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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1942
Page
5
Various local items record visits and births in Whitewright area including Garretts in Hillsboro Follis in Lewisville Baugher in Wichita Falls Thornhill Harper and Darwin families, Rhagg Pennell and others. Also subscription plea, church and Legion activities, birthdays, travel notes, and tire surrender for government rationing.
R A Gillett hosts a Sunday birthday gathering with friends including C B Bryant Jr and Dr Ross R May. Grant Hoover will replace J H Philley as local manager of Community Public Service Co. New bus line from Whitewright to Denison faces timing conflicts. Greenville to Sherman line also revised. riders urged to check schedules.
The Rotary Club held its third 100 percent attendance meeting for October and seven in a row. Rev. E. P. Wootten, club president, aims to keep attendance high for the district. The group shifted lunch to 12 15. Claud Meador led the luncheon program with Mrs. Sarah Kilgree and her daughter LaVerne Kilgree performing vocal numbers. Guests included Lester Haile and Marion Felker.
The T E L Sunday school class met Wednesday at Mrs. B G Gowdy s home for a social and business session. Devotional by Mrs M P Garrett prayer by Mrs E P Wootten and a program with songs solos and readings. Twenty five attendees including 19 members two associates and five visitors.
North circle of the First Baptist Church met with Mrs. B. W. Newman for mission study on Monday afternoon. Mrs. C. S. Witt led the first chapter of Stewardship Parables of Jesus with a devotional by Mrs. J. E. Morgan. Eleven members attended. East circle gathered at Mrs. Ray Cates home with Miss Maggie Noe discussing the mission book on stewardship.
A devotional was given by Miss Effie Maynard and a prayer by Mrs. E. P. Wootten. Ten were present. The west circle met with Mrs. J. P. Darwin with Mrs. C. J. Meador giving a chapter from the mission book Anne of Ava. Thirteen were present. Members of the Methodist Missionary Society met Monday afternoon for the third lesson on the book On This Foundation.
Pastor Chester E Gleason leads morning worship with the theme Razing the City of God. Evening service centers on Priorities. Sunday school starts at 10, communion at 11, evening service at 7 30. Women’s Council meets Monday at 3.
Sunday school at 10 a m. Worship service at 11 a m. Youth Fellowship at 7 p m. Evening worship at 7 30 p m. Woman's Society meets Monday at 3 p m. Choir practice Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
The 245000 Future Farmers of America in 7500 chapters invested over 1500000 in war bonds and stamps in the past year. FFA members fund war savings from livestock and crop profits while U S Education reports ahead of the Kansas City National Convention October 25 28. Chapters in California Texas North Carolina Oklahoma Illinois Kentucky lead in totals. 50000 members serve in the armed forces and scrap drives raise millions of pounds of metal paper rubber and rags.
The O Daniels relocate from Texas to the capital with Senator W Lee O Daniel and family. Corproal Pat O Daniel attends officer candidate school near Washington while Mike O Daniel returns to work in the senatorial office and pursues correspondence studies. Molly Wrather and daughter Molly O Jr reside in a fifth floor suite as Jack Wrather Jr a Marine lieutenant trains at Quantico.
In Toms River New Jersey a crane hoisted a four ton safe from the Ocean County Trust Co building after a truck backed up. Police detectives state troopers and workers used a crane and a shake to release a pin and recover the locked safe containing $70 000.
Dallas report notes a plan to enlist illiterate able bodied men into special battalions as jungle fighters. The article outlines recruitment aims and the credentials sought for service.
Martin Weiss, president of the Associated Civic Leagues, argues on Saturday that several thousand men of draft age lack education due to mountainous or rural upbringing. He claims they are intelligent in common sense and can endure hardship, and believes they would make good fighters.
President Roosevelt outlined plans to furlough some soldiers over 35 to work in munitions factories and reduce luxury goods output to free manpower. He noted Army Chief Marshall's study and cited abundance of cash as a driver of continued luxury purchases, complicating production decisions.
A ventriloquist at a funeral relates a story about a burial in which a speaker jokes about being lowered into the grave. Another attendee recalls the cemetery scene as the pallbearers proceed. The tale ends with the narrator admitting he led the group into the burial.
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