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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1932
Page
10
The Soviet foreign store cuts monthly rations for American and other foreign workers, citing seasonal conditions and an influx of technicians. Meat, fish, flour, butter, sugar, and other staples are curtailed while prices hold. The system limits access to vegetables and fruit to rationed buyers, with one store reserved for diplomats and correspondents.
Safeway Stores will focus nearly all advertising on local newspapers and nationally advertised foods. President M. B. Skaggs says trusted brands seen in local papers reduce selling effort and consumer skepticism, with advertising by manufacturers in the same papers guiding buyers to stores.
Quote about Les Waite as the county lightweight champion and his grocery store customers as those he bested. The remark hints at local pride and rivalries centered on Waite’s win and his shop.
The story reports that Texas counties carry roughly 700 million dollars in bonded indebtedness with about 245 million from county bond issues. Roughly 100 million of that is highway bonds that proposals aim to retire using gasoline tax revenue over fourteen years if a 7 million yearly transfer is approved.
The Agriculture Department uses locked doors armed guards sealed windows and metal boxes to keep seasonal crop condition and production data secret until release. State reports travel under seal to the Secretary then to a strong box with dual locks before the board compiles the national report for dissemination by wire or messenger.
E N Holmgreen of Texas A and M College Extension Service reports a study of about 800 flocks showing lice reduce monthly income per hen from 9.42 cents above feed cost to 4.43 cents. Eggs from lice free flocks sold 10 cents per dozen higher, with nicotine sulphate roost painting and dusting with sodium fluoride as common control methods.
Dallas announces new upland cotton standards labeled No. 3 to No. 7 extra white, replacing prior grades. Effective August 10, 1933, with spot transactions allowed earlier if specified, futures contracts continue current standards until the date. The change aims to improve clarity in color classification for the sizable extra white cotton crop.
Seattle Washington Delbert Fad den, 19, says he dined on bugs berries and frogs for fifteen days for fun. He wandered into the Olympic Peninsula without weapons maps or compass on a photography trip. When food ran out after fourteen days he lived on what he could find for two weeks more. A grouse killed with a stone was his biggest game and his weight fell thirty pounds.
Nebraska Governor Chas. W. Bryan labeled the foreclosure moratorium request a political maneuver by the Hoover Administration. He criticized the timing before election day and noted the state banking department had followed a policy of withholding foreclosure actions where possible.
Windsor magistrate Brodie urged a light spanking as best for quarrelling newlyweds in a domestic dispute. He then granted the couple one week to reconcile and settle their differences.
A party of Salt Lake youths became snowbound Tuesday at Mirror Lake in the Wasatch Mountains southeast of Salt Lake City. Gus P. Backman, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, learned of the situation from his son Roy, a member of the party. Snowfall is unusual this early in the season.
Mrs Roscoe Pace and Mrs Paul Cook of Whitewright spent Thursday with their parents Mr and Mrs Will Akridge. Misses Carter Fletcher and Louise Akridge returned from Commerce summer school. Harless McAlister earned the B D degree at S M U. Rev C C Hines and Rev L Markham led meetings with five professions of faith and eight added to the church. Master Harold Pace is visiting grandparents Will Akridge. Prof Byron Caraway moves to Prosper to teach. Clyde Fogle and others spent time in Dallas.
Harold Doss expresses gratitude to friends for their support in his race for public weigher.
The Commissioners Court approved a $2,000 contract with a Wichita Falls firm to audit Grayson County books for one fiscal and one calendar year. The survey will cover records from May 10 1930, with work starting in ten days and finishing in sixty days. The notice concludes with a museum claim from Pittsfield Massachusetts about Holmes and the original One Hoss Shay.
A grocery ad emphasizes quality as the watchword and urges shoppers to read advertisements and buy there to save money. It argues that good quality justifies price and warns against overlooking prices during the busy fall season.
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