Funeral Notices for Fred Leroy Thrasher and Samuel P McRoberts
Two obituary notices from Earthman Funeral Home report Fred Leroy Thrasher 75 of Highlands died at home. Services set 2 PM Saturday at Earthman Highlands with Rev. Jimmy Ponder. burial San Jacinto Memorial Park. Survived by widow Qua Thrasher daughter Elaine Labowsky two sons Frank and John Thrasher granddaughter. Pallbearers named. Also Samuel Preston McRoberts 64 of 25 Wildwood Drive died Friday in Galveston hospital. Service 2 PM Sunday at Earthman Chapel with Rev. Fred Miller. Cedar Crest Cemetery. Survived by widow Grace McRoberts stepsons W A Grissett Mia D Moorhead sister Dock Lee and several grandchildren.
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Fred Leroy Thrasher
Prairie
Highlands
Humble Oil and Refting Co
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Earthman Highlands Funeral Home
Jimmy Ponder
First Baptist Church
San Jacinto Memorial Park
Earthman Funeral Home
Qua Thrasher
Henry Labowsky
Houston
Frank E. Thrasher
John Thrasher
Cleveland
Okla
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A. W. Mattson
E. L. Masterson
C. W. Smalling
Hall Gage
Bob Davis
W. L. Beckman
Baytown
W. A. Grissett
Mia. D. R. Moorhead
Almeda
Calif
Dock Lee
Dallas
The Clarion Newspaper Details and Notices
The Clarion, a large 22 by 29 inch paper with nine columns, includes novels in print and weekly news. It reports Opdyke land Co. suspension with $200,000 liabilities, a wrecking charge against a speculative customer, and lists Harper’s Weekly, New York Times, and other titles as available. J I Power is proprietor, Oliver Clifton editor.
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Houston Charter Election Seeks Four Year Terms
Houston voters will decide September 21 on city charter amendments. Mayor Lewis Cutter backs four year mayor and council terms, noting few large cities adopt such terms. A separate proposal to require council approval to fire a department head was not pursued. The council also spoke on zoning questions but rejected including them on the ballot.
California Adds Glamour To Convention
Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F Kennedy and wife of actor Peter Lawford, joins Governor Edmund Brown in California's 1956 Democratic National Convention delegation. She explains her pledge to Brown on first ballot and plans to support Jack Kennedy afterward, while brother John F Kennedy is set to arrive.
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Kennedys
Three Rescued From Trinity Bay As Squall Hits
Three men and women were rescued from foundering fishing boats during a Thursday squall that lashed Trinity Bay with strong winds. George Shanks saved Mrs. Bert Pace and her son Bert, while Doug Crawley rescued David Hicks, 16. Shanks towed the Paces to Capt. Jeff Harbour's camp. Crawley began to tow Hicks to Cant. A. J. Crawley's camp before the rope was cut to save the larger craft.
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Bert Pace
West Bay
Chambers County
Bert
Dyer
Doug Crawley
David Hicks
North Shore Village
Shanks
Paces
Bird Island
Smith Point
Fisher
Hicks
Crawley
A. J. Crawley
Oddfellows Install Officers At Goose Creek Lodge
E. L. Horton to be installed as Noble Grand of Goose Creek Lodge Oddfellows No. 960 in a public ceremony at the hall at Fourth and Humble. Monday evening. Officers include L. L. Sherman past grand W. E. Brown Jr vice grand Ben Bon ner warden T. H. Hub Bounds conductor W. E. Beck chaplin Clarence Aldas right support Ed Bonner left support Ralph Scheurich W. E. Brown Sr scene supporter W. W. Dean inside guardian Henry Garrett outside guardian and W Jones W P Smith supporters of the vice grand Installing officers will be W P Smith J F Alcorn W W Dean and Fred Tanner.
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Goose Creek Lodge of Oddfellows No
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W. E. Brown Jr
Ben Bonner
T. H
Hub) Bounds
W. E. Beck
Chaplin
Clarence Aldas
Grand Noble
Ed Bonner
Ralph Scheurich
W. E. Brown Sr
W. W. Dean
Inside Guardian
Henry Garrett
Outside Guardian
W. ©. Jones
W. P. Smith
The
J. F. Alcorn
Fred Tanner
Rector Walton Teaches Choir Camp Course Next Week
Rector Walton of First Baptist Church will lead a course at a choir camp in Paisano near Alpine, with several church members traveling Monday and returning Saturday. Rev Robert Cheek will speak on Righteousness at the 11 am service Sunday, with a solo by Mrs Darryl Aubrey. Music by Mrs Elbert Keefer and Mrs Roger Wylie. Cheek's 7:30 pm sermon Thema Religion Is Not the Answer. Sunday School at 9:45 am and training union at 6:30 pm. Young Married People hold 6:30 pm supper next Friday at Miss Lawell Stuart's Tri City Beach Road home.
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Legal Notice Seals Mission of Insurance Commissioner
A legal notice from the office of the Insurance Commissioner records actions related to insurance regulatory matters. Details reference a seal and official duties, indicating formal authority and procedural steps within the state agency. Parties involved include the Insurance Commissioner and associated entities or proceedings under state law.
Human engineering tests reveal aptitudes aid career choices
Adults gain by knowing abilities and limits to transfer jobs wisely. Unused aptitudes cause frustration, while applying them can aid recovery for alcoholics. Parents often push children beyond their aptitudes, as a professor learned testing his son. The Baytown Johnsson O Connor Research Foundation lab offers testing at 3721 Bayway Drive with appointments by phone or mail and an advisory board including Irvin W. Boyce and several couples.
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Baytown
Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation
Bayway Drive
Baytown Laboratory
Irvin W. Boyce
C. E. Carlson
5. W. Childres
Airship travel plans clash with safety fears and delays
The writer frets about jet propelled airships and insurance policies while recounting a Houston to Los Angeles schedule changed to depart at 12 40 p m and arrive by 7 04 p m The scene shows anxious remarks from colleagues about time differences and safety measures as the airship described as a time bomb looms over a Texas conference with a noisy audience and lively rhetoric
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Houston International
Los Angeles
Houston
Archie Jack Simmons
1204
Trenton Lane
Bay
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Holly Inn Motel Expands With Ten More Units
The Holly Inn Motel at 1104 North Alexander Drive begins expansion adding 10 units to the existing 16 at a cost of 28515 dollars. Anahuac contractor H H Cooper starts work. owner O B Smith says a second phase next spring could add another 10 units to total 36. Five new rooms extend from the current wing toward Tenth Street, five along the parking area.
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H. H. Cooper
Anahuac
O. B. Smith
Tenth St
Tenth
Baytown Teens Arrested For Hub Cap Theft
Three Baytown teen-agers were arrested by police on charges of stealing hub caps in Fair Park Addition. The hubcaps were recovered and the boys were released to their parents.
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Baytown
Fair Park Addition
Vandals Damage Tent House. Baytown Police Probe
Baytown police investigate after vandals damaged a tent house at 3406 Diiness Friday by pouring paint on the floor ripping light fixtures and tearing screens. No injuries reported and a formal inquiry is underway.
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