White Wright School Board Re-Elected In Quiet Vote
The White Wright Board of Education re-elected its three incumbents: B W Newman John Reeves and Gomer May. Five names appeared on the ticket with two write ins Glenn Doss and John Henry among others. E B Scott of Tom Bean also won a county board seat with 64 votes.
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Whitewright Board of Education
John Reeves
B. W. Newman
Gomer May
R. C. Vestal
W. M. Pierson
Glenn Doss
John Henry
J. P. Darwin
A. L. Biggerstaff
C. J. Meador
R. A. Gillett
Clay Horton
G. C. Stateville
E. B. Scott
Tom Bean
District 42 Elects Single Trustees but Seven Votes Cast
An election on Saturday chose Paul Stephens as the District 42 school trustee with all seven votes. Incumbents Ernest Harrison and W. J. Martin remain on the board. District 42 surrounds Whitewright municipal school district, which is transferring pupils to Whitewright schools as the surrounding district notes entrapment by a neighboring district in Texas.
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District 42
Paul Stephens
Ernest Harrison
W. J. Martin
Whitewright Municipal
Whitewright
Texas
State Department of Education
Rosalie feature at Palace with star cast tonight
A galaxy of stars including Nelson Eddy Eleanor Powell Frank Morgan and Edna May Oliver appear in Rosalie at the Palace tonight and Friday. The hour and a half program also teases previews for Monday Back in Circulation with Pat OBrien and Joan Blondell and a two reel Dionne Quintuplets feature Make a Wish starring Basil Rathbone and Bobby Breen on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Rosalie
Palace Theatre
Nelson Eddy
Eleanor Powell
Frank Morgan
Edna May Oliver
Smith Ballew
Sherman Boy
Zane Gray
Pat O'Brien
Joan Blondell
Dionne
Basil Rathbone
Bobby Breen
Mother Who Shot Her 6 Children Gets 495 Years
Mrs. Lillie May Curtis received a total of 495 years in prison after her trial on five of six murder counts for killing six of her nine children as they slept. She drew 99 years in each case, with one sentence left pending and a five year suspended term for killing her husband three years earlier continued. Police expect her transfer to the state penitentiary soon. The victims aged 5 to 13. A local hardware dealer testified he sold the pistol used. Health officer said powder burns were found near each child’s heart and that Curtis could distinguish right from wrong but was not mentally normal.
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Lillie May Curtis
Fred Hudson
North Dakota hotel inspection law misread by punctuation
In North Dakota, the 1929 Legislature enacted a hotel inspection law with a comma error that could arrest people for sleeping in a hotel dining area. Judges say only a legislative amendment can remove the comma and fix the confusion.
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Bismarck
N. D
North Dakota
Texans Issued Warnings For Women Drivers After Slayings
State police chief Col Carmichael and highway patrol head Homer Garrison Jr issued safety guidelines for women motorists after the Berkeley killings. Governor Allred offered a 1000 dollar reward for information. Tips include not traveling alone, keeping doors locked, avoiding hitchhikers, carrying fuel, knowing routes, and reporting suspicious behavior with license details.
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Austin
Berkeley
Calif
Col
H. H. Carmichael
Texas
Allred
Carmichael
Homer Garrison Jr
Highway Patrol
West Texas
Ruling on sweet sorghum reversed
County Agent W. O. Teddlie announced that a Washington message reverses a prior decision, allowing sweet sorghum planted for hay on neutral crop land. The crop now joins sudan, clover, soybeans, alfalfa, and cowpeas as not soil depleting, expanding neutral land choices for this year’s allotments.
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Sherman
W. O. Teddlie
State Agricultural Adjustment Headquarters
Washington
Sudan
Teddlie
Record Wheat Crop Forecast
Chicago grain experts estimate the 1938 winter wheat crop will total 692 to 755 million bushels, with an average of 717 million. The forecast signals the third largest crop on record, at 79.2 percent of normal, and abandonment at 11.1 percent.
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Chicago
United States
Department of Agriculture
Wanted Young Woman to Marry in Hopkinsville Ad
Hopkinsville Kentucky. Simon Daniel a 25 year old farmer placed a personal ad asking for a young woman not over 30 to marry. He paid 30 cents for the advertisement after five years of hesitation explaining a good wife would be worth the cost.
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Hopkinsville
Simon Daniel
Daniel
Old age checks for April total 111,958
Austin. Old age assistance checks for April will be mailed to 111,958 persons, Director Jack Little announced today. Payments will total 1,538,565, as against 1,542,042 paid to 112,239 pensioners last month.
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Austin
Jack Little
Clean-Up Week 15 Observed in Texas
Governor Allred proclaims statewide Clean-Up and Paint-Up Week in Austin to promote fire prevention public health and safety. State Health and Fire Insurance departments back campaigns with city and statewide efforts including malarial control and trash disposal. Whitewright joins in urging thorough home and premises cleaning burn burnable waste and prepare unburnable trash for pickup.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Texas State Department of Health
The
Fire Insurance Department
Texas
Carless
F. M. Echols
Whitewright
Local Schools Win in Grayson County League Contests
Whitewright High School and Grammar School earned wins at the Grayson County Interscholastic League event in Sherman. The High School team of Boyd Newman and Merriwell Vineyard won the county debate and advance to the district meet. Hamilton Vestal took second in high school declamation. Grammar School students won three events including Pattie Everheart and Jack Knox firsts in junior declamation, and Henrietta Jackson with Janis Horton first in sub-junior spelling by a 90-word flawless run.
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Whitewright High School
Grammar School
Grayson County
Sherman
Boyd Newman
Merriwell Vineyard
Hamilton Vestal
Pattie Everheart
Jack Knox
Henrietta Jackson
Janis Horton
Chain store tax nets $1,502,026
AUSTIN. Comptroller George H. Sheppard announced that chain store tax revenues have totaled 1,502,026 to date. He noted more than half of the 1936 1933 and 1938 levies appear paid, suggesting annual receipts under 1,000,000. Of the collected amount 992,377 is in the general fund 318,559 to the school fund and 189,000 in a suspense account pending checks.
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Austin
George H. Sheppard
Dionne quintuplets have new brother in Ont family
Callander Ontario reports Olivia Dionne giving birth to her thirteenth child a seven and a half pound boy. The infant joins the famous quintuplet siblings Marie Yvonne Annette Cecile Emilie and new brother comes after a list of ten earlier siblings including Rose Theresa Pauline Ernest and Daniel with one infant death noted. Doctor I Joyal and nurse Jacqueline Noel helped as Olivia and baby rested at home near the quintuplet nursery.
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Quints’ Special Nursery
I. Joyal
Jacqueline Noel
Shrubbery Gifted to Grammar School Praised
Principal N. L. Manning and faculty thank donors for shrubs and flowers received after The Sun appeal. Plants were planted around the building and will be cared for by a 14 boy nature study class. Donors include Mrs. Lester Haile and others. Camp Fire Girls also planted two shrubs and a tree on school grounds.
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N. L. Manning
Grammar School
Lester Haile
W. E. LaRoe
C. B. Bryant Jr
M. T. Craig
Reynolds May
H. C. Willis
J. C. Gillespie
Joe Johnson
Whitewright teams qualify in contests
Soil conservation and livestock teams from Whitewright High School Future Farmer chapter qualified in area judging contests at Arlington and will enter state contests at A and M College April 18. Coached by T. H. Cunningham, the teams were: Conservation Billy Pritchett Charles Harrison and Lloyd Badgett, livestock Houston Darwin G. W. Scott and Willie D. Ross.
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Whitewright High School
Future Farmer Chapter
Arlington
A. and
M. College
T. H. Cunningham
Conservation
Billy Pritchett
Charles Harrison
Lloyd Badgett
Houston Darwin
G. W. Scott
Willie D. Ross
Farmers Demand Action Over Texas Mule Trades
Washington D C farmers testified before Congress about a Texas mule rehabilitation operation they say repaints, reworks, and ages mules to pass as young work stock. More than 200 complaints allege facial alterations and filed teeth disguising actual age, leading to wilted animals in cotton fields.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Texas
Arrests Made When Cars Are Driven Without Tags
Sherman reports state highway patrol arrests for driving motor cars without licenses. Fines range from 1 dollar to 200 dollars with costs. 1938 plate deadline passed midnight Friday while many waited at the county building. About 7000 passenger licenses sold, below last year, and enforcement will target out of state tags from 1937. Texas nears final plate dates. West Virginia until June 30, Virginia until April 15, Oklahoma imposes 10 cents daily for 30 days after April 1.
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Sherman
Justices of the Peace
George Schumacher
Texas
West
CCC Spends 2 Billion to Employ 2 Million
Director Robert Fechner reported in a fifth anniversary CCC review that the agency has spent 1.92 billion dollars to date and provided jobs for 2,242,000 people. He said conservation work by CCC crews will soon outweigh its cost, noting reforestation would take about 25 years at the current pace.
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Washington
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Fire Marshals To Meet At McKinney
The seventh regional meeting of City Fire Marshals will be held in McKinney on April 14. State fire insurance commissioner Marvin Hall announced today. Fire marshals from forty three Texas towns, along with city officials, fire chiefs, and firemen, are expected to attend.
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Austin
McKinney
Marvin Hall
Texas
Annual Exhibit At Grade School
The Whitewright Grammar School will hold its annual exhibit Friday afternoon April 8 from 3 30 to 5 30. Principal N L Manning and the faculty invite all patrons and friends of the school to attend.
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Whitewright Grammar School
N. L. Manning
Fergusons Not to Be Candidate in Texas Primary
Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson declared she will not run for governor in the upcoming Texas primary citing age and lack of physical and financial means. Her husband James E. Ferguson indicated they will back sympathetic candidates and the Ferguson platform while continuing public service efforts. The Fergusons, once dominant figures, historically influenced nominations but rarely secured allies outside the family.
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Austin
Miriam A. Ferguson
James E. Ferguson
Texas
Ferguson
Fergusons
Clarence E. Farmer
Ernest O. Thompson
William McCraw
C. C. McDonald
Roy Sanderford
Senate
Ross Sterling
Felix Robertson
George C. Butte
Rotary program on Kessler plan in Whitewright
Whitewright Rotary Club hosted a luncheon program on the five year community Kessler plan led by F. M. Echols. Ray Manning of Leonard, formerly Whitewright, introduced speakers J. E. Surratt of Dallas explained the plan and offered services to Whitewright for one week to organize the five year program. Rev David M. Phillips and G. E. Carpenter praised Leonard’s leadership under Surratt and a Leonard mass meeting adopted a five year program Friday night.
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Whitewright Rotary Club
David M. Phillips
G. E. Carpenter
Leonard
Surratt
Grayson Farmer Has Big Chicken Brooder
Weldon Cooper, manager of the Bridges farm south of Denison, operates a six tier battery brooder that houses 300 three week old White Leghorn chicks. No chick has touched the ground since hatching. Chicks are moved to lower flats as they age, with younger birds in upper compartments. The expansive setup aims to yield fine broilers and fryers for market.
Echols Re-elected Mayor of Whitewright for 127th Term
F M Echols was re elected mayor of Whitewright Tuesday with 43 votes in an unopposed race. He has served 22 years as mayor and 24 years overall in city leadership, including time as city manager. The 1921 commission form preserved stability with Hamilton King Pennington remaining on the board.
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Whitewright
F. M. Echols
Echols
Guy Hamilton
W.H. King
Hamilton
King
R. T. Pennington
Texas
Howe
F D R Opposes Subsidy as Aid To Industries
President Roosevelt ruled out government subsidies as a tonic for industries reeling from recession. He said the government cannot subsidize the twenty six billion dollar railroad industry without inviting similar cash grants to steel autos and textiles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
True Party Loyalty Examples From Kentucky Democrats
A 1930s Washington dispatch quotes Representative Edward W. Creal urging Democrats to stay loyal to leaders amid opposition to the Roosevelt reorganiza tion bill. He then shares two homely partisan anecdotes: one about a county election and a memorably blunt rule against voting Republican, and another about a hog theft tale implying partisanship.
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Washington
Edward W. Creal
Kentucky
Jim
Creal
1938 U S cotton acreage estimated at 27 850 000 acres
New York—Herbert Caterson, statistician for the Fairchild Bureau, estimated 1938 U S cotton acreage at 27 850 000 acres. This compares with 29 712 000 acres on Feb 1 and 35 023 000 in May 1937. Final harvested acreage for 1937 was 33 930 000 acres versus 30 028 000 in 1936 and 40 541 000 for the 1928 32 average.
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New York
Herbert Caterson
Fairchild Bureau
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Colonel House Bequeaths Estate Income to Wife
The will of Col. E. M. House on file for probate in Austin may give his wife Mrs. Loulse Hunter House the estate income, with a tentative value around 25000 dollars. Courthouse officials note appraisals often differ from preliminary estimates due to inheritance tax exemptions and later valuations.
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Austin
Col. E. M. House
Loulse Hunter House
Coming Up Politician Taxing Memory Prompt
A columnish line-up frames a politician urging memory tax, with an audience reacting in disbelief and protest. The excerpt hints at satirical civic talk and public pushback. The piece foregrounds rhetoric and crowd response in a moment of political theater.
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Palace Today
Dionne Quintots
M’kinney
Rotary
Grayson Farmer
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