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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1968
Page
3
California man sought urgent denture repair after his poodle chewed his false teeth. A product named PLATE-WELD was used to repair the break on the spot and replace a tooth. The company reports PLATE-WELD is available at drug stores.
Bulgaria denounced Prague liberalization and joined in the occupation of Czechoslovakia, aligning with Moscow's stance. The regime faces alienation from Romania and Yugoslavia while seeking Soviet aid to raise its economy. Western observers note firm party control and limited public sympathy beyond educated circles. Todor Zhivkey’s Moscow visit sparked talk of oil, gas, and power deliveries under favorable terms.
Australian Victoria Police have secretly developed a slug proof suit inspired by bushranger Ned Kelly. The armor, weighing about 620 pounds, protects all but hands and feet and can stop a .32 caliber bullet from 10 feet. It was made by Wilkinsons of London and costs 1000 Australian dollars.
The inaugural DC telephone directory listed 187 customers on one page. Asking for No 1 connected to the White House, while No 2 linked callers to the Senate corridor of the Capitol. Others included six Ivory stables and seven ice companies.
A 1923 141 page study by Robert T. Elson traces Time Inc from its WWI birth to its prewar expansion. It covers founders Briton Hadden and Henry Luce and notes Architects Forum The March of Time Fortune Life and the magazine empire.
The article contrasts life on Quemoy near the Communist mainland with a peaceful civilian existence. It notes fish catches rising from 772 tons in 1958 to 3000 tons recently and corn yields increasing from 105 tons a decade ago to 2500 tons last year. It also mentions 80,000 Nationalist troops in underground fortifications and regular rocket and missile fire on alternate days, with 57,900 civilians living under Red artillery within two miles of the coast. New wells and irrigation spurs agricultural growth while surface life remains calm.
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