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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1945
Page
8
Dr. Todd Stevenson, camp medical chair, charged that Japanese guards deliberately starved inmates at Santo Tomas internment camp. He described truckloads of food displayed to hungry internees while access was blocked, noting average weight losses of 51 pounds for men and 32 for women as rations were cut.
Pueblo Colorado. Sgt Eddie Ronan at the Pueblo Army Air Base offers a cigarette to a corporal. The corporal says no and explains his name is Smoke. A separate fact notes that a healthy person’s body contains about one tenth to one thirteenth blood.
Hal Boyle profiles a young lieutenant who admits killing six German soldiers. He used paybook photos from the slain to prove his actions to his family, mailed to his parents, while fearing how his daughter would someday understand. He reflects on the war and his reluctance to reveal such deeds to loved ones.
The War Department states that reclamation and repair of worn Army equipment and clothing saved taxpayers 1.5 billion during the war. The figure excludes salvaged and repaired overseas materials by the Quartermaster Corps.
Willis Dann, 80, was found in his snowbound farmhouse near Binghamton, New York after neighbors reported he was missing. With 15 bushels of potatoes and cider in the cellar, he said the cider kept him alive as he burned his barn for heat due to no fuel and lost track of time, believing it might be Thursday.
Commodore Dave McCampbell, the Navy’s top ace, says the Japanese are cracking up but will take two more years to finish them off. He has 54 Jap planes to his credit with nine in one day, in a visor on a visit to the Jacksonville naval air station.
A grateful note from Mr and Mrs Boyd Files and family Route 1 Ector thanks friends and good people for kindness and many helping contributions after losing their home to a fire.
Dallas reports Southern Methodist University receives a 1.32 million dollar gift from Joe J. Perkins of Wichita Falls to advance theology. The board changes the school name to the Perkins School of Theology and plans a 1.5 million dollar expansion campaign. Perkins also contributes oil wells valued at 1 million dollars and 320 thousand from the Perkins Foundation. A further cash gift of 30 thousand is noted.
Miss Myrtie Fahsbender, director of home lighting at Westinghouse, says reading in bed is not harmful with the right light. She recommends a floor or table lamp near the bed tall enough to cast glareless light on the page, or a wall hung pin-up lamp above the headboard. A bed lamp suspended from the back of the bed is advised against.
Order of sale issued by the 15th District Court of Grayson County Texas on February 6 1945 in suit No 49981. City of Tioga Grayson County Intervener State of Texas Grayson County Tioga Independent School District No 22 plaintiffs. Lula McCarty defendant owes 304 24 dollars plus 6 percent interest from December 29 1944 plus costs. Sheriff to deliver as directed by the judgment.
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