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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1952
Page
12
The article discusses cement uses in home construction including precast blocks, porous walls needing water sealing, brick and tile basics, and foundation needs for masonry exteriors. It weighs costs, durability, and insurance impacts versus other siding, and hints at future topics on exterior stucco pre fabs and tilt up walls.
Avey's Real Estate and Insurance Agency announces sale of two Highlands parcels. Mr and Mrs John W Carter of Baytown bought the B Toare home at 202 South May. Mr and Mrs C N Antoniat purchased 2.4 acres on Jones Road from Mr and Mrs Aldridge of Sulphur Springs.
Gulf States Utilities plans a court contest to overturn Louisiana rate denials and push for electric power increases in multiple cities. President Roy S Nelson said the company will appeal the Louisiana Public Services Commission ruling while seeking rises in Texas communities under local review. Also noted, Dr Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for Civil War nursing under fire.
Texas construction awards jump to 24 million dollars led by a 10 million Sunray Oil refinery project in Corpus Christi. Non residential work totals include a 2 3 million Senersting plant near Amherst for Southwestern Public Service and a range of public buildings churches and theatres. Residential awards rise with apartments and houses, while rural electrification and waterworks projects add to the engineering total. The Baytown Sun notes a separate dining room feature and details a Bansock house layout for reader interest.
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Fourteen federal hospitals are using the new miracle drugs marsilid and rimison to treat tuberculosis patients. Dr. John B. Barnwell said hospitals joined testing three weeks ago with dramatic early results. Seaview Hospital reported hopeful outcomes for previously "hopeless" cases, while Cornell University Medical Center began testing nydrazid, a twin of rimison, last November. Some scientists forecast costs under 100 dollars and public availability within six weeks to two months, though government hospitals will take four to six months to evaluate effectiveness.
An explosion at Skelly Oil Co refinery in Longview, blamed on a bursting pipe, shattered a distilling tower and sent flames hundreds of feet high. No injuries occurred. damage runs into thousands of dollars. Firefighters confined the blaze to the tank base by late afternoon after the blast at about 1 30 p m.
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