Grayson County To Have GI Schools
Grayson County veterans can enroll in county vocational schools for GI Bill funded training in agriculture business and industry. W M Moulton of Bells will coordinate the program under the State Board for Vocational Education with advisory help from local educators. Enrollment centers and monthly stipends are outlined while centers may be placed in Whitewright and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
W. M. Moulton
Bells
Ray B. Short
State Board For Vocational Education
Veterans Administration
Short
Moulton
County Board of Education
B. W. Baldwin
Denison
W. W. Blassingame
van Alstyne
E. C. Looney
Pottsboro
Arthur Badgett
Whitewright
Clifford Davis
Collinsville
Selective Service Boards
State Board
Veterans Training
Real estate demand cools in many cities nationwide
Buyer resistance to high prices and a slowing home turnover were reported in several major cities. Nine metropolitan areas noted some form of buyer restraint, while nine others saw a rush to buy and sell. Washington and San Francisco showed no clear slowdown or price dent. In Whitewright, rainfall totaled 1.47 inches with 1.91 inches in September so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
San Francisco
Whitewright
Ray
Charley Cates
City Water Department
Public health clinic to be held weekly in Whitewright
Dr. Houston H. Terry announced a weekly public health clinic in Whitewright each Tuesday from 1 30 to 3 30 p m in the west city building with Miss Tommie Berry in charge. Immunizations for small pox diphtheria and typhoid will be given plus conferences on public health nursing services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston H. Terry
Grayson County
State Department of Health
Whitewright
West City
Tommie Berry
Miss Berry
Terry
Sherman
Denison
Whitesboro
Gunter
Vet Charged in Pay Case in Texas
Hun ter Hill a 30 year old discharged veteran faces the first federal charge in Texas over adjustments allowances under the servicemen s readjustment act. The FBI says Hill claimed no wages for 14 days before April 22 and unlawfully received 40 from the Texas Un employment Compensation Commission on May 7 for service men readjustment. He earned 18 32 at a local storage firm on April 20. Hill appeared before U S Commissioner Louis Scott Wilkerson and was released on 100 recognizance pending an Oct 1 examining trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Hunter Hill
FBI
James C. Kennedy
Hill
Texas Unemployment Compensation Commission
U. S
Louis Scott Wilkerson
Ginning Receipts Reach 805 Bales at Whitewright Gins
Whitewright gins report 805 bales ginned by Thursday morning, compared with 231 bales the same day last season. Prices moved with middling cotton at 37.25, seed at 70 per ton, and planting seed higher. Corn buyers paid 1.90 a bushel for white corn and 1.50 for yellow. Rain delayed field work but activities resumed Tuesday as thousands of bushels move through the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Greenville Man Appointed For Revenue Post
President Truman appointed Herbert E. Arnold of Greenville Texas as collector of internal revenue for Northern Texas. Arnold 42 has been acting collector since the death of W A Thomas and was recommended by Senator Connally. Senator O Danial recommended Lt Gov John Lee Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Herbert E. Arnold
Greenville
Texas
Internal Revenue
Arnold
W. A. Thomas
Senator Connally
O’daniel
John Lee Smith
Connally
Dallas
Thomas
Ceilings Raised on Cottonseed Oil and Lint Prices
Washington official John R. Steelman authorized a 1% cent rise per pound in cottonseed oil price ceilings affecting shortening and margarine. He also directed the OPA to raise lintier ceilings by 8 cents per pound or remove controls entirely on that product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John R. Steelman
Steelman
OPA
Army orders 25 percent meat set aside for armed services
The Army issued priority orders to all federally inspected packers demanding 25 percent of total production for the military. Officials cited a visible meat shortage and a monthly requirement of 60,000,000 pounds to supply the Army Navy Marine Corps War Shipping Administration and veterans hospitals. Political debate followed on suspending meat ceilings to ease civilian shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Agriculture Department
House
John W. McCormack
Massachussetts
OPA
Carroll Reece
McCormack
Albuquerque
N. M
Clinton P. Anderson
Navy
Marine Corps
War Shipping Administration
Veterans Hospitals
War Department
Black market car dealers sentenced in Detroit ring
Twenty seven used car dealers were fined nearly 100000 and given prison terms up to two years in a government case against a 2.5 million dollar black market ring. Chief figure Ben Fisher of Cairo Illinois received the heaviest sentence and fine. The group bought cars in Detroit to resell to western and southern dealers above ceiling prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Arthur Koscinski
Ben Fisher
Cairo
Ill
OPA
Fireworks Display At Big State Fair
The State Fair of Texas in Dallas runs October 5 to 20 with a nightly fireworks finale in the Lagoon area. W H Hitzelberger says new effects will create a fairyland of colored fire featuring Niagara Falls set pieces aerial bombshells and optical illusions. Comedy numbers and a rainbow finale with the American flag are planned with nightly feature changes for variety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest
Texas
Dallas
W. H. Hitzelberger
State Fair Association
Niagara Falls
Hitzelberger
Singing Convention At Bethel Sunday
The Fifth Sunday Singing Convention will be held at Bethel Baptist Church south of Whitewright on Sunday at 10 45 a.m. It will be in session all day and lunch will be served to visiting singers. Attendees are invited to bring basket lunches for a communal meal. A large number of visiting singers and several quartets are expected, per M V Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel Baptist Church
Whitewright
M. V. Williams
Bethel
Thirteenth Baby Born to Colton Family in Riverside
40 year old Mrs. Albert Ozuna of Colton California has a 13th daughter born Monday at Osteopathic Hospital. Her 25 year old eldest daughter is already a mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside, Calif
Albert Ozuna
Colton
Calif
Osteopathic Hospital
Ozuna
Tom Bean Tom Cats Here Friday Night
Whitewright High School Tigers face Tom Bean Tom Cats at Bryant Field in an 8 p m Friday season opener. Not a conference game with Tom Bean in Class B and Whitewright in Class A. Strong local rivalry expected despite class difference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright High School Tigers
Tom Bean
Tom Cats
Bryant Field
Whitewright
Tigers
Montgomery
van Alstyne
Whitesboro
BeHs
Gunter
Farmersville
Rockwall
Plano
Royse City
U S Agriculture Chief Says Food Prices Boosts At End
U S Agriculture Chief says price ceilings will rise little if any further. He defended raising livestock ceilings as needed to spur production and prevent a meat famine. He warned farmers to lean on domestic markets and keep farm prices reasonable while export markets remain. A brief cartoon joke closes the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Agriculture
Albuquerque
N. M
Clinton P. Anderson
OPA
Anderson
Fannin County Fair Boosters Promote Whitewright Visit
A large Fannin County group toured Whitewright to advertise the Fannin County Fair opening next Tuesday in Bonham for a five day run. The 14th annual fair features farm exhibits, counts of prizes over 200 dollars, parades, a rodeo, and nightly programs in new buildings north of town on Highway 78.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannin County
Whitewright
Bonham
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Kenneth Haggard
Bonham Chamber of Commerce
Gainesville
Rodeo
Dug Jones
Cotton ginned from 1946 crop tops 1.25 million bales
The Census Bureau reports 1,248,545 bales ginned before Sept 16 from the 1946 cotton crop. This compares with 1,021,517 bales last year and 1,824,262 in 1944. State totals: Arizona 11,322. Arkansas 7,298. Louisiana 91,973. Mississippi 149,853. New Mexico 6,674. Oklahoma 3,663. Texas 509,790. and 445,144 for the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Arizona
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Candy Bar Prices Held As Bars Shrink Under OPA
The OPA announced candy bars will keep prices on most nickel and dime items, but will shrink bar sizes to offset higher production costs. The move introduces a new ceiling formula for five to ten cent packaged candies, with slight increases on wafers mints hard candy panned candy caramels fudge and jelly packages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Low Farm Income In 1947 Predicted By Expert
CHICAGO The 1947 net farm income will likely be lower than 1946 because non agricultural commodity prices have risen. Dr Earl L Butz head of Purdue University agricultural economics said American agriculture is in a postwar inflationary period whose length is unpredictable. He noted the 1946 net income will probably be the highest on record despite higher operating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Earl L. Butz
Department of Agricultural Economics
Purdue University
Butz
American Bankers Association
Legion Building Fund Still Growing
The Preston Everheart Post American Legion reports cash and pledges totaling 5900 for its building fund. Since the last report J B May of Savoy gave 50 T H McSpedden 5 and Dr W A Erwin 750. Cash received to date is 3678 with 2322 in pledges outstanding. Members urge more payments this Fall to fund a memorial building in American Legion Park serving WWI and WWII veterans and community activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Everheart Post
American Legion
Tom Sears
Building Fund Committee
J.B. May
Savoy
T. H. McSpedden
W. A. Erwin
Post
Whitewright
Stalin sees no danger of war says world tensions over
London reports Prime Minister Stalin stated there is no real danger of a new war and denounced talk of confrontation. He said the United States and Britain cannot encircle the Soviet Union and attributed war rhetoric to efforts to gain concessions and to curb demobilization. He affirmed Soviet ties under Potsdam and the aim of demilitarizing and democratizing Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Stalin
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Alexander Worth
London Sunday Times
Soviet Monitor
Russia
Germany
Western Europe
France
Cat fatal electric accident at irrigation power station
In Hamilton City California a cat leaped through a window into a irrigation system power station landing on an oil switch box and being electrocuted. Julius F Moelk and Alvin Willens pulled the burned body free and then inspected the switch. The switch exploded and both men died from their injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton City
Calif
Julius F. Moelk
Alvin Willens
Sandwich Eater Dozes And Denture Disappears
Dallas police report Andrew Pruitt of 712 Allen ate a sandwich at a barbecue cafe on Bryan and dozed on a bench. He woke to find his false teeth stolen by a thief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Andrew Pruitt
Allen
Bryan
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B. R. Caraway
Associated Press
Daisey
Fannin County Fair Boosters
Legion Building Fund
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