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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1954
Page
4
The article presents a bridge hand played with West dealer and both sides vulnerable. It recounts the declarer making nearly all tricks after a sequence of leads, finesses, and strategic discards. It ends with a posed problem for South after South opens with 1 Diamond, North 1 Heart, East 1 Spade, asking for the best South reply.
Buck Hill area resident Mrs. Riley has endured five major operations and a string of near disasters from fires to a train wreck and a waterspout. She narrowly escaped induction into the Army after a forged draft registration, blaming faith for her luck. The piece notes the rapid blink reflex as a curious aside.
Ida Jacobson, Latvian immigrant and mother of five, will finish college after entering night classes in 1944 at East Clerical School. Despite ten years to obtain a high school diploma, she aims to write home to her sons serving overseas and complete higher education.
Washington May 12 United Press farm reporter Patricia Wiggins analyzes Congress race shaping farm policy. Surpluses exceed 6.5 billion with government price supports sustaining high costs. Debates center on flexible price guarantees versus extending rigid supports and acreage controls.
Durant Oklahoma May 12 Mrs ABL Rutherford 73 year old grandmother and avia fisherwoman began making sea shell jewelry in 1948 while recovering from an illness. From earrings she now makes pins and necklaces of shells from Sarasota Florida. Each piece is her design with shell hats and painted faces. Her dining room table serves as workshop and she also cares for her husband, a retired milling company salesman.
In 1955 Milwaukee, Joseph Owsley was eating lunch at work when a coworker spilled coffee ruining his meal. Owsley offered three slices of bread as a gesture after finding a note reading Happy April Fool's Day.
Albany dispatch reports 82 year old James Disney, a Delaware and Hudson telegrapher, plans to continue working after 64 years on the job. He recalls coding a message from Green Island Plant in 1901 ordering the D and H private car to North Creek to pick up President Roosevelt after McKinley’s assassination. The feature connects Disney's long tenure with a famous presidential moment.
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