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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
2
The Whitewright Sun thanks readers for compliments on its sixteen page Christmas issue and notes the paper will be smaller this week to take a Christmas day off. It bids farewell to 1949 and welcomes 1950 with best wishes for a good year.
Slaton area gin records show about 24 000 bales of cotton ginned as harvest nears completion. Lubbock County reports over one million bales ginned, marking a historic crop for the South Plains.
Local gins operate around the clock with four to five thousand bales remaining to be ginned and hope to finish shortly after year’s start if fair weather continues. Bad weather risks delaying harvest and may push ginning and harvesting into March. Most cotton is machine harvested with some pulling still done while grain and feed gathering finishes. Ray C. Ayers and Son Inc reports only farmer stored grain is entering storage.
A World War I veteran at the Veterans Administration Hospital, gravely ill, asks for baptism by total immersion before death. He is the Roy Bailey son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Bailey of route 1.
Citation issued December 5 1949 for Lela Whitworth Russell plaintiff vs R H Russell defendant in Grayson County with divorce on cruelty grounds. Respondent ordered to appear by January 23 1950 before the District Court in Sherman. Clerk S V Earnest deputy Nancy Drake filed. 4d29
A dying veteran, who left Alabama in 1915 to serve in the Army, is wheeled into a Hubbard tank hydrotherapy session with his Tennessee family present. Nurses and chaplains arrange the rite as he slides into warm water, a final wish fulfilled and a quiet, contented calm settling on his face.
One inch of rain over an acre yields 6,272,640 cubic inches or 3,630 cubic feet of water. Pure water weighs about 62.4 pounds per cubic foot, so the rainfall over an acre would weigh roughly 226,013 pounds in total.
The area is described with a rainfall weight of 226.512 pounds per inch yielding 113 percent short tons. A lighthearted exchange follows with Mose and Abe joking about caskets and coffins.
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