Top 10 News Stories of 1959 Editorial Preview
The Sun surveys editors nationwide to select the year’s top stories. Prominent items include the East River airliner disaster, Geneva foreign ministers meeting, Castro’s Cuba, Khrushchev in the U.S., integration clashes in Virginia and Little Rock, Dulles death and Herter appointment, Soviet lunar rocket, Nixon’s Russia trip, St Lawrence Seaway opening, and Alaska and Hawaii statehood, among others.
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New York
East River
Geneva
Castro
Cuba
Khrushchev
U.S
Virginia
Little Rock
John Foster Dulles
Herter
Moon
Earl Long
Louisiana
Eisenhower
Europe
Asia
Congress
Mack Parker
Mississippi
Richard Nixon
Russia
China
Senate
Strauss
Taft-Hartley
St. Lawrence Seaway
Johanssen
Patterson
Steven Rockefeller
Anne Marie Rasmussen
Detroit
Debbie Reynolds
Eddie Fisher
Elizabeth Taylor
Alaska
Hawaii
Truman Eyes Senate Return If Symington Given Nomination
Former President Harry S Truman is linked to a potential Missouri Senate seat if Stuart Symington secures the Democratic nomination. Observers note Truman’s desire to return to the Senate, though he refuses to campaign for the seat, citing dignity. He has even proposed constitutional changes to allow former presidents to serve as non voting elder statesmen. The tax staff in Congress is studying the federal tax system to plug loopholes and broaden revenue, with potential rate cuts once reforms are enacted.
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Harry. Truman
Stuart Symington
Truman
Averell Harriman
Symington
United States Senate
Senate
Missouri
Sym
Ington
White House
House
Tne
Retired patrolman meets state officer over pie at town cafe
Claude Torbron, a former highway patrolman, chats with a blue clad officer at a cafe after stopping for coffee and pecan pie. The two discuss the plaza road signs, the toll road finish, and familiar routes near Youngville, Marlowe, and the Langly Road while sharing travel plans and dessert.
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Claude Torbron
Claude
Jerry Fisher
Diabetes Detection Drive Thanks Sun Readers
Ernestine Bright Luther and Ernestine Bright co chairmen of the Baytown Diabetes Lay Society express gratitude for Sun publicity and editorial support during their six month old group's diabetes detection drive. They commend doctors technicians and civic helpers for making the effort successful.
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Sun Bear
Baytown Diabetes Las Society
Ernestine Bright
Luther
Baytown
Diabetes Lay Society
Verse on riches quoted from 1 Timothy 6 10
A Bible verse cautions that love of money is the root of all evil and notes that coveting wealth leads some astray from faith and brings many sorrows. The passage underscores moral warning about wealth and spiritual peril.
Baytown Sun Staff and offices listed in Baytown Texas
The Baytown Sun publishes afternoons weekdays and Sundays from Pearce and Ashbel in Baytown Texas with editors Fred Hartman Preston Pendergrass and Bewah Mae Jackson listed among staff. Advertising department headed by Roger Amdall John Wadley Corrie Laughlin and national representation by Texas Newspaper Representatives Inc. Circulation managed by J T Bowling with monthly and yearly carrier rates noted. Post Office entry as second class matter under March 3 1870 act. member of Texas Daily Newspaper Association Texas Press Association and Houston.
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Baytown Sun, Inc
Pearce and Ashbel
Baytown
Texas
Roger Amdall
John Wadley
Corrie Laughlin
Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc
P.O. Box
J.T. Bowling
Congress
When Durante Mocked Paris and Craftsmans Pride
A humorous look at Jimmy Durante claiming Paris was never really Paris and a quip about his era. The piece contrasts modern shortcuts with Benjamin Franklin’s era when craftsmen took pride in precise work.
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Bowling Green
Wells-Fargo Company
Mexico
Green Copper Company
Try And Stop Me
In six months men stationed in the Antarctic wrote an average of 30 letters each, totaling over 60000. No one reportedly sent the line “Am having a fine time. Wish you were here!” A 105-year-old Harvard man in Conn voted for the first time, having studied politics. A 300-year-old set of false teeth was found in an Egyptian tomb, prompting a lighthearted mumble about mummies.
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Antarctic
Harvard
Conn
Sun's Grab Bag quiz and FOLK OF FAME items
A mixed page features a trivia grab bag with questions on Gen Sherman middle name Marco Polo travel record ownership of the first English Channel swimmer and Hebrew Hanukkah meaning. It also includes a “Folk of Fame” guessing game about tourism pioneers and a remembrance of Thomas Cook and Duncan Hines.
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Nanton Central Press
Gen
William Sherman
Marco Polo
Knowledgeable Bridge Hands in European Championship
In a Palermo European Championship match between Britain and Switzerland, Reese and Schapiro reached six diamonds after a Blackwood sequence, scoring 1,370 points to gain 10 match points. Meanwhile the Swiss pair, Besse and Reichenbach, failed a six notrump bid, allowing Britain to seize five quick tricks and swing the result to a 1,770 point gain before the match ended in a draw.
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Great Britain
Switzerland
Palermo
Italy
Reese
Schapiro
Britain
Dia
King
Besse
Reichenbach
Gerber
Blackwood
Irea Syndicate, Inc
Canital Merry-Go-Round- Pearson Looks Behind News
In Athens President Eisenhower plans talks with Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis, who has steered Greece to unprecedented prosperity and wary democracy. The interview covers Cold War concerns, Tito, Cyprus tensions, and Greek resilience against Soviet pressure as Athens seeks stability with U.S. aid and NATO commitments.
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Drew Pearson
du Beaders
Europe
Astadn
Ads Vanes
Caraminlis
Greece
United States
New York City
Caramantis
Eisenhower
Cone Munis
Russia
Khrushchev
Washington
Kremlin
Moscow
Tito
Yugoslavia
Djilas
Aegean
U. S.air Force Base
Athens
NATO
Cyprus
Turkey
Evanghelos Averett
New York
United Nations
Zorlu
Averoff
Caramanlis
Venizelos
Ike
Manolis Gleans
Arghi
Greec
Nagy
Hungary
Soda Fountain Hero Shapes Old New York Drugstore Culture
In a reminiscence from New York AP coverage, Hal Bovie chronicles the soda jerk era, detailing his dominance of the corner drugstore myth and its social rituals. The piece contrasts old fountain service with modern techs who rule tips, while noting the era’s flavors, smells, and hierarchies.
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South Pole
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Amundsen
Egypt
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Perigueux
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Henry Fielding
Tecumseh
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Gertrude Ederle
Thomas Cook
Duncan Hines
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