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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun outlines subscription terms and advertising rates for events such as entertainments and box suppers. It cites corrections policy, discusses prison life article, praises Rayburn Dam support, notes Montana wreck deaths versus US auto fatalities, and comments on pensions for ex-congressmen, fruit farming success near Charley Howard’s orchard, and recurring spring fruit crops after freezes.
A correspondent from Oklahoma City traveled to harvest fields to test job availability. He found work within four hours, earning $1.50 a day with board, noting farm labor is reachable but grueling. Farmers need hands as relief work draws away workers, and permanent positions may open for willing long hours. The piece concludes that hard labor without marketable skills remains a barrier to employment.
The Honey Grove Signal Citizen notes that tomorrow is Father’s Day and urges sons and daughters to write or visit their fathers. It acknowledges that some fathers do not deserve love, yet most have been kind and self sacrificing, deserving praise and joy from their children.
Snowball the Spitz returns home to Houston after wandering from Odessa Texas in March. He traveled an estimated 600 miles, crawling into his owner's yard where he was found by his relieved family.
The Christian Science Monitor portrays Snowball the loyal dog who wanders across the state to reunite with his family. Despite weariness, his joyful tail signals a reunion as readers are urged to care for pets during vacations and avoid neglect or abandonment.
AUSTIN. Corsicana leader Lowry Martin, president of the Texas Good Roads Association and a Texas Traffic Safety Council vice president, urged a financed endowment to fight traffic accidents in Texas. He proposed an annual traffic officer training school, a traffic research bureau, and other projects to study traffic problems, calling for a wealthy Texan to fund and sponsor the effort.
Dr. Philip L. Howe of Palestine announces his candidacy for Congress in the seventh district challenging Nat Patton of Crockett. Running on the United American party ticket, he backs a guaranteed minimum wage of 200 to 600 dollars monthly, supports price supports for cotton and wheat, student bonuses, universal pensions, and a steep tax scale with 10 percent on incomes up to 600 and 100 percent on amounts above 600.
Philadelphia doctor Harry M. Eberhard told the American Institute of Homeopathy that many deaths from acute indigestion are caused by heart attacks triggered by cold desserts or drinks after a hearty meal. He said chilling the stomach halts digestive juices for about 30 minutes, then they surge to compensate, risking chronic diarrhea and related complications.
Fort Worth candidate for governor W Lee O'Daniel told a Sherman audience he does not pay poll tax. He blamed professional politicians for Texas troubles and said many citizens skipped voting to avoid the $1.75 poll tax fee, including himself.
Cleburne. Governor candidate Tom F. Hunter pledges to amend the present motor carrier law to end weight limits he says discriminate against shippers and favor one industry. He says he will cut state costs by over 15 million yearly by eliminating duplicative boards, consolidating tax collection, and enacting a budget law.
Corpus Christi reports Dr William E Wills a local physician burned eight ledgers containing debtors from as far back as 43 years in the incinerator. He said he does not expect to live long and believed he could not collect anything anyway. He burned the books to stop worrying though he hopes debtors will understand all debts are cleared.
Dallas report notes swimming instructor W F Foster of Southern Methodist University recommends a simple cure for heat illness. Mix one level teaspoon of salt in each quart of drinking water to prevent sunstroke heat exhaustion and heat cramps during hot weather.
Texas Governor James V. Allred urged a safer Fourth of July with simple rules: walk and drive carefully, avoid drinking and driving, be cautious in swimming, and refuse to use explosives or fireworks. A stray note adds a quirky item about packaging cheese in sausage casings for slicing.
College Station Texas A M College poultry specialist says fowl pox, a common poultry disease, is controllable by vaccination. Symptoms include yellow blister like growths on the comb and wattles, nasal discharge, and eye canker. Vaccination age is one to three months, with careful handling of cockerels and non vaccinated birds. Isolation, iodine application, argyrol for eye involvement and weekly soda water rations aid care.
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Lynn Mass The Wei Weis, primitive Indians of Northern Brazil, were described by Dr William Hall Holden New York explorer as the healthiest people alive None had tuberculosis syphilis cancer heart trouble or other diseases of civilization He credited their health to a simple diet no overeating no stress and no worry about money or keeping up with the Jonses
In Ventura County near Somis a 4.5 acre hayfield slid nine feet. A baling crew could not access the site. Soil engineer H R McConnell cited a fissured field with 50 to 100 foot depths and about 500000 cubic yards of earth moved. The note adds a fact about chrysanthemums.
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