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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1943
Page
3
In a noon lobby game at a leading hotel two unfamiliar men challenged the town’s best domino players and won five straight games for a dollar apiece. Locals suspect Morse code signaling helped the visitors with double five and six ace plays.
Dallas reports junked automobiles drive half the scrap metal sent to Texas steel mills in 1942 with a 151 percent day supply by 1943. Texas WPB scrap processors chief Thomas L. Mullican urges car owners to classify vehicles as transportation units or junk and dispose of undrivable cars promptly.
A memoir recounts ranch life on West Texas ranges with Pied the horse causing chaos at a roundup and a boss’s blunt lesson. Health officials report rising sexually transmitted infections amid wartime conditions, Texas clinics treating thousands of new syphilis and gonorrhea cases and conducting over half a million tests in a six month period.
The OPA allows repairmen and recap pers to stock up on Grade 3 spare tires starting Jan. 20 to support capacity operations. Tires will go to motorists with A and B ration cards after allocation. Dealers may build stocks from used tires, and recappers and repairmen must sell on a first come first served basis. Each recapper may obtain 50 recappable tire casings per mold. repairmen 25 tires needing only repairs.
A child interviewer asks a celebrity about his greatest childhood ambition and whether he achieved it. The star replies he never attained his boyhood aim, admitting it was to throw an egg into an electric fan.
State Health Officer Dr. Geo W Cox announced this week that venereal disease treatment is now available to every Texas citizen. The statement references a large number of draftees as a motivating factor.
Original letters of administration granted January 23, 1943 by County Judge Jake J. Loy. Creditors must present claims within legal time. Administrator H. G. Tuck, Estate of W. J. Noonan, deceased, 108 Houston St., Sherman, Texas. 4T-F25.
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