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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1937
Page
4
J. H. Waggoner and Glenn Doss print The Whitewright Sun published every Thursday. Subscription price is $1.50 per year in advance. Notices of entertainments and bene fits with admissions are charged at regular rates. Corrections will be published on notification.
The article urges general parental and public cooperation to curb damage from boys using air guns slingshots and rifles. It notes streets being shot out at night causing costly repairs to damaged lead cables and service interruptions. Two youths paid for lights they broke and pledged caution. better guidance calling for shooting away from property.
Newspapers nationwide oppose the federal child labor amendment as a Texas Legislature debate unfolds. Editorials challenge Congress power to regulate child labor, arguing it could restrict family work and youth chores, while supporters warn against exploitation by employers.
The Saturday Evening Post article suggesting Texas and about two dozen states claim a decedent pension recipient's estate for state heirs is false. The Post writer G R Alexander may have erred, and Texas currently does not require such a transfer.
The National Safety Council reports 38 000 traffic deaths in 1936, up 1 500 from 1935. The piece argues highway gains do not curb fatalities, notes higher accident rates on a four lane highway, and urges speed governors as the only way to enforce safe driving.
The article by Lowell Thomas in Commentator warns inflation's dangers. It cites German hyperinflation lessons from a WWI era worth ten thousand dollars per million marks to a few hundred, then shows shoppers rushing to spend weekly wages before prices rise at noon. It notes printing press money as a driver and critiques budget balancing as Herculean.
A Texas letter recounts Old Sam Lockdolliger killing a widow and her three children then burning the house. He confesses to a criminal lawyer friend, claiming a rival knew a secret and that evidence will convict him. He offers $5,000 from X National to get help. The writer urges reform of the profession before public respect will rise.
A winter pattern of carbon monoxide deaths from car exhausts is highlighted. Even 2 percent CO in air can cause unconsciousness and death within minutes, with no odor or color. About 500 deaths yearly arise from such carelessness, urging engines be run outdoors or vented to the open air. Barber joke follows about shaving and skinning.
Houston report cites a five year toll of truck crashes in Grayson County from 1932 through 1936 with 140 accidents, 23 deaths, and 207 injuries among county residents. statewide figures show 8,416 accidents, 2,195 deaths, and 11,963 injuries. The Grayson deaths include Frank Rice and 22 others named in the list.
Mrs Mildred Monti Glicken weighing 400 pounds testified before Supreme Court Referee James A O Gorman in New York to seek an annulment of her marriage to Jack Glicken billed as King of Midgets He is thirty six inches tall and weighs forty eight pounds The Glickens appear with three other fat women in the act The Tiny Rosebuds.
Governor Allred urged the Planning Board to study rural electrification feasibility and to evaluate power disposal by conservation districts created by the Legislature. He noted districts primarily handle flood control and soil conservation but could provide power sites.
Marietta Ohio resident Norbert Becker described how floodwaters lifted his garage to the top of a telephone pole and left it hanging fifteen feet in the air while his car was saved from the rising river. He plans to decide how to recover the structure after waters recede.
Federal soil and forest chiefs estimate the Ohio watershed lost about 300 million tons of topsoil from 127 million acres. They warn permanent damage to farm and forest lands is enormous and urge a national soil conservation program spanning 30 to 40 years, noting no overnight remedy and urging funding for surveys in 222 watersheds.
Niagara Falls, N Y. A man handed a handbag of flood relief to Red Cross workers. Inside lay a complete baby layette in new condition, made with care. The donor said his wife and baby died, and he kept the items ten years to give to those in need.
Dedication and cornerstone laying for the government’s new $4,000,000 narcotic farm at Fort Worth Texas will occur on February 13. Miss Josephine Roche assistant secretary of the treasury will speak along with Dr. Thomas Parran surgeon general. Congressman Fritz Lanham will oversee ceremonies.
A Goderich church member admitted she would not answer during a roll call, saying I pass, after mulling over a bridge hand from the previous night. The incident occurred during a church meeting and drew embarrassed reactions from attendees.
In Sneedsville Tennessee a 9 year old girl Eunice Winstead wed 22 year old Charlie Johns after a friend obtained a license. The couple joked about the marriage as the girl clutched a doll given by her husband and the parents expressed no interference. The marriage license listed the bride as 18 though locals note prior marriages in the family. The clergyman’s mountain home served as the ceremony site with the couple saying they slipped the wedding past the parents.
Sherman police report a 28 year old farmer Bill Perkins of Ida community with a fractured skull lingering at Wilson N Jones Hospital after a Monday night altercation at a roadhouse on Highway 75 south of Sherman. Suspects Gilbert Rogers of Dorchester and Cecil Smallwood of Denison were jailed on assault to murder charges. Deputies say Perkins was hit with a wooden stool after an argument with other patrons.
A speaker denounces corporal punishment for boys claiming it never helps. He cites his own one caning for truth telling. An audience member quips that the punishment cured him, provoking further brief exchanges in the crowd.
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