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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1952
Page
8
The Civil Service Commission reports nine months to April 1 shows 2,380,770 federal workers with 1,104,083 veterans or relatives and 1,055,899 veterans among them. Veterans now compose about 60 percent of male workers and 8 percent of female workers with preference.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced that over 19 000 draft delinquents have been located since peacetime selective service began. Of these, 3 301 were fugitives with 554 convictions. Hoover emphasized prosecutions target the most willful violators while making delinquent men available for service. Lansing is cited as Michigan’s capital.
Senate Agriculture Committee and the General Accounting Office document a multi million dollar fraud scheme in CCC buying flaxseed at six dollars a bushel to prop up prices. Inspectors were stymied by deep car loads and crafty sellers who filled bottoms with dirt and used plugging to steal from taxpayers. No prosecutions or blacklists followed the exposures.
Citation issued to Hazel Maxine Brewer in 1952 for divorce from Claude Pete Brewer on grounds of cruel treatment. Court in Sherman requires answer by 10 a.m. Monday after 42 days from issuance. Case No. 59739 filed June 24 1952. publication in The Whitewright Sun on June 26 July 3 10 17, 1952.
Senator Byrd of Virginia says the government spends all taxes paid by a family of four earning 12000 dollars in exactly one second. The report also notes Lee De Forest holds 300 U.S. patents in radio and talking pictures.
Detroit reports nearly 17 million automobiles in America are nine years old or older with an average speedometer reading of 73,020 miles. The figures come from a booklet The Work Cars Do by the Automobile Manufacturers Association based on a national survey.
A mother teaches gentleness to her pugilistic son Bum Shot Willie but he dismisses the advice. He recalls a clash with a boy who threw stones, noting that reporting it would not help because you cannot hit the side of a barn.
A big brown Jersey cow escaped Monday night from the G. W. Rayon property north of the Bob Sears residence. Neighbors are assisting in locating the missing animal. If found contact G. W. Rayon.
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