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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1968
Page
5
New York report notes how drivers seek added extras beyond base car price. Ford says optional parts boost profits, with 80 percent of buyers choosing add ons. Groups like comfort convenience safety and entertainment proliferate while future ideas include auto route maps and rear vision prisms. The piece critiques cost and usability of gadgetry in modern driving.
A quirky nostalgic instruction piece urges readers to tweak a car’s power seat, wind the windows, set the thermostat to seventy, adjust stereo bass and treble, engage cruise control, and prepare a cigarette in a futuristic automatic puffer while envisioning a better life just past the next traffic light.
A Texas state committee in Dallas to study the voting machine controversy moves to audit bidding by manufacturers serving Harris, Tarrant, Bexar and El Paso Counties. Commissioner Mel Price testifies about a nonresponsive supplier while talks probe bid fairness across counties as the panel maps election code revisions.
Baytown Barracks 81 Veterans of World War I and its Auxiliary elected 198 officers. New officers include Sam King as commander and W G Felton as senior vice commander. Auxiliary officers list Mabel Foltz as president and Hattie Copeland as senior vice president.
In Basel banks discuss a growing monetary crisis as the franc, dollar, and pound slip. Market activity turns feverish, with rumors of a German mark revaluation and French aid talks, amid fears of exchange controls and rising living costs. Paris signals about 1.3 billion dollars in fresh credits.
LOS ANGELES AP Ald L Ziegler a 20 year old Californian named as chief White House spokesman by President elect Richard M Nixon is described as neat and trim with attention to detail He is a high school football captain married a Covington Ky cheerleader and is a USC fraternity man He will be titled special assistant to the President and will inform the press of the President s comings and goings and policies He has extensive experience in political public relations dating to 1982 and earlier with the California Republican State Central Committee His wife Nancy Pressinger is named and they have two daughters The piece notes his focus on reflecting the candidate rather than policy and his plan to maintain that stance in the new role
In a 16000 word pastoral letter the National Council of Catholic Bishops upheld Pope Paul VI's ban on artificial contraception while allowing that couples who break the ban may still receive communion. It passed 19-8 amid debate over Vietnam era drafts and dissenting priests. The bishops urged restraint and selective conscientious objection, challenging prevailing war policy without making a broad ruling on sin.
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