Baytown Sun presidential straw vote results
The Baytown Sun held a four day presidential straw poll with 94 ballots. Eisenhower edged out Taft and Truman, Kefauver, Stassen, and Warren also appeared with scattered votes, while fifteen of Truman’s 21 votes came in identical envelopes. Results raise questions about party loyalties if Taft or Eisenhower were nominated.
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Baytown Community News and Upcoming Meetings
Local notices report a Baytown Community gathering with election candidates Thid Felton Rev Milton Jonlad and others at the Coast Council meeting. Also announced are agricultural talks on cotton crops at Crosby High School, an annual stockholders meeting, and a Republican Lincoln Day dinner schedule.
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Thid Felton
Milton Jonlad
Leoneail Health Lesxoc
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A.C. Gunter
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Ckholder
Mrs Culpepper Burns Fatal. Funeral Tuesday
Maggie Minerva Culpepper 12 died at 10 25 pm from burns suffered when her nightgown ignited while tending a space heater Her mother Ola muffled the flames with a coat The aged grandmother had major burns. funeral 10 30 am Tuesday at Paul U Lee Funeral Home Rev M L Sip Phai presiding Survivors include Jason J H Culpepper of Kilgore California seven grandchildren seven great grandchildren two brothers Bruce and Tom Sons of Little Rock Arkansas three sisters Lela Ray Rubs Babbit and J T Baker pallbearers listed including E M Richmond T L Warren A Smith O S McCulfouge O M Rosi I S Fisher
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Ola Me
Ieoman
Nes. McNair
West Sterling
Paul U
Lee
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Sip Phai
First Pressterian Church
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J. H Culpesper
Kildale
California
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Tom
Lite Rock Arkansas
Lela Ray
Linthe Rock
Rubs Babbit
Kilgore
J. T. Baker
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M. Richmond
T. Ll. Warren
A. Smith
O. S. McCulfouge
O. M. Rosi
I. 5. Fisher
Anderson cites $10 billion waste in military stockpiles
Representative Jack Anderson charges the military supply system holds seven stores of unserviceable and uncatalogued items worth about ten billion dollars. He says critical materials needed for plane and tank production are among wasted materiel as hearings begin on the lack of a single uniform catalog.
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Washington
Jack Anderson
R. Calija
Anderson
House
King George VI Lies In State In London Procession
Report describes the funeral procession from Sandringham to London with the royal family aboard a 10 car train. Crowds line soaked streets as Westminster lies in state awaiting Friday's funeral. The coffin is borne by Grenadier Guards to a gun carriage while the queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Gloucester, Queen Mother and Princess Margaret follow in cars. Thousands along the three mile road to Welton station greet the scene.
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Funeral procession seats fetch high prices on route to Windsor
London property owners along King George V's funeral route are charging up to 100 pounds for windtow with four grand view. A landlady near Pashtington station lets five seats at each window for the coffin aboard the train to Windsor, amid brisk selling.
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Milwaukee boy admits family slayings after denial of car use
A 16 year old boy told Milwaukee police he killed his mother, brother, and sister in a rage over being denied use of the family car. Police pursued after he sped from troopers, leading to his arrest. Slayings were reported after the father found the bodies of Catherine, Robert, and Katherine Schulz.
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CBI
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Missoni
John Schulz
Missouri
Schulz
Kuilings
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Catherine
Robert
Katherine
Ton Jet Ace From Texas Shot Down
Lubbo ck Texas born Major George A. Davis Jr the world's No 1 jet ace was shot down over Korea in a dogfight with MiG-14s minutes after downing two enemy planes His status listed missing in action with Air Force believing there is no chance of survival His wingman said he did not parachute from his Sabre jet as it crashed in a sub stratosphere clash involving nearly 100 MiGs and five US Sabres
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George A. Davis Jr
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AIR Force
Dorris A. Davis
Korea
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Uranium Mine Blast Kills 16 in Soviet Zone
Berlin report says an explosion in Saxony near Bergen trapped and killed 16 members of a Communist youth brigade and injured 70 others in a Soviet zone uranium mine. The Telegraf cited the disaster at mines near the Czech border in the mining region.
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West Berlin
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Soviet Zone
Army War Games Turn Deadly at Camp Drum
Nine soldiers die and 80 are injured during Army war games at Camp Drum New York as three accidents occur in a single day. A twin engine plane crash kills three paratroopers and injures others while a truck crash sends more to hospital. General Mark Clark notes the exercise has progressed in fine shape despite the tragedy.
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Kentucky
Burlington
Vermont
Murder Charge Quashed as Victim Lives in Court Mixup
Jessa Barajas, charged with murder, faces assault to murder after hospital reports confirm victim Miss Eufemia Alvarez is alive and in fair condition. Police and Justice of the Peace untangled a Baytown Houston mixup caused by misread hospital reports, leading to the dismissal of the murder charge and new charges for Barajas.
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Eufemia Alvarez
Old Ham
Jefferson Davis Hospital
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Barajas
Apalonio Alvarado
Alvarado
Marine Hospital
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Jesse Barajas
Jefferson Davis
Miss Alvarez
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Lavern
Jonceé
Raymond
Jesse
Four Days in Sealed Car Boy Rescued in Granite City
A 15 year old boy was found frost bitten and delirious in a sealed freight car on a four day trip from Connecticut to Illinois. He said he rode from Boston to New Haven and climbed into a box car at the freight yards, later waking to discover the car sealed and overheated by exposure. Railroad workers freed him at East Madison and he was taken to St. Elizabeth's hospital in critical condition before improving. Authorities seek his parents as he plans to reunite with his mother in Oakland, California.
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William Melvin Wright
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
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California
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New Haven
Nickel Plate Road
Whitewash Report On School Spars Judge Ties
Houston attorney Kenyon Houchins, representing a Baytown mother, called a Gainesville School for Girls report a white wash. Dr A Dwyer Hastis said a medical report on the 16 year old girl would be completed at University Hospital and given to District Judge W P Hamblen Jr. The doctors found no brain tumor but noted a serious illness requiring hospitalization.
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Kenyon Houchins
Baytown
Gainesville School
A. Dwyer
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W. P. Hamblen Jr
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Bonds Help Bigamist In Double Life
Treasury consultant Robert A Coyne told a House subcommittee that a bigamist used defense savings bonds to fund his double life. He said the man confessed to maintaining two families, cashing bonds, and hiding his identity from both wives.
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Washington
Robert A Coyne
Treasury Department
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Coyne
Lfe
Bomb Threat Fears Mark Newark Airport Turmoil
In Elizabeth New Jersey a National Airlines DC-6 crashed into two apartment blocks near Newark Airport killing 29 and injuring 42 as authorities faced bomb threats against Newark and LaGuardia. Officials in Washington and the Civil Aeronautics Admin urged caution while investigators probe the near-simultaneous disasters and missing persons.
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National Airlines
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Elizabeth
Nancy Taylor
Twa A
Wayne G. Foster
Foster
UN Questions China's Seat at Korean Peace Talks
At Panmunjom UN vice admiral Turner Joy challenged Communist China's right to participate in the post armistice peace conference. Joy demanded how China could claim a seat while calling Chinese troops in Korea volunteers, and warned the UN would block actions if the Reds sought to widen talks to other Asian issues. The final agenda item proposes recommendations to belligerents for a Korea peace 90 days after a truce.
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Guns Sold On Approval To Bandits
Richard Calinthar, 56, was arrested after admitting he sold guns on approval to men who used them in robberies. Police said buyers kept the guns if robberies paid, otherwise they returned them without paying.
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New Fork
Richard Calinthar
Federal Guards at US Ports Guard Against Atomic Threats
Federal agents guard major seaports against possible enemy attempts to ship atomic bombs or other unconventional weapons into the United States. Customs official David B Strubinger told a House Appropriations subcommittee that port screeners have received Atomic Energy Commission training at Kirtland Stadia Base in Albuquerque to recognize atomic components. The precautions trace to a 1950 executive order declaring national security at risk.
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David B Strubinger
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Atomic Energy Commission
Stadia Base
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Hur
Truman
19 Killed in Alps Avalanche Buries Town
A deadly avalanche struck a ski resort in the Alps burying the town and killing nineteen people. Rescue teams searched the area for survivors while officials assessed the disaster scene and coordinate aid.
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