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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1960
Page
4
A collage of light humor and social observations. Jokes about May December marriages and Santa Claus. a dentist’s loud drill tale. tax questions with Irish Sweepstakes money. a critical churchgoer and her daughter. a Northen Canada playpen gift. breakfast timing in a Chicago drugstore. Buddha and margarine. and quirky home setups with fridge beside TV.
Twenty years ago Thursday millions signed up for the first peacetime draft under the 1940 act. In Washington Secretary Stimson drew No. 158 from a glass bowl, deciding the fate of 6175 men as 16,632,146 registered nationwide at 125,000 stations. Roosevelt declared the draft army a defense of freedom.
After two decades of living alone Henry the bachelor becomes self sufficient no more as he adopts a dog to share his life. The piece then shifts to a humorous exchange about an after shave lotion and a union member offering a candid view on the Senate racketeering investigation with a cautious claim that his union operates better today than in the past.
Revolucion denounces Democratic candidate Robert Kennedy with insults while previewing Senator John F. Kennedy’s five point Cuba program. The semiofficial paper notes Kennedy has a brother named Robert amid the heated blast from Havana.
Aramco World projects Americans will eat about 82 pickles per person totaling 6 billion pickles weighing 500 to 600 tons in 1960. The name Ghana derives from a powerful empire that thrived for roughly 800 years prior to European contact. Germany is largely flat with some mountains.
Quemoy the Kinmen group lies about three miles from the Chinese mainland and 100 miles from Formosa. It covers 62.4 square miles with 45 081 residents and about 9 570 families. Matsu includes 19 islets led by Nankan with 11.3 square miles and roughly 10 500 residents.
Dr. Roy W. Carlson, a Berkeley physicist and engineer, says coffee cools faster if left to stand before adding cream. He cites: faster cooling from a hotter initial temperature, darker color radiating heat, and fat in cream slowing water evaporation.
The Census Bureau reports 11 percent of Texas potential voters are Negro. Texas totals 5 329 000 potential voters with 624 000 African Americans aged to vote. The census excludes poll tax status in counting, noting many have not paid. Nationwide, Negroes of voting age are 9 percent of the total.
Americans spent a record 7.2 billion dollars in 1959 at 54 000 drug stores up 8.2 percent from 1958 6 7 billion according to Drug Topics Magazine annual survey.
A practical reminder to zip garments shut before sending them to laundry or a dry cleaner to prevent lost items and damaged fasteners. Ensures secure handling and reduces processing mistakes.
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