Possibility Of Better Train Service For Whitewright
A Whitewright editorial urges improved Katy Railroad passenger service amid tire shortages. Readers request regular stops for the southbound Katy Flyer and early morning trains, plus a northbound stop. Local agent C I Witt reports growing questions and discusses feasible concessions with Katy officials.
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the Sun
Whitewright
Denison
Dallas
Katy
Cotton Belt
Sherman
C. I. Witt
F. B. Griffin
Mr. Griffin
Griffin
Witt
Lone Puerto Rican Objector Now Wants to Fight Japs
Jorge Cabassa Ripoll of San Juan Puerto Rico, a selective service registrant, was a conscientious objector who requested classification. After the Pearl Harbor attack he changed his view, saying democracy and liberty are only understood when liberty is threatened. A note compares a bear's fur to bee-sting protection.
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Jorge Cabassa Ripoll
San Juan
P. R
Selective Service
Pearl Harbor
Ripoll
Universal United States sugar rationing book plan outlined
A wartime plan details universal rationing book issuance for sugar with eligibility rules and required identification. It sets guidelines for registration at elementary schools, special registration for hotels and restaurants, and penalties for false statements. It also notes stamps cannot be saved and must be used within their time frame.
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America
United States
Dallas
Office of Price Administration
Armed Services
FFA Offers Guidance on Insects in Poultry and Fruit
The local Future Farmers of America chapter under Rex B Cruse shares methods to control chicken lice and worms in peaches and plums. They outline egg production risks from lice, a sodium fluoride dust remedy, and a four spray schedule using arsenate of lead and lime sulfur, with cautions about leaf burn and ripening time.
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Future Farmers of America
Rex B Cruse
FFA
Mr. Cruse
Transfer of Soldiers To Own Flag Planned
The War Department announced tentative plans to transfer Americans and former Americans from other nations’ armed forces to service under the American flag. Canadians in the Canadian forces and Canadians in U S forces would be allowed to apply for appointment or enlistment in the U S Army Navy or Marine Corps. Similar agreements are to be pursued with other United Nations once details are finalized.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Canada
United States Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
Washington
Ottawa
United Nations
Depth charge sinks fresh fish into UN ship larder
Passengers aboard a United Nations vessel arrived in New York and reported depth charges dropped on a suspected submarine. Explosions released thousands of dead fish to the surface and the crew calmly gathered the haul, ignoring any lurking U boat danger.
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New York
United Nations
Men in Uniform Receive War Service Updates
Lieutenant Lloyd J. Badgett at Fort Benning reports The Sun is being sent to him. Denison’s Griffin Dollarhide Jr. enlists in the Naval Reserve as storekeeper. Navy recruits Leon Bennett and Othel Stapleton join training and deployment assignments in San Diego and Tiburon respectively. Yeager, Norvell, McMillin, Teague, Morgan, Burchfield, Brittan, Alexander and others share training completions, promotions, and new posts across Fort Benning Camp Shelby Bremerton and Manila theaters as families receive cablegram notes.
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Lloyd J. Badgett
Co. N
Fort Benning
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
Denison
Murry Bryant
Whitewright
Naval Reserve
Leon Bennett
Navy
Camp Kidd
U S. Naval Training Station
San Diego
Calif
Lloyd Morgan
Yeoman
San Diego Naval Training Station
Bremerton Navy Yard
Seattle
Washington
J. E. Morgan
Farmers to Meet Monday Night For AAA Discussion
Arthur Badgett, local AAA committeeman, calls a meeting of farmers for Monday at 8:30 PM in the vocational agriculture room of the High School to discuss proposed changes in the 1943 AAA farm program. Attendees will receive planning sheets and may share ideas.
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Arthur Badgett
AAA
Badgett
Cautionary notice on flying kites near power lines
Community Public Service Company warns children and parents about the dangers of kite flying near power lines as spring arrives. It urges open fields far from lines, no wire strings or metal frames, dry conditions, and not to retrieve kites by climbing poles. Contact a lineman to remove a kite safely.
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Community Public Service Company
J. H. Philley
United States
Philley
Office of Community Public Service Company
More Men Entering Military Service in Sherman Area
Selective Service Board No. 2 of Sherman orders a group to induction on April 2. Whitewright residents James Monroe Dixon Willis Dow Langford Joe Bailey Thomas and N. B. Nicholson are among the group though Dixon may be deferred for mumps. The board has over 5000 registrants on file with hundreds called or volunteering. February registrants likely not classified until May. Questionnaires will be mailed after call numbers are received from Washington. The numbers were drawn Tuesday and will assign call numbers before mailing.
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Selective Service Board No. 2
Sherman
Whitewright
James Monroe Dixon
Willis Dow Langford
Joe Bailey Thomas
N. B. Nicholson
Dixon
United States
Washington
Denison Leads Grayson County in Bond and Stamp Sales
Denison remains ahead of Sherman in Grayson County defense bond purchases with a February total of 91,437.90 and an overall county total of 983,475.65. February sales by town list Van Alstyne Whitesboro Whitewright and others with varying figures through February 28.
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Denison
Sherman
Grayson County
W. L. Ashburn Jr
County Defense Bond Committee
van Alstyne
Grayson
Whitesboro
Whitewright
Bells
Gunter
Hwoe
Collinsville
Tioga
Sadler
Tom Bean
Great Cause Roosevelts Call to Risk for All Citizens
Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed a great cause requires continual willingness to risk body and life. The statement frames civic duty as essential to national welfare and personal character.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Self-Sufficient and the World In Relation
A reflective maxim contrasts independence with dependence. It notes that believing one can live without society deceives, while thinking the world cannot function without them is even more wrong.
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la Rochefoucauld
Board of Education Reelects Teachers and Substitutes
The Board of Education reelected teachers for next year and elected two substitutes for the remainder of the current year. Mrs L O May and Mrs Griffin Dollarhide Jr chosen as grammar school substitutes replacing Mr and Mrs L K Ricketts who resigned to accept Knott and Howard County posts. Superintendent E C Butler handles principal duties.
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Board of Education
L. O. May
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
L. K. Ricketts
Knott
Howard County
Ricketts
E. C. Butler
Butler
D. W. McKinney
Cora Mae Thornton
Kathryn Roddy
Boyd Payne
T. ER. Sears
Eva Williams
R. B. Cruse
MacArthur Given Supreme Command In Pacific Area
General MacArthur received supreme command of all United Nations land, sea, and air forces in the southwest Pacific area, broadening his duties and boosting Allied morale. He arrived in Australia with his wife and son as Maj. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright assumed direct command of American and Filipino troops in the Philippines. Roosevelt stressed non overlapping authority with Gen. Wavell’s new role in India and Burma.
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Washington
MacArthur
Bataan
United Nations
Southwest Pacific
Australia
War Department
Philippines
Roosevelt
Congress
Supreme Command
Harold H. George
Air Forces
Jonathan M. Wainright
Singapore
Sir Archibald Wavell
India
Burma
Misery's Cure and Historic first Views
A Shaw quote on misery and leisure contrasts with a note that Coronado's men first saw the Grand Canyon in 1540. The text links leisure to misery and mentions fish scale solutions used in artificial pearl manufacture.
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Grand Canyon of the
Colorado
Coronado
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OUGAR
Othel Stapleton
U. S. Navy
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Jack Lewis Yeager
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Marie Norvell
Eugene P. McMillin
Army
Camp Wolters
Camp Crowder
R. W. McMillin, Jr
Byron E. Teague
Losey Field
Puerto Rico
G. F. Teague
Sun
Byron
Whitewright High School
Uncle Sam
Clarence
Speedy) Burchfield
Joe Burchfield
Army Reception Center
Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri
Emmet Penn
Neil Brittan
Col. Brittan
Philippine Islands
Mary Rena Penn
Brazwell Alexander
L. R. Alexander
Naval Dental School
Mare Island Navy Yard
George Bernard Shaw
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