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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1972
Page
3
The Franklin Mint launches a nationwide art competition to design 30 commemorative medals for each state. Fifty concurrent state contests run Jan 2 to Mar 31 1972 with 10 prize levels totaling 50000 per state and a 10 percent royalty to sponsoring state commissions. First edition proofs arrive fall 1972.
A Euro Community report notes the fleurin remains the world’s most stable currency for Fleurop Interflora members. With 40,000 florists in 120 countries, payments are settled in fleurins across three regional clearing houses. Fleurop’s lineage traces to Max Huber, with Fleurop founded in Zurich in 1927 and last year handling 27 million orders totaling 850 million fleurins.
Secret White House papers warn Japan may drift from the U S nuclear shield and seek its own nuclear power. Eisaku Sato aims to strike a separate deal with China, resisting Nixon’s leverage on defense and trade. Kei Wakaizumi and Armin Meyer discuss a postwar Asia rethink and a joint communique to grant Tokyo greater latitude.
Scientists believe wheat was first cultivated in Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the region once called Mesopotamia, now Iraq. The discovery places the birth of cereal farming in this ancient cradle of civilization.
ERNEST CUNEO argues Nixon has largely appropriated the Democratic platform of 1968. He contends law and order, spending, and containment policies are echoed in current policy. He cites rising crime, rising expenditures, and a large projected deficit, plus shifts in China and dollar value. He concludes foreign policy remains ineffective and isolationism debate is moot.
The piece argues a worldwide shift from fragile alliances and impartial policy in Asia and the Middle East to a focus on domestic concerns. It asserts Senate and public reluctance to sacrifice for defense parity, predicting the 1972 vote will hinge on unemployment and the economy rather than war. It warns both parties prioritize elections over policy amid a deteriorating world situation.
Oswald and Jim Jacoby discuss a bridge hand where North opens to three spades as a limit raise and South plans game. A spade finesse fails and a diamond lead defeats the contract, but misled play allowed South to make with a heart lead by West. East's diamond regrouping collapses the defense. thoughtful play could have guarded against the diamond cluster.
Dear readers a healthy man dies of a heart attack prompting lay guidance. Dr Lawrence Lomb outlines steps to help before medical aid arrives including position, avoiding food, checking pulse, chest compressions at about 60 bpm, and mouth to mouth rescue with basic airway precautions.
A short devotional card cites I Corinthians 7 23 urging believers to value their freedom in Christ and not be enslaved by human masters.
The fragment lists personnel by department including Fred Hartman John Wadley Ann B Pritchett and Preston Pendergrass Jim Finley Wanda Orton serving in editorial and advertising roles. The text provides names and department headings with initials but no events or actions.
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