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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1934
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun lists a subscription price of 1.50 per year payable in advance. The paper is entered at Whitewright Texas post office as 2nd class mail matter and published every Thursday with a policy to correct any erroneous reflections upon persons or organizations brought to the publishers’ attention.
The Texas Extension Service reports 226 971 cotton contracts totaling 5 395 291 acres signed up to March 1 as part of the 1934 35 acreage adjustment program. County committees will certify performance for second rental and parity payments in July and December.
A pastor urges humility and return to God amid rising tragedies. He notes low church attendance in the county and town, questions where members are on Sundays, and asks readers to attend Sunday schools and services as he begins his second year. He predicts 300 in Sunday school with more turnout.
The preacher recalls a town’s funeral for a man killed Saturday night and ponders life’s uncertainty. He reflects on wartime hardship and democracy, and an obituary typed by an eleven-year-old son about a family facing loss and future care for orphaned children.
Austin reports an extra two dollars per pupil will be added to the sixteen dollar apportionment, bringing total payments to six dollars now and possibly ten dollars by May. Officials say further payments will continue until only two dollars remain unpaid by September 1 for the current session.
About 1500 substitute mail employes marched from Washington Square to the general post office in New York in a protest against Postmaster General Farley’s economy order. They claim the plan reduces pay and would lay off 2000 substitutes here.
Mrs. R. L. West of Huntsville Alabama reported weakness a lingering side pain weight loss and nervousness improved after taking Cardus she continued use for three or four bottles until her side pain ceased and strength returned Cardus sold at local drug stores.
The Texas Highway Commission ordered Highway 116 moved from Gunter north to Highway 5 to extend toward Preston bridge in Grayson County. The panel also considered transferring funds from 116 to 160 to accelerate the Bells to Denison project.
Grayson County Christian Endeavor Union will hold a meeting at Central Christian Church in Sherman on March 19 at 8 p m with an organ recital by Mrs. Jack Hanna 7 45 to 8 05 and a talk by Rev Frank Johnston of Van Alstyne on Evangelism a Challenge to Young People The Austin College quartet under George Case is expected to sing and more than 200 delegates from Grayson County churches are anticipated Grayson County Texas notes growing activity in extension work and publicity efforts.
Washington report says five of twenty one Texas representatives voted against the Patman bonus bill with sixteen supporting it. Named opponents were Hatton Summers and Joseph W. Bailey Jr. of Dallas Fritz G. Lanham of Fort Worth James P. Buchanan of Brenham and Milton H. West of Brownsville. There were no absentees.
About two thousand CWA workers walked off the job in Utica as pay was cut from 50 to 40 cents an hour. Two thousand strikers halted all city projects impacting 2,500 workers and marched to CWA headquarters.
Dearborn Mich The Ford Motor Company announced a blanket increase to a five dollar daily minimum wage for all workers in the United States effective Tuesday The 1933 minimum was four dollars marking the first nationwide raise by Henry Ford since December 1929 when the wage rate was boosted from six to seven dollars Last month officials said small increases were given to 17 000 men and the total affected nationwide could not be estimated
A court of honor meeting at the Scout cabin Thursday evening awarded badges after examinations in scoutcraft. Will Bryant and William Janway passed tenderfoot tests, Albert Lea Jackson earned first aid, and Wal Tom Holmes achieved the first class scout test. Ben Burget of Denison assisted W. L. Stowers with the tests.
Report notes that both men and women who provide telephone service support a policy aimed at a surer, more enduring measure of success in utility service. The statement underscores a commitment by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to improve reliability and user satisfaction through strategic planning.
Mail readers urged to notify any address changes immediately to avoid misdirected issues and save 2 cents per faulty delivery. If a move is anticipated, readers should inform the office a week in advance.
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