Bear Nabs Toddler From Libby Camp In Child Loss Toll
In Libby Montana a bear snatched two year old Mae Curtis from a tent and fled into thick timber along the Cabinet Range. A 300 man search party scoured the woods overnight as a hysterical mother prayed for the child’s rescue amid reports the bear could be a grizzly and may have taken the girl into the mountains.
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Libby
Mont
Mortimer B. Curtis
Mae
Curlis
High Cabinet Range
Fire Sweeps Baytown Home Left Seven Homeless
A Baytown family of seven was left homeless when a Sunday morning fire destroyed their four room garage apartment at 3308 Wisconsin. W. B. DeHart, a refinery worker, said he woke at 12 25 am to smoke, found the blaze in the bathroom, and evacuated his family. Nine year old Robert Ray was hospitalized for first degree burns to his back and left shoulder but was reported resting, with officials unsure how the child was burned. The fire originated in unclear circumstances and the incident is covered in Fire on Page Two.
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Baytown
Art
W. B. DeHart
Wisconsin
de Hart
Robert ‘Ray
Baytown Hospital
Senate Chief Johnson Seriously Ill After Heart Attack
The 73 year old mother of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson arrived in Washington to be at the bedside of the Democratic leader who suffered a heart attack. Doctors say his condition remains serious though he is in a cheerful mood and stabilized, with Mayo Clinic specialists and family staying beside him as he remains at naval hospital indefinitely.
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John M. Couric
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Senate
Sam
Johnson
Austin
Tex
Sen. Johnson
Orne Mayo Clinic
Johmson
Rochester
Minn
Howard Burchell
Virginia
Mayo
James Cain
Texas
Homer Thornberry
Lally Bird Johnson
Cain
Dallas
Burchell
Naval Hospital
Earl ¢. Clements
Kentucky
Clements
Pyhawer
Congress
SUN SPOTS Meet Postponed For Baytown Air Patrol
BAYTOWN CNvil Air Patrol squadron cancels regular meeting scheduled for Monday night and reschedules for 6 30 pm at the airport Captain C A Bchy mer commander says CAF members should wear work clothes The notice also lists TV appearances for To Be On TY LE WALKER and a family adoption announcement and a parish altar society meeting set for Tuesday morning
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Baytown
Cnvil Air Patrol
C. A. Bchymer
CAF
Tyle Walker
Jimy Walker
Kgul-Tv
Camp Tahor
Shamrock
Around Town TUE MOVIE AND Furlough Notes
Baytown readers catch up with local service members on furlough. Leon Hull, a former Syn employer, plans to enroll at the University of Houston after more Army aviation time in Guam and Vietnam. Joe Bill Miller and Navy/Coast lines are mentioned, with Robert E Lee graduate awaiting overseas duty. Peggy Gore nears nursing registration at Lilly Jolly School of Nursing in Houston. Joe Ware now Josephine, and other local names appear in shifting roles and court reports.
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Leon Hull
Baytown Bay
Leon
Guam
Woren
University of Houston
Beld
Joe Bill Miller
Robert E. Lee
Wavy
San Diego
Marilyn Padgett
Nelda Oleson
Pat Bowers
Mike Bowers
Baytown
Korea
Peggy Gore
Lilly Jolly School of Nursing
Houston
Peggy
Rites Held Today For 41 Year Old Drowning Victim
Funeral services were held at Howard Funeral Home in Greens Bayou for Vance Edwin Moates 41 a crane operator who drowned in the San Jacinto River near Lynchburg and was recovered Saturday night. An autopsy followed an inquest by Justice of the Peace Walter Queen Moates worked for A C Smith Corp Greens Bayou and his body was taken to Cisco for another service Interment planned in Cisco A companion Earl Taylor 34 of Channelview was in the boat when it capsized after a yacht passed by Taylor swam to shore and survived.
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Howard Funeral
Greens Bayou
Vance Edwin Moates
San Jacinto River
Lynchburg
Moates
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Houston
Justice of the Peace
Walter Queen
Moales
A. C. Smith Corp
Cisco
Earl Taylor
Channelview Cary Tar
San Jacinto Mile
Taylor
North Shore
Channelview
Weather radar net at Cape Hatteras linked to hurricane warning
A weather area is erecting a powerful radar net at Cape Hatteras North Carolina as a key link in the hurricane warning system along the Eastern Seaboard. In other briefs a pilot reports an American air force loss in the Atlantic and a coastal derby report near Spur Texas.
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Washington
Cape Fatteras
N.C
Miss Baytown Crowns Queen At Roseland Beauty Pageant
Miss Baytown will be crowned at 5 p m today during the fourth annual bathing beauty contest at Roseland Park as part of Baytown’s Fourth of July celebration. Twenty one contestants parade before judges with performances by Roburt & Lee high school band and Houston Crystal Clowns. The event runs about an hour around the Roseland swimming pool with committee members led by Max Altman and Peggy Williams assisting sponsor shops and sponsors.
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Roseland Park
Baytown
Retail Merchants” Committee of
Roburt & Lee High School
Crystal Clowns
Houston
Wand
Roseland Swimming Pool
Max Altman
Billy G. Smith
Sam Paine
Jim McClendon
Rufus Honeycutt
Vernon ‘Wright
Baytown observes quiet Fourth after heavy weekend rain
Baytown enjoyed a subdued Fourth of July with 2.93 inches of rain saturating the city and most businesses closed. Police logged numerous drunkenness and disturbance calls, but no major accidents, as residents held backyard celebrations and stayed home while others traveled to picnic spots and beaches.
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Baytown
E. H. Smitherman
Man Digs Lawn After Hose Burrows 19 Feet In Ground
Downey California police and curious crowds watched George DiPesa 38 a truck driver dig up his yard after a hose buried itself 19 feet underground defying pulls and baffling observers from Tokyo to New York Local geologist advice led to the decision to excavate The DiPesa family Ruth and three children fed by a steady stream of theories and late night visitors as neighbors whispered about the strange hose mystery
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Downey
Calif
George DiPesa
DiPeso
Ruth
Tokyo
Toronto
London
New York
DiPesa
Iran
Fsope
Soviet Air Show Signals Force Leap Over U.S.
Moscow unveiled more than 400 aircraft including a four engine jet airliner likely named Tyushin-20, plus a turbo-prop intercontinental bomber and twin-jet fighters. The display sparked debate in Washington on air supremacy and pressed the United States to respond.
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Moscow
Red Air Force
Sviet Union
United States
Soviet Union
Sergei Myushin
Washington
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Symington
Air
Truman
Eisenhower
State Board rulings awaited on Texas school desegregation
In Austin a petition from the NAACP and Baytown Board of Education urged full compliance with the Supreme Court desegregation order. A special committee was to report to the state Board, which would then set policy for local districts. Raytown School Board adopted a wait-and-see stance pending guidance from the State Board.
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Austin
State Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Courts
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Baytown
Aged Mother Of Two Baytonians Is Dead
Mrs Lydia Pitts 96 of Tyler mother of two Baytonians died Sunday in Tyler Funeral services will be Tuesday under Anderson Clayton Funeral Home in Tyler She is survived by her son in law and daughter Mrs W D Stripling both of Baytown Four grandsons Randall Pitts Larry Pitts Jimmy Stripling and Jerry Stripling now in the Air Force.
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Lydia Pitts
Tyler
Record July Fourth Traffic Toll Reaches New High
United Press reports as heat wave drives crowds onto highways. at least 280 killed in crashes and 123 drownings across the nation through the holiday weekend. Death toll may climb beyond prior records as the National Safety Council tracks traffic fatalities in major pileups and separate accidents. Families lose loved ones in Town City, Iowa, and Moline, Illinois, as cars collide on busy interchanges and witnesses recount tragic scenes.
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United Press
National Safety Council
Clarerice Wiehmann
Steau
Iowa
Panty Williams
Moline
Moline, 1H. But. Wiehmann
Carel
Randy
Victin Waa
Ifrlond
Witting
Steyrk
Columbus
Ohio
Quids
Sam Ststoemn
Astoren
Ned H. Dearborn
Editorial Annexation Is Tough Problem for Baytown
The Sun endorses a planned annexation near Baytown urging a Tuesday hearing for all sides. It argues growth requires extending city limits to provide water and sewer services to nearby areas and a new Cedar Bayou Elementary School, benefiting taxpayers and ensuring fairness for residents inside and outside the city.
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Baytown
Sun
Fet
Cedar Bayou
Boundry
the Sun
Great Southwest
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Te Ees State
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Inglewood
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94Th District Court
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