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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1967
Page
5
WAL BOYLE offers humorous late column guidance for 1961 youth. It blends prescriptive tips on sleep, routines, marriage, drink, work, finances, family, and self improvement, urging steady habits, cautious risk, modest living, reading, walking, and humor as life guidance.
Audrey Hepburn, preparing for Wait Until Dark, trained with the blind at Lausanne clinic and New York's Light House Institute. She learned to move and perform tasks by touch, including kitchen actions, to convincingly portray a blind person in the thriller.
Houston AP report says singer Eartha Kitt was released on a $25 bond after arrest in a downtown apartment building. Police charged her with failure to move on as ordered. A man collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack as he exited an elevator. Kitt said she would have helped if CPR had been attempted.
California Governor Ronald Reagan marked his 56th birthday with a birthday cake where 10 percent of the cake was missing. Officials joked that 10 percent of the candles were also missing as he faced proposed 10 percent budget cuts.
Denison Texas teacher Carol Lopez spends weekends jumping from airplanes with 105 jumps in 18 months. Her husband Donald, an electronics tech, has 240 jumps. They honeymooned in the sky and own a black jump suit. Carol has landed in trees barns fields and even faced shotgun warnings from a farmer. She says skydiving is relaxing and notes women panic less when experienced.
Oswald Gordon a 26 year old carpenter was found stabbed and shot after men questioned his political affiliation in South St Andrew Kingston. Police say riot officers raided Jamaica Labour Party offices arresting eight men including Clinton Thomas charged with the murder. Elections set February 21.
In Liberal Kansas Corky Wilson age 13 and Larry Williams age 15 both ate 24 pancakes to tie for the junior division title in the annual pancake eating contest. Williams won the deciding coin toss, mirroring a similar outcome for Corky last year when he tied at 21 cakes but lost on the coin flip.
In Bangkok the remaining Lord White Elephant Perishes after a short illness. The 20 month old Phra Savet Ratanak awee Lord White Poet Gem was kept in Chiang Mai, a northern Thai city and ancient Buddhist center. The royal herd is owned by the king and regarded as a good omen in this Buddhist nation.
Texan and European Finks call for global Fink unity this summer linking a Texas Fink Week city event to a simultaneous 1967 festival in Europe. Hans Fink in the Italian Alps invites Americans to join European kin for celebrations on June 26, while Texas Mayor Patricia Albright envisions worldwide Fink branches uniting for future gatherings.
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