Baytonian Dies in Gas Blast at Plant
BR W Rabb Shell Oil Co plant superintendent died when a heated oil tank exploded on a Wednesday. Rabb, former Daytonian, was a substitute cager in Goose Creek team and later worked at the glg store. He was cousin of Mrs Ingram of 801 North Janes. Several workers were killed in the blast near Epes Blvd. Hillhouse, a shift foreman, and J. B. Harvey are mentioned. Explosion page two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BR. W. Rabb
Shell Oil Co
Vidan
Beko
Senate fight lingers after filibuster clash
Washington reports ongoing battle over civil rights legislation as Senate members clash in a key skirmish. Officials note continued push to end filibuster despite earlier opposition. World leaders, including Prime Minister Churchill, address Cold War concerns as public debt and war tensions rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Cornelius Jr
Burglary Reported at Goose Creek Oil Storehouse
Independent oil operator Sun Spots SSELL FERRELL reported a burglary at his Goose Creek 208 field storehouse. Deputies Brown and Jr. investigated in January, noting missing tires tubes wire and an electric drill. Weather records show 70s into 71 degrees with bright sun. section lists a patent grant to KARCIEMER Humble for a method involving stabilized phase catalysts and arsenic’s role in hydrocarbon reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ssell Ferrell
Goose Creek
Bperceh
Brown Ant Jr
Tent
I. Karciemer
Glowing Baytown Future Hearings From Local Circle
Round Town Steele McDonald discusses Baytown’s bright prospects with May Hargrave and a cast of local youths. Figures like Charley, Peterson, Carter Miller, Lowell Lammers, and Sam Stassi appear in lively, impassioned commentary on football, improvements, and notable events shaping the community scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele McDonald
Baytown
Hargrave
SUN Ofenifee
Capdd
Charley Ell
Gavant
Ieo Peterson
Aleady
Carter Miller
Lowell Lammers
Council Eyes City Improvements Sewer Water Work Contracts On Agenda
City council meeting set for 7 30 pm Thursday to consider contracts for a 406 000 gallon elevated water storage tank at East James and North South and a West Main sewage disposal plant near Goose Creek. Brown and Root bid 6 887 for the water tank foundation with 45 day limit and 225 daily for delays. Engineer H S Berlin to finalize plans and bids for the sewer plant, with total improvements estimated at 486 137 and sewer plant cost about 219 208. Also on agenda: purchase of two pickup trucks and a two ton fire truck chassis. performance records on previously bought tracks to be reviewed and bids on the trucks to be opened at Thursday meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubrey Ban
Counell
H. S. Berlin
J. J. Rady Engineering
East James
North Fouth
Brown and Root
Berlin
West Main
Goose Creek
Sewate
Baytown Draft Board Says 19YearOlds Not Immediate Call
Baytown draft officials will not pull 19 year olds for January and February calls. W C Swain says boards may induct to 19 years 11 months if needed to meet quotas. About 100 men available for 58 February slots. no doctors quota yet. Baytown covers East Harris County and adjacent communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Draft Board
W. C. Swain
Swain
Baytown Board
Focal Board
Cher
East
Harris County
Sheldon
Galena Park
Seabrook
la Porte
Market Street
Jacinto City
State weighs spur 201 ditch storm sewer plan
Baytown officials won support from state highway leaders to study replacing the Spur 201 open ditch at Missouri street with a 43 inch storm sewer. DeWitt Greer promised serious consideration after district engineer Jim Doug las ordered plans. city officials traveled to Austin to press the case and urged a near term decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beytown
Missouri Street
DeWitt Greer
Jim Dougdaz
Greer
Cit
C. D. Middleton
AL Ward
Public Orks
C. W. Grantham
Austin
Highway Department
Middieler
Baytown
Ann
Roger
Bay
Douglas Farmeris
Council
Middleton
S. P. Gilbert
Douglas
Gilbert
New Mangels Women's Apparel Store Planned in Baytown
Houston architects Leonard Gabert and William J. Wisdom draft plans for a Mangels women’s apparel store on West Texas Avenue Baytown. A one story building with mezzanine, 3100 square feet, air conditioned, front in cut stone terrazzo and stucco. location to be announced. bids due after February first week and three weeks for submissions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
West Texas Avenue
Leonard Gabert
William J. Wisdom
Houston
Mangels
La Porte Bonds Sold At Higher Interest Rate
La Porte sold 319.00 dollars of street and building improvement bonds to McClung and Knickerbocker and Ernest Brown Co. of Houston. City Clerk J. E. Muldoon announced the bid of 3.47 percent, well above the nationwide municipal bond average of about 2.25 percent, with Rowless and Weston of Houston bidding 3.04 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Porte
McClung and Knickerbocker
Ernest Brown Co
Houston
J. E. Muldoon
Rowless
Ston
Iranian Fears Nafion Lost To Iron Curtain Rotarians Hear
Nosrat Montasser the Iranian citizen warned Baytown Rotary audiences that a Western oil boycott could push Iran toward the Soviet bloc. He urged concern over power imbalances, cited Iran as a key link between the West and India, and blamed government corruption and abroad pressure for widespread poverty. The talk followed by Rotary Ladies Night planning and guest attendees from Texas and California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caina
Iran
Nosrat Montasser
Baytown
Asia
Free World
Tron Curtain
U.S
India
2000th Phone Installed In La Porte Area
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co reports the La Porte area has installed its 200th telephone line, doubling from 1110 in 1948. Western district manager Cecil Kennedy notes rapid subscriber growth and announces distribution of about 3,350 new January 1953 directories mailed to subscribers with replacements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
la Porte
Western
Cecil
Kennedy
Southwestern
Freen
Bound Over Davis Bound Over Bond For Pharmacy Robbery
Charles Davis aged 34 was bound over to the grand jury on a $10,000 bond after being identified as the man who robbery a Prescription Pharmacy at gunpoint. Joe Gomer, the shop pharmacist, testified at a justice court hearing while Davis denied involvement amid tense courtroom moments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Davis
Joe Gomer
Justice Court
Davis
Dee. 3
Comer
Iim
Howgne
Soma
Justice of the Peace
Roscoe Hierlein
Nicholson
Holmes
Ar.holson
Davin
Gomer
Namie
Tunnel Day Gets State Green Light
State Highway Engineer De Witt Greer confirmed Baytown La Porte tunnel openings with Baytown Chamber of Commerce manager Nelson McElroy. He said the tunnel is the department’s largest single project by cost and urged setting tentative opening dates while committees are formed in La Porte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Witt Greer
Paytown
Frank R. Boyle
la Porte
Baytown-La Porte
Highway Department
Soap Drive Urgently Seeks Soaps For Overseas Shipment
The Christian Rural Overseas Programme seeks all types of soap for a January 15 shipment overseas. Mrs B Kunze, assistant to Mrs Jack Rabin, chairman of the Baytown drive, notes soap is desperately needed. Churen circles sponsor the effort in Bigtown, collecting clothing, shoes and more. Contributions should be taken to the fire station at 103 South Main.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Rural Overseas
Baytown
B. 3
Kunze
Jack Rabin
Herston
Churen
Bigtown
South Main
Huge Dog Feared Mad Is Killed By Officer
A massive brown Great Dane running loose in Baytown was shot seven times by Allen after it frothing at the mouth and acting erratic. Humane Officer G EB reported the dog weighed about 150 pounds and stood four feet high. Police Chief Ho BE. McKre sent the head to Houston for rabies testing, with results expected later. The owner was not located and no other exposures were confirmed. Rabies vaccines are being used by 70 to 100 area residents, and a city ordinance now bans dogs running loose, requiring confinement or leashing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
Houstur
Humade
Parke Street
Allen
Ho BE. McKre
Houston
Ren
Ben
Psychiatrist Examines Mrs Smith in Tokyo Court Martial
Defense for Mrs Dorothy Krueger Smith contends she lost control the night of October 3 when she fatally stabbed her husband Col Aubrey D Smith in Tokyo. Army neuropsychiatrist testified she was not able to restrain herself while under drug and alcohol influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubrey D. Savith
US. Army
United States
M. Smith
Ben
Army
Tokyo
Chambers
Man Sought in Connection With Fever Shop Death
Houston dispatch reports three young Black men detained and a white male being sought after Tuesday's fatal shooting of Ruth Aline McCasland at a flower shop. Parraffin tests on two teens were negative. $26 missing from a cedar box, $8 cash and $211 in checks remained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Sherrie C
Kern
Ruth Aline McCasland
Bett
Negra
Jed Wag
Hope Rises For Air Crash Victims In Rocky Mountains
Nine-man search party probes rugged terrain near the Utah Idaho border for a missing C-46 transport with 41 aboard including 37 Korean veterans and a crew. Flares seen on Hot Springs Peak sparked renewed hope as air and ground teams resumed the hunt after the early Wednesday takeoff from Seattle bound for Fort Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisres
Rocky Mountains
Biontpelier
Ida
Rocky Mountain
Here
Hot Springs
Gilbert Arnett
Bear Lake Country
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Bozo the Dog Becomes Special Deputy for Humane Officer
Bozo the police dog wins a legal battle to be treated as a Deputy for the humane officer. He patrols with Patrolman Hen Enax on Texas Avenue, helps enforce the city's dog-weaning ordinance, and will serve during the day until the ordinance expires February 2 before returning to kennel duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozo
Enax
Texas Avenue
Enox
IRS Agent to Help Baytown Residents March 6
An Internal Revenue Service agent will be in Baytown daily from March 6 to assist residents with income tax issues. A. B. Grant of the Houston bureau will work on the City Hall second floor from 9 am to 5 pm, with additional Saturdays open through March to aid filers before the deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal
Brean
Baytown
Baytonisn
A. B. Grant
Bureau
Houston
Internal Revenue Office
Fendiline
Also Mentioned on This Page
New York
Hower
Churchill
Jeashington
Luros
Panmuajom
Winston Churchill
White
Missouri
Round Town
Sam Stassi
Prot Fiders
Belson, McElroy
M. T
Campbell
Public Works Department
C.W. Grantham
Clyde Pond
Grantham
Sieger J
Ward
Edna Oliver
Gulf Coast Motors
la Porte’s
Montassor
Russia
Pakistan
Tran
Persia
Greece
Bulgaria
Hungary
Korea
la Porte Area
Mrs. Smith
Dorothy Krueger Smith
Julian Arta Hollywood Studio
Lloyd'’s of
London
Ken Reynolis
Seattle
Debarkation
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Caralinas
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Associated Air Transport Co
San Antonio
Tex
Airship Flight
Ans
Lawrence Crawford
Crawford Maxwell
Perkins
Dorothy Davis
San Aionso
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!