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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1950
Page
4
A devotional note cites 1 Peter 2:21 urging believers that Christ suffered for them and left an example to follow his steps. The quotation emphasizes obedience and endurance in hardship as a model for daily life.
Baytown launches its first March of Dimes campaign of the year seeking support for the $52,000,000 national goal. Half stays local to fund Baytown programs, with the other half aiding National Foundation research. donations can be mailed to POLIO Baytown Texas. Also detailed is Dayton’s plan to widen Highway 90 into a four lane project costing 102,500 with city and state funds and private right of way.
A Sun Slants column profiles Jack White, San Antonio mayor and Chamber of Commerce figure, praising his mix of administration and advocacy. It contrasts his push for parks and slum clearance with support for a council-manager system. The piece also discusses Baytown Port Arthur annexation votes, arguing for citizen control over city boundary changes and cautioning against powerful councils shaping growth.
A historical note on Neiman Marcus in Dallas Texas detailing its rise from 1907, the 13 panic, and 1922 fire, its shift to high fashion and out of town mail orders. Marcus and Nie Mann Marcus emphasize honesty and integrity, training clerks to recommend suitable items, with examples of business ethics and customer service guiding profits. Weather outlook hints at a rainy 1950 and a poor summer for picnickers.
Advertising and office management details for The Baytown Sun include Pearce and Ashbel in Baytown Texas with notes on daily publication except Sundays and management roles.
A column reflects on weather talk, a Virginia trip, and a Weather Bureau building. A Boston AS A A S A S collection of proverbs from a science panel shows 569 percent deemed true among 153 sayings and lists several reliable and false weather maxims.
A fragmentary note tells of a 16 year old from the mountains of East Tennessee who intends to move to Knoxville to study law, then returns home four weeks later. The storekeeper asks about the law and the youth responds that law is not as advertised, while Chesterton and his musings loom in the background amid a stream of misread words and colorful imagery.
Henry McLesiore argues against Truman's health plan, warning it hurts liberty and that the strong must protect the weak. He laments funds to federal programs and calls for preserving American heritage and self reliance, urging readers to see the plan as endangering the United States.
The piece recalls the Gilbreth family antics in Cheaper by the Dozen. Pa Gilbreth experiments with shaving and speed ups, saves seconds but gashes himself, spanks a neighbor’s child, and endures noisy 12 children while a fire scares the neighbor, ending with the fire extinguished on its own.
In the northern Philippines, native Ifugeos allegedly killed two American professors from the University of the Philippines, Marvin Pittman and Robert J. Conklin, with seven-foot spears. Bodies found near Tokukan after three weeks of search. robbery suspected, three suspects confessed, three more hunted. Authorities to try suspects in Philippine courts.
The Milwaukee Journal questions James F Byrnes as a southern leader after Senator Russell Georgia defends welfare state ideas amid Truman era policy debates. Georgia Governor Talmadge adds to the contrasting view, suggesting southern sentiment toward welfare state plans remains complex and divided.
Five years ago TCDAT headlines reported a storm key Nazi defense, Arthur pushing 30 miles to Harris County mourned a promizet citizen Mrs Mellie Esrert who died at her home Elton Hill 18 charged gun ace, May Yvonne Buller celebrated her 23rd birthday. Mr and Mrs E H Bu celebrated birthday party. George B bought home of Mr and C F Blinika at Woest.
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