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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1953
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun notes editor and owner T Glenn Doss, with a price of $2.50 likely for an issue or subscription. The text cites branding and cost details without additional context or dates.
The Levelland Texas City Council adopted an ordinance reducing telephone rates after a General Telephone Company increase in June. Business one party rate drops from 12.08 to 8.75 and residence one party from 5.75 to 4.75 with other rates in proportion. The piece warns carriers nationwide about pricing out services and notes the public can cope without phones if prices rise sharply.
Government Printing Office worker accused of aiding the communist cause by sharing secret information. The piece notes printers rarely face legal trouble and recalls Texas penitentiary printing programs. It suggests prisons may now obtain printers through regular channels, but many do not end up in the news.
A GOP employee involved in a legal issue is described as a bookbinding machine operator rather than a printer. The passage hints at workers in recording crimes learning crime does not pay, reflecting on the profession.
A McKinney Examiner account recalls 1867 Collin County drought and late rains that left livestock starving as geese descend on Abe Hall’s 15 acre wheat field. settlers recall little grain fed then and crops later recovered.
In Collin County Texas a farmer named Uncle Abe battles a large flock of geese that devastates his green wheat field and later destroys his twenty acre cornfield. Despite repeated efforts the geese persist alighting and feasting, leaving fields stripped and winter hunger spreading across the county.
The National Education Association warns the teacher shortage is severe with fewer than 35 000 new elementary teachers this fall to meet demands for 160 000. More than 1 500 000 first graders will swell enrollments to an all time high as districts scout teachers nationwide. Colleges will graduate 35 636 qualified teachers this spring, but many will choose other work or quit teaching.
Marshall group of seventeen housewives plans to appeal after the Fifth Court of Civil Appeals in New Orleans upheld the maid tax as constitutional. They refused to collect taxes on domestic help and had bank accounts seized by the Internal Revenue Service. Their suit in Dallas sought recovery of seized funds. the circuit court upheld the trial court, saying only Congress can grant relief from the tax burden.
New York report notes bread bakers troubled by a diet trend and consumer claims that packaged bread is less tasty than grandmother’s loaf. Advocates push enriched bread as healthier, while nostalgia for warm home baking persists. A 1952 stat cites 17 percent of U.S. cows bred artificially.
Government monitors daily cattle marketings as drought relief debate continues. Observers say the burden of female slaughter must reach 50 percent before population declines. overstocked Southwest herds may depress prices until midwest and western grass cattle move.
Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd says teachers who withdrew from the retirement fund and returned to teaching last year can repay the withdrawn deposits without losing benefits. To reinstate past benefits, they must teach at least five years before eligibility.
A Denver soda firm faced trouble when a frugal man jammed a vending machine with a nickel wired to pull it back after a bottle drops. The machine, in a police garage, failed to dispense drinks. The moon’s rotation period is noted as a curiosity in the same report.
A poem reflects on the unemployment hardship and the pride that prevents begging or stealing. It contrasts the contentment of the employed with the restless search of the jobless man roaming streets for work. It notes the Big Bend area in Texas as enclosing the Chisos range, Ghost Mountains.
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