Fond Memory For PX Growth Aboard Military Service
Editorial traces the Army and Air Force Exchange Service from its 19th century roots to its 1960s evolution. It notes the shift to self service, the extensive store formats, and the primary mission of supplying necessities at military pay levels, with a secondary aim of funding welfare programs through dividends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army and Air Force Exchange Service
U.S. War Department
Post Exchange
Exchange Service
Army Exchange Service
Air Force
Army
Air Force Exchange Service
Army and
Yesteryear
Reflections on School Devotionals and Supreme Court Fate
A veteran writer laments the Supreme Court ruling that school prayers are unconstitutional arguing the framers intended religious freedom not bans on devotionals in classrooms. He recalls personal school days with Bible readings hymns and the Lord’s Prayer and questions judicial fallibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
God
United States
High Tribunal
Rugged Cross
Baytown Sun Publication Notes and Staff Snippet
Fragmentary Baytown Sun masthead shows editor publisher and staff titles with garbled entries. It lists offices at Pearce and Ashbel in Baytown Texas and references subscription rates of 17.40 per year. The text appears as OCR errors and partial lines about rights and republication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Sun, Inc
Pearce and Ashbe
Baytown
Texas
Pogo Perenne
Whebeeves
Seuss
OM Ete Ee
Steeeseses
Pequest
Mt Wee A
Baytown residents urge fair utility rate reform
Letters to the editor allege Baytown City Council laxity on utility rate increases. They call for uniform percentage hikes, greater public scrutiny of rate structures, and action against what they term unfair charges by monopolies. The exchange cites Texas policy gaps and calls for voter support to push back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
Texas
Austin
Polk County
Lubbock
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
West Texas
el Paso
Texans
Ray Heinrich
New Zealand to take 30 more Chinese orphans
Prime Minister Keith Holyoake said New Zealand will accept 30 additional Chinese orphans from Hong Kong, after already agreeing to take 20. He noted the country cannot resettle large groups of refugees but emphasized that children deserve aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auckland
New Zealand
Keith J. Holyoake
Hong Kong
Holyoake
Quick History Quiz From A Fragmented Page
A muddled bundle asks five trivia questions: count newborn fontanelles, identify Amapala’s country role, decipher a wordplay trio, date Industrial Workers of the World, and name the building where Napoleon jailed Pope Pius VII. Includes stray etymology and Civil War bio snippets about a Prussian royalist turned Mexican emperor aide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amapala
Pope Pius VII
Prussia
Ony
68Th New York Regiment
Maximilian
Mexico
Taller
Gravelotte
Sy NAN JONES Central Press Weller love and marriage amid war
The item recalls Sy Nan Jones and Central Press figure Weller who married in 1862, a Baltimore native two decades younger. Her wartime nursing fame rivaled by Florence Nightingale, she details in Ten Years of My Life while her husband writes in Diary of Mexico. She died in Germany in 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Florence Nightingale
Mexico
Germany
Colomne
Washington Report on McKay and U S aid in Cambodia
Washington front by Drew Pearson and Fulton Lewis Jr details an interview with David O. McKay in Salt Lake City and notes his defense of free discussion and Utah economy. The second item reports six Congressmen accusing U S foreign aid of enabling Sino-Soviet bloc projects in Cambodia, including hospital construction and a radio studies program with Chinese involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drew Pearson
Galt Lake City
David O. McKay
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Utah
Rocky Mountain States
McKay
The
Twelve Apostles of the
Mormon Church
Salt Lake City
Brigham Young
United States
University of Utah
Baldemar P. Read
Read
Prof. Read
Nigeria
Ogden
Huntsville
Henry Ford
Ford
Fulton Lewis JR
Washington
U.S
Cambodia
House
Subcommittee On Foreign Operations
Porter Hardy
D-Va
Brobers
U. S
Marlin F. Hass
Haas
Jerry Jack
Foreign Aid Agency
Or Haas
Foreign Service
Johns Hopkins School For Advanced Studies
Peterson
Hardy Subcommittee
Department of State
Yearbook uses Marx quote. students and teachers misidentify source
The Memphis school published a yearbook with Karl Marx’s line From each according to his abilities to each according to needs. Teachers and students showed ignorance of the quote and its source, with one pupil humorously claiming Karl Marx was a Marx Brothers member, highlighting concern over recognition of communist ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
Miss
Delta Democrat Times
Memphis
Karl Marx
Freedrom
Marx
Nestor
Defense Wins Rubber Bridge With Signals And Conventions
In a rubber bridge hand North South faced three no trump after West led spades. East rose with the ace and forced the queen, declarer finessed clubs and East signaled on hearts. West discarded hearts, misread a signal, and South made three no trump. Proper use of suit-direction signals and West East cooperation could have defeated the contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
West
East
Declarer
Bant-West
Also Mentioned on This Page
News Desk
Preston Pendergrass
John Wedler Cortie Leaghi In
Baytown Sun
Sentatives, Inc
Pont T of Congres
Mr. Hartman
U. S. Supreme Court
D. A. Wight
Carolina
the Sun
Sit
Lee College
H. A. Slaughter
TING
Mesopotamia
Euphrates
Tigris
Traq
Lord Creville
Frante
Mideng
Sy Nan Jones Central Press
Weller
National Health Service Act
Jean Cocteax
James French Author
Arnie Porteourrere
Ef Batchak
Washington Report
EAE
Perature
Melt Rt
B. Jay Becker
North
Wazz
North East South West
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!