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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1955

Page

2

Games Of Skill Camporee Draws 150 Baytown Scouts

Some 150 Baytown area Boy Scouts are expected to compete in various skill projects at the District Camporee to be held at Camp Rebel Friday night through Saturday. Ten events, patrol format, ribbon prizes, and a campfire program led by Troop 142 and others are planned with judges including Ward and Pridmore. Public invited to campfire and events, program begins 8 p.m. Friday and resumes Saturday.

Baytown Ares Boy Scouta Rest Barris Camp Rebel Camporee Hugh Campbell BW. Froehner Barney Ward Bill Kubik Kim Pridmore Ralsh James Melvin Krizak Bill Martin Kenneth Kitchell Bob Fullick Ralph Baughmen W. L. Brough Nature Moskowitz Canniporee East Harris County Order of the Arrow

Bergen Sees TV Town Drain Comedy Hope

Hollywood telepathic ventriloquist Edgar Bergen plans a fall TV deal but longs to quit television saying the medium harms comedians. He weighs a Sahara tour or film work abroad if he abandons regular TV and notes sponsors demand steady presence while many Las Vegas acts rely on song.

Aline Mosby Hollywood Edgar Bergen Bergen Bob Hope Joan Davis George Gobel Jackie Gleason Sahara Hotel Las Veras Charlie McCarthy Las Vegas

La Porte Chamber Seeks Post Office Plans From Washington

The La Porte Chamber of Commerce will write Postmaster General Arthur Sumner seeking the Post Office Department’s intentions on obtaining a new post office. Bids to lease a building were opened over a year ago, but no decision has been reached and current space is inadequate.

la Porte Com- Merte U. S Post Office Department Chamber Board of Directors Arthur Sum

Alleg Ludlum and Major Brands Listed in Noon Quotes

Baytown Sun compiles an on page Noon Quotes list showing stock references and percentages for major industry names including Allis-Chalmers Amer Agri Amer Cyan Amer Repib AT and T Anaconds Copper and many others. The notes reference various corporations such as Chrysler Corp Celanese Celotex DuPont Eastman Kodak Goodyear Gulf Oil Humble Libby McN Libby Mossant National Dist Packard-Stude Phillips Pure Oil Rem Rand and Pac West Oil alongside multiple percentages and ticker-like fragments.

Alleg Ludlum Allis-Chalmers Amer Agri Amer Cyan Yenee Amer Repib Wu AT and T Wrescessseennen Bailey-Selburn Lay Hirby Libby McN Liggett and Loew's Inc - la Land Mack Trucks Merrill Mig Monsantg Nat'l Dairy P News News Ohia Oil Wil Olin-Math Oliver Pac Pet Packard-Stude Pac West Oil Panhandle P Fenney’s Inc Phillips Pure Oil Rem Rand Repab Steel Sentswey St. Regis Pac

Sick List Across The Town Names And Addresses

A list of names and street addresses appears in a sickness roster style. Entries include Mrs Loreing McClure isi7 Oak, Mrs Leon Anders 3414 Timois, Richard L Duncan 103 Tangle Wood, Rosamond Triche 317 Holly, Johnny D Riley Jr 608 7th, Don Royder Dayton, Lawrence W Taylor 123 Weat Weight, Mrs D A Carpenter 317 Shady Lane, Gale Michael Walsh Channel View, Mrs John L Jeffrey 1324 Cherry.

Loreing McClure

Severe Damage in Great Plains Dust Bowl March

WALINGTON reports the Agriculture Department says winds damaged more than 5 million acres in the Great Plains dust bowl during March. In SAN ANTONIO, 71 year old James P. Steen with a $77,200 bank account paid $104 to Southwestern Bell after being charged with slug use in pay telephones for his business. In REGENSBURG, a Czech light plane crossed the Iron Curtain with two passengers seeking political asylum in the west. In GARBER Oklahoma 85 Baptists and friends read from the Old Testament in a local Biblethon aiming to finish with the New Testament.

Walington Great Plains Agriculture Department San Antonio James P. Steen Southwestern Bell Telephone Co Regensburg Germany

Mrs Martha Holland Rites Set At West End Church

Funeral services for Mrs Martha Holland 73 mother of Mrs J H Flowers of Baytown will be held at 2 30 pm Thursday at the West End Baptist church in Saratoga She died Tuesday while visiting a daughter Mrs Howard Hooten in San Antonio Survivors include Mrs G W Flowers of Willis Virgin Holland of Saratoga and eight great grandchildren

Martha Holland J. H. Flowers Baytown West End Baptist Church Saratoga Holland Howard Hooten San Antonio G. W. Flowers Willis Virgin Holland

Council votes and drilling permits spark dispute

Council altered minutes to limit oil drilling permits amid damages from a well collapse near a citizen’s house. Wright-Penner Oil and Oak Oil Co. faced liability questions while the council granted a permit to Oak Off Co. for a Busch Terrace well. The meeting also canvassed last election results, witnessed oath of office for four winners, reviewed bids for a Nazra Street water well, granted other drilling permissions, and set budget items including typewriter and park lights.

Mra Elizabeth Jones Lacy Lusk Wright-Penner Oil Company Baytown Wright-Penner Hable Insurance Company Oak Oil Co W. A. Harris C. J Brown Oak Off Co Busch Terrace BR. HB. Pruett W. Bill Reichart Rufus Bergeron Adrien F. Drouilhet Lacy Texas Water Wells, Inc Houston Layne- Texas Co Brown Robert A. Welch Highway 146 Saint John's Methodist Church Lee Oil and Gas Co Lee Heights Lamar Court Area J. J. Rady Co Roseland Park George Chandler Lowell Lammers Offire Market Street Blue Cross

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