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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1955
Page
2
A 43 year old seaman hunted as a suspect in a $1500 robbery murder case in Ville Platte allegedly swallowed strychnine and died in bed beside his wife. He left a note admitting the murder accusation and expressing belief in his guilt. The man Maurice Fontenot was identified in the report.
A brief notice lists Hasty Transfer and Storage Co and A C Corer as owner figures with a Texas address 215 Ez Texas and a phone dial 2 for contact. The fragment provides scant detail on services or dates.
A fragmented OCR item lists company names and stock-like quotes including Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Beane Chrysler Eastman Kodak Goodyear Union Oil United Airlines and US Steel. The text references various firms and products with scattered figures and dates, resembling a brokerage and commodities page from a historical newspaper.
The Baytown council approved federal support for 150 additional housing units and voted to reimburse a local developer for difference in costs to install sewers in Eva Maud subdivisions. Richardson to receive 249.5, Dr Le W. Cremans health office term approved, engineering fees totaling 1789. Contracts referred to Comptroller for bids on water and plumbing supplies. Rental rates set for old fire station site at Montee Pryor, limited to 12 per month. Briarwood area section installation, excavation damage acknowledged with partial payment agreed.
Sen Price Daniel of Texas told an El Paso reporter that buying narcotics in Juarez, Mexico, was no trouble and “like buying tortillas.” Daniel led a Senate subcommittee during a one day hearing in San Antonio, part of a Texas tour probing narcotics traffic earlier in the fall. Reuben Salazar of the El Paso Herald-Post reported the Juarez and El Paso narcotics coverage.
Funeral services for W B Reichart known as Bill Reichart will be at 2 0 am Thursday at Trinity Episcopal Church with Reverend P Walter Henckell officiating. Reichart died at 12 am Tuesday in a Baytown hospital after a long illness. He had lived in Baytown for 20 years and operated the fin WW Reichart Anvest menty st 512 West Texas. Services will be under the direction of Paul A Lee Funeral Home. Pallbearers include Murray Rogers J H Streit Charles Pierson J R Bell M D Cuthbertson and Joe Zorn. Interment will be in Grand View Memorial Park cemetery on Spencer Highway beside his wife Irene. Reichart is survived by two brothers Fred M Reichart of Kansas City and Ad Reithach of Houston, two sisters Mrs Oliver Gober of Kansas City and Mrs John Jackson of Houston, and two grandsons Earl Jr and Warren Hightower of Wickenburg, Ariz.
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