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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1962
Page
6
During Mental Health Week the state highlights its 1st regional center in Wichita Falls opening April 1 to coordinate care for 900,000 Texans with emotional disorders. A 40 bed El Paso County unit provides local treatment, reducing miles traveled and costs while improving access and family involvement.
Washington reports Khrushchev appears quieter and more withdrawn amid mixed signals on nuclear talks and policy. An interview with Gardner Cowles and remarks by Walter Lippmann show a tentative shift from decisive brinkmanship toward caution, affecting Western expectations and potential successors.
Homer Stern announces sale of the Floyd County Mesperian, in publication since 1911. Sylvester McBeath of Sweetwater, an advertising man, will assume ownership next Tuesday. Steen, longtime Floyd County Democrat leader and former Panhandle Press Association president, steps down.
Babson Park columnist urges Civil Defense measures and self reliance as electricity may fail in a nuclear war. advice focuses on proper shelter, water supply via drilled well, coal storage, kerosene, lanterns, and stockpiling for two weeks. mentions CONELRAD and shifting to coal over gas or electricity.
A suburbanite ripped a Venetian blind, phoned a repair shop to collect it, and finished coffee before his wife answered a door with a caller for the blind. She gave him five dollars, thinking it a charity plea. A Yellowstone bears family watched tourists from a dump as a car stopped.
A scrambled grab bag questions readers on who wrote a diary title survival odds of a document that begins with In the Name of God Amen and when and where rice first grew in America. It also asks about a Germanic Robin Hood born in 1482 defending the emperor and dying after a siege, plus a query about a master of revels and a 1850 US contest with British mines.
A fragmentary portrait credits a man with shaping Protestantism alongside Luther, noting his scholarly roots, monastic upbringing, and provocative satires. The narrative hints at a close, if adversarial, bond with the reformer and a dramatic end at age 35.
Washington reports on Kennedy and MacMillan weighing a summit with Khrushchev and their doubts over publicizing the test ban. The piece notes anticipated further Soviet nuclear tests, Kennedy shoe and hat fashion comments, and a column on smoking in the Supreme Court alongside a filmic remark on The Intruder.
A reader questions misreported U S disarmament plans tied to Geneva talks. William C. Foster clarifies Kennedy era aims must be phased to three stages with verification, conditional on international cooperation, and rejects fixed nine year timelines.
Abilene man Bill Martin was named director of advertising services for the Texas Daily Newspaper Association. He will join May 1 to lead an expansion of sales and promotion for southwest regional advertisers. Martin previously led Foremost Dairies Abilene sales and was national advertising manager at Abilene Reporter-News for eight years. He is a Baylor University graduate.
Declarer on West hand from Thres Notramp wins Ace after North leads six spades. Plan attacks hearts first to force out the ace and disrupt Norths length, then manage diamonds. Use club ruff, enter dummy with trump, ruff more hearts, cross to diamonds, and cash A hearts while discarding spades. If hearts split 44, spade endplay yields two chances to make.
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