McCarthy Leads Fight Over Gag Rule To Protect Free Speech
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy pledged to head a group of loyal senators in a pushback against the Pentagon clamp on officers who speak to Congress. The debate tracks Sherman’s Navy leadership nomination and Mattees warns officers may face transfers or demotions for airing views. In Congress Kath pushes the civil rights employment bill amid Southern opposition while Fulbright forecasts dairy and margarine debate outcomes.
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Washington
Joseph R_ eCarthy
Wisconsin
Pentagon
McCarthy
Senate
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operatons
Sherman
Army Services Committee
Navy
Francis P. Matees Hast
Gvesiag
Congress
EPG
Adolph J. Kath
Clinois
House Yes
Representac
E. E. Cox
Georgia
Sabath
J. William Fulght
Arkansas
House Bil
Senatoern
Oil Cuts May Be Needed For Texas Market
STEN Jan. 13 UP Railroad commissioner Ernest O Thompson said further oil cuts may be necessary as too much is being taken in Texas for the market aboard The railroad commission will set a statewide oil allowable at Houston next Tuesday in February Following its December reduction of 3 373 barrels the cut helped the market reduce stocks by about 220 000 barrels We are approaching a better balance of supply and demand but still have too much oil on hand Texas stocks rose slightly during the week ending December 24 Thompson added totals show a sizable increase in desiralbe or necessary stock levels.
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Sten
Ernest O. Thompson
Texas
Qrailroad Commission
Houston
Commission Texas
Faa
Thompson
Local sports and community notes mix in scattered OCR
Fragments from a hometown paper list coaching duties and local game chatter. Mentions of Jim Bon, Jack Cameron, Tom Driscoll, John Gray, and others hint at upcoming visits, emergencies, cafe runs, and social letters. Occasional references to Houston, Baytown, and Venezuela appear amid unsure names.
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CE Ellis
Jim Bon Heries
Stewart
Jack Cameron
Houston
W. Hunt
Tom Driscoll
Arkansas Hills
Baytown
John Gray
Tri-City
al- Kitere
Nolan
Add ‘ Perkins
Pomphrey
rCnezuela
C. K. Scott
Tee” Heights
Meson Qari
Kendon
Lee
Morris
Submarine Truculent Sinking Ends Hopes for 58 Men
British frogmen found the Truculent wreck flooded with 61 dead of 76 aboard after a tanker collision near Margate. Rescue teams recovered six bodies and rescued 15 survivors as divers tapped the hull without response. The submarine lay 55 to 60 feet deep, six miles from the crash site, delaying searches amid tides and currents.
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London
Uri
Thames Estuary
Med
Margate
Royal Navy
Test
Barrow Deep
Davis
Hodges
P. Bowers
Oil Recovery Plan Promises New Petroleum Boom
CHICAGO January 13 A Chicago firm claims a new oil recovery method could transform the industry by tapping oil-bearing strata horizontally rather than vertically or at an angle. The Gas Corporation of Chicago has exclusive patent rights and says the process could release millions of barrels of oil previously trapped underground. It may first be deployed in Canada where development of leases exceeds 200,000 acres. The method uses existing vertical wells with a cemented tube to vent oil and to jet chemicals, enabling a pulsating pressure to push oil toward the well.
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Chicago
The
Gas Corporation of Chicago
Frank G. Buffum
Butfum
Canada
Gas Corporation
Buffura
Peterson heads Water District No 8 at Wooster
Troy E B Peterson is the new chairman of Harris County Fresh Water Supply District No 8. He succeeds R A Wolfe Sr who did not run for re election. I E Orr is elected secretary, replacing R T Kerr. Other members Clif Floyd, Andy Barguiner. Peterson oversees a $425000 water and sewage improvement program. He is a Baytown Refinery foreman and was elected president of Beytown Mower Benefit Association.
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Troy EB. Peterson
Board of Supervisors
Harris County Fresh Water Suppley District No
Wooster
R. A. Wolfe, Sr
I. E. Orr
Orr
R. T. Kerr
Kerr
Clif Floyd
Andy Barguiner
Peterson
Baytown
Beytown Mower Benefit Association
Baytown Fire Losses Drop in 1949 Report Shows Lower Rates
Fire Chief A H Lintelman released the annual Baytown fire loss figures for 1949 noting a total loss of 29 966 55 with the prior year at 34 347 11. The December 18 blaze in Dr William F E Sharns office on Market Street caused 8 760 12 in damage and three lives were lost in Baytown. Causes cited include cigarette smoking in bed faulty wiring and faulty gas connections. The department answered 1 residential commercial and personal claims and reported 27 car fires and outside calls. The city conducted a weed burn on 800 vacant lots and fire insurance rates remained influenced by new coverage and state regulations.
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Baytown
A. H. Lintelman
William FE. Sharn
Market Street
Cedar Bayou
Lintelman
Youth Plan Here Hailed By Houston Official
Baytown youth recreation programs praised by Larry Fultz assistant to Inspector Morrison during a police school lecture. He highlighted the Youth Development Council as a statewide approach to reduce juvenile crime and noted Gatesville reform outcomes. The talk warned that suburban expansion and housing efforts have not cut delinquency, with lowest Houston rates in certain areas and cross-town mobility cited.
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Saxtown
Larry Fultz
L. D. Morrison
Houston Crime Prevention Bureau
Baytown
Quack Shack
Fultz
Texas
Youth Development Council
Teses
Furtz
Gatesville
Houston
Foulle
Rains Bring North Texas Flood Threat
Steady rains up to nearly three inches raise flood risk in North Central and Northeast Texas. Trinity River at Dallas near 26 feet, flood stage 28. Levees protect Dallas area, rainfall totals include Fort Worth 2.99, Anna 2.82, McKinney 2.12, Bonham 2.95, Little Elm 2.75.
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Texas
Trinity River
Dallas
Weather Bureau
el Paso
Big Bend
South
Trinity
Elm
Carrollton
Fort Worth
Anna
McKinney
Bonham
Little Elm
Burleson
State Solons Will Convene January 31
Governor Allan Shivers announced a special Texas legislature session will begin January 31 to approve a multi million dollar plan to finance state hospitals. The park of the plan covers $17,500,000 for operating costs and part of the building program, with no action on a $26,000,000 deficit.
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Texas
Austin
Allan Shivers
Robert S. Calvert
General Revenue Fund
Shivers
Durwood Marford
Delvers
Attempt To Wreck Two Trains Reported Quick Stops
Chicago officials reported a deliberate attempt to wreck two fast trains as they entered the city. The Twin Cities 400 from Minneapolis and the Valley 200 from Green Bay struck piles of rail and maintenance gear but remained on tracks with no injuries among 200 and 176 aboard respectively. Investigators said the materials were taken from a padlocked shed, placed to avoid both rails, and questioned whether the act was hoodlums or saboteurs.
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Chicago
VBI
North Western Railroad
Twin Cities
Minnepolis
Valley
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Niles
Waller
Koepp
North Western
Acheson Accuses Russia Of Seizing Four Northern China Areas
Secretary of State Acheson declared Moscow is trying to steal 2,000,000 square miles of Chinese territory by moving on Manchuria Outer and Inner Mongolia and Sinkiang. The claim, made before the National Press Club, ties Mao Zedong’s Moscow talks to potential further Russian concessions in northern China.
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China
Acheson
Russia
Washington
State Department
Asia
Moscow
Dean Acheson
Soviet Union
Manchuria
Outer Mongolia
Inner Mongolia
Sihkiang
United States
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
National Press Club
Rossellini Seeks Italian Divorce Over Drug Influence
Italian director Roberto Rossellini asked the Turin Court of Appeals to annul his 1936 marriage to Marcella De Marchis on grounds he was under the influence of drugs at the time, to enable recognition of an Austrian divorce and his marriage to Ingrid Bergman. Attorney Gino Sotis said Rossellini was under the influence and unable to will or understand when wed, with drug details not disclosed.
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Turin
Italy
Uup3
Roberto Rossellini
Turin Court of Appeals
Marcella
Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman
Gino ‘Sotis
Marcella de Marchis
Civitavecchia
Rome
Ame
Rosselini
New Baytown Oil Well Blowout Shocks Town
Baytown residents awoke to a terrifying oil well blowout near Goose Creek. Green Diamond Oil Corporation’s Bennet No. 5 burned for 43 minutes, $50,000 in equipment lost, derrick collapsed, new rig to be set up by moonrise. Panic spread as gas flare lit the night, people fled, mistaken fears of a Texas City tragedy resurfaced.
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Baytown
Goose Creek
Handee
Green Diamond Oil Corporation
Déan
A “Bennett
Bielstein No. 5
West Main Stree Bridge
Earl Carlton
Carston
Texas City
Baytown J
Pelly
Bemeu
Highlands
Boise
Youth Welfare Is JC Topic
Baytown Jaycees plan Founders Day banquet with Judge Dan W. Jackson of Houston's 128th District Court as speaker. He will tour the Jaycees teen recreation center Quack Shack in Baytown before the Humble Dining Room banquet at 7:30 p.m. name of year awards planned.
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Baytown Jaycees
Big Jaycee Founders Day
Dan W. Jackson
128Th District Court of Houston
Baytown
Jaycees
Humble
Texas Turnpike Company Plans Dallas Houston Toll Road
A Texas toll road company, the Texas Turnpike Company, filed for a charter to build a Dallas to Houston four-lane auto Bahn toll highway. The planned route would cross 16 Texas counties, cost an estimated 96 million to 100 million dollars, and use a one-cent-per-mile toll with truck weights taxed on a graduated scale. Spokesman Oilman Pickens said the project could cut travel time to about two hours and boost trucking efficiency, with funding via private and public bonds.
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Austin
G@P
Texas Toll Road Company
Dallas
Houston
The
Texas Turnpike Company
Mammoth Speedway
Texas
Ross Frescott
Prescott
WL. Pickens
Boyston
Leon
Madison
Montgomery
Houstes
Soviet Re Installs Death For Traitors
Foreign wire notes Radio Moscow reports the Soviet Union re introduced the death penalty for treason allowing traitors spies and saboteurs to face capital punishment. The decree revokes a 1947 abolition and signals possible political purges. Abe Bemel a Baytown business man was found dead in his Home with no funeral plans made.
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London
Radio Moscow
Moscow
Supreme “Soviet
Abe Bemel
Abe ‘Bemel
Baytown
May Promises See Drive Construction Plan
County Commissioner Hugh Ma outlined May plans for concrete drive construction with curbs and gutters at a May meeting. City and county officials discussed a proposed 7.5 million bond for roads and hospital projects, urging support for a new county sanitation district and hospital funding.
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Robert
Hugh" Ma
C. W
May
Hospita
Hedgecroft Clinic
Texas
Alien Shivers
Mont Belview Man Takes Own Life Over Retirement
Montgomery County sheriff reports Mont Belvieu district superintendent W H Killian of Atlantic Pipe Line Company shot himself in a personal safety related incident. Killian 66, despondent over retirement due April 1, died instantly. Survived by his wife Eding Babian two sons S A Killian Jr Baytown two daughters L R Sit New Orleans W L Thames Houston and Baytown mother Mrs M K Killian sister Mrs Charles S Chase Houston. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Paul A Lee Funeral Home.
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H Willian
Atlantic Pipe Line
Mon Belvieu
Fred Cat
Killian
At & Aim
Dallas
Chitty
Thesce
Compan
Mont Review
The
Atlantic
Eding Babian
S.A. “Kullien, Jr
Mont Belvien
L. Ro Sit
Baytown
W.l.thames
New Orleans
Killiat
Charles
S& Chase
Houston
Paul A.i Lee
Your Fingers Crossed Friday the 13th Day
Friday the 13th is noted with superstition and caution as people consider luck and avoid risky bets. The line often echoes anxious vibes and practical jokes about bad omens while daily routines continue with extra care.
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Peterson Heads Water District No
Old Baytown
Perry
Old City
Wallace Beasley
Texas A and MM College
He, McKee
United Press
State Solons
Capitol
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joint Chiefs of Staffs
Truman
Formosa
Islland
China Coast
Wiliam F. Knowland
California
United States Ic
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Yalta
Great Britain
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Ol Miller
Houston-Dallas
Mont Belview
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