The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1943 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, August 26, 1943.
THE WHITE W KIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Town and Farm in Wartime
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Best Service
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DOLLAR DILEMMA
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—GREASING
—BATTERY
—GAS & OIL
—ACCESSORIES
—REPAIRS
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We Like the Best
Call
Farley Grocery
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...
Glen Earnheart
Ambulance and Funeral Service
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SEE US FOR DEPENDABLE BURIAL INSURANCE
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‘BISCUIT BOMBERS’ REAL HEROES;
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC WORK VITAL
Telephones: Day 15, Night 16
Whitewright, Texas
is stored in your barns. . .
Play safe. . . . Don’t de-
lay. . . . Insure today.
Make our feed store your loafing place.
We like to have you visit us.
Stalingrad Being
Rebuilt Rapidly,
Standley Says
One-Tenth of All Workers
In Steel Industry Women
Teacher Gets More Than
She Bargained For
Lee Norris
Garage
Ground corn, shelled corn, chicken feed
and other feeds. When you need feed,
come to see us and Save Money
REMEMBER
When you have corn, oats, wheat or any
other farm products to sell, see us.
We buy what the farmer has to sell, and
try to keep instock the things he has to
buy.
children
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Things being what they “ain’t,”
I wish some gentleman or scholar
Would help my budget and invent
A sturdy lastex dollar!
A dollar with a four-way stretch
To meet sky-highing prices—
A lastex dollar would do much
To ease the present crises.
—Ruth Plumly Thompson.
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SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC.
—An English teacher got more than
she bargained for when she sent her
native pupils to visit a U. S. Marine
Corps camp as a means of improving
their spoken English.
Next morning an 11-year-old boy
came to class and greeted the teacher
thus:
“Hi-ya, babe; what’s cookin’?”
Pascal Farley
SEED AND GRAIN
Amortized Farm Loans
LOW INTEREST QUICK SERVICE
Annual Payments at Sherman
Farms For Sale — Property Insurance
A. Y. CREAGER COMPANY
M. & P. Bank Bldg. Sherman, Texas
BARBEE & BASSETT
Insurance Agency
Phone 32
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We like to see the best of everything in
Whitewright. We think we have one of
the best theatres in Texas in White-
wright. We want to extend congratula-
tions to the management of the Palace
Theatre for the good job they have done
in replacing the Palace. We now have a
modern show house in every respect, and
we are proud of it.
S
tons
the
land—or
Consumption of electricity in Tex-
as jumped 45.5 per cent during June
over May, University of Texas
'reau of
, show.
Glass
the excavation of Nineveh.
us for crop insurance.
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Give no bounties; make equal
laws; secure life and prosperity and
you need not give alms.—Emerson.
More Nurses Needed
Many American hospitals
maintain normal standards of service
today because of the lack of nurses,
according to reports made to the U. S.
Public Health Service—or 100,000
more than are now available. Of this
number 66,000 will be needed for
military service and 293,000 for civ-
ilians. Because of limited facilities,
the maximum that can be trained
within this period is 65,000.
flew 5,378 tons of cargo from the
rim of the combat zone to the front
lines.
In the useful and illustrative sta-
tistical term of ton-miles—*-tons car-
ried multiplied by miles flown—
they have averaged more than 600,-
000 a month. They fly more than 3,-
500 hours every month in some of the
world’s worst weather.
The Open Door
“I am sorry I can’t accept you,
Bill, but circumstances over which I
have no control prevent me.”
“And what are those circum-
stances?”
“Your circumstances.”
The people of Whitewright are the
best on earth and deserve the best of
everything. We congratulate Mr. Hasty
on the job he has done so well in giving
Whitewright a first class theatre.
When you want groceries and good
meats, you will find them at Farley’s.
Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries. Inc.
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‘Bootleggers must post Ceiling Prices*'
‘Federal Agents seize' Trick* Liquor Truck’.’
Doesn’t that go to prove, Joe, that prohibi-
tion does not prohibit?
“I watched conditions pretty carefully
curing our 13 years of prohibition in this
country. The only thing I could see we got
out of it was bootleg liquor instead of legal
liquor...plus the worst crime and corrup-
tion this country has ever known.”
"Quite a stack of newspapers I left you
yesterday, Judge. Aren’t goin’ in the news-
paper business, are you?”
“No, I just enjoy reading different
papers so my nephew George sends them
to me whenever he takes a business trip.
I got a big kick out of some he sent me
from several counties where they still have
prohibition. Particularly from some head-
lines that read ‘ Drunk Driving Arrests Rise’.
MOSCOW. — Adm. William H.
Standley, United States ambassador
to Russia, said Saturday after an in-
spection of Stalingrad that the re-
construction of the city was “going
ahead rapidly.”
The ambassador, who spent Friday
at the scene of the greatest battle of
1942, told correspondents that some
parts of a tractor factory already
were working, that the Russians
planned to rebuild -the city com-
pletely.
A population of 200,000, living in
tents and temporary structures, is
engaged in the work.
Standley said he saw the wreckage
of “literally thousands” of Gemran
planes, which the Russians estimated
numbered 4,000.
“I can now believe almost any of
their claims,” he said.
It’s too dry and hot to
run the risk of losing your
grain, feed or hay crop.
Gasoline—In 17 states of. eastern
shortage area A-6 coupons are now
’ /lid. In states outside the eastern
area A-7 coupons are valid through
Sapt. 21. B and C coupons expire
according to dates on individual
books. All gasoline coupons in the
possession of car owners must be en-
dorsed with the owner’s license num-
ber and state of registration.
Sugar—Stamp No. 14 good for
five pounds through October. Stamps
Nos. 15 and 16 are good for 5 lbs.
each for home canning purposes
through October 31. Housewives may
apply to their local ration boards for
more if necessary.
Shoes—Stamp No. 18 (1 pair)
valid through October 31.
Stoves — Consumer purchases
rationed stoves must be made with
certificate obtained at local war
price and rationing boards.
Meats, Etc.—Red stamps T, U, V
and W valid through Aug. 31. X
valid through Oct. 2. Y becomes
valid Aug. 29, Z becomes valid Sept.
5, and both remain valid through
Oct. 2.
Processed Foods—Blue stamps R, S
and T remain valid through Sept. 20.
U, V and W become valid September
1 and remain valid through Oct. 20.
Jobs to Guide Father-Draft
After Oct. 1, when drafting of
fathers begins, those in non-deferable
activities or occupations, regardless
of their order numbers, will be the
first fathers called for military ser-
vice. Those who transfer to essential
occupations and thus release single
men for military service help to de-
crease the need for drafting fathers
Generally speaking, after Oct. 1, the
occupation of an eligible registrant
will determine whether he will be in-
ducted or deferred if his number is
called. However, the question of
hardship to dependent smust be
given consideration in each case.
Mail Christmas Gifts Early
Christmas gifts to naval and ma-
EN ROUTE WITH CHURCHILL
TO NORTH AMERICA.—There were
a few wives of Canadian soldiers
along, each an English girl and each
with a baby, which are just some of
the many dividends Canada is getting
out of this war.
There was one youngster 11
months old who had won the hearts
of all on the party by never crying
and by always smiling and by his
willingness to be tossed and thrown
around, the rougher the better.
Suddenly there was a tenseness in
the air. Silence fell, deep silence.
From a hitherto closed compart-
ment a uniform appeared, and be-
neath the cap of it was the famous
Churchill face and smile. Behind
him trailed the important persons
who always follow him.
As he appeared, the very excellent
George Blue, aged 11 months, leaped
in his mother’s arms and shouted,
loudly for a child of that age, the si-
lence being what it was: “Dad-dy!
Dad-dy!”
Mr. Churchill smiled and went on
smile appeared
the
NEW YORK. — One-tenth of all
employees in the steel industry are
women, the American Iron and Steel
Institute said.
Almost 37,000 women are working
in plants, the Institute said, while
about 27,700 more are employed in
offices.
The Institute said women had been
found capable of 3 wide variety of
steel plant jobs—crane operators,
rolling mill helpers, inspectors and
machine tool operators.
In peacetime, the Institute added,
almost the only steel plant position
where women were used in any
number was the job of inspecting
sheets of tin plate, with about 2,500
working.
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA.
•—Ground troops call them “biscuit
bombers.” To the fighting pilots of
Flying Fortress bombers and light-
ning interceptors they are, genially
and appreciatively, “flying truck
drivers.”
But call them what you will, they
still are heroes and one of the most
important cogs in the aerial machine
that powers the war in the Southwest
Pacific.
They are the transport pilots and
crews—the young men who fly into
enemy-haunted skies to drop parcels
and food and supplies to isolated
United Nations ground forces. They
land on rough jungle clearings, not
far from Japanese lines, to bring in
troop reinforcements and to remove
the wounded to secure areas.
The oldest troop-carriei’ group in
the Southwest Pacific actually grew
up with the place, in a manner of
speaking.
Beginning of Group
Composed originally of bomber
and pursuit pilots who started for
the Philippines and were diverted to
Australia when war broke out in the
Pacific, the organizations “just
growed,” adding mechanics here, pi-
lots and radio operators there.
In April a year ago they became
transport squadrons. In July they
became troop-carrier squadrons. In
November, when they began opera-
tions in New Guinea, they were a
full-fledged troop-carrier group, fly-
ing more different kinds of planes
than the Troop-Carrier Command
back in Indianapolis would have be-
lieved possible.
At the present writing this troop-
carrier group has totaled 15,581 com-
bat missions. A combat mission is
any flight on which enemy intercep-
tion is probable and expected.
Pilots who only this month cele-
brated the first anniversary of their
graduation from flying school al-
ready have become the “old men” of
troop-carrier operations in New
Guinea.
In nine months, through the battle
for the Kokoda track, through the
Buna and Sananda Point campaigns,
throqgh the hairbreadth standoff at
Wau in February, /Some fliers have
more than 300 combat missions each.
Many Honors
Personnel of the troop carriers
have received more than 1,300 med-
als of all types—Air Medals, Silver
Stars, Purple Hearts, Soldier’s Med-
als, Distinguished Flying Crosses and
a variety of Oak Leaf Clusters.
The important thing is how much
material troop carriers in New :
Guinea deliver, how many troops (
and jeeps and trucks and tons of •
supplies they fly over the Owen <
Stanley Mountains and
drop—on the other side.
During one average month, the
group’s big C-47 transport planes
rine personnel overseas should be
sent between Sept. 15 and Nov. 1.
This period has been designated by
the Navy Department in cooperation
with the Post Office Department.
Parcels must not exceed five pounds
in weight.
SaVe All Fats
With millions of pounds of waste
kitchen fats still needed to meet war
demands, Paul C. Cabot, director of
WPB Salvage Division, recently
urged housewives to remember that
even if accumulated fats become ran-
cid, they still retain a majority of the
valuable glycerine that goes into war
production. Some housewives, be-
lieving that rancid fats are valueless,
have not been turning them in for
salvage. This has resulted in the loss
of thousands of pounds of glycerine
that could have been processed from
these fats.
Army Salvages Fats
It is estimated that enough waste
fats are salvaged in Army camps
within the continental U. S. to make
1,500,000 pounds of dynamite each
month and still leave a residue
rendered grease from which 5,000,-
000 pounds of soap stock may be
made.
New Gasoline Coupons
Car owners who still hold the old
type “B” and “C” gasoline ration
coupon books should exchange them
for the new "mileage ration sheets of
coupons between Aug. 23 and Sept. 1,
OPA announced recently. Old type
“B” and “C” coupons become invalid
Sept. 1, and gasoline dealer scannot
accept them on and after that date.
The old type coupons are identified
by the words “Permits Delivery of
I One Unit of Gasoline.” The new
type say “Mileage Ration” plus
large “B” or “C.”
Address Overseas Mail Properly
Because more than 10 per cent of
the mail destined for overseas is in-
correctly or insufficiently addressed,
the War Department has asked that
Insure it as soon as it
the sender be sure to give the sol-
dier’s rank, name, army serial num-
ber, organization and army post of-
fice number. Following is a model
address:
Pvt. John Doe, ASN 1234567890
Battery B, 227th Field Artillery
Battalion
Apo 29, C/O The Postmaster, New
York, N. Y.
The War Department also asked
that families and friends of soldiers
send clippings instead of periodicals,,
whenever possible to save cargo
space.
That’s what we promise
you! Our first aim is to
please you. Bring your
car to us for the proper
attention to . . .
his way. A frosty
here and there on the faces of
persons behind him.
Mrs. George blue, red as the
stick she hoped to buy once
reached a land where they were for
sale, clapped a hand over the mouth
of George Blue Jr.
And then the laughter broke.
George Blue, at 11 months, thinks
any man in uniform must be his
daddy. He will not go to any man in
a blue uniform, but give him one of
Army color and that man is a friend
of George’s. Mr. Churchill’s uniform,
that of an Air Commodore, had
caught George’s eye, and he thought
that surely this must be his daddy,
whom he hadn’t seen in a day or so.
From then on George Blue Jr. was
the hero of the group that had seen
and heard the greeting to the Prime
Minister of Great Britain.
The fact that he later on embar-
rassed his mother by shouting “Dad-
dy” at several other slightly shocked
uniformed young men in a railroad
station did not detract from the
stature of his fame.
George Blue Jr. had shouted “Dad-
dy” at the! Prime Minister of Eng-
land.
Bu-
Business Research records
This is the dream we keep: that
never shall tyrant rule
Or close the doors on the House of
God or poison the public school.
We have set our hearts on an ampler
life, and in sky and on land and
sea
We have given our bravest and best
to fight, till the whole wide
world is free.
—Edgar A. Guest.
This is the dream we hold: that the
earth shall some day be
Fit for a human dwelling place, from
ancient hatreds free;
A playground safe for its
small, secure every spire
dome
And governments all which guar-
antee the sanctity of home.
This is the dream we serve: that
power shall be second to right.
That what is decent and what is just
shall have precedence over
might;
That a poor man’s cottage shall sa-
cred be and the wage for his toil
be fair,
And who grows rich shall consider
his wealth as a privilege to
share.
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1943, newspaper, August 26, 1943; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230804/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.