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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1948
Page
3
The review notes Aldous Huxley and Robinson Jeffers join a chorus warning that atomic war and moral decay threaten civilization. Huxley’s APE AND ESSENCE envisions a postwar world where ape-like humans rule, priests worship the devil, and a re awakening to love hints at humanity’s possible renewal.
Curtis Jenkins reports on LJC students joining the National Guard. Men from Baytown train at the armory on East Republic Street and recently served at Camp Hood, earning praise from General Ainsworth. The unit, led by 1st Lt. Moran, offers two weeks of annual training with enlistment open to men 17 to 35, with draft exemptions for 18 to 25 who joined before June 24.
Dallas Daily Times Herald announces a $500 prize for Texas college and university creative writing. Submissions may be novels, short story groups, poems, plays, or non fiction. Entries must use 3 copies and a separate card with author details. must arrive by May 20, 1949. winners announced around October 1, 1949.
Virgene Tyler, born in Chicago and raised in Minnesota and North Dakota, relocates to Baytown Texas after a sales pitch from a Baytown friend. She works as a cashier at Tri City Pharmacy, enjoys football, and pursues English Spanish and shorthand at Lone Star Junior College. She aims to broaden knowledge and decide on a major while living by the creed make every day count.
Charles Williams a busy LJC student active in radio announcing the curtain club and six subjects. Born in Tennessee he attended Sewanee and the University of the South. He worked at First National Bank Tracy Louisiana LSU store supply department. He served in the armed forces 1941 to 1946 with time in Panama and the Philippines. He returned to Bay Town as superintendent of the Community Laundry before entering LJC in January. He plans to study sociology at Texas and economics as minor after graduation. He enjoys bridge and teases Jimmie Montgomery. Grace Jones and Anne Jones his sister and niece introduced him to LJC last year.
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