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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1959
Page
4
Sam Rayburn of Bonham takes the Speaker gavel for the ninth time and pledges nonpartisan duty. He vows to carry out the Eisenhower program if it serves the people, and says Congress and Senate are co equal. The vote was 281 to 149 with abstentions.
New Haven experts say no drug exists now to cure grief or relieve low mood. Dr Daniel Freedman of Yale says several new medicines show promise but a true anti grief treatment remains unavailable. He hopes future drugs aid learning rather than human grief. Whistler is noted for signing with a butterfly.
A Georgia chiropractor Dr. R T Leiter chairman of the youth fitness program says over 57 percent of American children cannot pass simple tests and urges raising fitness to European levels. He links poor fitness to laziness and health risks. Government data show Americans spent 5.6 billion dollars on cigarettes this year, with production hitting records and advertising costs rising. A supermarket scene ends with a mother guiding her child away from buying food to cook at home.
Garden City N Y introduces a Bell System Western Electric system that rings 70 volunteer firemen’s telephones at once when the dispatcher dials a code. The calls travel to homes on standard lines, with horns and sirens still used during daytime when volunteers are away. The setup can scale to 450 phones.
Boston Herald columnist Edson B. Smith recalls William A. McDonnell, president of the Chamber of Commerce, who served as a U S Army captain in France in 1918. McDonnell notes pay of 200 a month then equal to 1000 francs, and shows how 200 today would buy 84,000 francs. He argues Americans are too smug about inflation.
A collection from editors and readers notes humorous misprints in multiple papers. Kenneth Hogue of the Dalhart Texan jokes about convention errors while readers recall playful captions and a Halloween punch recipe misprint. Texas history adds a stock note from 1690.
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