Baytown Grows Beyond Oil as It Embraces Diversified Town Image
Baytown, long known for oil refining and processing, has evolved into a diversified center with chemical industries, developing retail upgrades post World War II, Lee College, a strong high school sports tradition, and growing regional hospitals. Gulf Coast Hospital and San Jacinto Methodist announce expansion plans, underscoring Baytown as a hospital city. Despite some dissent, residents praise the city’s expanded identity.
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Baytown Welcomes PGA Tour to Goose Creek Course
The Baytown Sun welcomes the Texas Professional Golfers Association to Baytown for the 45th annual tournament at Goose Creek Country Club. Club President Cecil Bobbitt and committees have prepared plans making this event the finest yet. Pro players are expected to deliver top golf as Baytown cements its status as a golf town alongside its football fame.
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Letter to The Sun Proposes Surgery Fund for Public Schools
A reader requests that funds planned for free babysitting in public schools be redirected into a reserve to fund surgery. The letter urges the school board to reallocate tax dollars to cover medical procedures rather than childcare services.
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Easy Credit Asked For Poor Nations
Washington AP President George D Woods of the World Bank urged high income countries to send more long term capital on lighter terms to developing nations. He spoke at the World Bank IMF annual meeting warning aid alone won’t lift living standards and that internal effort will shape aid effectiveness.
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Potato Champion Claims World Title in England
FUNTINGTON England AP Tom Cooke 58 claims the global potato crown after harvesting 565 pounds 4 ounces from six plants in his cottage garden He plans to retire from competition and rest on his record unless someone especially in the United States surpasses it
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Baytown Sun masthead and staff credits page
Publication note lists editors and managers including Fred Hartman James H Hale Preston Pendergrass Beulah Mae Jackson Robert K L Gilmore Bil Hartman and others. It shows Baytown Texas address 1301 Memorial Drive and mailing info including subscriptions and national representation by Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc.
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Sugar Act lobbyists push quotas to enrich foreign interests
Fulton Lewis Jr reports influential lobbyists profit from extending the Sugar Act. They secure quotas letting foreign sugar enter the U.S. at far above world prices, costing American consumers billions. Rep. Paul Findley calls it grand profiteering and urges a thorough probe into lobbyist hiring and government roles.
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Ivory Coast President hawks free enterprise to Washington
In a Drew Pearson interview President Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast extols private property and liberal enterprise. He argues socialist models struggle with individual security and warns many African nations need dollars and technicians rather than nationalization. He cites Ghana and Guinea’s failures in air and shipping ventures and emphasizes welcoming foreign capital.
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Anti-Courting Drive Forces Couples to Temple Courtyards
In Bangkok police find courting suppression backfires as couples retreat to temple courtyards seeking sanctuary from the law. Officials appeal to hundreds of temples and seek monk cooperation to keep gatherings out of public parks.
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Kashmir's Worth A Fight For Indian Or Pakistani
Henry McLemore reflects on Kashmir as a place of beauty haunted by conflict. He recalls three weeks there in 1849 and 1965 observations of Kashmiris, ceasefires, and the looming threat of progress erasing its paradise. He laments how few men shape history and urges reflection on the cost of national clashes.
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Knowledge Quiz From Old Time Page
Answers reveal: largest city near Europe is Boston. electric fire alarm inventor is Moses G. Farmer. Academy and College of Philadelphia founder is Benjamin Franklin. first paid American newspaper ad appeared in The Boston News-Letter. first Mormon temple constructed in Kirtland Ohio in 1834.
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The Test Of Reds' Successes
H L Hunt argues the proper measure of Communist success is power and tyranny, not economic theory or reform. He contends experts misjudge by judging Marxism by doctrine, while real history shows Marxism as a tool to seize and maintain control. The piece critiques calls for mellowing between Communist nations and the West.
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Daily Crossword KING FEATURE Across and Down clues
King Feature daily crossword puzzle with across and down clues including twin crystal meager soothe gateway Mack infirm border names go away unrolled back of neck fencing position ow of rose petals church part warns of an attack ebb fight thousand forest oxen snake halo diameters lowest deck of a ship mother of Aphrodite adolescent years crash auk genus socially ambitious people.
Know Your Bridge tactical misstep leads to doubled hearts
In a rubber bridge game South defends a hand where East overcalls with two hearts, a tactical misstep by West and East’s overruffing play. South, led by a spade, executes a trump endplay to secure two heart tricks and makes the contract despite East’s intentions to collect trump tricks. The resulting position leaves East unable to take more than one trump, and South achieves two hearts doubled.
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