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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
8
An agricultural column urges farmers to save feed and by products rather than waste them. It explains trench silos protect corn and hay, enabling stock feed and cash value, with guidance on crop specifics, fencing, and cross barriers. It cites examples from Arkansas and Pennsylvania Dutch farming.
Franklin Pierce Mc Call, 21, of Florida pleaded guilty to kidnapping Jimmy Cash and entered a not guilty plea to a first degree murder charge. An 18 man grand jury had indicted him on both counts. Conviction on either count carries the potential death penalty by electric chair.
A Denison woman charged with reckless driving after she drove over a curb and sidewalk and through a plate glass window of a local store Sunday. In corporation court Monday she was fined 23.45 dollars and given a 60 day license suspension by Alexander Gullett.
A letter critiques radio shows as useless and irritating. It dismisses tobacco auctioneers, Joe Penner’s Sunday spectacle, a morning dialogue between a man and a hen, Cantor, and Henry Dupree’s New Orleans sidewalk broadcast as noisy time killers and nuisance air. Critics urge elimination of these programs.
The writer laments some broadcasts while praising Henry Ford's Sunday hour and certain program formats. They appreciate brain buster segments and education shows, note audiences can switch channels, and credit radio with launching some young talents. Cowboy songs and rural life themes are valued for their simple, lonely range imagery.
The harp, oldest stringed instrument, appears in biblical Jubal lore and spread worldwide. Sebastian Erard modernized it with seven pedals in 1794 and a double action harp in 1808, each pedal changing string pitch. Subsequent nineteenth century improvements followed.
The Sun offers typewriter paper typewriter carbons adding machine paper and typewriter ribbons for sale. This advertisement markets essential office supplies for clerical work and suggests competitive pricing and availability.
Want ads list white Plymouth Rock fryers for sale by Oran Sears at phone 910. Also advertised is a mower in good condition with contact for Mrs. Alice Amos at Ambrose.
Denver Universitys Clarion student newspaper reversed its makeup. Front page news now appears on the back page and the paper opens from the left with the folded edge on the right. Editor John Love cites reader habit as rationale.
KAYSVILLE Utah Farmer Otto Ludwig was transporting a cow home when the animal danced in the truck’s back area causing the vehicle to sway. It crashed into a telephone pole, killing the cow with a broken back. Ludwig’s son Herbert age 14 suffered head injuries and was in a Salt Lake City hospital.
Sherman report says a half mile road from Loy Park gate to the concession house near the swimming beach will be paved before July 4. County Judge Jake J. Loy notes funds are available and WPA labor will perform the work. The 20 foot wide two course bituminous road rests on rock and gravel base.
In Lake Forest Illinois a 1 year old named Soleta Rissinger laments that Mrs. Roosevelt cannot visit for the summer. Soleta’s mother Loleta asks who cannot come, and Soleta reveals a letter from the White House causing disappointment. The note ends with a quoted moral about attention to small details.
Dr Clinton Lockhart, 80 years old and Texas Christian University professor, rejects the view that youth is in decline. He says today’s college students are ahead in many ways, equally intellectual and moral, and that intercollegiate athletics add value to education. He is the oldest TU faculty member and a president emeritus.
A State Highway Department hostess house a mile north of Denison opened Sunday morning. The information house joins others statewide as a facility to assist travelers with services and information.
Line gateways to Texas were opened first during the Texas Centennial and manned by A. and M. College students. This year students from different state supported schools are in charge. Denison Hicks Brain of Lufkin and Elbert Neill of Yoakum, UT student, lead, furnishing information to tourists and pointing routes. They completed a week long training course before starting duties.
Texas Panhandle game officials blamed the near extinction of the prairie chicken and habitat destruction for the grasshopper outbreak. They argued overhunting reduced woodpeckers king birds quail skunks and ground squirrels that kept insect numbers in check.
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