royce Lay R A Gillett B R Walker S T Montgomery. Funeral by Rev Dale Gore and Rev William K McElvaney.
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James Bryant King
Barnheart Chapel
Oak Hill Cemetery
King
Tom B
Emma Dale Moore
Ruth Moore
Whitewright
North Texas
Dale Gore
First Baptist Church
Zach Langston
Dallas
T. D. Caylor
Thomas Sears
Royce Lay
R. A. Gillett
B. R. Walker
S. T. Montgomery
Rev Marion Miller 75 dies. long-time Baptist minister
Rev. Marion Miller 75 of Ector retired Baptist minister died at 12 10 a m Saturday in a Sherman hospital after a long illness. Funeral at 2 30 p m Sunday at First Baptist Church Ector with Rev. Raymond Hall Rev. Odie Cary and Rev. C C Dooley officiating. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery. He pastored in Collin Hunt and Fannin Counties and was ordained at Midway Church near Farmersville. Born Madisonville Tenn April 20 1889 he moved to Texas in 1901. He married Othna Pytman November 3 1907. Survivors: wife four daughters six grandchildren six great grandchildren two brothers one sister.
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Marion Miller
Ector
Sherman
First Baptist Church
Raymond Hall
Odie Cary
C. C. Dooley
Whitewright
Oak Hill
Miller
Collin
Hunt
Fannin
Midway Baptist Church
Farmersville
Madisonville
Monroe County
Tenn
Texas
Floyd
Othna Pytman
Alma Hayes
Billy Sparks
Dallas
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