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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1947
Page
4
Whitewright weekly notes open city and county meetings for public access and minutes. It also jokes about spring chores, home repairs, and a humorous wife versus purse moment with a fox terrier and lipstick in a comical column.
A. M. Jackson of the Slaton Slatonite notes many women see themselves as highly sympathetic and continually urge men to wear more clothes, reflecting a city dialogue on modesty and dress norms.
Teague Chronicle editor Weldon Owens notes a survey measuring the country editor archetype. The average editor weighs 164 pounds, is five foot nine, age 45, brown hair, blue eyes, and 91 percent belong to a church. 78 percent own homes, 84 percent own cars, all own radios, and many have long publishing tenures.
At a social event Benjamin Franklin judged two women’s hands for beauty. He dismissed the task as too hard and offered a moral: the most beautiful hand is the one that gives to the poor. The anecdote highlights Franklin’s wit and philanthropy in a lighthearted costume era setting.
A historical note recalls annual returns of children's clothing worth about 13 million dollars due to wrong sizes. It cites 1906 Swift & Co. president John Holmes as a young messenger with the firm, illustrating early ties to the issue.
Beaumont. Robert B. Holland of Dallas has purchased the Jefferson Rice Drying Corp. facilities for 175000. The rice dryer will continue to operate under existing policies. Holland announced through attorneys Cecil and Keith. Original owners included John F. Pipkin Howard Stagg J E Brousard Jr J H Phelan Sr and J H Phelan Jr.
The FDIC proposed on Monday to begin repaying the government subsidy that financed its founding 13 years ago. In a 1946 half-year report, Chairman Maple T. Hart reported assets at year end of 1,058,000,000, including 289,000,000 from the Treasury and Fed and 769,000,000 in surplus since Jan 1, 1934.
An Australian ex prospector in New Guinea has become wealthy by supplying cosmetics to indigenous people. The best selling lipstick is described as used by warriors for facial war paint, while hair bleaching products and perfumes from PX inventories also attract buyers.
Dallas Texas 12 000 beds short needed for tuberculosis and mental patients N B Roberts director of the Texas state hospital survey told the Texas Association of Osteopathic Hospitals convention Roberts said the survey of Texas hospital needs by the Texas Board of Health is 98 percent complete
In Callander Ontario Miss Jeanette Guindon wed her eldest brother Ernest Dionne. The Dionne quintuplets aged 13 acted as bridesmaids along with their sisters. Rev Rene Lamoureux officiated in the Dionne home chapel as the group sang Ave Maria. Ernest Dionne helps on the family farm and Miss Guindon is noted as a teacher.
Howard Laird of the Retail Furniture Association of Texas forecast a 25 percent fall in home furnishings retail prices within 60 days. He spoke before the four day convention here in Galveston, noting higher material costs would allow dealers to offer more to consumers and that competition would drive price reductions.
The Public Welfare journal reports relief rolls are lengthening across the United States with inflation pushing the cost of living index from 127 in 1945 to over 150. Families with marginal incomes are exhausting savings to cover daily expenses.
New York officials at the International Beauty Show seek to make facial depreciation a legitimate income tax deduction. They argue a woman's face loses about 85 dollars in value each year due to cosmetics and facials, a loss comparable to factory machinery. Visitors will sign a resolution to Congress advocating the change.
Calvin E. Howerton had his right thumb caught in a washing machine ringer in Waco on Wednesday. Ambulance attendants removed the wringer and took him to the hospital, where doctors amputated the thumb after it proved badly mangled.
Fort Worth reports a bumper Texas wheat harvest of about 110,000,000 bushels is driving a drop in flour and mill feed prices. W. L. Newsom of Kimbell Milling says flour prices fell 70 cents per 100 pounds in the past week, though bread loaf prices may not yet reflect the decline.
Newsom notes a trend to lower living costs as corn meal drops 25 cents per 100 pounds and mill feeds fall 30 to 40 cents per bushel. He cites the upcoming harvest, 60 days away, as likely to be record-breaking, with Blewett estimating Texas will produce about 110 million bushels and a 75 million bushel crop would set a record.
The 1948 Playboy automobile from Playboy Motor Car Co. of Buffalo will debut at the Hotel Pennsylvania on April 11. Vice president Charles D. Thomas announced the car features automatic drive with no clutch and no gear shifting. It has a rear four cylinder engine, sells for about $950, and measures 13 feet long and 54 inches high with a four foot three inch seat width.
Adelaide O Mara, 79, and Richard Moore, 81, wed at Immaculate Conception Church in St Marys Mo praising their 60 year courtship. The bride said they simply decided to marry, ending a long waiting period since their engagement sixty years ago on Easter Sunday.
Mrs. O Mara and Mr Moore, once engaged sixty years ago in Brewer Missouri, renewed their romance after both remarried. He moved to Se reno to open a store and later his second wife died. Mrs. O Mara’s husband died three years ago. Moore’s second wife also died recently. Their wedding Sunday marks a long delayed reunion.
The Grayson County sheriff’s department arrested 54 people in March with liquor violations in 31 cases. Drunkenness led 19 arrests, liquor law violations 16, with two each for driving while intoxicated investigation child desertion lunacy. One arrest each for burglary car theft attempt to rape swindling and affray. Stolen property valued at $500 recovered. Fees earned totaled $648.45 and fines plus costs paid to the county clerk amounted to $3,840.80.
In St Louis Police Sgt Arthur Wander said Charles Jones aged 9 was accidentally shot by his brother Donald 11. Bullet holes in walls suggest a bedroom rifle range with 32 holes in one wall and 24 in another. Donald said he picked up a .22 rifle, aimed, pulled the trigger, and thought it was empty.
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