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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1952
Page
6
Editorial excerpt emphasizes the love of God demonstrated by sending his only begotten Son so that humanity may live through Him, citing 1 John 4 9 to anchor the message. The piece presents a devotional reflection on divine love and salvation.
Several lawmakers push resolutions to halt 1952 53 deficit financing by forbidding spending beyond revenue. Past attempts under the 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act failed as Congress repeatedly ignored balanced budget aims. The piece notes repeated legislative budget failures and ends with a cultural aside about football season.
In Chicago John L Strauss Sohn and partner Hugh Gellarneau started a mail order perfume business with a few hundred dollars. They tested scents, chose markets, and despite a declining field, report profits in the first quarter. The story highlights careful planning and ambition as keys to success for ambitious youths.
An Irishman buys a large telescope and jokes he can hear his pig on a distant hill. Benjamin Franklin’s Paris dinner humor ends when the speeches praise him in French he missed. A country girl at a circus buys peanuts, finds goobers, and jokes about her father's barn full of them.
A Baytown column mixes local humor and personal notes. It recalls W F L White’s son at the University of Texas pursuing engineering or business, Joe Sloate’s Baytown ties and later career in Tulsa, and past Baytown hurricanes. It mentions Pat Pattison’s Lubbock coaching bonus and salary increase, Humble oil output in 1951, and local figures who donate to causes. The piece closes with light musings and a jab at expectations.
A humorous look at Joseph Stalin at 72. He rises at eleven, is massaged and dressed, then briefs with Molotov, writes directives, reads papers, and attends late meetings until early morning. The piece notes health concerns and contrasts smiling stories with grim reports, ending with a quip about a London marriage tale.
Henry McLemore writes a playful diary style column about planning a Paris trip. He shares itch for travel, quotes bank balance, and imagines staying in a modest hotel while maintaining a light tone about envy and anticipation. He muses on wine, language, and hopes readers would join him.
Senator Estes Kefauver rejects a novelty campaign button featuring coonskin and the phrase coonskin not mink. Governor Dewey assigns ex-New Deal columnist Jay Franklin to monitor Eisenhower headquarters amid tensions over Lodge and Duff remarks. Franklin will reportedly join Senator Irving Ives in Washington.
A charge d affaires George Abbott faced a diplomatic run around in Budapest while delivering the US protest over four imprisoned American airmen, amid public pressure and Moscow whispers that the US cannot protect its citizens. The piece also notes Congressmen Walter Norbald's awkward shopping episode in Arlington testing identification procedures after buying a Christmas gift.
The author recalls a Convair flight from Miami over Cuba to Havana and blends travel memoir with memories of schooling and career shifts. He notes science elective limits, a law clerkship seen through Cuban connections, and a hoped Caribbean romance now mirrored by sons’ football antics echoing past dreams in the Hotel Nacional setting.
A columnist disputes a New York tree count of 2,229,740, arguing the figure includes street debris and fake park trees. He cites Parks Department data, notes many trees are in playgrounds and along parkways, mocks ailanthus in Brooklyn and Riverside Drive, and jokes about fake park attendants and leafy façades.
A look back five years finds references to a budget proposal by Thomes W. Moore and local political figures in Bastown and Houston while a city office appointment and ad executive duties surface. A sergeant returns to Fort Wayne for duty, and a purse theft near downtown is noted withMs. Renee Massey’s car burgled on March 28.
A fragmented account describes a tourist stopping near a cabin in the mountains, a man waiting on him, and a Christmas morning by a lawn. Names and details are garbled, leaving only vague images of shots, weather, and a quiet roadside moment.
Fragmentary quotes discuss ongoing scandals and investigations. The text references John and anonymous speakers on a mission involving intelligence and political intrigue, with unclear context and missing details.
A Central Press feature titled Grab Bag Of Easy Knowledge offers trivia prompts across history and geography. It asks about iconic figures, wartime references, and birthplace trivia, highlighting birthdays and public notices while listing names like Harley afKil gore, Bernard de Voto, Eva LaGallienne, Max Carey, Connie Houston, and Lindell Houston.
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