City Council Faces Annexation Hurdles And Budget Talks
Clyde Murray reports Baytown council deals with annexation limits for Cedar Bayou Lakewood and Brownwood areas and prepares budget review while considering an ordinance to amend Civil Service regulations to create an assistant police chief post. The meeting extends late and follows a firemen banquet related disruption.
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Cedar Bayou
Lakewood
Brownwood
Baytown
Vig Decker
French Premier Mendes France Early on European Army Plan
Premier Mendes France discusses the stalled European army project with U S and British diplomats at the foreign ministry. He outlined how the West should answer a four power conference and prepared cabinet copies of his plans before a cabinet meeting. Observers say a vote on ratification could come within days with post ratification changes possible. France and Italy have not ratified the program backed by the United States which would form a 500000 strong West German contingent in a common army.
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Barts
Pierre Mendes
France
Mendes-France
U.S
C. Douglas Dillon
Patrick
Reilly
Foreign Ministry
Dillon
Ic- Mendes-France
Cpélore
National Assembly
Italy
United States
Cedar Bayou Bear Den Party and Local Social Notes
Cedar Bayou students prepare for an informal Bear Den party at the hand hall with blue jeans theme and card exchange. DeMolay Hayride group from Baytown plans a hayride and weiner roast, departing 6 p.m. from Hor ate Mann for San Jacin battlegrounds. Also notes a Business and Professional Women's dinner at Riverside Inn Kemah with Dr. W. H. Bridges speaking at 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday.
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Cedar Bayou
Baytown
Weiner
Horate Mann
San Jacinto Battlegrounds
Riverside Inn
Kemah
W. H. Bridges
McCarthy Letter Under Federal Inquiry and Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Justice Department has taken over the McCarthy letter matter amid Army McCarthy hearings. Officials say they study an Army report on subversive activity at Fort Monmouth while questions remain over how the letter and FBI references reached McCarthy.
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Joseph R.maccarthy
FBI
Fort Monmouth
Army
McCarthy
Angie
J. Edgar Hoover
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Hoover
Supper Rage Turns Violent Husband to Hospital
A Baytown woman was rushed to a hospital after Wednesday night assault leaving visible abrasions and possible fractures or internal injuries. Her husband admitted to four policemen that he whipped her because she did not have his supper, calling it an excusable offense.
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Baytown
Mrs Caskey Dies After Long Illness in Highlands
Nannie Greer Caskey aged 80 died in a Highlands hospital at 7 40 am Thursday after a long illness. She lived with daughter Mrs L R Reynolds of Highlands. Funeral services will be at 10 am Saturday at First Baptist Church Arcadia with Conger Funeral Home handling arrangements. Survivors include three daughters Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Bertha Michael of Dayton and Mrs WO Yarborough of Arcadia. two sons Clayton Caskey of Jonesville and Dr W M Caskey of Clinton. two sisters Mrs Mattie Kilpatrick and Mrs Maggie Gault. two brothers Marvin Greer and Jim Greer. and 10 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
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Nannie Greer Caskey
Highlands
Caskey
L. R. Reynolds
High- Tanes
Conger Funeral Home
Arcadia
First Baptist
Hartiman Funeral Home
Reynolds
Bere’tha
Police and postal units hunt burglar after post office theft
La Porte police and Galveston postal inspectors combine efforts Thursday to locate a burglar who entered the Kemah post office and stole several rolls of pennies. Investigators believe the same thief hit Gus Plank's barbecue near Seabrook on Thursday night, taking a cigarette machine, three boxes of cigars, eight cases of canned beer and one case of bottled beer.
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la Porte
Galveston
Kemah
Gus Plank
Seabrook
Ike Sees Business High Decline Over TE Ike Sees Business High Decline Over
Ike Sees business decline and a detailed profile of Baytown junior high coach and assistant principal Rushing. The piece highlights Rushing’s dedication to students, his coaching and counseling background, and his qualifications for school leadership with years of junior high experience and graduate work.
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Ike
Eleanor Bergeron
Rushing
Baytown Junior
Baytown
Sam “Houston
Tela
University of Texas and
Trom
The
Univeral
Tunior
Taft-Hartley Injunction Halts Weeklong Strike
U S District Judge Taylor issued a Taft Hartley injunction halting a 4500 member production workers strike at Tup verification plants in Paducah and Knoxville. Officials said the government cannot tolerate a strike at an atomic plant and urged settlement by Aug 18. The action came after CIO Gas Coke and Chemicals Union members voted to join the strike, which threatened uranium production for bombs.
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Paducah
U. S
Rol Robert L. Taylor
Knoxville
CIO Gas, Coke and Chemicals Union
Atrle
Tay'mest
Justice Department
Altéraats
Dome
CIO
Memee Sie A
Fea
Guion
The
Carbide and Chemical Corp
Shivers Bids For Labor In Port Arthur In 1952 Race
Gov Allan Shivers tours Port Arthur to win labor votes as Ralph Yarborough attacks his GOP ties in 1952 campaign. Shivers claims labor support while criticizing Yarborough for backing Republicans and opposing a 1951 anti Communist bill. Yarborough says state employees are being mobilized to aid Shivers.
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Shivers
Port Arthur
Yarborough
United Press
Allan Shivers
Ralph “Yarborough
Texas
Dallas
Odessa
Ivers
Shiver
Communist Party
CIO
Tidman
Baytown
Tom Connaily
Washington
Dudge Ralph Yarborough
Couple Caught With Goods Jail Ends Southwest Tour
An AWOL airman and his pregnant wife were jailed in Houston after a nationwide check writing spree, cashing about $3,000 in checks and stocking six barrels of groceries. Arthur LaFayette Bushee said he used an Air Force card for identification and planned to avoid jail for his unborn child.
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Houston
Arthur LaFayette Bushee
Hig
Clovis
N. M
Joy
Bushee
A. J. Burke
California
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Air Force
Busbee
Air Force Hero Faces New Theft Charges
Col Robert Orr, a Korean War veteran with multiple decorations, was arrested in Las Vegas for burglary after authorities say he possessed secret government documents from a hotel break in. A scheduled hearing was postponed to Sept. 2 for mental evaluations. he remains held at a hospital at Nellis Air Force Base.
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Washington
Robert Orr
Las Vegas
Air Force
Ite
Orr
Korea
Nevada
Nellis Air Force Base
Atomic Patents Debate Spurs House Senate Tactics
Senators and representatives clash over a joint conference to rewrite the patent section of an atomic bill. Democratic leaders reportedly back a fresh maneuver after a filibuster pause as Lyndon B. Johnson presses for a path to a vote. A foe backed provision would require private atomics holders to share royalties with others for five years. Defense mentions a flexible force readiness at a high cost.
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Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Kemah Auto Racer Wiley Corder Dies in Accident
Wiley Corder, 43, a seasoned Kemah auto racer, was killed when he ran a stop sign and collided with a car driven by Jesse Van Winkle, 26, at a Pasadena intersection. Van Winkle survived with no injuries.
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Pasadena
Tex
Wiley Corder
Keak
Aign
Pete Caahloia
Corder
Jesse M. van Winkle
Wolker
van Winkle
New Pasadens Hospital
Benge on a Poohomic Program and Market Improvement
Fragmentary text mentions Corigresa wil Unesdployinant sion and Feducthon tories. It hints at a great stock market boom and attraction, but lacks clear details, names, dates, or definite events.
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Benge
Corigresa
Texan soars under London Tower Bridge for love
Gene Thompson of Lubbock Texas, a Korean War veteran, piloted a small red and silver Auster plane through the arch between London Bridge and the Thames to impress his hometown girlfriend Helen Brown. He flew about a lunch hour crowd, then left England on the U S Atlantic, saying it was a stunt for love that failed to win her.
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London
Towerx
Dondon
Tower Bridge
London Bridge
Derring-Do
Ste
Gene Thompson
Lubboth
Tex
Gene
U. S
Atlantic
Havre
France
Gene Sid
England
Pritoate
al Mta
Thompson
Teldsee
Rsax
Thames
Thombuen
Denham
Feld
Britavnst
Texas
Helen Brown
Lubbock
UN hands over captured Korea land to South Korea
Seoul dispatch reports the United Nations will transfer about 2 000 square miles of captured North Korean territory to the Republic of Korea. General Hull said the move does not end negotiations and would return rule of the area north of the 3rd parallel to Korean authorities, reflecting pressure from President Syngman Rhee. The decision follows UN commission actions urging end of UN military government in Korea.
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South Korea
Seoul
United = Nations
Republic ‘of Korea
Syngman Rhee
John E. Hull
Rhee
ROK
Hull
UN Commission
Korea
Charges Against French Go To Jury
Oscar W. French, 33, bound over to the grand jury on burglary and assault charges tied to two women. He allegedly broke a screen window to enter his former wife Deloren French’s bedroom, choked her until she blacked out, then carried her to his mother’s home. A Baytown woman testified French opened a car door and tried to remove her clothing, prompting a bystander to pull him away.
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Oscar W
Teeny) French
Grand
Deloren French
French
J. M. Mull
Sam Houston Courts
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Ly R. del Homme
Raytown
Jerry Marcontell
Lous del Homme
Tess Neeley
Fletcher Erin
Din Fuller
Clarence
Schuit
Michael Taylor
Jia
Dean Runde
Jean Booth
Ross White
Baytown Athletic Club
Jim Johnson
Mary Virginia Satterwhite
TCU
Jordan
Robert Hill
Lucille Beard
Tommy Clayton
Joe
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Taft-Hartley
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Abe Paat
Defense Sen
Homer Ferguson
R-Mich
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Texan
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