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Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1955

Page

3

FHA Loans for Building Bomb Shelters

Washington Oct 16 The FHA offers insured loans up to 2500 to finance home bomb shelters with four approved types from underground concrete to timber shelters. Civil Defense notes interest remains low and limited but some officials warn against abuse from sellers pushing overpriced shelters.

Robert FL Morrison Washington Homer United States Savings & Loan League Ameri Bankers Association FHA Federal Civil Defense Administration Civil Defense Amive Nevada

Defense in Contract Bridge Shows Quiet Power

In Josephine Culbertson's bridge column a good defense may involve no active move. North misplayed a 16 HCP distribution after South bid 1NT. East avoided carding the king, offering the declarer a difficult path. A sequence of club and diamond maneuvers left South with limited tricks and no winning line.

Josephine Culbertson North South

Denver Publisher To Sneak At TCU

Palmer Angi, editor and publisher of the Denver Post, will deliver the first speaker at Christian University in Weatherby Hall at TCU's Religion Center. The talk, part of an endowed series, precedes the Texas football game in Austin, with wife accompanying. Free admission tickets required on request from TCU.

Fort Worth Palmer Angi The Denver Post Christian University University Hoyt Weatherby Hall TCU Neve Religion Center L. F. Shanbinm Lodge B'nai B 'Rith of TOU Denver Sadier Walter Humphrey Fort Worth Press Sol Brachman TCL Board of Trustees Comer Crey Amos Melton

Atom Power For Cars Still Long Way Off

NEW YORK UP The GM president said atomic power for automobiles is not conceivable now. GM is researching reactors and keeping pace with developments but expects no near use in cars. LOS ANGELES UP The Democratic council endorsed Adlai Stevenson as the party’s favorite son for 1959 nomination. Stevenson was born in Oak Park Illinois.

Atom Power New York General Motors Corp Wanen H. Cubile Los Angeles Democratic Party Council Adlai Stevenson Stevenson

Bridge Game Ends In Court Fight Over Oil Land

In Dallas a 23 year dispute over 15 acres in East Texas oil country ended in a court settlement. Three women Mrs J M Stinnotte Mrs Virginia Sanders of Dallas and Mrs George B Light Sr of Sherman each invested 50 dollars to buy land during the 1920s oil boom. A first successful well led to disputes over profit sharing. Judge D A Blankenship approved a settlement distributing 157 736 in oil payments from four wells among Mrs Buda Mauldin and 12 heirs plus others who joined later. Wells are conservatively valued at about 600 000.

Dallas East Texas Swomen J. M. Stinnotte Virginia Sanders George B. Light Sr Sherman D. A. Blankenship Buda Mauldin

Pay As You Live Plan To Ease Military Housing

A Defense Department official said a new pay as you live housing program approved by Congress should ease the military housing shortage. Under the plan private contractors would own and operate housing funded through military quarters allowances. The program awaits final legal touches before rollout, with officials noting housing is a key morale and readiness issue for the Armed Forces and past reliance on Congress funds and the Wherry Program.

Jowan W. Finney Washington Defense Department Congress Frank M. Ewing Defense Department Ewing Ieee Sorviers Altren de Afense New Avenue United States

Saturday's Answer 31 Farm Animals and Terms

A reader puzzle lists scattered clues and partial words including farm animal and plant terms, various prefixes and suffixes, geographic hints, and legal phrase fragments. The garbled OCR yields incomplete entries like March date, Nestling, Sacred bull, bend, narrow inlet and suspension of judicial proceeding, suggesting a crossword style answer key.

Nestling Entitie Fuss Egypt Ous River Asia

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