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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1952
Page
4
In Baytown the Baytown Cedar Bayou consolidation sparks public focus on the vital role of public schools. The piece urges participation in Public Schools Week Open House events, highlighting schools as centers of community life and democracy funded by tax dollars.
A Bible verse from Matthew 7 24 to 27 emphasizes listening to Jesus sayings and acting on them. It likens a person who does so to a wise man who builds his house on a rock.
A reader laments talkative travelers and favors map based wandering. He recalls Florida California Wyoming and Lubbock glimpses and imagines June departures to Wyoming. The piece blends travel fantasies with pop culture moments from Eisenhower era events and a humorous wish to tour the country via maps and imagination.
A schoolboy drawing asks the teacher how many faucets dots a cow has. Houston newspaperman Morris Frank quips about a football player ruled out as illegible for precipitation. A guest at a southern city hotel beside railroad tracks asks the night clerk what time the motel gets to St Louis.
William Ritt weighs President Truman and Senator Taft as very good friends yet notes Robert A. on the wrong side of the fence. The piece touches polls, family money, home design, radio ads, and the American motorist’s bill. It cites facts about gas costs and a curious mispronunciation in Russia regarding Kremlin versus Moscow.
In Baytown Sun notes Hartman Hartman and Spa S Gould are listed with Beulah and Jackso names. Warren Edwards credited as managing editor. Subscription rates show $12 yearly and $2 per month, with additional monthly mail and press services information dated March 3, 1876.
A Cedar Bayou tax board member refutes a Sun Slants claim that Cedar Bayou uses inflated values. He cites his own checked example showing Cedar Bayou valued a property lower than Goose Creek, and explains the district’s method: take the low mood value, add 10 percent, then apply 60 percent.
Citizens are urged to participate in Texas Public School Week from March 2 to March 9. Governor Shivers proclaims the observance and asks Texans to visit their local schools, review records, and engage in a statewide program broadcast from Austin at 15 pm.
Five years ago today headlines note Tru tien’s plan for a major speech and Alexander’s mayoral bid in Pelir amid Fiesta prep. Airs. Ilfrey led the Wromans Club as president while A L Britt and Mrs Hida Keith hosted a Mount Vernon family reunion at 604 Hast Aron.
Quick questions span noon designation, soporific meaning, mythic beloved by Danid, and the identity of Bere Williams. The list cites Al Rosen Bob Usher Howie Fox birthdays, notable births on March 2, and a mix of historical dates such as Ohio statehood 1803 Nebraska 1867 and the Battle of the Bismarck Sea 1944. Also referenced are a child horoscope, Folks Of Fame clues, and a suspect Q&A about a New York born engineer governor candidate from Shelter Island.
Henry McLemore vents on the Truman administration thrift and MacArthur staff cuts while mocking Veep Barkley’s age discourse. He critiques European fear of Russia, urges Europe to share burdens, praises New York telephone operators, and rates local theater and books with sharp wit.
A collection of reflective lines on individuality and self reliance. The quotes praise thinking for oneself, resisting conformity, and valuing unique character. Voices attributed include William Ellery Channing Edwin Hubbell Chapin Friedrich Klopstock Sean Paul Richter and John Stuart Mill.
WEAL O'HARA visits an old pal whose equanimity is upset by his wife buying ten new dresses at Filene's after declaring she needed ten more hats. GEORGE ALLEN, the White House jester, says he continues his father’s tradition of law, politics, and diplomacy in Booneville Mississippi. A magistrate once ruled against Allen Senior due to a forgotten cle.
A courtroom scene features a scowling judge and a frustrated Allen arguing over Blackstone law. A new radio personality is accused of using funds from a pay check to sponsor a lavish dinner with a platinum blonde playgirl, raising questions about promotions and withholding tax.
Baytown writer Fred Hartman recounts a night in Washington across from the White House, visiting a late night hamburger joint near the Treasury and sharing a meal with friends of the Trumans. He describes hotel stays, guards, and a brief briefing with FBI contact Tom Webb amid his rambling, humorous observations.
Leonard Lyons surveys Paton's post Cry Beloved Country life as a bricklayer near Durban and previews a censorship cleared Italian film Paradise with Vittorio Gassman and Geraldine Brooks. Ezio Pinza's superstition is a broken toy doll. Richard Hollmar plans an art gallery but misses his artist.
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