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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1966
Page
4
Editorial notes the start of the Baytown Christmas shopping season with the Retail Trade Center open from Nov 25 through Christmas Eve. Merchants showcase lights, window displays, and merchandise in a shopper friendly atmosphere. Baytown promises bargains and local economic benefits from home owned stores.
FBI figures show crime up 10 percent in the first nine months of 1956 versus 1955 across the nation. Violent crimes rose 13 percent, with murders up 8 percent and robberies, rapes, and aggravated assaults each up 11 percent. Property crimes climbed about 10 percent, led by burglary, auto theft, and larceny. Suburban areas show strongest upward trend, while southern states report the largest increases in armed crime. Firearms are linked to over half of murders and a substantial share of aggravated assaults, with armed robbery rising 10 percent overall.
Transportation expert Benton H. Elliott of General Electric warned that U S airlines could lose up to 80 per cent of travelers on routes under 800 miles unless ground access to airports improves. He notes ground time now offsets faster air travel since 1948. He cites Boston Manhattan trips taking longer by ground than air and proposes solutions like helicopter buses, rail buses, exclusive lanes, or a monorail to revive air travel demand.
German system offers free exams fillings and dentures but with limits. Patients wait long often 15 minutes per free treatment while dentists handle many daily cases. Insurance based fees vary by plan and paperwork delays are common. No hygienists or regular cleanings, few specialists, and uneven care. In Pirmasens a city of 60,000 there is no resident orthodontist.
A Sun letter argues political candidates ignore a winning slogan to abolish modern mathematics. The writer claims Darwinian ideas justify the approach, warns thousands of students will miss diplomas, and blasts algebra and teaching as confusing and burdensome to parents and students.
Verse reference from Titus 2:13-4:? cited as biblical text. Translation emphasizes blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. No event or local person specified.
Henry McLemore recounts a daughter Megan who believes her father can perform incredible feats from mountain climbing to repairing a smashed doll head. The essay riffs on a child’s faith in a father’s powers and the chaos that belief can cause as Megan assigns a toothpick Mount Vernon project, pushing Daddy to the edge with countless toothpicks, glue, and a looming Mount Vernon that may never stand.
Washington scene covers Kansas Democratic Governor Robert Docking meeting federal officials to discuss taxes and grain scandals. It notes Docking’s lineage and Kansas’ grain-inspection troubles tied to Addington and others, with details on warehouse receipts, sorghum shortages, and the Elkhart elevator case.
A snapshot of midcentury trivia and political reform. It notes the two ocean Navy concept tied to FDR, then shifts to Kansas politics where Gov-elect Docking pledges to clean conflicts of interest, raise state funds interest, and audit bank deals amid a broader tax-cut push. It references Orville Freeman pork surpluses and elevator workers reacting to grain storage checks. The piece intertwines science trivia with Kansas governance, touching on Edison rubber from goldenrod and educational trivia.
As dealer with seven cards in hand including the spade suit and positions West North East South the auction shows a forcing sequence. With Mars7 Wa2 543 ResSe6 the correct opening bid is to pass now and wait for partner to act.
Those tiny specks you see disappearing over the horizon are campaign promises. The '67 cars are full of new gimmicks, even hi fi tapes, but not one has an automatic road map folder. In the housewives revolt against high prices, the gals are out to give trading stamps another licking.
The Baytown Sun Inc publishes afternoons Monday through Friday and Sundays at 1302 Memorial Drive Baytown Texas with post office box 90 77520. It lists editors publishers and department managers and notes classified as second class mail and Associated Press membership.
Puzzle style list of clues and partial answers from a period NEA feature with word definitions and word lengths, including hints like Huckleberry Finn friend aid and various short entries across subjects, with incomplete entries and typographic quirks.
The article discusses bridge play with false-card strategies by defenders and a Gerber convention use by North to elicit Souths aces. South rebids two aces, North settles six spades. South starts with 11 tricks, needing one more, but West opens hearts. East misplays the ten, East cant force Souths ace, and South executes a plan discarding spades while East discards opposite hearts as the hand unfolds.
In the case South failed to hold the king while West discarded a heart and two spades. South led two rounds of diamonds then entered dummy for a heart play and dumped the nine. If East had played the ten of hearts at trick one South would have tried the spade finesse and likely made the contract.
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