Tigers Begin Daily Workouts With 25 On Squad
Whitewright High School opens daily 2 45 pm workouts under Dr R E Lingenfelter with 25 players registered for the season Seven lettermen return including Billy Joe Norris Joe Vestal Dan Kent Roby Wilson Eugene Thornhill David Johnson Luther Jack Moss Other squad members listed as participating in daily sessions ahead of a permanent coach hire by Superintendent B R Caraway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright High School
R. E. Lingenfelter
Tiger
Dr. Lingenfelter
B. R. Caraway
Billy Joe Norris
Joe Vestal
Dan Kent
Roby Wilson
Eugene Thornhill
David Johnson
Luther Jack Moss
William King
Kelly Pierson
George Henry Hansard
William Hughes
Y. B. Kaiser
J. O. Huseman
Jack McSpedden
Victor Burchfield
Sonny Thrasher
Joe Parnell
J. W. Stephens
Dean Alexander
Johnny Mack Greer
Sonny Smith
Bobby D. Blanks
James Reeves
Pat Gray
Terry Max Miller
USDA sees 10,000,000 bale cotton crop forecast for 1945
Washington forecast 10,026,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight for the 1945 cotton crop based on Sept 1 conditions, down from a month ago 10,134,000 and well below last year’s 12,230,000. Acreage harvest 18,008,000 acres. yield about 267.2 pounds per acre. Texas led state figures with 6,240,000 acres and 2,100,000 bales produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agrculture Department
Texas
Census Bureau
Record Wheat Crop Forecast
The Agriculture Department estimated this year's crop levels, forecasting corn at 3,069,055,000 bushels and wheat at 1,152,270,000 bushels. Last year produced 3,228,361,000 corn and 1,078,647,000 wheat. the 10 year average for wheat is 789,080,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
56 000 Miles Marks Average Car Life
Detroit report from R L Polk finds 56 000 mile cars are average in use. Survey shows 6 000 000 of 24 000 000 cars still on the road are ten years old or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
R. L. Polk & Company
Chicken purchase triggers memory lapse in Hyde Park woman
Mrs. Anne Ghelfi bought chicken for Sunday dinner in Hyde Park. The excitement of finding poultry led her to forget she had hidden her pocketbook between fence pickets in the North End, and by the time she remembered the purse was missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Anne Ghelfi
Hyde Park
North End
Three Governors Inspect Denison Dam on Lake Texoma
Governors Stevenson of Texas Kerr of Oklahoma and Schoeppel of Kansas met in a fellowship session on Lake Texoma and dined on fish. They visited the Denison Dam reservoir, a $55,000,000 project, as guests of the U S Engineers and the city of Denison.
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Denison
Texoma
Stevenson
Texas
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansas
U. S. Engineers
Denison Dam
Whitewright opens school year with 379 students enrolled
Whitewright Public Schools began the year with 273 grammar school students and 106 in the high school. Superintendent B R Caraway notes totals are below last year’s maximum but expect final figures close to 1944-45. Two vacancies remain in teaching staff as assignments are listed.
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Whitewright
B. R. Caraway
Caraway
Homer Gentry
Whitewright High School
Sarah Kilgree
Nana Francis
Annabel Bedford
Sallye Hamilton
Flora Barron
Lee Bourland
Aileen Owens
Lucyle Sanders
O. W. Barker
Kathryn Roddy
Lillian Neathery
Renee Beazley
Earl Blanton
Ralph Kent
End of cheese rationing seen. meat rationing may end soon
The government freed cheese ration points to zero while officials discussed ending meat rationing by Oct. 1. An OPA move removing slaughter limits signals possible early de control as cattle runs rise. Bowles backs de control though sugar fats oils remain uncertain. Texas notes state history and wealth of insurance funds per policyholder.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Agriculture Department
OPA
Chester Bowles
Anderson
Bowles
WPB
Congress
Military personnel notes on furloughs and promotions
Wallace Reeves of the Coast Guard begins a 30 day leave with his father Cull Reeves. John J. Sloan earns corporal at Camp Roberts California. Jakie L Z Chesser promoted to corporal and moving from Fort Sam Houston to Camp Crowder Mo. Cpl and Mrs Wallace Wilson returned from Scott Field Ill. Robert L Layman promoted to sergeant at Roswell N M. William K Braden completed training at Camp Wolters and assigned to Casual Co 39 1st Platoon APO 21283 for overseas. Eugene P McMillin discharged from Army. James Talley to report to Fort Sam Houston after furlough with parents Roy and wife. C B Burden with J L Fisher and Ted Keller spent weekend with Burden parents. T Sgt Charley C Burchfield completed 12 month Aleutian tour now at San Antonio AP Personnel Distribution Command. T Sgt Donald P Hudgins left George Field for Fort Sam Houston for discharge proceedings. Hudgins holds Air Medal Distinguished Flying Cross and more. Robert D Montgomery SoM-2c on sea duty in the Pacific with six months Sun subscription arranged by his mother. Lloyd Mitchell, just made warrant officer and radio operator second class after training at Hoffman Island. Sgt John Sadler at Roswell NM prison camp spending 13 day furlough. discharge expected within 90 days. Thomas Kirk May moved to Sheepshead Bay training school for pharmacist and purser in Merchant Marine. Lt Jack E Wallace to return with 17th Airborne Division. serves in 513th Parachute Infantry with prior service in 502nd. wears Silver Star Purple Heart with Cluster and Presidential Citation with Cluster. Parents Jesse Wallace living in Morenci Arizona.
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Jack E. Wallace
United States
17Th Airborne Division
ETO
Wallace
513Th Parachute Infantry
502Nd Parachute Infantry
Holland
Ardennes
Germany
Jesse Wallace
Whitewright
Morenci
Arizona
Freed Officers Describe Brutal Jap Beating at War End
Three U S Brigadier Generals who had been prisoners in Formosa recounted torture by a Japanese guard toward Gen Jonathan M Wainwright and other officers after liberation. They spoke of constant slapping beatings and being kept to a daylong sunlit garden labor, subsisting on rice and watery soup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
J. P. Vachon
Seattle
Wash
Wainwright
Carl C. Drake
Cabin John
A. J. Funk
Sarasota
Fla
Karengo
Formosa
Drake
Better Dust Off Drivers License You May Need It
A statewide driver license check is ordered by Director Homer Garrison to cut traffic accidents. He estimates unlicensed drivers contribute disproportionately to crashes and warns the toll could reach about 10 lives daily as driving resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Homer Garrison
State Safety Department
Garrison
Nagasaki Bomb Damage Desolate City After Second A Bomb
A visiting American reports Nagasaki’s devastation from the Aug. 9 atomic blast. About 26,000 dead, 40,000 wounded, and 10 to 20 dying daily. Six miles of the city sustained damage as fires burned for 48 hours. The blast confirmed the first bomb’s obsolescence.
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Nagasaki
Japan
San Antonio
Tex
Providence
R. I
Hiroshima
War Department
Solo Trip at 83 Showcases Elder Pilot in Vail Field Flight
James W. Montee, 83, claims to be the oldest student pilot in the country and soloed at Vail Field near Los Angeles. He says you are never too young or old, and followed his son Ralph Montee, a former Western Airlines pilot, into flying.
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Los Angeles
James W. Montee
Vail Field
Montee
Ralph Montee
Western Airlines
McCain Buried With Full Military Honors at Arlington
Vice Admiral John S. McCain was honored in a hero's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery after dying of a heart attack in California. He commanded Task Force 38 in the Pacific war and was buried with full military honors.
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Washington
John S. McCain
Admiral McCain
California
Arlington National Cemetery
Whitewright Native Fred Truett Elevated to Southwestern Drug President
Fred Moore Truett, longtime Waco and Dallas drug company executive, was elected president of Southwestern Drug Corporation at a Dallas meeting. Born July 31, 1899 in Whitewright, he rose from errand boy to executive VP before taking the top post succeeding the late J. M. Penland.
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Fred Moore Truett
Waco Drug Company
Southwestern Drug Corporation
Dallas
J. M. Penland
Waco
Dallas Corporation
Fort Worth
Houston
San Antonio
Amarillo
Odessa
Truett
Whitewright
Baylor University
Columbia University
Rev
J. L. Truett
Jap Cabinet Purge Looms Amid American Manhunt
Tokyo reports say Japan’s Cabinet faced a potential purge after Gen. Douglas MacArthur named top terrorist suspects from the Black Dragon Society and Tojo era. Included: Hideki Tojo, Masahara Homma, Sugiyama, Shimada, Togo, Ogata, and others as Tokyo weighs past records under occupation.
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Tokyo
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Black Dragon Society
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Masahara Homma
Bataan
Sugiyama
Army
MacArthur
Shigetaro Shimada
Tojo
Yokohama
Shimada
Domei Agency
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni
Hirohito
Jingos
Saber Rattlers
Taketora Ogata
Shigenori Togo
Kantaro Suzuki
Battle at Bunker Hill Seen as Continental Victory
Although the British took Bunker Hill on June 17 1775 the American casualties were lower, and the engagement was viewed as a Continental Army victory in effect. A $100000 monument was erected at the site in 1842 to honor American soldiers.
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Bunker Hill
To Drill Wildcat West of Town As Leasing Nears End
Mrs. Q M McCullough leads final leasing to form a 10000 acre western block for an oil test. Once landowners sign, a well will be drilled at an undisclosed site. Homer Snowden of Dallas plans a 5200 foot test after block completion. he previously drilled a test east of town that was abandoned after a lost drill bit.
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Q. M. McCullough
Sun
Homer Snowden
Dallas
Snowden
Social Security Clinic Planned in Sherman and Denison
Citizens of Grayson County may meet with Social Security Board representative Mrs. Lucille John on Tuesday and Wednesday September 18 and 19 1945 at the Sherman and Denison post offices. She will assist eligible residents to file Old Age and Survivors Insurance claims and explain retirement benefits for insured workers spouses and dependent children. A lump sum may be paid when no eligible survivor exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson County
Social Security Board
Lucille John
Sherman
Denison
John
Our County
Committee Kills Higher Jobless Pay
Senate finance committee rejected federal supplements to boost state unemployment benefits while approving a maximum twenty six week duration. The plan would extend unemployment to all federal civil workers at state rates, with federal workers abroad paid DC scale. It includes transportation aid for migrant workers and caps individual payments at 200 dollars with travel for worker and dependents only.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Walter George
Dem
Georgia
District of Columbia
Discharge For Two-Year Veterans Targeted By War Dept
Rep. Andrew J. May said the War Department aims to release all men with two years of service by September 1, 1946 with possible earlier discharge if demobilization accelerates. The plan accompanies a voluntary recruitment act and seeks rapid reuse of long-serving personnel back to civilian life and work.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
War Department
House
May
Army
Navy
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Tigers
USDA
Wallace Reeves
The
Coast Guard
Cull Reeves
John J. Sloan
Grace Sloan
Camp Roberts
Calif
Pfc
Jakie L. Z. Chesser
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Crowder, Mo
Wallace Wilson
Scott Field
Ill
Corporal Wilson
Robert L. Layman
Roswell, N. M
C. R. Layman
William K. Braden
Camp Wolters
Casual Co. 39
Eugene P. McMillin
Sergeant McMillin
Miami Beach
Air Technical Service Command
Cpl
James Talley
Roy Talley
Italy
C. B. Burden
John L. Fisher
Joplin
Ted Keller
Fenton, Mo
Camp Maxey
Clarence Burden
Charley C. Burchfield
C. C. Burchfield
Aleutian Islands
AAF
T. Sgt
Donald P. Hudgins
George Field
Lawrenceville
Army Air
England
Africa
Sicily
France
Robert D. Montgomery
U. S. S. Slater
Mark Montgomery
Pacific
Lloyd Mitchell
Will Mitchell
Lloyd
U. S. Maritime Service
Hoffman Island
N. Y
John Sadler
Roswell
N. M
Thomas Kirk May
Merchant Marine
St. Petersburg
Sheepshead Bay
Hamilton Field
Vern Haugland
McCain
Drug Co
Black Dragon
Sherman, Denison
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