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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1943
Page
4
Whitewright Sur entered at the Whitewright Texas postoffice as second class mail matter. Notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials resolutions of respect will also be charged. Member Press Association J. H. Waggoner Glenn Doss Publisher Managing Editor.
Published every Thursday this newspaper advertises a subscription price of 1.50 per year payable in advance. It promises corrections for any erroneous reflections upon the character or reputation of any person, firm, or corporation upon being brought to the publisher’s attention.
The Sun marks its 58th birthday with gratitude to readers and advertisers. The piece criticizes wartime policy, cites a State Department white paper, and urges workers and farmers to heed Victor Schoffelmayer on Texas cotton and government controls.
The article notes poll tax requirements for non homestead property owners in Texas with $1.75 state and county or $3.50 married rates. It mentions a AG ruling limiting homestead taxation to ad valorem only. It also references elected congress members favoring wartime cooperation without New Deal influence and observations on gasoline rationing with B and C sticker use.
The Office of War Information reports coast to coast tours show no rampant drunkenness in Army camps. Soldiers favor soft drinks over hard liquor, 3.2 percent beer is a mild option, and command structures praise disciplined behavior, described as the best in history.
A gray headed old man recounts a fatal shooting after a drinking bout with a youth. Deputies removed the slain man’s body before the district attorney. The house is poverty stricken with bare rooms, no window panes, and a harsh December morning surrounds the tragedy.
A detective scene unfolds in a dim hut where a bed, chipped dishes, and a black cat are found. A gunshot path, footprints, and a pool of blood support the prisoner’s account, ending with a release back to the hut and a sense of pity for the man.
A national alliance against the poll tax outlines a broad program to abolish the tax. Key steps include gathering at least two million signatures, mobilizing national state and local groups, and organizing anti-poll tax committees. The plan also targets neighborhoods through unions churches civic clubs and women's groups.
Sheppard Field launches a recruiting drive to hire civilians as aircraft mechanics and glider maintenance instructors plus general clerks and skilled staff. Posts pay 2000 dollars yearly, open to men and women with a high school education and mechanical aptitude. Applications available at first or second class post offices or Sheppard Field, building 1107.
Dr. George Washington Carver, celebrated Negro scientist, dies at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at his home on the Tuskegee Institute campus after months of ill health. Born to enslaved parents at Diamond Grove, Missouri, he joined the Tuskegee Institute faculty in 1894 and remained a key figure there.
Dr Carver was recognized as an outstanding scientist in agricultural research. He developed numerous uses for sweet potatoes peanuts and clay creating ink pigments cosmetics paper paint and other articles from southern red clay and sandy loam.
Secretary Wickard ordered 30 percent of monthly creamery butter production reserved for war needs including military and lend-lease starting Feb 1. The Food Administrator extended WB citrus juice limits to wartime use and banned unconcentrated grapefruit juice sales for January February March to preserve civilian citrus. wholesalers and retailers may sell existing citrus stock.
J. S. Kane named Friday as criminal district attorney and chosen R. S. Watson as first assistant. Alex Gullett of Denison and Judge R. M. Carter of Sherman join as assistants. Mrs. J. L. Hamilton remains secretary. Watson and Gullett previously served under Ensign Ralph Elliott. Carter is a former fifteenth district court judge.
Arthur J Altmeier of the Social Security Board urged broadening the program to include disability benefits for injured workers and dependents and to cover all workers. He called for extending coverage to farm labor seamen domestic servants and self employed persons with temporary disability benefits and old age style annuities.
The speaker proposed payments to cover hospitalization costs for insured workers or dependents and called for continued support for permanently disabled workers and their families under a broader welfare plan.
The year 1918 is being painted in luminous numerals on streets and walls across Paris and other French towns, with sightings reaching Norway and Belgium. The British radio report, heard by the FCC, notes the numerals glow for long distances at night.
President Roosevelt announced American yards are producing four ships daily and will exceed the 1943 cargo vessel goal of 16,000,000 tons. Current rate is 14,400,000 tons per year, rising to five ships daily by May, with 746 ships totaling 8,090,800 tons built in 1942 plus 800 small vessels.
The autumn period of fine weather known in America as Indian Summer is called St Martin's Summer in England. The note contrasts regional naming for pleasant autumn spells.
A national committee to abolish the poll tax announces an elaborate campaign to pressure Congress to end the voting poll tax. The effort will open with a conference in Washington early this year led by Jennings Perry of the Nashville Tennessean with first sponsor the President’s wife, Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt.
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