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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1941
Page
1
The Sun offers its annual one dollar rate for October to both new and old subscribers, saving about a third on regular prices. Increased production costs are absorbed by the paper, with yearly subscriptions available at one dollar if paid in October. Subscribers can mail or bring remittance to The Sun office, avoiding solicitors.
E C Winn announces the 1942 AAA soil building plan for Grayson County prioritizes conservation and farm specific soil building. Farmers may earn payments for approved practices or planting within special crop allotments with rates at 70 or 50 cents per acre, plus 50 cents for non crop pasture and $1.30 for orchards and $1 for vegetables, contingent on Congress funding.
MEMPHIS Tenn The USDA 1942 food production campaign is described by Wayne Darrow chief of the information division AAA as a pioneer effort toward a permanent program. He says the plan is not only wartime policy but the first step in lasting efforts to boost consumption and production for need.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the American Bar Association that U S and British navies will box Nazi Germany in an iron ring of sea power while noting the Atlantic Battle is quiet and the fleet provides protection rather than convoy. He warned the nation must be ready to fight abroad rather than on its shores.
Illustrating living room improvements by the Grayson County home demonstration club, about 15 pieces of furniture were displayed in Jessie Loving auditorium Sherman under Miss Eunice King. Judges awarded Miss Louise Autrey first in twin set. Mrs Ronald Vestal second. Mrs Otto Russell third for occasional chairs. résultats included chairs from old car seats won by Mrs Vestal first, Mrs R D Maddox second, Miss Ouida Nell Harris third.
Texas issuing new drivers licenses postponed about a week to ten days. Paper stock arrived after a two month delay, delaying distribution. Renewal applies to licenses numbered 1 to 450000 with higher numbers to follow. cost 50 cents for two years.
The Texas Attorney General filed suit in Austin seeking $57,002 additional taxes for six years ending 1941 from Montgomery Ward & Co. The action targets mail order offices the company maintained in Texas. The case centers on alleged tax due on catalog sales.
Whitewright mayor F M Echols urges residents to cut a 15 percent fire insurance penalty by year end. A 1936 grain warehouse fire, plus other losses, inflated costs for 1937 to 1941, but dropping 1936 and adding 1941 may convert the penalty to a 15 percent credit, potentially lowering next year’s rates by 20 percent and saving about 18000 over five years amid high fire risk months.
Up to Wednesday night Whitewright gins reported 1,412 bales of cotton ginned. Rain halted picking and gins were idle parts of Wednesday and Thursday morning. Estimated total this season under 2,000 bales, less than half of 1940. Prices: lint at 16.50, seed at 56.00 per ton.
W H Stedham who arrived in Texas 48 years ago spent a silver dollar dated 1891 in his early days. The same dollar was paid back to him recently for work in his blacksmith shop. Its initials he cut 48 years ago remain legible. He will likely keep it as a keepsake.
New York reports America's modern army shows a disease death rate of about one in a thousand per year, well below the 1917 18 levels. Measles infections have dropped from a peak of 240 per thousand in 1917 to 57 per thousand in 1941, now around one per thousand. Injuries deaths average 1.3 per thousand due to mechanized warfare and large maneuvers.
Charles Skaggs Don Newman and Robert Simmons members of the local Future Farmer chapter won ribbons at the Red River Valley Fair in Sherman. Skaggs took first and 5.00 in the one to two year old Hereford bull class Newman won first and 5.00 in the six months to one year Hereford bull class Simmons earned second with a Poland China sow and litter. The Whitewright FFA booth won first in educational feature but last in products, giving the team fifth overall among nine exhibitors. Skaggs plans to start a registered Hereford herd to help fund college, has 13 acres cotton, and is vice president of FFA.
Grayson County 1941 allotments show slight reductions from 1940 across all crops except cotton and wheat. General crop allotment declines from 14 412 173 to 13 538 212 acres while cotton and wheat rise. peanut and total cotton acreage also increase. County yields show 254.8 pounds lint per acre on 86 111.1 acres last year.
Berlin reports a grim Nazi response to Czech resistance with 58 more Czechs executed by firing squads. The tally of victims linked to Reinhard Heydrich’s crackdown reaches 88 as Bohemia Moravia’s status remains under German control during the anniversary of the state’s dissolution.
Grayson County reports 22 women Home Demonstration Clubs with 479 members. Leaders and committees are named. 1941 focuses include meat in the diet, living room revamps, and a health play "Health for Uncle Sam." Activities feature egg week displays, fruit showcases, and chair reupholstery projects with demonstrations and county events.
Whitewright Tigers meet Denison High School Yannigans on Bryant Field in the third game of the season. Denison boosters, band members and a large crowd are expected as tickets sell at 25c for students and 50c for adults.
A Civil Service Commission appeal seeks women between 16 and 25 to apply for mechanic learner jobs at the federal building in San Antonio. Accepted applicants go to the Air Depot and then to federal bureaus for minor mechanical work with potential pay up to 140 dollars a month after examinations. No prior experience required.
In 1941 the cotton mattress program continues through Grayson County with fifteen centers producing 4,451 mattresses on the new plan and 3,702 on the old one. The total reaches 7,523 mattresses to date. A final order for over 1,000 remains pending. Additionally 2,952 cotton comforters have been made.
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