Annual Rotary Fish Fry Set for Friday on High School Campus
The Rotary Club announced its annual fish fry will be Friday evening at the High School campus with Clay Horton as chair and helpers including Joe Johnson Dr. R. E. Lingenfelter H. G. Hoover and B. R. Caraway. The club ordered fish from a wholesale dealer and aims to feed all members and Rotaryanns with extra pounds planned for the three big eaters. The luncheon program was led by Dr. Lingenfelter but the guest speaker was detained last minute. the meeting became a roundtable on the fry and attendance was 100 percent, among the club’s best.
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Rotary
Clay Horton
Joe Johnson
R. E. Lingenfelter
H. G. Hoover
B. R. Caraway
Johnson
Rotaryanns
Lingenfelter
Local students honored with top averages and awards
Henrietta Jackson led the high school senior class with a 93.46 four year average, followed by Billie Ruth Holcomb at 93.09 and Katie Kincaid at 92.94. Other honors include Balfour awards for scholarship, homemaking, and vocational agriculture, best all around, and top math and English performers. Grammar School honorees, perfect attendance awards, and the High School annual The Bell feature editor Janis Jayne Horton and tributes to veterans and war casualties.
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Henrietta Jackson
Billie Ruth Holcomb
Katie Kincaid
Janis Jayne Horton
Polly Ann Brown
Odell Neal
Jean Neal
Nina Bell Hood
Jessie Franklin
Billy Ward Evans
Betty Ann Darwin
Jackie Nossaman
Joe Vandagriff
James Reeves
Lorene Beard
Dorothy Wallace
Enough Nurses Now Says Army
The Red Cross said on Saturday night it has been asked by the Army’s surgeon general to halt nurse recruitment because the Army already has sufficient nurses to care for sick and wounded soldiers.
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Washington
The
Red Cross
Army
Potatoes or Totatoes Which Fort Worth Victory Garden
In Fort Worth a War Foods Administration victory garden shows mixed crops with tomatoes on top and potatoes below. Mrs. A. L. Hawkins of 3901 Lawnwood reports crossbred plants thriving while her tomato plants normally fail. She plans to dig the potatoes soon.
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Fort Worth
War Foods Administration
Fort Worth Victory Garden
A. L. Hawkins
Lawnwood
Onion Crop Is Being Harvested in Whitewright Area
Pascal Farley, the region’s top onion grower, has hired sixty Mexican workers to harvest 160 acres of onions and other crops. At 100 bushels per acre and 2.50 a bushel, gross would reach 40 000 dollars, though net profit after expenses is less than expected. Harvest extends to June 20 with many late onions.
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Pascal Farley
Whitewright
Farley
Perrin Field Softball Tonight Versus Gosnells
The Perrin Field softball team hosts the undefeated Gosnells tonight in a closely matched local game. Attendance is rising as fans follow the season. Earlier matchups saw the Gosnells defeat the Rotary team 25 to 3, then edge a high school squad 8 to 6.
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Perrin
Sonny Gosnell
Rotary
Gosnell
Gosnells
Rotarians
Allies assume formal command over shattered Germany
An Allied control council of the United States Britain Russia and France took formal command of Germany, reducing it to pre 1937 size and assuming control of its military civilian and economic administration. The Saar Basin remains part of the Reich though. further territorial revisions are possible. Authority begins at 6 p m Paris time and ends only with a peace conference.
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Washington
Germany
Hitler
Saar
Reich
Paris
Allied Control Council
United States
Britain
Russia
France
Whitewright
Berlin
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gregori Zhukov
Bernard Montgomery
Gen
de Lattre de Tassigny
Adolf Hitler
Fishing Below Denison Dam Permitted Under Restrictions
The Denison U. E. Engineer sub office announced that fishing below Denison Dam and the powerhouse on two miles of Red River within the federal reservation will be allowed. Passes are required and obtainable from guards at the dam site. Downriver fishing had been banned recently due to congestion. No fishing from the dam, powerhouse, or stilling basin.
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Denison U. E
Denison Dam
Red River
Stilling Basin
Military personnel and family updates in Sherman list
A bulletin of service members includes Cpl. George W. Hansard Jr. transfer to Sheppard Field Texas and Lester Simpson Jr. visiting his mother in Sherman. Numerous Navy Army Air Forces and Coast Guard personnel are cited with assignments, training, furloughs, home visits, promotions, and arrivals from Pearl Harbor to Fort Lewis and Manila.
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Cpl
George W. Hansard Jr
Chanute Field
Ill
78Th Aaf
Sheppard Field
Texas
Lester Simpson Jr
Navy
Lillian Simpson
Pvt
Thomas N. Call
Infantry
Camp Hood
Engineers
Fort Lewis
Wash
ASFT
Army of Occupation
E Bond Sales Urged to Hit Whitewright Quota Soon
Whitewright must boost E Bond purchases to reach a $67,000 quota by June 30. Week sales totaled $8,850, with $49,381.25 already raised and $17,768.75 remaining. Officials urge immediate buying to be among county leaders and ensure other bond quotas of $47,000 total $107,000.
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Whitewright
U S stirrup pumps 700000 left for sale
Washington reports 700000 stirrup pumps remain available to the public after 500000 of 1200000 ordered for Civilian Defense have been sold. The balance may be bought through retailers at a ceiling price of 1.79 dollars, complete with 10 feet of hose and two nozzles, for uses from watering victory gardens to washing cars.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Office of Civilian Defense
Victory Gardens
RFC
Moratorium On Canning Sugar Ordered in Denison
The Denison rationing board announced that sugar canning certificates are suspended until June 11 on orders from the Office of Price Administration in Washington. A new quota will be set during the moratorium to address a serious sugar shortage. Applications may be made locally but will not be acted on until the new quota is established.
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Denison
Denison Rationing Board
Office of Price Administration
Washington
Lake Texoma Area Receives 48000 Appropriation
The Lake Texoma recreational area in Texas and Oklahoma is allotted 48000 as part of a 140 million Department of the Interior budget. The Senate boosted the amount from the House figure. The money funds administration protection improvement and maintenance in cooperation with the War Department to support recreational usage near Denison Dam. A National Park Service plan guides facilities, but major development awaits postwar funding.
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Washington
Lake Texoma
Texas
Oklahoma
Department of the Interior
Senate
House
Chief of Engineers
War Department
Denison
National Park Service
Error in Election Date Forces Split Constitutional Vote
Erroneous substitution of one word changed the date for a special county election. Voters will ballot on only one amendment on Aug 25, 1945, while three others appear on general election days Nov 5 and Nov 7, 1945. Gov. Stevenson called the issue final.
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Austin
Soldier Land Board
Coke Stevenson
Govenor
Sun Honor Roll Adds New Subscription Names
The Sun reports renewed and new subscriptions arriving at a brisk pace. Names added this week include Jones R. Pierce Weldon Ingram Mrs. Fred Taplin Mary Edmonson Be Craig Jesse Wallace Mrs. Charles Barrett Pascal Connelly Jr Set C. F. Collins Jr Mrs. Jack Harper Mrs. C. A. Vestal Mrs. Myrtle Brock Wm. Skaggs.
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The
Sun
Jones R. Pierce
Weldon Ingram
Fred Taplin
Mary Edmonson
Be Craig
Jesse Wallace
Charles Barrett
Pascal Connelly Jr
C. F. Collins Jr
Jack Harper
C. A. Vestal
Myrtle Brock
Wm. Skaggs
Cut in Meat Rations To Hit Restaurants
Washington reports a 20 percent cut in meat rations for July and August will affect restaurants. The OPA plans further cuts for institutional users with 12 to 15 percent on canned fruits and vegetables and 20 to 25 percent on sugar. Hospitals and school food programs will be exempt.
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Washington
OPA
Baptists Receive Gift of $20000 for Educational Building
Wm Fleming and Ira Fleming of Whitewright donated 20000 to First Baptist Church to fund an educational building honoring their late father J R Fleming. The gift with no strings attached prompts plans to spend about 30000 on construction equipment air conditioning and an organ, totaling around 50000 for the church campus. Fleming, a longtime Baptist layman, has previously given 250000 to the Baptist Seminary at Fort Worth and spoke at the Whitewright service about the improvements and future fundraising.
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First Baptist Church
Wm. Fleming
Whitewright
Ira Fleming
J. R. Fleming
Fleming
Baptist Seminary At
Fort Worth
George W. Truett
L. R. Scarborough
Bonham
Sherman
Electra
Russia Faces Western Press Campaign Against Red Star
Moscow reports that the Red Star accuses hostile foreign presses including major American papers of shaping public opinion for war with the Soviet Union. It cites headlines claimed to appear in the New York Journal American Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News urging vigilance against Soviet threat.
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Moscow
Red Star
Soviet Union
New York Journal- American
Chicago Tribune
New York Daily News
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
United States
OPA Acts to Insure Hospitals Meat Needs
The OPA will implement Monday regulations to guarantee minimum meat supplies for hospitals, orphanages, asylums, and similar institutions. It allows these facilities to receive the same or comparable meat items from the same suppliers or successors as during the March–April 1944 ration period. Previously suppliers were not required to sell or transfer meat to prior customers or classes.
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Washington
OPA
Texas girls marry younger than men median ages
Washington report cites Census Bureau figures showing Texas girls brides at a median age of 20 years and six months, while Texas men who marry reach a median age of 23 years and seven months. The data highlights a gender gap in first marriage ages within Texas.
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Washington
Texas
Census Bureau
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Bussy) Thornhill
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