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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1950
Page
2
The piece emphasizes reverence for parents and love for neighbors drawing on a biblical verse from Matthew. It presents moral guidance and communal values, urging respect for family and neighborly duty within a faith-informed public sphere.
The United States marks its first Armed Forces Day on May 20 replacing Army and Navy Day, highlighting unified services since 1947. The piece notes Allied defense efforts in Europe and the Western Hemisphere, overseas deployments in Germany and Japan, and commitments in Greece, Turkey, Indo China, and Korea, with 1951 military funding slightly below WWI year totals.
Erich Brandeis recalls a twelve year old doubting the earths shape and the certainty of scientific knowledge. He notes how teachers are not always trusted and contrasts past beliefs with current advances like the automobile steamboat penicillin cortisone and erythromycin while asking what future truths may prove false.
Sun Slants by Fred Hartman details a quarterfinal at Golfcrest Country Club in Houston between Elma Dailey and Thelma Sanders with confusion over who won as officials struggle to verify the result. The writer jokes about alternative scoring ideas and notes May 20 Armed Forces Day reflections.
Jim Corbett quit a banking job to pursue boxing and became a renowned heavyweight. His philosopher father warned him with old sayings about a rolling store gathering moss and a bee that stays around the hive gathering no honey, yet Jim achieved world champion status.
The Baytown Sun published by The Daily Sun Company at Pearce and Ashbel in Baytown Texas lists Robert Matherne as publisher Fred Cartmen editor Syd S Gould and Beulah Mae Jackson office manager with subscription rates shown 3 months 265 6 months 5 year and advance payment policy for mail subscriptions Also notes National Representative Texas Daily Press League and second class matter status under the 1879 act.
In February 1895 a planned El Paso prize fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher drew massive attendance and authority contest. Texas Rangers and U S Army opposed the bout aiming to force it off Mexican soil. Masterson and Ranger McDonald clashed over manners. promoters moved the event to a river route, then Mexico, under threat of Mexican soldiers.
By Henry McLemore the column urges doctors to hire a publicity agent to craft endorsements from centenarians and famous figures. It lampoons claims of longevity tied to doctors and jokes about ads featuring aged patients praising physicians.
Washington Dispatch reports on House Lobby Investigating Committee chair Frank Buchanan's exchange with President Truman over a letter from Herbert Nelson calling Truman a target of dictatorship. The piece covers remarks about Remington loyalty cases, UN reform proposals, and probes of CAB rules affecting Alaska bush flyers, noting Senator Anderson’s waffle craving and Gordon's pineapple outreach in the Senate.
Ten years ago headlines recount Himmler as war criminal No 1 and U S lend lease cuts possible for Britain. Missing Master Sergeant Bond from Kawaski mission. Sergeant Smith discharged early in San Antonio. social notes from Bryan and Houston. dashes of 1940s politics and aviation debates.
New York author Kathleen Winsor, famed for Forever Amber, defends her new novel Star Money amid public scrutiny. The Macmillan Company reportedly rejected the book before Winsor and husband Arnold Krakower moved it to Appleton, with sales buoyed by early buzz and a $40,000 advance.
In a dated trivia compilation several questions and partial answers appear. Alcatraz Island location is noted. Franz Schubert as composer. Gilbert Stuart as portrait painter. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Fort Duquesne site. Maurice J Tobin as U S secretary of Labor.
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