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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1943
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun, published every Thursday in Whitewright Texas, notes 2nd class mail status and charges for entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees at regular rates. Memorials resolutions and similar notices also billed. J H Waggoner Glenn Doss publisher and editor. Subscription 1.50 per year. Corrections policy stated.
Whitewright urges residents to buy more bonds beyond the $118 900 community quota. Officials stress the government needs funds for the war effort and bonds are a solid investment for idle dollars as Grayson County towns work to push the county and state over top.
The piece explains inflation as a loss of money value where wages may rise but prices outpace pay. It warns of Germany after World War I, where savings vanished and a 40,000 mark policy worthless, with trillions of marks needed for a dollar. It emphasizes the ruinous effect on the middle class and elderly savings.
The Fort Worth Press argues that extreme inflation would erode life savings and render insurance and savings valueless. It urges Americans to buy bonds to curb such a calamity, noting rising prices and stalled pay gains would ruin workers.
A Washington dispatch cites the Department of Commerce saying Hitler has cost the world a trillion dollars. The piece compares figures like a quadrillion or quintillion and cites an American Magazine author proposing expansive uses for a trillion.
A North Africa bound Arab orphan named Joe Araby becomes mascot for a Northwest African Air Service Command unit. He digs ditches washes clothes and keeps tent area clean under staff sergeant John Fricker and others. Joe earns up to twenty dollars monthly in a growing bank account and plans to visit the United States after the war with the squadron. His tent proclaims Broadway and 42nd Street.
A dental cavity on the ground may cause toothache between 10 000 and 30 000 feet due to gas expansion at low pressure. Collier's notes cases where the pain appeared in early stages not visible on X rays.
Dr. Geo W Cox Texas State Health Officer urged a sustained, nationwide effort to control typhus in Texas. He linked rat and flea control to preventing the disease and called for rat extermination, proper garbage containment, rat-proofing of buildings, and help from local health departments in trapping and poisoning campaigns.
Grant C. Brown of Pontiac Michigan sues the Ford Motor Company in Michigan Federal Court seeking 1.5 billion dollars for patent infringement. Brown claims he patented a four wheel brake equalizing device in 1926 and notified Ford in 1935 that it used his principles since 1927.
Clarence E. Farmer of Fort Worth was elected president of the State Pensioners' Protective Organization at its first meeting in Dallas County courthouse. The group aims to back legislators who will support a state constitutional amendment to match federal pension allotments and to fund state pensions in full. A Fort Worth meeting is set for October 23 with Farmer presiding.
Time Magazine profiles Sam Rayburn 42nd speaker of the House, noting his pivotal role in a divided Congress on the eve of election year. It highlights his task to prevent disaster for Democrats and to guide 435 representatives through compromise, praising his influence and tactics. Rayburn is described in brief biographical detail from Bonham to Denison.
Caps and Lower Case lists seven guiding precepts on speech length impression and social conduct. Dr. Frank P. Graves, former New York education commissioner, holds 42 degrees with the last from Albany Law School in 1942.
The State of Texas commands P. T. Short to appear and answer a petition filed September 22 1943 in Grayson County District Court Sherman. The case No 49973 involves Leona Short plaintiff and P. T. Short defendant requesting divorce on grounds of cruel treatment. Hearing by November 8 1943 at 10 a.m. in Sherman Court House.
Washington Rep Wright Patman proposes to add farm home loans for veterans during and after the war with a 100 million annual cap rising to one billion after victory. The bill also offers a 10 percent securities bonus for veterans buying homes or businesses and a trustees board in the Smaller War Plants Corp to help veterans start ventures.
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