Leopard Captured At Zoo After Lariat Rescue
City reports a leopard that escaped from its enclosure in the zoo roamed the area at night, feeding on horse meat laced with poison. Zoo Director Jusan Frazier used a lasso and a tail grip to reel the groggy beast back to its crate, then hammered nails in the door to secure it. Frazier previously captured a runaway seal by lasso in Fort Worth.
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Park Zoo
Zoo
Jusan Frazier
Fort Worth
Texas
Frazier
Freezier
Fort Worth Zoo
Trinity River
Lawmakers Close 30 Day Special Session On Tax Omnibus
Lawmakers near end of a 30 day special session with the state poised to pass a 5000 008 omnibus tax bill. Governor scheduled to review measures including a 7 500 000 penny tax and a 320 000 000 hospital funding appropriation. Across the board 16 percent tax hike aims to fund hospital operations and capital projects. Cigarette taxes rise to support long range improvements. Final actions and signing status uncertain as adjournment looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gieaniam
Wessure
Love Burglar Trial Opens in Dallas Court
Dallas February 28 A jury is seated to try Fred Adair Jr on charges tied to a alleged love burglar accused of assaulting a Dallas housewife as her ten children watched. The state seeks the death penalty while the defense plans to have Adair testify in his own defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Nisneys
Freddig Adair, Jr
Adsiz
Bt Love Bargiar
Pape
Baytown community pages tease spring events and notes
Local society items spotlight Baytown clubs planning a spring bulb show and social happenings. Mentions include the Baytown Svlen Clubbers, Jaycees, and a city BRPW comedy event. Also note residents visiting Calvert Bray and relatives traveling from Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IGS
Elar Gregory
Ubnut
Sita Latte
Louw Drury
Rother Jett
Calvert Bray
Pyown
Jaycees
Baytown
Big Doin
Dee Reid
Cook
Eyolf
Havana
Hal Creametam
Camp St Berryllo
SP Seat
Mess? City
BRPW
Fred Hartman Pesats
Red Cross Drive Opens Tomorrow in Baytown Area
Baytown launches its annual Red Cross drive with many volunteers and a refinery driven fund goal. BE H Busby and 55 committee heads lead efforts at the Baytown refinery with a minimum $2.50 donation target per employee, aiming to finish by March 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
BE. H. Busby
Busby
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Red Cross
Harry Hartman
Old Goose Creek
Jarcee-ettes
Old Petty
Airs R. T. Bishop
Bund Pw Group
Jareece-ette
Fatal Accident at Baytown Filling Station Kills E G Wood
E G Wood 45 Baytown service station owner died after a fire caused by air filling mishap. Relatives report tetanus infection as the cause. Funeral set Wednesday at Pauli U Lee Funeral Home with Rev Arch Fleming and Rev Burns officiating. Burial Cedarcrest Cemetery. Survived by wife a son K L Wood and granddaughter Tudy. Wood operated Midway Service Station 1218 South Main and lived in Baytown eight years, born Ott City Pennsylvania.
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E. G. Wood
Baytown
Wood
Pauli U Lee
Archie Fleming
St. John’s
Cedercrest Cemetery
Midway
South Main
Sinnett
Ott City
Pennsylvania
K. L. Wood
Tudy
Acheson says he does not condone Hiss perjury charges
Washington February 28 Secretary of State Dean Acheson stated I did not and do not condone in any way the offenses charged against Almer Hiss, the former state department official convicted of perjury.
Civilians Report Crash Belief In La Porte Area
Civilians insist they saw a plane crash near La Porte though the army suspects a Very flare demonstration caused the alarm A parachute from a Very flare was found near Sylvan Beach and an onlooker admitted launching it to demonstrate its operation Several witnesses including J H Hanlin H J Lewis Jr and two others report seeing a plane fall while a Beystore Gardner and Baytown firefighters heard engine noise then silence authorities reprimanded civilians for the false alarm
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Porte
Sylvan Beach
J. H. Hanlin
H. J. Lewis, Jr
Bob Hucheler
Causeway Road
Governor Proclaims Texas Industrial Week
Governor Allan Shivers designated a period during April 18 to mark Texas Industrial Week. He urged Texans to cooperate in encouraging investment to expand diversify and grow the state’s manufacturing and commercial plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Allan Shivers
Texas
Shivers
Burglary Hits Robert E. Lee High and College
Baytown police report offices at Robert E. Lee High School and Lee College were broken into by a burglar who ransacked desks and file cabinets but left no items missing. Entry method undetermined. discovery occurred at about 8:30 am as officials opened the buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Lee High School
Lee College
Baytown
Paxtrofman F. EB. Vetuski
Carpenter Falls From Scaffold At Church Construction
Ed Scott, 611 Bolster, was critically injured when he fell 25 feet from a scaffold at the new St. John's Methodist Church on Highway 1146. He sustained skull fracture, multiple fractures, and internal injuries. Johnny Allbright, 22, said Scott toppled after stepping on a board end. Scott remained conscious until arrival at Lillie-Duke Hospital. This marks Scott’s second scaffold fall and a second tragedy for the church which a tropical storm destroyed last October.
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Ed Scott
Bolster
St. John’s Methodist Church
Highway
Scott
Seafield
Johnny Allbright
Allbright
Lillie-Duke Hospital
Paul J. Lee
Bert Allman
Allman
Baytown
St John's Methodist Church
Carpenter
Five Texas towns to be moved by Falcon Dam project
Congress was asked to authorize relocating seven Texas border communities slated for inundation by the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande. Representative Lloyd Bentsen Jr proposed letting the International Boundary and Water Commission select a single townsite as the relocated area. Inundated towns include Zapata San Ygnacio Ramireno Oribeno Lopeno Falcon and Chepen. The dam, built with Mexico, should be finished by 1952.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Texas
Rio Grande
Lloyd If Benisen
International Boundary and Water Commission
Zapata
San Ygnacien
Ramireno
House To Vote On Research Funds
The House planned a Feb 28 vote on a 25 million dollar per year National Science Foundation to boost basic research across sciences excluding atomic energy. It funds scholarships and grants, requires non Communist affidavits from scholarship students, and aims to match rival nations in theoretical science. Senate debates displaced persons and refugee quotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
National Science Foundation
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Hinois
Six Siren Blasts Signal Fire in Old Baytown
Station Fire Chief Jim Church says six blasts on the Old Baytown No. 2 station siren now signal a fire. The alert changes from two blasts at the water tower behind the station to the tower in Leger Addition, marking a new fire signal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Baytown
Jim Church
Church
Cold Baytown
Coal Famine Slows Nation Amid Steel Cutbacks
The coal shortage cripples Big Steel in the Pittsburgh region, forcing major operations to shrink to half capacity and leaving about 530,000 workers already idle. Chicago coal yards see housewives clash with peddlers while Ohio non-union mines field lines of trucks. Carnegie-Illinois Steel plans cutting 60 to 90 percent of capacity, affecting 55,000 workers in the Pittsburgh district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Ohio
The
United
Cosl
Carnegie-Tlinsis Steel Corporation
U. S. Steels
Labour Government Faces Pigeonholed Programs In Parliament
London Feb 28 British parties held conferences on the eve of Parliament. Attlee’s cabinet plans reshuffle and legislative agenda. Churchill’s Conservatives anticipate Labour’s precarious majority and possible early election. Liberals blamed for stalemate after poor nine seat harvest. Worries include maintaining the wage freeze.
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Labor Party
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
London
Britain
Winston Churchill
Commons
Clement Davies
Labor
Hammer Murder Jury Being Picked
El Paso February 28 The jurors for the hammer murder trial of Edna Mead are being chosen with five selected yesterday from a 200-man pool. Mead 21 red haired and previously free on $5000 bond after a self defense claim in a December 14 killing of her mother Ada Bredford 63 who was found choked and struck. Mead returned from Boston last October where she worked as a stenographer. Her husband Philip Mesd says he will stand by her during the trial.
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EL Paso
Edna Mead
Mead
Ada Bredford
Boston
Burke Seeks Baytown City Council Seat
W. Burke, longtime Baytown resident and former Missouri Pacific conductor now specialty salesman, filed for the City Council seat vacated by Dr. H I Davis who will not run. Burke, 25 years in Baytown, lives at 311 East Pearce with his wife and two children Marilyn and Charles David. He previously ran for District Two commissioner during consolidation. He said he took the race as a civic duty after requests.
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W. Burke
Baytown
H. I Davis
Davis
Burke
Missouri Pacific Railroad
East Pearce
Marilyn
Charles David
Oil Workers Press Return to 36 Hour Week
CIO Oil Workers International Union leaders in Denver urge a return to the 36 hour week in the petroleum industry. They note the prewar 36 hours and the wartime 48 hour shift, with the general shift to 40 hours after the war. Officials say layoffs are increasing and appeal to government pressure on companies to restore the shorter schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
CIO OH Workers International Union
Water Method Aids Safecrackers In $25,000 Haul
In Figuiston on February 28 detectives report safecrackers used water to float currency to the top of a walk-in vault at a Mading Drug warehouse. They entered with a master key and used two oxygen tanks and an acetylene torch but could not crack the large vault’s combination. About $25,000 to $25,600 in bills surfaced, no silver recovered, as warehouse staff noted the total value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Figuston
Jorge Cault
Mading Drug Company
Jocal
Bankston
S. AL Brows
Hams Send Melons to Ailing Itasca Tot
ITASCA Texas February 25 radio hams in the Canal Zone made contact to ship ten water melons to Randy Barnes a year old for relief from a rare kidney ailment. Sidney Files of Itasca Cotton Mfg Co and radio station W50GK coordinated with Frank A Lerchen station KZSFL who chairs Balboa Red Cross. Lerchen approved the request through Edward R Neill Fort Worth Red Cross manager.
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Itasca
Tex
Fasca
Balbes
Canal Zone
Randy Barnes
Sidney Files
Itasca Cotton Manufacturing Company
Frank A. Lerchen
KZSFL
Lerchen
Yuan
Balboa
American Red Cross
Edward R. Neill
Fort Worth
Preview Of Arctic Maneuvers Tests U S Canadian Power
Editor Charles Corddry reports from the Yukon and Alaska on the first joint Arctic maneuvers by the United States and Canada. Air power is seen as the dominant factor in Arctic warfare, with early problems largely solved though some remain. Officers conclude tentative post mortems in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlies Corddty
United Press Aviation
Yukon Territory
Alaska
United States
Canada
Charles Corddry Washington
Arctic
Arctic maneuver tests troops and machines in Yukon trek
In the Yukon a Canadian American exercise across 330 miles of Alcan Highway tested Arctic combat conditions. Temperatures from 60 below to 20 above, waist-deep snow, and rough terrain highlighted ongoing issues in air and ground operations and communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horse
Yukon Territory
Alcan Highway
Brooke Claxton
Whitehorse
Northway
Alaska
Rhins
Lre
Atrctic
Stephen J. Chamberlin
Gay
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Ike
Pat) Murphy
Leonard
Murphy
Cigeret
Topansing Sie !Tay
Penégeteck
Cigaret
C. Rotor
A.V. Barker
Hinson
Paul “DeVorter
Coady
Allerinas
Walker
Henry M. Johnson
General Tire and Rubber Company
Roy Elms
Harris County
Houston
Leon Jaworski
Hars County
Pasadena
Carl Patrick
Hartman
Beytown
Harris
Ares
St. John's Church
Terre Haute
Indiana
Springfield
Illinois
Progressive Mine
Coal Producers Association of Illinois
George H. Live
Love
UMW
John L. Lewis
Richmond B. Keech
Mondey
Chrysler
Hammer
Red-Head
CIO. Union
Safa
U.S
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