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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1945
Page
4
A Whitewright Texas brief recounts a “$64” question on a Baker show where contestant Fred Pelz was offered $64 if his proposed bride Madeliene Caballero would say yes. The audience coached her into accepting at the wedding invitation.
A column decries boosterish hometown notices and warns that government job guarantees threaten American independence. It contrasts praise in obituaries with propaganda, linking mind pollution to the Full Employment Bill and urging self-reliance over state dependence.
New York based comedian Phil Baker, host of the radio quiz show, says he would never appear on Information Please as he does not know all answers. He notes he learns from his own program Take It or Leave It and has paid out about 100000 dollars to contestants. He recalls misnaming W C Fields Bill Fields and confusing a university dean with a principal.
Returned war veterans may enroll in one or two year practical agriculture programs at Texas A M College to prepare for farming ranching and allied industries. Dean Charles N Shepardson notes courses combine classwork with labs and farm time and need not lead to a degree.
General Marshall outlines an arsenal of new weapons and calls for intensified research and a permanent peacetime citizen army. He describes self-guiding rockets and jet bombers, hopes for ramjet improvements, and warns atomic power could both aid and destroy civilization. He notes Allied invasion aims to preempt Nazi use of such weapons and stresses prepare or perish amid the atomic age.
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