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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
3
Austin reports the Forty-sixth Legislature confronts a tax battle over pensions as sales tax supporters push a constitutional amendment to shift costs to workers with earnings. The plan centers on a gross receipts tax with exemptions for small merchants, while the Senate may reshape it and send it back to the House, awaiting action on the sales tax amendment.
Lawmakers trimmed proposed pension increases, limiting relief by excluding children and relatives as need factors. The House passed measures that would add about 35 000 pensioners and require roughly $10 million more instead of $40 to $50 million. Senate committees restored small portions of department budgets while forcing budget transparency. School interest blocked rural aid and vocational education gains, with further conference outcomes uncertain.
Attorney Gerald Mann deemed the barbers’ price fixing bill unconstitutional and Gov. O'Daniel vetoed it. The House sought reconsideration for possible corrections but experts doubt it can be amended and passed again before adjournment.
Real estate agents pushing to be under a government umbrella by licensing won Senate approval on a third reading by 21 to 9. The measure lacked the four fifths required to suspend rules for final passage.
Bill to curb oppression of the poor by loan sharks in Texas cities moves toward a vote. Sponsors argue for reasonable service charges alongside the legal 10 percent interest, noting current rates as high as 400 percent annually for small loans.
Texas Governor W Lee O Danial urged a statewide religious revival on his Sunday broadcast from the mansion saying only through religion can prosperity follow He cited history and statistics noting prosperity follows increased church membership He urged nonmembers to join and believers to redouble efforts The talk touched politics only briefly noting expected pension legislation this week and decrying a lack of Christianity to meet peoples needs.
Austin reports Friday wide talk that Bill McCraw may seek Texas governorship again. He hosted a Capitol press dinner and said the gathering was a rally for him and Mrs McCraw. Observers cite pension tax debates and McCraw's past campaign as potential factors.
Population of the United States grew by 33 percent from 1910 to 1939, indicating substantial demographic change over the period. The rise reflects shifts in birth rates and migration patterns influencing urbanization and economic development.
Governor Loren D. Dickenson, age 80, urged Michigan residents to pray on April 30 for divine guidance to lawmakers to economize. He cited lobby opposition and a looming $30,000,000 deficit, and called on churches to support legislators with faith and resolve.
College station report by E L Angell shows the Texas A and M student body spends about a million dollars yearly on various items. Cadets lead in hair oil razor blades and flowers with totals over 14000 12474 20508 respectively while gifts to sweethearts parents and mothers add 40486 66186 and shows budgeted spending on box candy cleaning and pressing barber work magazines soft drinks radio shows cigars uniforms and equipment civilian clothing and shoes socks neckties and stationery.
La Verne California ship's optician Jack Hobson shares a joke about a sailor recounting his naval experiences to a dear old lady. She asks his rank and learns there is such a rank as ship's optician. He explains the role by saying he scraped the eyes out of the potatoes.
Washington reports the Home Loan Bank Board links a housing shortage to a rising number of American families. Dr. William H. Husbands notes nonfarm family growth at about 500,000 annually, with 347,000 housing units added in 1938 versus 296,000 in 1937 due to earlier deferments and shifting age distribution.
A humor line contrasts the wife’s loquacious nature with a deaf and dumb husband, imagining how long it would take her to notice if he remained silent. The quip captures domestic wit and playful gender humor typical of the era.
The average American family uses more than half a ton of paper costing about $40 in a year, per U S forest service economists. U S consumption of paper in 1937 was nearly 16,000,000 tons, over half world production and a record for any nation. Of 246 pounds per person, about 100 pounds is newspapers, books and writing paper. Four-fifths of paper is produced domestically. the rest is mainly imported from Canada. The 1937 paper use required cutting pulpwood on 3,000,000 acres.
The Commerce Department estimated the United States must build about 600000 housing units yearly for five years to keep up with growing families. Urban areas would need about 550000 per year and farm areas about 40090, driven by census trends showing family growth of 350000 to 400000 annually and replacement needs for wornout homes.
A light exchange recalls last year’s wheat crop as undefeated, but a sharp wit counters that it has simply been threshed rather than beaten, reflecting a playful stock phrase in a rural community.
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