Nutrition Course Open to People of Whitewright Area
Miss Eva Williams will teach a nutrition course starting in April. The local nutrition committee meets Friday at 8 p.m. in Whitewright High School to plan enrollments and order texts as part of the national defense effort. Attendees include Rotary Club, Friday Literary Club, Music Club, P T A, local churches, doctors, the Mayor, and Red Cross president. The first aid course by Bill Ireland finished last Thursday night.
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Eva Williams
Rotary Club
Music Club
P.T. A
H-D Club
Baptist, Methodist and
Presbyterian Missionary Societies
Church of Christ and Central Christian Church
Red Cross
Miss Williams
Bill Ireland
Ten Commandments for wartime help circulate in California
Gill Robb Wilson, president of the National Aeronautical Association, pens a Decalogue for Southern Californians on how to assist during wartime. The ten points advise staying discreet, avoiding Washington politics, supporting soldiers, conserving resources, and maintaining faith and effort.
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Los Angeles
Tire thief gets sixty day jail sentence
In Houston a jury reduced a two year penitentiary sentence for the first tire theft case since rationing began. Judge Phil Woodruff said the offense was a misdemeanor and the defendant could not be sent to prison, only to jail. The jury returned with a 60 day jail sentence.
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Houston
Phil Woodruff
Government weighs bigger cotton acreage to boost oil supply
Washington officials consider raising cotton allotment and urging farmers to increase acreage to support vegetable oil production. A department survey shows peanut Planting may fall short of goals, risking shortages in fats, margarine, and oils amid wartime supply pressures.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Pearl Harbor
Wickard
WPA to Assist Farmers in Getting Labor in Grayson County
WPA District Manager Gus W. Thomasson announced that the Work Projects Administration will again help farmers in Grayson County secure labor as needed. Qualified workers will be made available through the United States Employment Service, with wages aligned to the local farm job market. The program emphasizes cooperative action to support the American victory program. Argentina's main crops are live stock, wool, grain and flax-seed.
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Dallas
Work Projects Administration
Grayson County
Gus W. Thomasson
WPA
Thomasson
United States Employment Service of Texas
Employment Service
Local Soldiers and Families Share War News
Private Lester M. Martin and Private Robert Wayne Martin, sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Martin, are at Fort Hensley and Fort Leonard Wood after transfers from Camp Wolters. Private Joe Thomas Meador moves toward Fort Sill training. Other locals receive notices of service, transfers, and promotions as families follow Army life during the war.
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Lester M. Martin
Air Corps
Hensley Field
Texas
W. J. Martin
Lester
Camp Wolters
Robert Wayne Martin
Co. A
E. T. Battalion
Fort Leonard Wood
Joe Thomas Meador
C. J. Meador
Camp Roberts
Calif
Fort Sill
Okla
Edgar H. Humphries
Camp Leonard Wood
Joe Humphries
Edgar
Mississippi
University of Texas develops portable quick freezing machine
Vaughan Connor reported that UT engineers Dean Woolrich and Louis Bartlett devised a portable freezing system now under manufacture. The machine can be hauled in a three ton truck and freeze fruit products at 500 to 700 pounds per hour in East Texas peach orchards or the Rio Grande citrus belt.
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Houston
University of Texas
American Society of Mechanical Engineering
Vaughan Connor
Connor
Dean W. R. Woolrich
Louis H. Bartlett
East Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Grayson County Cotton Ginnings Report for 1941
The Census Bureau reports 28 323 bales of cotton ginned in Grayson County from the 1941 crop prior to March 1, down from 50 541 bales in 1940. This marks the final 1941 crop report.
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Census Bureau
Grayson County
Take Profit Out Of War Demand By House Members
Washington in a House naval affairs hearing on war profits. Albert Gore voices strict limits on profits and high tax on excess profits while citing Jack & Heintz Inc. bonuses and Army Navy contracts. Stephen M. Young calls for taxing profits above three percent.
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Washington
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Albert Gore
Dem
Tennessee
Jack & Heintz Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Stephen M. Young
Jack & Heintz, Inc
Razors and Blades Rationed by War Production Board
Washington WPB curtails razor blade and straight-edge razor output. Production limited to enough blades for one per shaver weekly, about 2.4 billion blades in 1942 matching 1940. Expected steel savings about 1 000 tons high carbon and 550 tons low carbon. No broader rationing planned given past rates and anticipated blade quality gains.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
First April Tire Allocations From OPA Announced
The Office of Price Administration announced nearly 500,000 recapped tires will be released next month for taxi drivers defense workers traveling salesmen and others. April quotas include 101,636 new tires and 47,317 recapped tires for passenger cars and 275,523 new tires plus 246,442 recapped tires for trucks.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Texas
Doctor Eludes in Silent Night Incident
A hoarse man unable to speak loudly visits a doctor at night. The doctor’s wife, whispering, asks him to come in and then confirms the doctor is not at home.
Royal Arch Masons To Give Degrees In Whitewright
The Whitewright Chapter of Royal Arch Masons will confer the Mark Master’s degree Thursday and the Royal Arch Degree Friday with three candidates. E. F. James of Dallas, Grand King of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter, will attend likely with other prominent Masons. Meetings start at 8 p.m. both nights and refreshments will be served Friday.
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Whitewright
Royal Arch
Emory Christian
Denison
E. F. James
Dallas
Grand Royal Arch
Physical Experts Develop Civilian Defense Fitness Manual
More than 100 physical education experts and 1,500 volunteers are compiling a civilian defense fitness manual. The guide urges business leaders to pull in their abdomen when the phone rings to strengthen abdominal muscles for potential bomb risk.
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Chicago
America
Whitewright Men 45 to 65 Must Register April 27
Washington announced that men aged 45 to 65 must register on April 27 under the selective service law. The move targets non combatant service with many likely to work in war factories, as about 15 million men fall in this bracket nationwide. Registration excludes those already in the armed forces and allows for pre or post registration in certain cases.
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Whitewright
Washington
Soldier's Bonus At End of War Proposed for Congress
DeWitt Emery of the National Small Businessmen's Association urges Congress to grant a six billion dollar adjusted compensation bonus for veterans. The plan sets $1 daily for US service and $2 daily overseas, with $75 minimum paid on discharge and rest in installments, plus special care for disabled veterans.
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Chicago
Ill
DeWitt Emery
National Small Businessmen's Association
Congress
Rotarian
Continental
United States
Hat Band Bank Failure Costs His Pay Envelope
Anthony Kolesinski, a navy yard worker in Boston, placed his $71 pay envelope in his hat band and forgot it. He removed the hat to shake snow off it, losing the envelope. a fruitless search followed.
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Boston
Anthony Kolesinski
Navy Yard
Anthony
U S Naval Force Smashes Japanese Island Bases
A U S Navy task force raided Marcus and Wake Islands within 1000 miles of Yokohama. The operation, led by Vice Admiral William F Halsey, wiped out defenses, sank two patrol boats, damaged airfields and seaplanes, and caused Tokyo to blackout lights for several nights. One American aircraft was lost at Wake and another at Marcus.
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Washington
Southwest Pacific
Yokohama
Marcus
Wake Islands
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
William F. Halsey
Marshall and
Gilbert Islands
Navy
Wake
Marcus Island
United States
British farmer rehearses tactics for Nazi invasion
London report describes how a farmer facing an imagined Nazi invasion foils a downed airman. A German plane crashes near a home guard post as guards reach the scene and question a survivor who wears burned clothes, only to be efficiently dispatched by the farmer with his fork.
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London
Earl of Cork and
Orrery
Civil Service Exams Announced for Stenographers in Texas and Louisiana
Denison reports the civil service board announces exams for junior stenographers and typists in Texas and Louisiana. Applicants must be 19 to 53, with military preference exempting the max age. Many local applicants left after learning tests were for Washington, D. C.
Fire Dyes Chickens. Farmer Awarded 235 Dollars
Houston verdict awarded Fritz Muesse 235 dollars after an oil pipeline leak from Shell Pipeline coated his farm with black oil. His daughter Mary suffered asthma attack and his white chickens ceased laying, court records show the judge granted damages.
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Houston
Fritz Muesse
Mary
Shell Pipeline Company
Muesse
Ben Wilson
Wilson
Want Ad Section Promises Quick Results For Readers
A local newspaper presents a want ad service promising prompt results for readers seeking goods, jobs, housing, or services. The column highlights contact methods and how to place ads efficiently, encouraging quick responses from advertisers and customers alike.
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Defense
Argentina
Mary Burchfield
Horace F. Burchfield
G. M. Co
Rhd
Fort Lewis
Burchfield
Army
J. P. Freeman
144Th Infantry
Sun
William D. Tomlinson
Selfridge Field
Mich
E. E. Tomlinson
Tomlinson
Army Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Mark Montgomery Jr
Ralph Kaiser Jr
San Francisco
J. W
McMurry
Jack
Jill
McKinney
U. of T
Royal Arch Masons
U.S
Louisiana
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