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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1964
Page
8
Letter from Andrew Spence criticizes the public school system for unequal access to training and opportunities. He urges equality in education funded by taxpayers and questions those who hoard training for favored students. He closes with a note about basketball withdrawals and bench seating.
U.S. Representative Joe Montoya introduces a bill to Congress to limit beef veal and mutton imports. The proposal sets a base period from 1958 to 1963, using the average of the previous five years to determine import limits following a recent state department agreement with Australia and New Zealand.
Temple Texas AP report honors Dr Claudia Potter born 1881 who served 41 years at Scott and White Hospital. She became Texas and nations early gas anesthesia pioneer, first Texas physician to use nitrous oxide, and held leadership in the Texas Anesthetists Association. She never married, valued the hospital as home, and survived an auto accident.
The United States and six European nations will begin a NATO led multi nationality ship experiment aboard the destroyer Biddle at Norfolk Virginia. Officers and enlisted men from West Germany Britain Greece the Netherlands and Turkey will live in mixed manning on the 4 500 ton Polaris equipped ship to test side by side living across cultures, with a view to a multinational force of future warships. Secretary McNamara announced the plan saying the project supports integration of allied forces and could influence future multilateral naval operations.
Pisa officials urge the Italian government to spend over 100 million dollars to tilt the Leaning Tower back slightly. The 14,000 ton monument could be jacked up six feet then eased onto a new cement base. The tower now leans about 11 feet from vertical and has worsened by a quarter inch in 45 years, risking collapse within a century per experts.
Denver AP report notes Charlotte Stone, eight, marks her second birthday on Saturday while her father Charles Stone, 48, observes his 32nd birthday. Both were born on February 29 in leap years.
Jacob Sr. Floyd Sr., a noted South Texas attorney from Alice, died in Methodist Hospital after a lung ailment at age 70. He was active in Jim Wells and Duval politics and opposed Duval County figure George B. Parr. His son Jacob Jr. was shot dead in 1951 in the Floyd driveway amid political conflict. A 1960 Mexican extradition attempt failed against a suspect. another man, Mario Sapez, received a 99 year sentence for murder and conspiracy.
Kansas City zoo announces African Lady, a female elephant at Swope Park Zoo, is due to give birth. Director Willian T. A. Cully notes no captive elephant birth on record yet and cites gestation of 1 to 22 months with a possible delivery between now and May. Lady A and Casey LA, named for the Athletics, are four-year-olds in 1955, with advice from Portland’s director Jack Marks and rare pairs in other cities.
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