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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1947
Page
3
Style Wise highlights Dallas fashion as Easter approaches with shop windows blooming in red grey and navy blue. Platform shoes suede and beaded embroidery appear as slim skirts and tailored suits rise while designers steer trends amid changing materials post war.
Lemuel Porter recalls a boyhood view of travel, money, and fear, from imagined giants like locomotives to a real war era shift. He describes early fear of a neighborhood figure, evolving to fascination with transport, labor, and the pull of military service during the war years.
Roundup of LJC students offers mixed hopes on war with Russia. Betty Joe Cope voices uncertainty while Rolland Bielstein argues war is not inevitable if both sides stay calm. Others urge cautious diplomacy and no more one sided compromises as a path to avert conflict.
Baytown announces the engagement of Polly Gene Stewart to O A Killgore Jr son of Goose Creek. Polly Gene is a Munhall High School graduate from Pittsburgh and a student at LJC where she leads the Student Association and Gamma Alpha Chi. Killgore is Allen Academy Bryan graduate, ex A&M and LJC, Army Air Corps veteran, now at Humble company. Marriage set for May 31 at Church of Christ Baytown.
The Veterans Administration has reviewed all compensation claims and authorized a new disability evaluation schedule. Adjudication Officer J. A. Bain announced that veterans with ratings below 10 percent may submit evidence for reconsideration. Appeals guidance directs contact with the VA Regional Office in the Federal Office Building Houston Texas.
A student recalls shifting from a rigid upbringing to a deeper faith and new values. Religion becomes the life foundation, replacing childhood habits of distraction in church. College brings a broadened view where education is essential and fear is conquered, framing life as a balance of victories and defeats.
Arthur Koestler’s Thieves In The Night narrates the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine through Joseph of Ezra's Tower Commune. It portrays anti British and pro Jewish viewpoints, with Joseph’s disillusionment, Dina’s murder, and a turn to Jewish militancy amid critique of Arab poverty and British policy.
Miss Gladys Burrows and students conduct a playful blindfold experiment with three of nine smokers identifying brands. Participants include Eugene Connealy Willie Herndon and others while Duvall and Archer add color. The mock study ends with taunts about Bull Durham and monthly wages at LJC.
Tickets for the spring format dance sponsored by Sigma Alpha Chi and Gamma Phi Kappa sororities on April 12 at the Baytown Community House are on sale. SAC sponsor Miss Ruby Barham and Gamma sponsor Mrs. C. W. Steward announce. Tickets are 2 for couples and 1 for stays. LJC students buy from sorority members. Bob Powell to MC, Grady Tuck’s dance orchestra will provide music, with a floorshow as highlight.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Shirley Jean Enderli and Harvey Rhodes. The ceremony occurred March 25 at the cedar bayou methodist church parsonage with Rev. G R House officiating. Enderli, a RELHS graduate, attends LJC. Rhodes, a Marine Corps veteran, also attends LJC.
The Alpha Rho Tau LJC honor ary held its pledgee dinner in the school's dining room at 5 45 hosting Miss Minnie Alice Robertson as hostess. New rushees Lillian Capps Dorothy Dukes Lester Fund...
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