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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
1
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The sixth annual Grayson College ex-students reunion will be held at Whitewright High School on Sunday August 20 with many alumni expected. Attendees will bring lunches to share on a large gym table. Major Morris A Lively of Fort Sill Ohio is slated as principal speaker, program to start at 10 a m. Over 200 alumni attended last year, with many traveling long distances.
The United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics forecast a 1944 harvest of 2,450,000 bales with Aug 1 acreage at 7,127,000, noting drought and heat pressure outside southern counties. South Texas sees good picking, labor adequate, while East Texas and other areas need rain for final yields. Livestock stay fair but water shortages grow amid hot dry ranges.
The report notes Lt Billy Earnheart with Army Engineers in Elkins West Virginia and Lt Jack E Wallace of Morenci Arizona earning Army parachute wings at Fort Benning. Wallace trained four weeks with five jumps including a night combat landing. Wallace, a 1943 Field Artillery 2nd Lt graduate, previously served in California. Also mentioned is Mrs Roscoe Brown visiting her husband Lt Roscoe Brown, a German POW in Wichita Falls, who was wounded when his fortress was shot down over Germany and has since lost weight and letters from home have arrived. Lt Randall Bradley, Brown’s brother, is also a POW with the same camp after a wounded head injury on April 28.
World War II veterans already enjoy benefits beyond World War I veterans after long effort. The GI Bill funds education, loans, and pensions, and the Veterans Administration will grow to run numerous hospitals. Hospitals total 121 000 beds with new facilities, while Army beds exceed 500 000. The act ensures protection of servicemen rights and permits VA staff in military hospitals to assist with claims. A future World War II bonus is safeguarded by deducting GI Bill benefits from adjusted compensation or using them to pay loans.
Federal agencies sponsor a national Go-to-School Drive as war‑related high school decline nears 1934 levels. Three million high school age youths work full or part time, driven by earnings and family needs, with civic and employer motives also cited.
District OPA director J H Kult ordered all eating establishments in the 49 county area including Grayson County to post ceiling prices for 40 basic foods and meals by August 16. Posters listing the items will be distributed next week. the prices shown must be the highest charged between April 4 and 10, 1942. Establishments failing to file prices and menus for the base period with the ration board by today can be forbidden to operate.
Representative Luther A. Johnson of Corsicana urges the House to press the commerce committee to report out a daylight saving repeal bill. He argues the nation should return to standard time as cities used daylight saving by agreement in past years and believes the public would support repeal.
Houston Myron G. Blalock a Democratic National Committeeman says he will vigorously back the party nominees and that Texas electors are bound to support Roosevelt and Truman. He notes he supported the Austin majority and the Chicago majority and would resign as a party official if he cannot back the nominees. He responded to a letter from T J Holbrook Austin about his pledge.
Major General Lucius D. Clay said top Army and War Production Board officials agree on military supply estimates. A suppressed WPB report, criticized for masking specific weapon needs, showed good general inventories but masked gaps. He warned production must rise substantially in the next six months to meet schedules.
Admiral Nimitz announced American forces occupied Guam after a swift campaign. Japanese remnants are bottled up inland from Pati Point on the northeast coast and expected to be eliminated soon. The Marianas triumph includes Saipan and Tinian, boosting plans toward the Japanese homeland and allied routes.
Farm & Ranch recalls Grayson College Whitewright Texas chartered 1886 with eleven teachers. A new three story brick building with over thirty rooms was completed. Literary societies met in furnished halls. Costs for students listed for men and women, totaling about 179 dollars for men and 204 for women including extras.
Sgt Findley Haile writes from New Guinea about an coastal expedition with two four wheel drive vehicles along beaches and native villages. He notes trading for papua fruit nuts and shells, learning pidgin English and watching natives spear fish. He mentions Japs and wartime destruction of banana plantations and hints at sharing more when home. The letter ends with a couple of unrelated historical notes.
Allied forces drove toward Paris through Brittany and Le Mans, with St. Malo surrender confirmed. Reports said Nantes and Angers may have fallen as Canadian and British units widened wedges toward Falaise while Le Mans was occupied. Total towns freed rose to forty nine for the week.
The government’s initial cotton crop estimate for the season puts output at 11,022,000 bales, slightly above expectations. The forecast shows a per acre yield about ten pounds higher than last year, with 20,081,000 acres to be harvested, the smallest since 1895.
U S Army adopts pentolite a super explosive 20 percent stronger than TNT for rocket projectiles and other armaments Maj Gen L H Campbell says a small quantity can penetrate five feet of reinforced concrete It provides a terrific punch for bazooka ammo rifle grenades anti tank charges and some artillery shells and is used in harbor clearance at Cherbourg
A Waco Negro couple split by divorce faced a housing shortage and solved it by sawing their home in two and walling the open side. They now live on the same lot, fully separated, telling friends they only had to think and saw wood.
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