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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
8
The Office of Price Administration will audit gasoline ration accounts to ensure coupons are endorsed with the holder’s license number and state. W J Holt says stations must not accept unendorsed coupons or risk shutdowns, as examinations target counterfeiting, thefts and misuse of ration stamps.
Postwar plans describe a flame cultivator pulled by a tractor to burn out weeds in corn and cotton fields. The 2200 degree flame exits four ejectors and is designed to spare the crops. Operator skill determines success, with two people able to operate it, as in wartime deployments.
An assistant clerk on a Yonkers selective service board was arrested for destroying the files of her fiancé and brother in law and charged with aiding and abetting evasion of the selective service act. Carmella Sarricchio Topazio, 26, allegedly destroyed Joseph J. Topazio’s files three times and married him last month after a six year courtship. She also admitted tearing up records of Vincent Rubao, her sister’s husband, three times.
The National Industrial Conference Board reports September results from 25 manufacturing industries showing record earnings and payrolls. Average hourly earnings reached $1.035 75.4 percent above 1929, with $47.16 weekly earnings 65.2 percent above the 1929 average and a 6.2 percent shorter work week.
A corporal asked in the camp newspaper whether pay stops if captured. The answer: pay and allotments continue and await the soldier’s return. A caution accompanies the note: but don’t get captured.
A 15-year-old boy from McKinney was hospitalized after three youths carved three swastikas into his flesh and rubbed soap and cigarette ashes into the wounds. Police said the attack followed an argument and included slashes with a razor and a beatdown with a shoe and washboard. The boy is in juvenile custody.
J H Clark 60 a Corpus Christi resident his wife and their 6 month old son were found dead in a tourist camp cabin at Pleasanton. A gas heater was burning and the inquest verdict ruled accidental asphyxiation.
Mrs. Oscar Breidenbach bought two suits of longies for her husband Oscar but found them too small. She returned them after hiding $820 in one pair. The haberdasher now holds the money awaiting return.
Queen the collie, belonging to C. M. Mund of Plainview, wandered from a hotel room and entered a third story room where two men and a woman were staying. The dog was thrown from the window, dying on the pavement. the trio were jailed on vagrancy and animal cruelty charges.
A housewife asks a butcher to weigh a package, revealing it contains bones from yesterday's four-pound roast. Jim calls off an engagement after learning the woman is his aunt due to a rich uncle tale.
A collection of light humor with soldiers mispronouncing wartime terms and a shy recruit mistaking AUS for Australia. A style-show comment leads to a playful invitation while a father and son trade quips about grades. The humor centers on miscommunication and dating mishaps from the home front.
A worried Victory gardener visits a store during lunch and asks for a Japanese beetle trap. The clerk responds rudely that the shop has no Japanese merchandise in stock.
An employer calls Mike a numbskull for poor math in the coal yard but Mike counters he has learned little. the employer asks what he has learned and Mike replies that 1700 pounds equals a ton. Mike keeps his job despite the quarrel.
A domestic scene ends in humor as a new cook admits using Epsom salts to flavor a meal. The comment highlights kitchen mishap and the cook's unfamiliarity with the brand.
A reflective piece contrasts bygone curiosity about the future with present questions about what lies ahead for consumers. It muses on how expectations shift from speculation to practical concerns about shopping, technology, and life.
Industrialist James F. Lincoln ordered about 3 million dollars in Christmas bonuses distributed Saturday to 1,300 Lincoln Electric Company employees. The average bonus equals about one year’s salary for veterans. most receive $2,225, while some newcomers get as low as $25 and three engineers earn $50,000 each.
A broadcast uses a cadence to present main items then expanded reports. The announcer outlines headlines and invites longer discussion from a speaker on a chosen topic.
Want ads list for sale items including a coal heater bicycle residence and flowers. Buyers seek fat cattle for butchering and hay for sale with prices given. Auto loans available offering refinancing and financing options through Auto Finance Company Sherman.
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