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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1952
Page
12
United Press Foreign Analyst Homer Jenks reports progress in armistice talks between United Nations and Communists as the second year of negotiations begins. Most paragraphs in the proposed 28 page plan have been agreed, leaving only the prisoner repatriation dispute unresolved.
Washington July 41 Standard Oil Co of New Jersey denied it is part of an international oil cartel to fix prices and control production. President Eugene Holman said operations are above board despite a 900 page FTC report alleging a monopoly involving Standard, California, Texas Co, Royal Dutch Shell, and Anglo Iranian Co. Truman said the report would not be released now for national security reasons. A radio listener may hear a speaker as sound travels 110 feet per second.
Daytona Beach city officials report husbands and fathers are highly upset over 130 unclothed and semi unclothed photos taken through a trick mirror in a pool dressing room. Aquatic director James D. Young says he did not take the photos and faced verbal abuse. the photos reportedly show Daytona Beach residents, including relatives of city officials.
AUSTIN July 11 Farm cash income declined in May according to the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. For the first five months of the year income was five percent below 1951. May's income index dropped to 266 percent of the 1935- base, down from April and May 1931 levels, with declines in oats corn grain sorghum peanuts cattle calves hogs sheep wool mohair and eggs, while cotton cottonseed wheat poultry milk and fruits rose. The Dem national convention produced a 360 word platform in 1840.
La Porte Police Officer M W Roberson says his job as city peace maker offers variety. He recently helped remove a chow dog and her pups from beneath a porch after a worrisome call about the animal snapping at a child. A La Porte man reported losing half a day’s pay while seeking his missing pet. He asked the department to keep searching so he could return to work.
Bay lor University senior Bailey Stone Jr. will start youth revival services at Wooster Baptist Church, alternating preaching with Tom Chism. Hoy Mulkey leads music. Tommy Williams is general chairman and Wendell McLemore publicity chair. Services run next week at 10 am and 7:40 pm prayer services. Theme is Looking Unto Jesus.
Washington reports 621 new infantile paralysis cases in the week ending July 4, a six percent rise from the prior week. Since March 30, the disease year began, 2,676 cases have been recorded, vs 3,942 in the same period last year. Texas tops the states with 1,003 cases, followed by California 37 and Louisiana 161. West South Central shows a drop from 273 to 241.
William Marshall a pale 24 year old British foreign office radio operator was convicted Thursday of betraying official secrets to a Russian diplomat and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The jury recommended leniency saying he had been led astray while coding and uncoding foreign office messages to British diplomats. The jury found him guilty on three charges of passing information to a Soviet embassy official and a fourth charge of recording information that could aid an enemy.
La Porte recreation association invites new members from La Porte and nearby areas to volunteer, donate cash, and provide table games including monopoly dominoes and chess. The group operates under Program Director Ralph B. Pearce.
Evangelist RB Thompson of Fort Worth will start a two week revival at Highlands Assembly of God church, with services daily at 7 45 p m for two weeks. Pastor Rev A Z L Parker leads the church.
Revival services at Bethel Mission 601 Airhart Drive are held daily at 7:45 p.m. led by Rev. and Mrs. D. F. Hendrex with Mrs. Hendrex providing piano, accordion, and songs. Pastor Rev. D. C. Campton and associate Rev. Will L. Nix are listed as church leaders.
At the Republican National Convention in Convention Hall on July 10, the rule changes to grant full national committee voting rights to the state chairman of states that vote Republican. The plan, approved 683 to 313, shifts representation from two per state to three for qualifying GOP states, with criteria including voting for the Republican presidential nominee or holding GOP offices.
Two youthful travelers from Texas City were found waiting at the edge of La Porte and picked up by Officer A S W Roberson. They were en route to Paducah Kentucky when they were detained in the city jail awaiting escort home. They said if they got clear they would head that way again soon.
At Panmunjom on July 11 three of the original UN officers from the first meeting remain with the Allied truce staff. First Lt. Dick Underwood of Brooklyn New York and 2nd Lt. Kenneth Wu of Pittsburg California serve as UN interpreters, while Cal Lee Seo Young of the Republic of Korea army is on the staff.
John F Lynch of Corpus Christi president of La Gloria Corp and Reynosa Pipe Line Corp is the new chairman of the Texas A&I College board of directors. He succeeds Frank C Smith of Houston who remains on the board. The panel named officers and adopted a 1 539 900 budget for A&I for the fiscal year starting Sept 1 a cut of 85 004 from the current budget.
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