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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1962
Page
4
A White House commission studied featherbedding and rail labor practices and urged drastic changes to cut unnecessary jobs while retraining workers. It warns automation has reduced available roles, risking 80,000 potential job losses amid a fragile economy. unions oppose the plan but government and industry must aid a smooth transition to protect stockholders and overall economic health.
Amos Toggle, president of Giant Aene Tiddlywinks Corp, is pranked into believing an employee, Hector Squiggle, has been given a $750 weekly raise. The ruse inflates Hector’s joy as he discovers the note was April 1 mischief. The uproar ends with Hector exposed as the fooled recipient and a real raise unresolved.
The Baytown Sun publishing schedule and staff credits are listed, naming editors publishers and department heads. It notes circulation details and postal classifications, with Baytown Texas as the base and a standard afternoons edition schedule.
Washington columnist links the $34 billion stockpile to George M. Humphrey, former secretary of the treasury, and the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland. The piece notes contracts, tax write-offs, a government loan and escalator clauses that shifted risk to taxpayers, with dates around Kennedy era investigations and Hanna holdings.
The income tax department fines authors with heavy taxes. A novelist says he earned $800,000 last year and paid $760,009 in taxes, yet now faces a lawsuit for the remaining $40,000.
A Folk of Fame quiz notes a young New Orleans lawyer from the Huey Long era who entered Congress in 1941 at 26, joined a reform group, served on Banking and Currency, and in this year became his party whip. The piece asks who is he.
NAN JONES reports on a Republican from Pennsylvania who led opposition to extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act in 1958, after a career spanning 14 years in insurance, a Georgetown law degree, and service since 1927. Also notes birthday reminders for Paul de Kruif Jennifer Jones and Marc Blitzstein.
An unsigned letter from a local group discusses Baytown refiners employees and city council races. It recounts the 1958 first primary where Clayton beat Huron in the runoff by 66 votes and the 1960 first primary where Hughes defeated Clayton. The letter notes turnout details and criticizes incomplete signatures due to lunch.
New York AP reports that London gold prices hit seven-month lows, dampening hopes for Treasury profits and prompting calls to curb gold hoard losses. Silver trades near $1.00 an ounce as speculation softens, while lawmakers weigh Kennedy administration bills to end Treasury silver purchases and let the Fed issue new $1 bills replacing silver certificates.
A critical column argues against a proposed Federal Department of Urban Affairs and Housing, warning it would centralize power, erode local control, and expand welfare-state reach. It cites Kennedy era plans and minority committee cautions about creating a powerful central bureau overseeing housing, urban renewal, and public works.
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