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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1954
Page
4
Washington signals a decision to intervene in Indo China with or without British support as the administration weighs timing. Night training and antired measures face hurdles in Congress while segregation policy and federal aid programs spark new legal questions and complications.
The Baytown school board discussed next year’s budget with Supt. George H. Gentry outlining sources and a $300 teacher raise while keeping taxes within the seven cent hike. The plan includes $42,000 from Lee College funds and a projected $2,947,000 total budget. Football tickets expand to 4200 more seats with options for Cedar Bayou and Memorial Stadium holders. new policy aims to ease sales for families and newcomers.
In a 20th floor Rockefeller Center office Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt discusses the World Veterans fund, its 22 member nations, and aims to aid rehabilitated veterans from Pakistan to the Gold Coast. He recalls wartime service in the South Pacific and Aleutians, then returns to Belmont Park where he clocks horses at dawn.
Mel Heimer recounts ex soldiers backing a peace mission funded by an 18 million veteran network. Mr V leads a campaign with $100000 to rehabilitate veterans, establish centers in Bombay and Sweden, and place disabled workers, while Alfred Crosby reflects on wealth and public perception.
Four friends discuss dating and independence during a lunch in New York. They reflect on casual relationships, travel, finances, and women’s behavior when not married, with a biblical citation at the end.
An Erich Brandeis interview reflects on loneliness, family, and children during holidays. Two fathers with grown or young children discuss past noise at home, empty homes now, and whether they would choose to have children again, both answering with a firm yes.
UP Staff Correspondent reports that sulfone drugs help arrest leprosy, with global efforts expanding, Burgess says funding colonies aid segregation and treatment. Burgess tours colonies, notes 3 to 5 million affected worldwide, India and Burma see rising cases, and stigma drops as Hansen's disease term gains traction. In U.S. 1,000 to 2,000 cases exist, with 400 patients at Carville leprosarium.
QuickT offers a mixed trivia page with questions about rivers, mythic eyes, meanings, elements, and England's oldest university. It recaps Happened Today events from 1633 to 1878, notes on the Taft Hartley Act, and birthday observances for notable figures.
The item notes that President Grover Cleveland was drafted for military service but paid a substitute to take his place. It also poses a trivia query about a London public building the King cannot enter, answering The House of Commons.
Washington columnist Drew Pearson argues the Army McCarthy hearings should curb political pull in the services. He cites cases of favoritism from mayors, congressmen, and top officers, including Schine’s pampered treatment, and urges equal draft treatment and removal of private privileges across the Army Navy and Air Force.
A prominent textile operator laments the sector is far from healthy and notes a dire October and November. A rival bids resilience, warning that the threat of a World War could worsen the outlook, including dangers from hydrogen bombs. The operator stubbornly counters that November wouldn’t be any better.
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