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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1962
Page
10
AP dispatch from Houston reports two gunmen entered the Piliot supermarket. Al Wright, the boss’s assistant, thought the manager’s calls odd and alerted police. One suspect was captured after a police dog tracked him to an apartment. the other fled but was not immediately charged.
Archaeologist Michael Green found mummified fleas in cloth at the Henry VIII palace site in Whitehall. The discovery accompanies evidence of a court dressmaker’s rooms with thimbles pins feather and cloth scraps suggesting royal wardrobe activity.
Budapest presses report a government committee formed in 1961 to regulate the fate of about 130000 roaming Roma in Hungary. Of roughly 200000 Gypsies in the country, two thirds remain nomadic as officials seek settlement plans through state action and social programs.
British actress Avis Scott, once deemed too sexy by the BBC, travels between New York and Hollywood to revive her serious acting career. She underwent cosmetic work to appear in Thriller and endured hostile UK headlines that sidelined her stage work. She cites Equity rules and press scrutiny as barriers before returning to American television and British theatre ambitions.
New York hosts over 200 fashion writers as spring shows from the New York couture group highlight high waistlines and elevated prices. Designers move toward fitted silhouettes and sensual fabrics, signaling a shift from extreme haute couture to garments with real rack appeal for everyday wear.
AP report from Hell Michigan describes a snowy scene where the road to the hospital iced over and mothers in the couture group, including Mrs John Aid and neighbors, delivered a nine pound son nine miles away. The account notes dresses and gowns with varied hemlines while Christine Aid and the newborn are said to be doing well.
A Bureau of Mines test of the fire flood method, begun in underground formations near Titusville, aims to improve secondary production by burning a controlled underground fire to heat and mobilize remaining oil. Data are preliminary and no commercial use is confirmed yet. If successful, the process may move to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and other states. meanwhile stripper wells rose 41.7 million barrels in 1960 due to more wells categorized as strippers.
Charles Tooth, 57, of St. Petersburg and Hamilton, Ontario, shot what is believed to be the only ace by a blind golfer on a 167 yard hole at Pasadena Golf Course in Florida. Tooth, founder and former president of the Canadian Blind Golf Association, was a two time champion in 1945-46.
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