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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1955
Page
4
Subscription terms list Grayson and Fannin Counties at 2.00, outside counties 2.50, foreign 5.00. The publisher offers prompt corrections for any erroneous reflections upon individuals or firms brought to attention.
A fable about a hen who rules a roost until a stranger rooster arrives and takes the hen away, later a truce forms between roosters and the hen ends up alone. A school tale closes with a boy asking how to signal the washroom.
Chevrolet Motor Division and Hasty Chevrolet Co sponsor a national contest offering a 1955 Chevrolet and a $1,000 U S Savings Bond per winner. Entry requires a 25 word plus rationale plus four car questions. End date May 9 with 102 cars awarded nationally.
Texarkana Gazette notes Governor Allan Shivers proposed two cent gas tax and one cent cigarette tax increases. The piece argues funds for new state buildings salaries and school spending must come from taxpayers who already bear heavy burdens.
Olin Culberson of Austin and Texas Railroad Commission was named head of the 1955 Easter Seal Campaign by Harlan Powell of Dallas. The drive runs March 10 through April 10 to aid crippled children with treatment and equipment. Contributions may be sent to Crippled Children in care of the local post office.
A battered motorist asks where he is and is told by a nurse that he is in Number 127. The exchange raises questions about the nature of his confinement and the room or cell he occupies.
Dr Henry A Holle notes bursitis became common only in the last century and now affects about two and a half million Americans. He links the rise to repetitive motions from typing driving and tools and to longer life, with bursitis often striking after age forty due to weakened tendons.
A 14 year old Minot boy was ordered to state training school if he misses school in six years after he lit a cigarette in a monkey cage to see if the animal would smoke. The monkey placed a blanket in water to smother the fire, keeping the cage from burning.
Veterans Administration and Internal Revenue Service announce that VA benefit payments are not counted as taxable income for federal taxes. Death benefits to families of deceased veterans are also exempt from federal taxation. Reported by the VA and IRS.
A collage of vignettes from a memory lane column includes a mechanic praised yet revealed as the owner of the car he towed, quips about politicians and lack of progress, a barometer joke, a weighty telegram remark, a humorous sign near a drinking fountain, a gift for an old gentleman, and a witty obituary line about Jonathan Gay.
In a street level caper a man mailed a tele gram reading I am perfectly well and was charged collect. A week later he received a heavy package and faced large duties upon delivery. The gag backfired highlighting practical joke risks.
A roadside sign in an Ohio town reads Use your eyes, save the pupils near a local school drawing attention to pedestrian safety and attentive driving.
A rural tale shows a mountaineer counting children with a quip about limiting to four after hearing a government statistic. The piece contrasts frontier humor about birth rates with a punchline on government data.
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