Absentee Voting Ends in Baytown April Runoff
Absentee voting in the April 30 Baytown city runoff ends at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Voters may cast ballots at City Secretary Edna Oliver’s office in City Hall. By 10 a.m. Monday, 17 absentee ballots had been cast, Oliver said. Also noted: Rotary orientation for new Baytown Rotary Club members set for noon Wednesday at The Tower. dog obedience course second class 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at Culpepper’s parking lot. contact JU 36344. A separate fire destroyed Ella Mae Jackson’s home on Market Street Road Sunday afternoon due to a kerosene stove. Funeral rites for Mrs. Lee Ola Eason, 65, were held Monday at Earthman Chapel. burial at San Jacinto Memorial Cemetery. Mrs. Eason, formerly of Baytown, lived on Route 4, Cleveland, and is survived by her son Ira W. Wright of Baytown.
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Edna Oliver
City Hall
Oliveri
Culpepper
Kame
Ella Mae Jackson
Market Street Road
Earthman Chapel
Lee Ola Eason
Cecil Ray Powell
Robert Z. Lee
Nolan
Market St. Road
J.P. Taylor
Baytown
Powell
Taylor
Rest Home Fire Near Tragedy Evacuates Six Elderly
A overnight blaze at Mace Rest Home 3213 Wisconsin Baytown Sunday morning endangered six bedridden residents. Fire crews and police evacuated them on mattresses before smoke filled the building while others sought refuge in a back room. No serious injuries reported though several responders were affected by smoke.
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Baytown
By Blue
Pitts
Optimist Club
Wisconsin
James Hearn
Highlands
Roy Montgomery
A. H
Art) Lintelman
Charlie Cowan
John Rosamond
Aubrey W. Henseey
Cowan
Frank Fullbright
Paul A. Lee
Rosamond and
Hensley
Set
Hearn
First Refinery Unit Fired Up May 11 1920
Baytown and Humble employees recall the first refinery unit going on stream at the Baytown Refinery on May 11 1920. A special edition of The Baytown Sun will salute Humble and its workers during Humble Pioneer Week events starting May 6. Community clubs plan programs, including Optimist Club and Kiwanis, to honor Humble’s 40th birthday and four decades of Gulf Coast industry progress.
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Humble Oil
Re J
Fining Co
Baytown
Omntoyee
Sun
Humble
R. H
Red) Pruett
Humble Pioneer Club
Baytown Sun
Cees
J Humble
Baytown Optimist Club
West Baytown Kiwanis
Lions Dinner to Honor Families in Baytown
BAYTOWN LIONS host a 6:30 p.m. seafood dinner at the National Guard armory for wives children and guests. The noon club meeting Tuesday is canceled. FRED HARTMAN of the Baytown Sun attends a Friday Dallas Budget and Admissions committee meeting. Max Levine Foley's manager chairs the budget panel. Clifton Adams travels to Chicago for National Association of School Boards. expected home late Wednesday. Scattered showers and thunder storms are forecast. Galveston tides Tuesday high at 5 14 a m and 0 14 p m with low tides at 11 16 a m and 10 28 p m.
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Lions
Baytown Lions
National Guard Armory
Fred Hartman
Baytown Sun
Dallas
Texas United Fund
Max Levine
Houston
Foley
Stle
Clifton Adams
Chicago
National Association of School Boards
Baytown Rotary welcomes Leslie Kohltfarber member
Baytown Rotary Club at its last meeting welcomed Leslie Kohltfarber as new member. The item notes social mentions and other community snippets including Brownie Troop 17 thanks Charlotte Woods for guiding a tour, and various local visits and hospital notices.
Riots Return as Seoul Protests Demand Rhee Resignation
In Seoul crowds erupt against President Syngman Rhee and Vice President Lire Ki-poong. Tear gas and gunfire reported as martial law tightens, with students and professors urging resignations and reform after days of deadly unrest.
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Seoul
South Korea
Syngman Rhee
Lire Ki-poong
Hapdong
National Assembly
Rhee
Supreme Court
Assembly
Heavy Vote Seen In LP City Ballot
La Porte voters face a heavy turnout Tuesday in a city election with a five man mayoral contest. Incumbent Pfeiffer runs against George N. Sharp Sr and four others while four city commission seats and a change to staggered terms are on the ballot. De Gaulle warns against atomic arms and urges a Western disarmament effort with a broad aid plan for Asia and Africa in a Washington speech.
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la Porte
Washington
Charles de Gaulle
U.S. Congress
Ional Supervision
Haro PL Pfeiffer
George N. Sharp Sr
Charles Martin
Lewis R. (Doodle) Rigby
Frank R. Boyle
City Commission
Tom Osburn
Nelson E. Lewis
Jack Lawler
D. C. Dunham
Gdel Brown
E. A. Thomas
Reapgan J. Franks
W. A
Billy) Stab
Britain
Soviet Union
French
Senate
de Gaulle
Eisenhower
Berlin
Germany
Nikita Shrushchev
West Germany
Western Europe
Khrushchev
West Berlin
Congress
Asia
Africa
Two Americans in Bahama wreck raid rescuers and steal boat
Report notes two shipwrecked Americans rob rescuers, shoot a boat captain, and steal his craft near a lonely Bahama island. Other items cover ground rules for a West Virginia televised debate, farm outlook, Africa, Berlin, Padre Island, Tunisia France, Texas storm, and a mass air crash with T33 jets.
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Bahama Island
Wumphrey
Kennedy
West Virginia
Earthquake devastates Lars and nearby areas in Iran
A massive earthquake struck Lars and surrounding villages in southern Iran on Sunday. Official estimates place the death toll around 6,000 with many more injured and widespread damage reported as rescue teams work to reach affected communities.
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Tehran
Iran
Lars
Larc
Typhoon Karen Moves Toward Formosa
AP reports Karen intensified into a typhoon and heads toward Formosa with eight mile per hour winds. The Manila Weather Bureau places the storm about 100 miles west of central Luzon curving northwest at unknown speed. Karen zigzagged through the Philippines over the weekend, causing eight deaths and many unaccounted for.
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Manila
Karen
Formosa
Manila Weather Bureau
Luzon Island
At & M.p.h
Philippines
Newspaney
Cox visits Baytown as campaign trails widen
Governor hopeful Cox conducted a Baytown swing promising hunting and fishing improvements. He criticized the Daniel administration over Game and Fish funds, urging money to stay for public reserves, coast facilities, and fish passes. In Baytown two bystanders were injured when a go kart crash occurred at Sears Lot, leaving 12 year old Mike Brooks with a concussion and 7 year old Carl Burns hospitalized with bruises and possible head fracture.
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Harris County
Jack Cox
Breckenridge
Baytown
Texas
Austin
Cox
Gov. Price
Daniel
Special Game and Fish Fund
Game and Fish Commission
Sears
Mike Brooks
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Carl Lee Burns
Gulf Coast Hospital
Baytown Housing Authority Receives 20-Unit Bid Proposals
The Housing Authority of Baytown invites bids for a 20 unit housing project on a three acre site on Miriam near Barry. Estimated cost about 200000 dollars. One story brick units to include parking and 16900 square feet of space. The Baytown Go-Kart Club plans a racing course at Highlands to be ready in about seven weeks. Mike Brooks, son of J M Brooks, attends Anson Jones Elementary. Carl Burns, son of Elmer and, resides at 2182 Bolser.
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Housing Authority of
City of
Baytown
Miriam
Barry
Highlands
Mike
J. M. Brooks
South Shephard
Anson Jones
Carl
Sam Hors
Ton Elementary
Ian
Elmer Burns
Bolser
Baytown bids sought for architectural projects at Market St
Sally Teaey, Daniel Perkins, and Bayown architect hold bids at 1214 Market St Road. Bid deadline is 6 p.m. Tuesday May 1. Broyles, Bymmm and Doyle of Baytown are the consulting mechanical engineers on the projects and Ernest Vogtly is the structural engineer.
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Sally Teaey
Daniel Perkins
Bayown
Market St. Road
Broyles
Bymmm and
Doyle
Baytown
Ernest Vogtly
Living costs hit new March record nationwide
The March cost of living rose to 145.7 percent of the 1947-40 average, a new high. Prices climbed only 0.1% from February, and were 1.6% higher than March a year earlier. Labor chief Arnold Chase forecasts gradual food-price rises into late summer, boosting overall living costs. The March increase adds about one cent per hour to wages for Solon railroad workers, totaling roughly a million dollars annually.
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Washington
APM
Arnold Chase
Labor Department
Vie
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Covers East Texas and Louisiana
Weather Bureau alert warns of severe storms with hail and damaging winds from 3 to 9 p.m. across extreme east South Central and Southeast Texas into Western Northwest Louisiana. Dallas area listed in danger zone with gusts up to 50 mph and possible tornadoes. earlier advisory noted potential hail, winds, and one or two tornadoes from 1 to 7 p.m. as storms track north and south of a line near Waco.
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Dallasap
Weather Bureau
Texas
Louisiana
Victoria
Tex
Alexandria
Houston
Lufkin
Huntsville
Conroe
Baytown
Navasota
la Grange
Jasper
Columbus
Cuero
Wharton
Rosenberg
Bryan
College Station
Giddings
Waco
Dallas
Fort Worth
San Angelo
Temple
Belton
del Rio
Hillsboro
Corsicana
Cleburne
Stephenville
Brownwood
Ennis
Waxahachie
Marlin
Gatesville
Lampasas
Lané
Sonora
Bosque County
Molly Bowers Wins Oliver Pruett Journalism Award
REL high school honors Molly Bowers for journalism and scholastic achievement at a staff banquet. She served as Gander Gazette editor, contributed as a sophomore reporter, and works with The Baytown Sun through a Distributive Education program. Awards include a gold pin, engraved plaque, and commendations from principal and teachers.
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Aigttes Deneseer Mois Doers, Rovert
Oliver Pruett
REL
REL Publications
Molly
Akel
Olive Pruett
Baytown Sun
Mally
Tally McLeamare
Cntation
Vernon 'R ‘Lites
Gander Gazette
Lee Traveler
Robert E. Lee High School
Taylor Publishing Company
Eugenia Jones
Betty DeShong
Vernon Liles
Lee Traveller
Eugenia
Betty
George Baldridge
Burton Burrus
Sandra Frandong
Whert Harris Wishing
Linda
Protest planned for Chessman execution in Marin County
About 200 Marin County residents plan an around-the-clock torch vigil tonight to protest the scheduled May 2 execution of Charles Chessman. Spokesman Robert O’Leary of the Marin Chessman Committee says the flame will symbolize opposition to death by the state, with San Quentin Prison about 10 miles north of Sausalito.
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Sausalito
Calif
API
Marin County
Vl Chessman
Robert O'Leary
Corte Madera
Marin Chessman Committee
Deat
Iour Wmnty
San Quentin — Prison
Here
Sewing Machine Trades Dream Realized in Classified Ad
Mrs Charles Rankin of 315 Jones Rond sought a buyer for a sewing machine she had no use for She used Sun Classified Ads to find a willing trader The result was cash in hand as someone offered money for the machine rather than livestock or bunk beds Dial JU 2 884 ae OU 2 523s
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Charles Rankin
Jones Rond
Sun
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