The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1951 Page: 7 of 8
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, March 8, 1951.
THE REFLECTOR
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WORRIED about your job? High prices? The
International situation ?
50,000 Visit Whitney
As Dam Road Opened
^-27% of Slabs Showed
Defects Due to Loads
After 92,000 Truck Passes
FLIES GAUSE
ILLNESS, DEATH
AT THE SIGN OF
THE FLYING RED HORSE
HOME HAIRCUT DEVICE
STRAPS ONTO HEAD
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Consult Your Insurance Agent as You Would
Your Doctor or Lawyer
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Father looked hard at his wife and
then at his son. “That boy has taken
money from my pocket!” he stormed.
“Ernest,” she protested, “how can
Why I might have
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l~8% of Slabs Showed
Defects Due to Loads
After 175,000 Truck Passes
40% of Slabs Showed
Defects Due to Loads
After 175,000 Truck Passes
CLIP AND MAIL NOW
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TEXAS RAILROADS
P. O. BOX 1023
AUSTIN 66, TEXAS
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CROSS-SECTION OF CONCRETE PAVEMENT
(SHOWING WIDTH AND THICKNESS)
ON WHICH TESTS WERE CONDUCTED
Please mail me a FREE copy of '[
"The Case of the One Per Cent*
ers" and a reprint of the article
from TIME about the La Plata,
Md., Highway tests.
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AUSTIN.—Millions of flies help to
cause illness and death of thousands
of children and adults each year in
the United States. Hundreds of these
casualties may be in Texas this year
if residents fail in their responsibil-
ity for developing the best possible
sanitation measures in the area
where they reside. Typhoid fever,
summer complaint and other intesti-
nal diseases can be traced to the
common housefly as the carrier of the
infection.
Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Of-
ficer, speaking in this connection, re-
cently said, “Be sure that windows
and doors are tightly screened so that
stray flies from a careless neighbor
will not endanger your family. Be
sure that flies are kept away from!
food, drink and utensils used in the
1 preparation of food. Make sure, if
you live in rural districts, that out-
side privy vaults are tightly covered
so as not to permit the entrance of
flies.
“Infections from this source can be
1 picked up and spread to human be-
| ings through contact with food, drink you say that?
and utensils. Keep all garbage cov- done it.”
ered until collected or buried. Elim-
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inate all breeding places for flies and j didn’t; there was some left.”
you will be helping your community
in its work of controlling communic-
able diseases and preventing unnec-
essary illness.”
Now is the time to do away with
the winter’s accumulation of trash.
Clean up and stay clean is a good
slogan for communities and individ- j
ual citizens.
HEAVY TRUCKS ARE DAMAGING the nation’s highways today ac-
cording to recent tests conducted in La Plata, Md. Graphically shown
are results of the tests that have been conducted for the past six months
by the Highway Research Board, representing highway departments
of eleven states and the District of Columbia Truckers in Texas are
requesting the Texas Legislature to increase their present load limit
from 48,000 to 72,000 pounds.
WASHINGTON.—“Give yourself a
haircut” is the apparent advice of in-
ventor Jacob A. Altman of Los An-
geles who received a patent from the
government this week on a device
which makes the home haircut pos-
sible. Patent 2,542,450 was his
award.
It might be described as a comb-
like device with teeth long enough
and curved enough to fit the entire
back of the head. The hair projects
outwardly between the teeth. After
placement, it is held in position by
neck and forehead straps.
Over this comb-frame is another,
hinged to the first at its lower edge,
and angled out to any desired amount
by a thumb-screw at the top. It is.
this outer coipb-frame that guides
the cutting blade and causes it to cut
close low down on the neck and not
so close toward the top of the head.
Citation No. 58736
The State of Texas.
To: T. A. Parnell, Greeting:
You are commanded to appear and
answer the plaintiff’s petition at or
before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first
Monday after the expiration of 42
days from the date of issuance of this
Citation, the same being Monday the
23rd day of April, A. D., 1951, at or
before 10 o’clock A. M., before the
Honorable District Court of Grayson
County, at the Court House in Sher-
man, Texas.
Said Plaintiff’s petition was filed
on the 3rd day of March, 1951.
The file number of said suit being
No. 58736.
The names of the parties in said
suit are: Bessie Fisher Parnell as
Plaintiff, and T. A. Parnell as De-
fendant.
The nature of said suit being sub-
stantially as follows, to-wit: Divorce
on grounds of cruel treatment.
Issued this the 3rd day of March,
1951.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court, at office- in Sherman,
Texas, this the 3rd day of March, A.
D., 1951.
S. V. Earnest, Clerk, District Court,
Grayson County, Texas. By Iva
Davidson, Deputy. 4m29
The big truckers want the taxpayers to con-
tinue providing expensive highways for them
to use as "rights-of-way” for their own, selfish,
personal gain.
THIS IS A TUG-OF-WAR BETWEEN THE BIG
TRUCKERS AND THE TAXPAYERS OF TEXAS!
Think of the fellow with a burned-out home and
inadequate insurance . . he’s really got troubles.
Guard YOURSELF against such a
^96% of Slabs Showed
Defects Due to Loads
After 92,000 Truck Passes
—WITH HALF AS MANY TRUCK PASSES (92,000 VS 175,000) THESE
TANDEM WHEELS WITH 16,000 LBS. TO THE AXLE CAUSED 3
TIMES AS MUCH DAMAGE AS A SINGLE AXLE OF IB,OOO LBS.
“THE NEW SHAPE”
Although there’s not much hap-
pening in WHS at the present time,
we will try to scrape up some of the
“latest gossip.”
There are four girls who have
been seen wearing'1 heart-shaped
bracelets. They are Carol, Shirley,
Alice, and Beverly. I wonder if the
boys who went to Dallas could have
bought them?
Say, Doretha, whose ring do you
wear? Could it, by any chance, be-
long to Joe Fuller?
Gene Darwin’s fancies seem to
turn toward Van Alstyne. Could
Betty Judkins have anything to do
with this?
In the past week if you’ve noticed
Nancy’s walking around like she was
floating on a cloud, don’t think any-
thing about it. She just had a date
with her number 1 dream man, Jer-
ry Hart.
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single axle load CAUSED 5 TIMES
18.000 LBS. j _AS MUCH DAMAGE AS ; 22,400 LBS;
o'" Fathis
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MAKESW
Damaged highways, such as the Texas highway
shown in this picture, are a hazard to the safe
operation of automobiles, farm trucks and other
motor vehicles.
It costs three times as much to build roads that
will withstand the loads of big trucks now being
operated over them than it does for the
smaller trucks and automobiles.
Latest records show $115,282,344 was spent
on Texas highways for the year ending August
31, 1950.
A bill sponsored by the big truck operators
is before the Texas Legislature. This bill
proposes ....
|l) to increase the load limit from the present
48,000 pounds to 72,000 pounds, and
(2) to increase the maximum truck length from
45 feet to 50 feet.
(Recent official highway tests at La Plata, Md.,
sponsored by the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads,
the highway departments of eleven states and
the District of Columbia, effectively demon-
strated that as trucks increased in size and loads,
roads cracked up and "died" more quickly.
We need to safeguard our highways for
Civilian and Military use. "Increased heavy
loading might seriously disrupt the effectiveness
of essential routes in the event of an all-out-
war," according to T. J. Kauer, director of the
Ohio Highway Department and Chairman of the
La Plata road test committee.
were: Mesdames
Harrelson, Harry
Badgett,
Automobiles and small trucks do not require
extra strong,'extra costly highways. The truth
is, that the big truckers are putting the "pinch"
on the pocketbooks of the Texas taxpayers.
Get the facts. Mail the coupon below for
your copy of "The Case of the One Per
Centers," and for a reprint of the article
published in TIME, January 22, 1951, about the
La Plata highway tests.
BRIEFS
Peggy Pannell stands 5’ 2” and has
blue eyes and blond hair. Her fa-
vorite movie star is Jerry Lewis, and
she was born in Whitewright. Her
weakness is meh, and her favorite
sport is basketball and she dislikes
pumpkin, but loves cottage cheese
with pineapple. She admires de-
pendability in a person. She boasts
that she can eat sweets and not get
faf. Her pet peeve is people that beg,
and she claims that her worst fault is
“blowing her top” when she gets
mad. Her ambition is to go to
' NTSTC, Denton.
Conway Craig is 6’ and has blue
eyes and brown hair. His favorite
' movie star is Lana Turner. His pet
peeve is conceited people. He claims
( his favorite food is “sweet milk” and
his dislike is “sour milk.” His
’ weakness is “censored” and what he
admires in a person is “censored.”
He doesn’t have anything to boast
j about and his worst fault is “cen-
( sored.” He was born in White-
, wright and his ambition is to be shot
' at the age of 95 by a jealous hus-
band.—J. J.
WHITNEY.—E. N. Jones, a farm-
er, wrote another footnote to Central
Texas history Sunday.
He was the first man to cross the
new Whitney Dam on relocated
Highway 22. Jones went across by
automobile, but it was not always
thus.
Thirty-six years ago, in 1915,
when the Brazos River Bridge at
Whitney was thrown open to the
public, Jones was the first across.
But that time it was astride a trust-
worthy steed.
“Yes, sir,” he remembered, “I was
on the winning horse in a race to see
who could be first over.”
The bridge he crossed 36 years ago
will pass into oblivion soon, displaced
by the fresh new roadway atop the
three-mile-long $42 million dam.
Those serving
Skaggs, William
Farrow, Morton
Brown, and Guy Stepp.
The decorating committee
sisted of Mesdames Jennie Critten-
den, B. W. Newman, and Adah Gil-
lespie.—M. R., C. A. H.
SPEECH CLASS PRESENTS
ONE-ACT PLAY
The students of WHS were in
charge of the regular assembly, Fri-
day, March 2. Since the speech class
consists of all seniors except one,
they were asked to present a play.
Under the direction of Mrs. Rod-
dy, the class presented “Miss Lonely
Heart.”
The play was about a high school
senior, Gladine Harper, who didn’t
have a date for the Valentine dance.
Her brother, Junior, was going to be
made to take her, but he used his
idea of advertising for a date. Her-
man Musser, Conway Craig, Jack
Badgett, and Barrie Blanton ans-
swered the ad.
Mrs. Fairchild, the mother, por-
trayed by Gwen Kent, and Kitty, a
younger sister, played by Carol Kil-
groe, planned refreshments for the
boys and more girls were called and
asked if they might come.
Gene Bush served as the an-
nouncer and with the help of Harold
Gene Word also served as the ones
in charge of the curtains.
Laura Wilson, Carol Hughes, and
Molly Rutledge were stage managers.
—M. R.
Who was Jack B. with Friday
night? I wonder if a certain fresh-
man by the name of Foy Bow could'
tell you?
Myra Nell looked so sad and lone-
some Saturday at school. I’ll bet it
was because Dearie had gone to Ar-
lington.
There were a number of freshman
and sophomore boys who went to Ar-
lington with their ag. teacher, Mr.
Barker. I’m sure all the girls really
missed them.
Dixie surely does go to the post
office a lot. Could she be expecting
a letter from someone, say, by the
name of Scott Mallard?
Alice Marie has been going with a
very cute boy from Randolph. Could
his name be Malcolm McGee?
Jack and Shirley are hitting it off
just fin,e. I guess Jack has finally
found his match.
Another couple who are “hitting it
off” are Jimmy and Ruth Ann. If
they do have a fuss, it never amounts
to much.
Carol and Bill are seen together a
lot, but, of course, that’s nothing un-
usual.
It seems that we’re going to have
to go to school for five straight Sat-
urdays. Some of the kids are having
a fit, but there are some who don’t
mind.
That’s all the gossip and time’s
running short, so we might as well
close. You’ll be hearing from us
next week.—P. P., J. N.
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1951, newspaper, March 8, 1951; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1332554/m1/7/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.