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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
4
Whitewright Sun announces 2nd class mail status for Whitewright Texas and outlines notice charges for entertainments box suppers and other benefits. Memorials and resolutions will be billed at regular rates. Publisher and editor note errors will be corrected upon notification.
A large Saturday crowd in Whitewright marked the festive season with holiday events. Christmas lights adorn the business district, notably the Community Public Service Company store decorated by J Philley and Paul Cook with Ruth Howard and Mrs Philley assisting. Residential lights and trees are rising townwide as stores stock abundant gifts.
About 40 Texas counties vote or plan to vote this month on roughly 18 million dollars in highway bonds. The bonds would be issued only if assumed by the State of Texas including interest and principal, under the County and District Road Bond Assumption Act. Newspapers in counties proposing this financing method generally approve the plan, with Clarendon News promoting a proposed 565,000 dollar issue.
The column argues a county bond issue for roads imposes no cost if state backed and paid off but questions this. It condemns long-term debt and urges a pay-as-you-go approach. It discusses AAA politics, farming parity, alcohol ads, truck laws, and domestic relief amid destitution.
Judge Alfred McKnight invites a tour of McKnight Farm near Arlington where Redset and Pembroke with jockeys Monte Parks and Frank Cagle display a half mile track. Texas farms like McKnight provide employment, feed, and taxes while lawmakers debate racing legality.
The narrator recalls old jokes about death and a playful railroad handcar dream. He reflects on barefoot days, the scent of sawdust, and the whine of a mill saw, then notes how adulthood brings work writing words with a typewriter doing most of the labor.
In Caruthersville a poker wielding deputy sheriff and three women blocked a mob of 50 to 100 men storming the county jail seeking three blacks held for questioning after an elderly woman was stabbed. The deputy said he struck one man and the crowd subsided. the sheriff’s wife and her daughters helped guard the front door.
The War Department announced that about 20 000 additional reserve officers will be ordered to extended active duty before June 30. By month end the army expects nearly 30000 reserve officers on active duty due to expansion. Commanders will provide advance notice as possible amid a changing situation.
On deck Mr Simkins points to a tug pulling multiple barges and compares the tug to a man and the barges to women while his wife rebukes the gendered analogy, saying the tug does all the blowing and the barges bear all burden.
Prescott dynamo Gyp the terrier saved Spot the bird dog after Spot trod into a coyote trap. Miner Jack Shull followed at midnight, guiding the dog through rough country to the trap two miles from his cave in.
The Agriculture Department places this year’s cotton crop at 12,686,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, down from 12,847,000 bales last month and far below the 1928-38 ten year average. Indicated lint yield is 252.4 pounds per acre, with 24,078,000 acres to harvest. Abandonment is 4.0 percent, and cultivated area July 1 stands at 25,073,000 acres.
The 1941 British Who's Who, out Thursday, will continue to list Adolf Hitler among the 40,000 noted figures. The book prints his telephone number 116191 and gives addresses at Wilhelmstrasse 77 Berlin and Ober-Salzberg Berchtesgaden Bavaria, despite censorship.
Retired Lieutenant General Hatsutaro Haraguchi a member of the Japanese Diet warned in Honolulu that dispatching any American battleship to Singapore would trigger war with Japan. He was en route to Japan after trying to soothe relations between the two nations.
Dr. George W. Cox was reappointed by the State Board of Health becoming the first officer elected for three consecutive terms. Dr. R. J. Rowe, chair of the board, called the unanimous decision in the best interest of Texas public health and noted Cox's notable achievements. The Sun invites readers to mail news items for publication.
Canada builds a steadily growing radium industry on the edge of the Arctic Circle, aiming to expand mining, processing, and export potential amid frontier resource development and regulatory debates.
In Vichy the holiday will be a date on the calendar as 2,000,000 Frenchmen remain behind German prison camps. Parcels, wine and sweets from Petain and Red Cross volunteers aim to ease prisoner hardship, while rationing and shortages touch ordinary families at home.
Dr. Don F. Milam Baptist minister attended in Bonham as the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cates marked the ceremony he performed on November 27 1890. Organist and a bridesmaid from the original party were present.
A Denver draft board chief clerk Rosa Murray receives a hostile call after a note in a husband’s pocket directs the wife to contact her. The caller, irate, questions the clerk’s identity and the note’s meaning, revealing a personal misunderstanding tied to draft process.
Albion Indiana a doctor examining Charles Rodman 32 of Skinner Lake after a rollover found only a small head laceration and closed it. Rodman complained of a headache the doctor rechecked and removed a rear car spring from inside his skull saying Rodman would recover.
John Mosley, 18, survived a stabbing with a heart on the right side as doctors confirmed his anomalous anatomy by fluoroscope after being brought to the county hospital. The report notes the wound was three inches deep in the left chest where a heart would lie, yet he remained alive Thursday.
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