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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1936
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun notes Monday trades day in Whitewright and invites items for trade or sale. Grayson County reports new courthouse beauty and county pride, with crop prospects improving after recent rains. Texas to begin paying old age assistance on July 1 as over sixty-five thousand applications have been approved.
The Federal Government adds to the list daily as state funds are matched. Texas maintains the most liberal old age assistance statute in the nation, gaining support as citizens become more familiar with its provisions and benefits.
A letter from Trenton Tribune comments on widespread newspaper borrowing, urging readers to avoid lending their papers. It condemns the practice as unfair to paying subscribers and cites Shakespeare and Franklin to argue against lending. The piece ends with a humble nod to education and duty.
The Joint Committee on Printing announced two million extra pounds of castor oil paper bought by Congress for campaign speeches printed and mailed to constituents. Experts say the sizing yields quick drying, though the dry nature of speeches raises doubts castor oil would assist digestion. the paper may affect voters on election day, Pathfinder notes.
The San Angelo Standard notes CASH Nebraska showing a $21,123,935 surplus last week with no income tax or sales levy. Representative Buchanan may head a House committee to explore Nebraska methods to avoid duplications and cut federal costs, a plan Texas legislators might copy. The piece highlights unprecedented government surpluses of the era.
Liberty Hill reports the birth of triplets to Mr. and Mrs. Olly Jay at their home nearby. Joyce and Joyce are girls, Boyce is a boy. The girls weighed four and a half and six pounds, Boyce weighed five and a half. The Jays already have five other children including twins.
Grayson County commissioners finalize coverage for the new county building and contents at 216 850 dollars for three years. Policies cover fire, storm, hail, riot and civil commotion with a separate 50 000 dollar boiler explosion policy. Hall and Birge and T F Aston agencies wrote the policies and commissions will be divided equally among 26 local agents. Judge J J Loy notes it as a first for the county.
Drouth menaced tobacco cotton and other crops across Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama and eastern Tennessee. Damage appeared in many areas though state farm officials avoided firm loss estimates. Hope rests on upcoming rains to prevent disaster as scattered showers prompted cautious optimism.
President Roosevelt signed the peacetime $572,500,000 army appropriation for the War Department for the year ending June 30, 1937. He also approved the four-department bill providing funds for State Justice Commerce and Labor Departments.
In Memphis union leaders pressed for a $1.50 daily wage for cotton choppers and $2.50 for tractor drivers as a three county East Arkansas strike moved toward a court injunction. Five sympathizers were arrested during a picket at Harahan Bridge, which links Tennessee and Arkansas, while Arkansas planters said normal work continued in Crittenden Cross and St Francis Counties. Sharecroppers and tenant farmers were not involved.
Melvin Shires mistook a moving boy in a tree for a squirrel and shattered 9 year old Seymore Lee Jackson's left leg. The boy, son of George Jackson, was up the tree to dislodge a slain squirrel when the accident occurred. He was treated at a local hospital with the leg set between knee and ankle.
Former President Herbert Hoover announced he is not a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. A formal resume from an interview handed to reporters in his Chicago hotel suite states Hoover has no interest in running, has blocked friends from organizing, and has not pledged delegates from California or other states. He says he is not opposing other candidates and remains focused on principles.
Chicago report notes 80 percent of Mortgage Bankers Association members across 36 states believe federal expenditures hinder economic recovery. Secretary George H. Patterson cites widespread concern over deficits creating uncertainty. A single dissenting member says expenditures are not too high.
At a St Louis gathering of about four thousand Baptist ministers James G McDonald editor from New York warned that tyranny in politics and religion threatens liberty here and abroad He, as League of Nations high commissioner for German refugees, argued National Socialism opposes Christianity and democratic freedom.
Buffalo Ny report notes the Sacrooccipital Research Society heard a claim that crawling on hands and knees may stop stuttering. Bertrand de Jarnette of Nebraska City Nebraska attributed stuttering to unspecified causes and suggested the baby crawl remedy.
The University of Texas Bureau of Business Research reports April new passenger car registrations declined 18.1 percent from March but stayed 15 percent above April 1935. First quarter sales rose 15 percent year over year. Texas corporate charters fell 20 and 17 percent from March and last year, while total capitalization dropped.
In Palo Alto California a live stork perched on the car of Dr. M E Rumwell as he drove into his garage Sunday night. The bird then escaped and Monday his daughter in law Mrs Arnold Rumwell gave birth to an eight pound son. The father is the city attorney of Palo Alto and attests to the odd occurrence. Homes of the doctor and his son are nearby.
The society investigates how vocal defects or muscular pull in the diaphragm affect breathing and the body's movement. It examines the bones and muscles to understand these conditions and their impacts on physiology.
Do you really know where to find best values in groceries. We don’t ask you to take our word for it when we say you can buy to better advantage at C. H. Stateville’s. Prove that statement by investigating our prices.
The Civilian Conservation Corps announced a 1936 plan to plant ten million trees in Texas forests at about one thousand per acre. Nationwide this effort targets roughly 375 million trees, with twenty four million in Louisiana and five million in Arkansas.
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