Record 380 May Die Over Holiday Phone Strike
Baytown General Telephone workers near a walkout as the CIO union ends its contract with the firm at midnight Thursday. Negotiations continue in San Angelo with no walkout indicated by Friday noon. Reports of a Robstown office strike could not be confirmed. Meanwhile the nation braces for a record Fourth of July traffic weekend with expected 80 deaths on highways despite safety calls.
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Baytown
General Telephone Company
Communicators Workers of America
CIO
San Angelo
Jon Ware
Robstown
Union
United Press
National Safety Council
Baytown Area Notes on Graduates Ministers and Weather
Recent graduate D M Allen from Texas Technological College earned an 8.8 grade in chemical engineering and works in the Technical Service Division at Baytown Refinery. Singleton L E Singleton returns to Fingineering Division at Baytown after two years in military service. He studied mechanical engineering at John McNeese Junior College and LSU, graduating in 1953. Reverend Wayne H McCleskey leads St Mark's Methodist at the 85th Texas Pastors School at Southwestern University. Ewell Clarke of Baytown attends the Church Music Institute at Southwestern University. Baytown showers kept temperatures in the 90s, with a high of 8 and low of 75. Friday may surpass 90.
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D. M. Allen
Missuri Street
Allen
Texas Technological
Baytown
Singleton
L. E. Singleton
Fingineering
Trenton Lane
John
Wayne H. McCleskey
St. Mark's Methodist Church
Texas
Southwestern University
Georgetown
The
Mercury
Around Town Notes of Local Names and Events
OE Ware prepares to acquire Rew name. Sam Alford presides Lions club meeting while seeking revenge. Betty Itz takes a short York vacation of about seven hours. Mary Jo Lawrence rises to new heights. Tommy the blue-eyed Persian seeks its master at 8079 or 4761. Bailey’s Beauty Shop finds a little black female cocker spaniel. owner called at 4159. Police report Sgt. Edward R. Hardy obtaining keys from Chief Roy Montgomery. Mrs. B. R. Whitcomb remains reoperating. Tommy Morrison visits Baytown furniture. Frank McMillen gets pointers on a certain endeavor. Zeke Williams undergoes a lengthy interview.
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OE Ware
Sam Alford
T Lions Club
Betty Itz
York
Mary Jo Lawrence
Lofty Heights
Tommy
Bailey
Emale
Houston firm buys school bonds at 2.71 percent interest
Beytown's School Board sold a $750000 issue to a Houston syndicate led by Lovett and Avercrombis, with an average rate of 2.71864 percent over 16 years. The cash premium was $28.40, bonds bear interest from July 1, tax free, and the State Board may exercise an option at its July meeting. Other bids ranged higher, and Deer Park recently sold at 2.72 percent. Two thirds of the money funds a new elementary school in Northeast Bay.
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Beytown
Lovett
State Board of Education
Austin
Houston
Underwood, Neuhaus, Inc
Rowles-Winston
Northeast Bay
Baytown Police Chief urges caution for Fourth of July weekend
Baytown Police Chief W R Montgomery urged a late and sane Fourth of July in the area start early and go slow. He warned against fireworks within city limits and urged parents to ban firing of crackers to keep the holiday incident free. Last July 4 was quiet with no major traffic drownings or serious injuries reported.
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Plains
Midwest
Minneapolis
Minn
Grantsburg
Wis
Chicago
W. R. Montgomery
Montgomery
Baytown
Miss Baytown bathing beauty contest set for Monday
The 1955-56 Robert E. Lee high school band will open the Baytown Fourth of July events at Roseland Park with a 5 pm concert of patriotic tunes and waltzes. The Miss Baytown contest will follow, with 21 contestants modeling playsuits on Thursday and judges including Mary Beth McDonald and Steven Chazanow.
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J. C Burkett
Robert EB. Lee
Dixie
Marlene Paretorius
Steven Chazanow
Wll
Houston
Crystal Clowns
Retail Merchants Committee of
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Brunson Theatre
Baytown
Debunking the Alamo Myth in Harper’s Exposé by Fischer
Harper’s magazine this month features John Fischer’s critique of Davy Crockett and the Alamo, labeling the event as the worst military blooper in American history. The Texan author contends Texans have mythologized the Alamo, urging a fuller, unflinching history that notes strategic missteps, leadership conflicts, scarce provisions, and failed fortifications.
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Preston Pendergrass
Pardner
John Fischer
Harper's Magazine
Davy Crockett
Fischer
Texhoma
Panhandle
Texas - Oklahoma
Texas
Harper's
Alamo
Pearl Harbor
Baytown Firm Wins Low Bid For School Pool Project
Baytown's Maxwell Construction Co won the school pool bid at 298579 dollars with two alternates adding about 31000. The board wrestled two hours over schedule and penalties, aiming to complete Robert E Lee and Carver pools by September 1956 or the next school year.
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Fred Hartman
Lowell Cammers
David Maxwell
William ‘Hy Bridges
Ward
Joe Horeczy
Robert E. Lee and
Carver
Maxwell
Baytown
Maxwell Construction Co
Lammera
W. D. Broyles
Hopes Fade For Safety Of Lost Boy
In Dallas community a 22 month old boy Gary Dwayne Bray remains missing after a second day of search by more than nine officers volunteers and Dallas Emergency Corps. Searchers comb pools old tanks and stock tanks a mile from the home as Sheriff Decker tightens the investigation with angle by angle reviews and multiple leads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Gary Dwayne Bray
Dallas Emergency Corps
Coxs Pools
Baytownprepares for holiday weekend activities
Baytown residents face mixed Fourth of July schedules with some off Friday or Saturday while many workers wait until weekend to start. Banks close Friday afternoon and reopen Tuesday. most businesses pause Monday. City employees mostly off. post office and government offices also observe the holiday. The Miss Baytown pageant at Roseland Park will highlight Monday events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
General Tire
Roseyland Pack
Eight Portuguese Jets Crashed Killing Pilots at Ota Base
Eight Portuguese jet fighters were destroyed in a midair collision shortly after takeoff from Ota Air Base near Lisbon during air force day maneuvers honoring Portugal's air force creation on July 3, 1952. The crash halted celebrations. officials from the base and observers reported the losses.
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Liston
Portugal
Portugese
Ota
Lindon
Halle Bea
Oxcimrate Portugues Air Forr
Air Force
Deta
Biggest 15 Cent Pay Boost Ends U S Steel Strike
United Steelworkers and U S Steel Corp reached a wage agreement Friday ending a strike that shut down mills nationwide. The contract raises average hourly wages to over 2.38 with an 11 cent across the board increase and 0.5 cent increments for higher job grades. Production is to resume immediately as Hood orders mills back to full output. The six major producers plus others are expected to mirror the deal, with overall industry price moves anticipated.
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Robert Shubert -Pitsburgh
United Steelworkers
U.S. Steel Corp
Clifford Hood
Hood
Mleec
USW
David J. McDonald
U.S
Basic Steel
Belehem
Republic, Jones and Laughlin
Youngstown
Sheet and Tube
Inland Steels
Toner
McDonald
Great Laker Steel Corp
Wheeling Steel
Criclle Steel
I'm Innocent Says Doomed Man Utah Execution Here
POINT of the MOUNTAIN Utah UP Don Jesse Neal protested innocence to the end before a firing squad executed him for the 1981 Salt Lake City police murder. Five marksmen fired 30 30 rifles from 20 feet as Neal, strapped to a wooden chair, spoke with Sheriff Beckstead and a prison chaplain moments before the dawn execution.
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Point of
Utah
Don Jesse Neo
Salt Lake City
Neal
Sherr Beckstead
Robert Pollock
Salt Lake
Baytown Woman Injured in Underpass Car Crash
Mrs. RLEB Bennett mother of three was seriously injured in a two car collision at the Le Porte Baytown tunnel underpass. A steering post tore loose hitting her knee as another car backed into the highway. Her children and two other girls sustained minor injuries. She is at Baytown Hospital. The Bennetts new car suffered heavy damage. The accident reportedly involved a woman driver who fled the scene. Also noted: Roy Carter benefit drive at Prince's Drive In proceeds go to his fund. Carter, hospitalized with a broken neck from a diving accident.
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Galveston
Baytown
Rleb
Bennett
le Porte
Baytown Tunnel
Belivieu
Baytown Hospital
Ciy
Marie Bennett
J. C. Thompson
Marshall
John Serley Hospital
Mra
Paul A. Les
Monsanto Chemical Co
Prince's Drive-In
Highway 146
Roy Carter
Cuba Greer
Young Carter
Hoover At 80 Stands Ready For New Duty
Washington Former President Hoover, 80, signals readiness for further service as he retires from chairing the Hoover Commission on the organization of the executive branch. He notes he stands ready for new calls to duty if needed by the country.
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Hoover
Washington
Statesiag
Two Reporters Sought As Red Probe Spreads
Senate investigators issued subpoenas for Hyman Chatniak and David Gordon, former Brooklyn reporters for the now defunct Brooklyn Daily Globe, who testified they were Communists in the early 1340s.
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Washington
Senate
Fhve
Brooklyn
J. G. Sourwine
Senate Internal Security
Hyman Chatniak
David Gordon
Brooklyn Dally Gie
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Ewells. Clarke
Baytowns
Church Music Institute
Deer Park
Miss Baytown
D. Crockett
the Alamo
Sam Houston
Fisher
William B. Travis
James Bowie
Travis
Bowie
Santa Anna
Louis Rose
Cpl
Harold Dunn
Dunn
Governory Island
International
New York
Manuel Tores
Irma Hughes
Ernest Andino
Pablo Ottis
Ortix Sa
International Soundphoto
Irene O'Brien
Covingston
Cincinnati
Gmio
Graham
Carter Fund
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