Weekend social notes from Gainesville area
We record visits and gatherings across the region including Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wolford of Dallas with J. A. Harper in Gainesville, family weekends in Sherman Perryton and Denison, travels of Miss Dixie Bassett to Austin, and many kinship and hospitality events. The Sun invites reader news items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Wolford
Dallas
J. A. Harper
Johnnie Harper
Mrs
J. P. Harper
Arch Talley of
Perryton
R. R. Summers
Laughing gas for laughs? TV laughter mocked by seller
Thomas Valentino, a major supplier of canned laughter, says TV producers overuse phony guffaws in comedies. He notes three methods to dub laughs: hiring an audience, using laugh records, or combining both, and argues for cutting laughter from programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas Valentino
Valentino
World Cotton Crop For 1956 57 Season At 38.9 Million Bales
New York report says the 1956 57 world cotton crop started August 1 stands at 38.9 million bales, down 1.5 percent from 39.5 million in 1955 56 due to U S and Mexico declines. Other free world production rose and Communist nations added output as favorable yields offset a 2.3 percent fall in global planted area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Mexico
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service
Explorer's Meat Diet and Arctic Way of Life Stressed
Vi ljh maravil Stefansson at Golden Anniversary Meat Institute spoke at 77 about a 27 year old meat diet experiment proving meat can support health. He later adopted an Arctic lean fat diet. he cited weight loss, better skin, and lasting vitality, noting four to one fat to meat ratio. The event noted over 3,000 industrial foresters on private timberlands in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Golden Anniversary Meat Institute
Steffansson
New York
Stefansson
Ford
Auto fumes may be bigger climate factor than bombs
Washington reports Dr. John G. Hutton of General Electric says human activity raises carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, potentially causing a greenhouse effect. He argues trees and plants, plus industry, control air quality, and hydrogen bombs do not compare with solar energy in daily climate impact. Human activity and upcoming studies in geophysial year are noted, with a brief mention of 1955 wage accords in West Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John G. Hutton
General Electric Engineering Laboratory
Hutton
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Also Mentioned on This Page
F. C. Long
Gainesville
W. C. Thornhill
C. C. Walls
Mrs. J. M. Kidd
Co. C. Walls
Joe Johnson
Floyd Bassett
Jimmie
Paris
Eula Hamilton of
Denison
George Burleson
Jim Lay
Sherman
Royce Lay
Mrs. Lay
C. B. Norris of
Amarillo
John Norris
Ray Manning
Leonard
C. J. Meador
Johnnie Johnson
John Thompson
C. C. Childress
R. G. Hedrick
Muskogee, Okla
Allen Harper
Hot Springs, Ark
Lonnie Darwin
Dixie Bassett
Beverly Bassett
University of Texas, Austin
Texas A. & M
W. D. Williams
Thomas Ayres
Perrin Air Force Base Hospital
Mrs. W. J. Davis
Celina
James Talley
Sharon Ann White
Bells
Roy Talley
Royse City
Paul Stephens
John
Finis Stephens
C. F. Collins
D. E. McCoy
Joe Rich
Herman Bedford
Commerce Sunday
Carl Pierson
Corpus Christi
Jack Thrasher
McKinney
W. M. Pierson
K. B. Pierson
San Antonio
Pierson
the Sun
Stockman’s Supplies
Walker
Ines LN
Siele
Erin
North Pole
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Texas
Red Moore
S. Bond St
Whitewright, Texas
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