Free Rodeo and Trades Day Beckon in Whitewright
Next Monday April 22 Whitewright hosts Trades Day with a free afternoon rodeo directed by Van Claborn. An arena is being built on the trading lot to showcase riding and dismounts. The Palace theatre offers a matinee at 12 30 featuring Brother Rat and a Baby starring Priscilla Lane Jane Bryan Wayne Morris and others with 10c and 1c admission.
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Whitewright
van Claborn
Palace Theatre
Priscilla Lane
Jane Bryan
Wayne Morris
Four Lane Highway Plan Tabled Between Sherman and Denison
County Judge J J Loy plans a May trip to Austin to push for widening Highway 75 between Denison and Sherman to a four lane road and to designate a new Denison to dam site highway. A Sherman-Denison committee secured early surveys and a long range Grayson County study. An iron ore creek bridge test counts vehicles for 90 days as road plans proceed. The commission favors a 30 foot concrete slab with a parkway, linking to an army engineers dam crossing toward Oklahoma and Colbert.
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Denison
J. J. Loy
Gray Son
Austin
State Highway Commission
Sherman
Denison and Sherman
Commission
Grayson Committee
Grayson County
Highway Department
Iron Ore Creek Bridge
Judge Loy
Highway Commission
Army
Oklahoma
Colbert
Senate Probes Social Security Reform
The Senate finance committee ordered a sweeping study of the social security setup. A sub committee of eight led by Senator George was directed to examine old age assistance survivor benefits and insurance contributions along with related bills and proposals. The inquiry may begin after the November elections as campaigns intervene.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
Georgia
War skirmish leads to fines for two youths in Memphis
In Memphis two boys were fined $25 each after they played a make believe war. A passing city sprinkler and a mock battle drew shouts of German tank. Rocks flew at a truck, forcing the driver to abandon the cab and call police.
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Memphis
Tenn
Rainfall totals and cold snap impact on crops
Rainfall of .76 inches on Tuesday boosted April to 8.30 and 1940 to 12.58 inches per C Cates. Farmers debated rain benefits for crust melted by last week’s downpour and corn recovery versus delaying cotton planting. Thursday's 28 degree frost damaged tender vegetables and exposed potato tops, with overall corn setback but expected regrowth. A late north wind pushed temps from 70–80 °F to 44 °F.
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C. C. Cates
Executive Urges More Arithmetic in High Schools
Philadelphia chemical executive Claude L. Walton urges teaching plain arithmetic in high school for students not aiming for college. He notes about half of job seeking graduates lack basic addition fractions and division skills, having forgotten them after grammar school.
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Philadelphia
Claude L. Walton
Philadelphia Chemical
Walton
Woman revived after wreck and fire at morgue
Covington Ky Lillian Stickrod 35 collapsed Monday night in a car her companion thought dead placed her at a funeral home police called life saving squads found signs of life an ambulance wheel broke sparks lit the tank fire alarm summoned another squad took her to a hospital where doctors said she had a heart attack
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Miss Stickrod
Letter by Local Woman Sought For Inclusion in Volume
Mrs. Mark Montgomery of Whitewright has a letter published in a Dallas paper chosen for the We the People yearbook by Paebar Company New York. The piece titled Would Cross a Street to See a Queen responds to a man who said he wouldn’t cross the street to see a king amid news of the King and Queen of England’s U S visit.
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Mark Montgomery
Whitewright
Dallas
We, the People
Paebar Company
New York
England
United States
Montgomery
Canada
One Dies Three Hurt in Sherman Auto Collision
Miss Cleo Faye Morgan aged 18 died from a fractured skull after an auto crash south of Sherman. Three others were injured including Rev. Harry Lee Virden and his wife, with injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to an eye injury. Floyd Ferguson of Farmington sustained two fractures to his left arm. Authorities said a parked car without lights prompted the collision as Virden attempted to pass. Morgan's home was in Hagerman, northwest of Sherman.
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Frank Jackson
Joe Hall
Virden
Ferguson
Miss Morgan
Hagerman
Sherman
Missionary to Speak at Pilot Grove Church
A foreign missionary will speak at Pilot Grove Baptist Church on Sunday April 21 during morning and evening services. He will show pictures of his missionary fields. The public is invited to attend. Noel Ashinhurst.
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Pilot Grove Baptist
Noel Ashinhurst
Van Zandt Entered For Rail Commissioner
Tioga State Senator Van Zandt was entered for the railroad commissioner race. A $100 certified check was mailed to E B Germany, chairman of the State Democratic Committee, to place his name on the July ballot. Petitions with about 1000 Texans supporting Van Zandt were sent to Germany. Degan of Tioga forwarded the instructions.
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Gainesville
E. B. Germany
State Democratic Committee
van Zandt
Tioga
L. L. Degan
Germany
Velma Holland Wins Medical Auxiliary Essay Contest
Velma Holland of Whitewright High School won the Grayson County Medical Auxiliary essay contest on contagion prevention. The juniors and seniors from county high schools competed. Holland’s essay was chosen unanimously and advances to the state contest in Dallas for a chance at a $25 prize.
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Grayson County Medical Auxiliary
Grayson County
Velma Holland
Whitewright
Dallas
Miss Holland
Carl Holland
Denison Dam bids led by Atkinson in low bid
The Guy F. Atkinson Company of San Francisco appears as low bidder at 8 228 465 for spillway excavation and related construction on the Denison dam on Red River. Second bidder was W E Callahan Company of Dallas with George Condon others at 8 368 594. Government estimate stood at 37 839 309 90 with nine bids on 53 items. Engineers expect work to start in June. contract let in about three weeks.
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Denison
Guy F. Atkinson
San Francisco
Calif
Denison Dam
Red River
Lucius D. Clay
W. E. Callahan
Pit Toilet Project Is Given Approval
Area Engineer R F Daniels of the Work Projects Administration has received a state work order to build 325 sanitary devices and six septic tanks in Grayson County. About 20 workers start April 25 under G O Loney. Project costs: 13234 dollars in federal funds and about 6660 dollars from individuals for materials.
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Sherman
R. F. Daniels
Work Projects Administration
State Office
Grayson County
G. O. Looney
Louisiana Elects Jones Defeats Long Amendments
Louisiana voters chose Sam Jones as governor and rejected four amendments backed by Governor Earl K. Long. The decisive win ends Huey P. Long era influence, following Jones success in the February Democratic primary against the Long faction.
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Louisiana
Jones
Long
New Orleans
Sam Jones
Earl K. Long
Designate Jones
Huey P. Long
Baylor Twins Demonstrate Heredity Versus Environment Link
Lois and Louise Bailey identical twins from Baylor University show near perfect similarity after twenty years apart. Despite differing upbringings urban vs rural and schooling, intelligence scores differ by only a few points. Researchers caution against overinterpreting heredity versus environment and note broader twin studies show more variation.
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Washington
Journal of Heredity
American Genetic Association
Lois
Louise Bailey
Baylor University
Waco
Texas
Ben W. Bailey
Otto Gent
Louise
R. A. Bailey
McGregor
Iva C. Gardner
Baylor
H. H. Newman
University of Chicago
Newman
Grayson Farmers May Earn 840 758 Under AAA Program
Grayson County farmers may receive about 840 758.72 under the 1940 Agricultural Adjustment Act program for soil building and range improvement. E C Winn chair of the county ACAC outlines payments by category including cotton parity and conservation, wheat parity and conservation, peanuts and general crop payments plus the forest tree incentive of up to 30 per farm.
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Grayson County
AAA
E. C. Winn
County Agricultural Conservation Association Committee
Mr. Winn
Cross Roads Church Guests at Whitewright Service
The First Presbyterian Church of Whitewright hosts the Cross Roads Church of the Desert eight miles south for a 7 30 p m service. Rev J W Joiner will deliver the message. The Cross Roads choir directed by J W Gordon will provide music with Mrs Morris Hughes on piano and Mrs Wallace Carraway as soloist.
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First Presbyterian Church of
Whitewright
Cross Roads Church of the Desert
J. W. Joiner
Cross Roads Church
Cross Roads
J. W. Gordon
Morris Hughes
Wallace Carraway
Randolph Road Work Order Received
A Randolph Bonham road project work order was received by R E Daniels area engineer. Sixty laborers will be assigned with gradual increases. The $119,984 project uses federal 91,962 and Fannin County 28,022 funds to build seven miles of rock base road on new right of way, headed by Commissioner George Williams and County Judge O L Couch.
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George Williams
O. L. Couch
Randolph
Bonham
Texas and Pacific
Trenton
Fannin-Grayson County
Whitewright- Blue Ridge
Grayson County
Randolph-Bonham
California farm loan association posts 22 years without foreclosure
A California farm loan association marks a 22 year stretch without a foreclosure. The milestone highlights stable lending practices and steady member support amid agricultural borrowing.
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California Farm Loan Association
Hull Warns Japan To Keep Hands Off Dutch East Indies
The United States urged Japan to refrain from interfering in the Dutch East Indies. Secretary Cordell Hull issued a formal statement to the Japanese Foreign Office via Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, warning any intervention would threaten Pacific stability. The note referenced Japan’s concern for the status quo in the Indies and potential protection of the colony if Holland enters the European war.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Dutch East Indies
America
Netherlands Indies
Hacharo Arita
Indies
Holland
Farm Policy to Be Major Issue During Campaign
Secretary Wallace is seen driving two farm aid proposals into the campaign: a marketing certificate plan to lift prices toward parity and the Jones bill to refinance farm debts on productivity with interest rates cut from 5.8 to 3 percent. Agricultural leaders say he may urge the Democratic convention to endorse the plans if Congress adjourns without passage.
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Washington
Wallace
Congress
Dewey Outlines Seven Point Plan to Restore Economy
Thomas E. Dewey unveiled a seven point program in Indianapolis aimed at reviving business and ending New Deal failures. Speaking at Butler University before an estimated 17 000, he called for reducing government interference and reforming regulation, taxation, and credit for small business.
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Indianapolis
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Butler University
Roosevelt
Dewey
SEC
Furniture men vote against sales tax in Texas meeting
Delegates at the Retail Furniture Association of Texas closing session in Fort Worth went on record opposing any sales or transaction tax. H. E. Dill of Dallas, executive vice president, said the opposition covered burdensome taxes that might be proposed.
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Fort Worth
Retail Furniture Association of Texas
H. E. Dill
Dallas
Forested expanse in French Equatorial Africa noted
A figure cites 300 000 square miles of tropical forests in French Equatorial Africa, illustrating the region's vast rainforest cover. The data point highlights regional environmental scale without further context.
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French Equatorial Africa
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