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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1956
Page
4
Austin Heritage Society won council permission to move the O Henry honeymoon cottage into a park while nearby owners threaten a lawsuit and call it a vermin infested junk heap. History lovers pushed the project as a beautiful tribute amid national attention.
A vintage ad extols modern drugs as miracles compared with past treatments, noting cures in hours rather than weeks and shorter hospital stays, result of wonder drugs unknown years ago. The piece emphasizes rapid recovery and cost efficiency as the saleable benefit.
Nearly 40000 survey cards will be left in rural boxes across Texas this week to tally livestock and poultry on farms. Texas Statistician V C Childs notes cooperation from the U S Post Office and rural carriers provides data for state and national inventories as of year start. Farmers urged to answer accurately and return promptly to improve reliability. The survey covers cattle calves milk cows hogs sheep goats horses mules chickens and turkeys plus pig and sow farrowings and breeding plans for 1957.
Dallas naming Maurine Jacobs as president marks the first time a woman leads a Dallas bank. A 23 year veteran, she rose from secretary to cashier to vice president and cashier before becoming president after the death of J B Adone Jr. Her appointment makes her the first woman bank president in Dallas and among Texas city banks.
Texas certified presidential results show Eisenhower 1,080,619 and Stevenson 859,958 with 14,591 for Constitution Party. write-ins 377. Overall turnout 1,955,545, down 120,401 from 1952. Legislature to certify governor races. Bruce Alger wins Dallas congressional district. Constitutional amendment on teacher pensions passes 1,350,372 to 166,788, raising pensions for long-serving teachers.
A Union Pacific shopman summoned for Federal Grand Jury duty asked Judge Pollock to be excused. He said he was very busy at the shop and thought the railroad could not get along without him. The judge remarked that he knew the man could be without him but did not want the company to find out. The man was excused.
A collage of quirky jokes and cartoons from The Modern Woodman style fables and light banter. Vignettes include a wife and husband quip about last word, a sidewalk cleaning bargain, Betty age four where innocence meets humor, and a city pet shop letter mix ups with mongooses.
A humorous diapering putdown imagines a baseball diamond setup with a baby placed on the pitcher’s mound. The directions connect bases with a pinning action and liken dressing a baby to a game play.
A husband, nursing a terrible hangover, asks his wife if she is angry about his black eye from the prior night. She reminds him that he did not have a black eye when he came home, implying the injury occurred after.
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