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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1943
Page
8
Rex Cruse advises poultry producers to cull nonlayers and low producers to conserve feed for high producers. Remove sick, undersized, and deformed birds, yellow legs, and fat hens. Evaluate whether low production stems from feeding, sanitation, or parasites. seek guidance to learn effective culling.
General Manager Chester Bowles said more than 12,000,000 pledges have been signed in the Office of Price Administration drive to enforce rationing and pricing rules. He cited broad support from consumers and retailers who want lower prices and trained toward stamping out black markets.
New York Stuart Chase, in a Twentieth Century Fund piece, argues America's vast productive power enables a postwar debt of 200 to 300 billion dollars. He urges maintaining high employment and national income to handle the debt, and outlines three viewpoint shifts: slow payoff, taxes high enough to cover interest, and using taxes to keep national income elevated.
Twenty one funeral processions were halted outside St. Adelbert's Cemetery in Chicago as an AFL driven picket line demanded shorter hours higher pay and union rights for cemetery workers. Cremation and burial were disrupted with pallbearers carrying caskets from the gates or using hand trucks. Cemetery officials said concessions were possible but awaiting War Labor Board approval.
Washington report shows the aluminum for war program surpasses needs by 1,000,000 pounds each quarter. Arthur H. Bunker, head of the aluminum and magnesium division of the War Production Board, revealed the surge from prewar scales to industrial giant.
In Durango Colorado John L Craig 34 a draft board clerk who helped draft every non father in La Plata County drafted himself He resigned and placed himself at the top of the pre Pearl Harbor fathers list His wife at state selective service headquarters became clerk and issued the call for her husband.
Fresno enforcement officer confronts Rev. Leo Baldwin pastor of the Church of Nazareth Kilgore Texas over possession of two C gasoline books 20 and 14 coupons one A book with missing No 8 coupons plus loose tractor truck and No 8 and No 9 coupons. Officer Barnard orders surrender of all coupons and books and Baldwin proceeds to Kilgore with enough gas for about 270 miles.
A distressed man seeks help from psychologist Dr Henry C Link who recommends an extreme plan to run to death. After following the regimen the man collapses only to sleep deeply that night and the next, and by the third night he feels hopeful about living.
The OPA outlines plastic or glass ration tokens for 1944, slightly larger than a nickel, with blue tokens for processed foods and red for red meat fats. A bid for 900 million disks has opened, with 400 million blue and 500 million red. Each token equals one point and has no expiration.
Jack H. McKinney 82, great grandson of Collin McKinney signer of the Texas Declaration, died after a two month illness. Services were at First Christian Church Van Alstyne, burial in Van Alstyne Cemetery. Survived by two sons Her shaw and Ward, two brothers, ten grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The State Pensioners Protective Organization urged full old age pension payments and warned in a letter to Welfare Director John H. Winters that the new rules could cut monthly pensions by 2 to 5 dollars. The meeting condemned the rulebook as a political scheme and constitutional defiance.
The Office of Price Administration announced a new supply of non leather shoes ration free about the first of the year to ease a shortage for small children. Limited stocks of obsolete shoes will be removed from rationing, selling at $1 a pair or less. The non leather children s shoes will target youngsters up to about 8 years old with misses or youths size three or smaller. Larger sizes remain rationed. Shoes feature canvas uppers and heavy woven fabric soles reinforced with vulcanized rubber.
The Newspaper Pulpwood Committee appeals for volunteers to cut 2 500 000 cords of pulpwood in 1200 producing areas across 27 states during a month long drive to ease the paper shortage. The slogan cut a cord of pulpwood for every local boy in service is from Lattis Simmons of Jackson County West Virginia where amateurs cut 2200 cords for 1700 servicemen. The drive runs November 11 Armistice Day to December 11. Temperatures around 1800 F in blast furnaces are noted as unusual.
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