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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1945
Page
5
Chatter from Whitewright and nearby towns recounts illness recovery for J H Hopper and various weekend visits. Dallas to Sherman engagements include Muirheads, Emmett family, and Ayres relatives. Local crime raid nets home brew fines while PlJ observers note hospital updates and a birthday celebration for Mrs J D Russell.
Mrs Pascal Cox of Houston visited Mrs W M Cox and Miss Ruth Cox here Tuesday and Wednesday. Grace Roberts returned from Amarillo after visiting daughter Mackie Greer. Charles Ayres travels to St. Louis to purchase merchandise for T W Ayres & Son. Roy Blanton bought the J D Heard home on South Bend. Heard will move to Dallas to live with daughter Cora Lee Payne. Rainfall of 0.36 inch halted farm work but pleased farmers with planted corn under crust. first rain since April 2. Whitewright School Board reelected R A Gillett and Clay Horton without opposition. Gillett serves as secretary. Horton begins third term. Katy line traffic back to normal. Missouri Pacific used due to East Texas floods. Miss Lucille Starr, daughter of Fred and Mrs Starr, graduates as nurse from Wilson N Jones Hospital Sherman. commencement April 26 at Central Presbyterian Church Sherman after training at Temple. Starr volunteered for Army Nurse duty on graduation.
Churches offer Sunday school at 10 a m and preaching on first and third Sundays at 11 o clock. Morning worship begins at 11 o clock with W A Casseday as minister and cordial invitation extended to all.
The pulpit committee of the First Baptist Church will submit an important report to church members at Sunday school hour Sunday morning. All members urged to attend and act on the report.
Church school at 10 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. Youth Fellowship 7:30 p.m. Evening worship 8:15 p.m. Sermon at 11 about Standards For Christian Progress and evening message on Complete Loyalty to Christ. Sunday designated as Church School Day with a program at 10. Insect feeding note adds that flies require meat or animal food.
Rotary Club Glen Earnheart chaired the lunch program with Rev. T. W. Sisterson of First Christian Church Bonham as guest speaker. He discussed New Zealand where he was born, noting cattle raising and dairying as key industries, about 27 percent of land cultivated, and that Kiwis view the United States favorably calling it the 49th state. Visitors included Frank Thompson Kenneth Woodward of Sherman and Joe Denton of Bonham.
The Sherman District Conference met at the local Methodist Church over two days with Rev. Earl J. Patton presiding. Dr. Ira C. Riker and Dr. C. B. Fielder spoke on Christian education and the Golden Cross as Rev. Ed. Bareys Jr. led worship. About 23 charges were represented and next year’s meeting is set for Waples Memorial in Denison.
State College professor Dr Walter Cutu predicts a stable American population near 140 million by 2000 with a peak around 155 million in 1970 or 1980. He cites urbanization rising living standards and fewer births as factors, noting no need for alarm over smaller families.
In October while supporting General MacArthur's Leyte invasion, the aircraft carrier Princeton exploded after a bomb hit. The blast killed 229 aboard the Birmingham magazine and wounded 420. The Birmingham helped fight fires before returning to Mare Island for repairs as the Princeton was torpedoed.
Gen Omar N Bradley prefers peanut butter at every meal causing friction with his mess sergeant Master Sgt Richard Dudley who runs the general's kitchen. A Tunisian ration mix up left the headquarters with 28 tons of peanut butter and one pineapple case, and the general was the only happy one.
New York reports Berlin radio commentator Hans Fritsche admitting that continuing the fight under former war rules has become senseless. He appeals for enemies to speak now, warning they may regret silence later while asserting Germany defended itself to end misery from the first World War. Arlington National Cemetery is described as the United States’ largest national cemetery, occupying 408% acres.
Austin officials warned of a postwar crime rise with January Texas major crime up 12 percent from a year earlier. For 1944 crimes against persons rose 10 percent and property 1.5 percent, civilian losses totaling about 29 000 dollars daily. Young offenders under 21 drove many robberies burglaries thefts and auto thefts.
A compact verse by Margie B. Boswell explores themes of flattery aging, fragile hope, and the fragility of reason. It reflects on how small ideas can worm into the mind and fail to erase error.
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