31 Aug 1950
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1950
Page
1
The Second Division press reports a fierce clash near Pohans with North Korean forces under heavy American and South Korean artillery. Torchlit formations formed letters V and O as tanks and planes pummeled the retreating enemy. US Third Division holds a ridge above the city amid ongoing fighting.
Texas Rangers pursued Cohen across the state after a pickup order from Gonzaulles and Detective Chief Homer Garrison. Cohen, escorted into Wichita Falls by oilman Jack Story, claimed oil leases would keep him in the city for a few days. Earlier Los Angeles reports tied Cohen to the Sunset Strip injuries and tied him to large bail guarantees for associates who vanished.
The plane labeled flight 903 departed Bombay and Cairo in the early hours, headed for Rome. Radio contact ceased 57 minutes after take-off and 22 minutes after leaving Cairo. Eight hours later wreckage was spotted between Nile branches near the Delta region by Alexandria. Rescue teams, including TWA executives in Cairo, rushed to the site.
Fort Worth market report shows cattle prices with common and medium slaughter steers and heifers mostly 21.00, load 950 lb steers at 24.50, cows 20.00 to 21.50, canners and cutters 14.00 to 20.00, sausage bulls 19.00 to 24.50. Stocker steer yearlings 24.00 to 23.00, stocker cows around 1,000, calves 25.00 to 28.00 for slaughter, with stocker calves 24.00 to 31.00 and slow demand noted.
The report describes torches lighting the night, forming a VW shape toward the river, with artillery sounds and periodic torches reigniting. At 10 pm American observation posts heard tank engines and artillery, while torches faded after about 20 minutes.
Mrs. M L Daniels marked 67 years of church membership at Cedar Bayou Methodist with a home service on Highway 136 attended by more than 150 people. E M Kilgore and Eugene M Davis, both long affiliated with the church, were baptized in 1889 and have since joined Houston churches. Wilson Epperson and Misses Annie Alma Elisor could not attend.
Mr and Mrs Braish Wolverton celebrate two years in the Wolverton Grocery at 107 Wooster Baytown. They moved here three and a half years ago from Overton Texas where they ran a grocery store for about a year and previously operated in Arp Texas for more than 12 years. The store now uses a self service supermarket format with two butchers a checker and a stock boy. The Wolvertons expanded after a year and a half of growth and now occupy larger quarters.
Sick List at LILLIE-DUKE and San Jacinto Memorial shows visiting hours and Wednesday admissions including names such as Bobby Wallace James Wallace G A Wallace and John E Smith Georgia Cartwright David Wall Donald Wheeler with addresses listed in Alva La Porte High lands Crosby and Crosstown areas plus Mrs E F Lewis Amadeo Rincon Jr Dorothy Mae Branch and Mrs Wallace C Anderson among others.
A stock quote summary lists Allen Lud, Armco Steel, Ponce, ASB Amer Woolens, Anaconda Cop, Budd Co, Calumet and Hecla, Celanese, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak, Dow Pont, Gen Electric, Gen Motors, Goodyear, GNI, Gulf Oil, Humble, Interlake Iron, Kirby Pet, Libby, Ohio Oil, Pure Oil, Peskard Motors, Southern Pacific, Texas Co, Tidewater, Timken, US Steel, Woolworth, and October Cotton prices. The page includes varied figures with multiple percent changes and a short World War II era Belgian forces note.
Five passenger coaches and two Pullman sleepers plunged from a 15 foot embankment into deep ditches on both sides of the track. Cars left the rails as the train derailed continuing into the fields beside the right of way.
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