Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 22, January 11, 1947 Page: Front Inside
31 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
7,exian a
Y- A
AIR ROPING DONE . . . . .
Dog Days-Dallas Times Herald
ran a story about paralyzed war
veteran Ed Phillips' dog Sad Sack
being ill with distemper and near
death, brought on an avalanche of
50 dogs offered the vet who took
the first one, a registered cocker
spaniel, later learned Sad Sack
probably would recover
Oven-size-Two Chicago de-
tectives received a 46-pound tur-
key from Keyes Carson of Cuero
as a reward for recovering arti-
cles stolen from his car, took one
look, decided it wouldn't go in
their ovens, gave it to a Chicago
orphanage whose children de-
cided it was the right size for
theirs.
Hot Mince-Dallas' city council
sidestepped the question of decid-
ing how mince pie should be
served in the city's reastaurants
when a petition was submitted
asking for an ordinance requiring
it to be served on a warm plate
just hot enough to be eaten without
burning the tongue.
Big Bank-When a quarter
rolled through a crack in the
floor last September, the Jac-
Freeman family got the idea,
used the crack for a piqqy bank,
at Christmastime sawed a hole
big enough to crawl through,
retrieved $85.74.
No Spilling--When T W Bates,
Southern Pacific roadmaster in
Edinburg, was transferred to Skid-
more, he bought a house there.
Then he was ordered back to
home-scarce Edinburg A Corpus
Christi moving firm jacked up his
house, took off down the road with
it, ferried it across the bay at Cor-
pus, delivered it in Edinburg 400
miles and five days later without
even spilling the milk in the ice
box.
Air Age Ranching-Raymond
Hicks, Bandera ranchman, took. . . Raymond Hicks Ties Up
to the air with Jimmie Fielder,
manager of the Flying L Ranch
at the plane's controls, roped a
calf from the plane (or the calf
walked into the loop), landed,
tied up the calf.
Rush-As if the usual Christmas
rush on 1 1/2-cent stamps wasn t
enough, a stamp collector discov-
ered an error on one stamp, started
a rush on the Dallas post office by
avid stamp collectors who bought
the sheets of stamps by the dozen.
Saved-A. R. Needham, Dal-
las, made a check of the Fort
Worth stockyards looking for his
stolen cow, Betsy, spotted the fa-
miliar bovine, called: "Betsy."
Betsy came a-running, missed
ending up in the slaughter
house.
Panther Man-T&P brakemanHenry F. Cooper, Fort Worth,
was washing his hands in the
baggage car of a westbound
train, suddenly discovered he
had guests - three uncaged
panthers-left the car without
rinsing the soap off his hands,
slammed the door in the panth-
ers' faces, kept the door shut
until their trainer, Noble Hami-
ter of Dallas, arrived from Dallas
to re-take them.
Big Package-Seven months ago
Dr H. W Pearce of Orange bought
Billy Jane Spivey's horse, Frontier
Chief, found the horse was at his
best when Billy Jane visited him,
gave him to Santa to return to his
former mistress.
Long Haul-Taxi driver George
West picked up three soldiers in
Washington, D C., asked their des-
tination, took them there was
greeted by his wife and three chil-
dren after he dropped his fares-
in San Antonio.
Another Pearl Harbor?--Tem-
ple citizens awoke to find a Jap-
anese suicide plane had struck
their main street. The plane was
on exhibition on a downtown
street, broke loose one night,
rolled two blocks, crashed into a
jewelry store.
High-kicker ---Police arrested a
175-pound woman in Dallas, had
to take their car to the garage after
she kicked out all the windows in
protest.ATN ..........Police Car to Garage
of
.1
A
*
I
I
i
f
AFTER THE KICKING
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Periodical.
Texas Week, Inc. Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 22, January 11, 1947, periodical, January 11, 1947; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth586545/m1/2/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .