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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
1
Local notes list Sgt Horace G Sadler Pvt Archie Burder Lt K R Auten Lt Billy Smith Sgt Byron Teague Jarvis D Maddux Sgt Roy E Martin Glen Fleming Edward Montgomery and others in Army Air Corps Navy Seabees Marines and parachute units Their letters home mention transfers promotions trainings and reunions with family and friends in Arkansas Louisiana and nearby states.
Very little cotton has been ginned in Whitewright since Saturday with 84 bales ginned by Thursday morning. Forty seven bales had been ginned by Wednesday night last week. Rain delayed picking but clearing weather this Thursday morning should allow picking to resume.
The Essener National Zeitung cited in a Monday report that it is bad taste to publicly eat ham when its origin is suspect, and to flaunt fat cigars as cigars and cigarettes grow scarce. It also condemns public fruit consumption as in poor taste, noting butterflies have a fragrant scent of pine or flower.
In Grayson County voters on Saturday Edger P. Jackson of Denison won the County Commissioner Precinct 2 race over S. B. Vaughan by about 209 votes. Other results included J. Calvin Buchanan over J H White for county clerk and James T. Sparks over LeRoy Anderson for State Representative Place 1. Reese Bowen narrowly beat Dolph Vaughan for Commissioner Precinct 1, and S. R. Stiles won Precinct 3 against H. G. Ball.
The Bonham chamber of commerce plans a five thousand dollar promotional fund to back a worthwhile project at Jones Field to replace the Bonham Aviation School. A three member committee led by Risser Burrow and Major Graham will supervise the drive with any unused funds returned pro rata.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York issued instructions to managers and field underwriters nationwide urging them to advise returning service men to maintain government life insurance. Under no circumstances should they be advised to replace it with new insurance from this or any other company.
In September 1912 the editor announces mid year sale of a half interest in The Whitewright Sun to T. G. Doss after thirty two years of service. The pair pledge to continue strong local coverage and service to Whitewright and surrounding communities with ongoing improvements.
Rainfall from Aug 17 to Aug 23 totals 4.86 inches, with 2.20 inches starting last Thursday. Crops southwest of town damaged by hail and wind, with open cotton reported by Newell Skagge, T. A. Gray, and Don Powell. Rainfall varied by location, strongest near Whitewright north and northeast.
Royce Jones announces a competitive exam to fill the Whitewright post office substitute clerk job. Appointments are wartime only for up to six months and do not grant classified civil service status. Applications to the Civil Service Commission must be filed by Sept. 25. The written exam lasts about four hours. Further information may be had from Mr. Jones.
The Office of Price Administration reduced the September passenger car tire allocation by 350 000 casings from August levels while increasing heavy truck and bus tires to 120 000. Total passenger tire quotas drop from 1 950 000 to 1 600 000 as winter stockpiles are exhausted, complicating local rationing board decisions on essential drivers.
Washington report says Julius A. Krug addressing dissension in war production board ranks warned there will be one team at the WPB from now on. He declared that any who do not cooperate will be dismissed amid a resurgent home front crisis.
Sgt. Edward E. Chavez of Albuquerque writes a hopeful card home from a Philippines camp. He says he looks forward to seeing his mother and asks his father to keep his car in good order. Both parents had died recently, his father four weeks prior and his mother the previous year.
American submarines report sinking seventeen more Japanese vessels including two destroyers, boosting monthly totals and the year’s submarine successes to fifty two ships. Navy data show sustained gains from newly won Pacific bases as Forrestal cites a trebled Navy and expanded air force.
Trading in corn futures returns to the Kansas City Board of Trade after a hiatus since June 23, 1943. A board statement sets an immediate reopening with a maximum fixed price of $1.15 per bushel, a move occurring at the request of the War Food Administration amid feed grain shortages.
President Roosevelt will deliver his first explicit political address of a fourth term from a September 23 dinner in Washington hosted by labor leaders. He declined a nationwide tour due to a heavy schedule.
Beginning October 2 the Treasury will start a simplified redemption system for Series E War Bonds. Owners can redeem at any qualified commercial bank with immediate payment after identification and no charge. Banks and trust companies may qualify as bond paying agencies.
AUSTIN reports that Texas farmers earned 98 million dollars in July, up 32 percent from a year earlier, with wheat prices higher about 10 percent and cattle, calves, and sheep shipments rising. Hog shipments and prices fell while year-to-date cash income reached 520 million, up from 464 million last year.
A Salt Lake City widow aged 60 urged the City Commission to end bars refusing to serve unescorted women. She said at sixty she has no companion, has knitted for the Red Cross, and wants life’s simple pleasure of a beer while awaiting her rights to be established.
Allied forces pushed forty miles beyond the Seine and reached within twenty five miles of Amiens while the U S First Army moved seventy miles from Paris capturing Laon and advancing toward Belgium. Patton’s Third Army seized Reims and crossed the Vesle as Eisenhower massed multiple armies for a final push toward the Ardennes and Moselle Valley.
American forces drove 27 miles up the Rhone valley toward Lyon, threatening to cut off the Nazi Nineteenth Army retreat. An advance from Montelimar toward Chabeuil moved to within six miles of the Valence road junction as Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch’s Seventh Army closed on Lyon, the major French city still held by Germany.
Washington reports the Rubber Director's office lifted restrictions on neoprene use by elastic thread makers, allowing civilian access to a higher grade for girdles. ORD says girdle quality improved with neoprene, while highway truck tires now require 90 percent synthetic rubber instead of 70 percent.
Sixteen persons were detained in Leonard after a raid by Texas Rangers and state liquor control board officers. Fifteen faced gaming charges while one was charged with liquor law violations.
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