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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1938
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun outlines subscription details and publishing terms, then shifts to a weather note about winter shadow and Groundhog Day. It then laments rising traffic deaths, urging stronger enforcement as a path to lower accident toll.
The Whitesboro News-Record publisher D R Huffaker died in an automobile crash last Saturday. He led three weeklies Collinsville Times and Gunter Star, and was active in Whitesboro and Grayson County. He helped distressed people and once aided a penniless woman to Gainesville with a night watchman.
Congressmen and Senators debate the farm bill while the President awaits authorization of a cotton loan and subsidy for the 1937 crop. At the current pace, lawmakers may enact farm legislation in time to plan the 1938 planting season.
A Bonham favored Amarillo News column argues readers, editors, and officials all benefit when newspapers face criticism. It contends letters to the editor spur accuracy, while editors and reporters sharpen standards through critique, noting even presidents comment on press coverage.
An editorial comment argues the judge used family loyalty to frame elder neglect as a duty to care for aging parents. It likens neglect to abandoning elders to crocodiles, invoking a harsh comparison to justify state involvement in care.
Chicago reports 106000 accidental deaths in 1937 with 39700 in traffic, 375000 permanently injured, 9400000 temporarily hurt, and a 3700 million dollar bill led by wage loss and medical costs. Notable events include the New London schoolhouse explosion and the Hindenburg disaster. The traffic death rate rose 4 percent amid more travel.
In the Marshall News Messenger Homer M. Price quotes a prominent Black leader opposing a congressional anti lynching bill. He rejects Harlem as representative of his race and credits church women with starting anti lynching efforts. He argues segregation harms Black progress and urges mutual racial cooperation.
The State Court of Criminal Appeals reaffirmed that bank night is illegal in Texas. The motion for reconsideration of the prior ruling was overruled in a test case involving a $100 fine on H. S. Cole, operator of a Bonham theater. Judge Harry N. Graves noted other states differ but agreed the scheme distributes prizes by chance.
Radio personalities famous to mil lions will broadcast direct from Treasure Island during 1939 while the Golden Gate International Expo sition is in progress.
A 1937 record by John F. Allan of Sullivan County Indiana shows 12 sows producing 24 480 pounds of pork in 180 days. Allan breeds twice yearly and markets a ton of pork every six months from purebred Duroc sows. His ration is 900 pounds of grain weekly with creek access for grazing.
Kay Kimbell sues Collier Yeary in Fifteenth District Court to overturn a $217 000 rise in tax values for Kimbell-Diamond Mills in Sherman. Kimbell says 1937 assessment of $166 800 for the mill and $200 000 for personal property should total $177 750 and $150 200 respectively. The piece notes the Spanish Inquisition ended in 1834.
The National Council of Methodist Youth executive committee in Chicago announced it would not support the U S in a Far Eastern war. They told President Roosevelt the war would not be theirs and criticized naval and army expansion as militarization.
The 11 year old immigrant Samuel Zemurray bought a discharged cargo of ripe bananas in Mobile Alabama and profited. He rose to president of United Fruit Company after a career in banana import and shipping, forming Cayamel Fruit Company in 1910 and later guiding United Fruit as its managing director.
Ernest O. Thompson longtime governor candidate and Railroad Commission member paid a $36 fine in a justice court for storing wild ducks after season close. Labor Commissioner Fred E. Nichols paid a similar fine after complaints by United States Biological Survey inspectors who found birds in cold storage lockers.
New Britain businessman Mark J. Lacey learns how his 2068 tax payment is spent by the US Treasury. Life magazine traces allocations from government salaries to veterans relief and debt interest, noting company taxes rose sharply alongside his personal payment and quoting a rye note on robots first use in 1929.
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