Waterbury Budget List Details Dump Under Bureau
The 1255 budget lists the operation of the city dump under the Bureau of Restricted Waste Disposal.
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1955
Page
7
The 1255 budget lists the operation of the city dump under the Bureau of Restricted Waste Disposal.
Senate investigators resume their inquiry into the Veterans Land Board as three Austin employees resign. Lawrence C. Jackson U S McCutcheon and H Lee Rickey quit in a move described as voluntary with the land program’s best interests. The resignations were accepted with board approval and no official reason given. The probe continues with a Feb 15 deadline and focus on land promoter practices toward De Witt county veterans, many of whom were Black. Former land commissioner Bascom Giles had previously resigned January 1 to return to private business.
Texas Farm Bureau President J Walter Hammond warned here that the bureau will vigorously oppose any price fixing or fair trade legislation in the new Legislature. He cited dispatches noting a so called fair trade act may be introduced and said the bureau has fought such measures in past sessions to prevent monopoly and defend free enterprise for Texans.
LANCASTER Texas January 12 an elderly Black father Arthur Field seventy two killed his three children aged ten nine and nine and then died by own action Justice of the Peace W B Richberg ruled the killings homicides and death by own action Field a railroad laborer had been separated from the children's mother Effie Field forty two In a despondent state his only income came from railroad retirement and an old age pension Police Chief Pete Playford said the children were likely killed swiftly while asleep A paraffin test of Field’s hands and a laboratory test of the gun and butt were ordered by Sheriff El Decker
Donald Hawking Brown died in the electric chair in Huntsville Texas early Wednesday for the 1952 torch murder of Dallas bill collector Edwin Joe Campbell. Brown claimed innocence and refused a final meal. The State Board of Pardons denied commutation and Brown said the prosecution should have witnesses present. National costs plans to boost coal sales were announced in Washington as unemployment hit the industry.
The White House highway panel chaired by Gen Lucius D Clay urges a 1 year 101 billion dollar national road program. It would fund 30 percent federal share with 70 percent local support and create a Federal Highway Corp to issue bonds. The plan ties federal outlay to current gasoline taxes if kept, and aims to pace a congress message on January 27. The committee stresses mobility for industry and distribution, noting global seismic activity while urging continued road speed.
Fort Worth jurors including fathers and grandfathers hear the case of Pvt Carl Malloy of Aliquippa Pa charged with killing his seven week old son George Michael Malloy by crushing with his hands. Assistant DA Randell Riley seeks the death penalty. defense cites schizophrenia. Malloy, 22, admitted squeezing the infant on at least ten occasions. Trial panel includes 7 jurors selected earlier. one woman excused. Malloy says the baby’s conception came after he married the mother.
Houston on January 12 reported a strange car incident as Mrs. Brown started her vehicle. The motor let out a blood curdling meow and her cat Fuzzy leaped from under the hood with part of her fur missing. Brown said the cat is fine but will avoid the car from now on.
Sylvester A. Markowski Jr. sought a mathematics book in Hartford Massachusetts? The clerk asked him how to spell the author’s name, as he requested a title described as a multiplication table by sevens.
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