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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1963
Page
4
Major crime in Texas rose 6.6 percent in 1962 over 1961, with auto theft leading gains. Director Homer Garrison Jr. notes the rate up 71 percent since 1935, citing one major crime every 214 minutes and about 216,650 offenses overall.
History shows growth in midwestern states with rapid Oklahoma and Kansas development, new cities advancing from early platted towns to large urban centers, plus rising industrial plants and energy output. A cautious investor is urged to consider Iowa Missouri Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas as strong growth regions. A separate note from San Antonio covers a U S district judge issuing an indeterminate marijuana sentence to Crespin Torres Lara, with custody details and parole considerations.
A convoluted line lists staff titles such as Editor Publisher Office Manager Advertising Department and National Manager. It notes second class matter at the Baytown Texas Post Office under the 1879 act, with a P O Box 28 address.
Barry Goldwater critiques the Kennedy administration’s Cuba policy and press briefings. He argues that the United States faces an extraordinary Soviet military deployment in Cuba and urges action to reduce the threat. He cites McCone and McNamara testimonies and calls the defense posture an unacceptable fixture in the Western Hemisphere. He ends with a biblical verse about knocking at the door.
An upper Park Avenue hospital staff recounts a pampered patient’s four week stay ending with a sharp 20 minute clearout. A Cosmopolitan piece cites a Paris journal’s daily Napoleon escape headlines from first exile to Fontainebleau.
Today's puzzle asks five questions: Who was Lady Emma Hamilton's lover, what does a habitual injury affect, which animal has a coffin bone, which country is Accra's capital, and which U.S. mountain system hosts its greatest glacial field.
Fidel Castro pledges to export revolution to every country in Latin America during a January 16 speech to the Congress of Women of the Americas, described by State Department officials as a declaration of war on the hemisphere. Reports detail Castro ties to Brazilian and Cuban communists, Venezuelan sabotage, and efforts to curb Castro influence with a policy plan.
Mrs. P B C Mellwain expresses gratitude to friends, San Jacinto Hospital staff, Rev Edwin Summers, Father Denis Kennedy, and neighbors for support during her husband P C Mellwain’s serious heart attack and her own family stress. She notes aid, prayers, cards, flowers, and meals, and that Baytown is her adopted home.
The article recalls Meyer Schleifer as declarer in five spades doubled. West led a heart, East won with the eight, and through signaling and inference Schleifer ruffed, then played a spade to win the ace, avoiding a king finesse. His play rested on bidding signals indicating West could not hold both kings, implying East held the king of spades.
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