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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
4
Notice announces entertainment and supper events with admission charges will be billed at regular rates. Includes memorials and resolutions policy. Publishers are A J H Waggoner and Glenn Doss with annual subscription $1.50. Corrections policy stated.
The Whitesboro News-Record editorial argues against approving the 300000 twenty year road bond for Grayson County. It notes lacking spending designations in the election order and criticizes tax increases tied to the road bond assumption bill, urging economizing now with postwar spending to be considered later.
Across Nazi occupied Europe the letter V stands for Victory among oppressed communities. In July thousands were jailed for scrawling it and it appears in Morse taps and cinema applause. J B Priestley says Europe needed a simple sign of hope and allied defense.
Fred S. Sexauer of the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association of New York argues that farmers seek equality in labor hours sacrifice and opportunity, demanding fair return for rising costs and overhead in the current emergency.
In a Whitesboro News-Record editorial the paper calls for an advance accounting of how a 300000 county road bond issue will be spent. It notes 40000 for land to widen the Denison Sherman highway and 260000 for lateral road improvements. The editors oppose the issue until specific allocations are approved and taxpayers see value for money.
A Portland correspondent asks for an editorial on Hitler and forced labor. The Oregonian defends wage labor rights, notes Germany’s 1933 union seizure and 1935 work card system, and states troops protected workers in California. It urges labor to choose arbitration over radicals and criticizes Grayson County for urging impeachment of Senator Wheeler despite policy disagreements.
A traveler details a southern Texas to Mexico trip starting at the International Bridge in Nuevo Laredo. The route passes Monterrey and other towns with vivid scenes of daily life, markets, pilgrims, and mountain hamlets, highlighting landscapes and human labor along the way.
The passage contrasts a Primitive Baptist with a dismissive counterpoint about church membership. It also lists public health ideas from wartime or defense era policy, including infection tracing and making gonorrhea treatment facilities akin to syphilis centers, plus emergency disease control programs in defense towns.
A nationwide venereal disease control program costing about 5 million dollars is set to launch, led by the WPA and the Public Health Service with state and local health officials. Texas is expected to participate. Surgeon General Thomas Parran said the effort will aid health officers by bringing under immediate treatment those rejected or deferred by local boards for syphilis or gonorrhea.
A Oklahoma anthropology professor reports finding skeletons of aboriginal people in the region around 450 A D. Archaeologists seek to reconstruct early inhabitants of the southwestern United States from these remains. Evidence of prehistoric tribes across the nation suggests they once thrived here and later faded from memory. The white arrival marks the start of contact with these ancient populations.
Historians estimate fewer than one million red men in the country and note Mongolian origins of these tribes. The piece argues North America is ancient, traces many vanished peoples, and warns that human warfare could invite a pestilence. If humans perish, nature and the universe endure. Austin Tribyne.
A poem by Marvin Hall describes a man driving a car while a unseen passenger rides with him Laughing and crying with delight She hovers near to snatch him from the car claiming more business here than from war The piece ends with an urging note to buy printing in Whitewright.
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