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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1954
Page
2
Federal officers spent two days rounding up 15 dollars worth of slugs found in vending machines. The coins were from the Denver Mint. Biggin Junior High students had taken the unstamped nickels from a bin during a mint tour.
Geraldton Ontario March 27 A cab driver reports that sourdough prospectors, rusty copper fortunes boosting local taxis, now ride cabs even for short distances to stock up on supplies.
The Baytown Sun Pod publishes weekly rates and subscription costs for Baytown Texas readers. It lists monthly and multi month subscriptions, mailing payment terms, and office contacts including editor publisher and advertising director.
Radio guide lists Saturday evening programs including Teenage Party Line, Reel Roundup s News Headlines, O-The Veughs Family, O-The Baties Briders, Saturday Night Jubilee and Dance Time. Sunday morning features chapel services, melodies, and church hour programs at Grace Methodist and Assembly of God.
Hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific are expected between April 16 and 26 with April 22 tentatively chosen as the second shot. The blast, potentially more powerful than the March 1 debut, could dwarf Bikini and its island. Weather may alter the schedule and a second device test was reportedly postponed.
In Worcester Massachusetts on March 27, a Polish immigrant Mrs. Philip Bondaruk testified that her Russian born husband struck her and posted a wartime photograph on the wall after World War II, leading to the couple's divorce.
President Eisenhower will urge Congress to back a trade not aid approach, sending a message on a two way trade policy aimed at lowering tariffs and boosting prosperity at home and abroad. The plan faces Congressional dissent and possible extensions of current law as elections loom.
Legal clashes over whether Korea was a war or a police action hinge on state rulings as 5 courts say war, 2 say not, 9 undecided. Supreme Court declined to weigh in, leaving life insurance cases tied to war clauses. Insurance firms face rising questions as policies with varied war definitions pay or deny claims amid casualties.
Two drivers, Stella Faye Love aged 23 and Charles Arthur Looy aged 31, caused a four block traffic jam when their cars met bumper to bumper at an intersection and refused to back up. Patrolman J E Brown cleared the tangle and ordered the pair to traffic court. The piece also notes Berlin’s 17th annual Green Week fair drawing half a million visitors, including 200 000 from the Soviet Zone tas h.
Detroit march 2 the main problem to be solved before automobiles can be driven by gas turbine engines is to find materials that will withstand the terrific heat and stress such engines produce. The metals needed are scarce for mass production and replacement parts. Metallurgists race globally to develop affordable alloys for civilian and jet engine use. Chrysler announced a gas turbine engine but warned commercial production is years away.
Port Isabel reports early April work on an 11 mile segment of a 24 mile superhighway from Padre Beach to Brownsville across the U S Mexico border. Texas Highway Commission awards $179,153 contract to South Texas Construction of Corpus Christi for initial paving.
Baytown representative G Wilson of Northwestern National Life earns a place among the Big Ten of the firm’s nationwide sales leaders for 1953 marking the fifth time he has qualified since 1945. He is praised by company officials for consistent top performance across volume premiums persistence in force and honored for conventions in multiple cities. Also noted are 1953 national airline ridership and Kentucky coal output figures for context.
USDA weekly livestock summary from Fort Worth shows beef steers and yearlings strong while cows drop up to 50 cents. Bulls steady. high grade stockers steady. calves mostly steady to weak. Week’s tops include beef steers 22.75 and heifers 21. hogs higher with top butcher hogs 27.25 and sows at 23.50.
Wholesale Florists Corp unveils a new outlet in midtown Manhattan with a 6:36 a.m. Monday cocktail party. Newsmen invited to attend as officials consolidate operations and inaugurate the new quarters.
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