Pearl Harbor ensign recalls morning of attack years ago
Ensign Sidney Sherwin, then aboard the USS Oklahoma, watched a low flying plane at Pearl Harbor on a sunny Sunday morning before the December 7 1941 attack. He survived by reaching Ford Island and later helped evacuate wounded as Battleship Row burned. Today he visits the memorial atop the sunken Arizona and remembers comrades lost in the assault.
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Sidney Sherwin
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Sherwin
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Honolulu
Jane Benoitt
Port News
Shervin
Curtis
Maryland
Ford Islnd
Ford Island
Battleship Row
Willson Assigned as Supervisor in Humble Unit
Willson is named supervisor in the Humble unit overseeing planning for specialty products development and new divisions at Humble Oil and Refining Co. Baytown Resin. He holds an ALA chemistry degree and a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas. He is a director of the Baytown Rotary Club and member of ACS and AIChE. He and Mrs. Willson reside at 20 Burning Tree Drive with three daughters.
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Baytown
Econoran
University of Texas
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American Institute of Chemicall Engineers
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Burning Tree Drive
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Pamela Carile
Birthday Party For Crosby Boy By Friends
Crosby correspondent Ida Anderson reports a birthday party for Ralph Lee Machala, son of Mr and Mrs Leroy Machala, at Lite Red Sehe Kindercarden Highlands. Santa cake, punch, favors, games and gifts featured. relatives from Highlands Crosby and Baytown attended the family reunion style gathering at multiple homes.
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Idell Anderson
Crosby
Ralph Lee Machala
Leroy Machala
Highlands
Babé Favors
B. W. Lynch
Machela
Lawrence Goldrich
Winfred Welch
Jana
J.D. Harzman
Leonard Earli Welch
Mike
Debbie
Mark
Kenneth Welch
Wendy
Segregation Given Another Big Setback
The Supreme Court ordered immediate desegregation of Fort Smith public schools, ruling in a 5-4 unsigned memo that petitioners are entitled to relief without hearing arguments. Justices voiced that delays in desegregating school systems are no longer tolerable and demanded prompt action.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Fort Smith
Ark
Power Loss Darkens Nine East Texas Counties
A 138 kv transmission line tripped between Orange and Lake Charles causing circuits to break and a turbo generator at Bridge City to go out. Gulf State Utilities restored power in 25 minutes through a power interchange with major Texas utilities. The outage affected 34,000 customers, 29,000 residential, amid remarks by FPC chairman during comment on the New England blackout.
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Texas
Joseph Swidler
Federal Power Commission
New England
Preident Johnson
Beaumont
Enjay Chemical Man Granted U.S. Patent
Joseph M. Bonem of Enjay Chemical Co Baytown plant receives U S patent for a process to recover valuable organic solvents from a water stream by contacting the water with a hydrocarbon solvent such as Kawane Enijay likely from Humble Oil division.
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A. U.S
Joseph M. Bonem
Enjay Chemical Co
Baytown
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