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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1941
Page
1
Allen Harper, minister, announces daily services at the Church of Christ from Sunday through Aug 13. Services at 8:15 p m outdoors invite the public to bring Bibles and discuss Scripture. Sermon topics include Con versions Baptism What Church Ought a Man to Join Repentance Unity and more on the plan of salvation.
Dry hot weather over the past two weeks has improved cotton prospects in Whitewright with fruiting rapid and insect pressure down in unpoisoned fields. Farmers expect better prices this fall and note corn, grain yields range from poor to good with threshing nearly done.
Harry Hopkins told Joseph Stalin that the United States will supply war materials to the Soviet Union to aid its fight against Germany. He arrived from London and said delivery would be prompt with no payment delays. Roosevelt’s envoy will confer again at noon Thursday.
The Highway Commission announced a new rule in licensing starting next year. No passenger car license plate will be numbered below 5000 and the state official plate series will be discontinued.
Denison residents were barred from the Grayson County Army Air Corps Basic Flying School construction area in the Denison district. Guards control all road entrances and only authorized workers connected with the project may enter.
Funeral services for 70 year old Robert Lee Holcomb are set for 4 p m at the Baptist Church. Rev E P Wootten and Rev J L Truett will officiate. Burial in City Cemetery under Earnheart. He was born Feb 3 1871 in Blue Springs Ga and lived in Sherman Whitewright Nobility and Nobility Texas. Survived by five children two grandchildren four sisters and one brother.
Funeral services for Mrs Mollie Sears Hoard wife of J D Hoard were held at the family residence at 4 pm Friday. Burial followed in Oak Hill Cemetery with Earnheart directing. Pallbearers included W E La Roe Otto Russell J B Hamilton Thomas Sears R A Gillett and Sears Anderson. Mrs Hoard died in a Sherman hospital after a long illness. She was born Sept 2 1871 on a Whitesboro area farm and was organist for the Methodist Church more than twenty years. She is survived by her husband a daughter Miss J E Payne Jr of Dallas a sister Mrs E C Anderson of Whitesboro and granddaughter Miss Jayne Payne of Dallas. Out of town relatives attended from multiple Texas towns.
Funeral services were held at 3 p m Saturday at the First Baptist Church Sherman for Ollie J Neathery 55 longtime Grayson County chief jailer and peace officer Burial was in Pilot Grove Cemetery He died of heart trouble at Sherman hospital after a 14 day illness Born January 29 1886 in Springfield Missouri he moved to Texas in 1900 and settled at Trenton He married Maggie Cowart in 1909 she died in 1934 He served as deputy sheriff under three Grayson County sheriffs and as deputy constable in Sherman Then as chief jailer Surviving are two sons a daughter in St Louis and two daughters in Sherman two brothers and two sisters
Japanese raids on Wednesday damaged the U S gunboat Tutuila on the Yangtze patrol near Shanghai. bombs neared the American Embassy and Standard Oil installations, with one bomb blasting near the ship and boats damaged. no American casualties were reported.
The Whitewright Rotary Club voted to donate 250 to build a fence around the public school football field. Kay Kimbell of Fort Worth contributed part of the field’s contract last week. E. C. Butler, superintendent of Whitewright schools, spoke on the school system and community cooperation.
Governor O Daniel announced he would take the oath as junior United States Senator from Texas next Monday in Washington. He will not resign as governor. upon taking the Senate seat he relinquishes the governorship to Lieutenant Governor Stevenson who becomes acting governor at the border crossing near Orange. Mrs. O Daniel will accompany him to Washington to assume the seat long held by Morris Sheppard.
Wendell L. Willkie refused a debate invitation with Norman Thomas at an anti war rally in Elwood Indiana noting there are no war issue in America today and calling the proposal ridiculous. He said May or George Bonham of Elwood invited him to participate. Willkie was born in Elwood and spoke Wednesday.
The post office department warns against a dime chain letter scheme to promote defense savings stamps. Postmaster T. J. Lilley announced receipt from Washington noting that soliciting savings stamps via chain letters violates postal fraud and lottery statutes.
County Commissioner Ben Vaughan said the Whitewright Tom Bean road will be blacktopped within ten days to two weeks once material and equipment are secured. A four mile section remains to be completed after a short stretch near Whitewright and Tom Bean. Citizens have awaited completion for two years and welcome the start.
State AAA committees and Department of Agriculture officials from several government agencies met in Washington to discuss the farm program for 1942. Recommendations include continuing conservation materials, soil-building payments, expanded soil-building practices, standardized marketing quotas with new penalties, and broader crop insurance and commodity stock policies.
President Roosevelt urged Congress to grant authority to regulate prices to curb inflation. A bill, drafted by Chairman Steagall, would empower the President to set maximum prices and rents, address installment credit excesses, and stabilize commodity trade, with operation tied to parity for farm goods. Wheeler supported action and urged price control.
Henry Ford predicts a federation of the world formed from the current conflict saying he hates war and expects a tolerant postwar era. He blames profit seeking munitions makers but sees prosperity driven by inventive genius if competition remains active. He turns 78 on the eve of his remarks.
Stock raisers in Llano report wild weather giving too much rain and excess grass. Cattle cannot keep up as verdant growth chokes pastures. Some ranchers resort to using wire hooks as disgorgers to clear feed avenues.
British commentators mock Nazi use of V as a victory sign, noting V stands for German vexation or Verloren meaning lost. The piece ends with a local note urging readers to buy printing in Whitewright.
Whitewright advances on a lighted football field with lighting contract, sodding, and a heavy wire fence with evergreen backdrop. Rotary Club $250 gift funds the fence, Clay Horton donated fence posts, and local groups plan further contributions to seating and other expenses as ticket sales loom.
London reports Winston Churchill declaring that the United States is aiding Britain on a gigantic scale as Germany threatens, while urging Britons to rely on their own strength. He defends total war mobilization and vows to offer the last drop of blood if necessary to defend Britain.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told a National Legion of Honor convention at Fort Sheridan that Americans must be willing to fight to preserve freedoms or lose them to a stronger breed of men. He condemned disbanding the half trained Army and urged defiance against any assault or threat of force. He cited courage as the Legion’s defining virtue and stressed some things are more important than life.
The Army draft pulls Edward J. Finley from the Weekly Tigard News, ending his roles as publisher editor linotype operator and pressman. The town newspaper pauses as Finley reports to induction.
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