Families Send Greetings From Home To Soldiers Aboard
A batch of social notices lists service members from Whitewright area families. Sgt Lyndal Bush and Pvt William D Tomlinson are in England and England-bound ships. Sgt Mark Montgomery Jr and Lt W W Adcock receive seasonal regards. Navy, Army, and Air Corps personnel—Chumbley Johnson Page Biggerstaff Woodson Owen families—share letters, arrivals, and wedding notices amid Christmas wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Montgomery
James D. Johnston
47Th Inf
Lawrence Owen
U. S. Navy
Troy P. Owen
Army Engineers
Paul Owen
Balboa
Canal Zone
Lawrence
Naval Base
Troy
Pacific
Pvt
Clyde Owen
Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Tin Tubes Turned in by Users Campaign Totals
Since July 1942 tooth paste and shaving cream users turned in nearly 200 million used tin tubes. The National Wholesale Druggists Association reports 7,300,475 pounds collected, with Texans contributing 333,073 pounds. Each tank and bomber needs 30 pounds of tin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Scott
Southwestern Drug Corporation
National Wholesale Druggists Association
President Seeks National Service Draft for War Work
President Roosevelt asked Congress for legislation to draft men and women for war work as part of a five point plan to win the war and the peace. He urged a national service law to prevent strikes while continuing wartime production and other essential services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
America
Rome
Berlin
Tokyo
Edwin C. Johnson
Dem
Colorado
United States
Oak Hill Cemetery Association Elects Officers For Year
Oak Hill Cemetery Association elected officers with Mrs. Tom E. Barbee as president and Dr. C P Johnson as vice president. Mrs. Emory Christian became secretary treasurer replacing Olive Myrick who resigned after twelve years. The Sun also publishes the Oak Hill Cemetery Foundation annual statement showing progress of perpetual upkeep backed by endowments and lot owner subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill Cemetery Association
Tom E. Barbee
C. P. Johnson
Emory Christian
Olive Myrick
Sun
Oak Hill Cemetery Foundation
Kay Kimbell
William Fleming
This Is the Army at Palace Theatre Saturday
Marshall Hasty announces Irving Berlin’s This Is the Army will be the Palace prevue Saturday at 10 30 pm with advance $1 20 tickets. Proceeds go to Army Relief. theatre keeps none. The film features 350 technical directors and stars soldiers and top screen figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Hasty
Palace Theatre
The
Palace
Army Relief
Irving Berlin
Hollywood
Michael Curtiz
Hereford Bull Sets Auction Price Record at $38,000
Sulphur Oklahoma Roy T.ru pert 99th Hereford bull sold for 38000 dollars Monday, claimed as the highest price at public auction by R J Kinzer. Purchaser was Charles Pettit of Flat Top Ranch Walnut Springs Texas. Auction at Roy T Turner ranch drew buyers from eight states totaling 212450 dollars for fifty animals. Two bulls brought 20500 each to Claude Heard Beeville Texas and John Wisdom Idaho, with the top heifer at 7000 to W W Tharp Briton S D.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okla
T. Royal Rupert
R. J. Kinzer
American Hereford Association
Charles Pettit
Walnut Springs
Texas
Kinzer
Roy T. Turner
Claude Heard
Beeville
John Wisdom
Idaho
W. W. Tharp
S. D
War Contracts Worth Eight Billion Dollars Cancelled
Senate war investigation chair Senator Truman said $8,000,000,000 in Army and Navy contracts have been cancelled to date and warned communities will face unemployment. He added the manpower problem is peaking amid wartime readjustments. A stray line follows about a man who escaped an Indiana asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Truman
D.-Mo
Senate
National Retail Dry Goods Association
450000 Drivers Licences Expire Across Texas
Austin reports about 450000 current issue operators licenses have recently expired. State Police Director Homer Garrison urged drivers to check renewal dates as licenses expire two years after issue. expired licenses trigger a new driver status and mandatory driving test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Homer Garrison
Garrison
Man Who Buried Buddy Cries On Seeing Him Alive
David Hopper, a Big Spring High School football and basketball star, survived the Helena sinking and was mistakenly presumed dead when found as a body. He later revealed he had been in a hospital on a nearby island while Ed Ansen identified a corpse as him. Hopper credits a night shift change with saving his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddy
Big Spring
Pacific
Helena
Ed Ansen
Mont
David Hopper
Hopper
Howard County
Lenoray
Martin County
First National Bank Officers and Directors Elected
At a Tuesday morning shareholders meeting 874 of 1000 shares were represented. Elected directors are Emmet Penn Kay Kimbell C B Bryant Jr R T Pennington J B King A M Bryant Glen Earnhart Gomer May and J H Waggoner. Officers chosen include C B Bryant Jr president Emmet Penn vice president A M Bryant vice president R A Gillett cashier W T Simmons assistant cashier Pernie Badgett book keeper and Johnnie Robbins assistant bookkeeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
Emmet Penn
Kay Kimbell
C. B. Bryant Jr
R. T. Pennington
J. B. King
A. M. Bryant
Glen Earnheart
Gomer May
J. H. Waggoner
R. A. Gillett
W. T. Simmons
Pernie Badgett
Johnnie Robbins
Birth Records in Grayson County Rise and Fall with War Years
Birth certificates issued by Grayson County clerk totaled 17,624 over four years starting 1940. Peak in 1942 with 10,589 due to war mobilization. 1943 declined as enlistment manpower fell. In 1943 the office processed 6,899 legal instruments besides births, up from 5,334 in 1939 and varying around 5,000 in earlier years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson County
O'Daniel's GOP Leanings Stir Texas Political Buzz
In Austin and San Antonio strong talk unfolds after Washington dispatch claiming W Lee O'Daniel plans to seek Roosevelt's defeat for a fourth term. The Texas senator faces questions about party alignment while his term runs to 1949 and rumors swirl about Rayburn's vice presidency bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Washington Dispatch
W. Lee O’daniel
United States
Texas
Roosevelt
O’daniel
Union
Ohio
Kansas
Morris Sheppard
San Antonio
Marrs McLean
Texas Republican Finance Committee
New York
Herbert Hoover
Sam Rayburn
Congress
John N. Garner
Negro girl, 10, gives birth to eight pound girl in Monahans
Dr. E J Cook reported that a 10-year-old Negro girl in Monahans delivered an eight pound eight ounce daughter on January 1. Both mother and child were stated to be doing fine. the mother is described as average size and weight for her age.
Prediction of Peace Through War's End
Poem envisions great victories and peace as seasons move from February snow to summer and winter. It speaks of tyranny's doom, European forts yielding to youth, and war ending with the final gun. The speaker hopes for victory, harvest, and a Christmas peace on earth.
U S Lost 64 Bombers In Major Raid Against Germany
A U S air task force of about 1200 bombers and fighters hit three German fighter plant hubs at Oschersleben Halberstadt and Brunswick. Sixty four American aircraft were shot down and 595 American airmen were lost, marking the largest U S aerial loss to date. German acknowledgement noted the Americans held the upper hand in the raid which targeted fighter production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Reich
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Britain
United States
Oschersleben
Halberstad
Brunswick
Braunsweig
Berlin
Fritz Bachmann
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt-Regensburg
Higher Prisoner Pay Rate Approved in Grayson County
Grayson County commissioners authorize a rate increase from 65 cents to 1 dollar per day for federal prisoners at the county jail. Judge Jake Loy and Sheriff Gafford are empowered to sign the contract with the federal bureau of prisons. The court also approves purchasing a new automobile for the sheriff’s department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson County
Commissioners’ Court
Jake J. Loy
G. P. Gafford
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Sheriff's Department
January Old-Age Pensions in Texas See Small Rise
January old age assistance in Texas averages 21.03 dollars, up eight cents from December, with 179,645 pensioners. Total state and federal outlay reaches 3,777,437 dollars, while blind grants average 24.47 dollars. Dependent children rolls drop by 216 families, 470 children, with 10,173 families receiving 216,279 dollars and 22,530 children aided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Department of Public Welfare
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. J. Bush
Sgt
Lyndal Bush
Zephyrhills, Florida
Jackie Lee Thompson
Seattle, Wash
Claud
Gritt) Thompson
Dayton Hargett
Syracuse, N. Y
Mrs. Hargett
O. G. Alexander
Bethel
Mark Montgomery Jr
E. E. Tomlinson
Wm. D Tomlinson
England
Billy Earl Montgomery
Pfe
Orville Lee Woodson
Do. A. Woodson
Woodson
Indianapolis
Indiana
W. W. Adcock
U. S. Army
Henrietta Jackson
Charlie Milton Chumbley
Army
Carlton Robert Johnson
Navy
James Clifton Page
Cecil Edwin Biggerstaff
Dallas
Cecil
Pilot Grove
Lloyd B. Cato
Mary Lou Hipple
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Cato
Naval Convalescent Hospital
Whitewright High School
W. R. Cato
Route One
Whitewright
Pfc
Morris J. Brown
H. T. Brown
Route Three
Gulfport Field
Gulfport
Mississippi
Brown
Guadalcanal
Grippe
House
White House
Capitol
Treasury
Sun Office
Whitewrightt
Sherman
Denison
Bells
Tom Bean
van 'Sn Howe
Dorchester
Gunter
Tioga
Collinsville
Whitesboro
Sadler
Gordonville
Pottsboro
Europe
U.S
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