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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
4
Notice from Whitewright Sun listing that entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials resolutions of respect and related items also billed. Association J. H. Waggoner Glenn Doss publishers editors.
The notice specifies weekly publication every Thursday and an annual subscription price of $1.50 payable in advance. It also promises to promptly correct any erroneous reflections on the character, standing, or reputation of any person, firm, or corporation if brought to the publisher’s attention.
Mrs. J W Yarbrough narrates San Antonio military activity from Brooksfield to Randolph Field, recalls a captive balloon incident, and laments civilian life amid wartime. She notes flight joy and dangers, then shifts to farmer humor and rural debt, closing with a witty sign off by LONESOME BILL.
Dear Editor, I dispute a newspaper item claiming the farmer has returned. The writer appears to confuse the farmer’s hardships with a comeback, noting farmers have long endured rain, bailouts, storms, floods, and pest damage, facing many perils from the elements and insects.
A nostalgic column praising the Texas press and its role in daily life. The author extols the newspaper as a family friend and community chronicler, linking local reporting to heritage, home values, and informant guidance amid oil boom memories.
Readers learn Texas trivia from curator A. Garland Adair at the Texas Memorial Museum. The item lists Alpine as the highest town, Frijole Post Office, and three largest 1940 cities Houston Dallas San Antonio. It also covers eleemosynary lands, San Antonio siege, cattle brands, and weather records, plus auto market shifts and maintenance to extend car life.
Fort Worth dealer Bob Burton visited Denison to buy used cars but found trade-ins scarce. Local dealers expect further auto production cuts around January 1 as they brace for a tighter supply after the new year. The public has noticed the chrome trim on 1942 models.
Judge E A Wright of Denison married William J Hoge 81 and Olsey Jones 78 of Colbert Oklahoma. The couple, living on a truck farm east of the city, were believed to be the oldest couple married here.
Dr. Leo T. Murray curator of Baylor University Museum in Waco keeps a tarantula named Oscar captured by Murray in Oklahoma and brought to Texas in a glass bottle. The tarantula bites are not poisonous just infectious, and Oscar eats two crickets a week from Murray's hand.
Herman Petrillo 57 a Philadelphia ring leader died in the electric chair at Rockview Prison after midnight for orders that prosecutors described as responsible for at least 100 deaths. Witnesses heard a nearby death row inmate sing as the 2000 volt sentence was carried out. Petrillo and his cousin Paul, also executed previously, led a Sicilian born syndicate that arranged murders for insurance, with other members serving life or shorter terms.
Texas enacts new speed rules making it unlawful to operate a vehicle so as to wilfully obstruct or impede normal traffic movement. Police may enforce the provision by directing drivers to proceed.
In St Louis a new union deal with Southwestern Bell Telephone raises weekly wages for 14,000 operators by two dollars, boosting annual payroll by 1.4 million. Minimum pay climbs from 11 to 13 dollars. top wages rise from 24 to 26 dollars in larger exchanges. Southwestern Bell covers Missouri Kansas Arkansas Oklahoma Texas and a slice of Illinois nearby.
A New York housewife invited a supposed doctor at the door to help her husband get a post office job. She agreed to a foot imprint with plaster, then the man restrained her and fled with $1000 in jewelry from the apartment.
A concise reflection on social life noting that every person must elbow through society, both giving offense and receiving it, as part of daily interactions and navigation of public life.
An Army ordnance estimate says a ton of scrap iron collected in the country could be made into a 75 millimeter field gun or its carriage, or twelve machine guns, or nine 500 pound bombs, or a 2000 pound 16 inch battleship piercing shell.
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