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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
1
Van Claborn announces a free rodeo at Whitewright on Monday with a free battle royal following the performance. Five negro contenders will vie for a grand prize and a consolation prize for the runner up. Rodeo begins at 4 pm with new bucking stock and riders. Larger crowds are anticipated if weather allows.
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nominations of Claude R. Wickard of Indiana as secretary of agriculture to succeed Henry L. Wallace who resigns September 5 and Paul H. Appleby of Maryland as undersecretary of agriculture. Stephen T. Early highlighted their proven records and promotion from within the department.
Federal old age insurance has extended to 2,157,407 Texans since the Social Security Act. The Social Security Board notes 3,110 monthly benefit claims approved totaling 54,156 dollars. Lump sum death payments of 106,866 dollars were made for 868 workers who died after 1939. Public assistance payments reach 70,140,824 dollars for old age aid. About 800,000 Texas workers are covered by unemployment compensation with weekly benefits totaling 25,413,000 dollars since January 1938.
In Independence Kansas fellow workers told Orveal Robinson they would wax his whiskers for an old settlers celebration using rubber cement. The whiskers came off with the cement leaving Robinson bare.
Philadelphia speech by ambassador William Bullitt warns America is in danger of invasion by Germany if Britain falls. He urges Congress to pass a conscription bill and to approve Pershing requests for 50 destroyers for Great Britain. He cites France’s debacle as warning and says dictators’ agents already prepare the United States.
Whitewright High School will introduce bookkeeping and shorthand at the start of the Sept 9 term, alongside existing typing and commercial law. Physics and trigonometry are added for engineering paths, and Daniel Russ will form a combined high and grammar school band.
Mrs. Clara Myrick and Mrs. Sarah Kilgree conclude the summer program by inventorying and preparing books for the term. High School inventory complete. Grammar School now in progress using open stacks and Dewey classification. Over 1,000 volumes circulate monthly per unit. story hour at Grammar School draws 16 children on average.
London reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged the United States to release fifty overage destroyers to replace losses and enable a 1941 or 1942 British offensive. He offered lease rights to defense sites from Newfoundland to the West Indies. Foreign Secretary Halifax said Britain and the United States have in principle agreed on base leases and foresee few difficulties in details.
Boll weevils are increasing in Texas cotton fields and damaging nearly all the young fruit. Entomologist D F L Thomas of Texas A and M College notes cotton is opening rapidly and weevils are moving to fields showing growth. Leafworms menace Lower Rio Grande Valley and Calhoun County. bottom land cotton in North Texas may soon be infested.
In a Sunday broadcast Governor W. Lee O'Daniel cast preachers and church workers as the nation’s first line of defense. He cited a recent speech that blamed undermining influences for European declines and cautioned officials cannot improve national habits. He stressed that habits reflect the choices of a majority of citizens.
Martin Dies chairman of the congressional committee investigating un American activities said he believes four Hollywood figures named in prior testimony are not and have never been members of the Communist party. He named James Cagney Frederic March Humphrey Bogart and Phil Dunne as the individuals.
The Whitewright Tigers baseball team is reorganizing this week and will play the Bonham Millers at 3 p m Sunday in Bonham. They invite Whitewright friends to travel with them and promise a strong showing. The club seeks night games with McKinney and Greenville and hopes for a Sunday game with Sherman.
Local Boy Scout group returned from a five day Lake Fannin camping trip near Bonham. Assistant Scoutmaster Albert Jackson earned Eagle Scout. J Frank Wilson Emerson Sears assisted. Scouts completed merit badge work in swimming signaling and life saving. several members passed first and second class tests.
P G Beck of Indianapolis told a congressional committee that about 70000 farming units have disappeared in five corn belt states Iowa Missouri Illinois Indiana and Ohio over the past five years. He cited mechanization land decline and farmer reverses as main causes in a conservative estimate based on census and county assessor data.
Grammar School lunch room project reports summer production of 2400 tin cans 1200 No 3 and 1200 No 2 plus 100 glass jars and 35 gallons of cucumber pickles. 248 pounds dried peas and beans shelled. Vegetables mostly from school garden. three workers this summer, more during term for hot lunches.
Whitewright voters with state and county poll tax receipts may cast ballots without a city poll tax receipt. Attorney General ruling cited shows cities cannot require a poll tax from men while women are exempt, prompting local election judges to ignore the Whitewright city tax for this election.
Whitewright voters will face the shortest primary ballot in years with only two state races and four county contests. Polls open 8 am to 7 pm as officials plan rapid counting and immediate results after closing. The article notes tax rules will not bar voting following an Attorney General ruling.
Rainfall totaled .95 inches in August with .60 inches Thursday night and .35 inches Sunday morning. July rainfall was 5.15 inches, vs 1.99 last July. This year's July and August combined are 6.10 inches, up from 3.50 in the same months of 1939. Cooler nights followed the weekend rain, with temperatures dipping below 60 degrees twice, though hot spells in September last year are recalled.
The Whitewright gins had produced 385 bales by this date last year, while 317 bales were ginned in 1938. This year no cotton has been ginned yet. The first bale last year was by C. C. Morgan of Orangeville on August 7, with prior years showing varied August dates. Prices then were 9 cents per pound for cotton and $15 per seed, compared to 8.75 cents and $21 in 1938.
Congressman Sam Rayburn of Bonham will direct the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket campaign in the Southwest with headquarters in Dallas. The regional office will manage Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico and Arizona.
Paul Stephens closes a substantial deal this week for the C. B. Bryant homestead on South Bond street and will move in next week. He trades his East Grand avenue residence to complete the purchase.
Whitesboro merchants and professional men petition the City Council to raise the peddler license from 1.25 to 25 dollars. The signatures total forty tax paying merchants. Licenses allow peddlers to sell on streets or from house to house.
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