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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1952
Page
7
Advice on shaping a comfortable outdoor living area with terraces, wind screens, and foliage. Recommends evergreen plant screens, wind-scoop walls, and low edging for formal or informal beds, plus materials for durable outdoor floors and good drainage for summer entertaining.
In northeast Mississippi the once celebrated great state of Tishomingo faded to fragments forming three counties Tishomingo Alcorn and Prentiss. Jacinto once the county seat and a prosperous city with a red brick courthouse now has under 100 residents and is nearly off the map.
A Senate Banking and Currency committee study based on a survey of 20 cities finds public housing progressing slowly with high costs and racial friction in northern areas. It cites 1,125 applications for over 580,000 units, but only 105,000 begun and 33,500 completed, urging continued federal aid and addressing site and income ceiling challenges. The report covers cities from Boston to Little Rock and urges extensions for wartime housing disposals and repairs where viable.
Texas construction awards for the first quarter of 1952 totaled $238,225,620 versus $297,916,078 in early 1951, yet March shattered records with $125,507,073 and fourteen million-dollar jobs. Non-residential and residential segments rose, while industrial and large homes lagged. Human hair grows from half to three quarters of an inch monthly.
In a San Francisco preview, two college professors propose replacing the WWI era phonetic alphabet with a Latin-root system. Airlines like Pan American discuss adoption while pilots learn new callsigns such as Alfa for A and Lima for L, with Roger fading out.
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