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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1954
Page
8
Home columnist notes pad footing is a solid Gulf South foundation choice when paired with foundation walls or piers. It requires soil weight testing, accounts for settlement, and can pair with slab floors. Three main theories guide design: slab, footing, or continuous footing. amateurs should seek professional guidance.
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania on April 20 UPI Silas Kuhn, aged 108, celebrates his birthday Saturday and credits conservative pin-up pictures with keeping his outlook youthful. He says he enjoys pictures of beautiful girls as long as they are not risqué.
LAND O LAKES Wis April 30 UP This tiny village of 150 will be the smallest town in the country With daily airline service beginning May 15 North Central said there had been sufficient demand for daily service because of the excellent muskellunge fishing.
Beginning Saturday foreign entries drop as peso devaluation lowers interior Mexico entry permits from 3.01 to 2.08 dollars and multiples to 3.46. Work permits shrink to 29.88 and immigrant status tax falls to 71.20. Commercial visa invoices drop to 0.40 and signatures affidavits fees slide to 2.24. Porcelain mention appears in unrelated classified line.
Kenneth Smith and Walter Hatchek misrouted from Elkins toward Charleston while aiming for Charles Town. After realizing the error, they flew to Washington, rode a train to Harpers Ferry, met James E. B. King Jr, and regrouped to recover their car left in Charleston.
Louis Shoulders, former St. Louis detective who helped capture Greenlease kidnapper Carl Ball, asked for a new trial on perjury charges. He was convicted earlier this month for lying to a federal grand jury about the fate of the $600,000 ransom after Ball’s arrest in St. Louis last October.
Fort Worth reports a thief on Thursday damaged Earl C Bates by stealing his 14 by 8 foot refreshment stand, forcing Bates out of business. Local police investigate the incident and seek information leading to the suspect.
Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of Nationalist China's president, is in the United States for treatment of a recurring skin condition. She arrived at Travis Air Force Base and was taken to Franklin Hospital in San Francisco, where she previously received care in 1952. She appeared weary after the long flight from Wormasa and was greeted by Chinese Consul General T. K. Chang.
Toronto reports a cough syrup maker faced action for selling a remedy with 56.4 percent alcohol, far above Ontario whiskey at 40 percent. The case underscores regulatory scrutiny of medicinal alcohol levels.
Thief gipsed Newton Kansas April 30 a jewelry salesman from Oklahoma City offered 33000 reward for the return of 590 watches. Harris Burrow said the watches lack movements, making them unsellable. Used houses account for 75 percent of annual U S residential sales.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions George Wentinghouse and patients receiving something. It hints at developing a system of stopping but lacks clear facts, dates, places, or outcomes.
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