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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1963
Page
4
An editorial discusses the U S balance of payments deficit and its wide influence on borrowing costs federal debt and international policy. It outlines actions like higher interest on short term loans and export import tensions, noting a persistent yearly deficit since 1958 and uncertain prospects for a solution.
Report highlights Caroline Kennedy's poem antics with President Kennedy and Peter Lawford's exasperating plane encounter. It moves to racketeering allegations from Joseph Valachi's confessions showing underworld control by Sicilian networks. Also notes Alan Abel’s hoax, his Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, and Abel's staged leadership with Buck Henry.
In the 1955 European championships, France and Great Britain battled in two tables. At one table Ghestin sacrificed seven spades to defeat a laydown grand slam, saving 1,100 points for France and preventing a 2,210 point swing. At the other, Pariides and Jais pursued seven spades and seven hearts, with all six hearts down, again saving 2,110 points for the North-South pairs through precise defense.
Washington. Senator Frank Lausche pressed Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the Soviet record of treaty violations as Rusk debated the partial nuclear test ban with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lausche cited multiple past Soviet breaches from 1939 to 1946 and pressed for clearer assurances on inspections and compliance.
Hollywood figures including Bob Hope Carroll Baker Jackie Gleason Joan Crawford and Ernest Borgnine discuss whether actors should engage in political activity urging caution and personal belief while noting risks of misrepresentation and party politics. A separate tax note warns that U S citizens must file a gift tax return if gifts exceed 3000 to any one person in a calendar year.
A fashionable Park Avenue scene centers on a young woman courted by several eligible men. She hosts each date at an exclusive apartment, then departs with a polite doorman who later kisses her and sends her to her real home by subway. The doorman is her father, revealing a startling twist in a dated social vignette.
A mixed reader page asks quick questions about William Holman Hunt and gold in Australia while noting a Krakatoa eruption on this date in 1283. It mentions Rapa Nui, its distance from Pitcairn, and legends of a lost continent, plus geological notes on the statues carved from volcanic tuff.
The garbled text mentions a quarry and statues or pillars about 15 feet high, an island first pattered in the 12th century by Polynesians from the Marquesas, white men discovering it in 1722, a population drop by smallpox in 1563, and scattered names including Christo her Isherweood, Gen. Maree D. Taylor, and Alex Kell ner. It ends with a jumble about marriage and a painter with Vatican City remarks.
Washington argues that new weapons do not erase old tyranny and freedom threats. The piece examines Soviet aims, peaceful coexistence rhetoric, and potential impacts of a nuclear test ban on U.S. and Soviet capabilities, citing Teller testimony and questions about technical advantages and timing since 1961.
SAN ANTONIO AP Seven decades after leaving Louisburg Kansas Frank McGrew learned he had a sister Nellie Jane Denny who he and Nellie had married in the same town for 22 years before her December death. McGrew later found his nephew in San Antonio who doubted the kinship until presented with a family photo. McGrew served in the army then worked for Fort Sam Houston engineers until retirement.
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The Baytown Sun announces staff positions and office details including editor and publisher General Manager Managing Editor Office Manager Advertising Department Retail Manager National Manager and Baytown, Texas circulation and post office registration notes with standard newspaper boilerplate about republication rights and association membership.
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