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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1948
Page
8
Washington reports living costs and the dollar value have reached a peak. Bureau of Labor Statistics notes costs are 74 percent higher than August 1939, with food up 129 percent and meat 167 percent. Rents, clothing, fuels, and furnishings also show large increases amid OPA's disappearance.
In Trenton on Monday July 26 a rare election produced 194 votes for road bonds with zero against and approved issuing 60 000 for roads to Highway 78 and paved Highway 160. The road district pays 75 percent with 25 percent state support and future outlets will total five.
Texas officials assessed the labor situation for the approaching harvest. Gov. Beauford Jester said he may ask the State Department to push Texas’ request for Mexican workers. Labor Commissioner M. B. Morgan warned workers not to leave the state with unlicensed recruiters. Farm Placement Director Henry Leblanc reported migratory workers plan is working. Jester said he had not heard from Washington on settling differences with Mexico, which bans workers over alleged discrimination.
New York reports church membership in the United States at an all time high of 77,286,188 last year representing 53 percent of the population. Protestant denominations total 46,149,676 members, Catholics 25,286,178 and Jewish groups 4,641,000.
An electric can opener promises easy operation for any can type. Users lock the can with a control knob, start the motor, and release by flipping the knob to stop. Read the Ads for profit.
Local classifieds advertise 12 inch disc killers water kegs farm tractors and a two room frame house on East Maple. Other items include electric light fixtures clocks and motors, vegetation and feed, a mimeograph shop, seed and farm supplies, rents for an electric floor waxer, and a farm for sale or rent. Card of thanks notes support for Abraham Lincoln Garfield and McKinley assassination context.
Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel announced he will not campaign for any national ticket in the coming fall elections. He criticized parties as wanting to give away resources abroad and refused to discuss the StevensonJohnson runoff or Dixiecrats. He noted no candidate has drawn his name and warned he will keep his word.
In Pasadena California Mrs Elizabeth Knudsen of Monrovia hit a railroad crossing bumper while driving forward to check signals. She was uninjured but faced a bumper bill around 25 dollars. The Santa Fe Chief train was delayed twelve minutes.
General Omar Bradley proposed keeping white and Negro units separate at lower levels while advocating merging them into larger formations such as battalions and divisions. President Truman issued an executive order creating a committee on equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services and pledged rapid implementation. Bradley cited housing delays for the expanding army and defended the caste system as common in major industries, while urging segregation only at certain military relations.
Lynn Massachusetts profile of Charles Durkee Lyon who, at 95, is claimed as the nation’s oldest active locksmith. A Vermont native, he began working on his father’s farm as a boy and has continued mining a life in the shop with the motto work never hurt anyone.
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