Polly's Pointers Sharpened Homemaking Tips from Polly Cramer
Dear Polly offers frugal fixes for home life. Solutions include keeping a phone book on a coat hanger, storing freezer food in a dish drainer, repurposing shoe horns to mark door steps, bending coat hangers to hang twine, corks on drawers to locate thimbles, and shaping brushes with a V cut in a cup for cleaning and maintenance. Wayne of the Newspaper Enterprise Assn. signs the column.
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Polly
Wayne
Pecos Farm Mentions Highlight Local Agriculture Figures
The article profiles Pecos residents Guy Walker and Harrison Beauchamp with their irrigated farmlands and leases plus Gene Kelly, a long time Pecos resident with a ranch near Odessa. It notes soil scientist H.B. Jaco mapping Reeves county soils and Rand al Butler improving irrigation ditches. It also reports a 20 percent rise in the nations welfare rolls to 12.2 million, driven by dependent children and single mothers, potentially raising federal costs by up to $1 billion.
Surviving as a Woman book via Betty Canary
Betty Canary reflects on beauty and misery in a Cosmopolitan style piece, arguing ordinary looking women may have fewer worries than visibly beautiful ones. She notes Elizabeth Taylor downplays beauty, shares anecdotes on dating and perception, and promotes her book Surviving as a Woman available by mail order for $5.95 from Radio City Station, New York.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Betty Canary
Radio City
New York
N.Y
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Ladies Life Stride
California Cobblers
ALL Ladies
Mens Fine
Coats
Crosby Square
and Nunn Bush
PECOS
By Polly Cramer
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Zech Cameron
Guy Walker
Guy
Hubert Nunn
Gene Kelly
Texas Highway Department
Odessa
Gene
Harrison Beauchamp
Bill Watters
Beauchamp
Bill
Harrison
H.B. Jaco
S.C.S
G.B
Scull
Worsham
Jaco
Reeves County
Randal Butler
Randal
Cosmopolitan
Judy
Baltany Ae
Seandra
Texas
Sandra
Salon of Beauty
Cynthia Hines
Gloria Bowers
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