Be Careful and Prevent Tragic Texas Holiday Deaths
Editorial urges safe driving during the Christmas to New Year period as Texas faces 112 predicted highway deaths and hundreds of injuries. It highlights thousands of frontline workers waiting to respond and calls drivers to obey laws, drive courteously, and avoid speeding or drunken driving to keep families from waiting for loved ones who may not arrive.
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Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
Department of Public Safety
Red Cross
Washington
Franco
Charles Patrick Clark
Barkley
Anatole Wilson
Wiliam Carney
New York Times
Kelly Nassar
United States
Europa
Near East
Moscow
Russia
Ike
The Automobile's Impact on City Growth and Transit
Economically Speaking examines how population, taxes, water, and especially schools shape city investment. It argues roads must widen, parking expand, and trucks move at night to prevent urban stagnation as autos revolutionize urban form, with transit, zoning, parks, and traffic engineering urged to preserve value and livability.
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Babson Park. Mass
Henry Ford
Communists Convene in New York Secrecy and Plans
The 17th national convention of the Communist Party in New York features talks on infiltrating labor, building mass contact networks, and expanding influence among workers, blacks, and Puerto Ricans. Delegates praise perceived openings from East-West talks while urging friendly engagement over confrontation.
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Communist Party
New York
Red
Coors
Labor Ms
United Fronts
Rank and File
Moscow
Try And Stop Me By Bennet Cerf Cartoon Aboard
Page features a humorous quote in a Raytown Baytown Sun style with a boss in a cutting room asking why workers are idle. A girl suggests the rubber heels hinder productivity, reflecting lighthearted newsroom humor from the era.
Indians sue government over fifteen million claim
A Michigan Chippewa and Ottawa group sues the U S government for fifteen million dollars in a case framed as a demand for redress. The text mixes modern financial figures with biblical verse and asks a speculative question on wampum value, then cites Matthew 1 27 as a separate quotation.
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Michigan
Sun's Grab Bag Test Your Knowledge Tre Answer Quick
Answers cover Latin Odysseus for Ulysses, chignon is a knot or rolls of hair, Thomas Paine wrote The Crisis, Baghdad is Iraq's capital, and The Bridge of San Luis Rey was written by Thornton Wilder. The column mixes trivia, birthdays, quotes, and literary notes with historical prompts.
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Odysseus
George Washington
Iraq
San Luis Rey
Know Your Bridge West dealer and five clubs contract
In a 1959 bridge analysis, West opens with spades, East jumps to four spades, South bids five clubs and makes the contract after a sequence of plays including a club finesse and careful avoidance of a heart finesse. South gains five clubs, with the outcome attributed to good play and safety in the lead strategy. Tea Syndicate, Inc.
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West North East South
West
East
North
South
Declarer
King
Danger Hand Tea Syndicate, Inc
Did You Know Body Contains About Five Quarts Of Blood
A typical adult man holds slightly more than five quarts of blood in the circulatory system. The body maintains about this volume, though exact amount varies with body size and health.
Daily Across 2 Barnyard Fowl and Other Clues
Puzzle clued list includes Barnyard fowl and French river items with multiple entries such as Washington's home and Inner Hebrides island. Down clues include Vallso and varied weights. The page blends cryptic style with incomplete OCR of a crossword grid.
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State
India
Missouri
Republic
Church Tay
Melodies
Washington
Hillside
Inner Hebrides Island
Signal
Newt
Stage
Inseed Life
Gement
MacMurray and Allen
Capital Merry-Go-Round Pearson Looks Behind News
DREW PEARSON analyzes President Eisenhower’s Madrid visit amid paradoxes with Franco of Spain. He notes base talks, lobbying in Washington, and the strategic value of Spanish air and naval facilities for U S and Soviet deterrence.
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Drew Pearson
Eisenhower
Willy Gobralissina Franco
Spain
Paris
Ike Eisenhower
USA
Francisco, Franco
United States
Roosevelt
Truman
Franco
Hisenhower
Europe
Jehovah's Witnesses
U. S
Sice
Madrid
Moscow
Lodge
Ike
Air Force
Navy
Morron
Seville
Torrejon
Zaragoza
Rola
el Ferrol
Catagena
Mail Agion NY Column Highlights Odd Facts
Westbrook Pealer Boyle opens with a New York AGion AP feature blending humorous observations and trivia. It cites income distributions, Whistler family trivia, lily recipes, eye injuries from toys, and global water use for crops. It notes church participation, rental fur services in Manhattan, and New York parking challenges.
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New York
U.S
Whistler
George Washington Whistler
China
Japan
Bernard Baruch
Chris
America
Manhattan
Miter Kanes
Harvard
Pitirim
Harris Sheriff Seeks Major Increase for 1960 Budget
Sheriff Kern requests a total 1960 budget of 1 566 222 up from 1989 levels to cover central office costs highway patrol jail operations and tunnel patrol. He seeks 615 150 for salaries 285 670 for patrols and two new staff plus six cars and trade ins. He aims for nine more employees and minor raises with 276 100 for jail operations and 99 999 for tunnel patrol.
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Buster) Kern
Sheriff's Department
S. B. Bruce
Washburn Tunnel
Kern
Highway Patrol
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Che Baytown Sun
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Baytown
Fred Harman
Preston Pendergrass
Beulah Mae Jackson
Roger Amdall
Soeee
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Corrie Laughlin
Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc, P, O, Box W8
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Texas Press
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By Bennet Cerf
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Bollingen
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Poetry
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Thomas Paine
Baghdad
Thornton Wilder
Ulysses
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Harriet
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Nortic
Pat Oaqite
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Morocco
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