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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1936
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun lists subscription price at 1.50 per year payable in advance. Entered at Whitewright Texas as 2nd class mail matter. Notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials and resolutions will also be charged. Corrections policy provided for erroneous reflections.
An editor and legislator details approved Old Age Assistance for seniors 65 plus, noting monthly sums of 34 for a couple, 19 for a man and 17 for his wife, and 30 for a widow. The state pays half with the federal government matching, and Texas is praised for a generous law versus other states with varying asset rules. The federal appropriation exceeds 1.15 million to pair with state funds for July and August payments.
Whitewright announces its annual American Legion picnic set for July 8 through 11. Local appeal calls for a Red River bottoms farmer to bring a load of large watermelons, aiming for a fresh, juicy fruit to share at the event.
The report notes upcoming thirty day period will be hot for Texas political campaigns. Some momentum was slow to start but time will be made up before July 25. Farmers report good cotton weather while corn needs rain soon or yield could drop.
A Dallas News critique cites a Durant Oklahoma shooting where a woman was wounded by a .22 rifle while a boy fired nearby. The piece argues gun collecting and early toy weapons shape harmful behavior, linking childhood exposure to firearms with later criminal acts and violence.
A Dur ant Oklahoma woman was shot by a .22 rifle while powdering her nose near a mirror. a boy’s rifle fire caused the wound. The piece urges parents to stop giving airguns to children due to serious injury risks and eye danger.
Hamilton Fish Jr. denounces the Supreme Court decision invalidating New York's minimum wage law. He says the ruling will gain 1,000,000 votes for Democrats and urges constitutional amendment to protect women and children from starvation wages. He attacks the Court as ruling for financial autocrats and critiques the Fourteenth Amendment application. San Antonio Dispatch reports.
The Greenville Herald and Greenville Messenger debate long running pork barrel politics. They condemn devaluation of politics to the pork barrel level and warn voters have grown indifferent as the nation becomes Tammanyized.
The International Harvester Company display fills 10,810 square feet in the Transporta tion Building at the Texas Centennial Exposition. It features a replica reaper from 1831, a full sized McCormick Deering harvester, binder twine demonstrations, a modern grain binder knotting mechanism, a milk cooler and cream separators, and the famed mechanical cow. Tractors, power units, and a diesel engine cutaway illustrate advances in farming and transportation, with numerous live demonstrations daily.
The McKinney Examiner argues that both Democrats and Republicans have long practiced pork barrel politics, with the Democrats now in power and showing a hunger for pork that could cost them. The piece warns readers to act before July primaries, noting pork as a political staple and urging early involvement.
Shanghai reports on a medicine exhibition displaying tiger eye pupils tiger joints dried snakes pumpkin stems and other plant animal and mineral derivatives from Central Asia India and the South Seas. English doctor Bernard Read studies these remedies with Chinese assistants evaluating bear paws for colds and bull dung for sores and smallpox scars.
Secretary Roper invited private firms to bid on a liner akin to the Leviathan. The lowest private bid was 13.346 million dollars, higher than the 17.01 million dollar government navy yard estimate. The discrepancy raises questions about efficiency and cost controls in public vs private contracting.
Sam C Johnston pledges to cut government costs by consolidating or abolishing useless boards. Proposes lowering auto licenses to 3 dollars and 3 dollars for lateral roads. Eliminate poll tax and replace with a 25 cent minimum registration. Supports a single legislative house of 31 members. Promises full payment of Old Age Pensions to all over 65 as voted by Texans in 1935. A vote July 25 signals constructive planks and no special privileges.
Federal Communications Commission issues new regulations for televised programs. Licenses may not transmit paid content except sponsor name, with only sponsor logo or product image allowed. Advertising acts must not be solicited by implying both oral and visual transmission. Two frequencies per band allocated for visual and oral use, with interference avoidance. Additional notes mention rose bush roots and Korean traditional dress amid unrelated context.
The Sun lists candidates for several offices in the upcoming Democratic primaries. Names include Sam Rayburn for Congress, Jesse Holt and R M Carter for 15th District Judge, J H Waggoner and J W Adamson for Representatives, and others for District Attorney Sheriff Clerk Tax roles plus public weigher and constable.
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