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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1941
Page
4
Notice lists charges for entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees or monetary consideration. Memorials resolutions of respect and similar notices also billed at regular advertising rates. Press association editors J H Waggoner and Glenn Doss.
Public notice states The Whitewright Sun is published weekly on Thursdays with a yearly subscription of $1.50 payable in advance. It promises full correction of any erroneous reflections upon individuals or entities brought to attention of the publisher.
An editorial from the Whitesboro News Record questions spending plans for a $300000 twenty year road bond in Grayson County. It notes lack of designation in the election order and argues taxes will rise this year due to the road bond issue and federal tax increases. The piece urges economizing now and deferring bonds until after the war.
Fred S. Sexauer, president of the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association of New York, calls for equality in pay and sacrifice for farmers. He urges fair treatment and a return commensurate with rising costs and overhead, arguing that all should be treated alike in the national emergency.
The Whitesboro News-Record calls for advance disclosure of how the 300000 county road bond issue will be used. It notes 40000 to acquire land for widening the Denison Sherman highway to four lanes and 260000 for lateral roads. The paper says voters deserve specifics before supporting any tax increase.
The Oregonian replies to a reader asking for a bellet editorial on Hitler and forced labor. It cites 1933 Germany seizing union offices, 1935 work cards, and notes troops protected American workers in a California plant. It warns labor radicals threaten defense factories and urges arbitration. It also condemns impeachment talk against Wheeler while opposing war.
The writer recalls a Southbound journey from Texas into Mexico via Nuevo Laredo, depicting crossing the border, Monterrey’s industry, Packsaddle Mountain, and scenes of daily life along the route. He notes travelers, bells, pilgrims, and villagers carrying goods as the landscape unfolds.
The article discusses aims to trace infection sources and render potential spreaders non infectious through prompt treatment. It calls for placing gonorrhea facilities on par with syphilis and establishing emergency disease control programs in national defense boom towns where facilities are lacking.
Washington reports a nationwide venereal disease control program to cost about five million dollars, launched by WPA and the U S Public Health Service in cooperation with state and local health officers. Texas is expected to participate. Surgeon General Parran said the aim is to assist local officers by treating selectees rejected or deferred for syphilis or gonorrhea and making them available for service.
A anthropology professor in Oklahoma reports unearthed skeletons of fifth century inhabitants in the region. Archaeologists work to piece together information about these early tribes as evidence of prehistoric peoples across the United States emerges from buried traces.
Aust in Tr ibyne argues humans are a transient force on a very old continent. He says less than 1 000 000 red men once lived in North America and that war and slaughter risk wiping out humanity. Nature would reclaim the land while cities fall to ivy and the earth continues without us.
A poem by Marvin Hall extols a man and his car as a vehicle of speed and thrill. An unseen passenger laughs and cries with delight as the craft careens along the road. The verse hints at commerce and danger, ending with a local printing promotion for Whitewright.
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