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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
8
In his Paris column veteran war correspondent Ernie Pyle announces his departure from Europe to seek rest and return home. He cites near burnout after 29 months overseas and about 700000 words written, with reflections on war, Germany, and General Omar Bradley’s leadership.
The OPA announced extended restrictions on oil heating stoves due to kerosene shortages. After Sept 9 ration certificates will be issued only to those unable to use other stoves or replacing an unusable oil burner. Previously restrictions covered 28 states.
FOR SALE The finest of meat bat tery raised broilers and fryers. Phone 138. Bro Casseday. FOR SALE Residence lot on West Main Street 200.00 Write Manton Fain 416 West Davis St Dallas. 21 7.
A new penicillin formulation using beeswax and peanut oil delays absorption to seven hours, enabling a one day cure for gonorrhea in 64 of 64 patients treated at Walter Reed General Hospital. The method, developed by Captain Monroe J. Romansky and George E. Rittman, keeps potency for 30 to 62 days and could simplify treatment and dosing.
A Tokyo English broadcast monitored by the FCC stated that Americans are using many women pilots in Pacific battles and that America is getting short of pilots.
Delayed report recalls German admiration for Canadian British and American participants in the Dieppe raid two years prior. A French cemetery caretaker notes 753 Allied graves and comments that Germans believed Allies deserved victory that day. The Dieppe cemetery sits on high ground near Dieppe and is well cared for by locals.
A Denison garage and service station operator was released on $500 bond after arrest by Assistant Police Chief Lewis Winchester and Patrolman Bruce Barton on OPA regulation violations. He was arraigned in Sherman and released pending grand jury. The suspect allegedly sold an OPA investigator a rationed fire without a ration certificate for $50 amid surveillance over rationing irregularities.
Whitesboro High School will not field a football team this fall due to too few players and transportation problems. Superintendent E A Cooke announced the decision, noting the small available roster and logistical hurdles.
Judge David Oyler upheld cruelty to animals law applying to all creatures. Harvey Layton paid a $15 fine after state humane officers testified he tethered a rat by the tail to a tree to educate two adolescent cats. Officers described the rat with a broken leg and squealing while the cats watched.
A.R. Nisbet of Plainview is getting back $15 lost in a billfold. A Del Rio soldier wrote his son that he found the purse and began repayment with one dollar, promising a dollar a month until full restitution is made.
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