The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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Thursday, August 20, 1942,
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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WELCOME, GRAYSON COLLEGE EX-STUDENTS’
Less Than a Penny a Day
Keeps Your Valuables Safe
MATERIALS NEEDED
Throw YOUR scrap into the fight!
LOCAL SALVAGE COMMITTEE
The First National Bank
Phone 183
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Wide World Features
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You can’t afford to be without Safe
Deposit Box protection for valuable
papers, insurance policies, jewelry,
Defense Bonds, heirlooms and oth-
er valuables. The loss of one impor-
tant'paper may cost you more than
a lifetime’s payments on one of our
Safe Deposit Boxes.
For safety’s sake . . . rent a Safe •
Deposit Box. You can rent one for
less than a penny a day.
“What’s it good for?”
“Guns, tanks, and maybe
part of a plane”
Political
Announcements
Scrap iron and steel, for example.
Even in peacetime, scrap provided
about 50% of the raw material for steel.
It may be rusty, old “scrap” to you,
but it is actually refined steel—with
most impurities removed, and can be
quickly melted with new metal in the
form of pig iron to produce highest
quality steel for our war machines.
The production of steel has gone
up, up, UP, until today America is
turning out as much steel as all the rest
of the world combined. But unless at
least 6,000,000 additional tons of scrap
steel is uncovered promptly, the full
rate of production cannot be attained
or increased; the necessary tanks, guns
and ships cannot be produced.
The rubber situation is also critical.
In spite of the recent rubber drive,
there is a continuing need for large
quantities of scrap rubber. Also for other
waste materials and metals like brass,
copper, zinc, lead and tin.
The Junk which you collect is bought
by industry from scrap dealers at estab-
lished, government-controlled prices.
Will you help?
First—collect all of your waste ma-
terial and pile it up.
Then—sell it to a Junk dealer, give
it to a charity, take it yourself to the
nearest collection point, or get in touch
with your Local Salvage Committee.
If you live on a farm, consult your
County War Board or your farm imple-
ment dealer.
JUNK MAKES
FIGHTING WEAPONS
CEILING PRICES FIXED
ON COST OF FUNERALS
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Whitewright merchants offer you
better values.
One useless old
tire provides as
much rubber
as is used in 12
gas masks.
The town of Kodiak, Alaska, dou-
bled its population between 1930 and
1940.
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For Sheriff:
J. BENTON DAVIS
G. P. (Prentice) GAFFORD
For Public Weigher:
F. W. (Finis) ALVERSON
For Commissioner, Preet. 2:
S. B. (Ben) VAUGHAN
One old disc
will provide
scrap steel
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For Representative, Place 1:
LEROY M. ANDERSON
For District Clerk:
S. V. EARNEST
FANNIN COUNTY
For Assessor-Collector:
W. H. (Hamp) HARPER
Reelection, 2nd Term
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Pascal Farley, Chairman; J. B. Hamilton, Carl
May, L. E. Alexander, Glen Earnheart.
One old plow will help make
one hundred 75-mm. armor-
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Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Is Largest of Its Kind in the World
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Sixteen different varieties of fruits
and vegetables are served in general
mess: Potatoes, cabbage, turnips, to-
matoes, broccoli, apples, tangerines,
oranges, lettuce, celery, peppers, cu-
cumbers, onions, bananas and cran-
berries.
trucked in from Illinois and Wiscon-
sin. Dry provisions, such as canned
tomatoes, are requisitioned in carload
lots from the Navy Supply Depot at
Norfolk, Va. Coffee is received in 5,-
000-pound lots from the Provision
and Clothing Depot at Brooklyn, N.
Y., where the Navy operates its own
roasting plant.
Scrap iron and steel.
Other metals of all kinds.
did rubber.
Rags, Manila rope, burlap bags.
Waste Cooking Fats — When you get
a pound or more, strain into a large tin can and
sell to your meat dealer.
NEEDED ONLY IN CERTAIN LOCALITIES:
Waste paper and tin cans—wanted only in certain
areas, as announced locally. NOT NEEDED
(at this time): Razor blades—glass.
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Chinese-
car to
tallest
so big.
The streets in Foochow are long,
narrow and smelly. They are always
crowded, both night and day and
outside the little shop bright ban-
ners waved in the breeze, especially
in front of the Chinese toy shops in
whose windows painted toy dragons
with real ivory teeth glared at you.
On down the narrow, winding street,
past dozens of sing-song peddlers and
shoppers selling this, that and some-
thing else.
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captain in a dinghby and we sat on
the wharf and chewed a piece of
sugar cane. Coolies carrying bales of
straw on their backs slipped by si-
lently and fish peddlers came along
selling fish that had long been out of
the water—too long!
It takes 6,000 pounds of rag con-
tent bond to make enough blueprint
papei’ to draw the plans for one pur-
suit plane.
The following have authorized The
Sun to place their names in this col-
umn as candidates subject to the
Democratic primary .
Today Foochow lies almost in-
ruins. There are no peddlers crying
The cost of dying has been pegged
by a ruling by the Office of Price
Administration that the funeral ser-
vice industry, in all of its. operations,
is subject to provisions of the general
This,
the ruling said, is because funeral
services are rendered in connection
with such commodities as casket,
vault, outside container, urn, burial
garment and other funeral supplies.
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few shops that remain open have no-
gay banners hanging in front
them. The people hurry along the
| torn-up streets silent, worn and wor-
ried. China, too, has gone to war!
This message approved by Conservation Division
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
This advertisement paid for by the American Industries Salvage Committee
(representing and with funds provided by groups of leading industrial concerns).
Yesterday after I had finished
“Sons of China” by Roger McDowell,
I had some memories of Foochow, the
Chinese city which is so often men-
tioned in the above named book. I
shall never forget my first trip to
that city! The harbor was about the
most exciting place I had ever seen.
There, native junks, sampans and
launches vied, one with the other for
a good “parking place” in the harbor.
Cook boats slipped by selling steam-
ing rice which, despite the dirt, ________ ______________________ ____
looked good. I went ashore with the 0U£ the wares they have for sale. The
com-
manding officer of the station is Rear
Adm. John Downes.
Construction of the original train-
ing station at Great Lakes was au-
thorized by an act of Congress in
April, 1904. Seven years later, Pres-
ident William Howard Taft officially
opened the station on Oct. 28, 1911. It
-consisted of 33 buildings located on a
167-acre tract of land and it housed
1,400 men. With the outbreak of war
in 1917, 900 buildings were con-
structed. More than 125,000 men
were trained for the fleet during the
first world conflict.
The buildings erected during World
War I were temporary structures and
were dismantled after the signing of
the Armistice. Today other tempo-
rary structures are being provided to
handle the daily influx of recruits in
this new war.
A Self-Sufficient Unit
Extensive facilities of the
make it a self-sufficient unit. There
are offices, barracks, mess halls,
gymnasiums, store houses and large
hospitals. The station has its own
barber shops, hostess house, post of-
fice, tailor shop, laundry and shoe
shop. There are three swimming
pools and ten regulation ABC bowl-
ing alleys.
But more important than the build-
ings and facilities are the men—
thousands of Americans ranging from
beardless. youths to men in their
forties who were Bluejackets in 1917
and 1918. Besides being a perfect
physical specimen, the Bluejacket of
19422 is A-l in intelligence, courage
and patriotism. Anxiously he learns
the seafaring lessons being taught by
veterans of the fleet. Expectantly' he
awaits the day when he will grad-
uate from the ranks of a recruit
that of a full-fledged sailor.
Requirements of Recruits
. Fundamentally, a recruit must
between the ages of 17 and
must be no shorter than five
three inches and no taller than
feet four inches. But would-be sail-
ors who answer this general descrip-
tion are subjected to a rigid and
thorough physical and dental exami-
nation upon arrival at the station,
before they are finally accepted.
long handled spoon and hol-
“Gnu wong, gnu wong,”
means in, English, “Fish-
Several natives stopped to
At the corner of the street was a
bald-headed Chinaman with long,
white whiskers who was operating an
open food store. His specialty that
particular day was fish-balls. He
stood, hammering away on a tin bowl
with a
lering,
which
balls!”
eat. We went along!
In the barnyards and gullies
of farms and in the basements
and attics of homes is a lot of
Junk which is doing no good
where it is, but which is needed
at once to help smash the
Japs and Nazis.
Primary examinations are given at
various recruiting stations and some-
times physical' defects are over-
looked, because many of the tests re-
quired are not available at outlying
recruiting centers. Statistics show
that between 50 and 60 per cent of
applicants applying at recruiting sta-
tions are rejected for physical oi'
mental defects, or other conditions.
The physical examination at Great
Lakes is of a routine but thorough
nature, conducted by medical offi-
cers who are specialists in the va-
rious fields of medicine. The exami-
nation includes surgical, orthopedic,
psychiatric, psychological, X-ray,
and eye, ear, nose and throat exami-
nations, the results of which deter-
mine a man’s physical fitness for the
service.
Each man is subjected to a photo-
fluoroscopic examination of his chest
and to the various blood and labora-
tory tests. He is also immunized for
smallpox, typhoid, yellow fever and
tetanus.
In some cases where there is doubt
as to the physical or mental fitness of
an individual, he is sent to the U. S.
Naval hospital there for a period of
observation and study. After this pe-
riod, if the individual is found to be
physically and mentally qualified, he
is outfitted and takes his place in re-
cruit training.
In cases where minor surgical con-
ditions are discovered, the individ-
uals are sent tp the Naval hospital,
where the conditions are corrected
before _the recruit is accepted
naval service.
Men from All Walks of Life
The Navy is a great leveler.
When contingents of recruits pour
into the naval training station to be-
gin “boot” training, they present a
colorful picture in contrast—but not
for long.
There are professional men and
highly paid factory workers, men in
smartly tailored suits, farm boys in
overalls, cow hands from the West
in high-heeled boots and sombreros,
prosperous men and poor men, men
with long hair, men with short hair—
a cross-section of America.
After recruits have undergone
physical and dental examinations to
determine their fitness for naval ser-
vice, the “stripping” process begins.
First the “civvies” go into boxes for
shipment home. Then the men go
through the line.
Each enlisted man in the Navy or
Naval Reserve is given an allotment
of $118 for uniforms and equipment.
More than 700 experienced stew-
ards, bakers, butchers and storekeep-
ers man huge mess halls on the sta-
tion, while a veritable army of mess
attendants—recruits who must spend
some time in mess halls as part of
their training—serve the Bluejackets.
Twelve general mess halls now are
operated on the station.
Cafeteria Style
Because of the great number of
men consuming three “squares” a
day, the Navy serves, its food cafe-
teria style, in compartment trays. The
men “polish off” their meals at long,
cleanly scrubbed tables. To facili-
tate operations at the conclusion of
each meal, the sailors stack their
trays, dishes and silverware, which
are then sent to automatic dish wash-
ers for a speedy cleansing.
Each mess hall is equipped with a
modern gallery, butcher shop, vege-
table locker, bake shop, refrigerators,
bread room, store rooms and issuing
rooms.
Fruits and vegetables are deliv-
ered daily to insure freshness; car-
rots, onions and rutabagas are local-
ly grown and locally purchased;
cheese, butter, eggs and poultry are
In a ricksha for nine
blocks and then in a native
Mount Lingpoo, one of the
mountains in China, not
around but steep. It was just at sun-
down and the.sky was red. We sat on
a huge boulder and watched it disap-
pear silently behing the mountain.
Behind us were the strange sounds of
China. A temple bell somewhere was
chiming slowly, out over the distance
came strange sounds of Chinese-
farmers doing their nightly chores!
Back into the city and to a small
restaurant for a typical dinner and
then back to the ship in the busy
harbor.
We stopped in a little square to
watch a Chinese puppet show. Crazy
figures carved in wood, highly paint-
ed and with mouths that would auto-
matically open when a certain spot
on its body was pressed. It was most-
ly grown people who were interested
in this exhibit of puppets. Most of
From farms, factories, offices and
classrooms of the great Midwest
plains area, thousands of men today
are on the march.
Since that fateful Sunday of Dec. 7
when Japanese bombs rained on
Pearl Harbor, they have been head-
ing toward the naval training station,
Great Lakes, Ul.,( bent on becoming
seagoing fighters with Uncle Sam’s
' fleet.
At this great naval training base,
40 miles north of Chicago on Lake
Michigan, far from salt water, the
Navy is undertaking the huge task of
transforming “land-lubbers” into
hard-biting men of the greatest fleet
in the world.
Greatest of all naval training cen-
ters in the world during World War
I, the station again bears that reputa-
tion. In the near future, 11 camps,
each bearing the name of a Navy
hero, will provide training and living
quarters foi' men on the station.
These camps- will be Barry, Bron-
son, Luce, Paul Jones, Perry, Dewey,
Lawrence, Porter, Moffet, Morrow
and McIntire, the latter being the
hospital area of the station.
Supplying approximately 35 per
cent of the enlisted personnel of the
fleet, Great Lakes is the headquar-
ters of the Ninth Naval district. The
district includes 13 Midwestern
States: North and South Dakota, Ne-
braska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Min-
nesota, Wisconsin, Illinois,
tucky, Ohio and Michgian. Com-
mandant of the district and
U. S. Treasury Dept.
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J fa/ make 4 hand grenades.
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