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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1962
Page
8
A collage of humorous quotes and trivia spans science finance law and fishing. Notables include von Braun a price fixing crackdown a sandwich promo and a shirt stitching fact from the 1854 Saturday Evening Post. The pieces illustrate a bygone era of oddities.
A collage of old notes cites Masterson’s NY Morning Telegraph era, Bellows Falls shoppers flirting with fruit slogans, and weather quips about a cold month. It recalls Wisconsin’s first workers compensation law, Old Farmer’s Almanac’s continued lure, 1962 orders record, Sparta’s celibacy crime, US tourist share of Mexico, Seattle Exposition forecasts, and a watermelons per-seat warning in Ocean City buses.
Madison Wisconsin housewives may now have their hair shampooed in coin operated laundries after the attorney general ruled that such laundries can provide these facilities without a beauty parlor license.
The Celina Record relays The Whitewright Sun backing Attorney General Wilson in a plan to drop special elections for successors of resigning or deceased officials. It favors gubernatorial interim appointees for senators and congressmen, arguing no cost and similar qualifications to the people.
New York reports Mrs. Dorothy Nichols of Oakland New Jersey, aged 32, chosen as the 1962 March of Dimes Mother of Year. The selection highlights community service and dedication to infant health initiatives.
The mother of three was named 1962 national March of Dimes Mother of the Year on Thursday. Her child Susan, four, suffers crippling juvenile rheumatoid arthritis that twists bones and harms development, and the honor recognizes her efforts to save the child from permanent disability.
Austin scene reports December violations of game and fish laws rose. Howard Dodgen, executive secretary of the Game and Fish Commission, said wardens arrested 517 persons and courts assessed fines totaling 21 077.
The Census Bureau reports 1960 Negro population at 18,871,831 or 10.5 percent of the total, up 46.7 percent since 1940. Overall U S population increased 37.7 percent in twenty years, according to January 5 figures.
For sale listings include 103 acres on Highway 69 near Whitewright at 175 per acre and a 3-bedroom house with 8 acres seven miles east of Sherman priced at 8500. Contact J A Alexander Realtor at Grayson Bank Building Sherman. Also a note to use The Sun grocery ads to maximize food value with weekly shopping lists.
Ralph Nicholson chair of the ANPA postal committee says second class newspaper rates may rise 135 percent if Congress approves a renewed mail rate proposal. Nicholson, publisher of the Dothan Eagle, notes the committee opposes the change as it introduces a new rate structure.
A note describes a uniform price rise applied to a small town newspaper and its weekly magazines mailed nationwide, highlighting equal treatment of local and distant readers.
In a Cleveland suburb a woman parked to mail a letter and left the car. The car rolled through an intersection a sidewalk and a field landing in a ravine. She told police she did not view mailing a letter as an emergency.
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