The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1957 Page: 3 of 8
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THE A'.TO HERALD, ALTO. TEXAS, JULY 11, 1957
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READ TH!S
STARTMHG PACT
5 out of lOSmaMer Cars
wear a Pontiac Price Tag
-yet none gives you Any
of Pontiac's Advantages
YOUR MONEY ACTUALLY BUYS
UP TO 8.9% MORE SOUD CAR
PER DOLLAR <N A PONT!AC!
'['tie so-catted "tow-pricu" tars t'att far short of
Pontiac in actuat, mcasurahtc car—and your
I'ontiac deatcr has ofHciat n))ccitication com-
parisons to prove it) No srnatter car comes even
close to Pontiac's rock-sotid construction . . .
from its rugged X-member frame through every
inct) of its heavy-duty running gear Pontiac is
muscle ati the way! This extra heft means
Pontiac holds the road tike no smatter car
you've ever driven . . . gives you a ride re-
markably free of bounce, shake and noise! Put
ntl the facts and figures to your own persona)
road test. Catt your own shots and see how
Pontiac's Precision-Touch Controls let vou relax to
steering, braking and parking ease out of reach
of the smatt jobs!
W!TH 4 TO 7 EXTRA !NCHES OF
WHEELBASE, PONUAC
OUTCLASSES THE SMALLER CARS
'N R'DE AND ROADAB!L!TY!
Pontiac's length is built in—not hung on!
Smaller cars extend bumpers and fenders to
look big, but Pontiac doesn't need camouflage
... it is big! Its man-sized 122-inch wheetbase
strides over the bumps instead of riding on
them. This extra length, plus a carload of new
suspension ideas, results in Pontiac's exclusive
tevet-Une Ride that no car at any price can
surpass! Sample a few miles—and you'tt never
re-enlist in the small-car army again!
NO CAR AT ANY PR!CE
PERFORMS HKE A PONTtAC ..
SMALLER CARS AREN'T EVEN
!N THE RUNN!NG!
tf it's proof you want, your Pontiac dueler is
toaded with it—point-by-['oin< engineering com-
parisons and on-the-record tacts and (igu'cs.
No smatter car is designed or huitt to come close
to Pontiac's eye-opening response . . 'ts
smooth, etfortless mastery of every driving
demand. Put the facts on America's Number
One Road Car to a test and vou'll leave the
tittle teague for good!
PONT!AC HAS ALWAYS
COMMANDED A HtGH
TRADE-tN DOLLAR!
When you put your money in a Pontiac \ou
know your investment witt be riding lug i "f
a long time to come! In fact, over the ycais, no
car has a better reputation for heing <t '
demand used car. So before you sign on 'C
dotted line for a smaller job at Pont iac s
-get. the doltar-stretching good iicws your
Pontiac dealer has waiting for you. Here in
easiest move of your tife are the car ant
vatue that witt get you out of the sma '<
class for keeps!
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SEE YOUR AUTHOR'ZED
Pontiac
. DEALER
^ TERHFFFC RF6WT NOW
BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
Slnrting from Scratch
yenrs ngn, Humphrey Grnt-
'"i. Cnrlisie Drive, Detroit.
?'!i(.'hinnn. stifrtiPfjthclosSQftiis
^ with the birth of a son.—for
^hiimtt](.yh;,d waited eiHiitccn
' rs A few weeks later his fnc-
'"!y burned down without ade-
quate insurance. The day after
'it!. due to his own nervousness,
^n automobile eras)), which
is insurance did not cover. In
'!.er words. Humphrey was wiped
at, tinaneially and mentally.
What was the use of trying to go
on with nothing ]pft Here he was
n<nin'.: middio-age and back
where he started.
Day by day he sank lower into
despair. His famiiy and Ms
friends did what they could to
cheer him up. but the more they
tried, the more he compared his
tot to theirs snd their more
unfortunate situations.
After weeks of morbid brooding,
lack of appetite, loss of weight, he
was a different man, not even
taking an interest in his little son
who had been welcomed into the
home of his married sister.
One day as he drove along the
highway he read on a billboard
"What have you to be thankful
for?" "Nothing," ho thought bit-
terly.
On the way home he saw the
reverse side of that billboard. It
read: "Think it over; there must
be something to be thankful for."
He began to think It over. All
he could find for the optimism
column was his general health.
And there was something else:
He still had his intellect. And there
was experience.
It suddenly occurred to him that
those three assets were the most
valuable a man could have, that
the third was one he didn't have
when he started out. As he jogged
along, his spirits rose. Maybe,
after all . . .
That evening he went over to
his sister's home and held his
little son in his arms for the first
time. Now he had a fourth Asset,
a junior partner.
From then on, Humphrey Grat-
ton was on the upgrade. It needed
only a few words at the right mo-
ment to change him back to the
man who had once been well
along on the road to success. To-
day, five years after, he is ahead
financially of where ho had been
when his successive blows fell.
His junior partner is doing well
with a new mother, who in two
years has proved herself a won-
derful helpmeet.
BASS BITE GOOD
!N LAKE RAVEN
Austin.—Texas now has an-
other "hot" fishing lake, accord-
ing to the Texas Game and Fish
Magazine, official publication of
the Texas Game and Fish Com-
mission. It is Lake Raven, in the
Huntsvilte State Park. The lake
is the result of rebuilding a dam
washed out in 1940. It was stocked
! with bass, which had attained a
good size when the lake was of-
ficially opened to fishing June 1.
Excellent facilities arc avail-
able at the lake on the Prairie
branch of the Chinquapin creeks
in Waller County. At! 304 holders
of permits caught their timit of
five bass each on opening day.
Many tine eatchcs aiso have been
j reported since then.
There arc still a few people
left in Cherokee County who
consider it an honor to be named
on a committee.
$:ROss %
idea; from other editors
front the Tailassee Tribune,
Tailassee, Alabama: Although we
do not know enough abouc the so-
called Gwinn amendment a pro-
posed amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States to in-
telligently discuss it, there are
tremendous possibilities contained
in one sentence of it.
The sentence reads: "The gov-
ernment of the United States shall
not engage in any business, pro-
fessional, commercial, financial or
industrial enterprise except as
specified in the Constitution."
There is no doubt about it, we
are now living in an age of super-
governmcnt, certainly not what
the founding fathers had in mind.
Centralization of power is the
mortal enemy of all save those
with the reins in their power-
hungry hands. That is no mere
idle political philosophy, it is his-
tory, clearly written in the books.
Aside from the fact that when
government displaces private en-
terprise it loses a tremendous tax
take, it is a common thing for gov-
ernmcnt-controlled businesses to op-
erate at a loss which means that
the taxpayers must sub^dize
them.
From the Ravenswood News.
Ravcnswood, W. Va.: Human na-
ture being what it is, we frequent-
ly remember "the good old days"
with nostalgia. Among our fond
memories arc the prices things
used to cost in long past times.
For the most part, those prices
were much lower than the prices
we pay today—in terms of dollars
and cents. But there arc other and
better yardsticks of price than
money alone.
A tabulation concerning meat
prices from 1919 to 1956 is an ex-
cellent example. The tabulation
lists the average retail price of
meat in each of the years, along
with the workers' average hour-
ly earnings. From this, the amount
of working time that was needed
to buy a pound of meat is com-
puted.
In 1919, the typical worker had
to put in 44.5 minutes of labor to
buy that pound of meat. There-
after. the figure rose and fell,
reaching its pre-war low of 21.6
minutes in 1940.
The war years are not included
in the tabulation, because the
artificial conditions and restric-
tions then in efleet make accurate
comparison impossible. In 1947, a
worker could earn his pound of
meat for only 17.5 minutes of la-
bor—which was the lowest figure
ever recorded.
In other words, meat prices have
—risen—but wages have risen
nuch more.
MARIY'S SECRET PlAti
ByF. L. Row!ey
npHE following facts cannot be
I found in History books:
Marty Dulworth had a plan to
end war. He trotted into Home-
town City Hall with it and was
promptly thrown out. He decided
to speak to someone higher up;
subsequently he was bundled out
of the State capitol without port-
folio.
Marty had one friend, a certain
Elmer Scragg — also under sur-
veillance. With luck he might be
able to reach Elmer's 'cottage' be-
fore dark—perhaps even in time
for supper.
He caught the fastest train out
of town; it jarred him a bit but
he held on. This particular freight
would slow down for a curve that
looped Elmer's shack. Ho hoped
that the 'landing strip' near El-
mer's placc was soft tonight.
It was. He was nearly buried
alive in the soft earth.
Rimer's red whiskers popped
through an opening in the hut.
"Some day you're going to conk
your noggin agin' my cabin." he
'aid. _ . ^
"Whyn't you get off at Benton
and walk back?"
"Smelted your mulligan," grunt-
ed Marty.
"I can see by the drape of your
jowls that you didn't have any
luck at the capitol."
Marty sucked in a bushel of
air: "The incumbents are fools!
Idiots!" He spat with conviction.
Elmer spooned out a cupful of
steaming mulligan. "You gotta
plan these things." he explained
patiently. "First we rent you a
ciassy tuxedo-see? Then we get
the rumor going that you'ra a
Russian with a brief-case loaded
with gamy deals. Ears 11 go up!
"And heads'U roll - mine first.
Naw—It won't work."
Elmer drew a bin from his
shirt pocket: "Here's Hve bucks
that says it wilL Get a room at th.
Benton Hotel, and remember:
you'ra supposed to be traveling in-
incognito. Look surprised M any-
on. caiia yon Baron DuML
Marty's eyes brightened. Cru-
sading had its rewards. A room at
the Benton was a veritable oasis
on the drab desert of life.
Tears of gratitude trickled down
Marty's face as he made his way
to the hotel. What a comfort to
have a friend as true as Elmer!
Now he would push his noble
cause with renewed vigor.
His scraggly beard hardly re-
sembled that of a full-fledged
Baron. He shaved it off. Donning
the tuxedo he stared at the star-
tling change in his appearance.
NOW they'd !isten to his plan—
even in Washington.
He answered a knock at the door
to reveal a boy with his brief-
case. The boy's eyes were wide.
"Arc you a real baron?" he asked.
Marty winked and reached for
the bag.
"A red headed man with a suit-
case said I should give this to
you—then the police chased him.
Nearly caught him too."
"Tho police? After Elmer?"
Marty's jaw hung limp.
"A freight train cut them off: 1
think he got away all right. You
guys are real smooth—the bank's
still buzzing!"
"Bank" Marty tipped the boy
and ushered him out. So that's
why Elmer had helped him! To
make him the patsy in a robbery!
He sped to the fire-escape. Nothing
must intcrfero with his mission
in llfel
At the bottom of the Crc-escape
he collided with two policemen.
Between them, and grinning rue-
fully, was Elmeri
"They got me," he said sadly
"After I bought your brief-case I
took a fancy to this suit-case and
swiped it."
"You BOUGHT my brief-case?
And that bag — that's all you
swiped?"
"Sure. Tltere was a crowd
around the bank at the time so I
didn't think anyone would notice
me. Sorry I messed things up.
You'U have to tell em how t*
and war without my helc."
the traffic*?
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Frank L. Weimar and Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1957, newspaper, July 11, 1957; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215478/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.