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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1951
Page
3
Local notes list numerous visits and travels among residents: Josh May of Savoy and Guy Anderson of Sherman spent weekends in Whitewright and nearby towns. Many relatives in Sulphur Springs, Dallas, Whitesboro, Sherman, and Houston are visited, with several ill or recovering family members mentioned.
Members of the Little Rock Home Demonstration Club hosted a Washington birthday party with six tables of progressive forty two and visiting games for adults and bingo for children. Refreshments were served to a long list of local families including Fields McCoy Blanks Sloan Bow Belew and others from Meadow. A joke from a tax office and a shop quip are noted as amusements.
A column argues that historical warnings about Socialism persist as England's Labor Socialist government faces food and coal shortages. It cites 1951 meat and cheese rations, influenza deaths, overcrowded hospitals, and idle promises while 16 English visitors in Arkansas witness American abundance versus Britain’s scarcity.
A London report highlights rising prices and tight rations with rail workers earning 18 to 22 a week and cigarettes at 50c a pack. British housewives and voters demand more food or PM Atlee's resignation as steel and iron industries are socialized amid a weary populace. Time Magazine notes strained living conditions driving people to sleep aid pills.
Local lumber and building materials dealers urge careful use of scarce supplies during the emergency. Production restrictions tied to the re armament program have limited materials, affecting Whitewright construction capacity.
Officials warn critical metals like nails pipes gutters and copper will be tight for months. By using only essential amounts and avoiding waste builders can stretch supplies to aid more local projects while lumber cement brick and non critical materials remain available. Steel will be the key conserved metal until production expands to meet defense and civilian needs.
A humorous exchange features an old woman watching a fisherman skin eels and asking about the eels' pain. The fisherman admits pity but says after twenty years he thinks the eels are accustomed to it.
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