Friday Night Football Preview At Bryant Field
Local fans will see a preview of next fall's team in a grid clash on Bryant Field Friday night at 8 30. Admission is 25 cents. The 1942 squad features Montgomery Biggerstaff Newman Mitchell in the backfield with Simpson Ross at ends and Alexander center. The senior team lists Burchfield Kent Vestal Parrish Sears Cato Kincaid Owens Bryant Wilson Jones in the lineup.
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Bryant Field
Montgomery
Biggerstaff
Newman
Mitchell
Simpson
Ross
Howell
May
Reeves
Pierson
Alexander
Burchfield
Kent
Vestal
Parrish
Sears
Cato
Kincaid
Owens
Bryant
Wilson
Jones
Nutrition Course To Be Given Here
A town committee met at the High School to organize a nutrition course as part of the National Defense effort. Led by Miss Eva Williams, the ten two hour lessons run Tuesdays and Thursdays 8 to 10 p m at the Grammar School lunch room beginning Tuesday April 7. The course is free. textbooks cost thirty five cents. Red Cross certificates will be issued to attendees who complete nine lessons and pass the final exam.
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Eva Williams
Grammar School
America
Red Cross
A. L. Jackson
Friday Literary Club
E. F. Everheart
Ross R. May
Methodist Church
Paul Ryan
P.T. A
Emmet Penn
Presbyterian Church
R. D. Maddux
Church of Christ
Cora Mae Thornton
Music Club
Ed Martin
Baptist Church
Lester Haile
HD Club
Soldiers Free Mail To Start
Free mailing privileges for armed forces members become effective by week’s end. Postmasters will be instructed to accept unstamped service mail. soldiers need only include name rank and organization. Applies to all ranks, domestic and overseas, limited to first class letters.
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Washington
Post Office Department
United States
War Board Requires Trade-In for Toothpaste and Shaving Cream
The War Production Board bans selling toothpaste or shaving cream in tubes without trading in a used collapsible tube. Retailers must enforce the trade-in, hold collected tubes per WPB orders, and face penalties up to 10 000 dollars and a year in jail. New rules limit collapsible tin tubes for foods cosmetics and most toilet preparations.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Warplane output rises. 60,000 aircraft goal in reach
American warplane production is surging toward President Roosevelt’s 60,000 aircraft target for 1942 as officials say the rate matches Germany. All aircraft types show gains, with expansion of plants and intensified methods driving continued increases for the next year and a half, while pilot training capacity remains the main concern.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
United States
Germany
National Red Cross War Fund Oversubscribed
President Roosevelt announced the American Red Cross war fund of 65 million dollars had been oversubscribed as donations continued. Norman Davis, Red Cross chairman, noted a Dec 7 proclamation for 50 million and said 15 million more was added, showing public willingness to sacrifice.
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Washington
Roosevelt
American Red Cross
Norman Davis
Red Cross
Davis
Veteran road worker dies at Tom Bean
A. K. Sparks aged 49, longtime county road maintenance worker for Tom Bean Whitewright and Pilot Grove, died Thursday night of a heart attack at his home. Funeral was held Saturday at Tom Bean Baptist Church. Survived by wife, three sons Guy W Sparks Sherman James Sparks Eugene Sparks UT students, stepson M M Davis Wolfe City, brother J F Sparks Westminster, three sisters N H Murray Hedley P H Pallis and Mitchell McMath Snyder.
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A. K. Sparks
Tom Bean
Whitewright
Pilot Grove
Tom Bean Baptist Church
Guy W. Sparks
Sherman
James Sparks
Eugene Sparks
University of Texas
M. M. Davis
Wolfe City
J. F. Sparks
Westminster
N. H
Whitewright and Trenton Schools Hold Field Meet
Whitewright hosts a day long field meet with Trenton High School. Whitewright wins high school basketball 12 to 8. Softball, tennis, volleyball, table tennis, washer game, and a concluding basketball double header add to a full program.
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Whitewright
Trenton
Paula Montgomery
Juanita England
Patty Everheart
Helen Maddux
Leroy Martin
Emerson Sears
Davis Parrish
Jack Camp
Martha Jo Conner
Betty Jane Kirkpatrick
Lloyd Cato
C B. Burchfield
Cecil Owens
Payne
Trento and
Brake Maintenance School For Truck Mechanics Slated
Fifty mechanics will attend a one day brake maintenance school at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas on April 8 and at the Rice Hotel in Houston on April 10, hosted by the Texas Motor Transportation Association. Frank N. Singer will lead the sessions with charts and manuals covering all truck brake types. Examinations at day’s end will award certificates of recognition. Firms should register mechanics with the association in Austin. registration begins at 9 a.m.
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Austin
Adolphus Hotel
Dallas
Lynn B. Shaw
Texas Motor Transportation Association
Rice Hotel
Houston
Frank N. Singer
American Trucking Associations, Inc
Future Farmers Promote Seed Treatment and Animal Care
The Future Farmers report seed treatment for cotton with Ceresan, offer to treat seed for others using two barrels, and note Texas A. and M. College supports the method. They also share sorghum smut control by sulphur dusting, and calf scours remedies using castor oil and baking soda with iodine for naval care. Dessert tip includes baked stuffed peaches or pears with mincemeat and citrus juice.
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R. B. Cruse
Texas A. & M. College
Ceresan
R. E. Karper
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Soldiers in Uniform Share Home Visits and News
Private Buford Simmons of Perrin Field visited his parents last weekend. Private Weldon T. Trotter returned to Kessler Field Biloxi after ten days with his mother. Private Thomas E. Sanderson is recovering from German measles in a Kessler Field hospital and expects release this week. Private J. B. Thornhill, sent to Camp Wolters, spent Sunday with his parents and is now assigned to Sheppard Field. First Lieut. J. Frank Roberts Jr. visited relatives. recently moved from a Pacific Coast base to a Louisiana base. Private Billy R. Gordon will receive The Sun weekly through his father. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones visited their son Private John W. Jones en route from Swampscott to San Antonio. Pvt. Marvin Moats at Ft. Crockett visits his ill father. ten day furlough granted. Seaman Jack Lewis Yeager on a Pacific Fleet destroyer called his parents from Honolulu. 22 months in Navy. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Montgomery heard from Billy Earl Montgomery on a destroyer in the Pacific Fleet. ship not at Pearl Harbor on last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Allen learned their son Corporal Billy W. Allen was wounded in action. Marine Corps telegram advised. Corporal Allen, in Marines over two years, is nephew of Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Mooneyham of Whitewright.
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Thomas E. Sanderson
Elmer Sanderson
Kessler Field
Biloxi
Miss
Jack Lewis Yeager
J. A. Yeager
Honolulu
T. H
Jack Lewis
Navy
Mark Montgomery
Billy Earl Montgomery
Billy Earl
Pearl Harbor
Johnson Island
G. C. Allen
Cannon
Whitewright
Marine Corps
Billy W. Allen
U. S. Marine Corps
Corporal Allen
Marines
Frank Phillips
D. M. Mooneyham
Treasury removes free admissions for women in tax ruling
Washington officials announced that the Treasury abolished reduced admission rates for women. The change requires women to pay the same admissions tax as men on full rate tickets, primarily affecting chance admissions and ladies days at ball games and similar events.
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Washington
Treasury
The
Oak Hill Annex Dues Notice Demands Prompt Payment
W H Stedham in charge requests all lot owners in Oak Hill Annex to pay dues now. Dues are 3 dollars for a single lot and 5 dollars for a double lot. Work has begun. Finance Committee named Mrs H C Willis Mrs Lee Kirkpatrick and Mrs C P Johnson.
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W. H. Stedham
Oak Hill Annex
H. C. Willis
Lee Kirkpatrick
C. P. Johnson
Treasury Seeks Expanded Deductions for Medical Costs and College Students
Treasury proposes broader income tax deductions including credits for extraordinary medical expenses and for children aged 18 to 21 in college. Randolph Paul, Treasury tax adviser, presented the plan to the House Ways and Means Committee and urged joint filing for spouses. He softened prior proposals by offering a credit for incidental expenses when the wife works.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Randolph Paul
Treasury Tax
House
Ways and Means
New System Inducts Draftees Immediately
Washington reports a new selective service induction system. Registrants now receive orders for immediate induction and undergo the physical examination after joining the Army. The War Department requested the change and will grant ten day furloughs to men needing to wind up civilian affairs.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Pearl Harbor Toll Raised by 68 in New Figures
War Department revised casualties from Pearl Harbor show 226 Army personnel killed or dying of wounds. Navy losses stand at 2,340 killed or wounded. total service fatalities reach 2,566. The update lists 87 soldier victims by name and notes policy changes on casualty releases.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Army
War Department
Navy Department
Navy
Hitler massing 100 divisions for Red Front push in Russia
Reported by informants Adolf Hitler moves 100 fresh divisions toward the Crimea and Orel region to blast Soviet forces and prepare a springboard toward the Caucasus. Estimates place total German strength on the Russian front around 180 divisions with more to follow.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Crimea
Caucasus
Orel
Sevastopol
Second Age Draft Due by May or June
Selective Service says men registered Feb 16 will be classified at once and many will be inducted in May or June. Local boards must begin classification for the Feb 16 group and prepare for the June call, with possible May calls, using second age group registrants if needed to meet quotas.
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Washington
Selective Service
War Department
Farmers Prices Up More Than Others
The Agriculture Department reports on March 15 farm product prices averaged 43 points higher than a year earlier, while prices paid by farmers rose 24 points. Both received and paid prices edged up one point from Feb 15, lifting the farm products index to 146 percent of 1909-13 parity and the prices paid index to 149 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate votes to raise Army pay for privates
The Senate approved a pay hike 73 to 0 raising starting private pay from 21 to 42 dollars a month. The measure adjusts base pay and allowances across the Army Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard Geodetic Survey and Public Health Service and equalizes Army and Navy ranks awaiting House action.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Sam
House
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Geodetic Survey
Public Health Service
Army
One Son in Service, Eight Registered BAILEY
London family from Fannin County reports one son in the Army Air Corps and eight registered for selective service. Huel Grady London is on active duty in Taft California. Other sons include R. H. London in a Turnapul Georgia shell plant, H H London a Missouri lecturer, and several sons working as teachers or farmers.
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Lytton H
Rodney D
Jack London
J. R. London
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National Red Cross Fund
Brake School
Future Farmer
the Sun
Buford Simmons
Perrin Field
K. B. Simmons
Weldon T. Trotter
Ray Trotter
J. B
Bussy) Thornhill
Camp Wolters
Sherman Selective Service Board
Jake Thornhill
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
J. Frank Roberts Jr
Army Air Corps
Lieutenant Roberts
Pacific Coast
Louisiana
Billy R. Gordon
Signal Corps
Camp Crowder
J. W. Gordon
Gordon
J. W. Jones
Denison
John W Jones
Swampscott
Mass
San Antonio
Pvt
Marvin Moats
Ft. Crockett
Galveston
W. H. Moats
Mr. Moats
Marvin
Hitler
Red Front
Sun Office
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