Are you a lemon or a peach on the party line?

This is the last page of the July 1950 telephone directory for Kingsville, Texas . The Southwestern Bell Telelphone Company lists the do's and don'ts for the polite use of party line telephone service , which was still widespread in the United States at that point. You're a LEMON if, among other things, you refuse to give up the line during an emergency (and you could have been criminally charged,…