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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1954
Page
2
A Boston report notes only two of 34 convicts escaped from Massachusetts State Prison in 38 years stayed free. More than 300 escapes from Concord Reformatory since 1875 have all been recaptured, per state records.
Mr and Mrs Forrest Gober of 319 Burnet Drive welcomed a son born February 28 at San Jacinto Hospital. The St Josephs Altar Society nominators will name a new slate of officers at a Tuesday meeting in the parish house, beginning at 10 am.
The Post Office plans to widen its three cent air mail tests with new routes in the West and South. The one year experiment began last October carrying letters between New York and Chicago and Washington and Chicago, with service to Jacksonville Tampa and Miami. Potential routes include San Diego to Seattle and a Pacific Coast path to St Louis Dallas and Houston and a Chicago to St Louis and New Orleans link. The spokesman noted the program has performed as well or better than expected.
Livestock market report from Fort Worth dated March 1 shows cattle at 3,400 head with slow demand for slaughter steers and yearlings, cows steady, bulls weak to 50 cents lower. Stocker and feeder cattle draggy with bids down, calves steady for slaughter, hogs steady to 50 cents higher with varying weights.
Senate minority leader Lyndon B. Johnson states March will decide if the economy improves or slides. He cites hearings showing conditions not rosy and warns unemployment and farm income threats require action. Johnson, in a weekly radio talk, aligns with Eisenhower on March's pivotal role. A separate note mentions jet fighter-bomber steel usage.
The Baytown Sun publishers list staff roles including editor and publisher Fred Bartman and Syd Gould advertising director. Subscription prices vary by duration with 1.20 monthly and 14.40 yearly, plus military service rate. Baytown post office second class matter under the 1871 act.
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