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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
8
Austin report cites nearly two million dollars yearly farm property loss due to fires. State Fire Insurance Commissioner Marvin Hall urges farmers to dry hay and use salt to cut moisture, provide ventilation under baled hay, store ear corn with a central pipe for heat release, and regularly check feed to prevent spontaneous combustion.
Philadelphia firm Progress Manufacturing Company plans to quit after strike rioting at its four story plant. President Frank Rosen says he will sell the building stock and machinery at auction or to the Government and forget the whole affair after thirty years in business. Sun Want Ads.
In Austin the Texas House set a record shortest session by adjourning for more than three days and reconvening at 4 30 p m. Speaker Homer Leonard called the House to order but with 72 members present the motion to adjourn until Tuesday at 10 a m passed after a chorus of ayes.
Farmers in Porter area use a week of dry weather to catch up on raw crops with baling hay threshing and combining in progress. Local social notes mention visits among families and residents from Claude Sherman Whitewright Telecommunication sites plus Betty Jo Rich staying with grandparents D. E. and M. McCoy Sr. Funeral of Mrs. Claude Blanton held in Orangeville.
The average price of middling 15/16 inch cotton at 10 designated Southern spot markets reached 14.57 cents per pound, a new season high, reported from New Orleans.
Navy records show three ships bore the name Texas. The first was an ironclad ram captured in 1865 and sold in 1867. The second, an armored vessel built in 1895, fought at Santiago July 3, 1898, and was later renamed San Marcos in 1911 after being used as a target. The present battleship Texas, sister to the New York, was commissioned March 12, 1914 and serves as a flagship in the Atlantic fleet.
The article details the battleship Texas with its 573 foot length, 106 foot beam, 29380 ton displacement, 21 knot speed, and its 10 fourteen inch guns. It notes modernization, service history from Mexico to Scapa Flow, and the silver service received in Galveston in 1914. It also lists other Texas named ships including the heavy cruiser Houston, light cruiser Galveston, and future Galveston cruiser. It closes noting Brazos oil tanker and other vessels bearing Texas names.
Sherman 40th Battalion of the Texas Defense Guards received official recognition at a ceremony marking the state’s first two way radio review. Maj C Joseph Snyder led 19 officers and 18 plane flight from Dallas. 35 guardsmen joined the inspection at Sherman Municipal Airport. Snyder praised the battalion via short wave radio to Lieut Col Neill W Bannister, who welcomed the unit.
Exiled Czech leader Eduard Benes told a London broadcast that Rudolf Hess fled to Britain after a six month Nazi rift over next moves. Benes said Hess believed he could persuade Britain to end hostilities and that Hitler planned to strike Russia after Britain fell, a misstep he said ended Nazi hopes.
A Aberdeen draper declines a commercial traveler request for a repeat order of elastic saying he could not measure a yard of the last consignment without the stuff snapping. The humorous exchange highlights the draper’s practical stance on quality and supply.
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