Final Exercises For Local Schools Tonight and Friday
Grammar School graduation ceremonies occur at 8:30 tonight in the school auditorium, followed by High School commencement at 8:30 Friday in the gym. The programs include processions, invocations, class songs, awards, and diplomas, with top students Edith Harper and Alice Cato among the honorees.
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Grammar School
Sarah Kilgree
E. P. Wootten
Joan Huseman
Dorothy Lynn Aldridge
Betty Lou Key
Billie Jean Wallace
Billy Mack Williams
Betty Ann Darwin
Betty Reeves
American Legion Awards
B. W. Newman
Preston Everheart Post
E. C. Butler
Edith Harper
Alice Cato
Madgene Phillips
Ben Robert Jones
Robert Owen
Sun Unearths 1933 W. H. S. Class Roster
The Sun revisits the High School graduating class of 1933 listing ten-year alumni. Names include Noel Ashinhurst Frank Clark J M Dixon J B Harrison Clarence Jones and others. This archival roll commemorates the decade since graduation.
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Noel Ashinhurst
Frank Clark
J. M. Dixon
J. B. Harrison
Clarence Jones
D. E. McCoy
Joe Thomas Meador
Dick Montgomery
N. B. Nicholson
Dee Robbins
Ross Wilson
Billie White
Agnes Coffey
Marie Foster
Luna Mae Garner
Ruth Gosnell
Elizabeth Hedgpeth
Sarah Janway
Elizabeth Keeling
Pauline Magers
Lucille Maynard
Dorothy Medearis
Frances Montgomery
May Myrick
Maurine Pierce
Frances Pope
Edith Ryan
Mary Jo Sears
Lois Smith
Edna Earl Stateville
Emma Claire Vestal
Laura Jo Williams
AFL to Test Antilabor Laws in Texas and Other States
The AFL executive council plans court tests of antlabor statutes in Texas Arkansas Kansas Colorado South Dakota and Idaho. They praise William Green for urging unions to disobey until courts rule constitutional and note anti labor bills promoted by reactionary groups nationwide. A New Jersey shopper jokes about price ceilings on a floor mop.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Texas
Arkansas
Kansas
Colorado
South Dakota
Idaho
A. F. of L
William Green
W. Lee O’daniel
Christian American Association
The
Houston
New Jersey
Methodist Church Work Underway
Contractor Jim Simmons of Sherman leads a crew repainting insulating walls re varnishing woodwork and rearranging the choir loft at the Methodist Church. Recent work includes a new roof repainted exterior a heating system and a new Sunday school building with kitchen and equipment plus a pipe organ and memorial windows.
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Jim Simmons
Sherman
Methodist Church
Governor Signs Bill Raising State Pension Ceiling
Governor Coke Stevenson signed a law increasing the monthly old age pension ceiling to 1 900 000 dollars from 1 750 000. The bill by Ennis Favors of Pampa adds 150 000 monthly, eligible for federal matching, benefiting about 184 000 pensioners. Administrative costs remain about 90 000 monthly, funded from federal funds. J S Murchison says he asked the comptroller how much money will be available for June pension payments.
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Austin
Coke Stevenson
Ennis Favors
Pampa
Ben H. Sharpe
Paris
J. S. Murchison
Department of Public Welfare
George H. Sheppard
Public on Honor With Duplication In Canning Sugar
Canners with prior certificates for five pounds may use stamps 15 and 16 only if fruit supply requires it. Authorities urge conserving both certificates and stamps and limit canning sugar grants to more than ten pounds per person only when fruit on hand justifies it. Stamp 12 also valid for five pounds non canning sugar through May 31.
Farmers Must Submit Butter Ration Report Denison
Denison ration board requires farmers selling butter since March 29 to file reports by May 31. Forms available by writing or visiting the ration office. reports must show pounds sold and points collected, with monthly submissions and stamp turn ins to follow.
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Denison
Denison Ration Board
E. Jones
Ration Office
Pay-As-You-Go Plan Approved by Tax Conference
Tax conferees reached a compromise on 1943 taxes featuring a 100 percent forgiveness for those owing $50 or less on 1942 earnings and 75 percent forgiveness for those above $50. The plan delays 25 percent carryover payments, imposes July 1 1943 withholding, and includes windfall anti-abuse rules. Estimates predict millions affected. final vote 11 to 3 in the House.
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Washington
House
Senate
Collin F. Stam
Joint Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue
Stam
Treas
Robert L. Coughton
Dem
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
Coughton
Roosevelt
How the compromise tax plan affects 1942 and 1943 bills
Washington explains the new plan with examples. John Doe’s 1942 tax is canceled and his 1943 bill rises to 60 with payments already made credited. Richard Roe pays the larger 1942 tax of 100, abating 60 of the 1943 bill and owing 20, payable in two installments.
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Washington
Congress
John Doe
Richard Roe
Doe
Roe
Man fears useless talent in life’s lesson parable
A man laments having only one talent the pastor counsels using it as in a parable. The man replies his talent is criticism and the pastor advises him to apply it as the man in the parable did.
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Plutarch
Soldiers and families: wartime notices from Whitewright
Wartime roundup lists Pvt Preston Hefner at Camp Maxey and Pfc Glen Fleming at Chanute Field plus Dean Tomlinson in Syracuse. Navy fireman Chesley Rutledge Jr and Lt Walter Bogle stationed in New Orleans and New Orleans addresses. Sgt Norris welcomes newborn Eldona Sue. Lt F M Williams sails to Trinidad. Os and Nor riss report messages from North Africa and Marfa Field. Also updates on Pfc Brady McCafferty as POW, Sgt Glen Watson return and Roosevelt meeting, Tech Sgt Billy Smith heading to cadet training, Capt Walter Holmes decoration, Lt Col Robert Brittan POW in the Philippines, and family communications through Red Cross.
Attu Island Breakthrough Deepens As Japanese Defenses Collapse
U S forces press final assault on Attu Island with air support from Liberator and Mitchell bombers. Chichagof Valley falls, disrupting Japanese positions near Chichagof Harbor and Lake Nicholas, enabling a push toward harbor area and rapid cleanup.
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Washington
Attu Island
Aleutian Islands
Navy
Chichagof Valley
Chichagof Harbor
Lake Nicholas
Chichagof
United States
Texans Drink Less Than U S Average
Texas per capita consumption in 1942 averaged 11.79 gallons of alcohol, below the national 16.01 gallons. Texans drank 0.73 spirits 0.48 wine and 10.58 beer per person. many were non drinkers, stills were seized, and curfew law details set Sunday sale limits and weekday hours, with Dead Sea fact noted.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Liquor Control Board
United States
Mexico
Oklahoma National Guard officer chooses service over resignation
The captain of infantry in the Oklahoma National Guard faced federation in 1940 and chose to go with his company. He was promoted to major before leaving the country and later became a lieutenant colonel in the Philippines.
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Oklahoma National Guard
National Guard
Col. Brittan
Philippines
Election Would Divorce Schools From City Control
The City Commission and Board of Education ordered a June 22 election to dissolve the Whitewright municipal school district and form the Whitewright independent district. Ed LaRoe will oversee the vote with four assistants, amid long community demands to separate schools from city governance.
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City Commission
Board of Education
Whitewright Municipal
Whitewright Independent
Ed LaRoe
W. H. Horton
A. T. Short
A. F. Nossaman
Sun
Frills Out During War Women Told
Washington reports the War Production Board bans extravagant trimming on women's clothing after July 1 or as the war continues. The order limits trimming, bans double breasted suits and jackets, and sets yardage caps for fabrics while allowing essential features and certain exemptions for service auxiliaries and taller women.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Armed Services
Soft cheeses added to rationing in June
The War Food Administration said soft cheeses will be rationed early in June with exceptions for cottage, baker's and pot cheese. Perishable cheeses including cream Neufchatel Camembert Liederkrantz Brie and blue cheese are being added to conserve limited milk supplies.
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Washington
War Food Administration
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Margaret Hanna
Una Faye Blackerby
Katie Kincaid
Virginia Jones
Janis Horton
Etha Brown
Peggy Thornhill
Betty Nell Yeager
G. O. Clough
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
C. J. Meador
W. W. Adcock
AFL
Pvt
Preston Hefner
Camp Maxey
O. A. Hefner
J. E. Smith
Glen Fleming
J. D. Fleming
Chanute Field
812Th Training Group
Atlantic City
N. J
Dean Tomlinson
Army Air Corps
Syracuse
N. Y
E. E. Tomlinson
Chesley Rutledge Jr
Farragut
Whitewright
Oklahoma City
James E. Norris
Eldona Sue
Sergeant Norris
John Norris
Marfa Field
Walter Harris Bogle
New Orleans
Ef Ry
Poland
Dauphine Sts
Bogle
J. L. Kirkpatrick
F. M. Williams
Trinidad
Seabees
F. C. Williams
Whitewright High School
A. A. Hudgins
Donald P. Hudgins
North Africa
Lane Jaquess
Naval Air Station
Norman
Okla
Earl Black
Laredo Air Field
J. D. Lane
Pilot Grove
L. C. Jaquess
Frank Black
Madill
Pfc
Brady E. McCafferty
War Department
B. B. McCafferty
Howe
Brady
Sgt
Glen Watson
E. C. Watson
Battle Creek
Mich
Washington, D. C
Sergeant Watson
Guadalcanal Island
Southwest Pacific
Walter Tom Holmes
United States Army
Eighth Air Force
Holmes
Robert Neil Brittan
Philippine Islands
Mary Rena Penn Brittan
Stillwater
Oklo
Attu Nips
U.S
Liquor Control Board
Dead Sea
Palestine
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