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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1949
Page
6
A fragmentary religious note cites a Bible verse about faith being refined by fire to yield praise, honour, and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, with garbled trailing text. The readable portion emphasizes enduring trial through faith.
Senator Downey accuses Michael Straus and Richard Boke of incompetence and deceit in Central Valley reclamation. They clash with Downey over 160 acre water farming limits, arguing for exceptions for small farmers. critics warn such carve outs threaten national policy and trigger partisan battles.
County Tax Assessor Carl Smith hires a Dale Carnegie lieutenant to train aides at the civil courts building. He promotes courtesy and smiling as tools to ease tax collection tensions, noting his campaign skills helped win support in Harris County. The plan aims to spread a friendly approach without extra costs.
In a pointed exchange during a news conference with Senator John Foster Dulles of New York, the senator defended a gallery of photos in his Senate office while noting the GOP’s limited representation. He highlighted portraits of Hoover and Van denburg on one wall and Dewey on the other, saying the quality of the pictures is high.
A leaked correspondence thread links Dr Herbert Duke, Morris Frenk, and Glenn McCarthy’s Shamrock Charity Bowl at Rice Stadium on December 17. The letters reveal a forged $45.25 Duke check, ticket sales push, and tainted press relations, with crude editor’s notes and political jabs toward Washington and Taft.
A classroom sketch shows a FEACSEER asking Johnny why he isn’t writing a lesson and learning grammar. Johnny replies he has no pencil and questions who has all the pencils, provoking humorous exchanges about pen, pencil shortages and correct forms.
The Baytown Sun, published daily except Sunday, is produced by The Daily Sin' Company in Pearce and Ashbel streets, Baytown, Texas. Robert Matherne is listed as publisher.
A critic argues that modern society is not morally degenerating but becoming more open about sex and controversial topics. The piece defends frank discussion in literature, theater, and print as a tool to expose and remedy evil, while warning against hypocrisy and intolerance.
Henry Mclemore notes that English people reportedly do not use the fork correctly, often holding it in the left hand and turning it upside down, treating the fork as a cradle for food rather than its intended gripping function. He contrasts this with their achievements in war and industry.
The bundle asks five trivia questions from a mixed text: Moses' brother and sister names, meaning of the old army game, meaning of stet, type of action without conscious thought, and which animals live on both land and water. It then lists birthdays for notable figures and various wordplay items and anecdotes.
U S Task Force 58 bags 52 Jap ships and 221 aircraft as Nazis mass panzer forces and Russians reach the East Prussian frontier. A final canvass in Pelly seeks signatures for a consolidation election with Goose Creek. John Howard Rosamond, son of Baytown descent, marks his 19th birthday in San Diego naval training. Necie Ann Adams celebrates her birthday with a family party.
Tide Magazine reports a prank call to Rickard and Company in New York. The caller demands to speak with Mr Rickard, but the operator says Rickard has been dead for ten years, prompting the caller to ask for his secretary instead. Separately, Irwin Edman at Columbia posts a note claiming a 20 minute return, then waits in the corridor.
Mrs J Crawford thanks San Jacinto Memorial Hospital staff for excellent care during a day long stay. She praises doctors nurses and aides as a God send and urges readers to value the hospital as a reassuring place to seek treatment. Signed Mrs J Cranford.
Frank Tripp extols stick-to-it-iveness as essential for newspaper boys noting the International Circulation Managers Association oversees half a million boys earning over a half million dollars daily. He contrasts newsboys with carrier boys while urging community appreciation and careful guidance to safeguard their welfare and future.
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