Baytown Mayor Probes Harris County Consolidation Plan
Baytown Mayor R H Pruett challenged Harris County leaders during a Harris Mayors and Councilmen Association meeting in Houston. He questioned how bonded indebtedness and tax structures of incorporated areas would be handled under a proposed city county amalgamation and whether Baytown should issue bonds to fund improvements before consolidation.
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Baytown
Harris County
Bob “Casty
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Houston
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Sew What Club Meeting Hostess at 9:20 A M
SUN SPOTS club will meet Tuesday at 9 20 A M at Mrs J B Plocheck s home 306 Live Oak A noon luncheon will be served Cake sale by Rainbow Girls Sat morning on Wrest Texas avenue Cancer circulars will be distributed in the morning Betty Pryor says Rummage sale by Wooster Garden Club Fri and Sat at former Home Furniture building West Texas avenue Hours 9 A M to 5 30 P M New telephone directories distributed Friday by General Telephone Co listing about 10 000 subscribers compared with 8 9 thousand last April
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Live Oak
Rainbow Girls
Wrest Texas Avenue
Betty Pryor
Wooster Garden
Eluh
Home Furniture
West Texas Avenue
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Lsted
Harris County Judge Calls for County-Only Government
Harris County Judge Bob Casey urged city county government consolidation at a Mayors and Councilmen meeting in Houston. He argued separate authorities create a costly, inefficient system and backed a 25 member commission to study merger options. About 150 municipal officials attended at Kaphan's restaurant as Casey warned of a future of overlapping bureaus and rising taxes without reforms.
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Bob Casey
Mayors and Councilmen’s Association
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Ik Jg
Kaphan’s
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Houston
Wwe
Sen
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Casey
Alien Shivers
Councilman H. M. Campbell Donates Grass To Baytown
Baytown officials launched a beautification push for the new West Main sewage plant with grass donated by Councilman H. M. Campbell from his Cleveland street lot. Volunteers loaded thick sod for replanting at the Goose Creek site as the city awaits truck lines and plant operation.
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Saytown Roundup Remains Quiet on Fronts and Fort Ord News
Around Town items show local names like John Kader Fred Lintelman and Paul Pickel in everyday scenes. Baytonian updates include Pvt Bert Kiber at Fort Ord and Albert Kiber visiting for a few hours. Saytown students and locals share small motifs from daily life and recent reports.
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John Kader
Armory
Pete Jones
Bart Antle
Theo Wilburn
Fred Lintelman
Bert Black
Bert
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Mummy
Paul Pickel
Joe Ted Hayes
Talbot Vinson
Billy G. Smith Named Head of Baytown's A&M Club
Billy G. Smith, manager of a Baytown department store, was elected president of the Baytown Texas A and M club at its annual Aggie Master meeting at VW hall. He succeeded outgoing president George Ferguson as J. C. Dickson was named voice president and E. L. Wilson secretary treasurer for 1965 66. Smith was not present due to a business trip.
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Billy G. Smith
Baytown
Texas A and M Club
George Ferguson
Smith
VW Hall
School board candidates to speak at May 3 forum
Baytown League of Women Voters sponsors a candidate forum at Lee College auditorium May 3 starting at 8 p.m. All school board candidates invited, one declined with option for a representative or written speech. Each candidate gets five minutes, audience questions written in advance, with public invited. Arrangements by Mrs. Ben S Love and Mrs. A Rosenzweig.
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Baytown League of Women Voters
J.L. Franklin Jr
B. F. Booth
League
Ben S Love
A. Rosenzweig
Noted Texas Defense Lawyer Dies
Dallas based defense attorney Maury Hughes, a prominent Texas figure and 1934 gubernatorial candidate, died at St. Pauls Hospital after a heart attack followed by a second heart failure. He was 60, born in San Diego, California, to J W Hughes, a former California circuit judge.
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Maury Hughes
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Calif
J. W. Hughes
California
Poisonous Snake Bites Woman Twice Near Massey Tompkins Road
Mrs Fannie Mae Campbell of Route 2 Massey Tompkins road was bitten twice by a Copperhead in a barn on Wednesday while gathering eggs. She was treated at Baytown hospital, then rested comfortably at home Friday with daily physician visits.
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Massey-Tompkins Road
Campbell
D. T. Campbell
Public Works Department
Baytown Hospital
Shivers Bill Lets Harris County Water District Split
The Texas Senate approved a bill allowing Harris County Fresh Water District No. 1 on Jones Road to vote on dividing into two districts. Gov. Allan Shivers was expected to sign. The split would separate white residents from Negro and Latin American residents and potential sewer improvements, with past bond votes failing.
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Jones Road
Allan Shivers
Priday
Texas Senate
House of Representatives
House
Criss Cole
Water District Board of Supervisors
E. M. Gardnis
Storm Center Says Storm Moves Out of State
United Press reports Texas skies were partly cloudy as forecasters state all storm activity moved eastward. A tornado hit Wardview Louisiana near Texarkana with baseball sized hail and rain, following an earlier Arkansas tornado that killed Mrs Odlessa Leslie near Pine Bluff.
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Texarkana
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Princeton
Shreveport
Arkansas
One Killed Nine Injured In Crash At LA MARQUE
A 19 year old South Houston girl Patricia Ann McIntyre died and nine others were injured in a two car collision at an intersection in LA MARQUE Texas Thursday night. In the car with driver Roy Robinson 24 were Barbara Spates 17 Thomas Coffey 15 and D T Gray 32 Pasadena. The Mellroys James 33 and wife 33 of Galveston and their three children Mary 5 Stephen 6 and infant were in the other car. All occupants hospitalized. Autopsy ordered by Justice G P Reddell. no charges yet filed.
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Democrats denounce Eisenhower military cuts over Formosa crisis
In Congress on Friday Democrats argued the Formosa crisis shows a serious mistake in ordering reduced military strength. House Democrats cited Navy testimony that Navy cannot maintain current capacity in the Far East with planned manpower cuts, criticizing the administration for a risk on a shoestring budget and overreliance on nuclear forces. Lyndon Johnson urged preserving ground forces, calling atomic power a poor substitute for robust conventional strength.
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Dr Wilson compares world problems to San Jacinto battle
Dr. Logan Wilson likened current world struggles to Houston s San Jacinto tale urging mobilization of U S education expansion and realignment away from a society of automations He stressed character virtues and warned a nation of only experts and workers without purpose heads toward extinction The ceremony featured a concert by the Air Force Band and a wreath ceremony at the monument with local leaders in attendance
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Soviet Russia
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Douglas MacArthur Herrera
Houston
Nehru erupts at Afro-Asian conference over co existence
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru voiced anger at Turkish delegate Fatıa Rustu Zorlu during a discussion on peaceful co existence and nuclear disarmament. Nehru urged cessation of atomic and hydrogen bombs and backed placing the conference on record against nuclear weapons. The session stalled on colonialism and Formosa trusteeship amid broader peace talks.
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Chott En-Lai
Europe
Turkey
Fatia Rustu Zorlu
United States
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Taxpayers To Lose Plenty Next 90 Days
Treasury expects to collect about 5.63 billion in taxes in April May and June to trim the fiscal year deficit to around 4.5 billion. The high take relies on timing shifts in individual and corporate tax payments, with potential for a modest income tax cut in 1956.
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Washington
Treasury
Eisenhower
Death Claims Brother And Sister In 10 Hour Span
Houston report states J. K. Dixon 85 a civic leader and retired grocer died after a heart attack two weeks earlier. His sister Mrs Florence Dixon Were 81 died Thursday night from a heart attack, also while in the same hospital. Both figures from a prominent family died within ten hours of each other.
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West Agrees To Meeting With Russia In May
London reports that the western Big Three plan a May 2 meeting with Russia to draft an Austrian state treaty. Diplomats in London will convene to lay groundwork for broader Big Four talks, with French British and American reps meeting in London next Wednesday to draft recommendations.
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Newsmen blamed for distorted segregation coverage in south
Washington AP reports at a Friday session of the American Newspaper Editors Association the panel criticized newspapers for minimal and unbalanced reporting on racial integration. McKnight of the Southern Education Reporting Service urged broader coverage, noting migration and national implications beyond the South.
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Ike's Absence Angers DAR at 64th Congress Near White House
President Eisenhower angered the Daughters of the American Revolution by not attending their 64th annual congress near the White House. Some members were described as absolutely furious after he sent only a brief greeting on the final day.
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