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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1950
Page
2
Heber Page expands directory publishing with Baytown style directories for Channelview and Crosby. Channelview shows 3517 residents and Crosby 1093, while federal census lists Crosby at 899. Directories include business listings, numbered telephone directory, street guide, and the regular directory.
Hayden, in the auto repair business for 12 years, opens a new garage at 13901 North Main. He will run the Hayden Booter Company with his sons Robert and Wayne, both grown in the garage trade. Staysen, serving 10 years as Gulf Coast Motor Co service manager, moved to Baytown July 4, 1825 after running a Jacksonville garage for six years.
Baytown Junior High School Band will present a concert on the school campus at 8 pm tomorrow featuring drum majors and twirlers. New drum major Bowby Jean Tipkin with assistant Joan Franklin. head twirler Carolyn Ryals and twirlers Marcia White and Joyce Pauler were elected by the summer twirling class. Directed by Elmer Hargis the program includes marches, novelty numbers and pieces for brass quartet and trombones. Patrons are asked to bring chairs or blankets.
Radio schedule fragment lists morning lineup from Revellle Roundup to Deacon Hour, with news segments and musical interludes. Includes times like 6 00, 6 55, 9 15, and 10 30, plus program titles such as News, Roundup, and Musical Variety. Notable items reference Deacon and Hexi Roesner with station branding 1360.
Texas Eastern Transmission workers and families will attend the first annual barbecue outing at 5 p m Friday July 1 at the company station west of the site on Decker Drive. Paul Le Hughen, division manager of the Baytown office, leads a staff mainly clerical. the pumping station at Baytown is not in operation. Company offices are in Shreveport Louisiana and officials from feed are expected at the event.
Baytown students named to campus roles including secretary of the junior class Jat at Sam Houston State College Huntaville. Miss Webber, sociology major, serves as president of the Glamazons service club, choir president, and member of Future Teachers of America and Baptist Student Union. Knoxville miss Hendrion era cited in unrelated courtroom exchange.
Letters from readers praise Hadacol as a powerful helper for convalescents and those weakened by illness. Sutherland of Callahan, Ada Shepard of North Vernon and Mrs. A C Myrick of Fairhope share experiences claiming Hadacol boosted appetite, energy and overall well being after surgeries and prolonged fatigue.
A compact list of company names and percent figures showing stock quotes from various sectors. The readable items include Amerad Pet, Anaconda, Calumet and Hecla, Chrysler Corp, Dow Chem, Dupont Chem, Eastman Kodak, General Steel, Tex Gulf, Woolworth, and Penney’s, with percentages like 30 and 26 noted among entries.
Baytown volunteer firemen battled a grass fire at the Scott Butane Company tank farm in North Alain outside Hraits. The blaze started in a nearby pasture and spread toward tanks but was brought under control before reaching any large fuel tanks. Fire Chief A B Lintelman said only one large tank held butane gas, several others were empty. Station No. 3 crews brought two large trucks, with neighbors assisting to contain the blaze.
In Fort Worth livestock sales the cattle market shows active demand with most classes up about 190 weekly. Beef cows bring 18 to 22, slaughter calves 25 to 30, stocker and feeder calves 24 to 39.6, hogs higher with feeder pigs 17 to 18, sows 15 to 16.5, and lighter weights near 20 to 22.
US airbase families cope as airmen battle in Korea. Wives describe daily hopes and fears while husbands fly missions, with morale seen varying. Officers note need for ground support. P-51s reactivated for close air action as jets lag.
Commissioners Court last week heard the firm defend the pace of Baytown road projects funded by a 1967 bond issue. Garth Road Morrell Park Wooster Road and Robert E Lee Drive were named as principal projects. none have been finished, while Airhart Drive and Wisconsin Street were highlighted as prior county road improvements. Other topping projects in Brownwood and Cedar Bayou including East James Avenue have been completed.
North Korean forces launched a frontal assault on the Suwon line while surrounding actions continued along the Xongdongpo Inchon Suwon triangle. North Koreans pushed defense forces north of Osan as light tanks appeared near the east coast. reinforcements gathered around Semebock. Navy patrols persisted on east and west coasts per the communiqué.
Police tested ballistic evidence to see if a bullet from Coogan's Bluff window killed Bernard Doyle a 53 year old spectator at the Polo Grounds during a Giants Dodgers doubleheader. Detectives found two 22 caliber rifles and a pistol in an apartment shared by a 14 year old boy and his grandmother later arrested on Sullivan Act charges.
Ray Ogden third class son of Mrs W T King of Baytown reenlists in the Navy for six years. He served three years prior and has spent the last three months at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station in the Communications Department. He plans to marry Geraldine Baker a WAVE in communications, daughter of Mr and Mrs Everett O Baker of Beaumont. Also noted: birth of daughter Sarah Jane to Mr and Mrs Ha Hood of Katy and Mr and Mrs C E Carew of New York City.
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