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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1935
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun explains subscription price of 1.50 per year and weekly Thursday publication. Notices of entertainments with admission fees and memorials or resolutions will be charged at regular advertising rates and corrections will be printed upon notification.
The Sherman Democrat notes Grayson County members in Austin rarely miss roll calls, with two members never absent in regular or called sessions and a third missing only one. The paper lauds the delegation's attendance as better than any other and expects voter approval. It also suggests the senator’s Senate votes were regular.
The News reports Alonzo Wasson on October 23 that lawmakers fear a pension bill will disproportionately benefit Mexicans and Negroes. Census data show these groups are 26.4 percent of the state population but far more represented among the needy, predicting three nonwhite beneficiaries for every white recipient.
The piece discusses a pension plan funded by federal money and the political risks of unequal payouts. It notes that a universal pension for all over 65 would be costly and politically problematic, potentially favoring Mexican and Black beneficiaries over whites. It suggests equitable apportionment as the viable path, with expected political repercussions for legislators.
Dallas Times Herald argues that crop restriction failed to aid farmers as bumper outputs in 1933 34 35 would have lowered prices further. It notes 17 000 000 bale 1931 average price 5.5 cents and 13 000 000 in 1932 with 5.7 cents. Production ahead of consumption and foreign expansion tested farm profits.
A Houston Young Democrat returning from a convention notes that among 2,500 attendees 500 were Federal officeholders and 1,999 were applicants for Federal positions. The Denton Record Chronicle comments that with 796,000 full time Federal employees, excluding military and CCC, such figures are expected at politically engaged gatherings.
Record World Series checks totaling $6,544.76 each were mailed to 24 Detroit Tigers members on Tuesday by Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis. Regulars, coaches, and a trainer got $6,555.76. four others received smaller sums including Roxie Lawson, Hubert Shelley, and staffers Bob Conway, Alex Okray. Neal Conway earned $3,272.38.
Glendale Arizona report states the United States Poultry Experiment Station debunks the myth that cottonseed hulls in a hen nest destroy egg hatchability. After ten years of using hull linings, researchers say oil in hulls does not seal shell pores or block air needed for hatching.
A portable transmitter operator working with a phonograph record has been invented to send burglar alarm signals directly from banks to police headquarters and squad cars.
Miss Blanton taught beginners to say thank you as a sign of good manners. A child asked why he never received gifts, noting his mother only spanks him and he will not say thank you for that.
Thursday morning the second grade presents a reproduction of Major Bowes amateur hour with help from Davis Parrish and Emerson Sears of the fifth grade. Ruth Walker from Sherman joins the group and Kenneth Spangler rejoins the class.
Enrollment reaches 33 with Leon and Imo Kuykendall among new first and third graders. Hallowe'en projects and safety lessons fill the week as visitors attend, music and spelling programs proceed, and sport events yield tied and decisive outcomes.
The British public spends about 5 million dollars each week on chocolate and confectionery products.
New Orleans report notes government aid has boosted average cotton grower income to 661 per farm from 300 three years earlier. With 78 acre average farms producing about 7 1/2 bales, gross income tops 450 plus 100 from cottonseed, yet 73 percent are share or tenant cropped, half goes to landlords, leaving farmers near six dollars weekly after costs.
Hal H. Yakey of the Texas Cotton Ginners Association warned that large coconut oil imports threaten the cottonseed market and could cause a collapse similar to 1932. He noted 68 percent more coconut oil used in August 1935 vs 1934, while cottonseed oil rose only 2 percent. The Kleberg bill would have addressed this imbalance.
Charleroi Pa July 1933 sunstroke victim George Gosney suffers reverse reactions to heat and cold after a sunstroke while working for the state highway department. He seeks compensation for distress while doctors hope for recovery as he plans to present his case to the workers’ compensation board.
Judge Briggle and Judge Major ruled the amended Frazier-Lemke farm debt relief law unconstitutional. The decision followed a petition by Fulton County farmer William W. Young seeking protection under the amended measure after the Supreme Court voided the original act.
Mrs. Mary Tolosky of Washingtonville New York gave birth to twin boys at Goshen Hospital delivering the third set of identical twins for her. She also has twin boys aged 14 and twin girls aged 5, plus three other children aged 17 12 and 7. Her husband Michael Tolosky is a farmer.
United States district attorney Douglas W. McGregor said that beer shipped into the southern district of Texas from other states with misleading labels would be seized and condemned under the food and drug act. Caracas today is described as an active commercial city exporting cocoa, sugar and coffee.
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