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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1935
Page
4
The week of March 4 to 9 is State Clean-Up Week urging citizens to remove winter filth and rubbish from homes and towns. Residents should burn burnables and place unburnables in receptacles for city pickup, with little cost beyond labor to beautify and keep the town healthy.
A public service notice warns boys about kite flying near electric lines. It stresses the risk of death if kite strings or copper wire tails contact high voltage. Parents should alert children and contact the power company for help removing entangled kites.
California 2 percent tax affects 35 percent of people with 5 percent average, others up to 6 2/3 percent. North Carolina plans 4 or 5 percent after counties raised ad valorem taxes. Michigan relief shifts burden to sales, West Virginia 2 percent with 6 cent item taxed at 16 2/3 percent. Pennsylvania hesitates. Ohio 3 percent plans. gasoline tax rises. Merchants and consumers broadly oppose general sales taxes. favored by large owners and politicians.
The Durant Daily Democrat urges urgent relief for Washington's security program. It highlights eight hungry Chicago children taken in by police after their father’s theft and the mother’s death amid hardship, stressing any plan must avert such tragedies.
A Dallas Journal column laments rising meat costs as part of a planned economy. It cites AAA policy missteps and forecasts general price increases toward 1926 levels. It urges cautious buying and price shopping for readers while noting meat remains the exception.
A Texas legislator clashes with a sterilization bill over Old Testament injunctions to be fruitful. The Wichita Falls Times argues sterilization limits the burden on society from those with inherited mental, physical, or moral weaknesses and upholds public welfare.
The Dension Herald critiques David Wilentz as a Jew and notes two Jewish Supreme Court justices Brandeis and Cardozo aided the administration’s gold policy. It argues Joseph should lead agriculture, recalling Joseph’s famine strategy in Egypt and warning that without a Jewish Joseph we face wheat imports, tenant farmer relief, and dependence on abroad.
The Detroit News argues that criticism since March 1933 targets Roosevelt's plans but does not warrant abandoning his leadership. It urges readers to discern the critics' motives and to watch who truly steers the nation as it recovers from the crash.
Harvard College expands its school of business administration to cover public as well as private business. Dean Denham argues public service requires thorough training, citing World War and current crises. Universities and city managers already push for better educated public officials.
A Denison Herald analysis contrasts Soviet propaganda with on the ground reports from Ukraine. It cites 6 million peasants starving, millions of horses dead, and guards shooting peasants over grain. It notes the home paper coverage of community events and personal milestones in contrast to broader censorship.
A prominent local citizen with property and financial influence did not subscribe to his home paper. The piece notes his refusal as an example that would ruin local journalism, while his wife hosted a swell reception and the paper offered a favorable account of the event.
The Normangee Star reports a family asked for multiple copies and a card of thanks without payment, and a local minister, former resident now elsewhere, asked for a free copy with funeral coverage. The paper notes some men demand prominence yet never appear on the home paper’s list.
A comic exchange follows a thief admitting a mistake saying he heard a dance orchestra when twirling safe knobs. The second burglar questions the claim, creating a humorous punchline about the mistaken pursuit.
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