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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1951
Page
10
Infantry Company E conducts mortar training with 60 millimeter crews. Lt B W leads safety briefing on fuzes and firing sequence as instructors emphasize accurate aim and ground impact. Sgt Elnesel notes under burst risks while Col Freeman oversees Army instruction and Captain Axel Sek praises regiment’s mortar program.
Article reports Alfred Gilman detailing Allied oil and rubber shipments to China amid sanctions. It notes U S and allied controls on trade with Communist China via Hong Kong, with officials signaling a plan to regulate destinations.
A Texas farmer with limited political experience circulates three petitions urging Gov Allan Shivers opposition to Senator Conall in the 1962 elections. J Hugh Miller, originator of the petitions, mentions plans to organize in other cities. He describes himself as a former farmer now in Fremiremen and says he dislikes politics.
Bids on a 525000 bequest funded tuberculosis hospital in Austin or El Paso will be received May 17 with regents to review bids May 25 26. The Zieglers of Galveston left 525000 from Rosa and Henry Zieglers estate plus a 300000 Public Health Service Grant to fund the hospital named in their honor. Also noted Livestock Study Day at Texas Tech on April 30 hosted by 300 stockmen students and Dr D M Wiggins and Abilene Hardin-Simmons University hosting Senior Day for about a thousand high school seniors April 28.
New York report says a five-ton bomb about 20 feet long exists in a largely assembled form. The piece quotes officials and sources about its shape, weight around ten thousand pounds, and a potential explosive delay. Officials stress no weapon has been confirmed and skepticism surrounds the claims.
Washington July report from the Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs says American Indians are good credit risks. Of 218,300,060 in government loans, only 6.0 million has been written off as bad debts. The secretary of the interior, Oscar L. Chapman, released the findings.
Cedar Bayou Independent School District trustee candidate Bil Wilson issued a statement endorsing current policies. He cited gains including a new elementary school, cost savings, a crime-free campus, expanded visual arts and music, a physics education program, and ongoing facility improvements as reasons to support continued service on the Board of Education. He noted his four children motivate his desire to provide the best facilities possible.
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