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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1946
Page
8
AUSTIN Members of the joint legislative advisory committee have drawn up a bill to allow emergency increases above the $135 per month base salary for rural teachers. Passage by the next legislature might raise salaries by the end of the 1946 47 school year, committee members indicated.
Chicago report of Lt. Carl Relli amending a time limit on on duty police wives telephone calls. The rule originally set 50 seconds for wives, one minute for girlfriends, two minutes for sweethearts, and two and a half minutes for fiancées. The article notes romantic sympathy for single officers and includes a brief, flippant exchange.
New York report shows real incomes for Americans on July 1 at 89 cents on the dollar, down 11 percent from a year earlier, per Investors Syndicate study.
Roy Q. Minton, 52, of Denton and son of Sherman’s W. J. Minton, drowned yesterday while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston. The well known journalist was active in southwestern newspaper circles.
A classroom joke unfolds as a teacher asks a boy a riddle about cannibalism and marriage. Jimmy replies with a witty, albeit dark, pun about his father being a widower if he ate his mother.
A witty exchange between two female students stirs amusement at a school setting. One boasts about not kissing any of the 200 young men, prompting the other to ask which one, highlighting humor in social mores.
An Austin landlord who served two years as a private told an Army nurse and wife of an Eighth Service Command colonel that he would not rent to a brass hat. After learning her husband is a colonel, he recalled the indignities he suffered as a private and refused.
Churches list Sunday School times and worship services across multiple congregations. Central Christian Church led by Rev Clifford Taylor offers 10 a m Sunday School and 11 a m sermon on the 2nd and 4th Sundays. Assembly of God schedules morning and evening services with pastors E A Doty Wootten Erwin and events including Training Union and midweek prayer.
Classified blurbs advertise two year old Hereford bull and adding machine paper, flowers, old paper recycling, dwellings and farms for sale, an oil heater and milk can, plus a Labor Day dance in Denison. Listings include D E McCoy, Mrs Allen T Short, Karo Maxey, Tom Barbee, Stephens & Bryant, J P Ownby. Several items specify locations in Whitewright and vicinity.
Washington announces a 27 percent cut in new nonresidential building with a shift of construction control to Housing Expeditor Wyatt. Civilian Production Administration head John D. Small says actions will channel scarce materials to housing and push unfinished homes to completion before snow. He urges households to delay roofing and plumbing repairs under 400 dollars until housing needs are met.
The Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission announced that coot shooting begins November 23 and runs through January 6. Ducks and geese seasons align with this. on Lake Texoma, coot season runs October 26 to December 9.
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