About Your Health Austin Smoking and Cancer Risks
A U S Census survey shows half of men and a quarter of women in the United States smoke daily. The American Cancer Society reports 57 percent higher heart and circulatory death rates and 97 percent higher cancer deaths among smokers, with cigarette tar driving lung cancer. Quitters 10 years later show near-normal death rates. the ACS urges readers to weigh risks and consider cessation.
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Austin
United States
U. S. Bureau of Census
American Cancer Society
William Mayo
National Institute of Health
Hobby Can't Be Rushed Brings Banjo To Life In Craig
Craig barber Floyd Foster spent 26 years crafting his prized banjo. He began with a block of osage orange wood cut in Kansas more than a quarter century ago, devoting most of his time to the instrument.
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Craig
Colo
Floyd Foster
Craig Barber
Kansas
City survey on street rights of way prompts dispute
Mountlake Terrace officials ordered a survey to see if residents built on city property. An engineer found paving lines wandered and the fire hall sits mostly on the right of way. Texas averaged 14 tornadoes a year since 1916.
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Mountlake Terrace
Wash
City Fire Hall
Texas
County Agent Urges Insect Checks For Grayson County Cotton
Grayson County cotton growers are urged to inspect fields for thrips and fleas to protect bottom crops and yields. Caution with phosphate insecticides like parathion demeton and trimet is stressed. Extension agents plan a July 16 Arlington meeting to study the Texas Egg Law and will arrange transportation.
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Grayson County
Arlington
Churches Schedule and Camp Highlight at Lake Lavon District
Church activities fill the week with Sunday school at 9 55 a m worship at 10 55 a m and 8 p m training union at 7 00 p m A Cherub Choir and Carol Choir rehearse Monday morning District 13 camp at Lake Lavon is noted Tonight officers meet at 7 45 p m with a Drama Workshop showcase and ice cream after In services the choir performs Nearer Still Nearer and Now On Land and Sea Descending with solos The message titles are Our Task What Is It and Commissioned Guadalupe Peak is listed as Texas highest point at 8651 feet.
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Firt Church
Sherman
Drama Workshop
Sunbeams
Ralph Brown
Drama Workshop Group
Jimmy Brown
Johnny Sinor
Sonny Mitchell
District 13
Lake Lavon
Eugene Clark
Bortniansky
The Load Gets Heavier
The Kaufman Herald reports the burden of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act reducing employees from eight to four cost the paper 516.94 in 1956. Small firms with four or five workers struggle to stay afloat, unable to fund costly accounting and extra forms. The piece argues against forcing smaller employers into the program and questions the next major tax.
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Kaufman Herald
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Farmer's Comprehensive
Stephens & Bryant
Insurance & Real Estate
Nat
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
By O. Soglow
David Shaffer
Texas Experiment Station
Presbyterian
Lake Texoma
Walker Pharmacy
R. P. Childress, Mer
First Baptist Church
Guadalupe Peak
Spivy
Bonham, Texas
U.S. Savings Bonds
Johnson
U. S
Prin
Cipal
Treasury
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