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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1955
Page
5
Contract Bridge by Josephine Culbertson analyzes slam bidding and opening leads. It presents a typical South dealer scenario, East West vulnerable, where misread bids and failure to count winners cost six heart contracts. The article stresses evaluating king positions and key aces to ensure twelve trick potential and safe opening leads through strong suits.
Senator Estes Kefauver warned that atomic and hydrogen weapons will push the front lines into major U.S. cities like New York and Washington. He said civilians would be the first victims as early as hours after war begins and that daily life could be completely altered. He spoke at the American Medical Association civil defense conference and criticized current federal civil defense spending as inadequate and the administration’s leadership as lacking.
A group wearing army uniforms killed 27 people in a rural community near Ibague Tolima, Colombia. The motive was unclear but suspected political. A separate note claims whale meat usage is high in Japan and parts of Europe, with one whale producing as much meat as 100 cattle.
Surgeon General Leonard Scheele told AMA that evidence from the Public Service supported a hypothesis that Cutter Laboratories vaccine contained infected virus. By May 31 there were 114 polio cases and five deaths among about 5.5 million vaccinated, with 69 cases in 409,000 Cutter doses, 61 percent of all cases and 76 percent of paralytic ones. Jonas Salk said he is working to improve Type 1 vaccine effectiveness as medical consensus seeks safety and potency.
The first Texas rail carload shipment of grapes will begin late this week. Robert Trautmann says 50 acres of Thompson seedless table grapes will be harvested within days for shipment from Laredo. The venture is new to the area and grape growing is limited in Texas.
Four of Illinois 102 counties had no fatal traffic accidents in 1954. Edwards, Madison, Pope and Putnam comprised the list, with three in southern Illinois and Putnam in the north central section.
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