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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1943
Page
4
Notice from J. H. Waggoner publisher for Whitewright Swr to enter as second class mail matter at Whitewright Texas. All notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials resolutions of respect and similar notices will also be charged.
The Whitewright Sun stresses weekly publication every Thursday with a yearly $1.50 subscription rate paid in advance. Glenn Doss serves as managing editor and the paper pledges prompt correction of any erroneous reflections upon individuals or organizations brought to the publisher’s attention.
A Christian Science Monitor excerpt highlights the Woman's Land Army, over a million and a half workers from Aroostook County potato fields to San Joaquin lettuce farms. They, like Rosie the Riveter, bolster home front food production to feed civilians and Allied troops, proving essential to victory.
Dorothy Thompson urges Americans to match Stalin and Russia in a swift victory. She notes Russia bears immense wartime losses while America confronts troops, expenses, and resource strain. The piece contrasts partisan discord with a shared goal of defeating enemies and ends with a warning of domestic danger if effort wavers.
Envy is described as a corrosive human force harming happiness and peace. Odd anecdotes show Reva Anderson hiding money, and Lewis Struder hoarding wealth. diary excerpts from 1933 recount a perilous desert crossing toward Carthage with notes on safety and travel.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced more than 34 million dollars in meat and butter price subsidies issued since June. Meats totaled 25,000,329.60 dollars for 2,017,399,104 pounds and butter 9,013,829.98 dollars for 180,267,600 pounds. Filing period for June claims extended to month end.
Sgt Earl Ray Howard of the American Air Forces in England flew home to Farmersville in four days, surprising his parents. He wears the Oak Leaf Cluster and Distinguished Flying Cross on his uniform and had just completed his quota of twenty five raids last week.
After meeting his bomber raid quota, Sergeant Howard was reassigned to an American bomber training school as an instructor. On leaving England he received a free flight to the United States with a party of officers. He arrived in New York and then flew to Dallas, four days after departing the British Isles.
The airman completed twenty five missions over France and Germany without injury. He served as a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress and was credited with shooting down one enemy aircraft and assisting in downing many more during raids over Hamburg and surrounding areas.
An advertising notice offers studio couches dining room suites beds mattresses dressers and other furniture with houses adding to stock daily. It invites customers to sell their pieces and visit for bargains and sizes.
A Texas legislative committee voted to retain the state auditor and raise the salary from 4600 to 7500 a year, a 62 percent increase. The move irks farmers workers elderly pensioners teachers oil men and soldiers while prices and costs squeeze many Texans.
The Sun advertises social stationery including engraved wedding invitations and birth announcements in various styles and prices. It promotes reception invitations and birth announcements among other items.
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