Military Training To Safeguard U S Urged By Truman
President Truman urged universal military training for all young Americans to show resolve against future aggressors. He outlined a plan for one year of training at 18 or after high school, a civilian year, a strengthened reserves system, and a general service pool, with wartime induction by Congress to follow if needed.
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Washington
Truman
United States
House
Senate
Congress
Mr. Truman
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Low Cotton Receipts Hit Whitewright Gins
Up to Wednesday night the two Whitewright gins had received 556 bales of cotton this season, the smallest receipts for this time of year on record. Poor weather and a short crop limited picking, while buyers paid 20 to 22.5 cents per pound for cotton and $57 per ton for seed.
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Whitewright
Oldtimers
Katy to Paint the Road Red
Denison reports the M K T Railroad will revert from yellow to red. Within a year yellow rolling stock and depots are slated for repainting to red as color schemes are updated nationwide.
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Katy
Victory Loan Chairmen Selected for Whitewright Drive
James Bryant and Earl Blanton are named chairmen of the Victory Bond campaign in Whitewright and surrounding communities. The drive, starting Monday, aims for a $73,000 quota amid postwar and crop pressures.
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James Bryant
Earl Blanton
Whitewright
Wright Named Arkansas State Director of Farm Administration
J L Lloyd Wright of Whitewright is appointed state director of the Production and Marketing Administration in Arkansas. He previously served 16 years in Arkansas farm programs, including the Extension Service and the Triple A, and chaired the Arkansas USDA War Board coordinating state and federal agencies for wartime food production.
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J. L. (Lloyd) Wright
W. F. Wright
Whitewright
Production and Marketing Administration of
Arkansas
United States Department of Agriculture
Wright
J. B. Hutson
State Agricultural Extension Service
Triple-A
Texas
Arkansas Usda War Board
Sun Honor Roll Adds Local Everyday Notables
The Sun lists this week new honorees including Hazel Lambert, J L Bennett, Bill Skipworth, J W Forrest, Virgil Smith, John Charles Jones S lec, L F Coffey, E E Tomlinson, Maggie Montgomery, W L Gordon, Reagan Torrance, M L Thornhill, Claud Birdwell, Riley Tabor, J H Bowen, Lela C Hall, G F Bryant, B E Chesser, Archie D Asbill, Arthur J Reed, J T Robinson, and Lillian Neathery.
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Sun
Hazel Lambert
J. L. Bennett
Bill Skipworth
J. W. Forrest
Virgil Smith
John Charles Jones
Lec
L. F. Coffey
E. E. Tomlinson
Maggie Montgomery
W. L. Gordon
Reagan Torrance
M. L. Thornhill
Claud Birdwell
Riley Tabor
J. H. Bowen
Lela
Shoe rationing ends soon with tentative dates
Washington officials narrowed the end date for shoe rationing to October 28 or November 1. The OPA will also cut butter rationing by four points to eight cents per pound starting Sunday. A December end for passenger tire rationing is possible if production stays on schedule, with truck tires potentially becoming ration free late next month.
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Washington
OPA
Service members and families recall wartime returns and deployments
Cpl John J Sloan returns to Camp Roberts after a 15 day furlough with his mother Mrs Grace Sloan. James Sloan inducted at Fort Sam Houston October 17. Letters from Albert Reeves in the Philippines and G C Brown in China coast. Lt James R Brown training at Midland Army Air Field. T Sgt Thomas Sanderson discharged at Sheppard Field after overseas service and capture. Chesser transferred to McCloskey Hospital Temple after England service. Navy’s Clovis Childress expects discharge October 29 after four years in the Southwest Pacific. Donihoo son Vernon in Japan after two and a half years in the Pacific. Capt. Adcock en route from Germany to be with ill son Woodrow. Janway discharge from Navy. enrolls at Austin College Sherman. Martin and Neal with 740th Engineer Base Equipment Company in Manila with ribbons. Jones sends Sun to John Charles Jones aboard USS Crenshaw in the Southwest Pacific. James Pat Murphy inducted at Fort Sam Houston. Hastings awaiting transport from Luzon after Bougainville and Guadalcanal action earns combat badges. Busby aboard USS Hoggatt Bay. carrier helped locate POW camps and aided prisoner exchanges near surrender.
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Cpl
John J. Sloan
Camp Roberts
Grace Sloan
James Sloan
Army
Fort Sam Houston
Ward S. Neal
P. H. Neal
Whitewright
Manila
Cpl. Neal
151St Engineer Combat Battalion
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
States
England
Pacific
Rhineland
Junior Red Cross Begins November Drive
A county wide drive to enroll in the Junior Red Cross runs November 1 through 15 under Mrs. Sidney Karchmer. Enrollment costs 50 cents for elementary students and $1 for each high school group of 100. Miss Inez Ray heads Whitewright, with other chairmen named across the county.
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Junior Red Cross
Sidney Karchmer
Red Cross
Jennie Lewis
Grayson County Red Cross
Europe
Woodrow Wilson
Lewis
Wanted Private Ad for Antiques Around One Hundred Pounds
Advertisement spotted in a Gloucestershire paper seeks items in reasonably good condition around 100 pounds. The note hints at a second hand market and ads promising profit. Noting there are more than 3 500 species of ants mentioned in passing.
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Gloucestershire
Punch
United Nations Pact Declared In Effect
The United Nations formally came into existence as 29 of 52 signatories deposited ratifications at the State Department. Secretary Byrnes signed a confirming protocol, marking the United States and Russia completing the required deposits in the atomic age effort to preserve world peace and security.
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Pearl Harbor
Truman
United Nations Organization
United States
Washington
United Nations
James F. Byrnes
San Francisco
State Department
Russia
Hamburg Sea Snake Pens Blown Up After Demolition
Hamburg reports that former U-boat pens long deemed indestructible were demolished. Sunday blasts toppled concrete roofs and a 60 foot outer wall after months of British engineer and War Office work. Maj. H A Donneny remotely triggered 30 tons of Luftwaffe bombs set beneath the pens. Seabirds circled the wreck as fumes rose and fish lay stunned in the entrance.
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Hamburg
Germany
War Office
H. A. Donneny
Caraway Heads Grayson Teachers Unit in Sherman
B R Caraway superintendent of Whitewright schools was elected president and Byron Davis Sherman High School principal vice president of the Grayson County Unit of Texas State Teachers Association at Sherman. J S Kimbell Denison High School principal was named second vice president with Joan Hunter Van Alstyne secretary and Mrs Lowell Cook Dorchester treasurer.
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B. R. Caraway
Whitewright
Byron Davis
Sherman
Grayson County
Texas State Teachers Association
Association
Charles H. Tennyson
Wichita Falls
Austin
State Association
James H. Daugherty
North Texas State Teachers College
Denton
J. S. Kimbell
Women Organizing Home Nursing Course in County
Miss Fiona Yeager of the Red Cross in St Louis met county and city leaders including Mrs C H Lackey Mrs Jennie Lewis and others to organize county home nursing classes. The program aims to address doctor and nurse shortages and covers health family relations baby care disease control and care of the ill and elderly taught by a registered nurse.
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Fiona Yeager
Red Cross
St. Louis
C. H. Lackey
Tom Bean
Jennie Lewis
Lackey
R. R. King
Sherman
James Spivey
Denison
Benton Davis
Dorchester
Soviets Hire German Scientists To Seek Atomic Bomb
Dr Guenther Hillmann of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Berlin says Russians aided by German labs and scientists may develop an atomic bomb within two years with German help. He notes Russians are courting German scientists and quotes pay around 2000 rubles per month.
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Berlin
Guenther Hillmann
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Hillmann
Associated Press
Vienna
Ration Calendar Status for Four Book Rations
The notice lists ration validity for meats fats and sugar across multiple book and stamp ranges. It specifies Book four stamps A1 through E1 valid through Act. 31, F1 through E1 through Nov. 30, L1 through Q1 through Dec. 31, A1 through V1 through Jan. 31, and Sugar Book four stamp 38 through Dec. 31. Shoes Book three airplane stamps 1 2 3 and 4 valid indefinitely.
U S Forces Abroad Cut To 870000 By July 1
Washington reports army forces overseas will drop to 870000 by July 1 including occupation troops in Japan and Germany. War Department said about 3750000 additional overseas personnel will be returned home by that time.
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Washington
Japan
Germany
War Department
England Restores Prewar Tax Exemptions for Millions
London The Labor Government ordered restoration of prewar income tax exemptions next April to relieve about 2,000,000 individuals from assessments. Chancellor Hugh Dalton presented an interim budget outlining a graduated tax scale easing low wage earners.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Commons
Senate Passes Tax Reduction Bill
The Senate approved a tax cut package reducing taxes by 5.788 billion dollars next year after two late changes adding 155 million to earlier cuts. The measure heads to a House conference to reconcile differences, with the House expected to concur.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate House Conference Committee
Whitewright Future Farmers Build Barn for Baby Beef Show
Whitewright High School Future Farmers have constructed a twenty four by twenty foot barn with a loft for seventy five bales of hay and a corn crib for one hundred fifty bushels. They keep four Hereford calves for fattening, plan accurate feed records, and aim to dehorn soon. Visitors are welcome to view the project.
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Whitewright High School
James Bryant
Fannin County 4-H Club to Exhibit Pigs and Calves Saturday
Fannin County 4-H Club boys will show pure bred pigs and baby beeves in an all day exhibition in Bonham on Saturday Oct 27. Boys will explain animal costs in feed and labor as proof of home grown feed value. Judges are W H Jones Grayson County agent and W T Bonner Gainesville stockman.
Devers Warns of Possible War in 1961 or 1962
General Jacob L. Devers, head of the Army Ground Forces, warned at a Treasury luncheon that another war could occur in about 16 years. He urged backing peacetime diplomacy with a potential force of 4,000,000 soldiers and predicted public opinion would claim wars are a thing of the past.
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Washington
Jacob L. Devers
Army
United States
Devers
Treasury Department
Texas reports 883 polio cases for year
Texas to date in 1945 has had 883 reported cases of infantile paralysis, compared with 183 in 1944. Warren D. Coss, New York, assistant director for the March of Dimes, spoke here Tuesday and arrived for a conference Wednesday with state leaders from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.
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Dallas
Texas
Warren D. Coss
New York
Coss
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
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State of
Albert Reeves
Pfc
Philippines
Grover C. Brown
G. C. Brown
Young Brown
China Coast
James R. Brown
Army Air Field
Midland
Thomas Sanderson
Sheppard Field
Jakie L. Z. Chesser
C. W. Chesser
Camp Crowder
McCloskey Hospital
Temple
128Th General Hospital
Clovis Childress
Cphm
Childress
Southwest Pacific
W. S. Donihoo
Pvt
Vernon Donihoo
Donihoo
W. W. Adcock
Woodrow
Adcock
Capt. Adcock
William I. Janway
S. J. Janway
William
Austin College
Robert W. Martin
Mrs. W. J
Martin
151St Engineer Combat
A. B. Jones
Crenshaw
James Pat Murphy
J. W. Murphy
Route 4
Luzon
Jerry C. Hastings
Hastings
Mattie Hastings
Bougainville
New Caledonia
Guadalcanal
Harlin T. Busby
USNR
Uss Hoggatt Bay
Ominato Harbor
Tokyo Bay
Guam
Hoggart Bay
Marianas
Leyte
Lingayen
Palaus
Okinawa
B.r.caraway
Grayson
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