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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1948
Page
3
A collection of humorous vignettes from a bygone era features a young traveling salesman barely aboard a departing train, a weathered traveler recalling feats, and quips about times and disasters. The mix includes jokes about carpentry, cyclones, earthquakes, and a punny debate among a surgeon engineer and politician.
A tourist asks a station manager for help saying he is crippled financially, prompting a terse exchange about the man’s condition and need. The manager questions the claim, the tourist clarifies his financial hardship.
An old farmer surveys flood wreckage and graze of neighbors pigs washed away. Amid ruined fences he quips about others losses then lifts mood with a joking jab about a shrubbery planted by his wife.
Fulton Sheen explains the Adam and Eve tale at a dinner. He recounts how Cain and Abel grow up and are taken to the Garden of Eden, where Adam points out the spot and jokes that their mother once ate them out of house and home.
Rockwood Tennessee residents form Rockwood Better Streets Club to fund street paving at $1 per month per person. With 1000 members, the initiative paved over 40 blocks in two years costing about $25,000, avoiding tax increases. Trustee John Martin says paving will continue until all needed blocks are finished. Equipment purchases totaled about $6,000 before work began.
The Texas Liquor Control Board reported total revenue of 6 332 183 for the first half of 1948 with 570 319 spent administratively and 5 580 542 allocated to the school fund old age assistance general revenue and other funds. In June inspectors seized six illicit stills in Titus Harrison and Bowie counties, totaling 335 gallons capacity, 460 gallons of mash, three arrests, and four gallons of moonshine destroyed.
Roger Q. Evans will deliver final remarks in his bid for Texas governor in Forest Park Denison tonight between 7 30 and 8 p m The speech will be broadcast via Northeast Texas radio and is organized by local supporters He spent Tuesday in Houston and will continue with meetings in Sherman and Denison before the statewide rally cycle ends
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