County One Act Play Contest Set for Next Thursday
Grayson County Interscholastic League will stage a one act play contest March 27 at 7 30 PM in the local High School auditorium. Whitesboro will perform Luncheon for Six Whitewright presents Feet First and Van Alstyne will offer an as yet unnamed work. Casts include Whitesboro Wilmuth Wendt Betsy Rice Frances Smallwood Charles Jones Rudy Randles Jimmy Tom McDonnell J W Hayes Nancy Weems Whitewright performers Marie Ward Dale Marie Robbins Ben Robert Jones Tracy Stephens Una Fae Blackerby.
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Kathryn Roddy
Grayson County
Whitesboro
Whitewright
van Alstyne
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
Northern selectees find Texas climate and rattlesnakes a mystery
First army selectees arriving at Camp Wolters Texas from Ohio and nearby states describe Texas as a tough but inviting place. They want milder weather and fear rattlesnakes while noting diverse backgrounds from Cleveland and Cincinnati. The barracks hold a cross section including Jules Alfonso and Howard Anthony among others as they adjust to training.
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Wolters
Ohio
Texas
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
I Ain't Nebber Lost My Religion
The speaker at a testimonial gathering in the church confesses past sins including robbing hen roasts stealing hogs lying drinking gambling and cursing but asserts he has never lost his religion highlighting a moral twist in a rustic speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Mose
Brudders
Texas Declares Fire Prevention and Clean‑Up Week
The Texas Health officer announces March 30 to April 6 as Clean-Up and Fire Prevention Week. State and city campaigns promote health protection, fire loss reduction, and public safety with malaria control, garbage disposal, and neighborhood clean-ups citywide.
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Austin
Geo. W. Cox
Texas
Texas State Department of Health
Texas Fire Insurance Commission
Texas A
Break Greece Crisisnarrows as Italians Seek One More Albanian Victory
Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Italy asks Germany to delay attacking Greece until it revisits Albania while Britain readies air defenses for the Greek mainland. British sources warn a blitzkrieg is unlikely in the mountainous Struma region as Greece and Britain shore up their first defense line.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Italy
Germany
Albania
Romania
Bulgaria
Greece
Athens
Europe
Struma
Savoy Postmaster W. P. Carter Dies at 62
Funeral services for W. P. Carter 62 Savoy postmaster were held at his residence with Minister Warren E. Starnes officiating. Burial was in Sunnyside Cemetery. Carter born in Kentucky 1878 came to Texas as a child and lived near Van Alstyne before Savoy. Surviving wife son J. D. Carter two daughters Mrs Roy Cherry and Mrs Vere Sullinger all of Dallas two sisters Mrs George Cullar of Baird and Mrs Alma Swinney of Savoy.
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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
New Variety Store To Be Opened Here
Ben Ball and Maggie Horton rent the lower floor of the Masonic building to open the Whitewright Variety Store around April 1. Carpenters redecorate interior and expect occupancy in a few days as plans for a formal opening are announced.
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Ben Ball
Maggie Horton
Whitewright
Roosevelt creates 11 man board to aid defense labor peace
President Roosevelt formed an 11 member board led by Clarence A. Dykstra to help settle labor disputes in defense industries. The group includes public representatives like William Hammatt Davis and Frank P. Graham and labor leaders such as George Meany George M. Harrison Philip Murray and Thomas Kennedy. Employers are represented by Walter Teagle Roger Lapham Eugene Meyer and Cyrus Ching. The board acts when the Labor Secretary certifies disputes threatening defense production and not solvable by the department's conciliation service.
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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
Aluminum Utensil Trade Told It Is Out of Business
The National Defense Priorities Board told 60 members of the Aluminum Utensils Manufacturers' Association in Washington that they cannot obtain aluminum in the future. The ban on aluminum pots and pans is the first total restriction since the defense program began, affecting 21,000 workers who must shift to defense items or idle.
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Cleveland
National Defense Priorities Board
Defense Contract Service
Robert L. Mehernay
Mehornay
Linbergh posts cards jab at British softness story
Harold Nicholson recalls telling Col Lindbergh that Britain is not soft after raids. He notes Lindbergh, once his tenant at Long Barn Sevenoaks, receives postcards asking if Britain remains soft. Nicholson shares distance from New York to Buenos Aires and voyage times.
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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
O'Daniel Pension Bill Fails in Texas House
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel's social security finance bill faced a 71 to 62 defeat in the Texas House after an earlier 71 to 63 vote to move it to floor action. The measure would be dead for the session unless a two-thirds vote suspended House rules, ending any chance for Senate consideration and easing political pressure on lawmakers. The tabling motion, pushed by Rep. G. C. Morris of Greenville, ends the effort for now.
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Austin
W. Lee O’daniel
House
Senate
O'Daniel
G. C. Morris
Greenville
Donovan Will Tell Of Europe's War Report
Secretary Knox said Col. William J. Donovan would make a report to the Nation soon on his observations of the European war. Donovan just returned from abroad and spent an hour briefing the Navy general boards chiefs of bureaus and senior Army officers.
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Washington
Knox
William J. Donovan
Donovan
Navy
Army
Texas Farmer Income Reaches 3 Year High
Texas farmers collected a total cash income of 579,192,000 in 1940. The Austin marketing service report cites earnings from marketings and government payments, noting 1937 648,019,000 1938 523,357,000 1939 575,461,000 as prior year figures.
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Austin
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture Marketing Service
Marketing Service
Juror Illness Pauses Koll Slaying Trial in Sherman
The Koll murder trial halted after juror M F Geer of Van Alstyne fell ill with acute appendicitis during an early recess. Prosecutors allege Louis H. Koll shot Geraldine Graham in a Sherman hotel car isle amid a Dec 26 night incident. Hubbard testified he saw a flashlight, then a shotgun blast. Miss Graham died from four large lead slug wounds. A second shell with substituted slugs was found in Koll's room, and a warm double barrel shotgun was recovered as officers battered a locked door.
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Koll
Buchanan Hubbard
Hubbard
Graham
Marine Recruiting Officer to Visit Sherman Next Week
Postmaster Tom J. Lilley announced a U S Marine Corps recruiting officer will visit the Sherman post office for four days beginning Monday March 24 to examine and enlist men. Recruits will go to Dallas for exams and on to San Diego for training. Eligible are single white men 18 to 30 who completed grammar school. Those registered for selective service but not yet called may enlist if they act now.
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Tom J. Lilley
United States Marine Corps
Sherman
Dallas
San Diego
California
Marine Corps
Grammar School garden campaign raises forty four dollars
L E Ricketts reports 44.56 raised toward the WPA school garden and canning project with many donors including Mrs. Montgomery and Leon Simmons. An extra garden row will grow vegetables for lunch room meals this spring with potential canning for future use.
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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 Hartvey-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
L. 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 Harvey-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
Betty Joe Hamilton
Adam Pearl Henslee
Mary Helen Hill
Johnny Nell Massey
Macdean Roper
Wanda Dell Sanderson
Betty Margaret Sears
Norma Smith
Elba _ Ridle
Jimmie Bartlett
Houston Garner
Miss Lucille Sanders
Fred Ray Garner
Eugene Reeves
Roy Taylor
Polly Ann Brown
Margaret Burnham
Dorotha Mae Clark
Mary Dale Fields
Paul Jean Garner
Janis Horton
Katie Kincaid
Pauline Owen
Aurelia Penny
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
Bugler Seth Flint Dead Credited With End Of Civil War
Seth M. Flint, 93, died Tuesday night of a heart attack in Worcester New York. He served as a bugler with General Ulysses S Grant and was at Appomattox for the Lee surrender. He claimed to have sounded the signal that ended the war. Sweden shipped 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 two hundred thousand dollars in road bonds. The court order states each commissioner will receive twenty five thousand dollars a year for two years to build farm to market roads. Bonds run twenty years at up to three per cent 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 report says Edward G. Robinson paid 3200 for the President Roosevelt campaign hat at the Gambol of the Stars auction. He split the bill with Melvyn Douglas and donated the funds to the Screen Actors Guild motion picture relief fund. The sale was conducted by Edward Arnold and Ken Carpenter.
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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 1864 Grounds for Divorce in Army Service
Atlanta report notes a Georgia 1864 law allowing divorce if the husband serves in the U S military. Attorney Stephens Mitchell, related to Margaret Mitchell, found no repealer but adds that Civil War-era service to the Union was controversial then. The act remains in law unless repealed.
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Atlanta
Georgia
United States
Notaries Public To Be Renamed Notaries Public
Secretary of State W. J. Lawson announces all current notaries will be automatically reappointed for a two year term from June 1 1941 to June 1 1943. Existing notaries need not apply unless seeking reappointment. new applicants must apply by May 1 1941 with correct names and addresses.
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W. J. Lawson
Lawson
Secretary of State
Shooting Affray Sends Local Woman to Hospital
Mae Helen Henderson a Whitewright resident with pistol wounds to the stomach remains in St Vincent's Hospital Sherman after a shooting in the front yard of her home early Sunday. Lucy Mae Freedman a 26 year old Whitewright resident has been charged with assault to murder and released on 500 bond. The Sherman justice court filed the charge as constable E B Simmons and City Policeman George Bennett transported Freedman to the county jail.
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Mae Helen Henderson
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Sherman
Lucy Mae Freeman
Whitewright
E. B. Simmons
George Bennett
Fox Terrier Reunites With Mother and Six Puppies
A fox terrier wandered into the Forty-First Division receiving hospital in Camp Murray Washington Tuesday. A medical officer intervened as she faced expulsion, ordered a burlap basket, and the mother and six puppies are doing well.
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Camp Murray
Wash
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Lindbergh
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