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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 01, 1950

Page

4

Editorial Note On Salvation And Righteousness

The piece cites a biblical verse from Romans about belief and confession leading to salvation. It presents a moral reflection on faith and speech as it relates to righteousness.

Hosteling Offers Low Cost Youth Travel Across Nations

A reader newsletter extols hostel living as a budget friendly supervised program for youths aged 16 to 20. American Youth Hostels led by John D. Rockefeller III promotes simple living, self provision, and fraternal travel across the United States and 26 foreign countries with trips to New England Great Lakes Long Island Sound Colonial Virginia national parks and iconic areas like Grand Canyon Yellowstone.

America John D. Rockefeller American Youth Hostels East 39Th Street New York United States New England Great Lakes Long Island Sound Virginia National Parks High Sierras Grandyon Yellowstone National Park

Looking At Life By Erich Brandeis

The piece muses on politics as a daily life matter, not a distant arena. It cites editors and writers like Sokolsky and Lipmann, notes citizen power to seat and unseat officials, and contrasts Lincoln’s ideals with modern cynicism. Opinions of two prominent men, a Republican and a Democrat, illustrate disillusion with current governance.

Sokolsky Pegler Lipmenn Hie George Sokolsky E Songer Cauntry Abraham Lincoln America Lincoln

Baytown Sun Publisher History Note

The Baytown Sun traces its publishing base to The Daily Sun Company at Pearce and Ashbel in Baytown Texas with a 1878 post office press date. It notes Robert Matherne as publisher and marks the paper’s longstanding local record in Baytown and surrounding area.

Daily Sun Company Pearce and Ashbel Baytown Texas Robert Matherne Theytown

Quickknowledge Quiz From A Vintage Page

A collage of trivia and puzzle items asks: 1 Wagner and Mendelssohn as wedding marches. 2 color blindness in males. 3 heliograph as signaling device. 4 table salt. 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne as the author of The Scarlet Letter. Also includes biographical clues and historical dates.

Wilhelm Richard Wagner Felix Mendelssohn Nathaniel Hawthorne

Five Years Ago Headlines From The Time

Ameri cans tighten on Cologne and US 8S. Marines advance on Iwo. Resident returns from the Yalta Conference. Death note: Lt Icko Allman, 20, killed in a twin plane crash in England, reported by Bert Allman. Rev J C Guddleston, 83, dies after illness ending 1929 retirement. Clara Rhodes to marry Douglas S Gilbert on Feb 25. Private Baxter Titlefield Jr returns from New Orleans visit. Annie Alsbrook, 41, dies at home. Mr and Mrs Able Scott, recent grocery retirees, buy Marshali II Hall home.

Cologne Iwo Yalta Icko Allman England Bert Allman J. C. Guddleston C. E. Rhodes Clara Rhodes Douglas S. Gilbert C. F. Gilbert Baxter Titlefield, Jr New Orleans Annie Alsbrook Able Scott Marshali ii Hall

A Fancy Finesse Wins In Bridge Reading

A bridge problem discusses a fancy finesse by the declarer South as he analyzes opening leads and conventional signals. With careful deduction from the club and heart sequences, he routes two suits to nearing his contract and wins by exercising the reverse bid and spade play.

North South West

New Yorker Confesses to Laughing at Transit Advice

A quirky diary-style piece from a New Yorker recounts observations in Times Square and New Jersey, contrasts between New Yorkers and Texans over dining, and a humorous tale of a coal dealer claiming extenuating circumstances. It notes The Times water conservation box scores and includes notes from Bloomington Pantograph, St. Petersburg Times predictions, and a peek at newspaper economics and future plans in a busy weekend.

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Success Secrets By Elmer Wheeler on Letting Go of the Past

A compact insight uses sheep and old mistakes to warn that dragging past events harms present progress. It urges emotional release from old failures or reputations, noting you cannot live in yesterday and must start anew today.

Bo Peep

Paul Bunyan Camp Pranks and Pancake Ox Tale

A humorous North Woods tale recounts Paul Bunyan with Bate the ox whose size grows the barn on its back. The ox loves pancakes and once eats hotcakes and ingests a red hot cookstove ending his career. A railways tea cup study and a film star’s party plans are briefly noted.

Paul Bunyan North Woods Minnesota Bunyan Bate Paul

How Can They Call United States United

Henry McLemore notes a nation split by headlines and hysteria. The piece laments the United States being called united while states show deep divisions through coal shortages strikes FEPC resistance and political infighting reflected in newspaper headlines and radio chatter.

THE Baytown Sun United States United Henry McLemore United States of America Ingrid Dr. Lindstrom States of America

Across Down Word Puzzle Dossier Istana and More

A dense cryptic style puzzle list with many clues across and down covering diverse topics from geography to names. The text also includes a lengthy, historically tinged political op-ed fragment urging national unity, warning against strikes, and stressing preparedness and collective responsibility.

Morale and Tax Fights Over Movie Excis​e Tax

In a Beaumont Journal piece, proponents label the 20 percent federal tax on cinema as a morale issue, arguing films are a mass medium and education tool. Critics claim the tax imposes discrimination, raises admission prices, and harms industry, noting theater owners expect lower costs if the tax ends.

Congress Muan Cation Beaumont Jourmel

Quotations From Great-Near Great Men Challenge Ideologies

Quotes urge choosing between communistic enslavement and laissez faire fanaticism. Richard Welter Reuther of the CIO calls for a free society with initiative. Melville G. Penrose warns Communists aim to dominate Mexico to bring an iron curtain to the Rio Grande.

Ich Welter Reuther Automobile Workers of America CIO Mexico Rio Grande Melville G. Penrose Texas Good Neighbor Commission

Try And Stop Me by Morley Callaghan in Scotsman visit

Morley Callaghan tours Aonjugal with Scotsman passing Cathedral scene. Callaghan removes hat as a sign of respect while a Scotsman comments on Presbyterian etiquette. A humorous aside follows about cathedral misnaming and a billiards anecdote from Ralph Henry at Pirie and Scott.

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Liberty Youth Sene to Engineer School at Fort Belvoir

Liberty youth Willie E Morse of Liberty has completed basic training and been assigned to the engineers school at Fort Belvoir Virginia for a construction equipment course. Morse attended Horace Mary Junior High in Bayoun and played football and baseball. he is the son of Mr and Mrs Willie Morse.

Fort Ord Calif Wille E. Morse Zorme Liberty Engineers School F. Belvoir Virginia Morse Horace Mary Bayoun Willie Morse

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