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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1928
Page
2
Chairman J F Kilpatrick of District 6 ss B reports the conference standings after last week's games. The statement lists team positions in District Six Class B football based on conference results.
The University of Texas conducts corrective physical training with sleeping classes for students unable to join standard exercise. In both men and women departments sessions occur three times weekly under Major Sigurd Nal Ekdalh and Miss Leah Gregg.
Oklahoma City Boy Scouts completed a campaign to remove nails from streets. In the second annual anti puncture contest which began October 22, 82 918 nails were collected with prizes awarded to the scouts who eliminated the most hazards.
A Sanctioned approach to thrift fails when forced by authority while voluntary plans succeed. S W Straus notes that savings efforts prosper only when driven by personal impulse and inspiration rather than compulsion, with school savings and corporate programs illustrating the contrast.
Federal officers reveal Uncle Sam has financed four dollars a month storage for a truck valued at about fifteen dollars. Seized in 1927 loaded with whisky and driven by a Mexican, the vehicle led to a Leavenworth sentence. A legal notice must be published before sale, and old unpaid bills delayed publication. Sun office advertises typewriter supplies.
A curious feature notes one million U.S. workers laboring daily to provide food for insects. It cites insect-driven losses of about two billion dollars yearly and mentions a European metallic green beetle as an unlikely ally in the war against gypsy moth infestations, as discussed by Edwin W. Teale.
Drowsy by August, a new ecology driven effort studies the gipsy moth and its allies in Medford Massachusetts. Tiny parasites are raised in glass vials to feed caterpillars and learn their flight and spread. The winged female cannot fly while its caterpillars travel on wind.
The Exchange notes Montana children living without railroads telephones telegraphs movies radios typewriters airplanes or even stairs. Yet both boys and girls are expert horsemen who seldom lose their way in the wild terrain.
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