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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1953
Page
6
Editorial uses a Reader's Digest example to show a billion dollars equals enormous long-term loss at $1,000 daily since 1952, illustrating the scale of government spending and urging economy and efficiency. The piece blends financial admonition with local Baytown items and assorted anecdotes about farming, cars, and coal research.
The piece argues that civil defense warnings overestimate danger and fail to scare the American public. It notes people ignore dire forecasts until disaster strikes and cites driving safety as an example of warning labels not reducing risk. It urges stronger civilian defense without creating panic.
In a Brandeis piece the author laments repeated holiday fatalities despite warnings from media outlets. He argues that only personal loss, such as a family member injured, awakens action, criticizing delayed reforms in government, rising costs, and taxes. The piece cites a French proverb about suffering teaching knowledge.
A Weatherford Texas artist Ponglns Chandor famed for painting Eleanor Roosevelt and Churchill portraits has died in London at age noted in papers. He settled in Weatherford twenty years ago and nurtured a garden near his home. He painted Churchill in RAF uniform with his own ribbon designs later confirmed by Churchill. The obituary recalls Chandor’s landmark commissions and international visits.
Leonard Lyons recalls Chandor commissioned to paint the official portrait of the Malta Big Three summit. The artist broke the story, drew front page notices via wire services, and later met Mrs. Churchill. He muses on visiting Weatherford and his Texas roots as he recalls Buckingham Palace moments and Fred Smith’s imagined presence.
A concise biblical verse appears stating that salvation is by grace through faith and not by human effort, highlighting that this gift comes from God as expressed in Ephesians chapter two verse three.
The Baytown Sun, Inc. publishes from Pearce and Ashbel Baytown Texas with Fred Hartman as editor and publisher. Advertising manager is Syd Gould and Beulah Mae Jackson oversees office management. Subscription prices are listed by carrier and mail with monthly and yearly options including armed services rates. Entries show second class matter status and post office designation in Baytown Texas.
Elmer Wheeler profiles Stanley Platt Lovell a prolific inventor who shifted from chemistry to business, founding Lovell Chemical Co and creating plastic dress forms for Singer and later developing bacterial and air water filters. The piece urges inventive thinking to boost profits and suggests pursuing better business methods today.
Washington January 19. A 21 year old New York soldier at Reed Hospital recalls 21 blood relatives he has never met. Wounded near Seoul October 1951 he received 15 pints of blood during eight days of care. He weighs 125 pounds and expects further operations and transfusions as he remains at Walter Reed.
Questions span Boston settlers governor Haw presidency Mexico Ruiz Curtines and the great Manchester newspaper. It includes biographical clues on figures like Nim Guess The Name born June 26 1893 Portland Ore and Gov Douglas McKay, Margaret Fuller.
Mexico City reports fifty thousand doses of foot and mouth disease vaccine shipped from Holland and Argentina for Anti-Aftosa use against cattle epidemics in Mexico. A ship captain recalling a Baytown visit recalled snow carried by Page and Susan Douglas of Wooster, who had never seen snow, aboard the Utica tanker in New York during a snowstorm. Two years ago a lone woman passenger on a Missouri Pacific interurban car birthed a seven pound eleven ounce son near Durham Yards, delaying the train and prompting Presbyterian Women’s Auxiliary planning.
Washington column reflects on Harry S Truman seven years after Roosevelt’s death. It notes his now firmer, bolder leadership and his mixed legacy including aid to Greece and Turkey, the Marshall Plan, NATO creation, and wartime atomic policy while criticizing his handling of Korea and other policies.
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