Texas 1965 Traffic Toll Hits New High
Editorials and features report a surge in 1965 Texas traffic fatalities under Col. Homer Garrison Jr. The preliminary Texas DPS estimate tops 3,018 deaths for 1965, with December recording a record 345 deaths in 276 accidents. Officials note reporting lags and warn final figures due March 15.
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Texas OKs Beauty Act for 1966 67 Highway Plan
Texas approves a $10.862 million Highway Beautification Program covering 321 projects across the state and sent to the Bureau of Public Roads for federal approval. The plan includes 122 interstate projects costing about $7.487 million and 199 ABC system projects costing about $3.376 million with 147 rest areas, 19 scenic overlooks, plantings on 133 projects, 64 right-of-way purchases, six right-of-way easements, 68 comfort stations, 111 water systems, and lighting on 60 projects.
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Texas
Texas Highway Commission
Bureau of Public Roads
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Congress
Leftist rally in support of William Epton sparks wide protest
Fulton Lewis reports that a global array of leftist intellectuals and activists have come to the defense of William Epton, the Harlem rioter convicted of criminal anarchy. Bertrand Russell, Jean Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir join protests. rallies are planned in New York with speakers from SDS, civil rights groups, and labor unions. Epton faces up to 12 years in prison, with sentencing set for January 27.
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Fulton Lewis JR
Washington
Willam Epton
Harlem
Epton
California
Eapion
Pro- Peking Progressive Labor Party
New York State
Eptor
Bertrand Russell
London
Russell
New York
Jean Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Paris
Bill Epton
Clint Hobson
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Stanley Aronowitz
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Jeff Gordon
Susan Schwartz
National Coordinating Committee
Viet Nam
James Melien
Allen Krebs
The
Free University of New York
Ossie Davis
Claude Brown
Mae Mallory
Students For A Democratic Society
Adam Pierce
SDS
William Epton
Los Angeles
F. Douglas Ferrer
Ucla Students Political Action Committee
Watts Defense Committee
Teachers’ Association of Los Angeles
Ter - Faith Religious Council
Viet Nam Dey Committee
Berkeley
Calif
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Bible Verse James 1 21 Engrafted Word Reads Souls
The passage urges readers to lay apart all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word which can save your souls. The verse emphasizes humility and receptivity to divine teaching for salvation.
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Henry Is Still Trying Henry Is Still Trying
Henry McLemore laments TV sports sameness and boredom with standard events. He recalls predicting new games like cricket and kite fighting, argues networks ignore engaging sports, and urges trying kite fighting to wake American audiences rather than the dull refresh of travelogue events.
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United States
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Johannesburg
Jim McKay
Upper Austria
Volta Dam in Ghana Aims to Power West Africa
The Volta Dam on the Volta River in Ghana is being dedicated with a capacity near one million kilowatts. It will supply Ghana Nigeria Togo Ivory Coast and Upper Volta while financing aids another Kaiser aluminum smelter. The project cost about 196 million dollars with UK and Ghana contributions and US support.
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Aswan
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West Africa
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Humphrey
Akosombo
Nigeria
Togo
Ivory Coast
Upper Volta
U.S
Sam
Kwame Nkrumah
Lincoln University
Pennsylvania
Nasser
United States
Aswan Dam
Russia
Nkrumah
Volta Dam
United Kingdom
Kaiser Aluminum
Reynolds Aluminum
Chad Calhoun
Kaiser
New York
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Baytown Sun Inc Staff and Publication Details
Baytown Sun Inc publishes afternoons Monday through Friday and Sundays from 3301 Memorial Drive Baytown Texas with post office box 308. Editor Beulah Mae Jackson Hartman is publisher and general manager. Subscription rates 1.60 per month 19.20 yearly by carrier. Nationally represented by Texas Newspaper Representatives Inc. Associated Press rights noted for republication.
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Paul Putman
Corrie Laughlin
Baytown
Texas
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Baytown Sun, Inc
Memorial Drive
PBO
Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc
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Classic authors and composers trivia asked
A quiz list queries a French Bible illustrator, a 19th century English art critic educator and reformer, a German contemporaneous with Napoleon, Mozart's The Magic Flute, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table author. AUN Atomic Energy Commission creation noted.
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Milton
Cervantes
Napoleon
Devastated Area and 1915 eruption noted in column
Ruth Ramsey reports on a desolate Devastated Area linked to a 1915 gas blast and mudslide that wiped out much of the forest, naming the spot of fame. The piece lists births of Frederick the Great and several cultural figures, plus a language note and a brief quiz.
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Bergen Is An Admitted Has Been Bergen Is An Admitted Has Been
Polly Bergen reflects on a career spanning night clubs films and TV while juggling fashion business oil and real estate ventures. She recalls childhood instability 27 states and 45 schools and remembers early jobs from radio to soda jerking as the drive behind her relentless pursuit of being herself.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Polly Bergen
Polly
Tennessee
Lew
Las Vegas
Miss Bergen
Baytonian Prone to Wrong-Number Calls
Mrs. Robert Kelley in Baytown vents over constant wrong numbers as her phone ends in 271, near a busy business at 27301. She asks callers to dial correctly, noting the disruption to her household and her hospitalized father.
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Robert Kelley
Baytown
Unusual Three Notrump Triumph in Riviera Masters Final
In the Riviera Masters International Bridge Tournament final in Las Vegas Edwin Kantar Marshall Miles Ron Van der Porten and Kai Larsen earned a dramatic North-South three notrump after a sharp series of plays. A risky diamond misdirection and a late spade maneuver sealed the ninth trick for South amid wary defense from West and East.
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Marshall Miles
Ron van der Porten
Kai Larsen
South
West
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