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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
6
Dr. Geo W. Cox, Texas State Health Officer, warns that sun exposure can range from mild discomfort to serious burns and death when combined with complications. Beginners should limit first day sun to 15 minutes and gradually develop tanning. very fair skinned people should avoid sunbathing. Two jokes follow about a worker mistaken for a foreman.
Dallas report quotes A J Leach stating veterans who defeated Germany will be sent to catch tax evaders as part of President Truman’s plan. They will support the Internal Revenue Bureau with an expected return of twenty dollars for each dollar spent. Applicants need accounting knowledge and must pass an oral exam.
Rail travel in the Southwest is reported at its busiest in 30 years as crowds fill trains and cars despite pleas from the Office of Defense Transportation and President Truman. E O Walker notes that money and vacation allowances drive the rush, while a farmer jokes with a parson about Noah loading animals into the ark.
Manila reports reveal bodies of about 120 Japanese soldiers found in an abandoned field hospital in Bayombong on Luzon. Commanders ordered wounded to die by their own hand or be killed, with several bayoneted or shot as they lay in beds.
The 1945 census of agriculture reports larger average farm size up 10 percent and a drop in the number of farms from 499,376 to 488,440 in the first 300 counties surveyed. Total farm acreage rose eight percent, with Western States showing the clearest move to bigger operations. Texas milk production remained largely steady over five years.
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