Hearings Slated as Baytown Property Valuations Jump
Baytown property valuations show sharp increases in many areas with the biggest hikes on Texas Avenue and near Pruett Addition north of Decker Drive. Some South and West Baytown residential blocks rose modestly or were cut, while several parcels and blocks near the highway and Morrell Park saw substantial boosts. The City Hall hearings, scheduled to allow protests, will be led by A V Barber with board members Steele M McDonald H E Brunson and A G Corneil. alternates are Carl Mann and E W Buelow.
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Baytown
Texas Avenue
South and
West Baytown
City Hall
A. V. Barber
Steele M. McDonald
H. E. Brunson
A. G. Corneil
Carl Mann
E. W. Buelow
Pruwtt
Texas
Pruett and Decker Drive
Unis
Prueth
R.H. Pruett
Pruett
Rick
Britten- Tavens Addition
Danubria Court
Belenging
Elizabeth J. Jones
W. ,Woods
W. FE. Denman
East Texas
Robert Matherne
Fred Harriman
Bevlat Mae Jackson
Bert Black
WT Busch
Morrell Park
Disabled 13yearold found hurt after kidnapping attempt
A crippled 13 year old girl named Margaret Louise Allison was found in a ditch five miles from the place her mother says she was abducted from a back seat. The mother insists the child cannot move or cry yet. Police questioned a bicyclist seen near the car but found no supporting tracks.
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Ton
U.P
Examina
Margaret Louise
J. W. Allison
Allison
Budget Review Schedules Wednesday Meeting in City Office
Council members discuss budget revisions at 7 pm in City 1 CD. Middleton briefs department heads on budget estimates. Notices mailed 16 days ago to property owners. People named include MORROW and Brown. Building workout and hospital operation referenced.
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Coungil
Fiodfres
City 1
Middleton
Chance Morrow
Mihnes
Ity
Doomed Dog Nabs Burglar Gets Reprieve
Bal ko Balko keeper of a Baytown jewelry shop befriended a sick dog left behind by its owner. The dog barked and snapped at a burglar aiming a gun at Balko’s trailer home and helped him subdue the intruder until police arrived. The burglar, an ex convict Floyd T. Arnold, is jailed on a burglary charge.
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A. Batho
Baytown
Floyd T. Arnold
Balko
Baiko
Wlr
Montgomery
Arnold
Baytown Pilot Interviewed in Korea Recording to Air
Mrs Lil Crump of 411 East Heman awaits news of Captain James T Crump after a July 4 separation. A combat zone recording featuring his FEAF interview with Jim Barnlett will air at 1 30 and 8 30 a m and p m on KRCT Radio Station. The pilot served in World War II and rejoined service with the Houston Air National Guard last October. They have a 5 year old daughter Jamie.
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Lil Crump
East Heman
James T. Crump
Ho Tea
Rallie
KRCT
Crump
Korea
FEAF
Jim Barnlett
Jim
Bartown
Houston Air National Guard
Jamie
A. G. Crump
Sour Lake
Japanese Pay Tribute To Baytown G
A funeral in Hokkaido Japan marked the first service by the 45th Infantry Division since its activation last September. Corporal John J. Daniels of Baytown Texas died August 2 from a broken neck after an incident with the division s 10th Ranger Company.
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Baytown
Hokkaido
Japan
Jgri
45Th Infantry Division
John J. Daniels
Texas
10Th Ranger Company
Auto crash leaves Tenaha man with severe lip injuries
O K Winfree Jr of Tenaha barely escaped serious facial loss after a collision on Highway 145 and Cedar Bayou road Saturday night. His upper lip was cut from side to side and lower lip torn when his head hit the steering wheel during a rear end crash with James Laminack of 112 Sunset Drive. Laminack slowed for oncoming headlights and was bumped into, his car shoved 320 feet into a field while he was only shaken.
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O. K Winfree, Jr
Tenaha
Highway 145
Cedar Bayou Road
Winfree
James T. Laminache
Sunset Drive
Pan Anerson
Laminack
Gls Beat Off Savage Red Counter Attacks in Korea
United Nations infantry, tanks, and artillery repelled Communist counterattacks across a wide front in Korea. The offensive, the largest since talks began July 10, saw UN forces seize three hills as heavy fighting persisted from the east coast to heights east of the ceasefire line. Jets shot down several Communist aircraft. allied forces advanced toward the Manchurian border amid intense cross-front combat and artillery bombardments.
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Eighth Army
Korea
United Nations
Arilles
Hacsone
Farm Group Seeks More Aid From US
Washington requests from the Agriculture Department to aid farmers amid falling prices. National Grange urged a stockpile for cotton, price supports, and use of all facilities to help growers reduce surpluses and bring cotton to a reasonable level. Newsom noted the decline followed defense emergency production goals and argued against penalizing farmers.
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Washington
Lit
Agriniture Department
National Grange
Hersch- Yewsont
Agriculure
Charles F._ Brannan
Newsom
Army Won't Try OSS Man Italians May Avenge Slain Officer
The Army rejected reentry for ex OSS officer Icardi to face court martial over the 1984 murder of Major William Holohan in Tate. Teardi and Teardi and LoDoice deny charges, while extradition fights loom as trials on foreign soil complicate retroactivity of new military law.
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Washington
OSS
Icardi
Office of Strategic Services
Seardi
Cari
Department
Wm .V. Holohan
New York
Tate
Teardi
Defense Departments
LaDelce
Holohan
Wwe
Lo- Doice
Army
Tcardi
School Budget Hearings Set For Tonight
Public hearings on the 1851 52 budgets for the school and Lee College are at 7 30 p m in the district Administration Building The 1 cent rise in the public school tax rate brings it to 125 per 100 valuation with the 15 cent Lee College tax keeping total school tax at 1 20 Trustees will open bids for a cafeteria auditorium at McNair School Lowell Lammers is architect on the project Several teachers are scheduled to discuss instructional problems for the term
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McNair School
Lowell Lammers
Bayou Water Plans Approved and Board Set Friday
Directors will meet Friday night to organize Harris County Second Improvement District No. 26. Formation was approved 102 to 23 in Saturday’s election with 132 votes, 70 percent turnout. Meeting at Boyd N. Hill’s home will plan an exclusion hearing for property owners wishing to be excluded. Attorney FOL. McNutt to begin preliminary work on a $250,000 bond election to finance water and sewer installations.
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Harris County
Boyd N. Hill
State Board of Water Engineers
B.E. Frankling
E. Ww. Bowerman
S. C. Brady
S. H. Gates
McNutt
UN links Kaesong ambush to sabotaged talks
The UN said the killing of a Communist patrol leader near Kaesong may be an attempt to wreck cease-fire talks. North Korean and South Korean actors were suspected, with the UN denying involvement by its troops. The incident stalled talks as negotiators met in Kaesong and Tokyo seeking a truce line agreement.
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Kaesong
Korea
United Nations Command
William Nuckols
Nam Ti
Emily
Kaesung
Puesday
Eartown
C. Turner Joy
Laurence ©. Craigie
Tokyo
É Uld
Thie
Fasi
Waelenea
Los Angeles
Omar N. Bradley
US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Songong
Pea Mun Jom Endach
Xamii
Baytown Prepares for Possible Hurricane Warning
City Manager C D Middleton ordered department heads to ready personnel and equipment for immediate action. Sacks sandbags and lanterns were identified as urgently needed supplies if a hurricane strikes Baytown, with access to all items at a moment's notice.
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C.D Middleton
Middleton
Baytown Rain Drenches Region. Quack Shack Hit by Lightning
A 23 inch Baytown weekend rainfall cooled the area with Sunday storms, soaking parched ground. Lightning struck the Quack Shack teen recreation center tearing holes in the roof and driving a splinter into a Blywood booth, with estimated damage between 805 and 500 dollars covered by insurance. W C Swain reports scattered circuit damage. crews repaired lines while thundershowers continued across Texas. The Burt Davison home at 1607 East James was struck, shingles scattered, but no one was injured.
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Baytown
Quack Shack
Blywood
Burt Davison
East James
Davisons
Late Bulletin Storm Hits Gulf
The New Orleans Weather Bureau reports at 10 a m that the killer hurricane has crossed the Yucatan into the Gulf of Mexico and is about 30 miles northwest of Merida.
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Gulf New Orleans
New “Orleans
Jamaica Hurricane Devastates Jamaica and Yucatan Coast
Reports from Merida and Progreso describe the violent tropical storm tearing through Jamaica with 109 dead and widespread destruction. The hurricane, moving toward the Gulf of Mexico, caused homes to fall, crops damaged, and fear among 160000 residents in Merida, with authorities warning of potential higher winds and dangerous seas.
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Merida
Yucatan
Jamaica
Yu~ Catan Peninsula
Mexico
Progreso
Meride
Gulf of Mexico
Fred Per Gee
Fred Hartman
Sur
Harmans
Ghos Rios
Kingston
Suill
Caribbean
Gulf
Campeche
Mexican
Brownsville
Tarmpice
Yucsien
Texas Democrat Warns GOP Southern Alliance Could Break Balance
Representative Walter Rogers of Texas warns that a 1952 GOP Southern Democratic alliance proposed by Senator Mundt would destroy political balance and risk a government split. Rogers cites Britain’s labor-government split as a warning, arguing a complete cleavage between left and right could yield unbalanced statism. Mundt says the alliance could be necessary to halt socialism and notes some Southern Democrats have voted with Republicans.
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Washington
iPi
Walter Rogers
Texas
Rogers
Pamps
Congress
Kart
Mundt
Britain
Labor
GOP Hits Truce at Parallel Desolate Policy Report
Republican Senators prepare a scathing report denouncing a 23rd parallel truce as a victory for aggression and a surrender in disguise. The document, described as the GOP answer to the MacArthur probe, criticizes Far Eastern policy as a desolate failure and is signed by seven confirmed allies with possible reservations from an eighth.
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GOP
Jace Anderson
Washington
23Th Parellel
MacArthur Investigating Committee
Brewster
Maine
Bridges
New, Hampshire
Cain
Hickenlooper
Town
Knowland
California
Smith
New Jersey
Wiley
Wisconsin
Flanders
Vermont
Republican Blast Called 99 Percent Political
A fragment from a Washington column notes a partisan backlash described as 99 percent political. The entry cites unclear attribution and lacks readable names or events suitable for fuller summary.
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