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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
1
Five women in the WPA lunch room canned 357 cans of vegetables in May and the program aims to run through the season if vegetables arrive. Half the produce is donated and the rest comes from the project garden. Donors may contact the workers or Carol Wilson to arrange pickup.
All Whitewright boys of Scout age are invited to a 7 30 p m meeting at the Scout cabin. Plans for reorganizing local patrols will be perfected with hikes arranged soon. Jack Thruston named scoutmaster and Albert Jackson assistant.
A. E. Whiteacre announces nine filings for four offices as filing closes. Dr. Biven R. Galbraith of Honey Grove seeks Congress against Rep. Sam Rayburn. Judge Tom Suggs of Denison runs unopposed for Fifty-ninth district judge. O. H. Woodrow Sherman and Judge Joel R. Bond Dallas file for Fifth Court of Civil Appeals seat. Bevis Davis Tioga Captain J A Benton Wylie C A Shock Sherman and J P Buck Collinsville run for Flatorial Representative. Filing ends June 15.
McKinney reports North Texas onion growers enjoy 1935 high prices of 1.60 dollars per bushel for top grade onions in Dallas Collin Hunt and Rockwall counties. Yields average 125 bushels per acre with about 5,100 acres in Collin alone set to yield 637,500 bushels worth roughly 1.02 million dollars. Total area could place a 2 million dollar regional crop this year.
The Whitewright Tigers meet an All Star team from Sherman Sunday at 3 PM at Legion Park. The Tigers stand 6 wins and 2 losses so far. The All Stars are strong, promising an exciting game. Forests cover 19 percent of Portugal.
Churchill told the British Commons that Britain must continue the war alone if needed and defend the island at all costs. He warned invasion could come immediately from the German onslaught in Flanders and Belgium, but expressed faith that the empire and the New World would join to liberate the Old.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace warned that if England and France fall, the Americas would be the next target and urged swift mobilization of idle resources. He said the cost could reach twenty billion dollars annually if a wartime mobilization similar to Germany’s is required, noting unemployment and agricultural issues could be addressed during the program.
Will Leslie reports preliminary census figures for eight towns over 2,500 in the district. Each town shows a ten year gain with Sherman rising from 15,713 to 17,143 and Denison from 13,850 to 15,555.
President Roosevelt ordered an average 10 percent budget cut across all non defense government departments and agencies. He summoned Budget Director Harold Smith to begin surveys by agency. Early said salaries were not under consideration and that earlier drives saved about 184 million in 1940 with potential for more in 1941.
A Texas Safety Association committee urged changing the drunken driving felony law. The plan would make first offenses a misdemeanor with mandatory jail time on conviction. District Attorney Dan Jackson drafted the amendment for the Legislature.
Washington reports the defense tax bill rising to about one billion dollars a year as the administration expands the war program. The House Ways and Means Committee also raises the debt limit from 45 to 49 billion dollars and considers broader income tax bases while backing a large naval and air program.
The Grayson College Ex-students Association holds its second annual reunion next Sunday on the old campus, with about 500 former students expected to attend. Invitations have been mailed, and Whitewright exes are anticipated to participate in strong numbers. The event runs from 10 a.m. to after a two hour lunch and features welcomes, speeches, music, and a memorial service, then a business meeting and evening program concluding with Auld Lang Syne.
The PTA sponsors a personality and talent pageant at the Grammar School auditorium Friday at 8 pm. Divisions include babies aged 1 to 10 and girls 14 to 25 for personality, with no age limit for talent. Merchants sponsor the personality division and several donors support the PTA with several community names listed. Admission is 10 and 15 cents.
Boston report notes James A. Roosevelt, an oiler on a motorship, jokes about advantages from bearing the President's eldest son name. He says officials in South America often grant him special privileges. Arkansas accounts for 92 percent of the nation’s bauxite supply.
British spokesmen said France must stand alone or nearly so against German onslaughts until Britain can replace the vast losses from the retreat from Flanders. Some British troops are south of the Somme, and more will be sent, but the French army remains alone across the channel.
New York. Joseph M. Schenck, president and chairman of 20th Century Fox, faces 24 federal counts of income tax fraud conspiracy and perjury accusing him of defrauding $400000 in taxes for 1935 36 and 37. Co accused is his bookkeeper Joseph H Moskowitz.
The Third Court of Civil Appeals upheld a Travis County District Court ruling that the State Board of Control cannot discharge Dr. W. J. Johnson as superintendent of the San Antonio State Hospital without following constitutional removal procedures. The court said the board is not a judicial body and must conduct a court proceeding to determine good cause.
SHERMAN June 30 is the final date to file applications for mattress materials under the FSCC program to dispose of surplus cotton. In Grayson County 1,826 of 2,237 applicants are certified and ten mattress centers have distributed 88 of 180 bales. Additional ticking orders and total mattress stock are noted with emphasis on eligible Texas families not yet participating. Population of Stockholm, Sweden, is about 600,000, and 42 per cent are married persons.
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