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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1961
Page
4
A quirky collection asks when papal infallibility was adopted, defines terms like man on bees back and treneplon ous, and queries trapezoid sides. It notes Gen George Pattendv’s death from a European motor accident sixteen years ago today and offers a star-based word on rides or temperament, plus a caution about future risks and emotions in today’s child.
A forgotten Paris salon figure, born to a countess, gained fame for intimate letters. Her life intertwined with aging society figures and luminaries, but public knowledge lagged until her correspondence with M. Guibert was published revealing a hidden great man.
On the Gulf Coast residents of Port Lavaca Port O Connor and Palacios face a mixed Christmas after Hurricane Carla. Families live in government tents with limited belongings yet cling to small joys like a radio and a tree. Some victims plan to rebuild while struggling with uninsured losses and ongoing bills.
Crossword puzzle clues list across and down items with several garbled entries including Remain, Quahog, Anoint archaic, pronoun, buffalo lake, duck genus, paper fastener, old world wizard, storage area, and other fragmented terms suggesting a newspaper puzzle page with corrupted OCR.
A fragmented fragment hints at a French nobleman and physicist admitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1741 who became secretary, resisted offers from Frederick the Great and Catherine II, and lived in Platonic devotion to a woman who died in 1776. It notes his treatise on dynamics and cites other trivia from the era.
Washington AP reports a sharp drop in Texas wheat production due to acreage cuts under a 1962 quota program. Texas forecast at 61.54 million bushels from 3.62 million acres, down from last year. National winter wheat output next year slated at 944.133 million bushels, after 1.076 billion this season alongside a lower 10-year average. The note adds context on seed acreage and a casual line about African safari meat.
A speculative summary of Adolf Eichmann’s capture with claims about his family’s hiding names and an Israeli operation. The piece then critiques Ezra Taft Benson’s anti-Communist rhetoric, noting tensions with Mormon leaders David O. McKay, Henry D. Moyle, and Hugh B. Brown over political messages.
In a five clubs contract South wins after West ignores East’s plea to switch suits. West continues spades, East lacks cooperation. South ruffs, cashes diamonds, then trumps to endplay West. If West had shifted hearts at trick two, South would have gone down. South’s bold diamond rounds pave path to victory.
Washington column condemns Barry Goldwater in The New Times piece from the USSR urging a hard line against communism. It argues Goldwater advocates nuclear war and would rather win than seek peaceful settlement, framing him as a Cold War hawk. The author defends a firm policy while noting Soviet praise of anti communism as dangerous.
AP reports a Dixie Motel guest in Kennett Missouri loaded his car with room belongings including sheets pillow cases mattress pad desk thermostat bathroom fixtures a 17 inch television set and stand shower head drapes and drapery rods plus a tension cord from the air conditioner. The suspect left the air conditioner and the weather was near freezing.
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