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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1943
Page
4
A Whitewright Sun column covers local notices on entertainments and memorials with ads at regular rates. It reports Sherman rail changes, park maintenance by the state and city, and dispels a soda-water myth about local water. The piece also criticizes wartime civilian attitudes and urges retiring uncooperative public officials.
Dallas News lauds engineers and Seabees for transforming Attu into a strategic base. They built docks, roads, water, and shelters under harsh conditions, enabling naval and land operations as Kiska neared capture. Heroes across Alaska and Africa are due decorations for crucial, unsung service.
In the Health Department Bulletin, the fight against malaria is urged as a national wartime duty. With quinine supply disrupted by the Japanese, the South must battle the Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito to protect workers, troops, and mobilization centers.
Washington announces a six point plan to make clothing rationing unnecessary for wartime. Chairman Donald M. Nelson says textiles are sufficient for military and essential civilian needs and focuses on directing distribution and accelerating mass produced, low priced garments. A voluntary retail program will curb scare sales and promotional advertising while merchandisers promise full cooperation.
The excerpt outlines Nelson's six point program emphasizing thrift and efficiency. It details maintaining current high textile production levels and taking steps to increase output, aiming to avoid overbuying and to extend the longevity of resources. The focus is on prudent industrial management during wartime shortages.
Government plan details a three shift mill operation where possible and protection of labor through manpower authorities, with priority by WPB to ensure material flow. It calls for voluntary retail programs, continued mass production of low cost clothing, allocation of fabrics to essential goods, right of way adherence, and increased burlap imports. An educational campaign on garment care will help stretch existing supplies.
A historical roundup lists Texas governors tied to birth months and Civil War service. Key figures include Coke Stevenson linking to Richard Coke, with noting of March births among governors such as Sam Houston and Hobby, plus Lanham born July Fourth 1846 and several governors who fought in the Confederacy.
In a briefing about Texas leaders and history, readers learn of Union figures Hamilton and Davis, the patriot Pease, and governors likened to Lincoln. It notes Coke Ross Neff who lived in Waco, Horton as the tallest Texas governor, and the Texas Centennial Commission's headquarters in Austin. The source frames Ages of governors and the Century book available at Alamo San Antonio and museums.
The Signal Corps was created by an act of Congress on March 3, 1863, authorized a chief signal officer and a cadre of captains and lieutenants. It now oversees procurement of radio, telephone, telegraph, and other equipment for signal troops and multiple Army branches, marking vast standardization of communications gear and early aviation and ground to plane radio milestones.
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