Billings Herald Highlights and Anecdotes May 19 1649
A collage of notes on driving safety cartoons, local quirks, and social commentary. The issue features a planned Jimmy Halto cartoon series on editorials, car and pedestrian habits, a Billings visit by a blanket, and reflections on prejudice in Amanda’s Alabama to Ohio tale. It also notes Betty Handy and town department musings, plus bootblack youth commerce and street artists.
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Jimmy Halto
Billings
Comeon
Hazard of Broken Fluorescent Tubes Warned by Safety Council
The National Safety Council warns of dangers from broken fluorescent tubes including inhalation of beryllium dust and mercury vapor. Cuts from coated glass should be seen by a physician due to slow healing and scar growth. Do not dispose of tubes loose. place in original containers or wrap in heavy paper. Keep them away from children.
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Safety Council
National Safety Council
Whiskers and Parades Stir Go Western Pride
Local men grow beards annually for Go Western days causing humor and family friction as wives and barbers cope with itchy faces. Meanwhile one car households in Billings consider easing parking woes in the business district as they discuss alternatives to driving.
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Billings
SOUTHBOUND by Barbara Anderson review
Barbara Anderson's SOUTHBOUND, published by Farrar Straus in 1948, treats racial intolerance with subtlety. It follows Amanda Crane, a child of a Negro mother and white father, raised by her grandmother and great grandmother as she navigates conflicts of race and longing.
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Barbara Anderson
New York
Farrar, Straus and Company
Amanda Crane
Laurs
Persy
Laura
Amanda
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