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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1944
Page
2
Farmers nationwide shoulder inflation defense as wartime price controls shield them from rising costs. With Europe victory near, surpluses loom and demand shifts. continued controls curb deflationary pressures while industries convert to peacetime output, ensuring farmers can sell fair prices without inflated purchases.
New York humor piece lists five satirical tips to cope with cigarette shortages. It jokes about self reflection, pocket hooks, extending each smoke, fines for smoking, and gendered social advice. A separate quip has a student joke about Francis Scott Key.
Wartime guidance covers blue and red stamps, sugar allocations, and gasoline coupons with December changes. OPA reports December meat poundage up about 5.4 percent and total meat supplies 11.8 percent higher than November. Shortages persist as civilian life patches and conserves. About 800 women enter 18 skilled trades as apprentices under War Manpower Commission training programs.
A lighthearted dialogue unfolds at 4:45 a m as a caller apologizes for troubling a resident who explains the mix up between Western Union numbers Western 1164 and Western 1146. The exchange ends with courteous humor.
John L. Shields, 81, once earning 32.50 weekly as a watchman in Frankfort Kentucky, now draws about 130 monthly from a pension plan tied to his former employer Schenley Distillers. The article notes the surge in corporate pensions as private industry presses toward guaranteed annual payments, with thousands of plans filed for Treasury approval. Russia had the most casualties in World War I.
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