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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1958
Page
7
A compilation of light anecdotes and wartime vignettes with punchlines. Includes sales manager humor about calling on customers and a pharmacist turning timid patients into assertive characters. Also features a World War I British tale about crossing Turkish lines and a gag about a butcher’s wife.
The neighboring town's superintendent was suddenly asked to speak to a classroom of students. A student asked why pennies bear the motto In God We Trust, and the superintendent replied that it is for the benefit of people who use them as fuses.
A New Yorker on vacation in Texas returns with mink coats and a Cadillac after a Halloween trick or treat spree. A Calgary mother overhears her son remarking a blood red shirt in a downtown store. A weather forecaster jokes about a hurricane after a "partly cloudy with showers" forecast.
A massive dragline scoop, the Bigger Digger, operates at Bartow Florida for Allonal Minerals & Chemical Corporation mining phosphate. The ore is processed into super phosphate fertilizers to boost plant roots and grain and fruit production across 100 acres fertilized by the operation.
The Outboard Marine Corp reports consolidated net sales of 150,646,319 for the year ending Sept 30, 1957, led by Evinrude Johnson and Buccaneer brands and backed by eight years of rising outboard sales. Texas plans include water projects and a drive to beautify the countryside with wildflower seedings along creeks and highways while urging deer hide donations for disabled veterans through Sportsmen's Clubs of Texas.
New York report on MH-30 chemical from United States Rubber Co. claims to slow tree growth without harming plants, potentially reducing 135 million dollars spent yearly to stop trees from growing across utility lines. Field tests show sprayed limbs stop growing for up to a season while trees elsewhere grow normally.
Expert testimony notes the opening of a fully renovated Baltimore bank with a display of one million dollars in varied denominations. Two men observe. one quips about the sum while the other jokes his wife could spend it in a day.
Austin reports highway maintenance crews say littering costs more than 50 million dollars annually to clear from highways and rights of way. A Texas Highway Department survey tests Keep America Beautiful recommendations on dispersing litterbugs, using litterbags during a four month period.
Texas Highway Department and Motel Association distributed 50 000 litterbags to motorists at seven border entry points. A survey of 200 highway foremen showed most favor the litterbag program to cut roadside litter with local residents identified as the main offenders. Foremen call for an educational campaign and warn that littering is illegal with fines up to 200 dollars and costs.
Dr. Paul Dudley White warns that Americans' habit of sitting, especially in cars, could harm hearts. He cites cardiograph studies: 600 southern Italian men 45 to 65 show four with coronary disease, 600 Cretans show two cases, while 18 percent of Italian descent Americans in Boston have evidence of coronary disease, linked to car use in Boston versus Naples where bicycles are common. Dr. White, 71, and his family are bicycle fans.
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