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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
13
The Reflector describes Cox rejoining the S. S. High School crew as graduation port welcomed with tears. Some crew members signed onto the S. S. Higher Learning or the S. S. Home Making, while others stayed on land.
A playful will from the 1938 senior class lists numerous bequests among classmates and juniors. Rex Brown nicknamed Speedy leaves his conquests to Donald Hudgins, while Herman Riddle wills beauty to William Janway. Other bequests name students and roles across class lines with lighthearted tone.
Whitewright High School closes its 1938 baseball season with a 9 win 5 loss record in 14 games for a .640 percentage. It notes this is the first hard ball team the school has fielded in several years. The team will lose the following players and outcomes.
The team lists Starr Phillips Newman Sears Hughes and Riddle as players this year while Everheart Harrison and Pritchett are slated to return next season. Starr stands out as a strike-out pitcher and Phillips Everheart Newman and Harrison form a strong infield. The feared outfield comprises Sears Hughes and Pritchett. They played Dodd City Windom Trenton Ladonia Van Alstyne the Ringers and the local colored boys, scoring 101 to 97.
The seniors bid a heartfelt farewell to their teachers and classmates as they close their school days. They express gratitude for teachers efforts and guidance and vow to uphold the institution's honor and reflect credit upon it in the years ahead.
Seniors reveal destinations after graduation with Boyd Newman, Jack Jernigan, and Hamilton Vestal aiming for Baylor at Waco, Sarah Belle Gillette and Fred Starr to T. C. U. in Fort Worth, Norma Frances Donigan weighing Hockaday S M U or Rice, and others entering N T A C Draughon’s or Texas Tech.
District Judge J D Moore ruled the new state firemen's pension law constitutional. The American Alliance Insurance Company and others challenged a 2 percent premium tax funding the pension funds. The judge ordered bond in lieu of tax collection while the case proceeds, with higher court review pending. Four of five motor vehicle accidents occur on dry roads in clear weather.
The Bonham Herald chronicles Savoy near Bonham Texas, noting a population around 500, active commerce, Savoy College with 200 annual attendees, multiple churches, and an economy centered on ships of eggs butter fruit wheat oats and cotton. It recalls the May 28 1880 cyclone that razed the town killing eleven and wounding about sixty, then details recovery and ongoing export levels aided by surrounding agricultural district.
The Sun lists party candidates for the 1938 Democratic primaries including Congress 4th District SAM RAYBURN in Grayson County for Representative Place 1 J H Waggoner for County School Superintendent Sewell R McKinney and Ed Miller for Sheriff J Benton Davis John C Eyridge and P M Porter with Harold Doss seeking re election as Public Weigher Precinct 3
W Lee O Daniel oper ator of a Fort Worth flour firm and broadcaster filed with the Democratic Executive Committee to run for Governor, paying 100 dollars and presenting a platform centered on the Ten Commandments and Golden Rule. He says his pledge comes from citizen wishes and notes more than 57 000 Texans urged him to run. He adds he has no political experience and would run the state like a business if elected.
Washington reports cotton gin ners may become an agency to prevent inaccuracies in allotments under the new farm act. A bill, passed by the Senate and before the House, would require gins to maintain county production records of all cotton ginned and a record of the cotton ginned. It presently does not require records of cotton produced in other counties.
The text notes that ginners need not record county of origin for Farmer Brown's cotton, but 1938 farm act apportionment relies on five year county averages. This affects how cotton is allocated to Green and White counties based on past production.
Philip Feinstein, 60, sues for separate maintenance alleging his wife Elsie, 51, suffered health decline after his snoring. She says she had to stay at a sanitarium to recover. Feinstein counters that she nagged and damaged his health, claiming he became an invalid. Wisconsin's central tree nursery at Wisconsin Rapids lists five thousand seed beds on 100 acres with annual capacity of 25 million trees for state reforestation.
Washington estimates the potential credit expansion of Roosevelt's lending program would reach 39 billion dollars. If spending began at 38.29 per minute in year one, it would take 1,938 years to exhaust the funds. With the actual program total of 4.512 billion, spending would be 4.43 dollars per minute for 1,938 years to deplete it. By year end, about 1.108612 trillion minutes have elapsed since Christ's birth.
An old style drugstore promotion asks if your gums itch burn or irritate then offers a money back promise from Kirkpatrick Pharmacy for the first bottle of Leto's if it fails to satisfy.
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