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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
2
The article lists gasoline, sugar, meat, and green stamps validity through specific March and February dates, tax filing deadline of March 15, and egg, raisin, cheese, and tire quotas. It notes wage, labor, and food allocations, prisoner of war labor pilots, farm labor demand, dairy payments, and broomcorn price caps for 1944.
Farmers may deduct necessary farm expenses from gross income for profit, excluding capital expenditures. Allowable items include feeding livestock, seed, minor repairs, small tools, fuel, machinery upkeep, labor hire, and certain depreciation. Forgiveness rules cover 1942 taxes, with three fourths forgiveness typically. Payments may be postponed, credits apply, and refunds issued if overpayment shown.
A humorous quip notes the dismissal of a new weather bureau forecaster, asking why he was fired and replying that the weather did not align with his predictions. The exchange highlights sharp newsroom wit about performance expectations in meteorology.
Texans built Victory gardens last year but 1944 demands more and better crops. Extension Service workers returning from a New Orleans conference warn grocers will stock four fifths of last year’s caned fruits and vegetables. Army needs, more soldiers abroad, and increased UN hunger require expanded home production and civilian supplies.
Texas sets a goal of keeping one million Victory gardens active in 1944 with a plan to raise vegetable output by 25 percent over 1943. Extension workers propose expanding gardens by 10 percent, boosting garden sizes, and improving yields through sound practices while saving all produce.
At McCloskey General Hospital the neuro surgical section led by Major William T. Haverfield uses tantalum wire to connect severed nerves in wounded soldiers. The article notes tantalum as a war era miracle metal aiding delicate repairs performed by surgeons.
Soldiers gash and shellfire sever nerves as tantalum sheets are fitted into skulls. Once a lab curiosity, tantalum arrives from Western Australia now mined in South Dakota Black Hills. The metal is dense strong non corrosive and well tolerated by the body with no tissue irritation or reactions, Major Haverfield notes.
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