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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
3
The piece urges farm families to grow and preserve foods to cut dining costs and improve nutrition. It lists yearly household requirements for milk eggs meat and produce, notes most items can be produced locally, and argues home production saves money for modern goods while promoting annual planning and planting.
A Texas speaker warns that cotton underpins the state's economy and social fabric. He cites 1923 cotton cash income of $748.6 million and 1938 drop to $155.4 million, plus acres fallen from 19 million in 1923 to under 10 million in 1938, foretelling wide mortgage foreclosures and mass shifts to poultry, dairying, cattle, and sheep farming. He urges Texans to unite and confront the impending collapse.
Evanston Ill 1939 Northwestern education professor Dr Shirley Hamlin analyzed 1120 male students to find a shift toward secure dignified careers. Three quarters plan to enter professions like doctors lawyers engineers while only a quarter of their fathers were professionals. Few favor selling despite 82 fathers in that field.
In a playful dialogue a couple banters about love and memory. The man bursts with a humorous twist admitting he often thinks of his pleurisy, interrupting the romance with a medical joke. The exchange highlights old fashioned wit and lighthearted courtship.
Several new students joined Porter School Joy Morris Billy Morris and Floy Ford. Local families welcome visitors and guests as neighbors circulate in Clarksville Bonham and Sherman areas. Church and farm life noted with neighbors hosting and visiting relatives as townsfolk share news and social calls.
College Station report shows an average of 175.7 eggs per hen in 1938, nearly triple the state average of 63. More than 20,000 people, including 3,650 4-H boys and 6,469 4-H girls, participated in poultry improvement programs. The extension service notes improved breeding, feeding, culling, sanitation, and disease control drove the gain, with 12,676 flocks treated for internal parasites. Eggs averaged 21.2 cents per dozen, production cost 10.8 cents, feed cost per hen $1.52, and demonstrator flocks yielded $1.60 per hen profit over feed.
COLLEGE STATION Texas A and M College Extension Service horticulturist J F Rosborough notes breeders are developing hardier more vigorous vegetable varieties including Nantes carrot Sweet Spanish onion Honey June sweet corn and Katahdin Irish potato. He urges home gardeners to trial new types while continuing to plant old standbys until proven.
Rosborough endorses several varieties for farm storage and market uses. The Sweet Spanish onion is favored for late summer to winter with good keeping. Honey June sweet corn, bred by Texas A and M, excels for early roasting ears and canning. The Katholin Irish potato, white fleshed and large, yields higher than Cobbler and Triumph and stores well. County agents can obtain these new varieties.
Robert Wadlow, 21, billed as the world's tallest man at 8 feet 8 inches, lost a $100,000 libel suit against Dr. Charles Humberd after a federal jury in St. Joseph Missouri found in Humberd's favor. The case challenged an American Medical Association Journal article describing Wadlow as apathetic and unfriendly. The verdict leaves intact his related suit against the medical journal. Meanwhile over 60,000 Tokio residents live on barges navigating the city canals.
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