What Farmers And City Folk Think About Each Other
Poll results reveal mutual stereotypes between farmers and city folk. City residents call farmers provincial and corny while farmers label city people snooty, selfish, and ignorant of farming costs. Some interviewees dismissed faults, with one New Yorker joking farmers should irritate Eastern capitalists and another saying farmers don’t make enough butter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Cix
How To Measure A Man Poem Reflected In Rays of Sunshine
A Rays of Sunshine line proclaims that a man is measured by how he treats others and by his justice, fairness, and upright character rather than titles wealth or rank. The verse extols humane conduct as the true standard of worth and urges printing from The Sun.
Inez Adds to Wed Mark Montgomery Jr in Garland
Engagement announced by Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Adds of Garland for their daughter Miss Inez Adds to Mark Montgomery Jr. of Garland. Wedding planned August 10 at the bride elects sister Mrs. E. L. Hayes home. Both graduates of local high schools. Montgomery discharged July 1945 after service in the Army including 30 months in the ETO with two wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Adds
Garland
Inez Adds
Mark Montgomery Jr
E. L. Hayes
Miss Adds
Garland High School
Montgomery
Mark Montgomery Sr
Whitewright High School
Army
Eto
Woman Pensioner Offers To Give Home To State
A Texas old age assistance recipient offered to deed her home to the State Department of Public Welfare as payment for its services. The attorney general ruled the department cannot accept real estate gifts from pensioners. She could transfer to a trustee who would sell and give proceeds to the state treasurer for welfare funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
John H. Winters
State Department of Public Welfare
Winters
Welfare
Welfare Department
Candidate for County Commissioner Precinct 2 Promises Efficient Service
Local candidate announces for County Commissioner Precinct 2 with firsthand experience from five prior county leaders. He pledges to maintain mail milk and school bus routes, keep county equipment working, and avoid favoring farms. A Cherry Mound resident for 48 years and Grayson County native for 55 years, he notes his son Frank F. Trimm Jr. was killed in World War II over Ludwigshaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherry Mound
Denison
Grayson County
Frank F. Trimm Jr
Ludwigshaven
Germany
Air Corps
Pickle shopping tips from A&M extension agent
College Station notes cucumbers for pickling should be firm bright and green with yellow tips indicating age. Wash cucumbers immediately after picking and process within 24 hours. Salt brine must be balanced to avoid spoilage or shriveling. contact the Extension Service for free B-131 on Preservation of Vegetables by Salting and Pickling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College
Gwendolyne Jones
A. and M. College Extension Service
Miss Jones
Extension Service
A. and M. College
College Station
Texas
Housecleaning and a quiet family man’s ruin
A poem by Russell Pettis Askue about a husband whose collected odds and ends are discarded by a tidy wife during seasonal cleaning. Old books and unfinished projects vanish, tools may be lost, and the couple’s home becomes spotless, leaving the narrator to wonder where his treasures went as they end up on the rubbish pile. Buy your printing in Whitewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Pettis Askue
Good Old Days Reflected by Texas Publisher
Fus Higgs recalls cotton profits taxes and buggy horses of the old era in Stephenville. He notes church gatherings, rallies, picnics, and shared leisure as contrast to modern times, while praising two decades of progress and the rarity of perfect sight after age 40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus Higgs
Stephenville Empire-Tribune
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First National Bank
The
Sun
Sooty
Playtex
Maddens
Miss Inez
Frank F. Trimm
Pol
Ady
Whitewright
Boyce House
Clark Gable
Hunt County
Pascal Farley
Community Public Service Company
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