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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1950
Page
10
Bay town architects Jack M. Reber and Dana Perkins unveiled remodeling plans for Dr. H. B. Naylor ama animal clinic on Highway 145. The project adds an operating room of 12 by 16 feet with living quarters above, and includes air conditioning for key rooms, fluorescent lighting, and new exterior features like redwood siding and ledgestone.
Cairo dispatch reports June council sessions to expel Jordan amid Arab friction over Eastern Palestine. Delegates from Egypt Saudi Arabia Syria and Lebanon favor removal while Frant and Yemenite reps seek government guidance. In Santa Fe, Martinez begins strict traffic enforcement with council members Berntsen and Mon toya facing overtime parking fines.
Senate Republicans pressed the administration to win Democratic votes to defeat a seven filibuster over President Truman’s Fair Employment Practices measure. Critics taunted Truman supporters as Southern Democrats threatened to talk the bill to death ahead of a Friday showdown testing the new cloture rule. The measure would bar racial and religious employment discrimination.
Gordon E. Sears, a singer and pianist, becomes minister of music at Second Baptist Church of Highlands. Pastor William Baker announced the move. Sears has hosted revival singing across the United States and Canada and plans to hold meetings away from Highlands Church and teach piano in Highlands and nearby areas.
In Chesterton England a six year old cowboy fad figure Har ry Ford rode through the town in full regalia. Sheriff Thomas F Callihan of St Louis notes the boy wrote to request a cowboy outfit resembling comic strip heroes. Callinan sent six shooters a Stetson and more. A photograph of Barry in the new outfit was sent to Callinan.
An advertisement promotes Sun Patterns No. 2142 sewing pattern in sizes 42 to 46 with a scalloped cape sleeve design. It offers pattern details, price 25 cents, ordering by mail to Eastown Sim Pattern Bureau New York, and teases a Fall season fashion book with easy sewing ideas.
An UPI correspondent argues the Far East battles Communist expansion as real fighting. Across Korea, the Philippines, Indo China, and other nations, anti government forces clash with guerrillas and regular troops, with Moscow tied to many movements and reprisals. The piece notes heightened troop maneuvers, artillery duels, and ongoing campaigns, ending with a historical Virginia Company lottery reference.
Fragment mentions a 50 year old j ail man and imam comments with visitors waiting in space. Irregular text includes Pasadena, Calif, and a comic reference to Napoleon boss and Margot Dische with scattered names and phrases.
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