Whitewright Delegates Attend Denison Methodist Conference
Delegates from about 65 churches attended the district conference in Denison at Trinity Church. Whitewright participants included Rev. W. W. Adcock and spouses, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Bryant, Mrs. Wright, and Miss Sue Stephens. Speakers included Rev. Cicero B. Fielder and Dr. J. H. Groseclose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Methodist Church
Denison
Whitewright Methodist Church
W. W. Adcock
W. N. Stone
A. M. Bryant
J. M. Wright
Sue Stephens
Trinity Methodist Church
Hugh S. Porter
Cicero B. Fielder
Greenville
Ira C. Riker
Dallas
J. H. Groseclose
Methodist Hospital
Whitewright
LaVerne Kilgroe
Janis Horton
Bettye Nell Yeager
Katie Kincaid
Henrietta Jackson
Margaret Hanna
Norma Smith
Bessie Jo Russell
Carol Jean Kilgroe
Olivia Whedbee
Sarah Kilgroe
Remember Him He Wasn't at Bataan
Maynard Barython Johnson a 38 year old cook and cashier was charged with draft evasion for failing to notify his draft board of a change of address and not returning his questionnaire. He claimed illness and was released pending further hearing after promising compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bataan
Maynard Barython Johnson
Alexander Brook
Johnson
Spokane
Wash
Salesmen to Get More Gas Rations Nationwide
OPA raised monthly gasoline allowances to 720 miles for salesmen and others who drive for work, up 250 miles from prior limits. The increase, via higher tire quotas from Rubber Director William M. Jeffers, covers outside the East. driving to and from work remains governed by separate rules.
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Washington
OPA
East
William M. Jeffers
Joe May RAF fighter with International Squadron and Eagle Squadron
The article profiles Flight Lieutenant Joe Thomas May, a Texas RAF pilot who flew with the International and Eagle Squadrons. It covers his Burma and India service, downing enemy aircraft, earning the DFC, IGS Medal, and a dramatic air evacuee rescue amid the Rangoon retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Thomas May
Raf
India
Focke-Wulf
Eagle
May
Burma
Joe May
Joe
Chindwin River
Chindwin
IGS
Rangoon
Myitkyina
SOS
Pan-American Airways
India National Airways
U. S. Army Air Corps
Civil and Service
Middle East
Dinjan
Assam
Dear Clyda and the censored letter from Bill
Alamo California Clyda Claunch waits for William McGeehan to return from overseas to learn what he wanted to tell her. His last letter began Dear Clyda and ended Yours Bill with the middle portion cut by the censor.
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Alamo
Calif
Clyda Claunch
William McGeehan
Clyda
Bill
Traffic Deaths in Texas Drop in Early 1943
The Texas Department of Public Safety reports a 30 percent drop in traffic deaths in the first quarter of 1943 compared with 1942. Highway fatalities fell 52 percent, city deaths rose 26 percent, and town fatalities increased 16 percent, with total deaths 267 versus 382 from the prior year.
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Austin
Texas
State Department of Public Safety
Field Artillery Proves Its Value in North Africa Campaign
Fort Sill observers including Secretary of War Henry Stimson watched a two hour mass firing demonstration by four battalions of field artillery. Stimson noted the fire power complements infantry and air attacks and affirmed field artillery as essential to the war effort.
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Fort Sill
Okla
North Africa
Henry Stimson
Stimson
Fighting Men Resent Stay-Home Promotions
Rep. Eugene Worley says soldiers abroad resent faster promotions for stay-at-home comrades. He cites Air Corps examples from Australia and New Guinea where those fighting overseas outrank peers who stayed in the United States after training and schooling. Worley’s letter to Secretary Stimson highlights tension over wartime advancement.
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Washington
Eugene Worley
Texas
Henry Stimson
Worley
Southwest Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Australia
New Guinea
Air Corps
United States
Seasonal jobs approved for pensioners in Texas
The Texas Senate passed Grady Hazlewood's bill to allow old age pensioners to take seasonal or occasional work for up to 250 dollars per year without losing or reducing their pensions. The measure, approved 21 to 4, aims to ease manpower shortages by enabling retirees to earn extra income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Senate
Grady Hazlewood
Gate conversation with Mrs Smith delays entry
Mr Simpson asks who chatted at the gate for an hour. His wife explains it was Mrs Smith who had no time to come in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Simpson
Mrs. Smith
Ohio Twisters Leave Four Million Dollars In Damage
In Akron and northern Ohio a series of eleven tornadoes killed three people, injured over 150, left nearly 500 homeless, and damaged about 2,000 homes. The disaster disrupted several war plants and caused more than 4 million dollars in destruction, the worst since 1924.
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Akron
Ohio
Lorain
Cleveland
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England
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Luftwaffe
Britain
Nazi Germany
Hitler
No. 2
Atlantic
Ireland
U. S
Mytskyina
T. W. Ayres & Son
Carter
Sherman Farms
A. V.creager Company
M. & P. Bank Bldg
Sherman, Texas
Fighting Men
Helen Maddux
Pascal Farley
Allen T. Short
Hannah’s. Phone 100
M. Belew
D. A. Holland
General Delivery
Sherman
Lee Wilson
J. L. Cantrell
J. H. Gosnell
Rl. Whitewright
Tom Barbee
Pilot Grove
Foster's Butane
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
San Francisco
China
Tokyo
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Morgenthau
Chiang Kai-Shek
Rexall
R. P. Childress
Manning & Meadow Furniture — Farmalls — Hardware
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Whitewright, Texas
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