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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
7
The boys train daily from 10 30 to 12 with an eligibility list sent to Austin this week. Coach C B B notes progress and outlines early routine for the squad.
Several students plan to attend the North Texas Youth Conference at NTSTC High School Saturday. Whitewright has attended for the past three years and will supply a vice president for the organization this year.
The class meets to choose a name Bluebonnet motto Make the best better and colors blue and gold with bluebonnet as flower and Beautiful Dreamer as song. The program features a constitution, readings, and songs by Kirk May John Taylor Jean Caraway Lindy Ashinhurst and class JRA.
Mr. McKinney announced in assembly that a girls' softball team would be organized from the freshman class during activity period. The first scheduled game is against Grammar School on Tuesday afternoon.
Pep Squad officers and leaders met last Tuesday to plan the football banquet. Committee chairmen named include Decorations Billie Burke Vineyard Foods Lucille Starr Dishes and silverware Virginia Hill Programs and place cards Jimmie Golden and Mary Frances Clairon Favors Grace Harris.
The basketball girls met on Wednesday to learn the twelve names set to receive new suits. The list may change as未additional recipients may be added later. They will eat at 11:30 and practice 12 to 1 and again during the fourth and fifth periods as they improve for their first game.
The Whitewright High School speech class invited Reverend J. L. Truett as guest speaker for a Friday morning assembly. Truett, a distinguished retired preacher, was born in Cherokee County North Carolina on October 13 1854 and later moved to Tennessee where he married Cornelia Cochran.
Reverend Truett arrived in Texas in 1891 and has lived in Whitewright for 46 years. An A B graduate, he taught in Tennessee for nine years and in colleges eleven years, with studious evenings by the fireplace. He has spoken at Baptist conventions for 48 years, attending 45 sessions, and was elected Secretary Emeritus after 25 years as Corresponding Secretary. He has mentored dozens of youths, written sermons and essays, and published five books, all unpublished, while devoting his life to preaching and youth outreach.
The Rural Electrification Administration reports Texas farms with central station electric service rose from 11 466 to 98 000 in the last seven years. The rapid electrification owes much to the FEA, yet hundreds of thousands of rural homes remain without electric energy in Texas.
A South Australian invention claims to lure and kill 1000 flies a minute using a specialized electrocution device. The inventor says the machine could control mosquitoes and other night flying pests.
The Office of Price Administration reports 1941 shoe production at 480 million pairs, 80 million more than last year, ensuring adequate supply though prices rise mainly due to higher shipping costs. Consumer chief Harriet Elliott urges buyers to consider fit, measurement, heel height, and shoe construction to maximize value and comfort.
Governor Stevenson said he would grant a 30 day stay in every death penalty case he can clemency for. He ordered a stay for Albert Wesley a Dallas County convict scheduled to die last Friday. He emphasized no opposition to capital punishment despite broad stay authority.
In Wheeler Oregon a heavy chum salmon run floods coastal streams from Tillamook Bay to Alaska River. Bears seek dinner as fish flash from water, seagulls grow satiated, and rats abandon wharves for streams. The once low valued fish now brings profits amid wartime demand and cannery use.
The price rose to 34 percent cents a pound and fishermen report earnings up to 80 dollars a day. A skipper recently netted 1925 for his catch as the autumn run, starting in early October, grows heavier instead of thinning. Animals in the woods still feed, and the fishery shows no end to the bounty yet.
A health note compares illness risks by gender, noting pneumonia and appendicitis are far more common in men while women face susceptibility to whooping cough rheumatic fever bladder troubles diphtheria and flu. It prompts readers to consider life expectancy given these patterns.
The piece compares life spans from 11th century Hastings to modern times, crediting medical advances for longer lifespans. It cites aging tables from Equitable Life Assurance Society showing higher remaining years for today versus 875 years ago, with data by age and gender.
A river steamboat strikes a hidden stump and capsizes, tossing all passengers into the river. The pilot quips about knowing every stump, then after righting himself claims another stump as the boat continues.
A report to the American College of Surgeons says a skin full of vitamin C can speed wound healing by about 400 percent and accelerate recovery. The study notes both human and guinea pig tests.
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