Clown Town, Texas


In the Gainesville circus everybody from housewife to minister gets into the act.
By Joe Whitley
THE night nurse gasped as a circus clown burst into the emergency ward wheeling an unconscious man whose white satin tights were stained and rumpled.
"Just a moment and I'll get you a doctor," she said.
"I am a doctor," he snapped and started ministering to the patient.
The clown was Dr. S. M. Yarbrough, a leading Texas physician, and the injured man was Portis Sims, city park director. Both were performers with the Gainesville (Texas) Community Circus, an organization made up of judges, housewives.