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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1959
Page
1
A mix of letters and notes covers a dream of government rain control for farmers, scheduling carrier pickups, a Bells Methodist barbecue, 1960 Chevrolet showcases, postal mailing list corrections, political honesty, Denison’s birthday history, and Grayson County voting box reductions.
A column from Whitewright urges supporting the United Fund Drive as a practical, centralized method to fund charities including the Boy Scouts American Red Cross and Cancer Fund. Local residents B. R. Vestal J. H. Gosnell Chas E Ayres and Hoyt H. Taylor advocate giving to aid the needy and simplify charitable obligations.
Monday offers hot dogs chili baked beans potato chips green salad cookies and ice cream. Tuesday serves Vienna sausage pinto beans mixed greens sliced onions carrot sticks banana pudding. Wednesday features steak sandwiches creamed potatoes fruit Jello and cookies. Thursday presents roast beef blackeyed peas green salad candied sweet potatoes apple sauce doughnuts. Friday includes salmon loaf creamed corn pineapple cheese on lettuce and ice cream. Milk and bread accompany each meal.
Postmaster John Biggerstaff announces the 22nd annual Letter Writing Week in White Wright for Oct 4 to 10. He urges people to write long-overdue letters to servicemen, hospitalized patients, foreign acquaintances, and friends, with posters of a mailman and new postal vehicles to be shown in post offices.
The Whitewright PTA outlines plans for a Harvest Carnival to be held Saturday Oct 3 in the Mea dor building on Main Street. Food stand led by Mrs C K Smith and Mrs C C McLean. evening meals offered. Activities include bingo fortune teller grab-bag country store and more with Mrs Gladys Cook as general chairman.
Sherman report states Grayson County received a four star rating for efficient county government in 1958 from the East Texas Chamber of Commerce public affairs department. The rating notes 73 cent operating fund tax rate, 97.73 percent tax collection in 1957, $7.40 per person cost, and 82 million assessed valuation with 81 500 population.
Burglars broke into Edwards Chevrolet Company on the south traffic circle Monday night. They took an estimated 400 dollars in cash and checks and possibly unknown tools tires and merchandise as the new showroom and garage had not yet been cataloged. Sheriff Woody Blanton’s department investigates with a lead reported by Jack Thruston.
About 13,400 people were drawing social security at the end of August. Health Secretary Arthur E. Flemming reported that roughly 190,000 more began monthly payments in the past year due to the 1958 amendments. Many eligible may be unaware or not understand they must apply to start benefits.
A New York report describes an electronic range hood that requires no exterior vent. It screws to the wall in minutes, uses aluminum filters and electronic tubes to dissipate grease smoke and odors, and re circulates purified air back into the kitchen.
In a letter to the editor Uncle Dan of Tom Bean rails at sensational talk among youth and politicians. He mocks phrases like delightful disaster and splendid panic while criticizing government waste, rope storage, surplus sales, and a joke about an income tax. He notes clothing trends and ends with a light jab about depreciation.
Rev. B J Johnson of Bokchito Oklahoma has been named pastor of First Baptist Church Whitewright He will preach Sunday morning and evening and move with his wife to Whitewright on October 29 Johnson previously led Bokchito Baptist Church for two years and is a Baylor University and Southwestern Baptist Seminary graduate He succeeds Rev Fred Waldrop who left recently for Gainesville
Washington. President Eisenhower signed into law the third day, a billion dollar housing bill to sustain government backed programs as funds run short. Major clauses include 650 million for urban renewal grants to cities over two years, FHA mortgage authority of 8 billion, 37 000 public housing units, 250 million for college dormitory loans, and 50 million for elderly housing with required appropriation.
In Canterbury England after 50 hours of lessons to teach Peter O Rourke 24 to drive the instructor quits saying the trainee is instruction proof. O Rourke counters I can be taught noting it took two years to learn to ride a bicycle and he is a slow learner.
Funeral services for Richard Henry Russell aged 65 will be held at Earnheart Funeral Chapel at 3 p m Friday conducted by Rev W J Epting of Sherman and Rev Howard McSpedden of Denton Burial will be in Pilot Grove Cemetery He died in his sleep Wednesday night at his home on South Bond street Born November 16 1893 southeast of Whitewright he was a Navy veteran of World War I and a retired farmer He married Ora Bell December 27 1947 at Anna they moved to Whitewright in 1954 Surviving are his wife a sister Mollie Bow four brothers and several nieces and nephews
Funeral services were conducted at 2 p m Wednesday in Westminster Baptist Church for L B Tommy Sawyer 47 of Pilot Grove who died Tuesday morning after a long illness. Rev James Harper and Rev E J Rogers led the rites with burial at Belew Cemetery near Aubrey. Sawyer born August 19 1912 in Aubrey was a farmer and former aircraft worker. He leaves two sisters a daughter in California and three grandchildren.
Farmersville visits Farmersville Tigers at Bryant Field Friday night after two road wins. The Tigers beat Leonard 27 0 last Friday while Farmersville defeated Royse City 42 6. Farmersville’s first district game is October 2 at Royse City.
The USDA October list highlights pork and cheese as top items with broad availability in Texas. Other plentifuls include small turkeys lamb apples onions almonds grapes sweet potatoes shrimp rice eggs and lard. Promotions run across October with festivals and events from Oct 1 to 31 including Cheese Festival Eggtober Rice Harvest and Apple Week.
The Last Congress approved 73 billion dollars in spending and extended emergency tax rates for another year. It voted new curbs on labor unions, admitted Hawaii as the 50th state, and extended the draft to July 1, 1963. It raised gasoline taxes, increased veterans pensions, and extended public works funding. It raised the GI loan rate, continued aid to federally affected schools, and expanded crop programs and small business loan support.
A Boston paper reports a hotel fire with two hundred guests evacuating in a hurried manner. The incident caused damage and forced rapid evacuation, but no fatalities or injuries are mentioned.
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