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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1951
Page
2
A UN team reports that the current issue is the exchange of prisoners not the names themselves. It notes lists may contain errors and urges verification while promising to notify next of kin after confirmation. The gap between thousands reported missing and captured highlights a major sticking point.
Senator Milton R. Young predicts the Eisenhower presidential boom will sag due to possible failure of the European defense program. He blames the defense program, taxes for European aid, and corruption disclosures, while backing Taft as the likely GOP nominee. He criticizes European allies and notes the campaign lag. Additional remarks forecast Taft delegate strength in southern and border states amid public discontent with corruption.
G. A Pevoteaux of 1309 Pershing reported a break in at his home with silver coffee set, his wife s clothes, an electric fan and a gas heater stolen Also a house at 318 East Republic and the Jewish Community House were broken into yesterday.
Baytown oil driller Broaddus dies in a plane wreck while others are noted in Texas and Indiana. The report lists Broaddus's Harlingen headquarters and Santa Rosa home with a citrus farm, and mentions four children at Santa Rosa. Pickle and Briody families are noted in Harlingen and Evansville with spouses and children.
Livestock market report from Fort Worth shows cattle 1300 head with slow demand and mixed changes. Slaughter steers and yearlings weak to lower, cows and bulls mostly steady, stockers dull and lower. calves 500 head weak to 50 cents lower with some stockers sharply lower. Hogs 1400 head slow with choice butchers at 18.75 to 19, and sows and pigs steady, feeder pigs 41 to 14.
Reports from Berkeley California say General Bill Dean is a prisoner of war after heavy fighting near Taejon in September 1950. His wife Mildred Dean and mother Elizabeth Dean express cautious happiness while awaiting official confirmation and further developments.
Dallas report describes a man who attempted a left turn signaling his city bus. He ended up in a hospital with a slashed wrist as the window closure contributed to the accident.
Funeral services were held in Henderson for C D Haden 59 a former Baytown resident who died Sunday in Pasadena He worked in Baytown for about a year moved to Pasadena in August and died suddenly after a heart attack Survivors include a brother H C Haden of 301 South Third and a sister Mrs W C Gardner of Jacinto City
Melinda Markay, 17, daughter of Joan Bennett, wipes a tear in New York before her television debut. She says she was upset by Hollywood tragedy and the absence of her mother and Welter Van Sern, but she vows to go on with the show.
A compilation of children letters to Santa asking for dolls doll stoves toy trains books and a variety of gifts. The missives mention family members and hometowns while expressing belief in Santa and holiday wishes.
A jumble of stock listings shows tickers from Amerada to U.S. Steel, generics mixed with names like Chrysler, Dow, Kodak, and Texaco. Amid market notes are Christmas letters from Baytown children to Santa asking for toys and family gifts. Queen Mary news notes a health advisory delaying evening engagements.
A Channelview couple and their five children were injured when their car rear ended another on Beaumont Highway. Pearl Guilliams and Avis Pearl Guilliams sustained injuries including a broken leg, head wounds, and facial lacerations. The family was treated at San Jacinto Memorial and released.
The piece argues Russia lags in submarine production while highlighting surface warship progress. Jane's notes a likely addition of one to four new battleships with catapult towers for radio controlled aerial torpedoes and rockets, plus radio controlled guns. Reports also claim four cruisers with 19 inch guns and missile launch capability are under construction.
Oklahoma bandit duo captured at a roadblock near Andrews north elly limits at midnight after robbing the Clothes Drug Store in Seminole of cash and checks and jewelry and narcotics. Store owner Reeves Coches bound and gagged. he managed to signal through tape on his mouth. The pair expected to be charged today.
Sheriff's deputies report a theft of a motorboat from Lakeview Heights and another boat motor from a nearby area. P J Barron of Ys ported yesterday that motors were stolen weeks ago, with two engines missing and one evident evicrude model taken.
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