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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1955
Page
3
Washington report says the Agriculture Department will buy pork and lard to prop up prices for school lunches and welfare programs. The plan, intended to reassure farmers and influence markets, will use customs receipts and run through August 1956.
Washington reports deep rifts inside the Eisenhower administration over agricultural policy as Cabinet members clash on how to handle price squeezes on farmers. Secretaries Brownell and Summerfield push aid to hog growers, while Benson hesitates, fearing political fallout and seeking unallocated funds. The rift involves Nixon and others pressing for swift action to shield corn hog producers amid falling pork and lard prices.
U S Code expert Joseph J. Myler reports that William Friedman, famed NSA cryptologist, and his wife have written The Cryptologist Looks at Shakespeare. The book questions authorship of Shakespeare’s works, examining thousands of cryptographic proofs but no decisive evidence yet. The Folger Library recently awarded Friedman a $1,000 prize for the manuscript.
Baytown Optimist club earned Honor Club status from Optimist International after one year of operation. Charter president Wilson Ropur to receive a gold watch, plans for Optimist Week Nov 6 to 18 discussed, ticket sales for Modell Ford raffle reported, and Baytown delegation updates from District 25 board meeting in Jennings, Louisiana.
United Press reports a mouse caused a dramatic short circuit that knocked WISN TV off the air on Wednesday. In other items Mrs. Lot tie Thime, 52, won a divorce amid allegations her husband persisted with wife ads after marriage. An Angola prison editor laments unreformed thieves. In Iowa a mirror discovered with $1148 hidden behind glass. In Los Angeles bank teller Leonam Pirri fends off two holdup men as they grab a bag containing his lunch remains.
Contributions totaling 3784 were raised at the Rice Texas game to support the United States Olympic fund. Business Manager Ed Olle said the UT total now stands at 6701, continuing from earlier gifts at the Texas Relays last April.
The State Highway Commission proposed a modern highway plan for Jacksonville to create a four lane curb and gutter street on U.S. 69, a new north routing from the Missouri Pacific to link with U.S. 375 and 69, and an 800 foot overpass over the railroad. A circular belt route outside the city limits would support suburban growth, initially with two lanes but designed for four, requiring a 220 foot right of way.
Icelandic merchants Gudjon Gudionsson Thorvaldur Gudmundsson Magnus Johannson Gunnar Treodorsson Leifur Thorhallsson and Gunnard Trartsteinsom visited Los Angeles as part of a nationwide study of U S food distribution sponsored by the U S Department of Commerce.
President Eisenhower posed in a wheelchair for news photographers on a hospital rooftop. Eleven photographers and one reporter covered the session while Mrs. Eisenhower attended. The president showed a calm, steady voice and good color, with thinner hands but no visible aftereffects of his heart attack.
Ruth Simpson of Amarillo Texas and Mrs John Martin Gainesville Texas report weight loss claims for Barcentrate. Advertisements urge Texans to try Barcentrate with a money back guarantee if the first bottle fails to show fat loss.
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