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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1952
Page
4
A Burnet School article by Mrs R D Bark argues writing is a key skill taught progressively from first grade through secondary level. It outlines instruction methods, emphasis on form and speed, daily practice, and evaluation comparing writing to targeted learning rather than incidental activity.
Washington plans to open hearings in about two weeks on multi million dollar losses in the government grain shortage program. Chairman Allen J. Ellender said private warehousemen in the Southwest would get top priority. Brannan released a 21 page review blaming warehousemen, not offices, for about 65 million dollars in losses. He described alleged schemes to defraud the government by selling grain and replacing it later at a profit. The secretary defended department investigators and cited actions taken before other agencies investigated. He disputed charges of unconscionable profits by the Midwest Storage and Realty Co. through surplus Army building leases. He also noted President Roosevelt’s 1966 Panama trip.
Amarillo report says Hernan Dawson the first defendant in grain shortage scandals is to testify in his own defense in a federal trial. Dawson president of Plains Drain and Storage Co. faces charges of converting about 400000 dollars of grain stored in his bins by the Federal Commodity Credit Corp. He pleads not guilty. Defense argues Dawson handled grain per contract and violated no law while attempting to preserve stored wheat at elevators in Amarillo and at St Francis. Witnesses include Harry Solomon.
Royal Neighbors will hold rummages today and tomorrow in the former Houston Natural Gas building. The event is announced alongside city items including construction updates and local committee actions.
A former Navy flyer, James Richard Turner, 22, was indicted for plotting to place rails on a track to wreck a Santa Fe passenger train at Rogers Texas on New Year’s Eve. The derailment did not injure passengers. The jury also indicted E B Weinheimer 49 and his wife Thelma B on income tax evasion for underreporting income and taxes for 1945.
The government will decide by mid May whether to raise or lower markups on grocery items. The Office of Price Stabilization will start a survey March 30 to compare permitted markups with those used before the Kansas outbreak. Safeway Stores and other grocers say the share for large stores is too low, while others say it is too high.
The zany radio and television performer known for My Friend Firma faces a broken toe but keeps performing. Her on air antics and backstage anecdotes amuse audiences despite the injury.
Culpepper Furniture Company announces a Baytown program to give every newborn in 1952 a silver spoon through a Silver Spoon Certificate. Parents must redeem at Culpepper's, with hospital mailing address as a key source for newborn records, first notices to arrive by March, ending December 31. Great-Grandfather at 18 Brockton Mass. observes birthday in leap year.
The Maley family note the 26th birthday of twins Bobby Ray Pic Sanders with Bobby in California and Ray at Air Force School in Hawthorne while Billy Joe, wounded in Korea, is in Tokyo. Their father Clyde and mother Myrtle live in Santa Monica with Joyce Sanders.
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