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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1951
Page
2
The Air Reserve cue Services announced that Jordan is a graduate of Lee College and entered the Air Force in August 1950.
Eddie Hawthorne, 22, a newcomer to Baytown living at 318 East Adoue, missed his first day on a Houston pipeline job after his car hit the corduroy topping near Market Street Channelview, bounced, and smashed the vehicle. He hitchhiked home to Bytown and is receiving treatment.
Families of soldiers react as two of four local servicemen reportedly appear in Communist prison camps in China and Korea. Lieutenant Galing’s wife and eight month old son Bernard await word while others, including Private Kimball and Captain Terry, are described missing in action or prisoners of war in Asia. Defense Department cautions accuracy as congressmen call for probe into alleged atrocities and hope for updates.
Radio coverage will read prisoner of war lists as they come via United Press. Lists will be posted for public inspection at Bayshore Motors on Market. Mrs Galing in New York heard her son's name on a late night radio broadcast and notified relatives in Baytown. Lieutenant Galing was reported missing on December. The Red Cross and police inquiry continue.
The article discusses prisoner counting flaws in the Korean War and criticizes the lack of a behind lines inspection system by the International Red Cross. It recalls Ridgway estimates of atrocities and notes unreliable casualty figures during the retreat from Seoul to the Fusan perimeter. It also mentions a missing in action status for Major General William Dean. It ends with social notes on the Wilburn family at North Texas State College and a Baytown-Lubbock game trip.
Texas industrialist McCarthy travels from New Orleans toward Houston to celebrate his 44th birthday and dismiss rumors he is broke. He told a New York magazine reporter that such talk has followed him since 1837, noting he built the Shaimreck company and a $10 million refinery among other ventures. He said he met government officials and private individuals while seeking oil here.
Baytonians filled the First Presbyterian Church for the annual community cantata of The Messiah. The mixed choir from local churches was directed by Ai Li Dockendorff of Trinity Episcopal with soloists George Maeson Keith Dutson and others. Mary Pennington played the organ. The performance will be re broadcast at 8 p.m. on KREL under the San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery Association. Post concert, members celebrated with a brief gathering and gifts to the director and Pennington.
Cadet John M M Bankston 19, fresh from Pensacola preflight, will spend two weeks of Christmas leave with his Baytown family. He is assigned to Whiting Field Milton Florida for primary flight training and will receive naval wings after further training. He is a 1959 Robert E Lee High School graduate.
The Baytown Sun lists a compilation of major company stock quotes including Allis Chalmers Amerada Hess American, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, Anaconda Copper, Bethlehem Steel, Budd Company, Calumet and Hecla, Celanese, Chrysler, Cities Service, Con Edison, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Goodyear, Gulf Oil, Humble Oil, Interlake, Mack Trucks, Paper, Texaco, Tex Gulf, Sunoco, U.S. Steel, and Woolworth among others in a dense ticker-style presentation
Corporal Thomas A. Clack of Baytown, in the Seventh Division, readies for the bitter Korean winter. He is an automatic rifleman, wears the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Korean Service Ribbon with one campaign star, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Clark of 1513 Oak. He joined the Army in September 1949 after high school. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped begin the woman's suffrage movement.
Fort Worth cattle prices show steers and yearlings steady while beef cows, canners and cutters weaken. Stockers dull, few good slaughter heifers and calves mixed, calves 600 pounds slow. Sows and pigs steady with choice ranges. feeder pigs 7 to 14 dollars.
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