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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
4
Notice lists charges for entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission or monetary consideration. Includes memorials resolutions notices and corrections policy and states weekly publication and annual subscription pricing.
The Savoy Star, established in 1902, will cease with the June 24 issue announced by publisher Mrs. J. B. May. The paper reflects on its long service, notes rising costs, and laments the loss for the town of Savoy after decades of publication.
In Morris County Naples faced losing its fifty eight year newspaper due to low ad patronage. A meeting secured pledges from forty five of forty six firms to sustain weekly ads and keep The Monitor operating. The paper highlights continued town support for servicemen and urges families to patronize advertisers.
The piece notes rising living costs and a thriving black market as pressure mounts for higher wages. It argues these demands threaten to erode protections against inflation, highlighting the squeeze on average citizens and the broader economic strain felt domestically.
The Fort Worth Press denounces the $10,000 fines for Anaconda Wire and Cable Co and officials in a war fraud scheme. The court spared prison, fining the company and managers while other defendants received smaller sums. The paper again urges higher penalties to deter such acts endangering soldiers.
Detroit's Hastings Street faced race rioting with white owned stores smashed and looted. Negro shopkeepers surveyed wreckage as Army escorted reporters found smashed interiors, torn glass, and deserted blocks spanning three miles. Ben's Shoe Store owner cried over fifteen years of effort ruined.
Grayson County reports a continued drop in school age children for 1943 44 with 14 355 total as of April 1 down from 14 953 last year. Independent schools gain 10 while common schools fall 608 with a net loss 598. Losses hit Collinsville Howe Whitewright. Whitesboro up. Sherman gains 4 and Denison 88.
Military authorities investigated false reports of race rioting in downtown El Paso that prompted soldiers from Fort Bliss to respond. Private Paul V. Brown of the 367th Searchlight Battalion was shot and critically wounded by a fellow Negro soldier during the incident.
Army officials say a white sentry shot and killed Private Otis Garnier, a Negro in the 394th Coast Artillery, after Black soldiers attempted to seize weapons due to gun shortages. They cite false rioting rumors in El Paso stemming from a knifing and a separate shooting by Black civilians.
In College Station a Texas A M expert urges faster cotton harvest by training top pickers to improve efficiency. With labor scarce during wartime, H P Smith of the Division of Agricultural Engineering suggests adopting war training methods to boost picking speed and reduce fatigue.
The article notes skilled clover pickers use balanced left and right hand motions and plan ahead to place the next ball. Mr Smith describes wrist movements that slip cotton from the plant without breaking the ball, avoiding arbors and burrs as the harvest proceeds.
Ensign Winslow Beckwith of West Newton Massachusetts and Pvt Walker Beckwith on the same layover in Kansas City wrote home. The brothers, separated for a year, stayed in the same hotel the same night but have not yet met.
Mrs. Bob Cantrell dislocated her knee in a fall from a bicycle about three weeks ago. She was admitted to Allen Memorial Hospital Sunday where doctors placed the knee in a cast after treatments failed to respond.
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