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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1942
Page
6
Retail dealers must post ceiling prices on each grade of motor fuel under an amendment to Maximum Price Regulation 137. The posting must be clearly visible and marked Maximum Prices with each grade. The amendments take effect immediately and extend the filing deadline to July 1.
State Health Officer Dr. Geo W Cox urges vacationers to follow safety rules for water activities amid wartime limits on lifeguard supervision. Guidelines include waiting an hour after meals, leaving water when fatigued or chilled, floating, avoiding rocking boats, and not swimming in polluted waters near sewage outlets.
The U S Treasury announces June War Bond quotas for all Texas counties led by Dallas and Harris stakes. Statewide June quota is 26 million 200 thousand dollars with county targets rising from May levels as the nation moves toward a billion dollar monthly bond plan in July. Ten percent of income funds urged on every payday with bonds purchasable at banks post offices and many stores. County figures list sums for each region.
Dr. Cox emphasizes the value of social outings during tense national times. He argues against removing excursions from summer programs but insists they should be beneficial and not harmful to participants.
Workers in occupied Czechoslovakia's Skoda munitions plants have painted turtles on factory walls to urge slowing production. Armed guards stand by every fifth machine, yet the slow down is reported as significant with some factories seeing a 40 percent drop in output.
A whirlwind of age defying feats spans the nation. A 61-year-old New York grandmother flies a sea plane to a naval reservation to join Civil Air Patrol while a 71-year-old Utica man seeks flying lessons in Cordele Georgia. A 72-year-old housewife fends off a robber, a 75-year-old Jericho Ark. man reenrolls in high school, and a 78-year-old Denver man falls but recovers. An 80-year-old couple secures a marriage license in Los Angeles, an 85-year-old walks 55 miles in Teaneck New Jersey, and a 93-year-old performs an eight-hour shift in a Rockford metal plant. The piece riffs on wartime morale and the remark softies by Hitler.
The British-held island of Malta in the Mediterranean, just 55 miles from Sicily, has endured well over 2,000 air raids making it the most frequently bombed spot on earth during the war.
Price of occupation rises as guerrilla warfare executions starvation and epidemics in Nazi controlled Europe claim over a million lives during the past year.
A friendly poem honors Dr Thomas A Lowery for tireless service and compassion. The text also reflects on Rip Van Winkle and wartime advertising, a gubernatorial race plug by a Texas columnist, and a frontier joke about chicken soup and horse radish.
Melbourne reports American troops in French New Caledonia in great strength and splendid equipment for the defense of the Pacific outpost 800 miles from Australia. Official Australian correspondent W N Fitchett notes the remarkable American gear and preparation.
A hostess questions the guest about leaving and the guest insists it is a personal choice, framing farewell as voluntary rather than compulsory. The exchange highlights discretion in social entreaties and the guest’s autonomy in exit decisions.
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