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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1963
Page
4
The editorial laments overdue books at Sterling Municipal Library and urges patrons to return them. It argues delays deprive readers, wastes funds, and strains community access, calling fines a reminder rather than punishment and urging embarrassed patrons to return items so others may read.
A Dutch exchange student Hermine van Geldin 18 led a Goodrich Michigan group of 40 teen travelers to visit a French warship Bouvet in Chicago. When the crew prepared to depart the gangplank closed, she spoke fluent French to plead for her classmates. The gesture prompted the crew to reopen access for the sightseeing group.
The Baytown Sun, Inc. publishes afternoons Monday through Friday and Sundays in Baytown Texas from Pearce and Ashbel. Office listed with P.O. Box 38, Baytown. Subscription rates shown as $145 per month and $17.40 per year. Names of staff and advertising department personnel are listed, along with postal and press association notes and rights statements.
Barry Goldwater argues Kennedy should cancel a Europe trip amid postwar racial tensions and political upheaval. He contends the president would lose prestige abroad and fail to advance integration, urging moral persuasion and domestic action instead. He cites Italy Britain Germany and Vatican instability as making a European visit ill advised. He asserts federal civil rights plans plus voluntary action are needed now.
A humorous anecdote recounts a father delaying a golf game to lecture his son on birds and bees. The exchange ends with a joke about a cat, a bee sting, and a misread cause of an aunt’s death. The tale pivots to a life insurance application where a son explains his father’s death as a platform collapse at a public function.
A mixed trivia page asks who named Vermonts Green Mountains and the Ohio governor, plus asks what quincidine is and the Quiller-Couch profession. It notes a birthday shoutout to Ralph Bellamy, Willard Nixon, and features biographical blurbs on actors and politicians from mid century press.
Washington report notes ongoing talks mediated by Jim Reynolds over featherbedding after Supreme Court ruling. Railroads claim $600 million annual savings. unions warn 65 000 to 80 000 jobs may vanish. Kennedy considers compulsory or voluntary arbitration as strike deadline nears.
PECOS AP A local farm review committee reaffirmed its decision reinstating a cotton acreage allotment for Don Vinson in Reeves County and cancelling a $12 208 45 penalty by the Agriculture Department The panel upheld its February ruling in a rehearing over whether Navarro County land sold to Mrs Cora Habbocks and leased back created a bona fide transfer of allotments The government contends the sale was not valid while Vinson’s lawyers present Navarro County deed records showing ownership by Mrs Habbocks since 1921
The article discusses a 1955 Britain vs United States bridge match and a 1953 case, examining how contract success depends on card distribution. It analyzes North South hands, bids to four spades, and how 3 2 spade splits or holdings like A Q J 9 by East affect the outcome, including a four hearts contract and a doubled 3 spades defense.
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