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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1961
Page
2
The piece surveys rising youth among national leaders, noting Kennedy aides and governors with averages in mid thirties to forties. It profiles figures like McNamara 44, Sorensen 32, and Dole 36, and traces careers from local to national posts, suggesting a political shift toward younger leadership.
A Chevy glamor wagon touring Buck Turner Chevrolet Co travels Wednesday and Thursday. The mobile auto beauty shop carries 100 pounds of new materials and is staffed by a trained instructor led by Henry Cowan to teach quality reconditioning of used cars. It showcases rust removers chrome cleaners synthetic brightwork and upholstery paints among other items.
National Scout Week highlights the Lee Robertson family of 624 E Lobit. Lee Sr. is scoutmaster and both sons Lee Jr. and James will earn Eagle Scout at a March 7 Court of Honor at Grace Methodist Church. The brothers attend Cedar Bayou Junior High. Lee is in ninth grade and James in eighth. They earned science fair gold medals, joined the Order of the Arrow, played Little League, enjoy hunting and fishing, and James received a city key last year from Mayor Red Pruett for outstanding science fair work.
In Philadelphia the Frey enterprise faces antitrust scrutiny over price fixing and market division practices. Twenty-nine electrical equipment makers and 45 officials have pleaded guilty or are charged, with fines totaling over $900,000 and several executives jailed. The case probes whether such schemes extend beyond big industries to smaller firms and other sectors, raising questions about the reach of free enterprise.
A Cambria County Court ruled that Joseph Piurkowsky, 45, of Johnstown, who has only partial use of his arms, should be entitled to a driver's license. His license had been suspended by the Pennsylvania secretary of revenue after a rule requiring a physical exam for licensees. Piurkowsky has driven for 23 years without accidents or violations and uses no special equipment in his vehicles.
A weather battered radar platform off the New Jersey coast near Otis Field Massachusetts may have given only a brief warning before crashing. The $27 million tower, an ultra powerful radar installation, collapsed after a raging storm forced the crew to abandon ship.
A huge steel triangular tower known as Old Shakey rests 180 feet underwater after a plunge that killed 28 Air Force and civilian personnel. One body in a life jacket was found. another was sighted then lost. Twenty five others remain missing as the Cape Cod Air Base conducts recovery efforts amid stormy seas and high waves.
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