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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1942
Page
5
The column lists residents ill at home and visiting relatives in Dallas, San Antonio, and other cities. It notes court testimony, travel, and social visits, plus minor town happenings such as a new ordinance contract, a wreck near the Y, and local Red Cross garment effort ready for a new quota.
Mrs Paul Ryan spent Saturday and Sunday visiting her mother in McKinney. The trip highlights family time during a weekend stay in the Texas town.
Mrs Lee Norris hosted a Saturday birthday party for her son Jerry Lee on his sixth birthday. After games ice cream and cake were served to 31 guests.
The Fidelis Class of the Baptist Sunday School met in the church basement on Thursday of last week with hostesses Mrs. Luther Gordon Miss Lena Mae Gowdy Mrs. Royce Jones Mrs. Walter Kaiser and Miss Cecil Doss. Scrabbooks for the orphan home and a covered dish luncheon were the main features of the event.
About 40 men women and children attended a Ken tuckytown farm meeting on Wednesday night. Eva Williams of Whitewright spoke on fruit value for the family table. R B Cruse of Whitewright spoke on culling hens for egg production. W W Gunn discussed the cotton insurance program and showed pictures. The group will meet again next Wednesday with Williams and Cruse on the program. All area residents are invited.
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Ann Fletcher Ingram a Texas native aged 90 were held at Crossroads Presbyterian Church in the Desert south of Whitewright. Born in Orangeville she died at her daughter’s home near Greenville. Burial followed at Crossroads Cemetery. Survivors include daughter Mrs. Lewis son Press Ingram five grandchildren 24 great grandchildren and eight great great grandchildren.
Mrs. Sarah Kilgree gifted Anna Belle Douglass and the Colored School primary teacher a diverse lot of books and pictures including Mother Goose Sur prise Story books Gulliver's Travels Little Lame Prince A Dog in Flanders and more. Children and teacher praise the Presbyterian Church ladies for a 70 cup hot lunch donation.
A Navy widow tries to celebrate her eight year old daughter Dorcas Ann Hickox on her birthday while knowing her husband Lieut. Com Ralph Hickox commanded the USS Truxton and is reported lost after the destroyer ran aground. The distressing radio report arrives as a cake sits on the grandmother's table.
The church led by Pastor E P Wootten lists Sunday activities: 10 am Sunday School with W T Simmons as superintendent, 11 am Morning Worship with song service by Mrs Guy Hamilton, 6 pm Training Union and Youth Forum, 7 pm Evening Worship, and 7 pm Wednesday prayer service with choir practice. All are invited. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the House of the Lord.
Pastor Lloyd Allen leads Sunday school at 10 a.m. and communion at 11 a.m. The sermon titled The Bewildered Mixture will be followed by vesper services at 6 p.m. starting March 1 due to war time. Evening message asks Where Do You Stand. You are invited to worship with us and get home before dark.
The Sacraments will be the sermon topic by W. W. Adcock Sunday at 11 AM. A series on The Methodist Meeting House begins Sunday night at 8 PM. Part of each Sunday night through March will include congregational discussion. Sunday school starts at 10, Youth Fellowship at 7 30.
The War Production Board banned rubber in corsets girdles and in men s garters and suspenders after a month of indecision. Rubber thread for foundations is forbidden except for WPB specified surgical garments.
College Station report explains six to eight milk goats can be supported on the feed for one cow. G G Gibson notes the goat, the poor man's cow, can provide enough milk for a family when properly fed. Does need roughage, silage, and root crops. 1.2 pounds of grain yield a quart of goat milk.
The Office of Price Administration urges slower driving to conserve rubber metal and fuel for the war. Driving under 50 mph extends tire life. over 60 mph halves distance. At 30 mph oil use is about one quart per thousand miles, rising with speed. Gasoline usage climbs from about 47 gallons at 30 mph to 70–75 gallons at 70 mph per thousand miles. Drive slower to win the war and save money.
Maj. Harold Doud, an American officer who served with a Japanese infantry regiment, reports troops trained to endure extreme fatigue. He notes marches at night and long hikes, including a 56 mile activity from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. the next day, with bayonet drills in extreme heat to build resilience. Doud, a West Point graduate and Fremont Michigan native, cites such methods used by Japanese forces in the Pacific.
The National Safety Council records show fourteen of the nation's eighteen major commercial airlines completed 1941 without a fatality. The finding was released Tuesday in Chicago.
Safety awards were presented to representatives of the lines and their work for the year was highly praised Monday night at a dinner attended by 200 aviation executives. United Airlines won the top award for flying over 100,000,000 miles in a year with more than 300,000,000 passenger miles and no injuries. Braniff Airways and Mid-Continent Airlines took second and third prizes.
A report estimates fewer than 250 Texas longhorn cattle remain. About 170 head are said to be on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.
The Sun lists candidates authorized to have their names appear in the column for the July 1942 Democratic primary. Public Weigher candidate is F. W. (Finis) Alverson. Remaining races for County Clerk and Sheriff have not yet announced names.
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