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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1945
Page
9
Local residents plus visitors are listed with Easter ties and travel. Calvin Raley returns to McGregor after a visit. Miss Marjorie McCown of Ennis visits. Anna Ruth Johnson from East Texas State spends weekend at home. many relatives in Denison Irving Dallas Plano Corsicana Sherman and Celeste hosted or visited.
The Baptist Missionary Society met Monday on the Royal Service program of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union with 17 present. Mrs. C. J. Meador Mrs. Roy Blanton and Mrs. Percy Darwin attended. The West Circle led by Mrs. J. B. King conducted the program. After a brief business session, Mrs. Olive Myrick, president, presiding, eggs were packed for Buckner Orphans Home in Dallas.
Friday Rotary program highlighted by speaker Miss Jean Belden of Sherman Public Welfare. Belden outlined Red Cross home services and plans while Secretary Roy Blanton read the club card.
The club sent twenty five dollars to McCloskey General Hospital Temple to aid a greenhouse project and ten dollars to the Crippled Children's Association. The February district attendance report shows Whitewright club second in attendance. Friday's program will be in charge of Glen Earnheart.
The notice lists the Reverend Earl Bissex as pastor with a Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 a.m. on the first and third Sundays. Evening worship at 8:15 p.m. Choir practice Wednesday at 8. Sermon topics are "The Light of the World" at 11 a.m. and "Living by the Day" Sunday evening.
The First Presbyterian Church invites friends to worship and attend the annual Presbyterian supper in the basement at 7 p.m. on Friday April 6. Members and families are invited and asked to bring a covered dish for an evening of fellowship.
The Sun urges readers to use want ads to sell almost anything. It argues every home has useful items to list and that even a wash kettle can attract buyers through the ads.
J L Cantrell, a longtime community resident, marked his 80th birthday Sunday at his home near the city with wife Eliza. Born April 1 1864 in McMinn County Tenn he came to Texas in 1888 and worked on farms in Van Alstyne. He has served as justice of the peace and remains active in civic affairs with children spread across the region.
The War Food Administration announced on Tuesday a end to government purchases of nickel candy bars. The prior 35 percent reserve of 50 bars for government use is canceled as procurement estimates are revised. Purchases will be made directly from manufacturers going forward.
A group of American and British POWs says they endured a forced march across Germany to the Russian front and back, with over 1,000 comrades dying. They were liberated when the U S 11th Armored Division overran a hospital at Grimmenthal. Forty Americans and more than four hundred fifty Brits were freed, many captured during the Arnhem operation last September. Deaths attributed to rationing of one loaf of bread for eight men. Grimmenthal lies 50 miles southwest of Weimar, about 200 miles from the Russian lines.
Speaker Sam Rayburn, visiting Bonham due to family illness, endorses an immediate leasing program for lands on Lake Texoma. He noted a firm plans a $200,000 project pending government leasing policy and said merging Denison District Army Engineers with the Tulsa district won’t harm the lake’s recreational program.
The Sun announces new names joining the subscription honor roll this week including Paul Ryan Miss Cora Morrow S A Hodges Nancy Green Glen Earnheart Lt Billy Glen Earnheart Lt Philip Earnheart Tom Graves L E Cato Joe Miller W R Riddle Edgar A Burchfield S 1c W B Hestand S S Russell E H Smith.
H. G. Henry Ball of Tioga announces his candidacy for school trustee at large in the April 7 election. A Tioga and Grayson County resident for 41 years, Ball is a former Tioga mayor active in local affairs.
Experimental use of the insecticide DDT, developed during the war, has been authorized for five Texas counties where malaria is endemic. Work begins immediately in Bowie Red River Willacy Hidalgo and Cameron Counties. DDT spraying targets communities under 2,500 population while larger towns will continue mosquito-pool draining and oiling. Army supplies are limited due to overseas demand.
At Ft McClellan Alabama thirteen polio cases including two fatalities have been reported. Officials said the outbreak's peak likely passed with one service man dying last week and another Monday. later cases are less severe.
Joe Kelly tests a six year old candidate on the Constitution and presidents. The child recites the Preamble and lists presidents then names all state capitals and governors before exclaiming I’m only six.
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