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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
4
Whitewright Swr entered as 2nd class mail matter at Whitewright Texas post office. Notices of entertainments, box suppers and other benefits with admission fee will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials and resolutions of respect also will be charged. Association Publisher Managing Editor.
The article outlines subscription terms and correction policy. It teases reader complaints directed at the junior publisher while joking about war involvement and U S aid to France. It comments on Texas Democratic convention expectations and jokes about advertising revenue. Weather notes praise recent rains and cooling.
The St Louis Star Times backs raising the Vice President salary from 15000 to 25000 a year and notes agitation in Washington for boosting all congressional salaries. It recalls the wartime pensions controversy as a cautionary memory and expects strong public reaction.
A Fort Worth Star-Telegram recap traces how congressional pay rose from $6 a day for attendance to per diem, then to $7,500 in 1873, a back pay scandal, and the 1924 set at $10,000. It notes presidential and vice presidential salaries, and debates on government pay governance and states’ rights.
Four German POWs testified before a Russian Polish atrocity commission in Lublin about Majdanek's mass murder operations. They described gassings, shootings, ovens, and burned bodies, with 157 Polish children among those killed, and spoke of orders from above and limited personal culpability.
Washington discussions outline keeping many vessels afloat while laying up thousands of ships in first class condition and possibly modernizing them. The plan argues speed of future war, fleet deterrence, and cites Pearl Harbor and D-Day as context for maintaining an immense reserve fleet.
A candidate thanks Whitewright residents for a strong election showing with 196 of 249 votes. He pledges accessible service after taking office January 1 and invites citizens to contact the office as needed.
The Navy states ships can be laid up kept oiled painted and maintained over a long period at a reasonable cost. This reflects plans to preserve vessels during idle periods without excessive expense.
Cpl. Daryl W. Touchstone of Abilene Texas reports that only nine men from a U S artillery battalion escaped capture or death after being rushed from Australia to Java before the Japanese overr an island. He spoke from Ashburn General Hospital where he recovers from injuries from an Australian accident.
Cooperative buying by farmers across Texas for grain sorghums grown in the South Plains could cut costs for both growers and buyers. J D Precht urges 250 county agents to inform farm leaders about the program as drought tightens feed supplies. Storage is the main problem with a bumper wheat crop filling terminal markets.
A railroad official in Lynn County said last year 2500 cars were available yet only 250 are in sight for the new harvest. Lynn County has 232,000 acres in sorghum and Lubbock County 275,000 acres, signaling tight transportation for the crop as harvest begins.
Jones County agent Bill Coulson reports most farm homes are over 21 years old and many have four rooms or less. He notes postwar improvements hoped for alongside present conditions with 67 percent under four rooms and over half valued under 1000 dollars. Radios 90 percent irons 82 refrigerators 55 and washing machines 30 percent among electrified homes.
In Peninsula Ohio a seven year old wheeling his brother in a buggy to an ice cream shop asks a bystander to watch the baby while he runs home for money. On returning he finds a stranger asking to help with the infant and jokes about marriage.
The War Food Administration said it will release about 2.5 million pounds of raisins from government stocks for civilian distribution. Raisins are normally requisitioned for government needs, but the WFA reserves some stocks for civilian movement via the original processors first.
The Senate confirmed three new postmasters for Fannin County. Huel D. Ray will serve Ector, Virgil R. Laycock at Ravenna, and Claude C. Strickland at Savoy.
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