Men in Uniform Transfer and Military Family Updates
Sgt Lyndal Bush transferred to Orlando Florida from Leesburg Florida. J B Cates of Jefferson Barracks Missouri visits his parents. C J Watson of Ardmore Oklahoma visits his parents. W R Bixler of Dallas spends weekend with his parents. S Sgt and Mrs Paul Vestal of San Angelo visit relatives. Joe Cleo Smith 17 of Whitewright enlists in Navy through Sherman. Houston Darwin to leave for Rehoboth Beach after visiting parents. Cpl Cecil D Adams returns to unit after arm injury at Camp Livingston. Mrs Herman Bedford returned from visit with husband stationed at Greenville Pennsylvania. promoted from private to corporal. James Gann sent to Great Lakes Naval Training Station for boat training. Aviation Cadet W P Phillips reports to Dorr Field Arcadia Florida for pilot training. Lt and Mrs A L Jackson Jr visit. Jackson en route to Gulfport Mississippi. Pvt Lloyd H Fitch to Kingman Arizona for gunnery course. Mrs Fitch stays with J E Smiths. Weldon Binion now in New York after commissioning as second lieutenant. Cpl Ray D Cline arrives in England. brother Pfc Ray Cline is a Link Trainer instructor at Perrin Field. Pvt James Archie Burden calls mother from San Francisco after returning from Southwest Pacific for hospitalization due to eye infection. awaiting hospital assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pvt
James Archie Burden
Edna Thornhill Burden
San Francisco
Southwest Pacific War Theatre
Archie
Fiji Islands
New Zealand
County Audit for 1943 Reveals Grayson County Finances
Sherman report by county auditor R. C. Neaves presents Grayson County as a large fiscal entity with 1943 receipts of $487,275.04 and disbursements of $476,661.22. Expenditures rose in the officer salary fund, while general fund outlays fell due to reduced welfare program costs. The sheriff’s office ran a deficit, road and bonds issued, and health and child welfare expenses appeared for the first time in the audit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
R. C. Neaves
General Fund
Sheriff's Department
Glen Eden Park
Child Welfare Department
Neaves
Big Families Backed in Tax Bill Debate in Senate
In Washington a Senate debate on a simplification measure proposes a flat $500 exemption for every family member, shifting tax relief to large families while increasing liabilities for childless couples. Senators Downey and Chandler endorse extending college-age child deductions beyond 18, with Chandler calling current exemptions a mistake. The piece also notes the Blanks family visiting El Dorado, Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Senate
Downey
California
Chandler
Kentucky
Baptists To Meet With Bethel Church Tuesday Evening
The Grayson County Baptist Workers' Conference will meet Bethel Baptist Church three miles south of Whitewright on Tuesday evening May 9. The executive board and the Woman's Missionary Union meet at 5, supper at 6, Training Union at 6 45, Sunday School at 7 25, county missionary report at 8 05, district missionary report at 8 15, and a sermon by Rev J F Selcraig of Sherman at 8 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson County Baptist Workers’ Conference
Bethel Baptist Church
Whitewright
Woman's Missionary Union
J. F. Selcraig
Sherman
War Spending Drops in April Records
Washington report shows April war spending at 7.346 billion, down nearly 400 million from March and 200 million below last November. The average daily rate reached 294 million, second high for the year, while ten month total stood at 71.593 trillion across the fiscal year to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Grade Pupils Sing For Rotary Club
The Whitewright Rotary Club luncheon featured a multi grade musical program directed by Mrs. Sarah Kilgree. First, third, fifth, and eighth graders performed to illustrate musical progression under B. R. Caraway. Visitors included Mrs. Arch Talley, Paul Stephens, and Kenneth Woodward. A Friday evening picnic, organized by Russell Summers and a committee, promises a grand time to Rotarians and wives, location to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Sarah Kilgree
B. R. Caraway
Whitewright
Arch Talley
Perryton
Paul Stephens
Kenneth Woodward
Sherman
Rotary
Russell Summers
W. E. LaRoe
Gomer May
Glen Earnheart
Penicillin Sulfa Ineffective in Cancer Says State Doctors
Dr. Arthur P. Stout of Columbia University tells the opening Texas State Medical Association session that penicillin and sulfa drugs are useless against cancer. In a seminar on clinical pathology, about 300 civilian doctors and numerous Army guests study cancer types under microscopes and discuss diagnosis and treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Arthur P. Stout
Columbia University
Texas State Medical Association
Stout
House Group Modifies GI Bill of Rights
The House veterans committee approved the Senate GI Bill of Rights with unemployment benefits cut to 20 dollars per week for up to 26 weeks and loans guaranteed up to 1500 dollars for homes farms or small businesses. Educational provisions were left as in the Senate bill with state and VA administration emphasis. Chairman Rankin said action will follow next week. The Tigris River divided Baghdad into two parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House Veterans Committee
John Rankin
Dem
Mississippi
House
Veterans Administration
Canning Clinic Planned Across County this May
Eleven War Food Committee members met in Sherman to organize county canning clinics. All day sessions occur Denison May 9 Sherman May 9 Whitewright May 13 and Bells May 25 with afternoon meetings at Tom Bean May 15 and other towns. Whitewright event includes gauge testing by Eunice King and Marie Hendricks. demos on drying fruits by Ruth Phillips Steinhauser. spoilage clinic led by King and home economists. and canning demonstrations by Arville Patison. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County War Food Committee
Sherman
Denison
Whitewright
Tom Bean
Bells
Community Public Service Co
Eunice King
Marie Hendricks
Farm Security Administration Office
Miss King
Zelma Moore
Rex B. Cruse
Ruth Phillips Steinhauser
Fort Worth
Arville Patison
Lone Star Gas Company
Transport Sunk By Enemy 498 Lost
Washington reports 498 military personnel missing after an American transport was sunk by enemy action in the Mediterranean. The cause and date are undisclosed with no mention of survivors, while previous wartime transport losses are summarized and contrasted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mediterranean
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
North Atlantic
President Coolidge
South Pacific
Better Auto Tires Are Available Now
Denison ration board declares all B and C gasoline card holders eligible for grade one tires marking first access for traveling men and other occupations. Delays expected as hundreds of applications exceed quota and tires will be allocated by occupation with grade three tires to continue after grade one is exhausted.
Meat Rationing Eases as Most Items Go Free
In Washington the Office of Price Administration announces all meat except steaks and roasts of beef are ration free. Red points drop to half as many per 30 days, with zero points for pork veal lamb mutton and other rationed meats. Beef steaks and roasts retain seven to thirteen points per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Dismantling Underway For Most Desert Army Camps
Italian prisoners from Florence Arizona will dismantle all but one of six major Army camps in the Southern California Arizona desert. Camp Young near India Camp Horn near Yuma Camp Essex and Ibis near Needles and Camps Granite and Coxcomb are to be taken down as they no longer serve the Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
California-Arizona Desert
Florence
Ariz
Army Engineers Office
Army
Young
India
Calif
Camp Horn
Yuma
Essex
Ibis
Needles
Granite and
Coxcomb
Desert
Senate Adds FSA School Lunches To Farm Aid Bill
An omnibus agricultural aid bill passed the Senate by voice vote carrying authority for the Farm Security Administration and federal aid to school lunch programs for two more years starting July 1. The bill returns to the House for consideration of FSA and lunch amendments. Mrs. S E Wallace praised her son Joe Morris Wallace at a birthday dinner with Jimmie Christian Don Ray Mullinix Mack Clabhorn Penn Wootten Gene Stephens and others at Denison Dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Farm Security Administration
Harlan J. Bushfield
South Dakota
Agriculture Committee
House
S. E. Wallace
Joe Morris Wallace
Jimmie Christian
Don Ray Mullinix
Mack Clabhorn
Penn Wootten
Gene Stephens
Denison Dam
Whitewright Asked To Furnish Twenty Blood Donors
The Red Cross Blood Donor Service will visit Sherman on May 15 and Whitewright is asked to supply twenty donors. Ages 18 to 60 may donate a pint and should contact Mrs. Ross R. May by May 8 for appointments. Donors report at 2 20 p m to Travis Street Methodist Church in Sherman and may dedicate their donation to a service member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Blood Donor Service
Sherman
Whitewright
Ross R. May
Travis Street Methodist Church
May
Red Cross
Malta
Disarmament Madness, Halifa x Urges Universal Security
Viscount Halifax, Britain's ambassador, warned that disarmament cannot proceed without a proven security basis. He urged universal application of controls and a firm refusal of one sided infractions, citing Hitler and Japan as warning cases. Senator Tom Connally echoed the need for strong military power to deter aggression while peace is built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Viscount Halifax
United States
Great Britain
American Society of International Law
Hitler
Japan
Tom Connally
Dem
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ector Soldier Killed in Storm at Camp Fannin
Pvt. James J. Cox Jr. 19 of Ector died when a storm toppled trees during night training at Camp Fannin. Also killed was Pvt. Clayton F. Matlock of Baldwin Park California. Seventeen others injured. Cox born January 31 1925 near Whitewright a graduate of Ector High School worked on a pipeline before enlisting March 17. He is survived by his parents and three brothers John Joe and Jerry Cox all of Ector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Cox Jr
James J. Cox
Ector
Camp Fannin
Clayton F. Matlock
Baldwin Park
Calif
Cox
Whitewright
Ector High School
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sgt
Lyndal Bush
Orlando
Fla
Leesburg
J. B. Cates
Jefferson Barracks, Mo
Mrs. C. C. Cates
Pvt. C. J. Watson
Ardmore, Okla
Mrs
Cecil Watson
W. R. Bixler
Dallas
J. A. Bixler
Paul Vestal
San Angelo
W. R. Vestal
Joe Cleo Smith
Sherman Navy
Houston Darwin
Rehoboth Beach
Dela
Lonnie Darwin
Cpl
Cecil D. Adams
Camp Livingston
Herman Bedford
Greenville, Pa
Corporal Bedford
James Gann
John Gann
Great Lakes, Ill
Naval Training Station
Sherman Selective Service Board
W. P. Phillips
Dorr Field
Arcadia
Phillips
W. A. Phillips
Ely
A. L. Jackson Jr
A. L. Jackson
Jackson
Army Air Field
Gulfport, Miss
Dalhart
Lloyd H. Fitch
Sheppard Field
Kingman
Mrs. Fitch
J. E. Smith
Ray D. Cline
S. L. Cline
Blue Ridge
England
Blue Ridge High School
Pfc
Ray Cline
Perrin Field
Irol Blanks
el Dorado, Ark
Baptists
Bethel Church
House Group
Tigris
Bagdad
West U. 9
Lord Halifax
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