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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
7
In a frontline Italy diary Ernie Pyle recalls daily scenes from a gun pit. A medic jokes and Duffy the crew teases, while a poker tent and a moonlit valley echo with war's absurdities. Russian officers spark debate on fighting, and a powder charge mixup spawns lighthearted cracks about defense workers.
Court citation requires George M Jarvis and wife Lillis Jarvis to answer a petition filed December 7 1943 in Grayson County District Court. Plaintiff Charles H Bryant seeks title possession restitution rents damages 500 and costs for land described as Lot 3 and 4 in Block 54 Denison. Issued December 7 1943 with return by January 24 1944.
Chattanooga College of Law begins a new term with no first year students for the first time in 45 years. Zadok Dumkopf remarks a soldier still wonders how Noah fit two army mules into the Ark before the rains.
The suit No 49859 lists O G Gattis as plaintiff and Norma Lee Gattis as defendant with a divorce filed on grounds of cruel treatment. The citation date is January 24 1944 and the deadline to appear is 10 am on July 27 1943. Drake Deputy issued December 8 1943.
The report outlines gasoline and food stamp validity dates for A to Green stamps, with specifics on A-9 through Airplane and Meat stamps. It notes Selective Service tightening for non-fathers, extended hog price supports, consumer shortages like alarm clocks, and steps to speed veteran payments and employment aid for returning service members.
The state administrative board in Lansing rejected a two billion dollar bequest after finding the plan unworkable. The donor specified a one thousand dollar minimum bequest, but the board deemed the bequest infeasible to administer.
Frank D. Crissman left a $1,000 bequest to be invested for 252 years in 6 percent real estate mortgages with coins pounded for that term at no cost to the state. By the end, a fund of $2,109,892,198.40 would accrue. The resulting money would revert to a son.
In 1939 Maurice Luther of St. Louis sent an expensive Christmas card to H. E. Pope in Tulsa. Pope scratched out Luther’s name and mailed it back next year. Luther sent it back a third time. By 1938 the card was battered and crowded with signatures, with writing on the back. They expect someone will need to buy a new card by 1953.
An elderly visitor with his son arrives by Model T in a small city. On the main street the man touches the pavement with curiosity and then declares the ground too hard to plow, amid amused chatter about urban grit.
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