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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1940
Page
4
Notice states that entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission or monetary consideration will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials resolutions of respect and similar notices also incur charges. Publisher managing editor.
The notice states weekly publication on Thursdays with a subscription price of $1.50 per year payable in advance. It also promises corrections if any error reflects on the character, standing, or reputation of any person, firm, or organization, upon notification to the publisher.
This retrospective argues Woodrow Wilson would accuse the Senate of 1920 for undermining his vision at Versailles and the League of Nations. It links isolationism to 1940 Europe, traces interwar finance, tariffs, and German loans, and attributes rise of Nazism to economic and political lag.
Washington prints green and brown stamps for a cotton stamp plan modeled on food stamps. The program doubles the buying power of relief families and aims to move surplus cotton by encouraging use of cotton goods. Officials call it an experimental, worthwhile approach to surpluses and poverty.
A well beloved prayer asks parents to seek better understanding listen patiently and respond kindly to children. It requests self control honesty forgiveness steady guidance avoidance of nagging and ridicule and aims to foster mutual respect and fair parenting across daily actions.
In New Orleans Miss Mazie Ferguson a government stenographer from Ottawa Canada crashes her car across multiple states during a travel spree. She damages trucks fences ambulances police cars and a Hereford along the route totaling about 2500 in losses. She plans to ship the car home and postpone retirement.
In Los Angeles the Automobile Club of Southern California reports motorist taxes will total about 1.6 billion dollars this year. The club notes this amount is roughly 250 million dollars more than the United States total tax collections in horse and buggy days.
A study shows forty two percent of American farmers lease or rent all the land they cultivate. The figure reflects widespread reliance on rented acreage across the farming sector.
Tom Scales, 88, a longtime Trenton landowner who helped develop the area, died at his home Tuesday. Funeral held Thursday at Trenton Methodist Church with burial in Burns Cemetery. Survived by daughters Mrs Harris Kimbrough Amarillo and Mrs Ben Irby Beaumont, son T C Seales Jr Houston, five grandchildren.
The House Agriculture Committee backed a 350 million dollar fund to insure farm tenant mortgages similar to the Federal Housing Authority program. The bill authorizes five year use by the Agriculture Secretary and requires congressional appropriations to cover losses. The panel also backed making permanent the 34 percent interest rate on federal land bank loans, with possible future adjustment after July 1.
Leon Hensley of Sherman was arrested on an extradition warrant from Durant Oklahoma charged with the murder of Malcolm Ray May the pickup driver who died from injuries after a collision with a car allegedly driven by Hensley Gov W Lee O Daniel granted extradition but a habeas corpus action stopped the transfer by Judge R M Carter in the 15th district court
Hensley removed immediately after being freed on a $750 bail bond set last October on a fugitive from justice charge. The bond limited to thirty days and has since expired. May was a nephew of Patrolman Jim May of the Sherman police department.
Berlin posters from the labor front urge workers to avoid non serious sick calls. They state that absence without serious illness violates duties to the commonweal and warn that unnecessary doctor visits hinder real aid.
A stray bullet from a hunter's .22 rifle fractured a small bone in the right arm of J. D. Lane Sr. while he worked at the Texas Nursery in Randolph bottoms near Sherman. Deputy Sheriff Joe Hall said the shooter could not be located. Lane did not hear the shot and believed a shovel caused the wound until a physician removed the bullet.
Farm families sent 056 students to the University of Texas, leading all parent occupations. Merchant parents numbered 822, lawyers 512, salesmen 447, oil men 406, among 283 listed occupations. Agriculture and related fields totaled 1,547 students, with trade 3,871 and professional 2,207 in the broader classifications.
Texas Game Department biologists warn that the number of points on deer antlers does not reliably indicate a deer's age. The Sun sells typewriter paper.
O H Woodrow of Sherman announced his candidacy for Chief Justice of the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas. The Dallas bench presides over eight counties. Judge Joel R Bond currently holds the post after being appointed two years ago. Woodrow, a life Democrat, has 45 years in Grayson County with a civil practice.
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