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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1952
Page
3
Fayette County Sheriff Orland Hays was fired upon when a gunman shot him from a distance as he investigated a vehicle near a farm home. Hays reported pellets in his overcoat but was not seriously harmed. the assailant remains at large.
Fort Worth residents protest after Air Force practice chaff strips fall on nearby dairy land. Omerdale Goat Dairy owner fears livestock harm from leaded foil. officials say chaff, used to confuse radar, was dropped in training and may have been from a B 36 bomber.
Captain Shelby A. Harrison a Baytonian and Robert E. Lee High School graduate has been appointed to a key staff role at a newly activated Army Ordnance Installation in Germany. In service since June 1939, he served in the European Command since July 1943 and was previously supply officer at Mainz Ordnance Depot after postings at Butzbach. Harrison enlisted June 6, 1937 and was commissioned December 2, 1942 following OCS at Aberdeen Maryland. He became Mainz Depot supply officer April last year.
Momento reports, in a New York dispatch, that the CIA investigates a claim Russia perfected an atomic mist. Investigator James H. Link was sent to Taipei to question a Nationalist Chinese agent who brought the report from Sinkiang. The story ties the mist to Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian-born physicist who vanished after working at the British atomic center.
Fushville Indiana reports former Republican nominee Willkie, former chief counsel for the Senate committee on morals, blaming Congress for corruption. He cites absolute powers and salaries, urging repeal of onerous rules, and warns of administrators wielding billions in property with access to influence.
A Grand Junction Colorado recruit, Bobby Burke, aged 22, shattered Lackland AFB marksmanship records by scoring 35 consecutive bullseyes and 194 of 208 with a .22 rifle. He began hunting at nine, bagging 12 deer and a bear before joining the Air Force.
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