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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1952
Page
6
A spread of editorials notes General Eisenhower’s press conference remarks show a forthright but evolving stance on key issues. Editors praise his candor while some worry about hedging on FEPC and McCarthyism as he campaigns for the GOP nomination.
A Bible verse references Isaiah 53 6 noting all people go astray and the Lord bears the iniquity of many. The line highlights collective human fault and substitutionary atonement central to Christian belief.
Looking At Life recalls Louis Effingham de Forest of New York City Union Club. He was a lawyer, genealogist fellow, president of Connecticut and London societies, and member of The Pilgrims. The piece also comments on a Washington trip and a Ukrainian-American woman in a government post, plus a Pocahontas reference to John Rolfe.
West Texas paperhanger and wife moved in 1917, sold their furniture for 35 dollars to a secondhand dealer. The idea sparked a business that grew into Lowry’s, now the largest furniture hardware and gift store in Texas with 31,400 square feet, valued around 225 thousand dollars and over 500 thousand dollars annual sales in 20 East Texas counties. The founder, L D Lowry Jr, credits simple work love of people and a bold idea as the formula for success.
The piece argues that not all plant-damaging insects have six legs and presents a humorous hypothetical about a midshield wiper salesman in the Sahara Desert to illustrate a tougher job.
Washington gossip notes Nancy Kefauver helps her husband Senate candidate by tirelessly traveling and mingling at events. Also covers Franklike critics of natural gas policy and FP chairman delay orchestrated by Maguson and gas lobby, plus overseas reaction to court decisions in steel strike and Ike administration entourage.
A Central Press feature mixes trivia and miscellany with segments like Watch Four Language INHERENT and Folks of Fame Guess The Name. It lists dates such as St Anthony feast days and notable births, plus a quiz about historians, philosophers, and world events, with various playful prompts and clues.
Washington bank vice president Frank W. Lee is noted for carrying nine union cards, active and honorary. A former machinist and naval plant worker, he joined unions from Sparrows Point in 1902 and now stands as the Washington Central Labor Union’s oldest cardholder. Lee, once a wandering laborer, settled in Washington and works daily in a green thumb yard, while remaining linked to labor through honorary bartender and bricklayer union memberships.
A passage notes an individual active in the Steamfitters Union and the Brotherhood of Carpenters who left the footing trade in 1923 to enter banking. He has served at City Bank for 29 years, highlighting a shift from trades to finance and implying broader trends in bank leadership as vice presidents gain organization.
Roseland Park swim pool gains support while St Louis transit workers reject pay hike and walk out. Mac McBride reads a paper and learns of a wildcat well on his abandoned San Augustine farm. Mrs. Saxon injured by a cow strike. Ace Thibodeaux spends $100 war bond gift. Bethel Cooper and Louis Burnett wed at the Farles home.
Fragmented clipping reports a tear bomb incident at a Johnnie Ray performance at the Paramount with a distraction during a dressing scene. It notes Phil Silvers collapsed from pills and a theater manager faced a sellout crowd amid the chaos.
Maurice Zolotow notes the Jack Benny saga where a New Jersey vaudeville offer prompts Benny to borrow a mangy Pekingese pair. On stage in a Jersey theater he ties the pups to scenery and narrates funny tales with his fiddle. The manager pays $25 but calls the act peculiar. Benny quips the dogs have tricks, but not these prices. A savant in Paris predicts civilization lasts 50,000 more years. An Academic member asks when it begins.
A compact collection of quotes on language and thought notes ideas as signs. Confucius and Samuel Johnson attributed lines emphasize clarity and the value of words guiding expression.
Mel Hal reports on an eccentric quest to find America’s humor in New York’s venues including the Museum of American Comedy led by Bill Treadnet, and notes a National Association of Gagwriters presence on Madison Avenue. He riffs on Danielle Lamar’s Parisian career, then shifts to The Cloisters and Metropolitan Museum of Art alarms about mandrake seeds and hemlock, warning visitors of mythical dangers.
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