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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1955
Page
14
CARLSBAD New Mexico UP reports mass bat die off at Carlsbad Caverns as farmers spraying crops to combat insects may be triggering the decline. Bat carcasses found in nearby fields.
Melinda Markey, 21, wife of television actor Donald Hayden, was recovering at home after an overdose of sleeping pills following a quarrel with her husband. She was found unconscious Saturday night and treated at Belleville Hospital, with police noting her friend Beverly Saglie was away at the time. The report blends personal distress with a broader odd inclusion about bat caves and ecological notes, but focuses on the immediate incident involving Markey and the hospital stay.
FORT WORTH July Patrick Boyer 44 died Sunday night en route from jail to hospital after Friday arrest for drunkenness. Officer Leath said Boyer appeared weak and trembled. he was later hospitalized, released, and placed in jail for safety. He died in an ambulance after a second collapse in his cell.
Bonn reports Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 78, will confer with political leaders and diplomats for 10 days before departing for Moscow. He returned to Rheinhoven after six weeks in the Swiss Alps and will fly to Moscow in September.
Fort Worth reports Dr. Login Wilson, UT president, warned more than half of the nation's 900 private colleges operate on a deficit and face worsening finances without prompt action. He cited lagging appropriations and rising costs as evidence of strain on higher education nationwide and at Texas Christian University.
At least 21 Hong Kong youths on an excursion were drowned when a dam burst sending a wall of water down a rocky stream. The 76 boys and five girls were on Tipo Aint stream as a cloudburst weakened the barrier. A flood swept them away in the torrent. The article also notes the Harvard Yale boat race as an early intercollegiate event in America, held at Lake Winnipesaukee in 1872.
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