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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1945
Page
8
Akron based expert D E Carson of B F Goodrich says tire capacity for passenger cars will not reach full levels until mid 1946. Synthetic tires from petroleum or alcohol base will differ from prewar tires and backlogs will take about two years to clear.
The Agriculture Department estimates this year’s cotton production at 9,799,000 bales of 500 pounds, down from 12,230,000 bales last year and below the ten-year average of 12,293,000. The Oct 1 crop condition is 70 percent of normal, with a per acre yield of 260.7 pounds versus 293.7 last year and 231 for the ten-year average.
The United Texas Drys approved a 50000 dollar fund at their Dallas convention to push a state wide anti alcohol referendum once returning servicemen vote. Dr. L N D Wells was elected president. The note adds boxcar capacity averages 3102 cubic feet with a range from 2001 to 6176.
Gen. George S. Patton, newly named commander of the Fifteenth Army in Germany, warned that another war is inevitable. He refused to name potential participants or timing, calling those who think wars are finished wishful thinkers and noting that no wars are logical since logical planners would avoid creating them.
Tulsa mayor Olney F Flynn declares public kisses should last one minute to move traffic. He notes earlier rules limiting public kissing to three minutes and says the measure streamlines downtown flow. Some couples reportedly exceeded prior limits, tying up office doorways.
The article notes that GI Bill protections voided any signed statements about injury origins in service, guaranteeing veterans cannot be forced to waive rights. It cites medical mistreatment of discharge waivers and the 1944 GI Bill language. It also references historical notes on nitroglycerine power and Baltimore gas beginnings, then lists a Texas tax foreclosure suit in Grayson County involving Lots 29-32, Block A, Whitesboro.
Manhattan Kansas Lee W Wirt a 48 year old father enrolled in Kansas State College with his daughter Hazel He is a freshman in agricultural engineering while Hazel a sophomore in home economics followed him to college after deciding not to go alone The veteran returned to Rainey Missouri after WWII and found his pre war job gone keeping him in school with his daughter
The Texas Spectator issues its first edition in the mails on Thursday. Publishers and owners are C Badger Reed of Austin and Harold Young with H Mewhinney, all former Houston Post staffers, including Young who was city editor.
Berlin reports the four power occupation has cost Germany over 1.0 billion, as invasion currency printed by the Allies. Soviet presses printed 5 billion occupation marks, Americans 3 billion, the British 2 billion, and the French over 1 billion. The mark trades at 10 cents in U.S. currency.
The Texas government forecast of a 2,000,000 bale crop is undercut by a Federal Crop Service report declaring Texas will produce the smallest cotton crop since 1895. The note also recalls the first U.S. paper mill built in 1690 at Germantown, Pa.
Washington D C Secret code names for major Allied assaults in World War II were disclosed in General George C Marshall s report to the secretary of war The list includes Olympic and Coronet for Japan invasions Overlord for France Husky for Sicily Avalanche for Italy Torch for North Africa Breakout for Cherbourg and other operations
A fragment from a 1945 Grayson County Texas page shows family notes about Velma Kimery and her newborn Hugh Dee Kimery Jr. It also contains a long, formal property and tax sale notice from Sheriff Gafford and court writs for estate and probate actions with dates in October and November 1945.
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