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'Thursday, May 30, 1940.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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YOUR HOME
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“QUALITY COUNTS — ALWAYS GOOD”
Wall Paper
Drive Up for Curb Service!
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Quality
Building
Materials
Boy, What
a Treat!
A Big, Luscious, Crisp
Cone Filled With That
Extra Rich
Bullets in New
War Make Clean
Wounds on Men
WAR MAY BOOM
VALUES OF LAND
TRANSACTION TAX
ANALYSIS GIVEN
LOWER COTTON
CONSUMPTION
IS PREDICTED
THE TEXACO
STATION
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He shall have clean sheets to lie on,
My breast to rest his head,
Who soon may lie in mud and blood
Unmindful, being dead.
He shall have good things to eat—
Rare steaks, he likes, and pie—
Who soon may taste a bitter oint,
Ability to die.
He shall go to baseball games
And cheei’ or curse the runs,
Who soon may play a different game,
More grimly played with guns.
And he shall have no tears from me,
But love and laughter be my part,
Who have many empty years
To mend a broken heart.
—Mary Yelvington in Dallas News.
HOUSEWIFE PREPARES
FOR WAR
The waters off
coast often give
SEE US IF YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL
FARM OR CITY PROPERTY
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
NEW HOME MORTGAGES SELECTED FOR APPRAISAL
NUMBER AS REPORTED BY INSURING OFFICES
THOUSANDS APRIL 1938 ' ' ' APR,L 1940
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SERVICE STATION
L. LaRoe & Co
EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH
Whitewright Lumber Co.
“Neighborly Service”
Paints, Varnishes
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70,000 Farmers
Sign Petitions
For Cotton Bags
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From every viewpoint you have good reasons
for keeping your home in a good state of re-
pair. In addition to maintaining its value, it
gives you and your family a feeling of well-
being to have your home present an attractive
appearance.
Protect the investment you have in your home and
its furnishings by having it properly insured in an
old-line stock company. It pays to insure your home,
your life, your automobile, and your valuables of all
kinds—including your health. We can give you any
kind of dependable insurance you want, and we’ll be
glad to talk over your requirements with you.
ASHBURN’S
lee Cream
inaugurating the course
More colleges and other schools
teaching the subject each year.
executive secretary of the Game De-
partment pointed out in congratulat-
ing Miss Watkins and County School
Superintendent Joe Harris upon their
of study,
are
held at Cotton Council headquarters
last December, at which Mr. Barrin-
ger and his committee went into the
cotton bag problem from the stand-
point of practical economics. At the
time of the meeting arrangements
were made for experimentation with
new types of cotton bags for pack-
aging fertilizers for which cotton had
not previously been considered suit-
able. Already a number of experi-
mental shipments have been made in
the new bags, with uniformly favor-
able results.
the tax
and pro-
of farm,
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INSURANCE —. REAL ESTATE J
MAY BADGETT First Nat’l Bank Bldg. H
Notary Public Phone 20 g
For your new construction work, for remod-
eling, for modernizing, for any repair work
or general fixing up you have planned for the
season, use only quality materials. It is good
economy in the long run—and seldom costs
much more than inferior grades. Lumber,
lime, cement, roofing, mill-work, doors, win-
dows, paint, lathing, wall-board, builders’
hardware and brick make up our stock in
trade. It does not pay to use anything less
than the best.
We have full stocks on hand and can give the
quickest service.
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DEER TOLL CONTINUES
. HEAVY
The death rate for game killed on
Texas highways continues heavy.
The latest report received by the
Game Department shows 23 deer
were known to have been killed on
the roads in Gillespie County during
the first foui’ months of this year.
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It doesn’t cost much to keep a home in good
condition, but if it is neglected over a long
period of time, the cost of repairs mounts up.
We are equipped to help you maintain your
home—your best investment—in good condi-
tion, and we invite you to use our facilities.
DEMANDS FOR FISH
HEAVIER
AUSTIN.—With new, huge lakes
being built in Texas constantly, the
demand for fish raised by the State
Game Department in its ten hatch-
eries increases monthly. The latest
lake to be stocked is Possum King-
dom. Bass numbering 71,000 were
planted in it recently, it was an-
nounced today by the executive sec-
retary of the Department. That was
many shipments which most recent reported to the
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19 3 8 1939 1940
This graph illustrates the extent of the upsurge in the Federal Housing Administration’s
home mortgage insuring activities during the first two months of Spring. Beginning in April
1938, when the amended National Housing Act became effective, the number of new-home mort-
gages selected for appraisal reached a record in March 1939. After declining seasonally, the
volume jumped to a new record in March 1940, exceeding the level of the preceding year, and
then went on to establish still another record in April. Showing no indication of tapering off,
the graph foreshadows active construction of new homes under the FHA program during May.
. . . . Game Department , snovel nose sturgeons are not na-
biologists, and by makmg use of oth- ! tives of Texas fresh waters> but one
was caught recently in a net by Rex
Ferrell of Dallas while he was sein-
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inches
a half
STUDY GAME LAWS,
CONSERVATION
Dallas County rural students in in-
termediate grades will study state
game and fish laws and the conserva-
tion of wildlife under 250 teachers,
according to word received by the
Game Department from Miss Leland
Watkins, intermediate supervisor.
Realization of the need of conser-
vation education is spreading, the
ing for minnows at Eagle
Lake. The sturgeon was 24
long and weighed one and
pounds.
The chief aquatic biologist of the
State Game Department was at a loss
to explain the presence of the stur-
geon in the lake, but said the egg
from which it came could have been
dropped in Eagle Mountain Lake by
a bird which had picked up fertilized
spawn in some water, possibly hun-
of fish most suitable for each lake.
The state hatcheries produced more he not been injured by the tanker,
than 5,000,000 fish last year, but by _____
using improved methods of fertiliza- , ANOTHER INVASION
tion, some of them developed by' * qF TEX VS
.T.e*as. ,^amj -Department aquatic; Shovel nose sturgeons are not
biologists, and by makmg use of oth-j tives of Texas fresh wat but
er recently-discovered methods of1
propagating fish, it is hoped to dou-
ble the hatcheries’ production this
season. To date it appears the hatch-
eries will reach the 10,000,000 mark
set for them, despite the fact late
freezes killed more than 1,000,000
small fish in the hatcheries.
those which might encourage one.
The department emphasizes, how-
ever, that the unpredictable element
of “inflation psychology” could easily
upset all calculations.
“The possibility of even a partial
repetition of World War movements
in land values,” a department report
said, “would appear to justify giving
serious consideration to the formula-
tion of legal measures aimed at dis-
couraging excessive increases.”
Figures were cited to reflect the
extent of the World War’s influence.
In 1910 the value of the country’s
farm real estate was $34,801,000,000.
By 1920 it had soared to $66,316,000,r
000, with most of the increase occur-
ring after 1914. Values have since
drifted downward to the current
$35,356,000,000.
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AUSTIN.—With 50 per cent of the
world’s cotton spindles at war,
“blackout” of 3,000,000 bales of Eu-
ropean cotton consumption was pre-
dicted today for 1940-41 by a Uni-
versity of Texas cotton marketing
expert.
He forecast world cotton consump-
tion for world cotton marts makes it
imperative that the United States—
already suffering together with China
90 per cent of the total reduction in
world production—adopt an effective
cotton program, Dr. A. B. Cox de-
clared.
Depreciation of currencies in other
cotton-growing nations adds another
obstacle to United States cotton sales
—raising the price paid by farmers
in those countries, yet keeping the
price paid in the consuming countries
at a relatively lower price than
United States cotton, he added.
South American countries like
Brazil which have been selling large
amounts of cotton to Germany and
countries dominated by Germany
will have to seek markets elsewhere
if England continues to control the
sea, the bureau of business research
director explained.
“All important cotton-importing
countries are hard put to get the de-
sired amount of foreign exchange,”
he pointed out.
“As a result they are seeking to
import cotton from countries which
are willing to accept manufactured
goods in payment, which had the
added prospect of building up a base
for permanent trade after th ewar.”
HAUL IN 1,100-POUND
TURTLE
the Texas Gulf
up monsters. The
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Department was a 1,100-pound turtle
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being jn by four men. The turtle had been g
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channel. The
broke the first | 5
Hand embroidery engages 25,000
workers in Funchal, Madeira. Em-
broidered articles are the island’s
chief export trade item.
CHICAGO. — British and French
medical journals received here re-
cently report that wounds suffered
•by allied troops are cleaner and in-
jections fewer than in the World
War, Dean Irving S. Cutter of North-
western University Medical School
said today.
“It is reported that the wounds
from German missiles are cleaner
and go clear through the body, car-
rying fewei- particles of tissue with
them. Perhaps the velocity of the
missiles is greater and they sterilize
themselves by friction in the air and
the heat of the discharge.
“Far less infections are being re-
ported than in the last war, although
the physicians making these reports
qualify their statements by saying
that it is perhaps too early to draw
any definite conclusions. It is sug-
gested that perhaps the wounded
men were less fatigued and had more
resistant power.”
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Not Guilty
“Zeke played a mean trick on our
parrot.”
“What did he do?”
“The parrot was sound asleep in
its cage, so Zeke got a big candy Eas-
ter egg and put it inside. Then he
woke the parrot up. The parrot took
one look at the egg and said:
“ "At’s a lie’.”
WASHINGTON.—The agriculture
department is watching the possibil-
ity of a recurrence of the land spec-
ulation boom touched off by the
World War in 1914, and counsels pre-
cautions.
Noting that World War conditions
had sent farm land values skyrocket-
ing almost a hundred per cent in a
decade, the department sought to
gauge the possible effects of the pres-
ent conflict on farm prices.
Factors adverse to another land
boom, it was said, tended to outweigh
(Editor’s Note—This is another in
a series of brief articles, analyzing
the tax plan of each candidate for
Governor for paying social security.)
AUSTIN.—A transaction tax is fa-
vored by Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel to
pay old age pensions and other fea-
tures of social security.
A tax of 1.6 per cent (the rate
would be less if the state ad valorem
tax is not abolished) would be levied
on “the amount of the actual value
passing from one person to another,”
and “transaction” is defined as:
“Any dealings of every kind what-
soever between two or more persons
wherein or whereby professional,
business, personal, mechanical, in-
dustrial, commercial, engineering,
scientific, publicity or any other ser-
vices of whatsoever kind or nature
are done or performed, or wherein or
whereby any right, title, interest,
estate, right of enjoyment or right of
possession in or to any tangible or
intangible property of any descrip-
tion passes or is, or may be fixed, de-
termined, changed, effected, modi-
fied, increased, diminished or af-
meeting of fertilizer manufacturers fected.”
■ Main exemptions from
would be: Salaries, wages
, fessional fees; first sale
ranch or dairy products by the pro-
ducer; charity organizations; relig-
ious organizations; transactions be-
tween the State of Texas and another
State or the United States Govern-
ment, and transactions based upon
interstate commerce.
In announcing for re-election, the
Governor quoted from his first mes-
sage to the Legislature when the
transaction tax was submitted, “I be-
lieve that this will give the broadest
base from which to secure this rev-
enue. A transaction tax, such as I
recommend, is applied alike to every
line of business and industry.”
Objections raised by those oppos-
ing are that it takes newspaper ad-
vertising but exempts fees of law-
yers; that it would give a new ad-
vantage to chain stores as their mer-
chandise would be obtained from
headquarters in another state and so
would be interstate commerce and
therefore subject to only one tax,
which would be on the final sale
across the counter; that the business
man would have to set up an elabor-
ate book-keeping system.
Opponents also contend that the
transaction tax of 1.6 per cent would
be paid at the time oil, gas and sul-
phur are produced and that is all; but
that the cost of meat, bread, milk,
work clothes, furniture, etc., would
be snowballed by five or six or eight
turnovers so that it would amount to
perhaps 8 per cent or more to the fi-
nal purchaser, it being contended
that the transaction tax is not mere-
ly a sales tax but a pyramided sales
tax because a product would be sub-
ject to a new tax each time it is
handled and, in the case of merchan-
dise, all these would be added to the
sales price which the buyer would
pay, it is asserted.
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CAUGHT THREE FISH
AT ONCE
L. D. Flowers of Uvalde was plen-
ty satisfied recently when he caught
a sixteen-inch bass, but he wasn’t . ___________
amazed until he cut into the fish and dreds of miles
found a four-inch bass in its stomach,
according to a report to the Game
Department. Investigating further,
Mr. Flowers opened the smaller bass
and discovered a two-inch perch.
Both the four and two-inch fish were
whole. Maybe catching’two bass and
one perch on a single hook is a rec-
ord.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Signed by more
than 70,000 leading farmers of the
Cotton Belt, a gigantic petition 5,883
• feet in length soon will be ready for
presentation to manufacturers of
feed, fertilizer and other products
suitable for packing in cotton bags,
the National Cotton Council an-
nounces.
More than a mile of signatures al-
ready are in the hands of Chairman
L. T. Barringer of the Council’s com-
mittee on cotton bags. He is awaiting
returns from final scattered counties
before putting the petition in form
for displays at conventions and meet-
ings of manufacturers and distribu-
tors.
Making the petition representative
of every section of the Cotton Belt,
the Council’s bag committee has en-
deavored to obtain the signatures of
100 leading farmers in each county
rather than to pile up voluminous
pages of petitions lacking in geo-
graphic uniformity of origin.
The petition is the outgrowth of a
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will be placed in the lake. _ ___________________
All the new lakes being stocked by which was lassoed and finally hauled
the Game Department are being jy ±UUi
studied by aquatic biologists to deter— grazed by a tanker a
mine the amount of fish food the va— earlier in the Sabine
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