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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1951
Page
8
A Texas tale tells of a man bitten on the hand by a rattler. He pressed arteries to slow bleeding, walked home, and his wife applied a tourniquet before taking him to hospital. He recovered quickly after a rough night.
Melbourne Australia. Poultry breeder Fred Haymes says roosters crow by neck stretching before crowing. He built perches high against the roof and found roosters bumping their heads against the roof to change their minds.
Classified listings show wants and for sale items from multiple locals including Lee Wilson Houston Darwin and Arthur George. Items include tractors corn picker and used pickups, rooms for rent near the Y, and a 1941 Ford flatbed. Also notices to buy rags iron eggs cream hides and piano and real estate services.
Washington report notes a scientist suggests baldness links to more male offspring. Dr. Marianne F Bernstein cites data from American families showing bald men have about 40 percent more sons than baldless men, while professions of military and politics tilt toward more boys.
84 year old Jefferson Davis Dillingham recalls rugged rodeo days in Central Texas. He watched Sam Bass die after a Round Rock shootout and describes early rodeos with longhorns, roping, and horse tests as harsher than today’s events.
RCA has developed a detection outfit to locate metal fragments where they do not belong. The device works in meat, bakery products, candy, plastics, paper, rubber, tobacco, textiles and explosives industries. It detects tiny metal particles whether magnetic or non magnetic and at any depth in the material.
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