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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1951
Page
7
A collection of one liners and vignettes old and witty. Tales include a hard working wife recalling two regrets of her husband, a Kentucky girl in New York at a party, a Cadillac outrunning a police officer, and quips about hearing aids shoes and life’s pot builders.
A couple on a park bench discuss eyes teeth and hair as the scene shifts to a dim cocktail lounge where a young woman boasts about martinis and a bluffing line about the price. A playful poem notes Willie and Anne and a playful customer joke ends with a rapping cashier.
A Crosley driver, stranded on a country road, was offered a tow by a Cadillac driver heading to a station. They were traveling at 60 miles per hour when the Crosley driver spotted a traffic hazard ahead.
A husky construction worker returns from work and teases his new bride about lunch. He notes the wafer thin sandwiches suit bridge players, but he is building one of his own, signaling plans for their future home.
State Health Officer George W. Cox reports an average of 98 venereal disease cases daily in 1950 and 35,863 total new syphilis and gonorrhea cases. He notes gonorrhea remains steady while syphilis rates fall, and warns many people underestimate the disease's seriousness and potential need for operative treatment.
The Servel gas refrigerator line for 1951 featuring lower prices improved operating efficiency a new range of models and drastic redesign to provide greater food storage in the refrigerators which are overall smaller was shown to Lone Star Gas Company and dealers representatives from this area at a special preview held in Dallas Tuesday afternoon Feb 6 at the gas company's auditorium. The new Servers will be on display floors just as soon as factory deliveries will permit it was pointed out. Plans were revealed for gas refrigerator fashion shows on March 1 to which the public will be invited. The group was told that back of a cooperative advertising campaign to be launched soon will be the largest amount of media ever provided to promote the Server gas refrigerator. "And the No 1 medium under the program will be newspaper advertising," said L. C. Roberts of Dallas advertising supervisor who outlined Lone Star's plans for promoting the new Server line. "It will dramatize the silent long lasting freezing system.' Wesley F. Wright general manager of the gas company's Dallas division of distribution charged the group with "We have a grave responsibility in 1951 that of doing business in keeping with the spirit of the times and security needs of our country. "Only the turn of world events will change one way or the other the amount of goods like gas refrigerators which will be available for public consumption. None of us wishes to do anything contrary to general policy in these trying times but I believe the government will give business every chance it can to carry on profitably because after all business is the source of most all taxes."
Court issues a citation for Albert C Thrasher in a Grayson County Texas case filed December 26 1950 by O E Newell seeking title or damages of 1057 25 for Lot 4 in Block 11 Grand View Addition Denison. Hearing set for February 26 1951 at 10 a m in Sherman Court House.
Cappy Millers coon dogs, save for Old Blue, are praised as some of the finest hounds in the county. Blue’s gentle nature keeps him from fitting the typical hunting mold, leading many to doubt his potential.
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