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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
4
Notices remind readers of charging policies for entertainments and memorials. The paper highlights wartime bond oversubscription, praise for American resolve, and the thriving Victory gardens with good crops and rains benefiting residents of Whitewright Texas.
A compact cultural fragment recounts Mexico memoranda with notes on ancient Egypt debates and contrasts between Maximilian and Juarez. It highlights Sanborn’s in Mexico City with French and American cuisine, the Henri cafe, and a dining group praising squab. A nostalgic child bedtime remark closes the piece.
Detroit report details a medical account from Lieut. Comdr. E. Rogers Smith on Guadalcanal stress. Marines showed unprecedented nervous breakdowns after combat, with alcohol intolerance and sudden emotional shifts. The enemy allegedly exploited psychology, using night raids and taunting phrases to disrupt sleep and morale.
Major Edward M. Holmes Jr. of Randolph Field told the Public Health Institute that health conditions in Texas are deplorable. He cited crowded urban housing and rural areas with poor drainage and makeshift water supplies as key problems.
He noted state authorities lack quick statistics for public health work. In discussing venereal rates, he said San Antonio in the last six months of 1942 had almost as many venereal cases as Houston and Dallas combined, underscoring data gaps in disease control.
The House voted 265 to 110 to allow citizens of seven Southern states to vote in national elections without poll taxes. A 21-year-old Navy sailor Evan Owen Jones Jr. from Los Angeles interrupted proceedings with a question about voting rights before being removed by capital police.
Jones acknowledged speaking out of turn as lawmakers clash over a bill seen as federal protection for thousands of southern voters. Southern opponents say states may set voter qualifications, while supporters urge federal action to safeguard rights. The measure would ban practices in primaries and general elections. amendments by Sam Hobbs and Clara Hoffman failed on voice and standing votes.
The Price Administrator ordered a seven percent cut in retail potato prices for the 1943 crop and allowed a 30 cent per 100 pounds increase in payments to farmers by halving wholesaler markups. Texas early white potatoes priced at 2.80 per 100 pounds through May 31 and 2.70 thereafter. Onion prices were also adjusted to cap wholesalers at a 40 cent markup per 50 pounds. The impact on consumer prices was not quantified.
Pat questions a shallow basin of water on the lawn. The head gardener insists it is a bird bath. Pat jokes about a bird that cannot tell Saturday from any night.
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