Santa Claus Parade Plans in Whitewright Friday Night
Whitewright businessmen finalize Santa Claus parade details for Friday night at 7 30 with rural schools invited to compete for 10 and 5 cash prizes. Vehicles of all types can enter and Santa will toss gifts to children as parade reaches the business district. Committees visited 17 rural schools to secure entries while stores stay open Friday and all week for Christmas shopping.
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Whitewright
Santa Claus
Fiat Money Seen as Bogeyman by Bankers Leader
F M Law, president of the American Bankers Association, told the Bankers Forum in New York that fiat money is a bogeyman and not a real danger. He argued the monetary questions have few irreconcilable points and urged restoring confidence to put money and credit to work. He noted currency in circulation rises since 1926 and after the 1929 boom.
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New York
F. M. Law
American Bankers’ Association
America
Bankers’ Forum
American Institute of Banking
Roosevelt
Sound Money Group
Christmas Program at Central Christian Church
The Christmas exercises at Central Christian Church Sunday Dec 17 at 7 p.m. feature two parts a pantomime Why the Chimes Rang by the high school dramatic club and The Three Gifts directed by Miss Gladys Ray. It is the sixteenth annual white gifts pageant for Juliette Fowler Orphans Home Dallas with a free will offering. Public invited.
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Central Christian Church
Gladys Ray
Christ
Juliette Fowler
Dallas
Letters To Santa at The Sun Office Next Week
Children should drop letters to the Sun office by noon Monday with 40 to 50 words. The note requests an airgun firecrackers train horn wagon and various treats. The Norfolk Virginian Pilot adds a social note praising bridge for connection.
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The
Sun
Santa Claus
Santa
Norfolk
Singing Convention Here Next Sunday at First Baptist
The district singing convention will be held here next Sunday afternoon at 2 o clock in the First Baptist Church. Several good singers from a distance are expected to participate, offering a program for Whitewright residents who enjoy traditional singing.
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First Baptist Church
Whitewright
New Zealand Stowaways Discovered Aboard Byrd Ship
Three New Zealand youths were found hidden in a life boat during boat drill nine hours from Wellington aboard Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic steamer. They said they tried to enlist but were refused. Byrd ordered them to deck duties on the crowded vessel en route to Little America.
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Admiral Byrd
New Zealand
South Pole
Wellington
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Little America
Whitewright public schools plan Christmas holidays and term extension
The Whitewright schools will adjourn from December 21 through January 1 with classes resuming January 2. The holiday break does not shorten the term. the 36 week school year is maintained by extending the spring term. Graduation plans and baccalaureate remain on last year’s schedule, with seven days off considered optimal.
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Whitewright
Senior B Y P U Attends Baptist Church Lesson
The senior B Y P U of the Baptist Church held a strong Sunday evening attendance. The lesson was And He Went a Little Farther with next Sunday's topic The Future Life. Members listed include Mack Pierson Maggie Horton Ira May Guy Hamilton Jr Mildred Holcomb and George Gordon Pope with six discussion parts. Visitors are welcome and urged to attend.
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The
Baptist Church
Mack Pierson
Maggie Horton
Ira May
Guy Hamilton Jr
Mildred Holcomb
George Gordon Pope
Work Started on Lake to Supply Bonham Water
Bonham begins lake construction at the new City Park southeast of town. Forty to sixty acres will be submerged as a dam 650 feet long and twenty one feet high creates the water source. One hundred fourteen CCC men will work with picks shovels and wheelbarrows. a dragline may follow. The lake lies about a mile and a half south of the current reservoir.
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Bonham
New City Park
City Reservoir
Piano Recital by Mrs Guy Hamilton at Grammar School
Mrs Guy Hamilton presents a piano recital for her pupils at the grammar school auditorium Tuesday evening at 7 15 oclock. The public is invited to attend. The Jackson News notes the country continuing to repeal prohibition straight.
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Guy Hamilton
Grammar School
Jackson News
Final 1933 Cotton Crop Estimate Boosts Yield Outlook
The final 1933 cotton estimate released Friday shows 13,177,000 bales, up 450,000 from 1932. The Agriculture Department notes continued gains and predicts 1934 acreage reductions to about 25,000,000 acres with potential yields from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 bales subject to conditions. Ginning by state is listed for 1933 and 1932.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Kono Co Sinsheceeed
Virginia
17 724 Clerical Jobs Added by CWA
The Civil Works Administration announced six new federal projects to employ 17 724 white collar workers under three federal departments. Harry L. Hopkins said 1 033 will work for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1 834 for the Census Bureau, 14 857 for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics with four studies.
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Washington
Civil Works Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Census Bureau
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Division of Agricultural Finance
Agricultural Economic Bureau
Boy Scouts Troop 2 Welcomes New Members In Whitewright
Troop 2 Whitewright met Tuesday evening with members Jack Pat Meador Albert Lea Jackson Merriwell Vineyard Jack Lewis Yeager James Hughes O A Hefner Walter Tom Homes and new Scouts William Janway Rudolph Taylor Jim Badgett. They attended Baptist Church services, began work on toys Tuesday night, and planned two working nights weekly. They will attend Methodist Church services on Sunday December 17.
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Whitewright Boy Scouts
Jack
Jim Pat Meador
Albert Lea Jackson
Merriwell Vineyard
Jack Lewis Yeager
James FB. Hughes
O. A. Hefner
Walter Tom Homes
William Janway
Rudolph Taylor
Jim Badgett
Baptist Church
Methodist
President Announces Consolidation of Recovery Agencies
President Roosevelt launches a movement to unite the nation’s recovery offices under the national emergency council. Frank Walker to head the council, which will merge agricultural loans relief NRA and related services into one office to cut red tape and speed decisions. The council includes key department heads and agency administrators to coordinate operations and provide information to applicants.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Recovery
National Emergency Council
Frank Walker
Walker
NRA
Emergency Council
AAA
Agriculture, Commerce and Labor
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Farm Credit Administration
NRA Consumer’s Council
Corn Hog Plan Approved For Signers In Six States
Secretary Wallace approves the 350 million dollar corn hog production adjustment plan and names committees in six Midwestern states. Signers must cut corn acreage at least 20 percent below 1932 33 averages and reduce 1934 hog litters 25 percent below the two year average.
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Washington
Wallace
Barnett and Richardson wed in Randolph ceremony
Miss Thelma Barnett and Mr Les Richardson were married Thursday night December 7 by Rev Felix Robinson at Randolph. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs H Barnett of Durant Oklahoma. The groom is son of Bill Richardson of Randolph and a prominent young man of that place. They will make their home in
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Thelma Barnett
Leslie Richardson
Felix Robinson
Randolph
H. Barnett
Durant
Oklo
Bill Richardson
Whitewright Trades Day Moves to December 22
Whitewright shifts its monthly trades day to Friday December 22 instead of the fourth Monday due to Christmas Day. January trades day remains on January 22 and then every fourth Monday. A free rodeo and additional attractions are planned per D A Ray who leads the arrangements.
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Whitewright
D. A. Ray
Dry forces seek to keep Texas statute on the ballot
The Anti-Saloon League and allied temperance groups press to lift the dry amendment as a Democratic Party issue. They demand all legislative candidates declare their position and pledge to vote against submitting repeal, regardless of party pressure or district outcomes.
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Texas
Dallas
Committee On Cooperation
The
Anti-Saloon League
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
United Forces
Maury Hughes
Friends of Temperance
Government pays farmers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Farm Administration reports $115,032,938 in direct and indirect payments to wheat cotton and tobacco farmers for 1934 acreage reductions. Milk marketing deals add about 40 cents per 100 pounds to milk prices. Loans against warehouse stored crops expand as banks loosen credit. Barley tobacco and cotton programs progress with contracts signed and payments made across numerous counties and thousands of farmers.
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Washington
Wallace
Farm Administration
Explaining Cotton Contracts to Begin Last of December
In the 1934 35 cotton contract offered by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration farmers agree to reduce cotton acres 35 to 45 percent in return for land rental payments up to 18 dollars per acre and a parity payment of one cent per pound for 40 percent of the average five year production. The program outlines payments, eligible uses for retired land, and prohibitions on expanding other basic commodities, with explaining campaigns to start in late December in 214 counties.
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College Station
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
George E. Adams
Texas A. & M. College Extension Service
Adams
Retail Trade Code Financing Mapped
Washington outlines financing for the retail code authority under the National Recovery Administration. Employers pay 25 cents per local employee annually, with total caps at $1 per worker. employers themselves incur no obligation. Insignia bearing the blue eagle and “We do our part” will be issued after agreement and payment, naming the retailer’s division.
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Washington
Retail Code Authority
National Recovery Administration
NRA
Woman wrecks liquor display over high prices in San Francisco
Miss Lola Douglas, 25, kicked in a liquor store window after complaining prices were too high. She caused a shower of glass and was jailed on charges of malicious mischief.
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San Francisco
Carrie Nation
Lola Douglas
Plow Under Crops to Feed People and Repeal Prohibition
A syndicated column advocates agricultural expansion to boost food supply and calls for repealing the Eighteenth Amendment to curb alcohol consumption. The stance emphasizes using land to produce basic sustenance and reducing vice through policy change.
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This
Country
Thomas E. Pickerell Syndicate
Corn Hog Reduction Program Expands in Midwest
The corn hog reduction plan moves from initial contracts approved last Wednesday to a county level signup across 1,500 Midwestern counties. The program offers 350 million dollars in benefit payments to farmers reducing corn acreage by 20 percent and hog numbers by 25 percent in 1934, with 2,000,000 farmers eligible to participate.
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Fiat
Bogeyman Bankers
Christian Church
ANA Appice
Bobbie D. Montgomery
Byrd
CWA
BOY Scouts
Barnett-Richardson
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