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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1937
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun notes Christmas shopping begins soon with forty six days left and warns of rising costs, including Thanksgiving turkey and newsprint. It touts a no-rate increase pledge, offers a special $1.00 yearly rate, and reports on Old Age Assistance investigators shrinking due to a pending tax bill.
The text argues that removing additional workers from the state pay rolls would free funds to finance old age assistance with only a small tax increase. It frames payroll reductions as a solution to fiscal needs and social support programs.
The Dallas News notes a slight recession in business indices tied to consumer resistance to rising prices. It cites Business Week on shoe distributors raising then cutting prices amid leather and labor costs. The piece argues high prices dampen demand across sectors and cautions against deflation while suggesting price stabilization may balance producers and shoppers.
Archie McNeelley and his wife near Italy Texas refused relief in 1932, bought a 60 acre farm with an insurance loan, grew cotton and corn, raised poultry and dairy, paid off debts, sent children to school, and saved for winter taxes. The Dallas Journal argues Texas needs more like him.
The passenger pigeon, once abundant enough to darken skies in vast flocks, went extinct within a few years as market hunters systematically killed adult birds at night roosts.
A historic claim attributes every ivory billiard ball in use globally to a human life lost. The remark highlights the human cost of the ivory trade and hunting for elephants thus underscoring conservation concerns and ethical debates surrounding luxury goods.
In Washington the House Agriculture Committee favored acreage controls to limit plantable land while letting farmers grow and sell within fixed tillable area. Proposals include soil conservation payments, an ever normal granary, and a dual price plan for crops with exportable surpluses tied to a possible equalization fee.
In Dallas Dr George W Cox urged public broadcast of venereal disease data at a Texas Public Health Association meeting. He said 600000 Texans have had venereal disease and 70000 new cases arise each year with 24000 syphilis and 46000 gonorrhea. He called for a $500000 state-wide program and noted Texas ranks 38th in public health funding.
W F Cato 50 former Garza County sheriff for a decade was found with a bullet wound at his home after a gunshot heard. Justice of the Peace ruled suicide after investigators, with the sheriff and county attorney, considered despondency from financial reverses. Cato, once acquitted in a 1935 murder case, had run a blacksmith shop in Southland after losing a sixth term bid in 1936. He had previously lived near Pilot Grove in Grayson County.
A survey notes sixteen quacks advise drug or patent remedies by name while seven urge a visit to a genuine physician. In Germany a renowned glass factory employs workers with an orchestra and they perform on instruments fashioned from glass.
The term electricity derives from electron while the Green word for amber links to the ancient belief in electric spirits. The note contrasts linguistic roots and historical associations for these materials and concepts.
The church schedules Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Epworth League meets at 6:15 p.m. Pastor Joe M. Connally signs the notice.
Dr B Wrenn Webb pastor offers 10 am Sunday school 11 am worship with topic Why ought I be a Christian Morning service features The Intermediate and Junior Societies in basement 7 15 pm sponsors Mrs Robert Sears and Mrs Floyd Bassett congregation joins Canaan church for joint worship. Webb to address Christian question.
The revival ended Wednesday night after a long sermon drawing great interest. There were 52 conversions, ten by letter additions, and two reconsecrations among 64 decisions. Baptismal service set for Sunday night with two subjects on the program.
The Women's Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church will meet at 2 30 PM Monday in Mrs Tom Barbie's home. Devotional by Mrs Charley Howard. Mrs Fred Cook will lead. Mrs Lester Haile to give a map talk on Liam. Mrs R T Pennington will read a paper on Southern Mountains. Betty.
New York state exhibits what is believed to be its oldest usable automobile a two cylinder Comet from 1889 owned by Carl D Hubbard of Marathon New York. The relic was found after a statewide search conducted by Motor Vehicle Commissioner Charles A Harnett.
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