Heavy Weekend Rain Spurs Cotton and Corn Expectations
Rainfall across Whitewright Sunday night into Monday reached 2.14 inches, the first measurable amount in 15 days. Farmers say the rain aids corn maturation while cotton remains unhurt if dry periods resume. A cotton stalk from Bun Alexander’s Ely area, shown in the C. J. Meador Truck & Tractor showroom, had multiple bolls and blooms and had been poisoned three times.
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Whitewright
City
C. J. Meador Truck & Tractor Company
Bun Alexander
Ely
Printers Supply Prices Jump Threaten Small Newspapers
A wholesale printer's supply rep quoted prices doubling or tripling for many items, with some unobtainable. The Paris News reports Ladonia’s small-town paper, run by an editor who also typesets at night, showing editors struggle as costs rise and local support wanes.
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Deport Times
Paris News
Ladonia
Blackland
Fannin County
Wolfe City
Warns Diabetics Against Mexican Insulin Substitute
The Food and Drug Administration warned diabetics not to use cacalia composita Mexican Indian root mailed from Mexico, calling it worthless and dangerous. About 20 packages have been seized as agents campaign with customs and post officials, amid ads in newspapers and magazines nationwide.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
United States
Mexico
Food and Drug
Public Health Service
Veteran's Service Office in Denison Goes Full Time
Denison will open its Veteran's service office full time starting July 1. Director A B Jones announced the county field contact office at 221% West Main with secretary Betty Kimble. The office handles about 1,800 cases and will operate 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday and 8 am to noon Saturday.
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Denison
Veteran's Service
A. B. Jones
West Main
Jones
Betty Kimble
Kimble
Whitewright
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled Veterans of America
Texas cotton farmers may pay pickers last year's base rate
Fort Worth attorney for the Wage and Hour Division clarifies that piece work such as cotton picking is exempt from the 95 cent per hour wage limit. Farmers can pay pickers $3 a hundred this year if they paid $3 last year, with a 10 percent uplift allowed for base rates, and can adjust by season.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Sun Honor Roll Notables Listed by Local School
A local school publishes its Sun Honor Roll featuring numerous individuals spanning teachers administrators and community members. The list includes Mrs T W Ayres Mrs Kugga Hansard M O Miller Bill Muirhead Colten Hill Dr Ross R May Rev Linley Vowell and others, highlighting academic and civic achievement.
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T. W. Ayres
Kugga Hansard
M. O. Miller
Bill Muirhead
Colten Hill
M. Z. Jones
H. O. Leuschner
Ross R. May R. C. Blanton
Linley Vowell
Floyd Bassett
Frank Montgomery
T. E. Sears
Lucyle Sanders
Billie R. Burchfield
C. W. Pope
W. M. Ingram
J. G. Graves
Ned Ayres
J. P. Jared
Jack Spindle
T. C
Texas Deaths in Korea Pass Toll of 1836 War
The article notes Texas casualties in Korea climbing past 621 killed and 2,598 wounded with many missing in action. It contrasts these figures with Mexico’s 1836 rebellion losses and cites higher totals in World Wars I and II, while hinting Civil War losses were greatest. Major Horace Shelton of Austin estimates Hood's Texas Brigade suffered about 35,000 killed and 10,000 wounded.
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Korea
Texas
Mexico
Horace Shelton
Austin
Hood
Sign of Times U S Abandons Horse Breeding
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture has abandoned horse breeding. The Morgan Horse Farm in Addison County near Middlebury Vermont, 942 acres, established in 1907 to improve the Morgan breed, was turned over to the Vermont Agriculture School after farmers adopted tractors.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Morgan Horse Farm
Addison County
Middlebury
Vermont Agriculture School
North Side Service Station Opens Near Highway 69
Whitewright welcomes a new Humble service station to Highway 69 north of town with a Saturday grand opening led by Byron Neathery. Officials from Humble group, plus local and Dallas area managers, attend as the station offers Esso Extra oil, Atlas tires, batteries, car washing and greasing.
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Whitewright
Byron Weathery
Humble
Highway 69
North Side
Neathery
Sherman
Denison
Whitewright High School
Charlene Thornhill
Roy Neathery
Pilot Grove
Arlis McKnight
Lloyd Hardin
Bob Moss
Dallas
Houston General Office
McKnight
Floyd Bassett
Esso
Atlas
Highway 69 North
Byron Neathery
Sweetwater Bank Increases Capital and Surplus
The National Bank of Sweetwater raised capital stock from 100000 to 125000, surplus from 60000 to 125000, with reserves and undivided profits adding 65000. President C. B. Bryant cited growth as the reason, as 250 shares at 250 each were sold, with the issue oversubscribed.
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Sweetwater
National Bank of Sweetwater
C. B. Bryant
Whitewright
Billion a Week for Defense Predicted During Next Year
New York report says American industry shifts from finished materiel to tooling up and expanding military potential in the first year of partial war. The Defense Board expects about 140 billion dollars budgeted for these aims and by mid 1952 total spending could top 75 billion, with unfinished defense work growing and authorizations surpassing expenditures by roughly 65 billion.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
Defense
Skunk Search Leads to Prompt Clerk Warning
A woman asked a shop clerk on Fourth Avenue for a skunk. The clerk told her to wait as the boss would return from lunch in ten minutes.
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Lower
Fourth Avenue
Push-button war myth labeled by US Army in Stuttgart
US Army leaders in Stuttgart reject the notion of a push-button war and stress intensified team training. They emphasize small unit deployment, air ground coordination, and defense against airborne troops tanks camouflage and demolition as 100000 reinforcements prepare for East defenses. Lessons from Korea influence current combat readiness and occupation duties.
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Stuttgart
Germany
United States Army
Seventh Army
Wehrmacht
Hitler
Korea
Russia
West
Cub Reporter Trims Tale of Elevator Shaft Hint
A young reporter reports a man named John Smith glancing up an elevator shaft to see if it would descend He notes Smith would have turned 45 this April The fragment hints at a looming tragedy without further detail.
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John Smith
Truman Warns Perils Remain in Korea War Standoff
President Truman warned of a long period of international danger even if Korea peace arrives. He urged a hard policy of self denial, rapid rearmament, and support for free nations while resisting Soviet lies and subversion. He cautioned that cease-fire talks do not end the threat from the USSR and that UN armistice talks may still unfold without clear intent from Communist rulers.
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Washington
Truman
Korea
United States
Soviet Union
Washington Monument
America
England
United Nations
U. N
Ridgway
Draft Law Extended With Broad Changes In Provisions
Austin reports the draft law will extend to July 1, 1955 with major amendments. Key changes include 24 month service for inductees, registration at 18, lowering standards, potential force expansion to 5 million, limited deferrals, and 24 month civilian service for conscientious objectors. Enlistments ending after July 9 may be extended once for one year.
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Austin
Paul L. Wakefield
Texas
Wakefield
Armed Forces
Reserve
Regular
Medicine Promise Turns Boy Ten Years Younger
A joke notes a medicine advertised to erase age by ten years backfires when Joey, nine, would have become a teenager, highlighting a faulty claim and humorous misinterpretation.
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Joey
Truce Talks Target Kaesong as Sunday Start Date
United Nations and Chinese North Korean Communists agree to meet in Kaesong area for preliminary peace talks, setting Sunday as the start date. Gen Ridgeway had proposed Thursday, allies accept with safe conduct assurances for delegates, ahead of next week’s armistice talks.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Kaesong
Matthew B. Ridgeway
Allied
Supreme Command
Ridgeway
Korea
Iron Triangle
Pyongyang
Kim Il Sung
Korean People’s Army
Peng Teh-huai
Senators Oppose Turning Tidelands To Three States
Senators from Illinois and Alabama call tidelands oil revenue to fund education in all 48 states. They oppose handing about 40 billion dollars in offshore deposits to Louisiana Texas and California and urge an amendment to use proceeds for education.
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Washington
Illinois
Alabama
Douglas
Hill
Louisiana
Texas
California
Business Set For Jobt Is War Ended
New York reports the business and financial world preparing for the end of fighting in Korea. Analysts warn post-cease-fire economy could face rough sledding, driven by arms programs and public psychology. Markets show weakness on cease-fire talk, with potential impacts on prices and civilian goods.
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New York
Korea
Less Smoking More Drinking in Texas June Tax Report
Texas state figures show June stamp taxes total 3,450,592 dollars, down from 1950. Cigarette taxes 2,826,197 dollars, down 78,495. Liquor taxes up 63,929 to 598,612. Wine taxes fall 20,705 to 35,760 and liquor prescriptions 22. A fleeting local joke ends the item.
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Austin
Jesse James
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Veteran's Service Office
U. S
Mineola
Bassett
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Sweetwater Bank
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