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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1943
Page
2
Wartime notices announce extended validity for gasoline food and fuel stamps across regions with A-6 A-8 coffee and blue U V W stamps. Apple ceilings set retail averages for home use. Army Navy testing dates and eligibility described. Wheat feed rules and auction price regulation updated.
Texas A&M College hosts a three day conference where a goals committee urged increased production across milk eggs feed and various crops. They recommended higher corn oats barley sorghums and wheat acreage with adjustments to beef cattle pork and peanut prices to align with feed costs and labor.
The War Production Board announces increased output of feminine items including bobbie pins and hairpins for 1944, stating demand will require roughly twice the amount produced to support women workers and wartime efforts.
The War Production Board reports plans to increase ammonium nitrate for agriculture as demand outpaces supply for September and October. Additional sodium nitrate became available last April as production capacity exceeded military needs.
OPA investigators found a residence listed with two bedrooms and a rear porch converted into rental units at six dollars and fifty cents a week with a note front door use for two dollars. The occupants were paying it. The report includes a punning exchange between a blonde and brunette about a sweetheart Pilgrim.
The Italy News Herald reports a vast dry land crack in Hamrock Ellis County swallowing fields of cotton and strip of corn. Locals describe a zig zag gap toward Frost wide as a quarter mile, deep with no bottom, prompting alarm and state wide attention. Some urge residents to flee as legends of prairie cracks persist. The note adds the New York State Barge Canal totals 575 miles.
College Station teachers describe USDA grades AA through C for country butter and how flavor texture color salt and body determine scores. Extension agents provide score cards and guidance to farmers and producers to meet market standards and possibly achieve standardized status if consistently above 90.
Information on standardizing packaging available from county home demonstration agents. 4-H cartons have long been recognized by Texas consumers as a mark of high quality.
Washington radiocast from Algiers by Rev. William Barrow Pugh urges Americans to write regularly to soldiers. As head of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains he tours battle fronts advising to include cheerful notes and even send photographs to the men.
The New York City metropolitan district spans 2,514 square miles and lies across three states.
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