REA marks 25th birthday and rural electrification impact
Editorial lauds Franklin D. Roosevelt for creating the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935. It notes electrification rose from 11 percent to over 97 percent of farms, with more than 17 million rural residents electrified. Cites REA history, key figures Morris L. Cooke and George Norris, and 1960 appliance surge including freezers and ranges.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rural Electrification Administration
FDR
America
REA
Russia
Soviet Empire
Morris L. Cooke
Philadelphia
Congressional
George Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Sam Rayburn
Texas
National Rural Electric Co-operative Assn
Paul Nelson
Nregca
Khrushchev's speech signals uncertain Soviet stance
Premier Khrushchev faces domestic economic woes and international pressure after a fiery parliamentary address. His demagogic US attacks coincide with power consolidation, and Moscow growth concerns pull at his credibility amid a tense Summit backdrop.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Groucho Marx
Russia
Khrushchev
Nikita
United States
Communist Party
Messrs
Malenkov
Bulgain
Zhukov
U.S
Mr. Khrushchev
Baytown Sun Staff and Contact Information
Baytown Sun publishs afternoons daily with staff including publisher KAitor and Publisher T. Bowling and editors Fred Hartmen Preston Pendergrass Beulah Mae Jackson. Office details list circulation manager Roger Atdad and staffers John Wedley Corrie Leaghis. Advertising and business staff are noted with various roles and a Baytown Texan post office listing for subscriptions and contact information.
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Fred Hartmen
Preston Pendergrass
Beulah Mae Jackson 2. T. Bowling
Roger Atdad
John Wedley
Corrie Leaghis
Today’s Grab Bag and Happened Today trivia mix
A quirky puzzle list asks which white Inca were killed at Custer’s Last Stand and the bridge where 12 died in a panic, plus who built the pyramid of 79 thousand skulls. It also asks Pagian alcoves naming, Socrates other profession, and notes a Russian folk dance expert born in Kiev 1906.
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Kiev
Paria
Ber
Russia
Brooklyn-born choreographer shaped by folkways and stage craft
Brooklyn native and son of an immigrant barber, a choreographer noted for folkways interpretation. He studied at CCNY and School of American Ballet before joining Ballet Theatre in 1942, rising from stage electrician to leading choreographer. His early works include On Stage and later hits Finian’s Rainbow and Guys and Dolls among others.
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Charles de Gaulle
Moscow
United States
Nixon
Camp David
Eisenhower
de Totendano
U.8
Khrushchev
CCNY
School of ‘American Ballet
Ballet ‘Theatre
Contole controversy and past links to Washington power
Drew Pearson discusses Senator Contole and Ike’s FPC firing, noting sleuths seek a skeleton in Contole’s closet. He debunks a tip about Richard J. O’Hara and outlines Contole’s dissents in CATCO and implications for gas companies. Jordanian move on St James monastery adds regional tension. Senate confirmation shifts and House politics are noted as well.
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Washington
William R. Contole
Ike
Federal Power Commission
Senate
Connole
Connale
Richard J. O'Hare
O'Hare
Connecticut
Public Utilities Commission
Tom Corcoran
J. Edgar Hoover
Walter
UN- American Activities Committee
FBI
Richard J. O’hara
Tommy
Cork” Corcoran
O'Hara
Springfield
Mass
Connecticut Public Utilities Commission
Connore
Dartmouth
Harvard Law School
James Aloysius Rowe
Tommy Corcoran
Northeast Gas Transmission
Tennessee Gas
Eisenhower
Consore
New England
FPC
CATCO
Court of Appeals
Sureme Court
Continental
Atlantic Refining
Tidewater
Tidelands Oil
Zapata Company
G. H. W. Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
White House
U.S. Senate
Robert E. Lee
Federal Communications Commission
Joe McCarthy
Maryland
Adm
Lewis Strauss
House of Representatives
Jerome Kuykendall
House
Try and Stop Me by Bernstein Influence and Varnish Taste
A reader notes Bernstein shapes music taste with a vintage tale of two suitors deciding marriage. An oil executive in Saudi Arabia comments on crude flavor likening it to varnish, earning disapproval from refinery leaders amid a volatile mix of opinions.
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Saudi Arabia
Jacquer
Stand, Sir: Kennedy Ervin Labor Reform Debate
In a Senate speech, the speaker recalls voting 95 to 1 against the Kennedy Ervin Labor Reform Bill of 199, arguing it would curb future labor legislation while failing to address core evils. He praises Landrum Griffin as a better alternative, cites union power as the root problem, and defends unions when kept within proper bounds as a force for economic justice and freedom.
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Senate
McClellan Committee
House of Representative
Kennnedy-Ervin
Landrum-Griffin
House
Landrum - Griffin
Kennedy
Congress
Kay
Union Lears
America
League of Women Voters Baytown Upholds Nonpartisanship
The Sun prints a letter explaining the League of Women Voters Baytown aims to promote political responsibility through informed citizen participation. It states the group does not support parties or candidates, only issue positions from member consensus. The letter notes resignation of two board members and urges future involvement in precinct meetings.
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League At Women Voters of
Baytown
League
Don Teter
Mervin Rosenpe
Marys
Ture
Television Log For Wednesday Afternoon Schedule
TV guide style listing shows and times including To Tell The Truth Ford Startime Dobie Gillis Man mentions World Turns My From These Roots The Verdict Is Yours Gale Storm Theater Love That Bob 5:45 Huntley Brinkley news and various daytime dramas listed in sequence with start times and program names.
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Joyce Hayward
Mrs. North
Bob
Loretta Young
All Star Theater
Gale Storm Theater
Huntley-Brinkley
Bible Verse on His Own Self Bare Our Sins
The fragment cites First Peter about bearing sins on the cross to make believers dead to sin and alive to righteousness. It references healing through his wounds and emphasizes atonement and redemption in a religious context.
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I Peter
Safety plays in bridge protect declarer from losses
In a bridge hand from the East South West North auction 1NT, declarers use safety plays to guard against unfavorable distributions. The article explains a diamond safety line: win the heart with the king, draw a diamond to the ace, then continue from dummy. If East shows out or follows with a low card, the plan yields four diamond tricks regardless of 3-2 or 4-1 splits, ensuring the contract.
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Unisland
Against
South Wes
East
Declarer
South
Jeads
West
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