Vegetables Needed For Canning By School Lunch Room
The Grammar School lunch room extends a summer canning program sponsored by the PTA with a 3 1/2 acre garden. They request donations of surplus vegetables for canning and offer pickup by Mr Wilson with his truck. WPA funds pay workers. meals cost five cents each, donations supplement costs. Beginning fall term the program aims to run more efficiently with thousands of cans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grammar School
Parent-Teacher Association
Carol Wilson
May Rainfall Boosts Monthly Totals Across Region
Rain gauge records show 5.81 inches in May up to the current period with 1.90 inches in the last seven days. Through May the five month total is 20.70 inches, 16.42 inches in April and May, while last year for the same span was 19.26 inches. Farmers report limited field work over two weeks. cotton fields need workers, wheat needs dry weather, corn prospers except in flood-affected lowlands, and the onion crop nears harvest pending dry conditions.
Roosevelt seeks $790 million more for defense program
President Roosevelt moves to add about 750 million to the 1.182 billion extraordinary defense fund after Gen. Marshall testified on the need for stronger antitank weapons light machine guns and new anti aircraft gear. Congress would also fund 1,800 new planes and a 1.2 million upgrade for the NACA Langley laboratory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Roosevelt
Congress
George C. Marshall
House
Army
National Advisory Commitee For Aeronautics
Langley Field
Four Proclamations Filed by Governor O Daniel
Governor O Daniel filed four proclamations in the Secretary of State's office setting dates for Tomato Week in Texas from June 3 to 9 Flag Day on June 14 Flag Week June 8 to 14 and Daily Month in Texas for the month of June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
O’daniel
Secretary of State
Texas
Homemaking Summer Credits Highlight Local Program
Miss Frances Williams details the summer homemaking program at the high school offering extra half credits for at least 100 hours of work. Students in six communities meet weekly with group projects ranging from refinishing furniture to sewing, with an Achievement Day planned for students and parents.
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Frances Williams
The
Sun
Whitewright
Ely
Orangeville
Pilot Grove
Little Rock
Bethel
Evereryone
Fannin and Grayson Vote On Soil Districts In Texas
Texas voters approved 9 of 10 soil conservation districts while Grayson Collin Rockwall failed 841 to 981. Fannin County backed 692 to 108 and Collin 233 to 678, Rockwall 285 to 14. The districts would provide government services for soil improvement under a unified plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soil Conservation
Texas
Grayson-Collin-Rockwall
Fannin County
Grayson-Collin- Rockwall
Dalworth
van Alstyne
Grayson County
Sherman Serre Sogat Nie
Adeemess
Pilot Grove
Dorchester Porno Sk Eeceseeines
van Alstyne Howe
Depics Meanabedielbaese Whitewright
RIG
Gus Nobel
Denigon
Collin County
Rockwall County
Soil District
Natural resources could fund Texas social security says professor
University of Texas economist Dr. R H Montgomery told a round table that using natural resource profits to raise state funds would not harm extraction or jobs and could boost circulation in Texas business. He cited gas, carbon black, sulfur, oil pipelines, and oil as examples of out-of-state ownership and profits. He urged taxing from resource profits rather than consumer sales to meet state needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
R. H. Montgomery
University of Texas
Montgomery
United States
Standard Group
Louisiana
Red Cross drives urged as city tallies gifts
About $50 in Red Cross funds were received at the city office and will be sent to the Grayson County Red Cross Chapter in Sherman for national relief. Mayor F M Echols urged more contributions as needs grow for Belgian and French war sufferers. Norman Davis reported that millions are needed to aid refugees and victims amid heavy fighting, with oversubscription urged to speed relief. Practically every Texas county has laws regulating fishing activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Echols
Grayson County
Red Cross
Sherman
Norman Davis
France
American Red Cross
Tigers to face Indians in Legion Park rematch
Whitewright Tigers meet Oklahoma Indians of Colbert at American Legion park next Sunday at 3 p m. after a 6 0 win in Colbert. Manager vows stronger lineup, Crow to pitch again after two shutouts, Parker Thomas debut added fire for Tigers. Local fans expect a strong game.
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Whitewright Tigers
Oklahoma Indians
Colbert
Okla
American Legion
French Withdraw Col Lindberghs Honorary Title
The Trench and Air Association ordered cancellation of Col. Charles A Lindberghs honorary membership in the Lafayette Escadrille because of his May 19 speech It said the speech violated the spirit of American volunteers and insulted fallen comrades in the Escadrille
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Trench and Air Association
Charles A. Lindbergh
Col. Lindbergh
Lafayette Escadrille
Lindbergh
Atlantic
Escadrille
Grayson Exes Reunion Planned For June Ninth
Arrangements are complete for the Grayson College ex students second annual reunion on Sunday June 9 beginning at 10 a m. The program includes chapel service welcome address by Mrs Jennie Crittenden sermon by Rev H G May memorial service a noon dinner in the gym two hours for fellowship and an afternoon of songs addresses and a business meeting ending with Auld Lang Syne Joe Pender leads songs and Mrs Pearl Truett Johnson accompanies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exstudents
Grayson College
J. L. Truett
America
Jennie Crittenden
L. J. Truett
McKinney
H. G. May
Bonham
E. L
Joe Pender
Denton
Pearl Truett Johnson
Dallas
National defense commission named to push wartime production
President Roosevelt forms a seven member defense commission drawn from government, business and labor to speed production of planes engines guns and other defense goods. A 10 percent income supertax and higher taxes on beer liquor tobacco gasoline are planned to raise at least three billion dollars in five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
National Defense Commission
Congress
Defense Commission
Edward R. Stittinius Jr
United States Steel
William S.knudsen
General Motors
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Chester C. Davis
Federal Reserve Board
Ralph Budd
Burlington Railroad
Leon Henderson
Securities Commission
Harriet Elliott
University of North Carolina
Supertax
Capitol Hill
Germans Victorious in Northern France
The Allies retreated from Flanders as Dunkerque flooded to cover the last sea port. German forces gained control of northern France while Allied forces organized a southern front along the Somme and Aisne. Belgians and French soldiers continued fighting amid fires, floods, and bombardment as Dunkerque remained a key contested position.
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Paris
Flanders
Dunkerque
France
England
Somme
Aisne
Leopold
Jean Marie Abrial
Nieuport-Dixmude
Aisne-Somme
Texas Cotton Output Drops in 1939 Harvest
Texas produced 2,846,000 bales of cotton in 1939, an 8 percent decline from 1938. Harvested area totaled 8,500,000 acres, down 3 percent. The lint crop was valued at $124,104,000 versus $126,994,000 prior year, with 13 pounds higher yield per acre. Cottonseed value fell to $25,259,000 from $28,778,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Agriculture Department
Psychiatry Could Have Halted War Warns Scientist
Alfred Korzybski of Chicago told the American Psychiatric Association that a scientific reading of Hitler's Mein Kampf could have revealed a pathological mind and warned that thousands of young men might have been saved if experts had analyzed the work years earlier. He urged psychiatrists to alert politicians to risks rather than let such writings go unexamined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
Flanders
Adolf Hitler
Alfred Korzybski
Chicago
American Psychiatric Association
Korzybski
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Fannin
Grayson Area
Legion Park
Sun Office
Travelers Safety Service
Grayson Exes
U. S. Defense
Labor
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