Whitewright Public Schools Set to Open September 8
Ernest S. Butler announced the Whitewright Board of Education scheduled Monday September 8 as the start date for local schools marking the second Monday in September. The Grammar School adds Miss Jack Proctor from Quitman to teach social studies.
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Ernest S. Butler
Board of Education
Whitewright
Butler
Jack Proctor
Quitman
Miss Proctor
East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce
Quitman Public Schools
Stevenson Has Road Bond Proposal For Legislature
Governor Stevenson outlined conditions for a possible special session to resolve county road bond issues. He listed a compromise approach, delaying session until Sept and proposing to leave surplus funds with the Highway Department for potential farm to market road construction. He noted Shivers supports a plan and stressed the need to use surplus to ease county tax burdens while ensuring bond debt is handled.
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Austin
Stevenson
Highway Department
Shivers
Port Arthur
Wind damages Bonham air school and area
A storm Tuesday caused heavy rain and high winds that damaged half finished buildings at the US Army air school under construction near Bonham. Trees and houses also sustained damage and rainfall totaled .61 inch. Estimates of the total damage were not available Wednesday.
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Bonham
United States Army Air School
Here
Rain Totals Highlight July Weather In Whitewright
A strip of rainfall reports shows 1.18 inches in Whitewright on Sunday ending a 15 day dry spell and 0.14 inches Tuesday night. July total reaches 2.66 inches from the 1st to 18th, with gauges at the city pump station missing some showers. T. A. Gray notes a heavy rain at Randolph on Wednesday as part of those totals.
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Whitewright
T. A. Gray
Randolph
Bethel School To Open Monday In Late Cotton Region
Herman Bedford, Bethel School principal, says the rural school four miles south of town will open Monday August 11 for a month or six weeks with a similar recess during cotton harvest. This is the third rural school to adopt this schedule as Porter and Ely have already begun. Crop late by one to six weeks and a picker shortage is feared due to defense mobilization.
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Herman Bedford
Bethel
Porter
Ely
Defense
Army
Navy
Army orders new ration for southern maneuvers
Nine million cans of type C field ration were bought for the Army by Chicago quartermasters depot. The ration, a modern version of hardtack, will be used in summer maneuvers and was developed by the Quartermaster Corps at the subsistence research laboratory. One day for a soldier uses six cans with three meat and three biscuit cans.
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Chicago
Chicago Quartermasters’ Depot
Quartermaster Corps
Subsistence Research Laboratory
Insurance Rate Reduction for Texas Farm Stored Wheat Loans
Texas farmers storing wheat under Commodity Credit Corporation loans will pay the 40 cent per $100 value rate for fire and extended insurance, aligning with other states. The change follows previous reductions from 2.53 to 1.33 and applies to 65 counties. no losses have been recorded in Texas. The rate cut results from cooperation between the Texas AAA committee and the State Land Use Planning Committee.
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College Station
Texas
Commodity Credit Corporation
P. C. Colgin
AAA
State Board of Insurance Commissioners
Colgin
Texas Aaa Committee
State
Civil War Joke Opens Training Camp At Scott Field
Civil War style humor surfaces at Scott Field Illinois as a new selectee at the Army Air Corps station borrows a broom and asks an officer to hold it while he drinks from a nearby hose saying I trust you. The tale echoes scenes from past wars.
Cotton loan regulations announced by Wickard
Washington details of the new cotton loan program based on 85 percent parity loans under the recent law. Cooperating producers receive loans on their 1941 cotton at rates tied to parity prices, with regional adjustments and net weight calculations. Loans are issued by the Commodity Credit Corporation through approved banks, at 3 percent interest, due July 31, 1942, and available through May 1, 1942 for cotton backed by CCC warehouse receipts.
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Washington
Claude A. Wickard
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
J. B. Hutson
Commodity Credit Corporation
Carolina Mill
New Mexico
Gulf and Pacific
CCC
Enlistment Opens in Marine Corps for Duration
Major J D O Leary announces young men aged 17 to 30 who are single and without dependents may enlist for the actual duration of the emergency or for a standard four year term. A Marine Corps recruiting representative will visit the Denison post office August 11 to 15, 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m., to accept applicants or provide guidance to prospective enlistees and parents.
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J. D. O’leary
Marine Corps Recruiting Office
Dallas
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Recruiting Service
Denison
Soldiers fed better in army than at home claim
Kansas City report quotes John A. Martin of the OPM saying soldiers are fed better than the average family. He notes eggs cooked for soldiers are nearly twice civilian amounts and that new recruits gain about ten pounds in the first month.
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Kansas City
John A. Martin
OPM
Martin
International
Blanket order stirs camp rumors at Camp Davis
In 96 degree heat a quartermaster officer distributes woolen comforts to troops sparking rumors of Iceland deployment. Soldiers flood the camp with calls and letters while harried officers withdraw the blankets amid the confusion. A Want Ad will get results for you.
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Camp Davis
N. C
Iceland
Whitewright Man Named in Selectee Group Leaving Aug. 14
Six registrants from the No. 2 selective service board report August 14 to the Dallas induction station in a Saturday announcement. Named are Grady B. Head Whitewright route 1 Marvin T. Haynie Sherman James C. Howell Sherman route 1 Ernie Coleman Riley Jr. Sherman Woodrow Wilson Spangler Sherman and Russell Clarence Grinolds Sherman transfer from Blue Earth Minnesota. The board will provide five Negroes for induction August 28.
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No. 2 Selective Service Board
Army
Dallas
Grady B. Head
Whitewright
Marvin T. Haynie
Sherman
James C. Howell
Ernie Coleman Riley Jr
Woodrow Wilson Spangler
Russell Clarence Grinolds
Blue Earth
Minn
Defense School to Reopen Here This Fall
Ernest C. Butler of Whitewright Schools says plans to reopen the defense school here are set for August 15 or September 1. R B Cruse will run the project for youths aged 17 to 25 who should enroll. a federally paid teacher is to be hired. Classes in woodwork metalwork and elementary electricity will meet afternoons and evenings in the Grammar School basement with a 15 hour weekly requirement. The aim is to prepare young men for work in defense industries. a prior session earlier this year focused mainly on farm shop and automotive repair.
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Ernest C. Butler
Whitewright
The
Sun
R. B. Cruse
Butler
War lessons from Mansfield 1864 mirrored blitzkrieg tactics
In Mansfield Louisiana a 1941 article links the Second and Third Army maneuvers to the 1864 Civil War Battle of Mansfield. It notes Lt Gen Ben Lear and Gen Walter Krueger preparing a large force while Gen E Kirby Smith faced Federals under Banks and Steele. The piece argues a two-pronged attack and rapid maneuver determined the Confederate victory, offering historical parallels for modern war planning.
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Mansfield
Ben Lear
Arkansas
United States
Uncle Sam
Walter Krueger
South
E. Kirby Smith
Trans- Mississippi Department
Shreveport
Louisiana
F. Steele
New Orleans
Nathaniel P. Banks
Red River
Smith
Banks
Krueger
Lear
Sleep Hazard in August Heat Causes Fall in Omaha
Omaha Nebraska August Choate aged 54 suffered a dream of fire in his room and leaped from a window. He landed on cobbles and was taken to a hospital with back and ankle injuries.
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Omaha
Neb
August Choate
Senate votes stringently against longer service for citizen soldiers
In Washington the Senate defeated by 50 to 21 a Republican push to cap extended enlistment to one year or two years total, instead of the eighteen months sought by the administration. Senator Harold Burton led the amendment, taft had offered a six month extension alternative, both proposals failed as leaders expected eventual approval of the bill. An attempt for a final vote is planned for Thursday.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Administration
War Department
Harold Burton
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Burton
Senate approves freezing of cotton and wheat in loans
The Senate approved a Senate House conference committee version of legislation to freeze government loan stocks of cotton and wheat as long as the war lasts. The measure moves to the House after adopting Senate amendments with minor changes. Proponents say the move prevents marketing of stocks from price-support loans in competition with new crops.
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Washington
Senate
Senate House Conference Committee
House
Bids Open For Mail Carrying From Depot
Postmaster T J Lilley will accept bids until August 11 for the route from the post office to the depot. The position, held seven years by Jake Thornhill, ends with his resignation. Trains at 7 36 a m 10 11 a m 10 34 a m 6 p m and 7 45 p m must be met. no mail after 10 34 a m on Sundays. Previous pay was 37 50 per month for C S Blanton and 15 per month for Thornhill.
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T. J. Lilley
Katy
Jake Thornhill
C. S. Blanton
Thornhill
Half Hour Rites To Inaugurate Coke Stevenson
A noon oath ceremony for Gov. Coke R. Stevenson was announced by Senator Houghton Brownlee, chairman of the inaugurations committee. The simple dignified service will be broadcast and open to all with no special invites.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Houghton Brownlee
Joint Legislative Committee
Stevenson
Sloan Says There Will Be No New Car Models After 1942
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. chairman of General Motors says no new model cars will be produced after the 1942 models due to the emergency. He notes new tooling and machinery require government sanction and cannot be arranged during the emergency. He cites a 10 percent rise in 1942 car costs plus a 3.5 percent excise tax, and says only the car design would remain unchanged while production continues indef intely.
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Los Angeles
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
General Motors Corporation
Sloan
Pacific Powder Keg Threatens Far East War
A World War II era brief reports rising tensions in the Far East. The United States and Britain press Japan over Thailand bases while Japan deploys troops in Manchukuo and eyes Vladivostok. Italian editor Virginio Gayda calls the Pacific a powder keg about to explode as Axis and Allied powers posture.
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United States
Great Britain
Orient
Far East
Thailand
Indo-China
British Burma
Britain
Japan
Far Eastern
Tokyo
Manchukuo
Russia
Vladivostok
Siberia
Europe
Virginio Gayda
Pacific
Gayda
Nazarene Tent Revival Opens in Denison
A Church of the Nazarene revival began on the Pierce lot North Sears street Denison with Rev J C Dodson of Fort Worth preaching assisted by Rev O F Langford pastor of the Denison church. Music led by Mr and Mrs J D Hammond of Sulphur Springs includes duets solos violin and guitar nightly at 8 oclock for several weeks inviting public attendance.
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Church of the Nazarene
Denison
Pierce Lot
Sears Street
J. C. Dodson
Fort Worth
O. F. Langeford
Denison Church
J. D. Hammond
Sulphur Springs
Langford
Editor Sees O Daniel as 1944 Republican Presidential Choice
Charles E Green of the Austin Statesman says Senator W Lee O Daniel could be the 1944 Republican presidential candidate though elected on a Democratic ticket Green notes Republicans backed him after his Roosevelt critique and says O Daniel may be nominated by the GOP in 1944
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Austin
Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel
Charles E. Green
Austin Statesman
O’daniel
Green
Roosevelt
Bonham Woman Hurt In Collision With Whitewright Car
Bonham resident Miss Sue Taylor remained hospitalized Tuesday with a concussion and shock after a late Monday crash here between her car and a vehicle driven by Billy White of Whitewright. White and his companion Billy Roberts escaped injury.
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Bonham
Sue Taylor
Billy White
Whitewright
White
Billy Roberts
Grown-Up Miss Temple Starts New Picture
Shirley Temple, now 12 and 4 feet 11 inches tall, begins a new film after fourteen months. Mickey Rooney presented flowers as she charts a transition from child star to juvenile lead with Herbert Marshall and Laraine Day aboard.
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Hollywood
Calif
Shirley Temple
Mickey Rooney
Herbert Marshall
Laraine Day
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Bond Street
Bethel School
Maneuvers
Coke Stevenson
Nazarene
Miss Temple
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