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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1936
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun surveys tax policy, alimony and divorce costs, farm cotton planting under AAA, exemption certificates for voters born after 1935, and local Grayson County election reminders including poll taxes. It notes publishing rules and corrections policy and criticizes tariff protections versus farm needs.
The text argues that enjoying political privileges requires possessing poll tax receipts. It frames voting access as contingent on this tax requirement, implying a link between civic participation and tax status. The passage emphasizes the necessity of tax receipts to exercise certain rights.
The document lists financial figures including amounts like 469371.55 and 651371.55 alongside names Cc. B. Bryant and J. B, King. The entries appear to reflect an accounting or acknowledgment section with multiple sums.
The Dallas Times Herald notes farmers split on the AAA and tariff policy. Farmers favoring reform face opposition from manufacturers and urban labor in protected industries. The piece concludes farmers are outnumbered and unable to unite, signaling a likely defeat in tariff battles.
Dr. Urry compares radioactive decay to popcorn popping in a hot pan, with atoms continually transforming into lead and helium. By measuring this predictable rate, scientists estimate when the planet began producing such decay, using rocks of varying ages to date the start of the process.
Lt. Be A Robbins announces Marine Corps enlistment openings with small monthly quotas starting Feb 1. Single men age 18 to 25, 66 to 74 inches tall, of good character and with high school education preferred. Enlistees go to Parris Island for training then to duty at various bases. Apply to U S Marine Corps 535 St Charles St New Orleans La.
Frederick E. Murphy of Minneapolis owns Femco Johanna Bess Fayne, a purebred Holstein nine years old known as Bess. She set 1933 marks with 1510 pounds of butter and 33510 pounds of milk in 12 months and recently surpassed them with 1525 pounds of butter and 383727 pounds of milk in the past year, yielding lifelong acclaim as a premier dairy animal.
Five hundred geologists in New York concluded Earth’s age about 2,000,000,000 years with an error margin likely under five percent. Dr. William D. Urry of Harvard and Professor Alfred C. Lane of Tufts College supported the finding based on studies of the oldest rocks yet discovered.
Marshall News reports a proposed plan urging Congress to fund a universal $1,000 monthly payment for every American, abolition of taxes, two free cars per household, a $10,000 government built home per family, and free cultural events plus annual free vacations. The plan questions financing, citing Dr Townsend on pension money as a model detail.
Washington plans seven must pass bills for the new session. They include an Soldiers' bonus proposal or compromise, a relief package continuing relief activities, a revised food and drug act with ad control, a ship subsidy bill to end post March subsidies while keeping merchant ships at sea, a surviving neutrality act, a broadened FTC parallel to an NRA substitute, and a wage and hour rule bid requirement for government contracts.
A Southern grower split 30 workers, 15 white and 15 black, by arranging them so every 10th person fired was white. He counted from left to right and discharged every tenth, ensuring all white employees were removed while keeping the black workers. Also noted, a champion athlete asked a doctor for his temperature and the doctor replied a hundred and one.
William Green of the American Federation of Labor released figures estimating 11,672,000 Americans unemployed. He urged a shorter work week and higher purchasing power, noting partial recoveries and fewer November lay-offs in 1955 than 1934, with manufacturing and railroads employing more workers and auto schedules easing layoffs.
In San Francisco Gaynor Mead 45 a caretaker killed himself with 32 sticks of dynamite and gasoline in a gas soaked pit. A farewell note asked to give tools to Lowell for the trouble caused. His wife Carol heard the blast and found only his hat.
Twenty seven relief workers who collected 2491 dollars while employed are now repaying the government. Administrator George M. Curry said the 27 had accepted relief money while holding jobs and can avoid prosecution by regular payments based on their incomes.
Karl B. McEachron, a high voltage experimenter, said lightning can strike the same place many times, up to 40, and explained the rapid multiple-stroke effect. He offered practical safety tips during a Denver visit and noted that pressure from a strike causes much damage.
Texas Prison Board ordered abolishing the leather whip for prisoners when solitary confinement cells can be built. Dr Sidney Lister proposed the measure and urged funding from the Legislature. The board directed construction and asked funds be provided. Strat Richards of Crockett was named assistant to general manager O S Ellingson.
The Presbytery of Paris of the Presbyterian Church, U S A, received a Texas charter. A fall meeting committee including Dr John H Burma Sherman Dr B Wrenn Webb Whitewright and Frank A Shiels Paris formed the incorporators. Incorporation aims to legally transfer certain properties. The Presbytery is among the church’s oldest, Clarksville’s church being over a century old.
In Tipperary Ireland Patrick Roche 18 during a bout of laughter at an American film swallowed a two inch horseshoe nail he had used as a toothpick He continued watching the movie to its end then sought medical help from a physician.
Cardross in Dumfries and Galloway famed as the wettest village where water ran from taps with a Scotch taste. The town will receive an uncontaminated supply via pipes from a neighboring reservoir, ending years of whisky flavored drinking water.
Chicago boxing star Joe Louis known as the Brown Embalmer says his only fear is his dentist. He recalls a painful dental chair session with jokes about Max Baer in a candid interview, admitting the dentist once “gave me hell” and he’d rather face Boers than ten minutes in the chair.
Postoffice records show William W. Nowes appointing William P. Yearout acting postmaster in Emporia Kansas. Order 8193 dated December 31 names Yearout to the office as the year closes.
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