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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1969
Page
4
Climatologists report winters have grown harsher and summers milder since about 1950, reversing earlier warming. The National Geographic Society notes human-made pollutants drive both trends with carbon dioxide warming and dust and smoke cooling the planet.
Psychologists Durley and Latane report that witnesses in crowds are less likely to intervene in emergencies. In lab recreations of Kitty Genovese style events, 81 percent helped when alone versus 31 percent in groups of five. The finding suggests crowd presence signals not an emergency, but shared indifference.
The Penn Central trains start a passenger relations course for about 3000 on and off train staff focusing on courtesy and efficiency. The high speed New York to Washington service borrows airline practices including attentive dining and a polite, if sometimes overdone, grinning routine to attract more travelers.
Vocabulary puzzle clues cover multiple languages and topics from barmecide to Norse giants. Answers include culture terms, Greek regions, and common prefixes, with cross references to anatomy and geometry.
The Baytown Sun publication details list editors and staff roles including Fred Hartman, Bill Hartman, Beulah Mae Jackson, Paul Putman, and Preston Pendergrass. It states editorial, advertising, and managerial departments, postal registration as second class, and office address at 1301 Memorial Drive Baytown Texas 77520 with P O Box 90. Subscription rates and national representation are noted.
A roundup of remarks from women this week includes Mrs. Richard M. Nixon praising her husband's supporters and Luci Johnson Nugent lamenting family upheaval after the Nixon inauguration. Barbara Jo Rub in champions female riders challenging men, while Peggy Guggenheim reflects on wartime painting purchases. Mrs DeWitt Bruce notes the challenge of identifying her twins.
The Reader's Digest leads with 24 international editions in 12 languages plus the US home edition for a total monthly circulation of 17 percent million. Asteroids are minor planets orbiting the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. Primary wing feathers are the flight feathers growing on the hand of a bird.
AP analysis notes a small group of professors and CPAs argue that corporate net income statements ignore the value of human resources. Dr. R. Lee Brummer of the University of Michigan calls for measuring morale education loyalty and reputation as future asset value. Research, with R.G. Barry Corp and others, seeks dollar estimates for human resources despite reliability challenges.
A reader asks about heart palpitations and paroxysmal tachycardia. Medical guidance notes most skipped beats are harmless, with mild sedatives for tension. tachycardia attacks are frightening but usually not serious, heart rate 120 to 200 during episodes, caused by nervous system irritation, and manageable with Quinidine or propranolol under medical supervision.
In a medical Q A column the doctor explains heart block from atrial fibrillation where many atrial beats fail to reach the ventricle. A pacemaker can restore rhythm by electrical shocks or battery powered devices under the chest wall. Drugs and doctor guidance determine when pacing is needed and safe exercise levels. Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem is noted with Wise Men arriving in Jerusalem per Matthew 2:1.
Washington The Peru government, cut from Soviet relations, pleads for U S support to counter Moscow after seizing American oil assets and possibly copper firms. The April 9 deadline under the Hickenlooper Amendment threatens sugar quotas and aid cuts, while Peru’s ambassador Fernando Berkemeyer fights to patch rifts as U S Latin policy awaits a new assistant secretary. The National Commission on the Cause and Prevention of Violence reports a disturbing pattern of presidential assassination attempts and urges measures to raise the obstacles for would be killers, noting historical cases and social factors behind political violence.
In a bridge hand from a historical column Oswald Jacoby discusses an opening with West's hand: AQT42 in North and a balanced West holdings. The bidding shows 1% double and a pass sequence with South to act, highlighting standard overcall and response ideas.
In a bridge match, Jake Winkman’s student opens with a minor and doubles not, but South clinches four spades after North doubles and Winkman’s four hearts bid fails to stop South. South succeeds with a four spade contract whileNorth becomes declarer at four or five spades elsewhere. East and West stumble into hearts and clubs without catching the pivotal bid.
In a contract where bidding shows pass and four hearts lead to four notrump by partner over two no trump, evaluate options. The partner’s jump suggests aim for a game or slam, but with limited support and time pressure, consider pass or cautious raise. Tomorrow’s answer will reveal the recommended line.
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