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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1956
Page
1
Whitewright to host a Tuesday night football game at Bryant Field with junior girls facing senior girls at 8 pm. A junior boys pep squad will perform at halftime and proceeds from gate and concession sales totaling 15 and 25 cents go to the junior senior banquet fund.
Monday features pressed ham cheese and macaroni with pickles and cookies. Tuesday offers Irish stew crackers peach salad with grated cheese doughnuts. Wednesday serves fish sticks pineapple slice pork beans tomato lettuce salad hot rolls and jelly roll. Thursday presents steak and gravy whole potatoes English peas cookies and ice cream stick. Friday includes red beans pressed ham cabbage slaw cornbread and fruit cobbler.
Mr and Mrs J E Henson of Whitewright will celebrate their golden wedding with an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 pm They were wed at the bride's north of Bells home fifty years ago Mrs Henson nee Trecie Wood Daughter of the late A W Wood She was born in Alabama and moved to Texas as a child Mr Henson is son of the late George Henson native of Texas The couple has three children Arnold Henson Mrs Ralph Brown of Whitewright and Truman Henson of Dallas plus four grandchildren.
Funeral services for Hilliard David Hill Moore 86 were held at the Bells Methodist Church. Burial followed at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bells. He died Sunday night at home after illness. He was born February 15 1870 in Spartanburg South Carolina and moved to Grayson County at age 12. He was a retired cattleman and long time Woodman Lodge member with a 50 year pin. Surviving are his wife three sons three daughters three sisters 17 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
List of new and renewing subscribers to The Sun includes Ernest Smith J. T. Robinson Glen Earnheart Mrs Guy Allen Earl Blanton Ira Cole Mrs. J. W. Henry E. O. Young Mrs. J. L. Kirkpatrick Jack T. Barbee Mrs. Jones Q. Adams W. M. Wells Mrs. Jerome Peschke Mrs. Florence White Kirk May Ned Ayres Lallace May P. H. Connelly Jr. John C. Owens Sr. L. H. Grammer Mrs. J. H. Pennell Benny L. Simpson W. C. Musser Mrs. R. S. Morehead Will Mitchell Connie L. Andrew Dorothy Hamilton Mrs. J. T. Holloway Mrs. Pauline Topsy L. D. Selman Mrs. E. W. Womack Jack Burns W. T. Corbitt J. C. Woodson S. H. Murphy Robbie Brown Boy Scout Council Sherman Dr. C. P. Johnson John J. Kaiser Wilson Kaiser O. E. Head J. E. Christian Dr. F. D. Layman B. R. Caraway Mrs. W. M. Ingram University of Texas Mrs. Grace Clendening Mrs. James P. Jenkins Dr. F. M. Williams Mrs. Reagan Torrance D Blanks S. O. Thomson Mrs. Maurice Curfman Gomer Graves Kenneth Garner Jim Grider Mrs. Joe Canafax B Gentry Mrs. Dorothy McCurdy H. O. Hoover Ray Hopkins J. W. Jenkins Mrs. Rainey Bunch Mrs. Tom Skipworth C. P. Dawson adding machine paper.
Tom Bean First National Bank marks its 50th anniversary with an open house Saturday evening from 5 to 7 30 p m E O Thomas the bank s fourth president and longtime banker leads the staff including A S Luby C H Lackey Jack Hollensed Leta Ball and Mrs Robert Langford C C Walsh founded the bank in 1906 and later headed the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas W Jackson was first president J H Dickson second and E B Scott third.
A revival meeting starts next Wednesday September 26 at 7 30 PM at the Orangeville Baptist Church. The revival is conducted by Charles Taylor Allen Rountree Billy Burchfield and Houston Garner with nightly services planned through the week.
President Eisenhower opened his TV address with a sharp rebuke of Adlai Stevenson over ending the draft and halting H bomb tests. He urged peace as a national goal, warned on world disarmament, and defended maintaining conscription amid Cold War pressures. Stevenson argued for ending the draft as soon as feasible without weakening defenses. An oil tanker note adds fuel and coal figures.
Fire caused major damage to the bedroom and contents of Mrs. C. W. Compton’s home, located across from the water tower. A nearby room suffered lesser damage and neighbor Jim Williams praised the fire department for promptly putting out the blaze.
The last day to file for a two cent refund of the Federal Excise Tax on gasoline used for agricultural purposes is October 1, 1956. Farmers must use IRS Form 2240 and may obtain the form and program booklet from the county agent or local bank.
The United States Budget Bureau reports the federal government costs about 407 dollars per person annually. Spending is projected at 69.1 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending next June 30, the highest peacetime total in history.
DUMAS. Funds totaling 43 223.25 have been distributed in equal shares to the families of 15 firemen from Dumas and Sunray who died in the Shamrock refinery explosion near here on July 29. Each family received 2 881.55 from the State Firemen's and Fire Marshals Association and the Moore County Memorial Fund.
The American Farm Bureau Federation urged the Agriculture Department to start a potato diversion program to counter price declines. Last year the department paid growers to divert lower grade potatoes into starch and livestock feed. The Sept. 1 crop report tallies 1956 potatoes about six million hundredweight higher than 1955.
Whitewright Tigers return home after a 61 21 season opening win at Trenton and face Leonard on Bryant Field Friday night at eight. Leonard is expected to provide tougher challenge than Trenton, which disappointed after beating Anna in earlier action.
Gov. Frank Clement of Tennessee launched a Texas rally in Greenville for Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. A 5500 to 7000 crowd heard denouncements of Republicans and supported a $200000 Texas contribution to the national Democratic effort. Attendees included Sam Rayburn Lyndon Johnson George Smathers and Ralph Yarborough with multiple Democratic congressmen from several states.
The Navy and Public Health Service report a trial of an experimental vaccine cutting grippe type illnesses 50 to 70 percent among 4,000 recruits at Great Lakes. It does not cover non feverish colds. The vaccine targets three of 13 respiratory virus types and doctors expect more potent products later.
A 120 astrologers nationwide forecast a Democratic win in November. Dr. Adrian M. Ziegler of the International Congress of Astro Science cited 64 favorable votes, 16 leaning GOP, and about 40 undecided or unstudied. His wife Catherine cast one GOP dissenting vote.
The State Highway Commission awarded a contract to the R. W. McKinney Company of Nacogdoches to grade drain and pave 7.9 miles of Farm Road 1281 from Highway 69 at Whitewright to Randolph. This first segment cedes a path following the Cotton Belt corridor from Sherman to Commerce. bids for Whitewright to Tom Bean are expected next month. Delays arose from right of way purchases in Whitewright, now completed. Plans exist for the Tom Bean to Sherman area linking with Highway 75. The Randolph segment diverges from Highway 69 southeast of Whitewright, travels Bois d Arce Creek bottom, then returns to the railroad right of way into Randolph. No plans for Randolph east to Wolfe City to Commerce are announced.
Four suits against the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. of Texas yielded a total $25,000 in damages after a car train collision near the Van Alstyne depot on April 8 1955. Two killed and three injured. Prentice Barnett and John Cleve Anderson Jr. died. Hyecock Partridge each awarded $7,500. Anderson Sr. family received $5,000. Arthur Gene McKnight awarded $5,000.
Secretary of State Tom Reavley ruled Mrs W L O Daniel could not appear on the Constitution Party ticket for governor because she voted in the Democratic primary. Constitution Party Houston chairman Joseph M Rummler said she will seek write in votes with party backing.
University of Michigan Bureau of Business Research studied Oakland County buyers. Reasons include variety quality convenience more modern stores and miscellaneous factors. Detailed reports available by writing Bob Beyers UM Bureau of Business Research Ann Arbor Michigan.
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