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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, APRIL 21, 1955
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Cities Predicted
Flowers Are Sensitive
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fessional
Uncle Tom
Sorry Picture
To Balance the Budget
in this brave new world new edu-
adopted. Here again, hypnosis will
Liquor Demurrer
and
‘Men of Distinction’
north of Weston renews for The
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trast to the $990 million that the Examiner to 4-56.
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Water Question
Is No Joke
Totaled 82,
Bureau Reports
Woman, 73, Talked
Out of Death Leap
94,588,000
74,901,000
74,557,000
68,306,000
66,934,000
59,557,000
15,040,000
TRIBUTE TO
A TEACHER
WHAT THE POETS
HAVE TO SAY
Corn _ _____ -
Hogs --------
Rice ---------
Fruits and Vegetables-
Wheat and Oats — —
Sheep, Lambs, Wool
and Mohair -----
Peanuts and Flaxseed _
Some are sensitive and take
Slight at lack of care.
Others no complaint will make
Left untended there.
Flowers have habits, just as we,
Like, dislike and mood.
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Uncle Tom Turns
Detective and
Gets the Corn Thief
after an argument they yielded to
Uncle Tom,' but with the proviso
that Dad was to load the old shot-
the year 2000.
These and many more prophecies
were offered by members of the
Royal Society of Arts, among whom
are numbered the outstanding pro-
Get to know them, one by one.
Gardening is a trade.
Roses like the morning sun;
Violets the shade.
sponse to a Society competition on
“life in the year 2000.”
I
He spent the winter with us. Mock-
ingbirds
Heretofore have always journeyed
South.
But for some reason he withstood
the cold
Of Kansas blizzards, and remained
to feed
On weed-seeds in the nearby fields,
MRS. CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Publishers
a reminder not only of the spirit-
ual rewards of selfless devotion to
the lives of others but of the great
debt society ever will owe to its
gifted teachers.
Some are sturdy and will stand
Straight ’gainst fence or wall.
Flowers are much like people and
Need patience, spring to fall.
—By Edgar A. Guest
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Mockingbird
Published each Thursday and en-
tered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
Total____$1,894,159,000*
*Does not include $22,840,000 re-
ceived in payments to farmers by
the U. S. Government.
—Billy B. Cooper
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tree Young Men
daylight the fol-
lowing morning.
He placed a lock on the crib
Sl y cal — aliu, IU ge leclive anowel IU jay waineis. i trip through even the busiest neigh-
truckers there and ! A tunnel under the English! Chan-' borhoods. Most would agree that
-aln agaii, more than 44 billion nel, which has been talked about such a prospect is worth waiting
gallons of gasoline were used. since Napoleon’s time, will connect around for.
the end of the present century.
The experts forecast that civiliza-
tion, contrary to a not unpopular
current viewpoint, will not be
“atomized.” In fact, the consensus
was that in the next 45 years man
will find a way of doing that which
has eluded him since the genesis—
living peaceably with his fellows.
door, but once in every three or
four days the corn disappeared any-
way. This was no mystery. The
corn crib was not walled all the
way up. Openings had been left at
the top so that the corn could be
thrown in the crib from the wag-
ons as it was brought in from the
field. Dad paid no particular at-
tention to the matter, merely say-
ing that possibly some poor neigh-
bor had stolen it to have it ground
into meal for his family. But not
so Uncle Tom. He was going to trap
the thief.
New wealth produced annually
on Texas farms and ranches has a
far-reaching influence on our econ-
omy. Texas people have more
money invested in farm and ranch
land, stock, equipment, and pro-
cessing facilities than any other en-
terprise. Agricultural production
supplies food and raw materials
necessary to maintain many indus-
tries.
Cotton, the champion income pro-
ducer, also provides the most em-
ployment on the farm, in the pro-
cessing, handling, conversion and
distribution of finished products.
Farm Cash Income—Texas 1954
Cotton and Cottonseed _$775,370,000 I ali the
walks will be movable. And they Either way — skyway or tunnel
will be raised to first-floor level so —the motorist of the future would
LONDON, April 15.—Two-head-
i ed humans, plastic roofs over en-
tire cities and moving sidewalks
will, it is predicted, be features of
life on earth in just 45 years—in
ture will no longer have time to: round-abouts sited at the intersec-
ring twice. “Via air mail” will have tions and designed to allow streams
given way to “via rocket.” Thanks of fast traffic to cross one another
to rocket delivery, a New Yorker at speed, or to emerge via the,
will be able to mail a letter to Aus- ramps to ground level, or to find
tralia and receive a reply the same their way to superimposed multi-'
Mrs. C. E. Cawthon who lives day. I story car parks, hotels, offices or
To speed pedestrian traffic, side- residential blocks.”
A meeting of stewardesses
gun himself. It was an old double-
barreled muzzle-loader, and Dad
wouldn’t let anyone load it but him.
This came about due to the fact
that Uncle Tom once loaded it add
placed the shot in the gun before ^e
did the powder,- and Dad had to
take the gun to McKinney and get
Dolph Parker to bore the charge
Even Faster Planes
Seen by Expert
The speed, range and size of com-
mercial aircraft will be increased
to a marked degree when planes
are powered by gas turbines, ac-
. cording to H. Mansfield Horner,
chairman of the board, Aircraft In-
dustries Association of America.
“Already we have gone from 21-
passenger commercial planes, only
15 years ago, to 70-passenger planes
flying today,” Mr. Horner said on
a recent “It’s Your Business” radio
broadcast. “Ranges are way up and
speed has increased rapidly. Non-
stop transcontinental flights are
commonplace.
“As we get into gas turbine com-
mercial airliners—and we will—
speed, range, and size will increase
again, and to a marked degree. I
expect that, with this improved
service, more people will be flying
and flying oftener.”
Aircraft manufacturers will be
able to keep up with America’s ex-
panding population “without much
effort,” said Mr. Horner, who is also
board chairman of United Aircraft
Corp., East Hartford, Conn.
A composite picture drawn from
_______ , ui le papers submitted in the
Cattle and Calves--- 404,198,000 1 contest presents a startling preview
Poultry and Eggs _ _ _ 138,549,000 | of what civilization will be like at
Milk and Milk
Products ______ 122,159,000
Grain Sorghum and
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’Tis said that U .S. males spent
nearly a billion bucks on their
faces and scalps last year—in con-
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Then there’s the one about the
South Seas cannibal who vprked
for a missionary—he broughh the A
boss home for dinner. / r ( /
WASHINGTON, April 15. — The
Federal Prison Bureau said today
82 civilian criminals were execut-
ed last year — 20 more than in
1953.
Although the 1954 total was much
higher than the previous year, the
report continued to reflect a much
smaller use of the death penalty
than was the case a few years ago.
Prison Director James V. Bennett
noted that in each of the last five
years, there were fewer executions
than in any year between 1930 and
1949; that “during these recent five
years an average of 83 persons per
year were executed, whereas dur-
ing the previous 20 years the num-
ber per year averaged 147.”
10 Teen-Agers
Ten of those put to death m-1954
were teen-agers, all Negroes. The
records show only nine teen-agers
executed in the previous four years.
Five states accounted for 45 of
the 82 executions: Georgia with 12,
California and Texas with 9 each,
New York with 8, and Florida with
7. North Carolina went through its
first year without an execution in
a quarter-century. Vermont, which
had had 'just two executions since
1930, carried out two more last
year.
72 Murderers
Of those put to death, 72 were
convicted of murder, 9 of rape, and
1 of armed robbery. Two were
women, both doomed for murder
and both in Ohio.
Three of last year’s executions
were by hanging, 12 by lethal gas,
and 67 by electrocution.
As of the end of the year, 147
prisoners were under the death
penalty.
The bureau’s statistics exclude
military executions. However, Ben-
nett noted separately that during
1954, the military reported three ex-
ecutions, one for murder, two for
rape and murder.
els in the crib,
but the thief al-
ways got the
bushel or so of
corn he had
shucked to feed
the stock before
DALLAS, Tex., April 17.—Love-
ly Jeanette MacDonald, who has
been signed by the 1955 State Fair
Musicals to sing the lead in “Bit-
tersweet” is typical of the top name
stars whom Charles R. Meeker, Jr.,
managing director, has procured
for the season.
Although comparatively young,
Miss MacDonald is an immortal of
show business. She has reached
stardom in every phase from opera
to her latest, television. When
Ralph Edwards made her the hon-
or guest on “This is Your Life,” her
place in the hearts of the Ameri-
can public was clearly defined.
The 1955 State Fair Musicals sea-
son, in addition to Miss MacDonald
in “Bittersweet” includes five otha.
er exciting productions, “Kismetwk
“South Pacific,” “Carousel,” “One
Touch of Venus” and “Teahouse of
the August Moon." April 25 hold-
ers of season tickets for the 1954
season will be notified of the prior-
ity period during which they may
re-order their same seat locations.
On May 11 new season subscrip-
tions will be accepted through mail
order.
Government spending can be cut
to bring about a balanced budget
for the next fiscal year. These four
steps are being urged:
Elimination of proposed new pro-
grams which have not yet been au-
thorized by legislation;
Cutting of grants to states, as an
initial step toward transferring
these programs to ultimate full
state responsibility;
Elimination, suspension or cul-
tailment of expenditures for speci-
fied civilian functions;
Cutting remaining expenditures
5%, except military and interest on
the public debt.
These cuts in government spend-
ing would total $3,195,000,000—
more than enough to avoid the es-
timated deficit of $2,400,000,000.
Britain and the Continent.
The traffic problem, which ap-
parently by the end of the century
will have become so monstrous that
people actually will be moved to
do something about it, may be
solved in one of two ways.
Schemes were advanced both for
rooftop expressways and an elabor-
ate system of tunnels under major
cities.
Viaduct Buildings
Cave-Browne-Cave envisioned the
erection of viaducts made of long,
narrow buildings. The viaducts
would crisscross large metropolitan
areas and would support roadways
on their roofs. Approaches leading
up to these roadways would be so
constructed as to provide spacious,
raised parking areas.
A plain called for “a vast radial
and ciruclar network of fast, all-
weather, arterial roads tunneled in
the chalk and conected with its old-
er, slower, surface counterpart by
means of relical ramps rising from
I—
The question of the conservation
of water in East Texas of which
Collin County is part, is by no
means a joke. Neither is it a po-
litical football to be kicked around.
Nor is it any time to gag when a
small tax is mentioned in order to
further the water and soil conser-
vation in our county. The Cham-
ber of Commerce here has just an-
nounced a new industry for our
city. A meat packing plant. There
will no doubt be others. Any man-
ufacturing concern is a big user of
water.
It is of utmost importance that
the people of this county think se-
riously on this question when it
comes up as a part of the Trinity
River Authority bill. You know
that in Collin County most all of
our land drains into the Trinity.
We have been fortunate so far in
that the Federal government has
spent millions here in water and
soil conservation. We are going to
have to do some of it ourselves.
It has been stated on many occa-
sions by our city government that
the underground water levels here
are becoming lower and lower.
In the future, we do not doubt,
that the water conservation pro-
gram that has been carried on here
and will be carried on under the
Trinity River Authority will prove
a “life saver.”
(Dallas News)
The Dallas police department’s
March report had a figure which, at
the risk of wearisome repetition,
needs the full glare of public scru-
tiny.
Some 381 people were charged in
12 offenses. Of these, 194 were ju-
veniles and 187 adults. Twenty
years ago nobody would have even
imagined that persons under 17
would be charged with more crimes
than their elders.
Police can only arrest. They can’t
reform. They can’t even punish.
What they see is not kids’ mischief.
These figures do not deal with
neighborhood fights, marble games
and watermelons.
In March, twice as many juve-
niles as adults were charged with
burglary. Twice as many were
charged with auto theft, three times
as many with thefts under $50.
Clubs can go on resolving. Lunch-
eon speakers can continue to theo-
rize. In the meantime, an assault is
an assault, irrespective of the age
of the assaulter.
have been
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A local furniture store displays
this sign: “To kinds of family are
likely to have a house full of an-
tique furniture: the kind with
money and the kind with kids.”—
High Point (N. C.) Enterprise .
Atom Neutralizer
And not only will they have
solved the problem of using con-
structively the energy of the atom,
but also—just in case of a malfunc-
tion in the fellowship scheme—of
neutralizing A-weapons by means
of a device “to prevent at a dis-
tance the fission of atomic nuclei.”
clei.”
The competition, held in con-
junction wtih the Society’s bicen-
tennial anniversary, was designed
to “give an opportunity to the more
imaginative to submit constructive
ideas.” The Society felt that even
if the competition produced few
practical proposals, it would still
serve a useful purpose by directing
attention to the future and its
problems.”
Generally speaking, the partici-
pants foresaw a development of
present tendencies in the second
half of the 20th century—an evolu-
tionary rather than a revolutionary
progression. They gave their first
attention to present problems which
are certain to grow more acute.
Heading this list were population
increases and food shortages. Ex-
pedients for dealing with these
ranged from the placing of poten-
tial mothers in cold storage to the
production of food by microbiologi-
cal means.
According to the experts, the
year 2000 will find that cooking
will have ceased entirely to be a
creative art. Processed foods made
of wood pulp and sea mosses will
comprise the basic diet. Eating will
have been reduced from a social
and sensual function to a strictly
biological one.
By the end of the century, the
Darwinian law will have operated
to produce humans with two heads
and four arms. This modification, it
was felt, will be required if men
are to cope with the complications
of civilization.
As a means of holding the popu-
lation to , manageable proportions,
a minimum marriage age of 24 and
20 respectively for males and fe-
males will be enforced. There prob-
ably will be worldwide birth con-
trol, as well, with families limited
to two children.
It is not envisaged that illness'
will have been eradicated no mat-
ter what advances are made by
medicine in the interim. The ten-
dency of virus infections to adapt
themselves to new treatments
means that our successors will have
to be just as careful to keep their
feet dry as we.
Radio therapy will be the basis
of medical diagnosis and treatment
and hypnotism will enjoy wide
popularity as a pain remover.
Apparently 21st century genera-
tions will still be talking, but doing
little else, about the weather. If it
cannot be controlled, however, the
1 weather will at least have been
rendered avoidable.
Plastic Dome
Whole cities may be housed un-
der huge plastic domes designed to
keep out everything but sunlight.
Heat from the sun will be trapped,
stored and used as required to
warm homes.
Space stations, floating outside
the earth’s gravitational pull, will
provide bases for space explora-
tions and for concentrating the
sun’s energy for subsequent use on
earth.
To prepare citizens for their place
stronger because of her efforts. Her ction methods will
long and fruitful teaching career is Ration methods will
stewards who attend the nation’s
airline passengers has disapproved
serving liquor in flight.
That’s the consensus expressed in
a resolution by members of the
AFL Air Line Stewards and Stew-
ardessess Association at their bi-
ennial convention which ended
April 8.
Liquor is not served on most
United States airline flights, but
some lines provide regular bar
service on all flights, and drinks
are served on most transcontinental
and overseas flights.
Delegates representing some 1,700
stewardesses and about 800 pursers
and stewards in domestic and inter-
national airline service instructed
the union president, Rowland
Quinn of Chicago, to “discourage
the serving of liquor on commer-
cial air transports in the interest
of the safety of the flying public.”
not have been .
bad at all, as we Some will most particular be
had several Over drink and food.
hundred bush-
men of Britain, in re-
McKinney Examiner]Cotton Is Champion 2-Headed Humans, 1954 Executions
CLINT THOMPSON. 1865-1954 Income Producer Roofs Over
Albert Johnson of Princeton
And now another portrait which
the distillers who sponsor the full-
page ads in many magazines will
hardly seek: The Michigan man
found guilty of cruelty to children
and sentenced to prison. He re-
turned home, the court was told,
punched and choked his infant son
and pounded the child’s head on
the floor. The father was in a
drunken rage.—Christian Science
Monitor
out. Uncle Tom said that would be
allright, provided Dad put in a —I
heavy load of birdshot. He didn’t l hl _
want to kill the corn thief; just scar Inducted Into Service
him up.
By Captain Roy Hall
Somebody had been stealing corn,
and Uncle Tom, as Dad said, was
“all up in the air” about it. He
stormed around
that it would
I was amazed when I was permit-
ted to hide with Uncle Tom in the :
corn crib. Ninety-nine times out of •
a hundred my requests to engage in
his exploits were refused, but this
time both Mother and Dad said all
right. Uncle Tom complained a little :
as he always did when I wanted to
go with him anywhere, but he fin-
ally gave in with the admonition,
“Well you got to keep your dad-
blamed trap closed.” Meaning of
course, that I could not talk in the
crib.
When two or three days had gone
by, and no corn had been stolen, it
was decided that the time for the
corn stealing was at hand. Uncle
Tom and I went down before dark
and arranged the set-up. The corn
was stacked in the crib about eight
feet deep, with a sort of a well in
it near the door which was five or
six feet in diameter, in which there
was no corn. This had been re-
moved in feeding down to the
floor, and the sides of this well was
rather steep. We crawled in on top
of the corn and made ourselves as
comfortable as possible.
Uncle Tom squirmed around un-
til he lay on his stomach, the old
shotgun pointed over the edge of
the stacked corn and down toward
the door. I lay down on the other
side of the hole, in a position to
also see the door. It was early fall,
because I recall that we had not
yet killed hogs. There was no
moon, as I remember that I could
barely see the outline of the door.
A pleasant, dark night; ideally
suited for corn stealing. To coun-
teract the possibility that the thief
might climb in over the walls,
Uncle Tom had left the crib door
unlocked and unlatched. All the
corn stealer had to do was open the
door and reach in to the pile of
shucked corn two or three feet in-
side.
My heart pounded with excite-
ment and I could not remain still.
Every time I moved Uncle Tom
would hiss, “Gosh dang it. Keep
still over there.” Two hours or
more went by and nothing hap-
pened. My keyed-up tension wore
off, and I dropped off to sleep.
Almost instantly, it seemed, I was
wide awake, trembling with excite-
ment. Something was rattling the
chain on the crib door. I looked to-
ward Uncle Tom, and he appeared
to be asleep. Before I could take
any steps in waking him, the crib
door was swung violently open.
The next instant the huge, white
arm inserted itself and reached for
the shucked corn. The corn, dis-
turbed, rattled down on to the
floor, making a rumbling noise
that I knew would wake Uncle
Tom. But he did not move. Scared
within an inch of my life, I was
preparing to throw an ear of corn
at him when the world suddenly
dissolved into fire and thunder.
Uncle Tom had turned loose both
I barrels of the old 10-gauge muzzle
loader.
The tremendous flash of the gun
blinded me, and for a moment I
lost track of events. But Uncle
Tom was already sliding down the
corn, taking a wagon load of it with
him. “Got him!” he yelled.
Pandemonium was reighning out-
side. Instantly, following the shot-
gun blast, there came resounding
footfalls outside the door, as if a
heavy body was thrashing around
for a footing. Quickly these foot-
beats took off westward, followed
in a moment by a thundering crash
and the squeal of a pig. This squeal
turned into a series of loud “woofs”
that seemed to fade into the dis-
tance. Mother’s big peacock, roost-
ing on top of our house, let go with
a series of his “ee-yows,” that
could be heard five miles away.
Dad’s yell sounded suddenly from
the west side of the barn. “Tom,
you fool,” he shouted. “You have
and crumbs
We gave him. He found shelter
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SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Inside Collin County (1 year) $1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.) 75c
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.50
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) $1.00
PHONE 2-2332
. 7
The “small voice” which spoke to
her as she stood preparing to leap
from the Jacksboro. Highway Lake
Worth bridge into the water below
prevented the death of a 73-year-
old woman early Thursday morn-
ing.
Despondent over ill health, the
woman caught a bus to the bridge.
As she stood on the railing, the
voice spoke to her as she hesitated.
Bill Rotton, Community Funeral
Home ambulance driver, had just
gotten off work at 7:30 a.m. and
passed the woman as she stood on
the railing.
He coaxed her down and re-
assured her until Lake Officer O.
D. Carroll arrived.
Carroll took the woman to Peter
Smith Hospital. Later she was sent
home.
shot old Jack! He ran up tRereand
fell in the pig pen.”
No sir, Uncle Tom maintained.
He had shot a man’s arm stealing
corn. Dad had waited until mid-
night, then had started down to
see about us. He had just got to
the back of the barn, ready to call
to us when Uncle Tom fired.
Well, it turned out to be our old
white mule. We had overlooked the
fact that he could take the chain off
the nail and open the door him-
self. We found him in the cow shed,
but he was so wild we could not
ascertain if he were hurt much or
not. The fattening hogs were gone,
and we had to wait until the next
day to rebuild the rail pig pen and
get them back in again.
It evolved that Dad had loaded
the old gun with powdes and meat
skins. Uncle Tom swOTe he only
pulled one trigger, but both bar-
rels went off, as a muzzle-loader
will often do.' The old mule lost
all the hair off the top of his head
between his ears, but the skin was
not broken.
We never did find the real thief,
but Old Jack learned a lesson. We
could not even get him to go on
that side of the corn crib again, and
for a long time he would not eat
corn, ohly hay.
The Examiner is happy to re-
print below an editorial appearing
in the April 5 issue of the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram concerning a
former Collin County resident, Miss
Eula Hunter. Miss Hunter taught
for a number of years in the Mc-
Kinney schools. This writer was
fortunate enough to be in one of
her algebra classes. No one was
ever more loved and respected by
the pupils than Miss Eula.
The Hunter family is a pioneer
Collin County family.
The Star-Telegram had the fol-
lowing to say:
Once in a while—and it doesn’t
happen often enough—a teacher re-
ceives such an outpouring of trib-
ute that there is no mistaking the
esteem in which she, or he, is held.
Last week’s honor bestowed up-
on Miss Eula Hunter by the Fort
Worth Classroom Teachers Asso-
ciation for 1955” must have been
deserved, and amply deserved, for
the tributes that accompanied it
ran deep and rich in friendship,
gratitude, and the acknowledg-
ment of competence.
Miss Hunter, head of the mathe-
matics department at Arlington
Heights High School, received her
award at a dinner attended by an
impressive gathering of school of-
ficials, friends and teachers. She
was given two leather-bound vol-
umes containing messages of con-
gratulation and appreciation from
educators, associates, and former
pupils from across the nation.
Dr. Joy Elmer Morgan of Wash-
ington, D. C., president of the Sen-
ior Citizens of America and retired
editor of the Journal of the Na-
tional Education Association, au-
thor and lecturer, delivered the
principal address.
Miss Hunter, in short, received a
measure of the recognition and
thanks which her long and dis-
tinguished teaching career in the
Fort Worth public schools deserves.
She was the first president of the
Classroom Teachers Association, has
spent time and energy in the long
struggle to improve teaching stand-
ards and the welfare of the teach-
ing profession, has given unstinted-
ly to her teaching duties and to the
development of the young people
entrusted to her supervision, and
has stood as a fine example of the
attributes of knowledge, interest,
intellectual honesty, humor, high
aims and disciplined service which
combine to create teachers of ex-
cellence and accomplishment.
Miss Hunter has been described
as the sort of teacher who inspires
as she guides and encourages as
she helps, who teaches the frog to
hop and the lark to sing. Her pu-
pils have learned from her not only
the subject at hand, but character
and the essentials of citizenship it-
self. Long after they have left her
classes they have remembered her
as a friend and as a molding influ-
ence. As one of them, in the wis-
dom of maturity has expressed it,
our institutions of freedom are
dames spent in beauty shops. j _______o- ___ _ _________ ____ ____ __________ __ ____ _________ _______
--------o-------- । Motor vehicle registrations rose | that streets can be wider—an ef- seemed to be assured of a snarless
Experts on things hirsute say to 58-129,000 last year—and, to get fective answer to jay walkers. ' - - .
that the average blonde may have motorists and 1 " " ’ - ------
140,000 hairs in her head, the aver- back again, more
age brunette 108,000. { "
play a leading role, this time as a
mechanical aid to learning. Put into
a hynnotic trance, a pupil will be
receptive to “suggestions” that will
remain in his memory even after
he leaves the trance — a painless
way to remembering what oc-
curred in 1492.
Probably with more hope than
conviction, the experts predicted
that clothing designs would, by the
year 2000, have ceased to be dictat-
ed by that fickle thing called fash-
ion. The clothes of the futre, they
said, will be easily washable and
cut along functional, rather than
fanciful, lines.
Rocket Mail
Much attention was paid to the
problem of communications — a
problem which is expected to in-
crease in proportion to the growth
of populations.
Presumably postmen of the fu-
s
/
The following list of registrants
from Texas Local Board No. 22,
McKinney, Texas, were inducted
into the Armed Forces April 5,
1955:
James Compton Shanks, McKin-
ney.
Billy Max Bales, 407 Wood St.,
McKinney.
James Robert Graves, 1210 Ave-
nue K, Plano.
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State Fair Prepares
For Musicals
sings
A cheerful greeting to us every
day.
He is half-tame; he does not fly
away
When we go out-of-doors to talk to
him.
And lately, we have heard hm
roundly scold )
Birds that do not belong to our \
household.
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Mack Morgan was here from
Lowry Crossing Tuesday and left
$1.50 to renew for The Examiner
another year.
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Mrs. Joe Moore of Melissa or-
ders The Examiner sent to Mr. and
Mrs. John Ready who reside in
Normal, Illinois. They will appre-
ciate the home news.
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Twice in two months, burglars
broke into a crutch and cane plant
in Ohio, swiped 13 pairs of crutch-
es.
sends renewal to The Examiner for
anothre year.
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O. W. Stapp of Blue Ridge re-
news subscription to The Examin-
er for another year.
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Thompson, Anna & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1955, newspaper, April 21, 1955; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1457490/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.