Rosalie Steers Sees Oil Boom Rumors At Baytown
Baytown eyes a likely oil rush in six months despite experts saying the city will not expand. Ordinances regulate drilling in the city, with many independents and Houston operators leasing, drilling, and expanding in Goose Creek and Goose Creek independent districts. Numerous wells are already producing as others plan more, including Bielstein, Triton, and Voparil wells, with contracts and land deals tying Kilgore and Green Diamond leases to rigs along the Baytown-Pelly Road.
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Ty Rosalie
Sait
Ter Baytown
Hedy
Pelly
M. HL
Green Diamond Oil Company
Dean Bennett
Ra Diemasch
Bennett
Bielstein
Goose Creek
Baytown-Pelly Road
Blinky) Mosher
Bielstin
Decker Drive
Jruell
Fred Dithman
W. F. Bays
John F. Kilgore
Goose Creek Independent Sea District
Emer Gray
Houston
Causeway Road
Gray
Causeway Posed
Lmits
Jones Addition
Ioe D. Reed
Baxtown-Pelly Road
Adolph Pfeiffer
Two More Candidates File In Council Race
Two contenders for Jeff Stroud's City Council seat in District Five filed for the April election. W. D. Reeves and A. J. Rombs, both Baytown Refinery veterans, join Carl R. Mann and Emery H. Harbers in District One. All three incumbents said they will not seek re election. Filing deadline is March 4. Reeves has 14 years at Humble Oil and Refining and 29 years in Baytown with three children. Rombs since 1917 in Baytown, a Humble veteran of 30 years, now a pine supervisor with six children. Rombs aims to improve Stewart Heights streets and has wide experience in construction and street building.
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Jeff Stroud
Filea
Baytown
W. D. Reeves
East
Reeves
Rombs
Texas
Stewart Heights
Texas House Sitathon Delays End of Session
Texas representatives holed up in the inner chamber for a second day of work after voting to lock themselves in until noon seeking a quorum to pass bills. Sergeant at arms sought out absentees across Austin and even Baylor University as backers of a rural telephone cooperative bill pressed for action amid a push on sex offender laws.
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Austin
Senatos House of Representatives
Vss
Sing
Burwood Manford
Mexfort
Senate
Senteenentaire Bil Daniel
Liberty
Sashio
Bob Murphey
Baylor University
Waco
Local notes from Willis and surroundings highlight community changes
Community gossip from Willis and Highlands notes residents like LAST. FL SMITE and J L Sowetl, with talk of moving stores and shifting shop locations around Brackett and Houston area stock shows. Nearby events include chamber gatherings, calf-buying by Dan Clint and Nes sa McElray, and a San Antonio Chamber of Commerce visit. birthday celebrations and a new great grandchild are also mentioned.
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Smite of
Willis
Highlands
Barbers Hill Grith
Heber Page
Fue
Publi Sion
Lrs
Pat Royle
Harris County Fchers
Dan Clint
Nessa McElray
Brackettle
San Anmio Chamber of Commerce
ALR
Stley
Tom
W. A. Patsy
Wayne Kingston
Morris Wae
Oil Schedule Sets 17 Day March Producing Plan in Texas
Texas oil fields will operate on a 17 producing day schedule for March as the Railroad Commission ordered a daily cut of 92 101 barrels, totaling 1 945 122 barrels for the month. The 17 day rule reverts to a 1837 method linking output to depth and acreage, with West Texas district 3 hardest hit and the High West Texas field gaining to 251 294 barrels per day. The March total trails the U S Bureau of Mines forecast of 2 1 million barrels.
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Austin
Texas Oil Fields
Texas Reitrom Commission
All Gang
Hest Texas
District 3
West
Texas
U. S. Bureau of Mines
U S Naval Attache in Romania Murdered Claim Of Foul Play
Vienna reports Austrian Interior Minister Oscar Helmer says the death of Captain Eugene S. Kerpe U S Naval Attache in Romania was due to foul play based on circumstantial evidence. An autopsy is noted at the U S Army lab in Munich Germany.
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Vienna
Austria
Oscar Helmer
Eugene S. Kerpe
U. S
Romania
U.S. Army Laboratory
Munich
Germany
Karpes
Karpe
Salzburg
Orient Espress
Paris
Washington
Harlem
Oliver Wright
Bucharest
Former Baytown Man Dies Of Heart Attack
Gordon Guy Wise a 38 year old former Baytown man died yesterday afternoon in San Antonio after a heart attack. He had moved to San Antonio last June and worked 17 years at the Baytown Refinery. He is survived by his widow and three children, plus a Baytown niece.
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Ward
Gordon Guy Wise
Baytown
San Antonio
Wise
D. V. Givings
Youths Gang Up To Kill Motorist In Houston
Five youths attacked a passing automobile with bricks and then slashed occupant Wiley S. Leggett to death when he pursued them. Leggett, 22, died two hours later from a deep chest wound as driver S A Wakefield fled. Four Latin American youths were arrested nearby. no charges filed.
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Houston
Wiley S. Leggett
Meyer
S. A. Wakefield
Leggett
Wakefield
Burley's Drive-In Leased By Ptacek
Burleson who ran Burley's Drive-Inn on Highway 446 since January leased the business to Bob Ptacek. Ptacek and his family have lived here years and work at local drive-ins. Burleson keeps ownership of property and building and remains a Bay town refinery employee.
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P. Burleson
Burley
Bob Ptacek
Burleson
Baytown
Ptacele
Labour Cabinet Decides To Carry On
London February 25 Members of the Labour Cabinet turned in their resignations to Prime Minister Clement Attlee and announced plans to form a new socialist government. The new cabinet will be similar to the old one but face a tighter Commons majority and likely limited legislation until after another general election. A parliamentary Labour Party meeting was set for Wednesday and Churchill’s Conservatives prepared their own strategy session.
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London
U.P
Clement R.attlee
House of Commons
King George
Merehy
Herbert Morrison
Stafford Cripps
Exchequer
Labor Party
Glabor
Winston Churchill
Conservatives
Board of Strategy
Attlee
US Envoy Criticizes Bulgarian Lies Triggering Break
Belgrade Feb 25 US envoy Donald R Heath said Bulgaria’s calculated insult and nullification forced the United States to sever relations with Sofia. Heath and 46 Americans, including his wife, arrived in Belgrade aboard Simpson for exit from Bulgaria. The group included the entire U S legation staff and two exit visa recipients Miss Mery Haskell and John Parker. Heath charged Bulgarian espionage trials used coerced evidence and false confessions.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Donald R. Heath
VU. S
Sofia
Bulgaria
United States
Heath
Simpson Is
U. S. Legation
Mery Haskell
H. J. Haskell
The
Kansas City Star
John Parker
Detroit
Haskell
Bulgeria
Red Cross
Legation
Hes
Cnercion
Geo U. S
Night club hold-up in Greenwich Village leaves 4 bandits at large
In a chaotic early morning raid at the Moroccan Village Club in Greenwich Village, seven bandits dressed in ordinary suits fired on police and guests. Four escaped to Philadelphia as one detective, one bystander, and two entertainers were wounded amid a loud gun battle. Master of ceremonies Robert Dell was shot twice, and detective units pursued bandits through the club and into the street.
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New York
U.P
Greenwich Village
Philadelphia
South Sea Islands
Allen Bono
Hatdheck
Robert Dell
Dell
James Ford
Gans
John Owell
Thomas
Tyrell
O'Neill
Ford
Oweill
State Democratic Chiefs in Meeting
McALLEN Feb 25. State Democratic Executive Committee meets to register candidates for the coming primary and pick a host city for the June 12 gathering. A wild game dinner was held in Reynosa with Lloyd Bentsen W B Whalen W F Neuhaus and Ramon Guerre hosting. Proxies for Mrs J W Douglas and Jack Carter to be recognized as Tarrant County reps after court injunction dissolution. Governor Allan Shivers to speak at luncheon.
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Mcallen
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Reynosa
Mexico
Lloyd Bentsen
W. BD. Whalen
W. F. Neuhaus
Ramon Guerre
J. Wi~Douglas
Jack Carter
Tarrant County
John C. Calhoun
Corsicang
Douglas
Carter
Electricians Work Out Wiring Code for Baytown
Baytown electricians, Fire Marshal Bounds, and Inspector Peacock studied a rough draft of an electrical wiring ordinance. City Attorney Donoghue will prepare the draft for City Council, with potential revisions after further electrician input. The measure aims to follow the National Electrical Wiring Code, localizing provisions and setting a license fee decision for later.
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City of
Baytown
T. E. ‘Bounds
J. T. Peacock
Peacock
David Donoghue
Donoghue
Councit
R. E H. Prueté
Bounds Peacock
A. H. Linteman
Baytown Men Freed After Mont Belvieu Grocery Burglary
Two Baytown men were released after questioning in a Mont Belvieu grocery safecracking case. A car tied to the robbery was found near Highlands at 10:15 am by Harris County deputies. Investigators say the burglars drilled into the floor, pulled the safe into the feed room, and pried it open with iron bars, with losses estimated near one thousand dollars.
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Baytown
M. L Langston
Mont Belvieu
Chambers County
Highlands
Harris County
M. M. Brown
Paul Anderson
C. Otter
Mont Belvien
Largston
Well House
Mercy Trial Adjourned As Doctor Relaxes At Home
In Manchester New Hampshire Dr Herman W Sander accused in a mercy slaying relaxes with his wife and three daughters at their Candia home. The all male jury toured the city and is planned to visit a nearby resort town Sunday. The trial paused for the weekend after its first week with state testimony suggesting the act may have been mercy for a dying husband rather than the patient.
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Manchester
N. H
Herman WN. Sander
Candia
Sander
Europe
Abbie Barrete
Josephine Connor
Robert E. Biroz
Hig Ar
Sanger
Dr. Sander
Biron
Byrd’s Committee Targeted for Abolition Debate Rages
Senator Lucas backs Humphrey plan to abolish Byrd led Senate committee on government employees calling it a useless cost. He cites it as duplicative of the Senate Executive Expenditures Committee and urges cutting unnecessary spending. Humphrey had introduced legislation to end the panel, arguing it has performed no useful function.
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Washington
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Senate Committee On
Harry B. Byrd
Virginia
Hubert BH. Humphrey
Minnesota
Lucas
Swith Humphrey
Byrd
Congress
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
Senate approves potato program amid critic notes
The Senate backed a potato program offering supports to farmers if they place products under marketing quotas or agreements. Critics called it meaningless since agreements might not curb production, allowing farmers to still sell rejected potatoes to the government. Senator Joseph R McCarthy predicted the Senate would compel President Truman to reveal loyalty records in possible government staff case.
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Senate
Joseph R McCarthy
Wisconsin
Truman
Activision
Department
Mutual
MacCarthy
GOP
Seizure Talk Hints Coal Mines in Washington
A Washington report hints at possible seizure actions affecting coal mines amid industry strain and government measures. Officials discuss legal justifications and potential impact on miners and operators as political and economic pressures mount.
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Washington
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