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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1955
Page
2
A 1920s era survey across nine countries reports varied beauty ideals from busty figures in America to large mouths in France and leg emphasis in Sweden. Readers learn men judge attractiveness by bosom size, facial features, hips, and overall femininity, with regional preferences shaping the global standard.
Mrs Levenia Dervis Davis 75 of Baytown died at home at 1 55 am Saturday after moving from Enloe four years ago. Funeral services are set for 4 30 pm Sunday at Paul A Lee funeral home with Rev E L Burns and Rev Paul Stephens officiating. Burial will be Memory Gardens Cemetery Garth Road. Survivors include husband George W Davis five sons Clarence Davis Brownfield George Meek Davis Cooper John W Davis Friona Tom A Davis Dimmit Calvin W Davis Baytown two daughters Mrs Bryan Zievins Bovina Mrs Alton Mullins Baytown two brothers Austin E Hughes Abernathy three sisters Mrs Grace Tatum California Mrs Albert Lynn Victor Mrs Nettie Hughes Peris 24 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren.
A reader urges speaking up when service fails and praising good workers, arguing dissatisfaction should be voiced to the right person. The letter laments a culture of complaisance postwar and calls customers to demand quality without harming service standards.
Anderson argues at Bay town employment office that referrals should focus on ability to do the job rather than the applicant’s handicap. He notes openings exist for which qualified applicants are referred, and a disabled worker can perform two tasks as well as nonhandicapped workers.
Jim Bond announces he has purchased the entire interest of partner Edward S. McDan in the Joe Bond and McDaniel agency at 515 East Texas. The firm becomes Lee Bond and Company with no staff changes, continuing fire and casualty insurance, surety bonds, and allied lines.
Afie and Cecil Ray Woods announce the birth of a daughter Caeryt Annette on September 30 at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. She weighed seven pounds two ounces. Grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Guy Woods Sr and Mr. and Mrs Grisnall of Baytown. Airman and Mrs Woods live in Victoria while he is stationed at Foster Field.
LA basin residents were ordered to stop all open burning and cut back on motor vehicle use after a smog red warning was issued. The Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District said a probable alert followed a temperature inversion and light winds as ozone readings spiked, with Pasadena reporting .65 and the city facing high smog levels.
Hereford Texas report identifies Ray Owen, 22, of Chickasha Oklahoma as the pilot killed when a crop dusting aircraft hit a guy wire above an irrigation well rig. He was employed by American Dusting Co. of Chickasha.
The Deer Park School menu lists meals for Monday through Friday. Monday features chicken fried steak with gravy, rice, peas, vegetable salad, hot rolls, milk and bean pie. Tuesday offers meat loaf, green beans, potatoes, carrot and celery sticks, milk, bread, cake with chocolate sauce. Wednesday includes enchiladas and pin to beans, steamed rice, combination salad, prunes, milk and bread. Thursday serves browned beef and noodles, spinach and eggs, milk, corn bread and fresh cherries. Friday presents fried fish, corn, green bean salad, milk, bread and pear.
Residents watched five houses washed away by a furious flood in Clarksville on Friday as cars floated down the street. Four inches of rain fell in 20 minutes in Sasatova as thunderstorms struck southeastern Oklahoma. Meanwhile a winter chill hit Pellston Michigan at 72 degrees, with other northern towns in the 30s.
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo UP Pvt Bobby D Flowers of Chicago shot himself to death Friday in front of his first sergeant and four other soldiers at Fort Carson He enlisted last January and bought a .25 caliber pistol earlier that day. He returned to the orderly room, went to the washroom briefly, then shot himself through the night temple.
Hollywood mourns Dean, known for Porsche road racing, as the actor dies on a highway. Co stars Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson, and director George Stevens, react to the tragedy while Dean’s career is highlighted from UCLA to Broadway and East of Eden.
Seoul reports U S Military Advisory Group officers told to stop carrying Korean women in their jeeps for recreational purposes. Separately, pledges included Martha Lee Hodges, daughter of L P Hodges, and Ray Villa pledged by Delta Delta Delta at Auburn. Hodges is a Robert E Lee High School graduate.
Hollywood comic Bob Hope says a trip to Russia is possible as relations thaw. He plans to travel for a foreign-made film with Katherine Hepburn and hopes to meet Russian actors, while joking about invading Moscow with gag writers and seeking Russian comedians for on location shoots.
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