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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1952
Page
1
President Eisenhower signals to end the Korean War with General MacArthur urging focus on peace. Contemporaneous dispatches report urban violence in New York and a naval collision near San Diego, while Cleveland baseball leadership contemplates a sale. Local labor, charity, and library committees plan drives and events ahead of year-end meetings.
The firm will give workers a day off Friday December 36 morning shift only. The plant will operate for the other shifts with no extra pay noted. Management frames the day as a courtesy to employees for this single occasion.
An unclear text fragment mentions camping and a place identified as Adak Island. References to Hicks, ESCC, and family events hint at a community page with names and locales but content is garbled and hard to extract coherent actions or outcomes.
La Porte voters approved a 21200 bond for street and building improvements by large margins. The street plan passed 225 to 125 while the building program won 234 to 121. Work starts around Feb 1 with preliminary tasks and bids to be set at the December 18 meeting.
Dr William E Sharp will be chief of staff at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital in 1953 after staff election approved by the board of trustees. Dr H O Sappington is vice president, Ds T S Howell secretary treasurer, with officers forming the executive committee and duties starting January. Trustees Joe Reid and J Bryan Stratton reelected. board members include Robert Matherne Theo Wilburn H H Meier Gordon Learned Lloyd T Jones through 1953.
A four-man Louisiana gang rode a 125 mile crime path through South Texas Tuesday night from Luling to Uvalde. They hijacked at least twice and beat a lieutenant near Seguin before a roadblock capture in Uvalde. One member escaped. weapons found included a .22 rifle and a German Luger.
Austin dispatch reports two dangerous lunatics escaped from the state hospital. Howard Pierson 38 and Gilbert Waggoner 29 fled by removing a window grate and lowering themselves on sheets. Cullen alerted guards and Texas Rangers tracked possible routes, fearing Waggoner would target him in Houston. Pierson once confessed to killing his parents in 1935, with the case recalling a sensational Travis County double slaying.
US carrier fighter bombers in their largest Korean war raid blasted four major Communist rail centers near the Soviet and Manchurian borders. From carriers Essex Bon Homme Richard and Oriskany, Task Force 77 jets flew from Hungtung Najin Hyesan Jin Masari on the Tumen River. The strike marked the farthest north a bomber group has reached in the conflict. 252 sorties blasted the key terminals in another blow to Red transportation.
Football fans a thousand strong stormed Memorial Stadium ticket office seeking reserved seats for the Gender Ray game. By 8 30 a.m. only general admission and end zone seats remained. Mrs. Bess Barenthin of 3120 Wisconsin grabbed four tickets and headed home. A roll call system kept the line orderly with Mayor Ward and City Manager Middleton among those listed on the official roll.
Baytown City Council approves an emergency dog ordinance effective Dec 29 for 45 days to curb loose dogs amid rabies cases. Dogs with tags face up to 100 dollar fines. untagged dogs are impounded under existing rules. Impounded dogs may be sold or destroyed if unclaimed. licenses and vaccination proof required.
City council cleared long standing items at a Tuesday session while preparing for a regular meeting. They approved about 1650 for a traffic light at West Texas and Felton citing recent wrecks. The Harriers Rio Vista water system was approved for 1000 to owner Emery Harriers, with breakdown costs for meters pipe and a triangular section between Pearce and Gulf. R. E. Paul to be paid 6450 for 1281 feet of pipe at five cents per foot. Contractor E Morrow proposed a cost saving plan but warned of risks including foundation error liability insurance and temporary worker protections.
City council wrestled with traffic light plans Tuesday night approving a $1,650 signal at Felton and West Texas and studying future steps at East James and Highway 146 The State Highway Department rejected a regular light at James and H6 citing light cross traffic and few pedestrians a proposed actuated light would cost about $2,200 and would trigger signals as vehicles pass but council favored monitoring the James road intersection and arranging another traffic count before acting
C D Middleton heads a seven member city and chamber delegation departing Houston Thursday by air to New York and New Jersey. Sponsored by the Industrial Pollution Committee of the Houston Chamber of Commerce the trip aims to study industrial pollution solutions and policy in the region. The eight member travels by train. they plan plant tours and analyses of stream and air pollution with return to Houston by 5 p.m. Saturday.
In Baytown an amateur burgling duo cracked the Commerce Food Market safe at 411 North Commerce Tuesday night and fled after finding only about 200 dollars. 26 cigarette cartons were also taken. Earlier Monday, 17 downtown offices were ransacked with about 92 dollars stolen. Police seek more patrols as they suspect the same pair.
A light blue norther moved into the Baytown area Wednesday, dropping temperatures about 10 degrees within an hour. The low reached 48 degrees before warming again under early sun. Yesterday’s high was 81 with clearing skies. The cold front spanned Texas bringing wet snow and 23 degrees to the Panhandle while the south saw sun and brisk temps. no rain reported statewide Wednesday morning.
An odd San Classified ad offers tips to help Santa avoid falling short on deliveries. It promotes selling unneeded belongings and renting a spare room via a quick ad-writer contact, with a dial 8803 for assistance.
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