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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1944
Page
8
Fort Worth report reveals that from 1939 to 1943 100 799 pilots 20 086 bombardiers 18 805 navigators and 107 218 aerial gunners graduated from Army Air Forces training. Technicians reached 555 891 with 240 360 airplane mechanics and 100 052 clerks among others.
Cleveland reporters visited the Northeastern Ohio internal revenue office to learn how tax experts calculate filings. Each submitted identical incomes with deductions to five experts. results varied from a $246.10 debt to tax refunds of $3.88 and $8.23, $9.21, and $12.55. District Collector Thomas M. Carey will investigate.
Hoover announced the arrest of five white men and twelve Negroes on charges of using drugs to raise blood pressure to dodge the draft. A Washington mail carrier, Samuel A. Stewart, 38, was charged with selling the drug for $100. The drug caused abnormally high readings at Fort Myer induction center.
In 1941 a 10 000 strong party arrived in Taghil to convert a peacetime factory into a military city underground. They completed a self contained settlement in eight days with barber shop laundries bath houses dining rooms a polyclinic and a club. Now two years old Isai City has its own laws and customs with compact living and solid health records.
A mother recalls her son marching to war, describing his room kept pristine, her sacrifices at home, and the ache of his absence as he faces danger in distant battles. The piece ends with a reflection on growing up and the cost of war.
A brief poetic scene along tracks shows winter rain, smoke and dim purple shadows. Houses close their windows as a train passes while a distant lamp flickers and a weary horse clops past in a dawn of mauve light. The train departs leaving a promise of spring and fresh winds.
A humorous item recounts Oleo traveling with a goat whose bad breath provokes people to hold their noses wherever he goes, capturing a light moment in a local column.
The Estates of Lora Bird Whiting and Edith Gene Whiting minors in Grayson County Texas have a county court filing dated February 1 1944 seeking authority to lease their undivided interests to A L Andree for oil gas or minerals. The land comprises 2417 8 acres from the D Dugan Survey and 43 5 acres from the Rennie Allred Survey Grayson County Texas described in a Mineral Deed.
A long list of Grayson County Texas land transfers to G. D. F. Whiting from G. D. Whiting et al to Henry P. Whiting et al dated August 19 1920 filed October 15 1920 recorded in Volume 280 page 483 Deed Records. The entries include multiple parcels from the Daniel Dugan and Allen surveys and various conveyances to Whiting and associates with references to prior deeds volumes dates and grantors such as C C Taylor Dugan Humphreys Brodie Willis and the Denison Bonham New Orleans Railway Co. Highlights include 303 acres with cemetery reserve 5 acres Lot 2 in a partition and 232 173 and 51 acre tracts among others.
T H Ramsey and others transfer land to H P Whiting by deed dated May 18 1917. Recorded in Volume 288 page 239 Deed 33 acres from M D Hart and M Watson Surveys. Land previously conveyed by Sallie A Williams to G D F Whiting by deed dated March 22 1916, recorded in Volume 239 page.
We express sincere appreciation to friends for expressions of sympathy following the death of our baby. Dr and Mrs. F. D. Layman.
Guardian notices list land parcels totaling hundreds of acres in Grayson and Fannin counties. The notice names S R Bishop G D F Whiting W L Hunter H P Whiting J S Baker Elizabeth Bell and Audrey Whiting among others and requests hearing on February 18 1944 in the County Court.
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