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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1950
Page
10
In Richmond Virginia a family tries a home remedy to shoo flies. A woman threads cotton through screen doors using a Bobby pin after a hot water heater man suggested it. The method apparently works, drawing wide inquiry and spreading among cottages.
A prominent columnist jokes she will deduct thousands from next year’s return for brain power depreciation. She compares mine and oil write-offs, notes she’ll age out in 20 years, and ponders how syndicating three eshimos a week may cease. Local flies intrigue readers as entomologists explain white colors repelling insects. Cotton sales surge, flies depart city. Brannan offers no comment.
Walter Winchell claimed a 25000 dollar reward for the Damon Runyon cancer fund after delivering Benedict Macri a murder suspect to police in lower Manhattan. Macri, 37, was charged in the May 1949 telephone booth killing of William Lurge, 40. A second man remains at large as Macri faces surrender after a nationwide manhunt sparked by the union driven killing.
Ex servicemen set to graduate from colleges this month as the GI Bill expires July 25 1956 with enrollment at 2 456 000 and veterans comprising 40 to 50 percent of June graduates. Employers say plenty of work exists for go-getters though regional job markets vary and some schools fear shortages in smaller colleges.
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