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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1950
Page
4
Bible verse opens this item and recalls Pasadena’s bid to shift Southern Pacific Lines north of the city. The note compares Pasadena to Beaumont where S P, Santa Fe, and other tracks bisect downtown. Authors hope Pasadena succeeds where Beaumont failed for decades.
A reader recalls a Houston lodging oddity where a man paid $1600 monthly for a $1000 per month hotel suite he never occupied for almost a year. The note questions wealth concentration and hints at calls for redistribution.
Open house in Baytown invites subscribers to visit the classified ad desk Thursday 5 to 7 PM while noting a Houston press conference and a luncheon with General George C. Marshall. The piece lauds Marshall as a top organizer and recalls his roles from WWI to Red Cross leadership and postwar diplomacy. Also covered are Baytown Refinery tours for the San Jacinto River Conservation and Reclamation District, highlighting water use for industry and the rice farming rebound in East Harris County.
Worth watching the new pilot clinic opened last week at Jeff Davis Hospital backed by Alcoholics Anonymous. Dr. Warren T Brown says the aim is to show something can be done for alcoholics and there is hope it will work.
In a 1950 broadcast reflection, Ed Wynn jokes about forgetting old errors from 1549 to 1947 and proposes starting anew with a clean slate. The piece then shifts to a discussion of Shadippur in 2006 B C, archaeology revealing 4000 year old Sumerian tablets showing advanced geometry and social ethics, including a code protecting widows and the assembly vs the king in early governance.
The Baytown Sun is published daily except Sunday by The Daily Sun Company located at Pearce and Ashbel in Baytown Texas. Robert Matherne and Beth Mae Jackson are listed in management and office roles.
J C Penney explains business success using a baseball analogy. The key idea is satisfying a need with integrity and industry plus creative imagination. He notes skeptics demand money but argues fundamentals remain essential in merchandising.
A humorous, garbled quotation piece mentions Horace Greeley and a queen visiting New York. The text riffs on leadership and responsibility with altered spellings and misquoted lines, referencing a metropolitan tour led by the mayor and a playful misstatements about duty.
Reviewers pan the Broadway play You're Telling Me by Willigin Rise noting mixed reception and fragile production status. Critics question pacing and staging while audiences consider the nostalgia of earlier theater.
The piece asks who composed the opera Porsy and Less and Countee Cullen’s identity, notes whether Germans captured Paris in World War I, and where Zulus live. It also asks if men were conscripted or crafted in the American Revolution, lists historical dates, and quotes a fragment from a Book of Ages praising an ideal man of integrity.
The passage profiles a famed baseball player and author active in world peace writing. Born Harvey in 1907, he starred at University of Illinois, joined the Cleveland Indians in 1929, led the AL in batting in 1938 and doubles in 1941 44 47, set fielding records for shortstops in 1944 and 1947, played multiple positions, and earned MVP honors and All Star selections in the late 1940s. He also authored works on war and peace and resides in New York.
A fragmented letter item cites a 1891 birth in Povena Ge Vervilea Romania for an author and lecturer educated at Geneva and Paris. It notes his 1936 start as a writer on literature and sociology and mentions books on bridge and language.
A bridge column discusses signaling and eavesdropping during play with an East dealer and vulnerable players. The letter to the editor urges support for polio prevention, critiques alcohol as a public health risk, and asks readers to vote on liquor legalization to avoid societal harm and fund medical research.
Texan Parade presents Aaron Burr as a pivotal yet controversial figure in early Texas history. The piece claims Burr influenced a treaty that ceded a 230 mile wide eastern Texas strip after the Louisiana Purchase era, altering boundary disputes with Spain and prompting speculation about empire building and war avoidance. It portrays Burr as a doomed villain and unlucky political actor who ended exile amid rumor and national scorn.
Five years ago Ameri cans reached a redacted frontline border on the heels of a fleeing Rus enter conflict. Poznan supersonic strikes hit Japanese air factories. Private Sullivan once missing in action is now reported prisoner of war in German news. In Mont Belvieu Corporal John BE on Saipan noted. Deputy Sheriff BR Busch of Le Porte dies at fifth pm after decades in Harris County service. Emma Rumley and Fed M Childers USN E were married January 4 at the Green’sir residence. Sergeant and Mrs E R Pharis announce birth of daughter Janice Lee Janice. Sargent Pharis stationed at Fort Sumner Army Air Field New Mexico.
A garbled account describes George Backer in wartime London venturing toward a square crater after an enormous land mine explosion. It mentions a Cockney onlooker, then shifts to a playwright Glenn Boles posing with his mother beside a convertible in front of a Colosseum, asking about learning to drive carefully.
A garbled OCR fragment discusses The Sun and its sale to the York World Telegram, noting editorial concerns and a Panera reference. It mentions flowers cultivated in Europe and a general sense of agreeable fumes, but lacks a coherent narrative or clear event.
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