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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 28, 1964

Page

4

Editorials It Depends On Who's Selling

Editorials compare U S policy toward Cuba and Romania stressing how allies and foes trade with Communist states. George Ball argues locomotives to Cuba could hit Castro harder than buses, while Romania's rubber plant sale shows risk in double standards.

Johnson George Ball U.S Cuba Fidel Castro United States Romania Castro Russia Ball Roanoke Latin America Moscow Dean Rusk Yugoslavia Spain Morocco J. W. Fulbright D-Ark Senate

Everywhere By HAL BOYLE

New York AP columnist HAL BOYLE riffs on everyday life and quirky observations about dandelions, flight humor, Shakespeare praise, office habits, aging, telecasts, and the shift from nine to platoon baseball, linking ordinary quirks to broader social notes.

New York Chicago Charles de Gaulle William Shakespeare

Baytown Sun Staff and Publication Details

Baytown Sun details editor names general office roles and publishing info including address Pearce and Ashbel Baytown Texas and circulation rates. The notice lists staff positions and advertising department placeholders with mixed garbled text and branding references to The Baytown Sun Inc. and Associated Press rights.

The Baytown Sun, Inc Pearce and Ashbel Baytown Texas Texas Newspapers Representatives, Inc Associated Press Tapita Texas Daly Newspaper Toene Pree

CAREFUL FIDEL FULTON LEWIS SPEAKS

Washington columnist Fulton Lewis profiles Herbert Matthews, a New York Times reporter who helped shape perceptions of Fidel Castro. The piece notes Matthews highlighted Castro as a foe to tyranny, influenced U.S. policy, and later consulted on Cuban affairs. Matthews travels to Havana and publishes Cuba, a hard hitting account.

Fulton Lewis JR Washington Herbert Matthews Matthews New York Times Fidel Castro The Times Castro Fulgencio Batista Oriente Earl E. T. Smith U.S Cuba Abraham Munists Havana State Department Abba Schwartz Wfacmillan

Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf

The piece recalls Earl Carroll during Prohibition hosting a party where he offered a chorus girl fifty dollars to bathe for guests. Gendarmes interrupted, Carroll never paid, and mothers of other chorus girls worried not about the bath but the lack of payment. A separate anecdote mentions Will Jones claiming a theater visit in the Middle East where a man asked a woman to remove her jug.

Earl Carroll Carroll Will Jones Middle East

Wild Bull of the Pampas and other trivia

Today’s grab bag presents a quiz on famous figures and facts. It asks who the Wild Bull of the Pampas was, which banking house handled U.S. Steel’s finances, a great Carthaginian general and his son, who Eugene Sandow was, and the meaning of caveat emptor, plus notes on notable births and the Monroe era region’s flood control and power development.

Pampas U.S. Steel Corp Eugene Sandow England James Monroe Lionel Barrymore Wright Robert Anderson Congress

Reforestation Efforts and Hoover Dams Economy

Long reading passage outlines river basin projects and Hoover Dams costs. It notes over three-quarters of a billion dollars invested, about 18 billion kilowatt hours produced yearly, and fringe benefits for farmers including fertilizers, demonstration farms, cover crops, and a reforestation program. The piece frames these as essential for future prosperity.

Breakfast talk on nuclear arms and brinkmanship at White House

A partial transcript depicts leaders debating Khrushchev era policies and nuclear material cuts. President Kennedy and President Johnson are discussed with caution about the nuclear arms race and the dangers of brinkmanship while a Bible verse closes the report.

House Senate GOP Charlie Halecte Charlie Texas Charlie Halleck Khrushchev

Red China Gets Pravda Lashing

The 13th anniversary front page editorial in Pravda accuses Red China of contempt toward peace and subsuming the peace movement into its own agenda. It labels Chinese representatives as subordinating peaceful aims to Western enemies of peace, portraying them as undermining unity among peace champions.

Jmoscow Pravda Peace Champions Peking

Letters to the Baytown Mayor on Housing Board

A Baytown reader criticizes the housing board and calls for reform while praising Mayor Liggett. Another letter writer, Dr C L Liggett, receives a suggestion to appoint Burt Davidson Roger Read and C L Thorpe to the Housing Board, offering numerous references and support for their qualifications.

C. L. Liggett Baytown Tex City Hall Woods Burt J. Davison J. Rodger- Read C.L. Thorpe

Know Your Bridge By B. Jay Becker

A bridge column discusses a four spades contract where West leads clubs and South must navigate finesses. The analysis covers avoiding loss when East holds key kings, drawing trumps, and the importance of guarding against wrong finesses. The reader is guided through a hypothetical defense to maximize the chances of making the contract.

North West West Declarer East Souis Atic Queen of Hearts King of Diamonds South

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