Influenza Strikes Texas Prompting School Closures
State Health Officer W. Cox reported a fast spreading flu across Texas with 29 cities forced to close public schools and 25 000 cases statewide by Jan 10. Epidemics were reported in Kimble Hill Harrison Milam and Dawson counties, while many areas faced medicine shortages and high absenteeism in businesses. Military bases issued influenza inoculations as doctors warned cases likely undercounted.
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Las
Texas
Yy Paso
W, Cox
Austin
Hocle
Sci Pri
Bonham
Honey Grove
Cox
Kimble, Hill, Harrison
Milam
Dawson
Eric Anderson
San Angelo
Mexia
Supt. C. S. Hereford
President elect Higgins confers with two aides in Europe
President elect Higgins meets two aides on a mission to Europe while Secretary of State Dulles focuses on security. Mutual Security Director discusses new policies as government workers prepare holiday legislation. In Yugoslavia Tito elected president amid secret vote details. Violence erupts in Philadelphia as 10,500 workers accuse union leader Gel J. Quill of a sellout. Air Force investigates Supertort crash killing 42. Texas Supreme Court defers El Paso school credit case for Fort Bliss children.
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York
Hower
Europe
State Dulles
Adelphia
Gel J. Quill
Texas Supreme,Court
el Paso
Fort Bliss
Fire damages clothing storage and board election note
A fire at 5 Alva Tuesday destroyed clothing stored in a closet with origin undetermined. Nickerson was away at his cleaning shop when the blaze was found. The loss reportedly exceeds $500. In election news Ivan Brinson and Lary B. G. Stong were re elected to the Water Control and Cement District board.
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Alva Suesday
Nickerson
Ickerson
Jon
Ers
Ivan Brinson
Lary B. G. Stong
Inheir
All Water
Control and Cement District
Nvo
Moses
Brinson
Stonk
nGary
Bary
Family reunion joys and daily life glimpses in old town
The article paints a patchwork of community moments: a senior Band BYNUM preparing for insurance matters, Hazel Dedmon drafting letters from home, and a family gathering described as their first together since marriage. It notes neighbors like Commissioner WV and Howerd Bowles in routine chores and local chatter about Leap Year and daily errands.
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Bynum Sr
Fim Insurance
Real Etter
Hazel Dedmon
Hassock
Pisce Thibodaux
Grarey Thaxton
Marion
Roper
Howerd Bowles
Drouth Hit Texas Ranchers Seek Emergency Hay Aid
Drouth hit Texas ranchers have applied for nearly all hay under a federal drouth aid program. A PMA official said orders could be fulfilled by March due to shipping limits and tight hay supplies. About 16,000 carloads were allocated to Texas and 9,981 have shipped so far, with 7,000 more expected.
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Texas
College Station
Tex
F. Vance
Department of Agriculture
PMA
Cedar Bayou selects write-in candidates to win water district board
Cedar Bayou voters chose two write-in candidates to replace incumbents E W Bowerman and Bord N Hill on Harris County Water Central and Improvement District No 3. James Jennische 104 votes Roy Carroll 107 defeated Bowerman 61 Hill 40. Jennische a Cedar Bayou native and independent water well contractor. Carroll a Baytown Refinery employee. Hill was district president and Bowerman vice president. They sought re-election to oversee a 250000 dollar water and sewer upgrade. Jennische said the result reflected broader representation. Carroll could not be reached for comment.
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Cedar Bayou Water District
E. W. Bowerman
Bord’ N. Hill
James Jennische
Roy Car-roll
Harris County Water
Jennische
Cerro
Bowerman
Hill
B. B. Franklin
R. D.miller
S. H. Gates
City Opens Drive On Illegal Garbage Cans
Baytown health officials launch a personal outreach program to enforce proper garbage cans. Sanitarian Odis Muennink and assistant Gerald Landry will ride routes, note violations, and inform residents why metal tight lid cans of 30 gallons are required.
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Health’ ‘Department
Baytown
Odis Muennink
Muennink
Ramsey Pledges County Aid On West Main
County official Ramsey promised aid to Baytown streets linking to the tunnel and Cedar Bayou Bridge, after a long meeting with City Manager Middleton. Plans include widening West Main from Bryan to Market Street to three lanes, with costs around 33000 for the spur 201 intersection and drainage fixes delaying other sections.
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Ramsey
West Main
Cedar Bayou
Baytown i
Baytown-La Porte Tunnel
W. V. Ramsey
C. D.- Middleton
Missouri
Bryan
Market Street
Middleton
Causeway Road
East Harris County
Tri-City Beach
Sjolander
Jets In High Altitude Duel 12-Red MIGs Destroyed Or Damaged
Fort Worth press report details a high altitude duel south of the Yalu River where American Sabrejets battled 38 Communist MIG-15s. Twelve Russian jets were destroyed or damaged, with claims of eight MiGs destroyed and eight damaged later revised after gun camera review. Jet ace Capt. Leonard W. Lilley credited with his seventh kill. The raid marked the longest sustained strike of the Korean War on a single target.
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Victor Kendrick -Seogl
Yalu River
Leonard W. Lilley
Manchester
Lilley
Kereen
La Porte Negro School Plans Adopted With 35000 Cost
La Porte Negro School plans were adopted by the school board for a new building estimated at 35000 dollars. The design includes a large classroom auditorium, separate class rooms, an office, janitor facilities, and restrooms. The site is one block outside city limits due to a recent de annexation move, with construction progressing despite weather delays and foundation work underway. Board members at the meeting included D Baugh, Mrs Aves, JW Langston, FL Copeland, G B Harrison, Dr B G Peck and L E Posey Sr.
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la Porte Negro
la Porte
Baytown
Lowell Lammers
Jrithin
Thyo
D.” “x. Baugh
de R. Aves
JW .Langston
FL. Copeland
B. “Harrison
B. G. Peck
L EB. Posey
Truman Warns on Farm Prices and 1953 Economy
President Truman forecast reasonably stable prices and full employment in 1953 while warning that falling farm prices threaten the economy. The advisory council urged higher demand, slower tax cuts, and continued price and wage controls, with cautious steps to lift them as conditions allow.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Leon H. Keyséeling
Robert C. Turner
John. D. Clark
Clark
Fourer
U.S
Council
House
Senate
Hodges Accepted to UT Medical School in Galveston
Lynn Hodges Jr a Baytown senior in Alabama's college of arts and sciences has been admitted to the University of Texas School of Medicine Galveston to begin studies in September 1953 He is the son of Mr and Mrs I P Hodges and member of several honorary and social societies including Alpha Epsilon Delta Phi Eta Sigma Scabbard and Blade and Kappa Sigma.
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Lynn Hodges
Baytown
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Alabama
University of Texas School of Medicine
Galveston
Hodges
I. P. Hodges
Alphe
Epsilon’ Delta
Phi Eta Sigma
Scabbard and Blade Military
Id Kappa Sigma Social
Tale Of Woe In Baytown Jail For Hadji Moslem
A Hadji Moslem prisoner in Baytown jail endures hunger and mistreatment over legal status and Ramadan fasting beliefs. He refused Bologna due to religious dietary rules, craving rice and dignity amid insults from fellow inmates and confusion stemming from immigration and legal threats. He worries that prison hunger resembles the death he would face in India.
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Rosalie Myers
Hadji Marahak Ali
Baytown
China-Burma
United States
Radji
India
Deadline Near On Paying City County School Taxes
Baytown taxpayers face a triple deadline as city county and school property taxes are due by January 31, 1952. Penalties rise to 13 percent after February and 1.5 percent monthly thereafter. delinquent lists add further charges. Offices stay open late to handle last minute payments before the deadline.
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Baytown
Acb. Collins
Tex
Salk
Embezzler Held In Houston After Oklahoma Theft
Ted R. Burkhart, 35, was arrested in Houston for embezzling 84,060 from the W. H. May Cattle Commission Co. Oklahoma officials say he forged a 232,027.46 check and that his wife, heartbroken, will stand by him as he faces extradition to Oklahoma City.
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Houston
Oklahoma
Ted R. Burkhart
Burkhart
W. H. May Cattle Commission Co
Oklahoma City
City
Oklahoma County
Bob Turner
Ross Biggers
Oklahoma Crime Bureau
Chester Stringer
Citizens Adds 2 Directors to Bank Board
Citizens National Bank and Trust announces Mose Sumner and Douglas W. Stewart elected to its Board of Directors. Sumner has served as a Citizens vice president and Stewart is an assistant cashier. Barbara Boswell named secretary. Other directors remain J. R. Barber, Hugh Echols Jr., Jack Jacobs, Milton Kelley, L. G. Sanders, Robert Strickland, and Cecil Winfree.
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Mose Sumner
Douglas W. Stewart
Citizens National Bank and
Trust
Citizens
Barbara Boswell
First National Bank and
Peoples State Bank
Sumner
Stewart
J. R. Barber
Hugh Echols, Jr
Jack Jacobs
Milton C. Kelley
L. G. Sanders
Robert Strickland
Cecil Winfree
A H Franta Heads Lakewood Civic Association
A H Franta was elected president of the Lakewood Civic Association for 1953 at a Tuesday night meeting in the community house. Other officers include M E Schiller as vice president Paul Edwards secretary treasurer L Dickinson M E Widrine Aubrey Bor A B Horn and T E Peterson as board members. Outgoing officers include President Peterson Vice President Mrs Schiller Secretary Treasurer Wyo F S McMahon Roberts J R Beatty A L Franta and Frank Chrenick.
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A. H. Franta
Lakewood Civic Association
Troy Peterson
Franta
Association
M. E Schiller
Paul Edwards
Governor Shivers pushes gas tax hike to avert highway standstill
Austin reports Gov. Allan Shivers urged the Legislature to raise the gasoline tax by at least one cent and warned that highway construction and maintenance could halt without new funds. He outlined four major spending demands including state tuberculosis hospitals, teacher and state employee pay raises, and capital improvements, citing a projected budget of about 166 million for the next two years. He suggested tapping long line natural gas transmission taxes if legal barriers allow and pressed for emergency action on TB facilities with Moore Field's Reactivation at Mission, outlining costs near 36 million.
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Austin
Allan Shivers
State School For the Deaf
Anderson Foundation
University of Texas Medical
Moore Field
Mission
Weaver Baker Memorial Hospital
San Antonio
Tyler
Rio Grande Valley
Shivess
Tyro
Here's Chance To Recruit New Texan
Pvt Paul B Brandt an Army requisition clerk in Japan writes from a Texas themed letter to The Sun seeking a Texas visitor. He asks for Baytown and Baxstown mentions and wants Texans to respond for morale and a future Texas visit after the war. Address given US 52263296 Det A 8034 Army Unit APO 505 care Postmaster San Francisco California.
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Texas
Paul B. Brandt
the Sun
Baytown
Tantium
Penperdner
Brandt
Japan
Ohio
Baxstown
Pvt
Care
San Francisco
Calif
Boy on Bike Struck by Passing Auto Near Grocery
O L Woods, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Oole L Woods of 104 Nazro, was only slightly hurt when his head dented a car hood after a passing auto struck him while he pedaled across Miriam and South Main near a grocery. He was on an errand for his mother. the driver claimed he could not see due to the car ahead. Turner investigated.
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O. L. Woods
Oole L. Woods
Nazro
Miriam
South Main
O. i
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Pres
Lynn Hodges, IR
Hadji Marabak Ali
W. C. Turner
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