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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1952
Page
4
Outdoor writer J. Fred Eder notes the off season for hunters and anglers. Duck and quail seasons are closed with light harvests predicted, while fireside planning and equipment maintenance grow in importance. He forecasts more people fishing in 1953, noting a national low catch in 1952 but an expected gradual rise in the coming years.
A pensive parade through 1952 highlights thrill moments across Daytona stock car races boxing in Miami and Philadelphia heavyweight title defense by Jersey Joe Walcott Ezzard Charles and Rocky Marciano Derby at Louisville The Open at Dallas and PGA drama Jim Turnesa victory Forest Hills National Tennis Championships Native Dancer in the East View Stakes World Series closings Pee Wee Reese Allie Reynolds and a Globe of sport from boxing to athletics to sailing and more
Two missing children are found safe after separate searches. Clara Buchanan, 4, returned to her parents after being taken from her bed on Christmas morning in what police suspect was a mistaken kidnapping. Linda Pitts, 3, slipped away from her grandmother downtown and was later placed in a Harris County foster home before returning home for Christmas. Billy Graham visited Gen. Mark Clark in Tokyo thanking the Army for its help on a Korea tour.
The article discusses risks of leading an unbid suit against a trump contract, noting that either declarer or dummy may hold the king. It recounts a social duplicate table where West opens diamonds and declarers counter with a different plan, highlighting how careful ruffing and suit management can affect trick outcomes.
West faces a trump lead and a heart or club option that risks a trick. Players discuss finesses and the impact of a diamond lead, noting that a low diamond lead cost a trick and a declarer’s success depended on throwing in and managing distribution. The dealer is West with both sides vulnerable.
Two Democratic foreign relations senators J William Fulbright and John Sparkman returned from overseas trips where they visited nations receiving U S military and economic aid. Sparkman said extending reciprocal trade is likely though future restrictions may be placed. The act lowers tariff barriers to boost world trade and may face early battles in the new Congress with GOP calls for protection. Fulbright warned against scrapping the program, praising its aid to recipient nations. Diplomats began year end calls on Pope Pius XII at the Vatican.
Two scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a San Diego naturalist escaped a rain of mud during a eruption on San Benedicto Island. They reported volcanic ash and pumice showered the area as the crater cone rose about 1,250 feet since last summer.
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