Vaccine Cutoff Threatens Labor Strikes Across South
Civilian employees strike against Sandia Corporation at Albuquerque as AFL unions threaten to halt Salk vaccine supplies. In Detroit Parke-Davis faces a 60-day contract hold, while Southern Bell and rail unions report sabotage linked fires and explosions. Strikes span nine states with extensive economic disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Imakes
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Sandia Corporation
Albuquerque
Army Base
Sandia Company
Western Electric
AFL Metal Trades and Office Workers Unions
Detroit
CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Parke, Davis & Co
Parke Davis
Anoihier
First
Secon
LEN Railroad
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Southern Bell
Belle Glade, Fla
Exchange
L&n
Barbers Hill Fourth Graders Visit Sun Office
Barbers Hill fourth graders visit The Baytown Sun offices on a spring trip. Principal Tom Manison and teacher Louise McKay accompany, with list of students including Carolyn Chamhlin Shiela Davis Edy Dugat Lynda Farmer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbers Hill
Sun Office
Baytown Sun
Tom Manison
Louise McKay
Carolyn Chamhlin
Shiela Davis
Edy Dugat
Lynda Farmer
Clydene Leftwich
Karen Myers
Patricia Osholt
Willa Dean Reeves
Janelle Smith
Anna Marie Stockman
Shirley Tinker
Randy Busch
Glenn Cotton
Donald Bratton
Ronald Bratton
Roger Gardner
Caddy Gunn
Charles Harmon
James Hoffman
Jackie Johnson
Kenneth Klaus
Lee McDowell
Randy McCullum
Morris Owens
Richard Smith
Willard Steadman
Bob White
Butch Whitener
Jerry Marietta
Sam Houston ex-students meet in Baytown home
A Baytown area gathering of Sam Houston State College alumni will convene at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Kirkpatrick’s Crystal Bay residence to photograph yearbook pictures. The event was moved from the Community House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Houston State College
Baytown Area
Jesse Kirkpatrick
Crystal Bay
Peggy Campball
Baytown
Sam Souston State College
Huntsville
Miss Campbell
C. ©. Campbell
Sam Clouston
Robert BE. Lee High School
Town Notes and Sports Bits From The Lone State
Around Town items mention T Norris traveling to San Antonio to watch the lander mile relay team chase a world record set last year. John Wilson enjoys the sunshine. Tommy Laughlin returns home from the University of Texas. Pat Bond stays home with family. Jim Bond smiles over Texas High football stars and the big haul. Mose Sumner appeals for improvements. W C Underwood visits Barbers Hill schools and hospital stay for regional track meet. Don McLeod of Barbers Hill and other local names weave through the week. A note on pink reading glasses at Weingarten’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. T. Norris
San Antonio
Lander
John Wilson
The
Sunshine
Tommy Laughl
University of Texas
Pat Bond
Ever
Jim Bond
Texas
Allman
Mose Sumner
W. C. Underwood
Barbers Hill
Bagley
Cane
Barbers Way
Mont Melviewy
Atom Ship To Be Fastest Afloat
President Eisenhower announced an atomic powered merchant ship designed to go farther and faster than any current freighter with a higher cargo capacity. Officials say launch cannot occur before 15 months, with private shipyards building the hull and reactor designs by competing builders. The project aims to showcase peacetime uses of atomic energy during a world ports tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard EB. Mooney
Washington
Eisenhower
Daniillas
Navy
Nationalists Say U S Not Demanding Evacuation of Islands
Taipei reports Nationalist Legislators were told by O K Yul that the United States is not demanding evacuation of Quemoy and Matsu. Radford had flown in for talks but did not discuss evacuation. A Formosa liaison center will coordinate US and Nationalist military activities in the Formosa Strait under Pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Taipey
Formosa
Premice O. K. Yul
United States
Quemoy
Matsu’ Islands
Agar
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Pier
Alfred’ M. Pride
U. S
Formosa Strait
Pride
Seventh Fleet
Navy
Air Force
Taigei
Radford
Chiang Kai-Shek
Yui
Legislative Yuan
Matsu
Guard Recruiting Drive Aims to Fill Inf Regiment
Capt John Kader of EB 143rd Infantry Texas National Guard announced a two month recruiting campaign to reach full strength. He highlighted benefits including pay, promotion prospects, retirement pay, home service, and ability to work while in the Guard. Enlistment at Company E awaits at the Armory on North Main Fairgrounds, phone 5719.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kader
EB 143Nd Infantry
Texas National Guard
National Guard
Guard
Capk Kader
Rani
Kader
Fairgrounds
North Main
Deer Park District Buys Four Buses and Plans Stadium Work
The Deer Park school district approved buying four buses, three large 66 passenger units and one 20 passenger, at about 5 145 each for the large buses and 3 295 for the small bus. They also agreed to landscape Deepwater Elementary with 24 Arizona ash trees at 4 50 each and 25 per cent for planting. The district hired staff for 22 teaching positions for 1995 96 and discussed gym and stadium projects with Architect Emory White. May 9 canvass for absentee voting and May 7 school board election places were set with May 10 reserved for Gulf Coast Association meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Park
Texas Coach Sales Co
Deepwater
Jolson Landscaping and Tree Service Co
Baytown
Abshier
San Tacinto
Trusines
Emory White
Deepwater Elementary
White
Bill Marshall
Gulf Coast Association of School Boards
Pasadena
Texas tax bill heads to Senate after House approval
Administration backed measure advances to the Senate after an 86 to vote in the House amid bitter opposition. The bill would raise gasoline tax from 4 to 6 cents, cigarettes from 4 to 5 cents a pack, and introduce new taxes on tobacco forms, trade stamps, beer and wine licenses, and uranium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Senate
House
Norer
Allan Shi
Three Killed In Bomb Like Explosion At Naval Base
An explosion at a secret torpedo testing facility on a U S naval base in Newport R F T destroyed a laboratory building. Three civilians were killed and five injured with reports of missing persons. The blast occurred in the dynamometer room amid classified torpedo research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R.ft
U.S
Navy
Ordnance
Fire Department
Naval Hospital
Prowler Fired On As He Attempts Home Entry
A Highlands resident shot at a prowler as he tried to enter a home Monday night. The man fled into woods near Blue Gully after screams drew a neighbor to fire several shots from a .30-30 rifle. Deputies from Highlands and Baytown, a State police car, fire crews, and residents searched into the night for the wounded or dead intruder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue, Gully
Baytown
Highlands Fire Department
Highlands Parts
Dust Forecast Promises Fresh Dust in West Texas
The weather bureau said Tuesday that lingering "old dust" in Texas would remain afloat and that new dust might be stirred up in West Texas during the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Weather Bureau
Texas
Diamond Alkali Names Koll Green Bayou Plant Manager
Robert Z. Koll, formerly Technical Manager at the Derr Park plant, is promoted to manager of Diamond Alkali Co. Green Bayou plant, replacing Henry Curtis who has resigned. Koll joined the company in 1945 and has held several leadership roles including plant superintendent and technical manager. He has worked on special technical problems for the chlorinated products division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Z. Koll
Derr Park Diamlondg Alkali Co
Green Bayou
Kall
Henry §. Curtis
Koll
Dear Park
Poultry Farmers sue over plane crash damage claim
Allegany County commissioners face a civil suit filed by two poultry farmers alleging planes from the greater Pittsburgh airport caused damage to chicken coops. They claim 400 pullets were killed and 24 early births destroyed by the low flying aircraft.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Greater
Body Of Houston Man Is Recovered
The body of a Houston man identified as Rh. R. Philpott of Hea was found late Tuesday morning in Lake Houston after he reportedly drowned Saturday. Justice of the Peace Walter Queen left Baytown to preside at an inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rh. R. Philpott
Hea
Lake Houston
Justice of the Peace
Walter Queen
Baytown
Aspirin Seen as Deadly Risk to Children at Texas Meet
At the Texas Medical Association convention in Fort Worth Dr John A Anderson Minneapolis warned aspirin can kill if within reach of a child. He cited United States data showing over 100 pediatric deaths in the previous year and compared aspirin danger to other poisons. Texas poison death rate for under fives stands high nationally. The convention's sectional meetings are set for Tuesday, the second day of the 88th annual gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Minneapolis
Texas Medical Association
John A. Anderson
Mhnneapolis
United States
Texas
Association
Indian trainee steals RAF plane and crashes in France
Manik Agnani, a 20 year old Indian airman with few flights, stole a twin engine RAF trainer from Thorney Island near Portsmouth. He commandeered a flight across Britain, then crashed near Valenciennes France, killing four people including a woman and two children and injuring several others. Authorities believe he died in the wreckage.
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Valenciennes
France
Royal Air Force
Britain
London
Alman
England
Waris
Dalle
RAF
Manik Agnani
India
Thorney Shane Rak
Portsmouth
Baytown CAP Cadets Enter State Drill Team
Nine Baytown Civil Air Patrol cadets are named to Group 95 drill team entering a May 14 state wide drill. The squadron group includes 40 cadets from Ffons tan Griveston Shamrock and Baytown units under Commandant Kubik. Team members include Cadet Captain Riva Stanley and Corporals Paul Malone Bobby Poston among others. Group competition winner advances to regional contests across several states at Blington Field Thursday night drill practice led by Lt Cdr Swick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Civil Air Patrol
Ffonstan
Griveston
Shamrock
Baytown
Lo W. O. Kubik
Croup
Galveston
Police unveil slow safety patrol markers in Waxtown
Police Chief WLR Montgomery promotes the new actual safety patrol markers aimed at slowing traffic through school zones. Coca-Cola donated the markers to Waxtown as part of a safety program sponsored with police departments in several Texas cities, Baytown reportedly has 26 of the patrolsmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wlr
Montgomery
Secrd
Waxtown
Coca-Cola Company
Texas
Baytown
Vienna Talks Set for May 2 Ambassadors Conference
The Soviet Union agreed to an ambassadors conference in Vienna with Western allies to draft a treaty freeing occupied Austria and began on May 2. Moscow said the conference may not be the shortest route to a final accord and sent identical notes to the United States Britain and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Unium
Vienna
Ridgway Warns Soviets Ready for Major War
Gen. Matthew Ridgway testified to a Congressional gun committee that the Soviet army is equipped and ready for a major war and the most powerful force in being today. He warned communist Europe forces are modernizing to become effective fighting forces while U S forces require more personnel for atomic war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washlington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Sécre
Uttle
Europe
Dgeway
House
U.S
Army
Robert T. Stevenson
Ridgeway
Coffee Startup Trials Fast Brew in Chicago Test
In Chicago the Vacuum Can Co announces a test with four hundred cups of coffee kept warm while awaiting evaluation. The plan is to brew and deliver fresh coffee daily during the test period to ensure supply in emergency areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Newieda
Vacuum Can Co
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Baytown League of Women Voters
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Lee College
Oells
R. M. Haley
Woolworth
Houston
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W. GC. Lord
Haley
Weingarten'a
Administration
Drr
Supt
Clyde Abshier
Meael
Trustens
Prowler
Highlands
Baytown Cap
Police
W.K. Montgomery
John Velty
Weyoar-oh
Trish Wanderer
Los Angeles
Mexico
Indianga Coy Diay
Vera Orin
Acapulos
Ridgway
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