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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1968
Page
4
Editorial urges ongoing city cleanliness with duties shared by residents. It credits Baytown Chamber of Commerce efforts for year round attention, notes abandoned vehicles as a problem, and highlights community pride when visitors call the city a clean, well kept town.
President Johnson postpones his congressional speech on programs for urban and rural poverty, a move driven by budget-cut pressures and tax battles. Senate and House factions clash over funding for school lunch, Head Start, and open housing, with GOP critics urging restraint. The timing signals Congress may still back targeted aid despite pressure for cuts.
Editorial and advertising staff listings for The Baytown Sun Inc including editor Preston Pendergrass managing editor Infidta Pet and advertising district heads. Publication info notes afternoons Monday through Friday and Sundays, addresses, subscription rates, mail and carrier options, and rights to Associated Press material.
Preston Pendergrass reflects on the challenges of direct distance dialing as callers and operators adapt to new electronic systems. He recounts dialing AN 7-3452 to reach Anahuac, the missteps with area information, and the slow, noisy digital connection that finally succeeds, ending with a quip about living by machines.
On April 17, 1583 the Diet at Worms excommunicated Martin Luther after he refused to admit to charges of heresy. Other events include Benjamin Franklin's death in Philadelphia in 1790, Virginia's secession in 1861, Yugoslavia's surrender in 1841, and Jerrie Mock's 1964 solo around the world.
A Bible excerpt from Corinthians 6 10 cites that thieves covetous drunkards revilers and extortioners cannot inherit the kingdom of God The text presents a moral list emphasizing exclusion from divine inheritance and spiritual ethics in a period style notice
Washington Merry Go Round notes how television, dubbed the Almighty Eye, may have fueled racial unrest from Little Rock to Washington and Memphis. It urges a voluntary newsroom self censoring model and warns that without industry restraint the government could step in. The column also surveys Postmaster General Marvin Watson and California politics around Pat Brown, Hubert Humphrey, and Gene McCarthy.
The World Almanac notes the ironclad Tecumseh, the sole surviving early armored warship, is being salvaged from Mobile Bay. On August five eighteen sixty four it led wooden vessels under Admiral Farragut, likely struck a Confederate mine and sank in under a minute with 93 crew aboard.
The item notes that cwords were presented since the 1927 28 season by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It also describes the Gideons as an organization of traveling men who provide Bibles in hotel rooms.
Bridge column notes a play by Oswald and James Jacoby with North and South hands and specified leads and sequences in a bridge deal. The fragment references a lead and a dummy designation, indicating strategic play analysis.
Continual practice yields the Value Swiss bidding method for bridge. North player Bobby Goldman uses four clubs as an artificial invite to slam, while Billy Eisenberg responds five hearts to force six with second round spade control. The slam proves laid down and the name Swiss reflects artificial jumps to four clubs or four diamonds.
In a bridge bidding problem the auction starts with West North East South. South holds AKRS7E CRS GIS3 BBSF2 and decides to pass after North's 24 and South's 34&. Partner aims to shut East out. If partner were pursuing game, he would bid a different suit or jump to game. Today’s question asks what to bid after partner’s three diamonds rather than three spades. Answer tomorrow.
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