Roberts E Lee Ganders Set To Face Port Arthur In Bi-District
The Robert E Lee Ganders travel to Port Arthur for a bi-district playoff with the unbeaten Yellow Jackets. Port Arthur is favored, but Lee seeks to disrupt PA’s high scoring output and extend their season with solid defense and timing after a three week layoff. Baytown fans expect a capacity crowd and a low scoring defensive battle tonight.
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Pax Shults
Robert E. Lee Ganders
Port Arthur Yellowers
Baytown
Jacket Stadium
KREL
Sports Ie
Byard Sooy
Bayshore Motors, Inc
Port Arthur
Robert B. Lee
Lee
Houston Lamar
Ganders
PortArthur
Tothe Reve
Baytown Penney workers to share two a day gift
Manager Lford Jones announces Penney stores authorize a special payment equal to two a day for all fulltime employees employed since 1959 with proportional extra for part timers. Over 54,000 people will share in the year end bonus as Christmas plans unfold in Baytown.
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Penney
Lford Jones
Survival Under Atomic Attack booklet sold for 10 cents
Baytown residents are urged to read Survival Under Atomic Attack a six secrets guide offering steps to survive a torale attack. Advice includes getting shielded in basements if possible, dropping flat with face protected, staying indoors after an air burst and avoiding contaminated food or water, plus avoiding rumors. Government and US Printing Office materials available. Civil Defense urges parent teacher discussions.
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Baytown
Washsoon
Government Printing Office
Washington
D. C
NLRB
Civil Defense Office
PTA
New Well Sparks Cedar Bayou Oil Boom Rumors
Crews hit pay sand below 600 feet at a Cedar Bayou oil well just across Highway 146 from the Bayou Cafe. Baytown officials and drillers report progress as Masters Crawford and Alexander No 2 on Causeway Road reveal thick oil bearing sands nearby.
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Cedar
CraFford
Jack P. Rayzor
Baytown
Causeway ‘Road Iit
Wwells
Town Band Plans With Friends In Wild Weekend
Jumbled notes reveal Garrett planning ball games with friends and Morse ready with a ticket. References to Weather, Santa, and various names appear among scattered lines and partial phrases. Elements suggest a local community note with multiple people and small events.
Gander Band Plans Flying Gander Half Time Show
The Robert E. Lee High School Band will perform a Flying Gander formation at halftime of Baytown Port Arthur bi district playoff football. Beverly Williams leads the 90 member band in PAM formation and Hail The Gang's All Here. The group includes 3132 corps members traveling to Port Arthur and 105 on the field, with drill squad, twirlers, and a large Texas map on Baytown stands.
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Port Arthur
Robert E. Lee High School
Baytown
Lee
Beverly Williams
Robert E Lee
Texas
Beverly Bargainer
Ray Cergill
Loja Kathryn Palmer
AEL Girls
Carolyn Wynne
Helen Meson
E Peger Faulk
Mary Lou Williams
Eugenia Fersguson
Hazel “Flournoy
Vernedine Raminand
Janice Stowe
Ganders
J F Rhodes Dies In Nixon
J F Rhodes 65 retired Humble Oil and Refining employee died at 2 10 p m Thursday in Nixon where he had lived 20 months He lived in Baytown over 29 years before retirement Survived by wife Fannie Lee Rhodes two sons Audley Rhodes Oakland Estates and Billy Rhodes Nixon two daughters Mrs Elsie Duble Fort Worth and Mrs Olga Sheppahr Bastern Funeral 2 50 p m Saturday at Paul A Lee Funeral Home Rev E R Couch pastor First Baptist Church officiating Goose Creek Lodge 1192 AF and AM will conduct graveside service at Cedarcrest Cemetery
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J. F. Rhodes
Humble Oi and Refining Company
Nixon
Rhodes
Baytown
Fannie Lee Rhodes
Audley Rhodes
Oakland Estates
Billy Rhodes
Elsie Duble
Fort Worth
Olga Sheppahr
Bastern
Paul A. Lee
E. R. Couch
First Baptist Church
Goose Creek Lodge No
A. F
A.M
Cedarcrest“ Cemetery
Weather Returns to Mild With Warm Sun and Birdsong
Temperatures rise to the high sixties under a balmy breeze as fair weather returns. A cold front lingered with freezes and pipe freezes. meanwhile a Geép-freeze devastated the Rio Grande Valley vegetables. A spring-like thaw contrasts with reports of a whirling blizzard from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians and rising death toll.
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Rio Grande Valley
Valley
Great Lakes
Gulf Station Opens with Giveaways and New Gulf Line
A new $10,000 Gulf Service Station at Worth Mein and Park will formally open tomorrow by Gulf distributor William Quartz and Wayne Ingersoll. Visitors receive novelties, with prizes like a television set, polish and wax, wash and grease, oil changes, and a gas tank. The station will offer Gulf petroleum products, tires, batteries, and accessories, in a Maxwell Construction building with concrete tile, plastered finish, two pump islands, and both white and gray test rooms.
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Gulf
Worth Mein and Park
Wiliam Quartz
Wayne V. Inger Soll
Erce
Cstellan
Maxwell Construction “Company
Encircled Yanks Face Chinese Fire In Korean Gauntlet
In a Tokyo dispatch a two pronged Chinese assault targets Hamburg and the Hamhung area. Marines and Army units retreat under heavy fire as Sinhung falls and Su threatened. Air support is limited by snow and low ceilings. A Dutch battalion arrives to bolster Eighth Army defenses amid renewed testing of positions.
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Tokyo
U.P
Hamburg
Korea
Sinhuns
Hamhung
Sinsung
Hamhung Complex
Sevanth
Koto
Alth Corps
Eighth
Pyonreng
Samdung
Pyongyang
Eighth Army
Truman Attlee end crisis talks on Korea and China
President Truman and British Prime Minister Attlee wrap crisis talks on Korea and aiding anti Communist forces. A Nationalist military source claims China plans large conscription and coastal deployment. US defense officials anticipate calls for four to five infantry divisions and equal air groups. Agriculture puts 1950 cotton output at 9,834,000 bales, about half 1949.
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Truman
Britain
Clement Attlee
Aron
Korea
Hed China
Washington - ER
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Truman and Attlee Agree on Korea Action at UN
Fragmented text reports Truman and Attlee discussing united action in Korea within the United Nations. Mentions Communist forces and allied leaders. detail is unclear due to mangled OCR.
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Truman
Attlee
Korea
Ciina
Operation Tock Below The Basse arydeck Z
In a cryptic report Mor das and V3 Gravenss Ferry intentent, unclear details emerge about a planned action and involved parties. The fragment hints at a security or military context with names tied to a potential operation.
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Gravenss Ferry
Chamber Members To Pick 1951 Directors Ballots
The Baytown Chamber of Commerce begins annual director elections with ballots mailed to members. Ballots must be returned by December 16 and counted by a committee led by Nelson Longnecker, Yaya T. Jones, and W. D. Hinson. Nominated members include Alexander, Arnett, Ballard, Bennett, Bond, Booth, Braswell, Bridges, Busch, Callaway, Davis, Dittman, Echols, Elms, Fayle, Gentry, Gillette, Godfrey, Gould, Grant, Grey, Hale, Hargrave, Harper, Honeycutt, Hugghins, Hughen, Jacobs, Helley, Kelley, Kraft, Lightfoot, Saunders, Seligman, Sherwood, Spear, Brassi, Stephenson, Weaver, and Herropp.
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Nelson Longnecker
Yaya T. Jones
W. D. Hinson
Alesander
David ¥_ Arnett
N. B. Ballard
Rufus Honeycutt
Joe Huggins
Paul L’ Hughen
Jack Jacobs
J. BR. Helley
Milton C Kelley
Baytown Building Slows To Walk In November Report
The Baytown building report shows November as the slowest month of the year with $515,400 in value and a yearly total of $5,583,711, compared with $4,173,500 in 1948. Residences cost an estimated $75,960, with homes planned for Fulmer, Reed, Henderson, Alman, Brooks, Sasse, and Jernigan. Construction Inc received a permit for 948 Fortune Drive and Humble Oil for 702 Denby, while Mexican Baptist Church at 1132 Cypress and Nazarene Church at 505 Avenue J are under construction.
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Baytown
BK. B. Fulmer
Missouri
J._W_ Reed
Wright Boulevard
I_ R- Henderson
West James
Max Alman
Marion, Brooks, Sasse
Ruth
N. E. Jernigan
Fort Worth
Mit
Fortune Drive
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Gots
Denby
Mexican’ Baptist Church
Cypress
Church of the Nazarene
Avenue J
City Buses Roll In Beaumont After Six-Week Strike
Beaumont city buses rolled through streets for the first time in six weeks after drivers voted to end the strike. The move ends a prolonged walkout that had disrupted transit service in the area.
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Beaumont
Lee Students Pick School Favorites at Robert E Lee High
At Robert E Lee High School a Student Council sponsored election chose school favorites among seniors including Sher wood Hensley Gordon Kellogg Roger Cary Bob Stout Anette Gather Helen Bradberry Bevers and named Mr and Miss Robert E Lee. AFL drivers plan return after a two year contract with National City Lines was approved two to one. The first bus departed at 4 45 am with regular service to follow. Port Arthur strike settlement remains distant as Local 1081 sought a 13 cent hourly raise under the new contract with 10 cent boost and mediation was to resume discussions soon.
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Robert E.lee High School
Sherwood Hensley
Gordon Kellogg
AFL
National City Lines
Girare
Port Arthur
Servienis
Tesumeé
Portichur
Goodfellows Aim Is Yule Joy You Can Be Santa To Needy Children
Confusion surrounds the Goodfellows appeal as volunteers prepare to buy new toys and nuts for needy children. The program packs gifts by age group to ensure proper distribution and community support for the holiday effort.
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Clus
Goodie How
Reiger
Wilton Roper
Santa
Mary White
Frazier
Red Great
Lee Pa-Gander Galle
Digi & I
Goodfellow
Goodfellows
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