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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1966
Page
4
Editorial notes 2,530,083 pupils have returned to Texas public schools as a decade after Sputnik. It credits public funding increases and critics' outcry with spurring harder work by teachers and admins. It cautions that education alone cannot craft Johnny into perfection and emphasizes home church and life as part of learning.
Houston AP reports a sharp decline in U S oil and gas wells drilled in 1966, with forecasts dropping toward 37 000 38 000 total completions the lowest since 1947. Industry groups study incentives as the slump deepens, citing high costs, weak prices, and deeper, pricier wells.
A humorous essay extols newspaper fillers as vital knowledge sources. It notes readers’ varied ways to scan papers and argues fillers provide stray facts, trivia, and practical data, from tides in Fundy to the weight of the Washington Monument capstone, with a call to read them daily.
Puzzle style word list clued answers span transportation drink remedies grafted forms and more with entries such as lubricant beverage and pierce related terms. The mixed list includes both common and obscure words like prodigious openwork fabric and variable star offering a compact snapshot of a crossword style feature.
President Johnson becomes the first chief executive in 14 years to worship at Washingtons First Baptist Church sharing the visit with evangelist Billy Graham and family members. Minister Pruden notes Truman was the last Baptist visitor.
Washington columnist Drew Pearson surveys Georgia’s hot gubernatorial contest with Ellis Arnall Lester Maddox and James Gray as leading candidates. Polls show Arnall leading, while the piece links Georgia riots to broader national political implications, noting intraparty shifts and Johnson era dynamics affecting Michigan and national races.
The Baytown Sun lists staff roles including Editor and Publisher General Manager Managing Editor and others and provides publication offices and mailing information. It notes Second Class matter status Baytown Texas and details subscription rates and advertising contacts for the newspaper.
The column explains that warfarin prevents clotting and has medical uses with regulated dosing and weekly blood checks. It discusses partial versus total hysterectomy advantages, noting improved techniques reduce differences, and covers Pap test classes from benign to malignant, advising biopsy for suspicious results.
In a late thirties broadcast, South builds a grand slam after four trump rounds and discards from dummy. Jimmy Maier, watching amid the chatter, demonstrates a seven making sequence using a heart ruff, club and diamond ruffing, and a final diamond line to squeeze.
Bridge description of a hand labeled Q93 10753 where South opens with three clubs and a trump ruby. West holds two hearts two clubs and a diamond while East has a live rattlesnake shape. Possible lines show Jimmy ruffing hearts last trump or using dummy’s ace and king of clubs to win remaining tricks.
Eighty fliers took off in 16 bombers from the carrier Hornet in the famous Doolittle raid on Tokyo. Most were captured and held in prison camps for several years after landing abroad.
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