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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1955
Page
4
The passage discusses post World War I naval thinking as submarines rose in attention. Naval authorities questioned battleship primacy, acknowledging U boat impact and reevaluating naval strategy amid victories at Coronel Falkland Islands and in the North Sea.
Patrol officer Muldoon finds head bookkeeper William Brown bound and gagged after a break in at the axle plant office. Brown recalls two men, one with a pistol and another stealing cash, wallet, watch, tie clasp and a ring. Muldoon disputes the story as a lie and clues follow. A separate riddle asks ages of Ralph and Mary given percent-based future ages.
A cryptic joke ponders a prisoner facing a 10 foot moat with two 9 foot 11 inch planks. He outsmarts the barrier by clever placement of the boards to reach the outer wall and escape, while the cryptic exchange hints at repeated words and hidden phrases in the report.
A backward path solving maze game sets the entrance at the diagram top and traces to home while avoiding blockers numbered along the way. If blocked by a number, the player loses that many points, then backtracks to resume toward home. The lowest score wins in multi person play, with ties resolved by even point totals.
Easy to follow guide for making double bubble pipes using paper tubes spools or straws. Includes a recipe for bubble solution from distilled water castile soap and glycerine and notes to use outdoors to avoid stains. Also lists several color and art books with brief descriptions and prices.
Puzzle prose presents word-fill blocks and a key word hunt among blocks and diagrams. It asks how many daily seatings for seven diplomats until all seating permutations exhaust, plus a hidden face puzzle of ten others in a night scene to color and recheck.
Complete drawing steps outline drawing a series of lines from dot 1 to 20 in order. When numbers appear beside a dot use that dot for both endpoints. After connecting lines color the final figure. Ensure consecutive dot connections form a continuous path.
A page presents a mixed Bible themed puzzle with numbered clues across and down including Old and New Testament references, geography, weights, animals, and common terms. The list includes factual queries on biblical places people and items, with several entries referencing specific verses such as Joshua 16:7 Mark 8:23 Luke 5:27 and Acts 18:1 along with scattered general clues.
A reader asks for a seven move plan to beat Black in a game described as Its Your Move by Millard Hopper. The note mentions White moves Grst up the board and hints at a tactic sequence with unclear notation and minor garbled phrasing.
Allen Rice, Baytown service station operator, was appointed to a Harris County committee to inform the public about a ten million ship channel bridge project. The bond issue, part of a bond election September 17, covers the project and a Lake Houston freeway link via Spencer Highway. Rice was named by County Commissioners W V Ramsey and Kyle Chapman.
Miss Janice Ellis of La Porte the former Miss Baytown enters the University of Houston next month and lines up events through October. She will compete as Queen of the Dickinson Gar Rodeo August 28 at the Dickinson Country club and attend a September 6 Homes of 56 banquet in Baytown. On October 8 and 9 she represents the La Porte Lions at the Bay City Rice festival in Baytown.
Justin Jenson a Horace Mann junior high teacher will teach a hobby photography course at Lee College this year in addition to his duties. The class covers cameras lenses shutter speeds light conditions developing and printing negatives. Sessions run 630 to 920 p.m. Mondays with registration through September 9 and classes starting September 12. This marks his first year teaching the course. Previously instructor was Johnny Baldwin a refinery worker.
Ralph Yarborough of Austin, twice-defeated gubernatorial candidate, will discuss the future of the Democratic party in Texas during a 2 p.m. Saturday meeting in Arlington. The event, at the First National Bank auditorium, is sponsored by the Arlington Democratic Committee led by John Walsh. Yarborough is floated as a possible gubernatorial candidate again and will kick off a campaign to spur poll tax buying.
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