County One Act Play Contest Set for Next Thursday
Grayson County Interscholastic League presents a district one act play contest March 27 at 7 30 pm in the local high school auditorium. Whitesboro performs Luncheon for Six, Whitewright Feet First, Van Alstyne to announce its title. Cast lists include Wilmuth Wendt Betsy Rice Frances Smallwood Charles Jones Rudy Randles Jimmy Tom McDonnell J W Hayes Nancy Weems Marie Ward Dale Marie Robbins Ben Robert Jones Tracy Stephens Una Fae Blackerby.
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Kathryn Roddy
Grayson County
Betsy Rice
Frances Smallwood
Charles Jones
Rudy Randles
Jimmy Tom McDonnell
J. W. Hayes
Nancy Weems
Whitewright
Marie Ward
Dale Marie Robbins
Ben Robert Jones
Tracy Stephens
Una Fae Blackerby
Northern selectees from Ohio report Texas climate at Camp Wolters
First army selectees from Ohio and other Northern states arrive at Camp Wolters Texas. They describe Texas as a tough ruddy state with weather and rattlesnakes their top curiosity. The group includes Jules Alfonso former Minnesota Gophers star and other Ohio workers joining a year of military training.
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Wolters
Texas
Ohio
Lone Star State
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Akron
Canton
Fort Harrison
Ind
Fort Thomas
Indiana
Jules Alfonso
Minnesota University
Gophers
Northwestern
Alfonso
Cleveland Rams
Minnesota
Columbus Bulls
Sherman Bartimus
Bergholz
Howard Anthony
Painesville
James C. Bargaria
George Barwich
Harold Andonian
Richard Mansfield
Canton Steel Mill
Homer McCartey
Daniel Louie
Never Lost His Religion at Testimonial Gathering
In a church testimonial, Old Mose declares he never lost his religion despite admitting past sins like stealing ham and hogs, lying, drinking, gambling, cursing, and swearing, noting one certainty he has kept.
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Old Mose
Brudders
March 30 to April 6 Fire Prevention And Clean-Up Week
The annual Clean-Up and Fire Prevention Week runs March 30 through April 6. State and city campaigns statewide aim to protect health, reduce fire loss, and boost public safety. Sponsored by the Texas State Department of Health and Texas Fire Insurance Commission, it emphasizes prevention and cleaner communities.
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Austin
Geo. W. Cox
Texas
Texas State Department of Health
Texas Fire Insurance Commission
Give Us Another Try At Breaking Greece
Belgrade reports say Italy urged Germany to wait to strike Greece until it gains another Albanian victory. British defenses rapid in Southern Greece as RAF and anti aircraft units bolster key points. Germans doubt a quick blitz through Balkan mountains near the Struma front.
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Greece
Hitler
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Italy
Germany
Albania
Romania
Bulgaria
Athens
Europe
Struma
Savoy Postmaster W P Carter Dies at 62
Funeral services were held for W. P. Carter 62 Savoy postmaster at his home with minister Warren E. Starnes officiating. Burial followed in Sunnyside Cemetery. Born in Kentucky 1878 he arrived in Texas as a child and lived near Van Alstyne before moving to Savoy. Surviving are his wife a son J D Carter two daughters Mrs Roy Cherry and Mrs Vere Sullinger, and two sisters Mrs George Cullar and Mrs Alma Swinney.
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Savoy
W. P. Carter
Warren E. Starnes
Church of Christ
Ardmore
Okla
Sunnyside
Mr. Carter
Kentucky
Texas
John L
Martha Carter
van Alstyne
J. D. Carter
Roy Cherry
Vere Sullinger
Dallas
George Cullar
Baird
Alma Swinney
Whitewright Variety Store to Open in Masonic Building
Ben Ball and Maggie Horton lease the lower floor of the Masonic building and will open the Whitewright Variety Store by April 1. Carpenters and painters redecorate interiors and expect occupancy in a few days. The store will offer a full line of goods typical of a variety shop, with a formal opening planned around April 1.
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Ben Ball
Maggie Horton
Whitewright
11 Named To Help Keep Labor Peace
An 11 man board was created by President Roosevelt to settle labor disputes in defense industries. The board, led by Clarence A. Dykstra, includes public and labor and employer representatives and will act when the Labor Secretary certifies a dispute endangering defense production and not resolvable by conciliation services.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Clarence A. Dykstra
Dykstra
University of Wisconsin
Selective Service
William Hammatt Davis
New York
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
George Meany
American Federation of Labor
George M. Harrison
Ohio
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
AFL
Philip Murray
Pennsylvania
CIO
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Thomas Kennedy
United Mine Workers of America
Walter C. Teagle
Connecticut
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Roger D. Lapham
California
American Hawaiian Steamship Company
Eugene Meyer
Washington, D. C
Post
Cyrus Ching
United States Rubber Company
Secretary of Labor
Labor Department
Aluminum Utensil Trade Told It Is Out of Business
The National Defense Priorities Board told 60 Aluminum Utensils Manufacturers' Association members in Washington they cannot obtain aluminum for future production. The ban, the first total restriction since the defense program began, affects 21,000 workers and shifts output to defense items, with possible subcontracting to airplane manufacturers.
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Cleveland
National Defense Priorities Board
Defense Contract Service
Robert L. Mehernay
Mehornay
Lindbergh Postcards Jab At Britain In War Banter
Harold Nicholson recalls a wartime flavoured quip from Colonel Lindbergh. He told Leicester listeners that after raids he sends Lindbergh postcards asking if Britain is still soft. Nicholson, who was Lindbergh’s landlord when the aviator stayed at Long Barn in Sevenoaks, notes the distance from New York to Buenos Aires and travel times by sea.
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London
Harold Nicholson
Ministry of Information
Leicester
Colonel Lindbergh
Nicholson
Charles A. Lindbergh
Long Barn
Sevenoaks
Kent
New York
Buenos Aires
Gov O Daniels Pension Bill Dead In House Vote
In Austin the House killed Gov W Lee O Daniels deficit financing bill worth 26 820 000 by a 71 to 62 vote after an earlier 71 to 63 move to floor. The measure cannot be revived this session unless two thirds suspend rules, leaving Senate vote unlikely. Motion to table came from Rep G C Morris of Greenville.
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Austin
W. Lee O’daniel
House
Senate
O'Daniel
G. C. Morris
Greenville
Donovan Will Tell Of Europe's War
Secretary Knox said Col. William J. Donovan would report soon to the Nation on his observations from Europe. Donovan has just returned and spent an hour briefing Navy general boards chiefs of bureaus and senior Army officers on technical details.
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Washington
Knox
William J. Donovan
Donovan
Navy
Army
Texas Farmer Income Reaches 3 Year High
AUSTIN The Texas farm income for 1940 totaled 579 192 000 the highest since 1937 The figure from marketing service includes marketings commodities under loan and government payments It lists 1937 648 019 000 1938 523 357 000 and 1939 575 461 000.
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Austin
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture Marketing Service
Marketing Service
Juror Illness Delays Koll Slaying Trial in Sherman
The Koll trial paused after juror M F Geer fell ill with acute appendicitis prompting a medical delay. Hubbard testified seeing a flashlight and a shotgun blast from Koll's room after parking in the hotel yard. Geraldine Graham died from multiple shotgun wounds. officers found shells with substituted slugs and a still warm double barreled shotgun.
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Koll
Buchanan Hubbard
Hubbard
Graham
Marine Recruiter to Visit Sherman for Enlistment
Postmaster Tom J. Lilley announced a U S Marine Corps recruiting officer will visit the Sherman post office for four days starting Monday March 24 to examine and accept men for enlistment. Recruits will go to Dallas for exams and then to San Diego for training. eligible men are 18 to 30, single, white, with grammar school education.
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Tom J. Lilley
United States Marine Corps
Sherman
Dallas
San Diego
California
Marine Corps
Grammar School Garden Drive Raises Fourty Four Fifty Six
L E Ricketts principal reports forty four dollars and fifty six cents raised for the WPA school garden and canning project. He lists many 25c contributions from students and families, plus outsiders and local businesses, noting the extra garden row will supply vegetables for spring lunches and possible canning surplus.
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L. E. Ricketts
Grammar School
Mrs. Montgomery
Ann Harper
Leon Simmons
Gene Stephens
Glenda Ray Murphy
Joyce Hansard
Carol Jeanne Kilgree
Edith June Mayo
Betty Harvey-Brooks
Jimmie Christian
Jim Allen Spinks
Billy Matt Watson
Miss Lilley
Gladine Harper
Conway Craig
Gwendolyn Clark
Bobbie Janway
Don Ray Mullinix
Don Stephens
Joe Earl Call
Cordell Taylor
Frances Layman
Charles D. Simmons
Joan Anthony
Peggy Clark
Lorene Simmons
Gwendolyn Kent
Gene Stubblefield
Billy Earl Brown
Jack Badgett
Murrell Brown
Louise Gibson
Gene Bush
James Ross Hall
Nanny F
Laura Jean Wilson
Betty Blackerby
Joy Hope Turner
Sallye Hamilton
Betty Bryant
Martha Dee Williams
Joe Vestal
Jaclyn Nossaman
James Wortham
Billy Don Wood
George H. Hansard
Margaret Greer
Johnnie Mack Greer
Mildred Brown
Dwight Smith
Lydia Fagan
Thomas Fagan
Grace Williams
Bobby Dale Blanks
Billy Jack Blackerby
Pat Gray
J. A. Harper
James K. Johnson
Buford Justice
Lonnie Myrick
Loren Paul Ryan
Gene Trotter
Clarence Tipps
Harold R. Vineyard
John Mac Vestal
Alan Mharvey-Brooks
Marjorie Bridgewater
Nalda Ray Brown
Marjory Jo Buchanan
Irene Kent
Geraldine Bush
Elda Fae Cambron
Betty Ann Darwin
Joanne Grammer
Helen Gordas
Betty Lou Ingram
Louise Owens
Peggy Stephens
Bessie Sanders
Ella Sanders
Billy Jean Wallace
Evaline Fagan
Jeanette Harvey-Brooks
Milton Fagan
Alice Davis
Betty Lou Reeves
Sabina Reynolds
Jack McSpedden
Jimmy McSpedden
Miss Mona Sullivan
Bobby Neal Witt
Billy Earl Henslee
David Johnson
Dan Kent
Terry Max Miller
M. H. Mullens
James Reeves
George Simmons
Arthur Stephens
Marea
Billy Joe Norris
Oulia Lee Wilson
Bettye Nell Yeager
Don Newman
Mary Lee Hughes
Bessie Jo Russell
Henrietta Jackson
Charles Turner
Mildred Kent
Billy Jo Phillips
Gladys Reeves
J. D. Hughes
Thomas Brown
Dorothy Mitchell
Buford Garland
D. W. Garland
Laverne Kilgree
Louise Wilson
Mary F. Call
Sarah Gould
Dorothy Auten
Farley & Hill
Morgan Food Store
Gordon Grocery
Jim Simmons
Mr. Perry
Masserang
Tignor
Tom Lilley
Royce Jones
Ricketts
Bugler Who Ended Civil War Dies at 93
Seth M. Flint, a Worcester New York resident, is credited with sounding the bugle call that announced the Civil War’s end. He served with General Grant and was at Appomattox when Lee surrendered. He died Tuesday night of a heart attack at age 93. Sweden ships 2000 ready made houses to Finland to aid war evacuees.
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Worcester
N. Y
Seth M. Flint
U. S. Grant
Flint
Appomattox
Robert E. Lee
Finland
Sweden
Petition Seeks $200000 Road Bonds in Fannin County
A petition with over 150 signatures asks the Fannin County Commissioners Court for a county wide election to issue $200,000 in road bonds. The court order set compensation of $25,000 annually for two years per commissioner to build farm to market roads. Bonds run 20 years at up to 3 percent interest with an ad valorem tax to retire them.
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Fannin County Commissioners Court
Roosevelt’s Hat Sells For 3200 Dollars at Auction
Hollywood reports Edward G. Robinson paid 3200 for President Roosevelt’s campaign hat at a public auction. He shared the hat with Melvyn Douglas, with proceeds donated to the Screen Actors Guild motion picture relief fund. Edward Arnold and Ken Carpenter led the sale for the guild.
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Hollywood
Roosevelt
Edward G. Robinson
Caesar
Melvyn Douglas
Robinson
Jean Hersholt
Edward Arnold
Screen Actors’ Guild
Ken Carpenter
American Federation of Radio Artists
Guild
Georgia Civil War Era Divorce Law Cited
In 1864 Georgia law allowed divorce if a wife could prove the husband served in the United States military. Attorney Stephens Mitchell notes no repealer found, dating the law to Civil War Union Army service being shameful in Georgia.
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Atlanta
Georgia
United States
Notaries Public To Be Renamed Notaries Public To Be Renamed
Secretary of State W. J. Lawson announces reappointment of all current notaries for a two year term from June 1 1941 to June 1 1943. No action needed for existing notaries. new applicants must write with correct name and address by May 1 1941.
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W. J. Lawson
Lawson
Secretary of State
Shooting Affray Leaves Woman Wounded in Sherman Yard
Mae Helen Henderson, a Whitewright Black woman, is in St. Vincents Hospital Sherman with pistol wounds to the stomach from a shooting in the front yard of her home early Sunday. Lucy Mae Freedman, 26, Whitewright Black woman, faces assault to murder charge and was released on 500 bond after arrest by Constable E B Simmons and City Policeman George Bennett.
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Mae Helen Henderson
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Sherman
Lucy Mae Freeman
Whitewright
E. B. Simmons
George Bennett
Fox Terrier Finds Safe Spot at Camp Murray Hospital
A fox terrier crept into the Forty-First Division receiving hospital at Camp Murray Washington and was about to be ejected when a medical officer intervened. He ordered a burlap basket for the dog and her six puppies. Mother and six puppies are doing well.
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Camp Murray
Wash
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Lindbergh
O’daniel
Marine
School Garden Drive
Fannin Co
Notaries Public
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