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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1966
Page
3
The economy remains on a rising path though at a slower pace in early 1966. Auto sales, housing starts, and durable goods orders show mixed signals with defense bookings and backlog rising, while consumer spending reached a high but slower gain. GDP advanced to a fresh quarterly high at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $732 billion in Q2.
New York AP reports chickens lay fewer eggs due to heat boosting wholesale egg prices by up to seven cents per dozen. Heat pushes food costs higher for housewives as wholesale prices rise. Crop yields shift with shriveled beans and peaches, plums, and apples forecast pricier. Beef, broilers, and turkey feature in weekly supermarket ads while tomatoes offset weather. Corn harvest expected up 59 percent lowers corn prices. Milk costs rise while coffee prices drop.
In a satirical piece from New York the writer argues youth is overrated and praises middle age. The essay outlines practical benefits like mortgage progress, less babysitting, fewer wartime obligations, steadier finances, and calmer ambitions. It mocks youthful hype and extols acceptance of limits and contentment with a settled life.
An editor’s note explains Medicare coverage for post hospital care. Patients may receive up to 100 daily home visits by a skilled technician, as extended facility care is limited. The piece also covers Social Security monthly benefits estimates for a couple over 65, widow benefits age rules, and filing timelines for survivors.
The sun’s advancing daylight triggers biological signals the pituitary gland processes. Light entering the eye informs birds of seasonal change, prompting migration. Woodpeckers also rely on daylight cues as they chisel tree trunks for nesting sites.
Editor’s note by Mrs. Evgenia Lee explains the Head Start program now in operation in the school district. Begun June 12, six weeks in, with two to go, it serves children entering first grade this fall at DeZavala Anson Jones and Harlem centers. Twelve teachers and aides plus volunteers guide daily activities from breakfast at 8 to a balanced mix of quiet and active work, meals, rest, and art.
Berlin hosts the sixth German American Folk Festival July 23 to August 7 with a staged Alamo battle. Guenter Henning, 25, a Berliner and second lieutenant, will portray Lt. Col. William B. Travis, leading a brigade in period costumes as a replica Alamo is built in San Antonio. Participants include brigade members and dependents portraying defenders of the Alamo. Henning, a West Point graduate, grew up in Germany and the United States, and speaks of Travis’s ambitious rise from artillery to cavalry.
At Ft Bragg North Carolina a dog is placed under anaesthetic in a ballistics chamber then shot in the thigh by a rifle instructor. The dog undergoes a three hour operation and weeks of recovery before a second surgery amputates a leg and death follows. The program aims to train medics to save human lives in combat zones such as Vietnam. Lt Col Copperedge explains the purpose and Lt Col Barton Urbauer describes the medic’s five roles and duties.
A dense list of court records and deeds details numerous land transfers and interests. Entries include Amelia Snelling and James Lewis Jr with several parcels, estate transactions involving the Leslie Bertman and Hettye Parr estates, and multiple deeds to and from individuals and the United States government, covering hundreds of acres and various subdivisions and sur.
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