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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1965
Page
6
Officials say violators were ticketed after frequent speeding on Main Street and Alex Vewee. Police note widespread complaints as danger rose, with teens and adults blamed. Unmarked cars are debated, but steady enforcement is needed to curb reckless driving.
A string of fatal accidents has struck prominent country music figures, including Ira Louvin of the Louvin Brothers who died in a Missouri crash with four others. The era saw wrecks killing Hawkshaw Hawkins Patsy Cline Jack Anglin and others in the early sixties, followed by Jim Reeves death near Nashville and related tragedies across the genre.
Letter to The Sun editor warns Americans to scrutinize rhetoric about nuclear capacity and China. The writer argues decisions likely rest in the Kremlin and White House and urges vigilance amid Viet Nam and Sino threat, noting strategic military limits and the need for real actions over words.
The Baytown Sun reports its staff including editor James H Hale and Beulah Z Jackson with William Barth as publisher and general manager. Advertising and circulation departments are listed along with second class matter notice and Baytown mailing address.
In Washington a widening labor split over Vietnam policy pits AFL-CIO head George Meany against the United Auto Workers and Walter Reuther. Emil Mazey and A. Philip Randolph oppose intervention, urging conscientious refusal by some and criticizing U.S. aims, while other leaders back hard measures to repel aggression.
Hollywood reports show Wendell Holmes Jr. with nine Emmy nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for My Name is Barbra with Barbra Streisand’s debut special up for six awards. The 1964-65 Emmys are set for September 12 as NASC leaders comment on political fund raising and civil service concerns amid Democratic gala.
Washington reports the tobacco lobby rammed through the cigarette labeling bill in the House, blocking health warnings and ad regulation. Key figures include Rep. Walter Rogers and Rep. Oren Harris who led the effort, with critics fearing industry control over health messaging and TV ad revenue.
Henry McLeMore reports a nationwide survey showing dieting ranks just behind eating in popularity, with tens of millions on diets and thousands of named varieties. He recounts trying the Brain Diet from Imaginary Eating and details consuming vivid magazine images of food to curb appetite, ending with a note on small black dots appearing as tiger numbers on his chest.
A fragmented trivia feature lists questions on lifeboats and blood pressure history, US Weather Bureau inaugurations, Attila the Hun’s wives, future presidents, and the discoverer of blood pressure. It mixes birth entries and a Warsaw destruction note, with names like Alexander the Great and James Whale appearing in the Born Today section.
Central Press describes a Victory Square colonnade surviving Nazi occupation. The item tests readers with a column snippet and a classic quotation, followed by a trivia prompt asking for the spot’s name and a bottom line name.
South dealer vulnerable in a bridge problem shows trump promotion as West forces down South. West wins ace heart and signals, East discards, and South cannot prevent West from scoring the setting heart nine after a long sequence of diamonds and trumps.
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