Sun Spots drive raises BAYTOWN dimes under 125 total
Baytown Lions Club annual Lion of Dimes collections on Tuesday totaled 125.05 the smallest total since the drive began. The drive continues through Friday with a booth in front of First National Bank on Texas Ave. Special Christmas activities for six to ten year olds planned Thursday 9 am to 1 pm at Ham. Firemen responded to a fire at the Downing home with little damage. Humble Country Club hosts New Year’s Eve dance December 31 with $12.50 per couple tickets. Shiloh Baptist presents The First Christmas Morn at 7:30 pm Wednesday open to the public. Clearing House ends Thursday for Christmas food baskets. Baytown’s Bill Laughlin to play in the North-South Bowl in Miami on December 26. KWBA sale negotiations underway. Living Nativity scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday evenings between Trinity Episcopal and parish house.
Baytown Merchants Offer $500 Christmas Bonus Draw
Baytown shoppers can enter to win a $500 Christmas bonus and 50+ prizes with drawings Thursday at Brunson Theater. Registration closes at 1 p.m. Thursday. 44 merchants host blanks. No purchase required. participants must be 16 or older and need only visit a merchant to enter.
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Baytown
Brunson Theater
Wrycae
Baytown Brace for Hard Freeze With 28 Degree Low
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts a hard freeze in the Baytown area tonight with a low of 28 degrees. Motorists should check radiators and gardeners protect tender vegetation as winter settles in on the region. Temperatures statewide fall to single digits and highs near 30s. Wind gusts reach 30 to 48 mph along the coast and frost is expected in several areas early Thursday. The Navy Station at Corpus Christi notes northerly winds up to 37 mph as winter begins.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Baytown
Houston
Eater Bureau
Texas
Palacios
Victoria
del Rio
Dalhart
Panhandle
Bretnsville
Lubbock
San Angelo
Fl Paso
Wichita Falls
West Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Navy Station
Corpus Chris
Uprising in Caracas Suppressed by Betancourt Loyalists
A brief revolt to free imprisoned officials of the ousted Perez Jimenez regime was crushed by forces under President Romulo Betancourt after a 50 minute gunbattle in Caracas. One rebel was wounded. In Beaumont, the Houye General Investigating Committee plans to broaden its probe of vice in Jefferson County statewide after concluding its executive inquiry.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Perez Jimenez
Romulo Betancourt
Beaumont
Houye
Jefferson County
Naval Probers Convene Ship Disaster Inquiry Begins
New York AP report says a naval board convenes to examine the Constellation fire loss of 49. A second panel of four technical experts will probe construction risks at navy yards and private shipyards, including the use of metal versus wood staging. Fire officials criticise wooden scaffolding, while Navy Secretary Franke defends current practice unless the inquiry recommends change.
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New York
Ment
Washington
Navy
Edward F.cavanagh Jr
City Pier
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cavanagh
Edge
William B. Franke
Goodfellows drive begins bag delivery Thursday in Bay town
Chief Goodfellow announces delivery of 1000 Goodfellow bags to Bay town area youngsters starts Thursday. Volunteers from Carpenters Local 1334 and Trinity Episcopal Church, along with PTA and Girl Scouts, pack bags with toys fruits and candy. Special Goodfellow show at Brunson Theater Thursday morning aims to collect more toys. donations remain needed to reach the $2 500 goal.
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Goodfellow
Baytown Area
Herabers Ot Carpenters
Hebert E. Pee Ane
Galveston
Dorothy Saunders
Milner
Brunson Theater
Walt Disney
Johnny Appleseed
Peter and the Wolf
Arizona
Baytown Residents Receive Holiday Health Updates
Baytown area residents share Christmas plans as hospital notes hint at heart issues and recovery. Robert Doc Hill, hospitalized in Baytown for observation, and oil driller A C Stephens at Lillie Duke Hospital are among local patients. Dr Hamlet S Davis at San Jacinto improves after a heart condition.
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Robert Doc? Hill
Baytown
Ganderland
Lillie Duke Hospital
Doc
A.C. Stephens
Mont Belvieu
John Marsh
Jamaica
Marsh
Te Secon
Delores
Clint Springer
Ike Sends Greetings To U S Armed Forces
President Eisenhower prepared a final Christmas message as commander in chief for broadcast across the armed forces radio network. He emphasized that world peace is the absolute necessity of our time and the season should center on peace on earth.
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Washington
Armed Forces
Baerhawer
Earth
Long Yule Holiday Is Coming Up
Baytonians face a long weekend as Christmas falls on Sunday. Banks, downtown stores, and government offices will be closed Monday per Chamber of Commerce Manager Nelson McElroy. Baytown Post Office observes a holiday Monday with no route deliveries. mail will be boxed. Humble Oil and Refining Baytown Refinery will run skeleton crews Tuesday. Schools take two-week break. classes resume January 3 for Lee College students.
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Baytown
Jan. Lee College
Baytown Sim
Moray
Regutar
Soviet U S Destroyer Charged With Mediterranean Attack
The item reports that Soviet Union accuses a U S destroyer of an hour long attack on a Soviet freighter in the Mediterranean on November 4 nearly causing a collision. The destroyer named is Corry. Col. Joseph Mobutu announces no immediate invasion planned to overthrow pro Lumumba government in Oriental province after troop movements. Richard Baer is arrested in Frankfurt by German police on charges of murdering thousands of Jews in Auschwitz. Ben Gurion says an atomic reactor in the Negev will be dedicated to peaceful research. Li Piao vows to stop Western aggression. Discoverer XIX orbits Earth to aid future missiles detection. Industry tone optimistic as Rail Road Commission predicts a two percent demand increase.
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Soviet Union
U. S
Mediterranean
Joseph Mobutu
Conko
Oriental
Richard Baer
Frankfurt
Auschwitz
New Harris DA Will Face Sunday Blue Law Issue
Frank Briscoe will decide on Sunday closing actions in Harris County as Baytown and Houston debate enforcement. He notes the office won’t initiate action there but will study any complaints under state law. Baytown officials say few merchants abuse the rules, while Houston plans enforcement after Christmas. Local leaders discuss penalties, with fines ranging up to 50 dollars.
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Blue Breathard
Harris County
Houston
Frank Briscoe
Lan.e
Briscoe
Baytown
R. H
Red
Pruett
Hearston
Lewis Cutter
Briscon
Sean Walton
Cutter
Sid
Ranen
Citrer
Raytown
Sumlay Hoginese
George Chandler
City Dads Set Short Session Thursday Night
Baytown City Council will hold a brief session at 7 pm with two items on the agenda. Bid openings are expected for new traffic signals at Highway 146 intersections with Texas Ave Fayle and James, and bids on a landfill tractor priced around 17000 to 20982 dollars were opened and tabled.
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Baytown
City Hall
Coummits Dee & Meeting
Texas Ave
Fayle and
James
Whch Wen
Imoder
Kennedy picks Gilpatric as deputy defense chief
President-elect John F Kennedy selects Roswell Gilpatric a former Air Force undersecretary to be deputy secretary of defense at the start of budget planning amid the steady business slump Gilpatric a New York lawyer and Yale alum leads defense advisory work and serves on aerospace and military study panels under Kennedy Moe Namara resigns to join the administration as defense secretary designate and Douglas Dillon appears in Palm Beach for budget talks with Kennedy aides.
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Fla
John F. Kennedy
Roswell Gilpatric
Air Force
Truman
Defense
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Gilpatric
New York
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Robert §. MoeNamara
Ford Motor Co
Defense Establishment
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Joint Congressional
Ilpatric
Defense Department
National Defense
Yale
Yale Law Journal
Cravath, Swathe & Moore
The
Aerospace Corp
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Solons Seek Sales Tax OK In Louisiana
Louisiana leaders push a 3 percent sales tax increase for eight months starting January 1 to fund private school grants amid school integration tensions. The plan, part of a four bill package, requires two thirds in each chamber to pass and faces federal court actions and strong opposition from lawmakers.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
House
Senate
New Orleans
U.S
Min
Ware Martin
Matthew Sutherland
Orleans Parish
Sutherland
Davis
Sal
Mrs Ida Bell Gearey Dies at 82 in Baytown
Ida Bell Gearey 82 of Baytown died early Wednesday at home on Crosby Cedar Rayna Road. Funeral 2 p.m. Thursday at Farman Funeral Home with ministers Billy Balke W R Jones and Jimmy Gray officiating. Burial in Hi of Rest Cemetery. Survived by two daughters Mra DP Myers and Mrs W R Holteman, son J Garey, 12 grandchildren, two great grandchildren.
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Ida Bell Gearey
Baytown
Crosby Cedar Rayna Road
Farthamaan Funeral Home
Chanel
Billy Balke
South iMn Church of Christ
W. R. Jones
Pruett Street Church of Christ Jand
Jimmy Gray
Baptist Temple
Res i
Mra
YAL Dutch Airlines Welcome John Wadley
The Sun reports intercontinental Santa Claws at Royal Dutch KLM welcome ceremony aboard with stewardesses Elizabeth Buteyn greeting John Wadley as part of a festive intercontinental flight event.
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John Wadley
the Sun
Intercontinental Santa Claws
Royal Dutch
KLM
Elizabeth Buteyn
Christmas Flight Delays Confirme Wadleys Visit Amsterdam
Jetn Wadley leaves Houston at 2:27 p.m. for Amsterdam to spend Christmas with wife Frieda and Mrs Wadley. The Baytown Sun notes his European trip includes a talk on future trips and a promised three articles on Transatlantic flights for next January. Wadley illness prompted temporary plans to stay in Holland with family.
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Holland
Little Miss Frieda Wadley
Little Miss Frieda
Wadley
Houston
Amsterdam
Rs Wadley
Frieda
U.S
Houston International
KIM Jet
Schrippl
Parsons
J. J. Aufder‘houde
Haarlem
Amsteridam
KLM
Hotston
Montreac
Itu
Police search for pay phone thief in Baytown
Baytown police chase a burglary case after a man or woman ripped a pay phone from a lobby booth at the Blue Arrow Hotel area near Brunson Food Mart on Market Street. The battered device was later found nearby as investigators pursue leads.
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Baytown
Blue Arrow Hotel
post-Christinaa
Brunson Food Mart
Perket
Stroma
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