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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1941
Page
2
Census Bureau estimates 2 350 000 babies born in 1940, the highest since 1930, raising the birth rate to 18 per 1 000 while infant mortality falls slightly and overall deaths rise. The rise linked to marriages and postwar weddings, with a continued downward long-term trend.
Senator John H Bankhead of Alabama says he will draft legislation to further cut cotton production to about 10 million bales annually and raise loan rates on cotton rice wheat and tobacco to parity. The plan relies on voluntary grower cooperation with parity payments funding, potentially eliminating parity payments if loans reach parity.
A Texas publisher argues the proposed Fair Trade Act would legalize price fixing by distillers and wholesalers. He notes recent $64,500 in fines paid by liquor dealers and urges renaming the measure to Retail Price-Fixing Act to reveal its true effect on consumers.
Mrs. G. A. Lindsey of Sherman now living in Bonham notes none of her 15 grandsons were drafted as they are already in U S military service. Carl Jr 18 Navy Hugh 26 Marine five years in service and others in Army Navy and Marine corps. Mrs Lindsey says she is proud to see so many grandsons serving. A Gibraltar signal station distributes ship messages.
Texas Game Department reports 1940 hatcheries distributed 7 454 962 fish with gains over 1939 and aims for 10 million this year. Ingram Lake Dal las Cisco and Huntsville led production as three facilities topped one million, while bass and bream led species lists and rock bass trials begin to expand species.
The Mississippi Game Department reports extensive hatchery outputs across thirteen species including largemouth and smallmouth bass, bluegill, crappie, bream, sunfish, and channel catfish. It notes white bass require streams to spawn and cannot be hatched in tanks. In 1940 the department raised over two million additional fish, with low transport losses due to new air pumped cans.
New uses for ordinary foods emerge as potential income streams. Raisin skins yield skin vitamin rich oil for cosmetics, banana skins are transformed into synthetic hemp by Japanese manufacturers, Brazilian coffee beans become cafelite plastic, and cranberry skins provide ursolic acid for emulsification.
At the Carnegie Institute of Technology molasses is broken into oil hydrocarbons to produce gasoline. Molasses is also being made into industrial alcohol at about 200,000 gallons annually in the United States. A rancid butter acid forms the basis of a new patent salve to shield skin from poison gases.
A fish can drown in oxygen rich water if movement is restricted. Mackerel require rapid swimming to avoid suffocation as gill currents alone fail. Soda water boils remove grease from agate ware. Zane Grey practiced dentistry for six years before turning to writing.
College Station report shows 186 817 mattresses completed on February 1 under the 1940 and 1941 cotton mattress demonstration in Texas. Totals for 1940 applications reached 191 990 while 1941 filings continue with no final county totals yet available.
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