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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1936
Page
6
Washington report says the Bureau of Public Roads recommends a self-imposed qualifications test for all motorists. Questions ask if drivers keep calm, avoid rash impulses, stay focused, and know the law. Emphasis on proper car readiness and speed control to prevent accidents. Safe driving leads to longer life and fewer deaths for all.
Stillwater Oklahoma July test planned for a new Tornado type airplane invented by Ralph K. Odom. The craft uses two 100 horsepower motors to push air into large side cylinders to generate lifting power claimed at 60 pounds per horsepower. If realized, it would fly at 400 to 900 miles per hour with a 10,000 mile cruising range.
In Montreal, Philippe Pettigrew aged 57 recalls swallowing a small lead whistle at age four. Doctors, while treating a lung irritation, discovered the artifact in his right lung Monday and plan to retrieve it with a bronchoscope. Pettigrew recalls crying over the loss but his parents gave little notice.
Sherman report details a large Grayson County rural home demonstration and 4-H plan for the year. Miss Mamie Hines outlines per person food consumption and family budgets to allow cash crop earnings to expand other needs. A five-member family garden aims for 2184 pounds leafy greens, 728 pounds tomatoes and melons, plus 700 pounds orchard fruit. Budget calls for 600 pounds beef, two 225 pound hogs, two spring lambs, and a poultry flock of 50 hens and 150 chicks each spring. Four cows would yield 7000 pounds milk for family needs and for poultry and livestock use. Members pledge to help one non-member family reach the same goals.
Census data show 4,283,753 illiterates aged ten and over in the United States in 1930. Native white illiterates totaled 1,103,134, foreign born 1,304,084, and Negroes 1,513,892, within a population of 98,723,047 ten years old or over.
Denver child Collins Neumann aged 3% years swallowed eighty vitamin pills to grow taller. His mother rushed him to hospital after he became ill. Physicians removed the pills from his stomach and said he is out of danger.
Vienna reports Franz Sommer a 38 year old Swiss laborer faces hanging as punishment for torturing 15 cows by twisting tails causing bone breaks. Damages above 250 shillings could incur the death penalty and a special gallows method would be used. The piece also recalls Khartoum and Lord Kitchener's 1898 campaign.
An instructional piece on fog and mist dangers explains how visibility drops and how drivers, ships, trains, and planes slow down. It stresses lighting direction, road-edge spotlighting, using horns, and maintaining tail lights to stay seen, urging slow, cautious driving or staying off roads during heavy fog.
A Wagner introduced amendment would require the Secretary of Agriculture to weigh 1920 to 1929 domestic consumption along with export demand population trends and changing food use when curbing farm production. It echoes the earlier Consumers' Counsel role and aims to curb price-raising demands by farm groups.
A Fort Worth Star-Telegram excerpt contrasts December 1935 figures with May 1933 for a bundle of ten foods. Consumers paid 39 percent more while farmers received 63 percent more. From 1909–14 base, farmers’ share rose from 56 to 44 cents on the dollar by 1935, plus benefit payments. The piece notes AAA favored consumers over NRA under Johnson and cites Secretary Wallace’s caution on policy effects. It also mentions Czech linen exports and 1830s ox-team westward movement.
A 22 year period of provisioning for a farmer’s family, valued at about $12,000 per Miriam Birdseye of the USDA, lists totals such as 4 tons meat and poultry, 6,000 gallons milk, 1,300 dozen eggs, 8 tons potatoes, 7 tons flour and cereals, and other staples, alongside notes that the first telegraph from San Francisco to Omaha occurred in 1861 and that tea may stimulate brain activity.
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