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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
8
A Fort Worth Star-Telegram column surveys zoot suit culture from Los Angeles to Fort Worth, compares it with Paris Apache fashion and 19th century Bloomer attire, and traces mass fads, public reaction, and the drift of youth style across eras.
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports a mild outbreak at Fort Bragg North Carolina last summer. Lt Col Worth Daniels and Capt H Arthur Grennan describe Pretibial Fever an Obscure Disease as causing fever and a leg rash with rapid full recovery. An Army Surgeon General commission found no germ cause or transmission method. An August 1940 outbreak occurred in Frens Georgia.
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson says about 100000 civilian employees of 1305 thousand new on War Department payroll will lose jobs within the next six months as the period of expansion is completed.
A feisty kitchen exchange centers on a steak Sonny brought home. The butcher teases about shoes and nails while Sonny retorts that his mother could not sew the nails through the meat.
Congress revealed a $2.92 billion war bill for the coming year with Air Force funding projected to outpace all other military categories. War Production Board chief Donald M. Nelson said air power could deliver a decisive strike, predicting annual air expenditures in the tens of billions by late 1943. Churchill had suggested bombing Germany could help force defeat.
The Byrd economy committee urged immediate dismissal of about 300 000 government employees. The report to President Roosevelt and Congress accused waste and wage increases, citing nonessential roles and inflation risks. It noted civilian personnel rose from 917,760 in 1918 to 3,008,519 and payrolls from 141.5 million to 552.7 million monthly.
A report states the Bureau will implement drastic reductions in overtime pay under the authority granted by the recent war overtime pay act. The move targets cost controls and aligns with wartime funding directives.
The Romanian monarch recounts selecting fourteen youths for government office training. Seven were sent to England and seven to America to study political and economic systems. He notes the English group rose to important posts in Bucharest, while the American group stayed in the United States and thrived there.
A Toledo library reference room received a call about Toledo area wholesale prices and directed the patron to the OPA office. A local handyman, Jackson, tells boastful stories with colorful metaphors about fear and bravery as the staff react to his exaggerated voice and humor.
A Kentucky mountain woman and her husband exchange playful quips about wartime promises of button based power and a buttonless shirt. The tale recaps rough living, shoeless feet, a live coat near the fire, and the woman’s wry question Which foot paw revealing frontier wit.
A distressed young man in a hospital bedsides confession declares love for a nurse and fears recovery will force separation. The nurse replies with a witty note that the doctor is also smitten and witnessed their morning kiss.
Dr Angell of Yale visited Columbia to speak on aggressiveness but chose a misread sign as his topic. He began with Push on the chapel door and told the audience the chief asset is a sign found on a door, Pull.
A teacher asks for an example of righteous anger and points to Gerald who defines it as getting mad enough to cuss but keeping quiet. The exchange captures a moment of classroom humor about restraint and expression.
In a mix up at the camp, a matron asks a girl claiming to be Private Bjorn’s sister if she is family. The girl reveals she is his sister, and the matron corrects herself saying she is Bjorn’s mother.
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