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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun notes post office mailing as 2nd class matter and lists charges for entertainments and memorials. Publisher J. H. Waggoner and editor Glenn Doss set ad rates and correction policy. The issue also features book reviews and a short obituary anecdote about a hometown editor.
Plan now for large scale canning this summer as OPA Administrator Bowles announces continued push to boost home vegetable supply. Vic tory gardeners led last year with ring beans and other staples. this year crowding out rationed items, women canned heavily. Whitewright area gardeners face late start due to February rains but plows and spades are active this week. Pressure canners and sealers are available for purchase to cut living costs and reduce reliance on market supplies. Lend-Lease and war finance are discussed, with 14 percent of war dollars aiding allies and 86 percent invested domestically. Congress is expected to extend the act.
The article argues that the United States must rely on allies to secure a durable peace. It notes Russia’s need for American supplies and cites British recognition of American contributions. It emphasizes cooperation with the Russian armies, British Navy, RAF, and Commonwealth land forces as essential to timely force mobilization.
The report notes recaptured ground on the Anzio beachhead and Gen Mark Clark's reassurance while warning the European front demands sustained effort. It reveals the bold plan aimed to cut German lines and seize Rome, with the enemy reinforcing Cassino and shifting troops from Italy and Yugoslavia to counterattack.
The narrator sits in a Damascus hotel near Straight Street observing markets and shops. He notes a Damascus Weaver studio with a 12 foot warp and a busy young weaver, and compares travelers to those in India. Night sounds bring distant, strange music as he reflects on foreign city life.
The Clifton Record notes editor Baldridge on giving respectful hearings to politicians and readers recalling Mark Twain who valued a free, vigorous writing style and disliked punctuation constraints.
The passage recalls Twain prefacing an article with punctuation lines and notes on readers. It cites his famous quips about weather and the exaggerated death report and his joke that more people die in bed, so he would avoid sleeping there.
Monrovia physician Dr. Robert W. Gorham promotes horse trading as a cure for worry boredom or fatigue. The Monrovia doctor began swapping during his youth while working in a Long Beach boatbuilding shop.
A man begins by trading a rowboat for another and another until he builds a 34 foot yacht worth 1500. He swaps a bulldog for a five acre Arizona ranch then for an airplane sold for 430. He trades a bass clarinet for an iguana and sells it for 25. He ends with 42 Shetland ponies given away and nearly furnishes his home by swapping.
Mrs Florence C Meyers 40 a war worker seeks a divorce from Wilbur S Meyers Saturday. She says she fed the couple pets and had to sit with them at meals while he earned his living from street entertainments with the dog and monkey.
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