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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
8
Martinez California Navy veteran Ernest Kenneth Steels 26 described five days trapped in a wreck near a busy highway. He spoke as doctors weighed amputation of his mangled right arm after being rescued by two power line workers who threaded wire to reach him.
London Tass reports Soviet cotton growers aim to harvest over 16 bales per acre this year, a yield five times the previous harvest. The dispatch notes the goal reflects rapid expansion of cotton production in the USSR and indicates ambitious agricultural targets for the season.
A dispatch reports cotton planting in Central Asia and Transcaucasia increased by 412 500 acres this year over last, noting no data on last year’s total. The message ties gains to Nile Valley growers and reflects broader regional shifts in cotton cultivation.
Charles Skaggs is elected president of the veterans vocational class with Robert A Scott as vice president and Houston Darwin as secretary treasurer. Rex Cruse teaches the class in Sherman, with H D agent Zelma Moore assisting the wives club formed to focus on canning, upholstery, and kitchen improvements.
A $2.50 bounty on coyote pups in Grayson County draws livestock men as 33 pups were paid in two weeks. One man turned in 11 pups near Pottsboro while the county also offers $5 for each grown wolf. Only four bounties were paid on grown wolves this year amid holiday-related bank closures.
Jack Coombs a voice teacher told a husky male singer after an audition that he would be wasting his time The applicant then landed a haymaker that knocked Coombs back into a chair in Philadelphia
Purdue University’s Dr. Henry Haas said on Tuesday that hangover free whisky could be produced from petroleum if acceptances of hard drinks from oil wells rise. He claimed the whisky would taste as good as the best grain liquors and would lack fusil oil, the ingredient blamed for hangovers.
Dr. A Vernett Sanders a St Louis dentist says he found a penny in spinach at a local restaurant causing dental damage. He filed a $5000 damage suit in St Louis Circuit Court claiming a thousand dollars loss from the incident.
Shawnee on Delaware Pennsylvania reports that longer skirts this fall will render 80 percent of American women's wardrobes obsolete, according to Mack Gordon, president of the Linder Coy Women's Specialty Store in Cleveland.
Henry Wallace announced at a news conference that he will form a liberal third party if his national speaking tour convinces him the Democratic Party cannot be liberalized. He aims to test liberalism’s strength in America during his swing through the nation.
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