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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1955
Page
2
The Crosby Volunteer Fire Department plans a Miss Flame beauty pageant at the annual variety show on March 38. Entries due by 6 p.m. March 23. contestants 15 to 31, single, and within Crosby school district. Winner earns fireman’s badge and parade invites. semi formal dress for judging. Contact Don Ramsey at OST garage Crosby.
The Baytown Sun details staff roles including advertising director Beulan Nae Peckwom and office manager Wstrem Edwarda. It lists subscription rates with monthly and yearly options and notes the paper’s mailing status as second class matter in Baytown Texas.
About 100 top American boxers, mostly servicemen, begin three days of elimination bouts in San Antonio to select the U S boxing team for the Pan American Games in Mexico City. AAU rules govern 10 weight divisions with many Air Force boxers from Golden Gloves wins.
USDA livestock report from Fort Worth lists cattle receipts around 700 with steady to softer market. Good choice fed steers 20 to 24, loads at 1 203 pounds. cows and cutters show varied prices. Hogs about 200 head with butchers 25 to 60 cents, sows 50 cents to 2 dollars lower. calves and stockers mixed with slaughter calf values at 19 to 21.
Stork reports twins David Wayne and Terry Wynne Ewing born February at home in Baytown. Grandparents J E Mallory, Mrs Lehde and others noted. Belinda Jan Laughter born February 18 at San Jacinto Memorial. weight seven pounds eighteen ounces. Jody Marle Maranto born February with eight pounds at Saint Joseph Hospital Houston. Kathleen Ann Thomas born February 21 weighing seven pounds nine ounces. Lanny H Eugene Vaughan born February at San Jacinto Memorial. Parents and grandparents listed for each family.
Funeral services for Charles M. Mooney of Houston were held at 10 am Thursday with burial in Forest Park cemetery. Mooney died Tuesday at his home. Survived by daughter Mrs Charlote Jacobs and son Charles Mooney, both of Baytown.
A 19 year old Baytown man paid a 250 dollar fine in La Porte corporation court for disturbing the peace. A Black woman testified that he called her to his car and indecently exposed himself.
Mrs. Williams admitted fatally injuring her two young sons amid taunts about her convict husband in Atlanta and Mexico sleeping pills. She described strangling them with a handkerchief and nail, and using a dull butcher knife then a razor blade in a motive tied to suffering from taunts. Bodies buried behind a Galveston county garage. Williams awaits possible electric chair.
Funeral services will be held for Juliana Hattie Kubica, five days old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kubica of 2115 Carolina, at Earthman Funeral Home chapel at 8:45 a.m. and St Joseph’s Church at 9:00 a.m. Saturday. Burial follows in Garden of Gethsemane, Houston. The baby died at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday at Baytown hospital. Surviving are parents, four brothers Joe Jr, Bernard, Robert, Raymond. two sisters Mary and Gertrude. and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Helfert of Burlington, Texas.
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