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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1960
Page
8
A collage of jokes and stories from a reading room and social circles. A tipsy man seeks literature to curb drinking while denying the issue, a dentist quarrel over a foot, a minister's quip about grooming, and a golfer's score dispute blend with feline longing and domestic worries about hidden liquor.
A dialogue unfolds in a candy store where a shop foreman asks for “middles” with whisky and a clerk confirms. A girl asserts all intelligent men are conceited while her boyfriend shrugs and says he’s not.
In Webster City Iowa Willard Whiteaker 47 leaves a 320 acre farm with his wife and six children heading to Eugene Oregon for an apprentice carpenter post at 90 dollars a week. He earned under 30 dollars weekly last year and cites falling prices for crops and livestock as the reason for leaving. The migration from farms to cities grows with rising auction counts signaling the rural exodus.
A note from Elbert Bennett seeks information about a black cow that strayed or was stolen from a pasture two miles west of Randolph. The page also lists used Frigidaire refrigerators in various sizes and prices from Johnson Jewelry & Appliances, a flower ad from Mahan nahs, and a contact via Mrs. H H Taylor at the residence of Mrs. Guy Hamilton with the phone FO 4 2574.
Washington panel of 67 organizations backs a plan to raise teachers pay 50 percent in five years and build 607,800 new classrooms over a decade. It aims to lift instructional salaries from 6.9 to 15 billion annually by 1969 and cut class sizes to 30 in elementary and 25 in high school. Skeptics urge feasible funding and warn private schools could be priced out.
The mother of 10 year old Ray Liles of Duncan Oklahoma says her son is simply over energetic. Ray has broken his leg four times with the last fracture occurring while jumping rope at school.
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