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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
4
Notice at the Whitewright Texas postoffice warns that all notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees or monetary consideration will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials and resolutions of respect will also be charged.
Published every Thursday subscription price is $1.50 per year payable in advance. Any erroneous reflection on the character standing or reputation of any person firm or corporation in the columns will be corrected upon notice to the publisher.
A rural column urges readers to support the second War Bond drive while noting Whitewright’s history of meeting quotas. It jokes about hens, revivals, and fried chicken, then shifts to weather talk and World War II reports. The tone is wartime boosterism with casual speculation about frost dates and Germany.
Petroleum Administrator Ickes notes the scrap rubber campaign was a success, with nearly half a million tons collected. He credits about a million oil workers, oil industry trucks, and 400,000 filling stations for keeping cars on the road and urges public remembrance of the effort as history.
Retail merchants have become the middle ground between a fighting government and a demanding public. Shortages and new regulations have tested them as they implement wartime merchandising rules, yet they deserve recognition for interpreting thousands of new measures.
The article notes heavy jail sentences and fines for rule violations and describes thousands of merchants interpreting complex regulations without legal help. It urges consumer patience, government easiness of restrictions, and less blame on retailers for occasional inadvertent violations.
The piece argues Congress will soon reconsider the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act and warns that liberal trade foundations are essential for global recovery. Sumner Welles calls the decision an acid test of U.S. intentions as nations await American leadership to rebuild economies.
The President invited leaders from Grange Farm Bureau Farmers Union Cooperatives for March 30 and April 7 discussions on farm policy. While methods differed, aims centered on boosting food production with practical input from experienced farmers rather than theory. The meetings reduced discouragement and signaled a broader, hopeful shift in agricultural policy and manpower trends.
Farm leaders urge prompt maintenance and repair of machinery and parts to safeguard output, though actions come too late for full effectiveness in 1943. OWI projects about a six percent drop in production from 1942, seen as conservative.
A Soviet commission report broadcast by Moscow accuses the Nazis of mass murder and deportations in Russia. It cites executions at Sychevka, Vyazma and Gzhatsk, graves dug by victims, and the destruction of towns as evidence of systematic brutality.
The Turners said their Amarillo complex mainly houses soldiers and their wives with or expecting a baby. They explained they accept families with infants to assist young couples struggling to find housing.
In Troy Missouri Sheriff W H Palmer vows to arrest able bodied men without visible means of support on vagrancy charges starting Monday. Circuit Judge Theodore Bruere urged drafting loafers to aid the war effort while Sheriff Palmer says the aim is not to fill the jail but to help win the war.
Texas legislators approved two bills enabling the State Board of Education to set a $25 per scholastic apportionment, up from $22.50, affecting about 1,550,000 students. The move requires two separate bills to take effect.
Small food retailers with total food sales under 2500 dollars in December or any following month are barred from ration banking. The order is effective immediately and requires all such retailers to close their accounts by July 3. The move aims to ease strained bank manpower.
The Rev. Joe R. Baker of First Baptist Church in Stillwater Oklahoma asks the OPA for permission to buy new rubber boots to attach to his waterproof suit for baptizing communicants.
About 1,500 inmates in Texas prisons will be registered under the selective service act. A special draft board inside Huntsville state prison handles the process for all inmates in the prison system.
Washington Price Administrator Prentiss Brown said coffee imports hold out the possibility of a ration increase soon though not yet. The next stamp remains one pound per person every five weeks, stamp 23 in book 1, valid April 26 to May 30.
Churchill told coal miners and mineowners on October 31, 1942 that Britain faced invasion in 1940 with fewer than 50 tanks and a few hundred field guns. He said another Dunkirk would have left the country in a "terrible shambles" without weapons. He urged boosted coal output as part of war effort.
Comic exchange on a street prompts a punchline about being crippled financially rather than physically. The brief jest highlights urban life humor in a moment of Tyndall era street theater.
An Allied analysis estimates nearly one in ten people worldwide have fled homes since the war began. Russia and China alone may account for 90 to 100 million displaced. Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Poland show large refugee and labor migration, with millions uprooted or killed.
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