State taxes and costs drive Texas financial dilemma
Editorial analyzes Texas fiscal strain due to rising expenditures outpacing tax revenue. From 1948 to now Texas outlays grew 3.5 times while population rose 33 percent, with 95 percent spent on schools highways welfare hospitals and law enforcement. Calls for action in next session to fund education without harming standards.
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Texas
Texas Manufacturers Association
United States Department of Commerce
Price Daniel
Christmas Seals support TB fight in Harris County
The Houston Harris County TB Association asks readers to give to the Christmas Seal campaign. Funds aid local TB detection, treatment, public information, and research. One dollar yields 94 cents for Texas programs, with six cents supporting national medical research and larger projects.
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Houston
Harris County TB Association
Harris County
America
Texas
TB Association
Reflective Glow Tape Reduces Nighttime Car Collisions
University of Illinois engineers report first national study showing reflective license plates cut rear end collisions at night. Analysis of 1955 onward Minnesota data finds plates boost visibility of stalled vehicles and aid motorists with faulty or no taillights. Ten states have adopted the reflective plates for added highway safety.
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Engineering Experiment Station
University of Ilinois
Illinois
University Engineers
Department of Highways
Minnesota
Baytown Sun Masthead Fragment With Rates
Fragmentary Baytown Sun masthead lists editors and staff roles and a monthly mail rate of 1.4 dollars and yearly rate of 17.40 dollars. It includes address at Pearce and Ashbey Baytown Texas and standard parcel boilerplate referencing the Act of March 3 1879.
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Sternoons
Baytown Sun, Inc
Pearce and Ashbey
Baytown
Texas
Jaeee
Sevesnya
Peel
Crete
Cabinet Wheels Turn As Kennedy Tangles With HEW And NATO
Drew Pearson details Kennedy era maneuvering over cabinet posts. Ribicoff shifts toward HEW to dodge Supreme Court blocking civil rights cases, Williams eyed as secretary. Acheson consulted for NATO comeback, while Fulbright and Faubus loom in Arkansas politics. Colmer removal from the Rules Committee debated, then reversed amid southern electors’ pressure.
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Washington
Abe Ribicoff
Connecticut
Supreme Court
Senate
Jess
Mennen Willams
Michigan
Kennedy
Williamy
Williams
Ribicoff
Willams
HEW
Dean Acheson
NATO
Acams
Lyndon Johnson
Acheson
Dean
Adiat Stevenson
Adlai
Fathead
Florida
George Smathers
Bill Fulbright
Arkansas
Smathers
Orval Fautis
Fulbright
Faubus
Arkansan
Colmer
Capitol Hill
Dixie
Erat Smith
Charlie Halleck
Illinois
Wiennis
Mississippi
Rules Committee
New York Hospital Visitor Sees Safe Ward Charm
A Mt Sinai staff newcomer resembles Elizabeth Taylor as an approving supervisor warns the male convalescent ward is the most dangerous while patients near recovery. A Hollywood bride at her new home wonders if she and Edgar have prior marriage history in a moment of doubt.
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New York
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Elizabeth Taylor
Edgar
Three Confederate Generals Who Surrendered to Grant
A compact trivia item lists three Confederate generals who surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and General A. on the Civil War’s final campaigns. A quick quiz style note on history and a quotation from George Xtiot closes the page.
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Gen. A. & Grant
Liberia
Legacy of Leaders and Puzzling Trivia From Central Press
A fragmented front page feature lists historical prompts about Abraham Lincoln and a Czech leader, then shifts to a quiz of political figures, with hints toward Cradock era names and a nod to Jimmy Braddock and Otto Graham. The text mixes biographical clues with unrelated trivia and garbled OCR fragments.
Letters praise Baytown coverage of diabetes testing effort
Readers commend The Baytown Sun and Blue Beathard for publicizing a diabetes screening that reached 1,049 people and spurred others to seek check ups. Mrs. Ernestine Bright thanks the paper while addressing Houston reporters and encourages moving to Baytown for news access.
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Baytown Sun
Blue Beathard
Houston
Houston Papers
Baytown
Vote BEF December 8 9 at Baytown plant
A plant worker urges colleagues to vote for the Independent Federation BEF in December, citing union democracy, dues, and contract history. He contrasts OCAW rates at Baytown and Texas City, recalling earlier gains and urging support for Federation.
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Federation
Popular Am 2
Houston
OCAW
Texas City
Humble
Baytown
Liver use and rattlesnake distribution noted
Did You Know highlights that over 3 million pounds of animal livers are processed annually in the United States for medicines. It also states that the rattlesnake is the most widely distributed poisonous reptile across U.S. forests.
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Jack Knight
OCAW
Knight
United States
Joan Fontaine Sees Illness as Life’s Turning Point
Actress Joan Fontaine, recovering from a two year bout with energy draining illness, says a pause in life can clarify values. In a Plaza interview she reflects on growing up through illness, the lure of Hollywood, and how health renewed her perspective. She has 45 films, an Oscar for Suspicion, and three marriages, noting she spent years chasing fame.
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Joan Fontaine
Miss Fontaine
Plaza
Joan
Hollywood
Ambitious energy and market moves in 196 trend
The report notes Better n and Bradstreet's index rising to 16 808 95 with sales on the New Exchange at 0 versus 21y last week. It mentions a $70.1 award to Grumann Ain Corp for production, while a quoted interview discusses energy, vitality, and contentment as keys to personal achievement and social interaction.
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Grumann Ain Corp
Sginbrok
Obey My Voice and I Will Be Your God Verse Entry
A biblical verse from Jeremiah 7 23 urging obedience to God's commands so that people may prosper and God may be their guide and guide. The line emphasizes covenant relationship and divine instruction as a path to well being.
Know Your Bridge Improves Teamwork in Play
A bridge column illustrates affective teamwork with a hand where West leads the king of spades and East protects. The sequence shows how defenders gauge the declarer's distribution to counter efficiently, revealing a distribution of two hearts for South and a five-three spread in diamonds and spades.
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Declarer
East
West
South
Hetton West
Wee Byndieste, Inc
Daily Crossword Clues From A Fragmented Page
Fragmented crossword clues list many partial entries with numbers and garbled words. The readable items include references to dad seiza, unearthed, allowance for waste, drujist mixer, projecting endo, church, music note, old times, molybdenum synonym, cister, cereal gain, makes believer, blemish, Orinoco tributary, Bor and George, dance step, girl’s name, close to, fuss, Guido note, German ae, apex, mine, sour mud, ruin, skin, memo disorder readu, cooling device, decorata, whether.
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Dad
Seiza
Bor
George Eilot
Gry
Fuss
Guido
Bulgaria
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Polk
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Communist Party
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Prague
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Otto Graham
Robert E. Lee
Army of North Virginia
Simon Buckner
Ft. Donelson
John Pemberton
Vicksburg
William V. Tubman
Energesis
Mirmesota
Mrs. Ernestine Bright
Diabetes Lay Society
Robert E. Lee High School
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