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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1946
Page
4
The Whitewright Sir announces a weekly publication published every Thursday. It lists postal registration at Whitewright Texas and subscribership rates of one year 1.50 and six months 1.00, with advance payment required and no subscriptions accepted for periods under six months.
New York report says annually about 10,000 persons burn to death in the United States and 350,000 homes are damaged or destroyed while vast timber is lost in forest areas the size of Kentucky. The National Board of Fire Underwriters notes this year is running well above those averages.
Washington note asks Russia to wind up its 11 billion lend lease debt and send a financial mission to Washington to start discussions. The note, sent weeks ago, has not drawn a reply. U S finished Russia 11.141 billion in lend lease as of 1935 year end. Russia’s reverse lend lease contributions totaled 2.213 million.
Twenty eight Pearsall veterans faces federal charges for making false statements in readjustment act allowance applications. FBI head M W Acers said they collected $20 weekly while also working as farmers laborers mechanics grocers and trucking contractors with earnings from $15 to $1000 over the period.
Fire Marshal Owens blamed a faulty rubber hose that slipped from its wall connection and filled a room with gas, triggering an explosion at 519 W. Peter Smith Sunday afternoon. Miss Mabel Ashbrenner, 33, fatally burned when she tried to relight the heater after waking from a nap. Ottawa ambulance attendants recalled her saying she had lit the heater and slept.
In Plainview the plains show unusual April like growth as rains revived vegetation and trees. Winfield Holbrook, a Plainview agriculture veteran of 30 years, notes cherry trees and lilacs blooming in October, suggesting extended dormancy from drought ended, sparking talk of an early spring on the plains.
Pvt Joseph FE Hicswa, 20, convicted murderer of two Japanese, who twice escaped from military prison, is en route to the United States to serve the 30 year sentence to which his original death sentence was commuted. Hicswa, of Wellington New Jersey, sailed aboard the General Black on Oct 8, the 8th Army said Monday.
In Peoria Illinois county farmers launched a Saturday vigilante effort to pursue a new rustler trend. They believe a meat shortage sparked the offense as rustlers target cattle hindquarters from fields.
Farmers report morning carcasses of prize beef found in pastures without choice cuts. Peoria police join the hunt for the thieves.
Durant Okla one nurse Miss Mary Ellen Lovell 23 died of asphyxiation and three others were injured in a fire on the second floor of the nurses home at Durant General Hospital Miss Bernie Arnold 19 dislocated elbow after leaping from the burning building and Mrs A Broadhurst suffered severe burns A Durant firefighter also had a broken leg due to the blaze
An audit of the Treasury Department reported the state's funds were deposited in 3826 state and national banks. The treasury handled $377,690,253 last fiscal year without loss, with cash on hand in banks and the vault totaling $119,412,012 as of August 31, 1946.
Texas grapefruit production is forecast to reach 24.5 million boxes for the 1946 47 season by the USDA in a special citrus report. If met, output would be about 2 percent higher than last year’s 24 million and 19 percent above 1924’s 22.3 million.
Beverly Massachusetts neighborhood veterans housing project halted when a union agent measured six painters brushes and found them five inches wide. Union rules cap brush width at four and a half inches. Work resumed after painters were supplied with four inch brushes though the five inch size was unavailable.
The Veterans Administration reported a sharp drop in ex-GIs drawing unemployment payments. Weekly claims totaled 1,237,116 for the week ended Oct 5, down from 1,305,413 the prior week and well below the April peak near 1.8 million. Only 40,132 had drawn full GI Bill benefits by August.
In Bordeaux France a snake lured by milk bit into a wooden box where a six month old infant lay with a bottle. The reptile drained the bottle then gasped into the infant's throat, killing the child as the mother toiled in the fields nearby.
A government committee reported that only 30 percent of children from low income families finish high school and urged joint federal state and local action to improve educational and employment opportunities for 16,000,000 youths. The interagency committee on youth employment and education presented its first report to Reconversion Director Steelman.
Milam County farmer Carl Black of Cameron confirms hubam clover as a top cash and soil builder. In Jones Prairie on 50 acres left fallow for two years he seeded 20 pounds per acre last October. Grazing by 83 sheep and goats and 50 hogs kept the crop down most of the year yet about ten acres grew enough to seed, yielding 7700 pounds of hubam seed, averaging over 700 pounds per acre on very poor eroded land. Agricultural agent reports.
J. W. Stufflebeme notes several farmers report similar results with Hubam clover. The Texas A and M College Extension Service specialists concur that Hubam is the best cash and soil building legume for the Texas Blacklands.
Washington report shows ready made suit buyers now thinner and taller due to wartime effects. Short and stout models have fallen from about one third to a quarter of stock while long models rise from 13 to over 19 percent. Industry debate continues on vestless designs, with vested suits favored for business attire and vestless styles tied to youth and casual wear.
Berlin dispatch says a German locksmith arrested by American military police awaits trial in a military government court on larceny charges after admitting stealing a dog owned by an American civilian worker and killing it to feed his 5 year old child.
A compact saying emphasizes that intentions suffice for plans but only action pays the bills. It contrasts wishful thinking with decisive effort, noting that wishing is the work of an office boy while doing is the mark of a man.
A historical excerpt argues that handicaps do not limit achievement, citing Rollins College achievements by a blind student and a paraplegic reader who married. It lists famous figures with disabilities, including Byron, Stevenson, Keats, Steinmetz, Pope, Nelson, Poe, Darwin, and Julius Caesar, to temper prejudice and encourage perseverance.
The article notes that Thomas Edison and Ludwig van Beethoven were deaf while Peter Stuyvesant had a wooden leg. It presents a quirky collection of famous figures with notable disabilities in a magazine feature.
The Women s Bureau of the U S Department of Labor compares shares of women in the workforce from 1880 to 1950, noting rises from 15 to 26 percent then a forecast to 28 percent. In 1944 1945 war production areas show most women work to support themselves and dependents, with eight percent for home ownership or debt relief and eight percent for job interest. A stray line advises washing a refrigerator with lukewarm water and borax.
A reflective line on work and merit, stating that true credit comes from what is actually done rather than promised. It contrasts completing tasks with shirking duties and hints that lasting value rests with tangible contributions.
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