Publisher Probes thousands in House expense irregularities
Knight newspapers audited 25 000 congressional expense vouchers and found irregularities involving about a dozen House members including Rep Harris. He defends reporters and criticizes attempts to shift focus, noting the investigation originated in the Washington bureau and targets standards to curb abuses.
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Knight Newspapers
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Knight
Life Magazine
House
Harris
D-Ark
Akron
Ohio
Walter Pincus
Don Oberdorfer
Washington
Rep. Harris
Houston Mayor to Explain City Annexation Actions Monday
Harris News Roundup notes Houston Mayor Lewis Cutter will appear on Monday night television to explain past and present annexation actions. Sir Leslie Ford, Port of London general manager, compares safety enforcement as sturdier in London than on the Houston Ship Channel. Harris County Red Cross chapter to serve as a district hurricane watch HQ from Maine to Texas. Harris County general fund to gain about $75,000 in 1980 from interest on time deposits in court registries.
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Houston
Lewis Cutter
City of Houston
Leslie Ford
Port of London
London
Houston-Harris County
American Red Cross
Maine
Texas
Harris County General Fund
Mrs. Carroll 52 Dies At Her Baytown Home
Glyndon G. Carroll, 52, of 900 North Circle Drive Baytown, died Saturday morning at home after living in Baytown since 1951 Funeral arrangements by Paul A. Lee Funeral Home Survivors include husband E. J. Carroll Baytown a son Tommy G. Halbert Eagle Lake mother Mrs Lala Blakey Attoyac Tex two brothers J Bryant Fuller Lufkin Tom Fuller Attoyac and four grandchildren
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North Circle Drive
Baytown
Paul A. Lee
E. J. Carroll
Tommy G. Halbert
Eagle Lake
Lala Blakey
Attoyac
Tex
J. Bryant Fuller
Lufkin
Tom Fuller
Kimmey Elected Baytown Young Farmers Club President
Tommy Kimmey has been elected president of the newly organized Young Farmers Club in Baytown. Edd Arthur is vice president, Billy Statum secretary, Ray Anderson treasurer, Bobby Fulton reporter, and R. T. Kerr adviser.
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Tommy Kimmey
Young Farmers Club
Baytown
Edd Arthur
Ibill Statum
Ray Anderson
Bobby Fulton
R. T. Kerr
Blood Drive Sought By State Young Farmer Club
The State Young Farmer Club seeks donors for blood for Memorial Hospital in Jacinto. DEE L. BAKER a patient there has applied for state club membership. Officials invite men interested in agriculture to contact Memorial Hospital during the day.
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Dee L. Baker
San
Jacinto
Memorial Hospital
Dontors
Hos
Pital
Baytown FFA Invited to Enter Crosby Fair
Baytown Future Farmers of America are invited to show livestock and poultry at the 1960 Crosby Fair. R T Kerr of Robert E Lee High School announced the invitation, voted unanimously by the Crosby Fair Committee. Kerr urged local supporters to back the effort and noted plans to improve the Crosby rodeo this year.
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Baytown
Kerr
Crosby
Colonel Blames Lack of GOP Congressmen
Col Percy Thompson, 62, retired Army officer and grandfather to Eisenhower's grandchildren, told about 100 Republican women workers in Orlando that Eisenhower's progress depends on electing a Republican Congress and Senate as well as Republicans at state and local levels. He said the President lacks support in Congress.
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Orlando
Fla
Eisenhower
Col
Percy Thompson
Thompson
Florida
Congress
Senate
John Eisenhower
Ram injures woman in Bayway Drive attack
Mrs. Clyde Kattes is in San Jacinto Memorial Hospital recovering from a broken pelvis after a ram attacked her in her back yard at 5920 Bayway Drive while she prepared to feed the pet ram. Visitors may come to see her.
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Clyde Kattes
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Bayway Drive
Rigged Magic Ballot Exhibit Ends in Smoke and Gimmick
A magician uses a sleight of hand ballot routine to fix outcomes. Candidates are written on multiple sheets, but all sheets carry the same preferred name. Audiences call names, yet the revealed ballot always matches the magician’s chosen candidate, with the burned papers preventing verification. The act is presented as extra sensory perception, highlighting a political bias.
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Puzzlist
Pu Alist
Puzzlists
Nominea
New View Paper Spectacles Form and History
The article describes a vintage craft making three perspective eyepieces from black paper with slits and holes. It notes Eskimos carved wood versions to reduce snow glare, ivory precursors existed, and debates the invention timing with Salvino D Armatto and Marco Polo cited. It mentions Florence tomb inscription claiming 13th century origins and artists’ anachronistic glasses in earlier scenes.
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Atiff
Florence
Italy
Salvino D
China
Odd animal match puzzle from a vintage page
A scrambled game lists animals paired with regions to match, including jaguar chinchilla mongoose wallaby cheetah panda orangutan kodiak barberry ape chamois and more, with regions like Alaska Himalayas Australia Borneo Tasmania East Africa and others, asking to correctly align names to locations. The page presents a playful brain teaser from a historical newspaper section.
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Jaguar
Chinchilla
Wallabyee
HUNT AND PECK ART LESSON IVE AND LEARN MYSTERY DRAWING
A fragmented instructional prompt asks the reader to connect grid coordinates to complete a simple line drawing. The text hints at practicing stroke order from multiple start points and suggests adding color after the scene is finished.
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