The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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Thursday, February 13, 1941„
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Glenn Doss____Managing Editor
DEFENSE MONEY
SPENT IN TEXAS
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
Belcherville Is Smallest
Incorporated Town in State
asked
about
Subscription Price, $1.50 Per Year,
Payable in Advance.
Texans
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, three
Pessimist: One who, when he has
the choice of two evils, takes both.
Cynic: One who knows the price
of everything and the value of noth-
ing.
Optimist:One who looks out in the
lication, but so we will know
sends them in for publication.
Keep cheese in a well-covered dish
or it will become dry and tasteless.
Save left-over griddle batter and
use it for dipping chops, cutlets and
so on.
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Officer Is Deputized
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of $2,005,360.
If rubber gloves are sprinkled on
the inside with corn starch or pow-
der they will slip on more easily.
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SPRING JUST WOULDN’T BE
RIGHT WITHOUT A NEW TAI-
LORED SUIT TO WEAR. WE
HAVE JUST THE ONE YOU’LL
ADORE AT A TINY SPRING
PRICE. COME SEE THEM.
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For something new and different
spread baked ham with a half cup of
molasses and bake 30 minutes in
moderate oven. This gives a delicious
flavor and a brown top. You can
include a teaspoon each of cinnamon
and cloves for a spicy touch.
NOTICE: All notices of entertain-
ments, box suppers and other bene-
fits, where there is an admission fee
or other monetary consideration, will
be charged for at regular advertising
rates. Memorials, resolutions of re-
spect, etc., also will be charged for.
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Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation that
may appear in the columns of The
Whitewright Sun will be gladly and
fully corrected upon being brought to
the attention of the publisher.
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Fruit gelatin mixtures gain in fa-
vor and nutritive value if fruit juices
are substituted for the liquid called
for in the recipe. Leftover canned
fruit juices are as good as juice from
fresh fruit.
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spending. And the amounts involved
are as varied as the items and ser-
vices purchased. These contracts and
expenditures rangs all the way in
size from the job of building the na-
val air station at Corpus Christi at a
cost of more than $25,000,000 to the
purchase on last October 17th of
$950 worth of cotton pillowcases
from the San Antonio Association
foi' the Blind. The Army bought
nearly three million dollars’ worth
of Diesel engines on July 29th, and
on December 7th it spent $32,459 for
light serge trousers'.
Division of Spending
Army contracts and expenditures
in Texas from last July 1st to De-
cember 31st totaled $65,142,141, ac-
cording to a compilation of the Of-
fice of Government Reports, made
in collaboration with the National
Defense Advisory Commission. Navy
contracts and expenditures during
that period amounted to $123,770,-
851. Defense expenditures by the
Federal Works Agency were divided
as follows in this state: WPA de-
fense projects, $1,839,909; USHA de-
fense housing projects, $989,000;
Public Buildings Administration, $1,-
071,000 And the Office of Education
in Defense Training of the Federal
Security Agency spent $1,030,157 up
to December 31st.
These expenditures are spread out
all over the state. Every section of
Texas is sharing in this vitally im-
portant work. Firms making de-
fense contracts with the Govern-
ment are located in Abilene, Amar-
illo, Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville,
and Corpus Christi; in Dallas, Deni-
son, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston,
Houston, and Laredo; in Orange,
Pharr, San Antonio, Taylor, Waco,
and Yoakum. The Government’s
spending for defense obviously is di-
rectly affecting a substantial per-
centake of the whole population of
Texas.
Be careful not to season meat
gravies so much that they lose their
characteristic flavors. Usually salt
and pepper or paprika are enough.
If you like a prepared meat sauce
add only a dash. Better yet, pass the
sauce and let the family use what
they please.
The Sim appreciates the many
news items it receives each week
through the mail. Many of them are
sent in by readers on rural routes.
When you know a news item, mail it
to The Sun. We want them every
week, but mail them early in the
week. Sign your name, not for pub-
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Here’s how to satisfy youi- love for style plus com-
fort! From left to right . . rich Koolana (acetate
rayon), in slimming bulton-to-the-hem design, sizes
14 to 20 and 40 . . a rayon print that helps narrow
your figure so prettily, 16 to 42 . . and another gein
in a lifesaver rayon print with elaborately stitched
pockets and bodice closing.
12 to 20 and 40. All washable.
defense spending. The money being
spent to carry out the defense pro-
gram is money raised by taxation of
the people and by borrowing on the
credit of the people. Government
spending alone, whether for peace-
time projects or for defense building,
cannot result in sound and lasting
prosperity.
Texas Industrial Assets
At the same time, there is
denying that Texas possesses indus-
trial assets of great value. The same
factors that make feasible the con-
struction of defense plants in the
state offer the farsighted investor an
opportunity of no little merit.
Texas has plentiful natural
sources. It has a climate that permits
year-around operation. It has an
adequate supply of thoroughly
American labor. It has excellent
transportation facilities. And it has
plenty of physical space for indus-
trial development of the most inten-
sive and extensive kind. These as-
sets serve the state well in both nor-
mal and abnormal times.
It may well be that this present era
of defense building will serve to
focus widespread, thoughtful atten-
tion on the industrial potentialities of
Texas. It may well be that the Gov-
ernment’s eagerness to place con-
tracts for defense purposes in Texas,
in line with the policy of scattering
these plants and keeping them be-
tween the Rockies and the Appala-
chians, will turn out to be of the ut-
most importance in the long-range
development of this state.
Meanwhile, the exigencies of the
defense program are resulting in a
noticeable intensification of the Tex-
as industrial tempo. Results of that
program already are being felt
throughout the state, as the Govern-
ment lets construction contracts and
buys clothing and bedding and sad-
dles and fuel oil. Its results are like-
ly to be felt in an increasing degree
during the time just ahead. Defense
spending will be the most potent
single influenc oen the Texas busi-
ness picture during this year at least.
(From Texas Digest)
How is the national defense pro-
gram affecting the economic life of
Texas? To what extent is this state
profiting by reason of defense con-
tracts and expenditures? In dollars
and cents, exactly how much of the
defense billions is being spent here?
And how much more will be spent
here in the immediate future?
Up to the middle of this month,
contracts let and expenditures made
in Texas under the defense program
aggregated $221,000,000. In process
of negotiation at this time, according
to Roger Miller of Dallas, South-
western regional manager of the
United States Chamber of Com-
merce, are additional awards totaling
$260,000,000.
Within six months from now, Mr.
Miller declared recently, Texas will
have been awarded half a billion
dollars in defense contracts. And, in
his opinion, if Texas business takes
full advantage of its opportunities
the total will be considerably more
than half a billior dollars by the end
of the year. He based his statement
and his prediction upon figures gath-
ered by his organization and upon
the expressed willingness of the
Government to place as many de-
fense contracts as possible in Texas.
Factories Surveyed
Ten thousand manufacturing
plants have been surveyed by the
War Department, Mr. Miller pointed
out, to ascertain their suitability for
defense purposes. In a single South-
western city, fifty-two plants re-
cently were surveyed and approved.
“There is a mistaken idea in Tex-
as,” the Southwestern manager of
the United States Chamber of Com-
merce said, “that manufacturers in
other states are being favored un-
justly. This is not true.. The Army,
Navy, Federal works, and education
branches of the Government are
anxious to award defense contracts
to Texas.
'—'“The reason more Texas firms are
not bidding is because- they are car-
rying on a full-time regular business,
and any defense contracts they
might obtain would be in addition to
this. War contracts would cause
them to expand their plants. But the
defense program is a long-range one
and Texas businessmen can best
serve the nation and themselves by
resurveying the possibilities of their
plants for use in turning out
materials — and war materials
elude just about everything.”
Diversified Spending
It is true enough that “just about
everything” is being bought by the
Government in carrying out the de-
fense program. Money is being spent
in Texas for many different pur-
poses: For construction, of course;
for tent-making materials and can-
vas cots; for trunk lockers and shirts
and work trousers; for fuel and pub-
lic utility service; for ammunition
and fencing and mattresses and sad-
dles and water tanks.
Numerous diverse lines of business
have profited from the defense
dark and sees a
there. A pessimist is one who
the light out.
Bore: A man who, when
about his health, tells you all
it.
Dreamer: One who casts the an-
chor of his hopes in the harbor of a.
dream.
Self: What you are when you think,
nobody is looking.
Gentleman: One who can disagree-
without being disagreeable.
Drudge: A man with a task and.
without a vision, while a visionary is
a man with a vision without a task.
Pedestrian: A man who has two
cars, a wife and a daughter.—Bee-
ville Bee-Picayune.
SHERMAN. — M. G. Dicken was
deputized Saturday afternoon by
Sheriff P. M. Porter as Grayson
County highway officer, and as-
sumed his duties immediately after
making $1,000 bond.
This action was taken in rebuttal
to that of the Commissioners Court
in naming A. E. Whiteacre of Deni-
son to succeed himself in the office.
Whiteacre has been deputized by
Constable Ira Jessee of Denison.
Sheriff Porter filed the deputization
of Dicken with the county clerk Sat-
urday afternoon.
Dicken lives in the Howe commu-
nity, and served as a deuty sheriff
for several months in 1939.
Status of the appointment has
been clouded by controversy over the
statutes applicable. The attorney
general has refrained from issuing an
opinion as requested by Sheriff Por-
ter, until a case now pending before
the Supreme Court is settled.
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WASHINGTON. — Belcherville in
Montague County is the smallest in-
corporated town in Texas. With 94
residents in 1940, a gain of nine over
the past decade, it took the Texas
championship for being the smallest
real town in the state.
Although Belcherville was the
smallest in Texas, it was far larger
than most of the smallest towns in
other states. In Arkansas, Maryland
and Colorado, there were incorpo-
rated towns with only two residents
each.
What Was Bought
If any person doubts the statement
that the money spent for defense
purposes is affecting a large number
of vastly different kinds of business
in Texas, let that person give his at-
tention to an analysis of expendi-
tures during the last three months of
1940. A breakdown of these expen-
ditures shows that the Army and
Navy contracted for everything from
tent cities and plants for the manu-
facture of toluol to military saddles
and typewriter ribbons.
By far the largest amount was
spent, naturally, for construction.
Building activities in connection
with the defense program resutled in
contracts totaling $54,724,347 during
October, November and December of
last year, it is revealed by an analy-
sis of the compilations of the Office
of Government Reports. For the
purposes of this analysis, construc-
tion is made to include not only ac-
tual building of army camps, de-
fense factories, roads, and so on, but
also the installation of utilities, wat-
er systems, and other essentials.
It is somewhat surprising to find
that the next largest cost item of the
defense program’s Texas operations
during the last quarter of 1940 is ac-
counted for by various kinds of bed-
ding. Mataresses cost $2,530,873. An
additional $144,500 was spent for
For a long time we have beem
wanting to hear a good story on a.
banker. We wanted to tell it to Dart
Rogers. Probably Dan has heard this:
one by now, but it seems that a cer-
tain banker in Dallas recently retired
and planned to take things easy on a
farm north of town. But after several
weeks of inactivity he needed some-
thing to do and so bought the filling
station near his place.
He opened up early his first morn-
ing and was quickly rewarded by a
big shiny car sliding to a stop beside
his pumps. “Give me ten gallons of
regular,” said the prosperous-looking
man in the driver’s seat. By this
time the ex-banker was testing the
oil and so opened up with conversa-
tion:
“Going up the highway?”
“Going to McKinney,” said
driver.
“Be up there long?”
station owner.
“Just going to make one call
come right back,” answered the car
owner pleasantly.
“Don’t you think you could make
the trip just as well on five gallons?””
inquired the former bank president.
OOP
To remove mustard stains from
linen, soak the linen as quickly as
possible in cold water to cover. This
loosens the mustard so that it will
come out when laundered in the
usual way—in plenty of warm water
and soap suds.
canvas cot covers, with $55,800 more
going for hammocks. And 1
sold the Government $28,750
of pillowcases during
months.
Artillery ammunition
arms materials resulted
penditure in Texas
Three luggage manufacturers of the
state sold $35,450 worth of trunk
lockers. Fencing to the value of $4,-
474 was purchased in Texas by the
Government during the three-month
period. The item of military saddles
added $50,750 to the amount spent in
Texas, and typewriter ribbons cost-
ing $12,630 were purchased. A steel
water tank was bought for $69,000,
and a gasoline fueling system was
installed at an airport at a cost of
$65,246.
Several Texas clothing manufac-
turers made sales to the Government
during the final quarter of last year.
Biggest expenditure in the clothing
line was for trousers, the sum ex-
pended for the three months totaling
$797,887. Shirts to the value of $7,-
990 were bought, while another
$186,180 was spent for work coats.
Texas concerns sold the
ment $312,588 worth of fuel oil. Air-
craft rescue boats costing $126,804
were purchased from a Houston
firm. And the sum of $853,816 was
spent within the state during the
three months for the defense train-
ing program.
What It Means
It is clearly impossible to outline
with even a semblance of accuracy
the precise effect all this is having
on the economic tempo of Texas.
Certainly, though, there can be no
doubt that the effect is considerable.
Texas materials and resources are
being called into use; Texas labor,
skilled and unskilled, is being put to
work. And the final effect extends,
of course, far beyond the industries
directly engaged in supplying the
needs of the defense program, for the
workers employed in these indus-
tries spend their paychecks for food
and clothing and shelter and recrea-
tion, in the production of which still
more workers must be employed.
As Mr. Miller, in the statement re-
ferred to above, pointed out, “war
materials include just about every-
thing.” And, as he also explained,
there is no need of the Texas busi-
nessman going to Washington “to get
a contract.” Both the Army and the
Navy have procurement officers in
the field ready to survey industrial
plants and to award contracts.
Full Cooperation
“The business organizations of
Texas,” Mr. Miller said, “have been
receiving the finest sort of coopera-
tion from all representatives of the
Army and the__avy and prompt re-
sponse and assistance in the process
of conducting the necessary surveys.
“If Texans just make the most of
their opportunities, we can expect a
gigantic as well as a lasting indus-
trial boom within the year,” the re-
gional representative of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce added.
That is as may be. It is wholly
within the realm of possibility. To
be sure, sight should not be lost of
the fact that any sound “industrial
boom” in Texas must be based on
some more permanent factor than
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1941, newspaper, February 13, 1941; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230654/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.