Polio cases prompt three day holiday resite in Baytown
Baytown reports two possible polio cases admitted to Houston hospitals during a three day holiday respite. Thomas R Herndon, 29, a junior engineer at the Baytown refinery, and Dale Barringer, 4, son of Mr and Mrs Jyce Barringer of 18 Price, were taken to polio hospitals in Houston. Ken Lana Joyce Pope, 15, was admitted to Edgecroft Clinic. Robert They, son of Mrs Lloyd They of Cedar Bayou, was taken to Jefferson Davis for polio tests but later considered doubtful for the disease.
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Baytown
Thomas R Herndon
Hunter
Baytown Efinery
Dale Barriner
Jyce Barringer
Price
Houston
Ken Lana Joyce Pope
Edgecroft Clinic
Robert They
Lloyd They
Cedar Bayou
Jefferson
Political Rally Announced By Local Auxiliary
The ARERANE of Foreign wars auxiliary sets a political rally for July 23 at the VEW hall two days before the Democratic primary. Any candidate may speak for 15 minutes. Mrs. Fuantta Criswell leads arrangements.
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Tvo
Imarys
Anyndidate
Fuantta Criswell
Baytown polio study clinic teeters on closure
Baytown gamma globulin polio study clinic, directed by Dr. Lewis L Cornell, faces closure after Monday if response remains weak. Two days of operation drew only 432 injections. a Negro community day at the Baytown Community House was planned to boost turnout as volunteers urge mothers to bring children for doses.
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W. H. Williams
Arthur Mick
Jennifer Mitchell
Park
Johnella Boynton
Baytown
Lewis L Cornell
Harris County
Imless
Beytown
Jaycee Ettés
1K. S. Manne
City issues record building permits for June in Baytown
Permits totaling 518430 issued in June, highest monthly total since March. Half-year total reaches 2,010,010 with 72 permits and 3313.75 in city coffers. Residential permits dominate with 42 issued for homes at an estimated 350,289, and one commercial permit to Hensler for Busy Bee Flower Shop.
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Baytown
C.E. Hanraty
Hanratty
H. B. Hensler
Busy Bee
West Lobit
U. S. Post Office
West Defoe
Memorial Stadium
Baytown’s insect war costs near four thousand dollars
The City of Baytown has spent about 4000 this year in chemical warfare against disease carrying insects. Chemicals total 3772.67 for purchases with labor extra. Crews fog manholes with chlorodane to kill cockroaches, spray ditches, privies and animal pens, and plans include residual sprays and ballooning use of pyrethrin. A state sprayer boost aids spraying of manholes and ditches.
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Baytown
A. V. Barber
C.W. Grantham
Ney
Pharr
Tex
State Department of Health
Knights of Pythias Plan Big Rally at Goose Creek
The Knights of Pythias Goose Creek lodge plans a political rally on Highway 146 near the north city boundary. Candidates from all offices to be voted in the July primary are invited to speak. Tom Heflin chairs arrangements. fees are set at $3 for three minutes and $6 for each additional minute. Workmen will build the speakers platform and set up lights by mid next week. Joe Zorn and S. T. Taylor are committee members.
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Knights of Pythias
Goose Creek
Highway 146
North City
Tom Heflin
Heflin
Joe Zorn
S. T. Taylor
Rally Open for All Democratic Candidates at Crosby Hall
County Commissioner Hugh May will sponsor an all day political rally Sunday at Crosby Dance Hall one mile north of Crosby on Huffman road. The event is open to all candidates for state and county offices in the Democratic primaries with May supplying sound equipment and seating. May is seeking his sixth term in Precinct 8 and invites even opponents to attend.
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Hugh May
Old Crosby Dance Hall
Grosby
Huffman Road
Ralyy
May
Fme
World Balance Sheet Week Summary of Wars News
A week in review shows mixed signals in cold and hot war fronts. Talks at Panmunjom hint at a potential repatriation compromise with limits on nationality. UN favors prisoner rights while the Communists push for forceful returns. Secretary Acheson’s European tour strengthens Western unity and Berlin resolve. Allied air power shifts noted in Europe as tensions endure. In negative news, Soviet actions in Berlin arrest Western civilians, with 68 westerners seized in two weeks. France courts tension with the Communist party as legal maneuvers unfold. South Korea’s Rhee presses to override constitutional rules amid presidential election disputes.
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United Nations
Dean Acheson
Europe
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Yalu River
Korea
U. S
Lauris “A. Norstad
Mutepe
Berlin
Communist Party
Paris
Jacques Dueias
National ‘Assembly
Duclos
Syngman Rhee
Pete
Fourth of July Weather Stays Hot in Bayton
The Bayton weather forecast says Independence Day will stay hot with clear skies and strong sun. Forecasters note recent days reached highs near 83 to 95 degrees as the season’s hottest so far and warn of continued heat.
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Baytonians
Laborer Kicks Officer in Groin During Arrest
A 21 year old Channelview laborer Robert E. Jordan was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated assault after a wreck on Sheldon Road. Deputy Sheriff Don Henry tried to arrest him and was kicked in the groin during a scuffle before being taken to a hospital in Jacinto City for observation. The deputy radioed for help as the two were subdued and began toward the county jail. They paused at Greens Bayou where Jordan collapsed at a nearby Grand Coffee shop after a water sting relocation.
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Channelview
Don Henry
Jacinto City
Robert E. Jordan
C. G. Walker
Justice of the Peace
F. Thompson
Jordan
Sheldon Road
Henry
Walker
Greens Bayou
Tragic double shooting ends in murder suicide
A former Baytown woman Dorothy Nell Titmon and Houston car salesman William FR Allison, 46, died after Titmon was shot and Allison turned the gun on himself. The event occurred six blocks from Titmon's Spencer Highway home in South Houston at 3:33 am Friday. Funeral services for Titmon are set for 4 pm Saturday at Earthman Funeral Home, with Rev. M Stardad of Grave Methodist Church officiating. burial will be in Cedar Crest Cemetery.
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Baytown
Houston
Sheriff's Deputies
Dorothy Nell Titmon
WW. O. Titmon
J. W. White
South Houston
William FR. Allison
Miss Tidman
Spencer Highway
South
Tidmon
Earthman
Baytown Fourth of July Observed Quietly at Roseland Park
Baytown celebrated Independence Day with no local traffic accidents or drownings by mid morning. A beauty pageant of nineteen contestants at Roseland Park and a 6:30 pm concert by the Robert E. Lee band topped town events while many residents headed to beaches or stayed home in the heat. National reports noted holiday deaths beginning to surface with at least 43 fatalities by 9 am and a projected 430 traffic deaths before the holiday ends.
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Baytown
Robert BE. Lee
Bealty
Retail Merchants Committee
Chamber ‘of Com
iWationalt Safety Council
Texas 38 Delegate Fight Reaches Committee
Chicago reports Taft and Eisenhower spar over Texas 38 delegate slate. Taft offered a compromise to assign 16 delegates to Eisenhower and keep 22 for himself, hoping to avert a convention clash that could hurt GOP prospects. No final decision was made as aides weighed the plan.
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Uby
Robert A. Taft
Texas
Eisenhower
Sen
Robert
AL Taft
Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Washington
Guy G. Gabrielson
Gates
Sabrejets Shoot Down 12 Mig Fighters in One Day
SEQUL Korea July Fourth reports Sabrejets down 12 Communist MIG-15s and damaged others, marking the heaviest UN air losses in months. Fifth Air Force notes MIGs dwindling in number as air superiority persists. Suiho power plant incident and a nationwide Independence Day artillery barrage accompany air operations.
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Sequl
Korea
Red Air Force
Fifth Air Force
United Nations
Manchuria
Suiho
Antung
Congress To Quit Saturday May Be On Call For Steel Action
Congress moved toward a Saturday adjournment amid steel strike tension. Senate Republican leader Styles Bridges proposed recess subject to call to return if the CIO 650,000 workers’ steel walkout remains unresolved by the conventions. Senate and House leaders faced mixed views and popular desire to go home for campaigns.
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Congress
Warren Duffee
Washington
Senate
Styles Bridges
Bridges
CIO
Truman
89-year-Old Groom Urges Quick Action in Marriage Mate
An elderly groom urges speed in his marriage, saying at age 89 he cannot waste time and must act quickly to wed his chosen partner amid mention of a 30-year-old marquess and Winchester. The fragmentary text hints at a rapid wedding plan.
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Winchester
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