Body of Hunter Still Missing After Prolonged Search
The hunt for the body of hunter Henderson continued through bad weather. Crews from Parker Bros. searched in small craft the Sea Hornet and Mary Gene while Jeff Fleming and Art Simpson joined in along the bayous and shallows. The Mary Gene and Sea Hornet stayed on the task, with the Alibi to be deployed Monday, as Henderson family members remained in La Porte amid the ongoing three week search.
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Tkeeper
Dee
Atrd
Ratt Reichart
Hinday
el Parker Bros
Mary Gene TI
Sea Hornet
Jeff Fleming
Pasadena
Fleming
Art Simpson
la Porte
Mary Gene
Simpson
Parker Bros
Menderson
Texarkana
Peega
Local officials report chemical plant changes and a hospital incident
Spotted in Lawler five finds new community and employee roles at Pasadena opera. Mathieson Chemical R Beatty Houston Manager announces a chemical engineering post at Rice Institute. Lawer ly Superintendent of sulphuric acid plant na. Baldwin of RW Baldwin involved in a home window incident. Manny rushed to San Memoria hospital by ambulance after a cut.
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Lawler
North Five
Hilwamunity
Rite
Pasadena Opera
Mathieson Chemical R. Beatty
Houston
Rice Tnatitute
Lawierly
Baldwin
Nis
Dilford
San Memoria Hospital
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT IN NORTON FAMILY
Mrs. Norton announces the birth of a daughter December 27 at San Tam hospital. The child joins Mr and Mrs W L Norton and relatives in Corsicana and nearby communities.
Hemphill resigns from Houston Port Commission
R B Hemphill a longtime Baytown area figure and former mobile dealer resigns from the Houston Port Commission effective January 1. County Commissioner W Ramsey announced no successor has been named and praised Hemphill for his public service during the past year.
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R. B
Bob) Hemphill
Port Commission
Hemphill
Baytown Ator Mobile
Car Ue
Harris County
VV. Ramsey
Port Board
Ramsey
Commission
Howard Hughes Defies Censors Over Indecent Exposure
Hollywood reported Howard Hughes refused to comply with screen censor orders and religious pressure to cut an indecent exposure scene of Jane Russell from the film The French Line. Miss Russell said she agreed with the censors and that those scenes should be cut. Hughes planned a St Louis premiere Tuesday despite Breen office action and Catholic condemnation.
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Hollywood
Howard Hughes Morday
Jane Russell
Miss Russell
Hughes
St. Lows
Breen
Life in Russia Said Sweeter With More Candy Factories
The Moscow radio reported life in the Soviet Union is sweeter and will improve next year. It said confectionary production has risen and 19 new candy factories will be built over the next three years, increasing chocolate sweets cakes and tar s production.
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London
Nec
Russia
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
Holiday Accidents Take Big Toll 683 Dead in Holiday Period
A United Press tally shows at least 683 persons killed in holiday accidents from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday. Traffic crashes caused 488 deaths, fires 74, plane crashes seven, and other accidents 114. California led highway fatalities with 44, New York 31, Illinois and Texas 28 each, Ohio 26. Texas DPS warned the holiday death total may exceed earlier forecasts of 510. Deaths through the period may surpass last year’s 588 highway fatalities.
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United Press
California
New York
Illinois
Texas
Ohio
Wyoming
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Idaho
Texas Department of Public Safety
National Safety Council
Perons
Eisenhower Announces Korea Withdrawal Provokes Mixed Reactions
In Seoul, President Eisenhower disclosed plans to pull two American divisions from Korea, attracting cheers from soldiers and protests from South Korean officials led by Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tae who urged more replacements before any withdrawal.
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Eisenhower
Korea
Tokyo
Pyun Yung Tae
Pyuh
North Korea
Valley Fair Winners Begin Tour With Mexican Dinner
The Fair Winners depart Raytown at 7:23 am heading toward the Valley and southwest points, with stops in Kingsville, Port Lavaca, Corpus Christi, and a noon King Ranch visit. Tonight they dine in Reynosa, Mexico. Tour participants include Joe Allen, Lewis Wilburn, James Hovard, and others. chaperones are the Kerrs, Etheridges, and Hoermans.
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Raytown
Dennis Blackford
Glenda Hensley
Tommy Plate
Sherman Zimmerman
Jamez Strickland
Duh Gentry
Gene Smith
Leon McNulty
Joe Krizak
Gloria Gay Minter
Sammmie Minter
Rose Briggs
Gaylon LaBoa
Jackson LaBoa
R. T. Kerr
B. Etheridge
Roy Hoerman
Gouzenko Says Hundreds of Soviet Spies Active in U S and Canada
Igor Gouzenko, former Ottawa code clerk who exposed a Red network, says hundreds of Soviet agents operate in the United States and Canada. He cites embassy telegrams worth millions and notes many spies act independently with direct Moscow radio contact. He backs McCarthy era efforts but cites lack of documentary evidence.
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U.S
Gouzenko
Washington
Igor Gouzenko
Ottawa
United States
Canada
Goutsenko
5. News, & World Report
Quit Meaning Says U S Draft Director Urges Youth Service Clarity
Boston dispatch reports Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey told the AAAS that Americans must shed reluctance about military service for the nation's youth. He urged reducing stigma and indecision, noting two to three years of service is not a life sentence. He emphasized not exempting scientists and that national defense should not rely on overwork. The system focuses on when to serve, not if.
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Boston
Lewis B. Hershey
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Hershey
Robbery By Telephone Is Puzzler
Oklahoma City police faced little to go on in a $1,000 robbery by telephone. Ray Armour Hart, 20, assistant manager at a grocery store, said he filled a paper sack with that day’s receipts and tossed it over a wall at night under orders from an unseen bandit who claimed to have Hart’s wife and daughter in his car. The robber demanded compliance or the family would be harmed.
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Oklahoma City
Ray Armour Hart
Hart
Humpty Dumpty
Mrs. Mart
Dusty Hart
Final Report On CROP Donations In Baytown
The East Harris County Council of Christian Laymen reports $2,656.70 raised for rice donations to Korea. A 4 PM Sunday dedication service at First Presbyterian Church will honor the gift and a shipside ceremony in Houston precedes the Port Houston departure January 12.
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Fred Hartman
Baytown
First Presbyterian Church
Christian Rural Overseas Program
East Harris County
Art film seized by San Antonio vice squad protests injunctive move
San Antonio authorities confiscated the Swedish film One Summer of Happiness at the Arts Theater, prompting attorneys for the theater to seek an injunction. The theater reported strong box office and record attendance, noting prior screenings in Houston Austin and Dallas with no complaints.
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Vice Squad
Hedy Lamarr
Wilson Shaw
Charles Wolfe
Academy Theater
Houston
Jong
Texas
Austin
Coroner
Dallas
United States
Wolfe
Two-Headed baby seen by mother in Indianapolis
An ordnance worker's wife met her two-headed son for the first time since birth, as doctors at Indiana University Medical Center said the infant eats, grows, and may go home once the weaker side no longer requires oxygen. The rare condition has few long-lived precedents in medical history.
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Ible
Indiana University Medical Center
Tocet
Former Baytown teacher in plane crash injures both
Former Baytown teacher Heattiv Treille Paxton Searcy and her husband were injured Sunday when their two seat plane crashed in a field near Madisonville. They were en route from visiting relatives to Grand Prairie. Mrs. Searcy suffered a broken ankle facial injuries and lacerations while Mr. Searcy had a broken ankle and possible facial fractures. A motorist aided them from the wreck before ambulance transport to Madisonville and then to Saint Joseph Hospital in Bryan.
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Baytown
Grand Prairie
Madisonville
Too Searcy
Ben Ammons
Searcy
Ammons
Heattiv Treille Paxton
Robert E. Lee High School
Iin
Bryan Chase Vital
Deserters Reported as Viet Minh Push Into Laos and Thailand
Viet Minh radio claimed French Union forces deserting in large numbers as a major offensive drove south toward Saigon and Cambodia. Rebels advanced along the Thailand border while Laotian troops fought guerrillas near Savannakhet. A large French airlift reinforced Savannakhet and Thai detachment plans were extended. Ho Chi Minh urged new feats of arms as Vo Nguyen Giap led troops toward Savannakhet.
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Indo - China
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Cambodia
Thailand
Laos
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Mekong
Thakhek
Savannakhet
Savavnnakhet
Ho Chi Minh
Free World
Taipei
Formosa
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
U.S
Paris
Vo Nguyen Giao
Gloomy Baytown Weekend as Heavy Rain Hits
A Grummy Christmas weekend turned gloomy in Baytown as overcast skies dumped 0.84 inches of rain by Monday morning. The drizzle continued into Monday with no frontal weather expected to affect north and east Texas soon. Temperatures reached 59 and fell to 38 at Sunday night as winds returned and coastal rain eased.
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Texas
Funeral Rites for Mrs. Ollie Jackson Held at Dayton Church
Funeral services for Mrs. Ollie Jackson 7 were held at 3 pm Monday at Dayton Baptist Church with burial in Dayton cemetery. She died Sunday at her daughter’s home and is survived by three other children and four brothers among others. In a separate accident 10 year old William Pillow remained hospitalized after a motorcycle crash when the bike skidded under a parked pickup while Curtis Frantz tried to stop. The boy was treated at San Jacinto Memorial hospital after being transported by Paul A. Lee ambulance.
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Island Lake
RCAF
Teunts
Rickey
Harper
Therese Point
Man
Ollie Jackson
Mondis
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Dayton
Pace-Stand Funeral Home
Thomias Ott
Bill Connor
George Connor
Humble
Clarence Connor
Tae Miarang
Bud Connor
Dayon
Wiliam Pilow
S.J. Pillow
Maryland
San Jacinto Hospital
Curtis Frantz
Franz
Eunice Franz
Alabama
John Kenneth Cowan
Minnesota
Louisiana
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Paul A. Lee
D. L. Tallant’s Body Sent To Abilene For Funeral
The body of D. L. Tallant father of Weldon Tallant of Baytown was sent to Abilene for funeral services to be held Tuesday at Bhatt funeral home. Tallant had been ill for several months and came to Baytown to stay with his son while under a Houston hospital. Local arrangements were directed by Earthman’s.
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Weldon Tallant
Baytown
Abilene
Bhatt
Tallant
Houston
Earthman’s
Services Held Sunday For B M Peacock 64
Funeral services for B. M. Peacock aged 64 were held Sunday at Earthman chapel with the Rev Elza Lave of Cedar Bayou Methodist church officiating. Burial in Hill of Rest cemetery under Earthman’s direction. Peacock owned Peacock Bicycle Shop and died at 7 26 am Saturday after suffering a heart attack. He had lived in Baytown 22 years.
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BM. Peacock
Earthman Chapel
Elza Lave
Cedar Bayou
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