Backbone Of Society Grows More Flexible In Modern Era
Editorial notes shifts in American families over 25 years. Ronald Pitzer cites 59 million households vs 35 million in the 1940s, smaller farm households, an average of 3.3 members, earlier marriage ages, rising education levels, more breadwinners, and higher median income in 1966. Despite high divorce, life expectancy and stability trends suggest longer marriages and stronger family units.
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Ronald Pitzer
U.S. Agriculture Dept
University of Minnesota
U.S
University of Wisconsin
William L. O'Neill
Swim Lessons Are A Bargain For Baytown Parents
Beginning June 10 the first of three free swimming classes will start at Roseland Pool. Sponsored by the city parks and recreation department, the sessions run every morning for youths ages 6 through 13. Admission to the pool is 15 cents. Instructors are Steve Goodson Lynn Stratton and Mrs Mary Stevens.
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Baytown
City Parks and Recreational Department
Roseland Pool
Steve Goodson
Lynn Stratton
Mary Stevens
Enrich Your Vocabulary NEA Feature Across i
A compact vocabulary puzzle listing across clues from 1 to 55 with definitions and cross references. Clues include terms like species of hickory, muse of poetry, Goobers, Deeds, and Hawaiian pepper, requiring word fits and linguistic knowledge.
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California
Capital of Norway
Larissan Mountain
Baytown Sun Staff and Publication Details Listed
Editorial and publishing staff roles are listed for The Baytown Sun Inc including editor Henry Holcomb managing editor Preston Pendergrass and general manager John Wadley. The paper is based at 1201 Memorial Drive Baytown Texas with postal designation 77520 and notes afternoon daily and Sunday publication along with 10c single copies and monthly carrier rates. The Baytown Sun is a member of the Associated Press and represented nationally by Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc.
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Baytown
Texas
Baytown Sun, Inc
Memorial Drive
P.O
Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc
Associated Press
Associated Press 5
This Day In History May 24 1968 Highlights
May 24 1968 marks key anniversaries including 1625 Peter Minuit buying Manhattan for goods and founding New Amsterdam, 1819 Queen Victoria born, 1830 first US passenger train, 1844 Morse telegraph, 1941 Bismarck sinking Hood, 1946 Truman rail strike threat, 1962 Carpenter orbit, plus Cold War era notes and recent events.
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Peter Minuit
Dutch West India Trading, Co
Manhattan Island
Colony of
New Amsterdam
Queen Victoria
Britain
United States
Baltimore
Elliott's Mills
Samuel F. B. Morse
Bismarck
Hood
Harm
Truman
Scott Carpenter
Earth
Moscow
Europe
U.S. Justice Department
Alabama
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
Egypt
No summer in New England in 1816 frost and snow year
In 1816 frost and snow persisted through June and the summer in New England. The pieced trivia notes octopus swimming, stating they swim only when necessary, using jet propulsion like squid, as per the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
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New England
Berlin Wall Reinforced Ahead of 1976 Completion
The article describes East Germany under Walter Ulbricht strengthening the Berlin Wall with nine more obstacles, electrified fences, dogs, floodlights, machine guns, and armed border guards. It notes 3,500 East Germans escaped in seven years and 499 guards fled, with the wall set to be reinforced to nine and later one-third complete toward a 1976 goal. It contrasts with American freedom, asserting the U S remains the only nation where people line up to enter.
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Berlin Wall
Hasot
East Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Ulbricht
Wall
Berlin
West Berlin
United States of America
Proverbs Wit A Wise Son Heareth Instruction
A compact proverb titled entry notes a wise son heeds a father's instruction while a scorer disregards rebuke, reflecting temperate moral counsel in biblical proverbs style.
Kennedy wired MLK phone taps amid 1960s fallout
Washington row reveals Bobby Kennedy ordered FBI wiretaps on Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963 and 1964 under his Justice Department tenure. The taps tracked King’s contacts with communists and the press, drawing FBI reports through Hoover’s bureau and complicating Kennedy’s presidential credentials. The column notes Kennedy later helped King and attended his funeral.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
Bobby Kennedy
FBI
Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Justice Department
Dr. King
King
Bobby
Atlanta
John F. Kennedy
Cook County
Courtney Evans
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
New York City
Barbs by Phil Pastoret on back pains and garden work
The piece jokingly notes that a bad back excuses garden labor and that worry pays, with a quip about psychiatrists and a Hawaii visitor who says hands tell stories but lacks background info. The column ends by noting no one is refused credit when borrowing trouble.
Bridge Tips on Jacoby two spade response and slam
In a bridge column, the Jacoby two spade response asks South to rebid two no trump with at least one and a half stoppers in each major. North and South explore a club slam try, leading to five clubs by North, while South signals a mild slam try with four hearts. The spade lead paradoxically allows South to reach 12 tricks, avoiding a three no trump set.
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West
South
North
Newspaper Enterprise Assay
Bridge Question on No Trump Response After Partner Opens
In today’s column a bidding problem asks how to respond after partner opens no trump. The solver holds specific spade and heart values and considers two spares. The question ends with what you do now and promises an answer tomorrow.
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Beisiz
Beisis
Know Your County Government General Fund
The General Fund is a constitutional fund used to account for county revenues and expenditures except where a separate fund is required for legal reasons.
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Che Baytown
Sim
Fred Hartman Pees
Bill Hartman
John Wadley
Beulah Mae Jackson
Paul Putman
Ann B. Pritchett
Preston Pendergrass
Henry Holcomb
Advertising Department
Dwight Moody
Corrie Laughlin
THE
Newspaper Enterprise Association
RFK
Hitness
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy
Howard Schneigee
World Publishing Co
BY Phil Pastoret
Hawaii
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
By Oswald and
James Jacoby
Weibsas
Berry's
NEA
Jackie Kennedy
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