Five Candidates Vie for Three Whitewright School Board Seats
Five candidates compete for three openings on the Whitewright Board of Education with two incumbents seeking reelection and three newcomers including Dr. F. D. Layman Roy Blanton and W. M. Pierson. Filings may continue until Friday noon. Election Saturday at city hall presided by W. H. Horton.
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Whitewright Board of Education
R. A. Gillett
W. H. Horton
John Reeves
Cole & Davis Company
B. W. Newman
Gomer May
F. D. Layman
W. M. Pierson
Katy
Roy Blanton
C. J. Meador
G. C. Stateville
Clay Horton
Badgett
Russell Summers
D. C. Wallace
E. C. Autry
Wallace
Odaniel Signs New Speed Limit Law In Texas
Gov. W. Lee O Daniel signed the measure raising speed limits to sixty mph for passenger cars. He also signed House Bills 211 389 and 713 dealing with gas use for carbon black notary name stamping and bid notice correction for Runnels County. Several bills remained unsigned including HB 368 471 and 424.
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Austin
Texas
W. Lee O'Daniel
House
Senate
Runnels County
Secretary of State
Dewitt County
Benefit Show at Whitewright High This Thursday
Speech class glee club and band present a 7 30 program at Whitewright High School April 3 raising funds for a recording machine and a bigger annual The Ballad Singer and The Cheat feature actors Carlton Alexander and Vestal plus a supporting cast The glee club sings Hymn to Music Hymn of Morning The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Latin Tenebrae Factae Sunt The band performs Anchors Aweigh Marine March De Golden Slippers Skaters Waltz and America Admission is fifteen cents Everybody come
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W.#H.S
Roddy
Carlton Alexander
Tracy Stephens
James Stateville
Morrison Mathews
Foucheaux Vestal
Bonnie Mae Scott
Ben Robert Jones
Jones Ray Vestal
Glee Club
Anchors Aweigh
Marine March
de Golden Slippers
Waltz
America
Whitewright High
Be Prepared Pat Proves Ambidextrous Trouble Story
A reader notes Pat is ambidextrous while sharing a quip about a father’s warning. The tale frames a boyhood memory with a cautionary line about losing a hand and learning to cut nails with the left. The exchange blends humor with a hint of hardship from an older proverb.
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Pat
Liverpool Woman Guest Speaker At Rotary Club
Mrs. Marjorie Bradey of Liverpool England spoke at the Farmersville Rotary Club luncheon. She described English wartime sacrifices and her Atlantic voyage amid bombing and a stray oil slick, aided by escort convoys, and noted England will win the war. She was introduced by W E LaRoe.
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Marjorie Bradey
Liverpool
England
Rotary Club
W. E. LaRoe
Bradey
Farmersville
Herman Klapproth
Jack McGee
H. L. McLean
J. A. Alexander
Sherman Rotary Club
Workers Urged to Register for Jobs in Texas Defense Effort
AUSTIN. J H Bond directed Texas job offices to register workers for defense industry needs by April 15 to estimate available labor and training. The program seeks to quickly return the unemployed to work and ensure rapid contact when defense production expands, calling for unemployed workers and skilled workers in aircraft, shipbuilding, and machine shop trades to register.
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Austin
Texas
J. H. Bond
Texas State Employment Service
Bond
Governor Phillips Seeks Supreme Court Review in Dam Case
Oklahoma Governor Philip Phillips asks the Supreme Court for review of a ruling upholding federal construction of the Denison dam on the Red River. He argues the project violates state rights, floods about 100 000 acres, ruins highways and oil lands, and harms tax revenues. He seeks injunctions against contractor Guy F. Atkinson Company and U S Attorney Cleon Summers to prevent irreparable injury to Oklahoma.
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Washington
Phillips
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Red River
Texas
Guy F. Atkinson Company
Cleon A. Summers
United States
Professor's Question and Student's Witty Reply
A classroom exchange pits a professor asking about chemistry's outstanding contribution to the world against a student who retorts with the punchline Blondes. The moment reflects a humor beat in an academic setting.
Axis protests over seizure grow bitter in Washington
Germany and Italy lodged new notes Wednesday denouncing the seizure of Axis ships and crews as a violation of treaty rights. The German embassy demanded release of two Nazi ships and removal of the American flag. The Coast Guard ordered removal of flags from 69 seized vessels while in custody. Danish ships may fly their flag when Danish officers are aboard.
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Washington
Germany
Italy
United States
State Department
Coast Guard
Reduction in WPA rolls announced in Texas
San Antonio reports an 8 200 drop in WPA workers, bringing Texas total to 83 500. District quotas for April include Marshall 11 824 Dallas 14 200 Houston 9 135 Fort Worth 10 338 Waco 8 400 Austin 5 800 San Antonio 9 668 Laredo 3 000 Lubbock 2 735 San Angelo 4 100 El Paso 1 400. Grayson County quota falls about 400 to 1 093, effective Tuesday.
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San Antonio
Texas
H. P. Drought
Marshall
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
Waco
Austin
Laredo
Lubbock
San Angelo
el Paso
Tenant Farmers Have Chance to Purchase Farms
Grayson County tenants and sharecroppers may apply for long term low interest loans to buy farms. Ernest H. Gunn of the Farm Security Administration opens applications April 15. Loans run 40 years at 3 percent with flexible payments and can cover home, barn, or other improvements. applications at 115 W. Pecan St. Sherman Texas.
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Grayson County
Ernest H. Gunn
Farm Security Administration
Mr. Gunn
WSA
Farm Security Office
W. Pecan Street
Sherman
Texas
Congress
Rainfall in Whitewright totals 2.52 inches in March
Whitewright records show March rainfall of 2.52 inches, with 6.58 inches for the first quarter of 1941, versus 4.28 inches year earlier. January and February 1941 tallied 0.89 and 3.17 inches, while last year's January–March measured 0.58, 2.68, and 1.02 inches respectively. A Sunday night shower soaked ground and sparked a fire at the High School home economics room, controlled with about 200 in damages.
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Whitewright
C. C. Cates
City Water Department
Par ent Teacher Association to Meet Next Tuesday
The monthly Par ent-Teacher Association meeting will be held at 3 30 p m in the Grammar School auditorium on Tuesday April 8 The theme is Contentment and security at home The program includes Happiness a By product by Mrs Clay Horton Education for Home and Family Life by Mrs Olivia Whedbee Individual Group Rights by Miss Margaret Lilley and a pupil recital by Mrs L B Morris the speech teacher The meeting is open to the public and all patrons are urged to attend.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Clay Horton
Olivia Whedbee
Margaret Lilley
L. B. Morris
Value Texas Farms Declined Billion Dollars Since 1930
Texas farm activity fell from 1930 to 1940 with 418 002 farms in 1940 down from 495 489. Aggregate farm value dropped to 2 589 936 000 dollars, average per farm 6 196 dollars and per acre 18 81. Total land in cultivation rose though farm count shrank.
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Texas
Washington
Department of the Census
Methodist Easter Services Set for Week at Local Church
Dr. Alan Harvey-Brooks announces pre Easter services at the Methodist Church starting Sunday with Palm Sunday 11 a m reception of youth into membership and an evening sermon. Weekday services 10 a m and 7 30 p m feature Rev T P Weaver. Wednesday highlights the High School Glee Club. Holy Thursday recalls the Lord's Supper. Easter Sunday morning 11 a m and evening 7 30 p m sermons by Harvey-Brooks and Weaver. Sponsorship nights invite church groups, daily 12 45 p m classes for children at the Grammar School continue.
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Alan Harvey-Brooks
Methodist Church
T. P. Weaver
Celina
High School Glee Club
B. Wrenn Webb
Harvey- Brooks
Harvey-Brooks
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Lucille Sanders
Young People’s Department
Men of the Church
Board of Stewards
Children’s Department
Harvey Brooks
Bituminous Coal Prices Frozen by Government
Washington government actions freeze bituminous coal prices at March 28 levels to curb runaway or excessive pricing amid a coal strike. Ceiling limits apply to producers distributors retailers and all sellers with rules tying current prices to past sales on March 28 or the latest usable date prior.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Defense
Henderson
New Secret British Bomb Powers Air Attacks
London reports reveal a secret new explosive weapon used in Monday raids on Emden. Pilots describe a gigantic flash and masses of debris as fires light up the sky, with the blast likened to a howitzer shell relative to ordinary bombs.
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London
Germany
Emden
Air Ministry
Where Are Pensions Citizen Asks Governor
In a Crockett letter, J A Beathard asks Gov W Lee O Daniel to explain why his promise to provide a $30 monthly pension for every Texas resident over 65 has not been fulfilled. He wants answers in Sunday radio broadcasts criticizing legislators. Oyster shells mixed with sand pave Morgan City streets in Louisiana.
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Austin
Senate
Crockett
J. A. Beathard
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
Beathard
Morgan City
Food stamp plan eyed for Grayson County rollout
Grayson County will join a new food stamp area likely within three months after the county commissioners approved the plan. D M Davidson of the surplus marketing administration outlined the program to officials and bankers, with a $10 000 revolving fund to be set aside for stamps and offices to be staffed. The plan requires agriculture secretary approval by May 15 and could place offices in Sherman or Denison with possible additional towns joining.
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Sherman
Grayson County
Grayson Commissioners Court
D. M. Davidson
Dallas
Surplus Marketing Administration
Davidson
Commissioners Court
Jake J. Loy
Denison
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Chambers of Commerce of
Sherman and Denison
Record Cotton Carryover Expected Despite Rising U S Use
United States consumption is set to hit a new high while a record carryover of cotton is projected as the season ends July 31. The Agriculture Department cites weak world demand due to ongoing European and Asiatic wars, with world cotton supply near 25 million bales and total world demand under 50 million. Exports of American cotton for the season total only about 725 thousand bales in February and may not exceed 1 million.
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Washington
United States
Agriculture Department
Department
Europe
Quote on beauty and statistics prompts cheerful heckler quip
A light exchange centers on statistics being insignificant beside a beautiful girl. The speaker asserts confidence while a witty remark frames beauty as more compelling than data.
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Odaniel
Blanco County
Chambers County
M. W. and
B. G
AXIS
Methodist
Royal Air Force
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