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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1951
Page
3
A strange fraternity marks its 50th dinner with only eight of the 33 original members attending. The lone survivor toasts the departed 32 with a vintage wine bought for the last toast 50 years ago, a ritual known to the 23 who recall the tradition.
A garbled passage notes MOSBY BO and a correspondent discuss changing company rows, race issues, and techs. It mentions a Hartford social group, a keeper of wine, and members aged 73 to 81, including Dr Louis C Kingsbury.
Baytown Lodge 1629 won first place in the Texas Elks State Association ritual contest at the Amarillo convention. Houston Lodge 151 took second and Dellas Lodge third. Team members included R. C. Wishart, Ben D. Jones, Cal Hartrick, BD Saunders, Hench, and Wilton A. Roper with Bend memorials earning individual honors.
New York official emissary Bishop G Bramley Oxnam of New York will travel to Athens to represent 32,000,000 American church members in a two week Greek Orthodox rites festival. He leaves as president of the World Council of Churches and formerly attended Canterbury enthronement. His son Rev Dr Philip H Oxnam accompanies him. In Fort Worth a bank alarm misfired when two youngsters alarmed staff. In Lowell John McGlynn, 82, still rides a bike he bought in 1898.
A long feature on a bridge rubber ends with a quarrel over a misplay. The South player doubles and North supports, leading to a costly contract and heated questions about why East failed to follow a better line. Critics call it the contagion of bad bridge.
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