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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1945
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun urges public attention to Fire Prevention Week October 7 to 13 amid high annual fire losses. It highlights 1000 home fires daily in the US, 800 million matches used, and 250 billion cigarettes smoked yearly as ongoing risks to homes and factories.
The passage praises rapid reconversion and market return, asserts American industry acts without central planning, compares revival to a plant revived by water, and warns that more strikes will burden labor unions, ending with a statement on doing good.
Reports indicate the cotton harvest will be lighter than thirty days prior, reflecting the season’s pattern of overpromising and underdelivering despite earlier optimism.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson signaled production cuts for 1946 to align with smaller peacetime demand. Speaking at a conference with the American Farm Bureau Federation, he noted goals should reflect consumer needs rather than maximal production. The department faces surplus potatoes and potential egg gluts as war demands fade.
Officials discuss expanding controls to offset Pacific oil shortfalls and lowering soybean oil prices to discourage current production. A final move could include marketing quotas on rice, with penalties for selling beyond allotments depending on Southwest Pacific production.
Washington assesses whether the Army Navy recruitment campaign can muster about 1.5 million volunteers including those already serving. If the target is missed lawmakers may trim postwar force projections or push for a peacetime draft. Navy seeks 500 600 thousand in postwar fleet. Army estimates range 500 thousand to 1 million without peacetime draft. Navy currently 300 thousand in enlistments.
Officials from Emerson Radio & Phonograph and Sylvania Electric Products unveiled a development of the radio proximity fuse. They said the miniature vacuum tube would enable tiny radio devices for civilians, including walkie talkies, alongside military shells bombs and rockets.
Lt. Col. Jerry Sadler former railroad commissioner said he aimed to help returning veterans and if needed run for governor. He noted he would become a civilian Tuesday midnight and would make his home in Austin while addressing living needs of veterans.
St Louis County Court scene as William Barnes Landwehr, 31, was shot in a scuffle with a deputy sheriff. He caught the bullet in his mouth and spit it out but lost five teeth in the incident.
Dallas County Sheriff Smoot Schmid urged creating a specialized hospital ward for habitual drunkards instead of jail. He plans to present the idea to the city-county hospital board as plans for a new city-county hospital proceed, following a $7 million bond authorizing the project. He noted current jail treatment is inadequate for chronic alcoholics while best care exists elsewhere.
Washington report says housewives will receive four red points per pound for waste fats starting next Monday. The Office of Price Administration and the Agriculture Department aim to boost fat collection for soap and other products as salvage quantities have fallen since the war end.
Henry J Kaiser and Joseph W Frazer announced a 20 million dollar Kaiser Frazer Corporation to produce low priced Kaisers at Willow Run. Graham Paige will relocate production and join an integrated manufacturing and sales operation with the new firm. Frazer also plans a Frazer model in the medium price field. Both sedans will be full sized six passengers.
In Oklahoma City two police officers escorted a naked woman to jail after she refused to dress. The officers described her as calm while she persisted in a nude protest, joking about her name as she faced the cold cell.
Two firms in New York predict pocket sized radio receivers no larger than a cigarette pack. The devices are expected to fit in a vest pocket and bring portable wireless listening to consumers. They anticipate early development and potential mass production within a few years.
The Sun urges readers to notify any address changes to prevent misdirected mail and save postage costs. Readers with upcoming moves are asked to inform the paper a week in advance to avoid missing issues and reduce losses from misaddressed copies.
The State Treasury gained 53 550 dollars from auctioning 1 420 cases of confiscated liquor and 243 cases of wine in seven cities. Bert Ford announced the sale on Tuesday.
The Texarkana region shows 2400 idle farms 1600 in Bowie County and 700-800 in Miller County as workers avoid returning to low paid dawn to dusk farm labor. War plants attracted them with higher wages, but many seek peace time jobs with similar living standards, many listed as skilled or semi skilled at USES offices. The piece notes unskilled wages at 50 cents an hour, producing about 18 dollars take home after tax and a 1 percent old age deduction on a 48 hour week.
The text notes workers may refuse a 50 cent hourly raise while keeping a 1804 dollar weekly war wage, with some preferring benefits over returning to work. Many seek jobs paying comparable war-plant wages as unemployment continues.
Mrs Lawrence Thompson of Worland Wyoming was reported to still have an extra rib on her right side after surgery to remove one from the left side. Doctors noted she now counts 13 ribs on the right and 12 on the left, the usual total.
The work titled The Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt was created for a dissecting room setting, reflecting its medical subject and public display in a clinical context.
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