Local Square Dancing Lessons And Summer Socials
Public invited to Monday square dancing lessons at the WOW hall led by Tommy Hawkins. Also notes a teen recreation center event, a Junior Chamber smoker at Hagee's on Market Street Road Friday, Cub Scouts visit to KPRO-TV Wednesday, and an adoption announcement for Regina Kay McFatridge born February 5, 1955. The family lives at 509 Alford. News brief from Santiago, Chile reports Argentine navy insistence on removing President Peron and sending him out of Argentina.
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WOW Hall
Tommy Hawkins
Jeycee
J. B. McFatridge
Regina Kay
McFalridges
Ronald Keith
Alford
Santiago
Chile
Ute Romoval
Jose J. Peron
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Around Town Tales From Baytown’s Social Scene
Local notes recount birthdays friendships and small town happenings. Entries include Toby Wam’s birthday celebration Mary Ann Stark seeking a chaperone in San Marcos and Ann Kelly’s new hairstyle.
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Toby Wam
Grega Huddle
Tom Rushing
Ann Kelly
Mary Ann Stark
San Marcos
Shirley Hlanak
Beverly Rackhold
Quack Shack
Harold Barber
John Carter
Baytown
C. Bevers
J. W. Gammet
Larry Stoerner
W. D. Stone
Alabama
Jeanene
Debbie
Hones
Mrs. Stone
Georgia board vows to blacklist teachers backing NAACP
The Georgia State Board of Education plans to blacklist white or Negro teachers who support the NAACP. Chairman George P. Whitman said the board will amend its resolution to apply to Negro teachers with NAACP membership and to white teachers who contribute funds or influence. The measure targets those opposing public school segregation and could bar violators from teaching permanently.
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Atlanta
Georgia State Board of Education
National Association For the Advancements of Colored People
George P. Whitman
Whitman
NAACP
Eugene Cook
U. S. Supreme Court
Plans Ready For Rubber Plant Transfer Ceremony
Plans were being completed Wednesday for the formal ceremony marking the transfer of the General Tire and Rubber Co synthetic rubber plant to United Carbon and Chemical Co. Oscar Nelson Jr., son of United Carbon’s founder, will officiate as the transfer takes place in Washington DC and at the courthouse in Houston. A tour of the plant will follow for guests and officials of both companies.
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General Tire and Rubber Co
United Carbon and Chemical Co
United Carbon Co
Charleston
W. Va
Oscar Nelson Jr
Washington DC
Court House
Ilouston
Guesis
Austin Trustees Study Desegregation Plans
Austin officials open conferences on desegregating the city’s public high schools. Principals from three white high schools and Wegto high school will confer with School Supt. Irby Carruth as the board says integration will be the first step toward desegregation, possibly as early as fall.
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Austin
Wegto
Irby Carruth
Temperature soars to sizzling 98 in hot Texas day
A heat wave bakes North and East Texas with the thermometer reaching 98 degrees the hottest so far this year. Overnight lows dipped to 77 with fans and AC running. Showers and a hazy sky linger as forecasts call for scattered rain and mid 90s heat. Dallas records a high minimum of 81, the year's peak for the state.
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Texas
Dallas
Dixon-Yates hearing recessed for three days
Chairman J Sinclair Armstrong testified that a Securities and Exchange Commission hearing into Dixon Yates financing was recessed for three days at the request of Sherman Adams assistant to President Eisenhower. Merced California: eleven people killed when a KC 97 refueling plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Castle Air Force Base.
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Washington —ii
J. Sinclair Armstrong
Securities and Exchange
Dixon-Yates
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Merced
Calif
Castle Air Forcs
Eisenhower Announces Resignation Ceremony For Hobby
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby resigns as secretary of health education and welfare in a rare White House ceremony. President Eisenhower names Marion B. Folsom successor and praises Hobby's “magnificent” vaccine program work while noting her departure stems from her husband's illness.
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Eisenhower
White House
Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
Hobby
W.F. Hobby
Houston
Tex
Texas
Watian
Blaenhows Ars
Humphrey
Freeways Crossroads in Harris County Money Crunch
Harris County faces a freeway funding crunch as rights of way costs soar. Judge Bob Casey and area officials urge a Sept 17 county license tax on autos and trucks to raise about 2.75 million yearly, enabling immediate bond financing for necessary right of way and preventing Texas Highway Department funds from being diverted.
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Bob Casey
Houston
Casey
Texas Highway Department
Herris County
Texas
Chamber of Commerce
Muncipality
Chicago
Sich Heights
Harris County
Wey
Soo
Beautiful Blonde Dies For Lover's Murder In London
Ruth Bilis 28, a former model and nightclub hostess, was hanged at Holloway Prison for the Easter Sunday murder of her lover, David Blakeley. Despite petitions for mercy, the sentence was carried out at 9:18 a.m. with thousands outside jeering, as a violinist played Bach.
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Arthur L. Hogbre
London
Ruth Bilis
Grim Holloway
David Blake
North Side
Albert Pierresaint
Holloway
Rough Beginning for Ex GI Turncoats Aboard the President Cleveland
Three ex prisoners of war who refused repatriation inRed China spent 19 months there and now sail toward San Francisco aboard the President Cleveland as a typhoon threatens 160 miles south of Okinawa. William A. Cowart 22 Dalton Georgia Lewis W Griggs 22 Jacksonville Texas Otho G Bell 24 Olympia Washington report seasickness and boredom while denying reports of drinking and a Hong Kong girlie party.
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Okinawa
William A. Cowart
Dalton
Lewis W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
Otho G
Griggs
Cowart
Girlie Pa
Hong Kong
Girl
China
Pnople
Ese Neaphra Ior Iiper
Rough Night as Drunken Drivers Bump City Property
A hit and run gang damaged a traffic sign at the Texas Decker circle and tore down 150 feet of fencing around the West Main sewage plant. The driver claimed Dutch sailors frightened him into losing control before fleeing. He was charged with leaving the scene and destroying public property and jailed.
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Circle
Texas and Decker
West Main
East Wright
West Main Bridge
Airplane for sale once belonging to Porfirio Rubirosa
A Beechcraft sale listing in Houston offers Rubirosa's North American B-25 luxury plane, a wedding gift from Barbara Hutton, priced at 176000. The twin-engine craft features plush interiors, a bed, bar, intercoms, and multiple storage compartments, once flown to Howellson International Airport.
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Houston
Dominican Republic
Playboy
Porfirio Rubirosa
Gabor
Rubirasa
Barbara Hutton
J. D
Jackie Reed
Miami
Reeds
Porfirio
Deaby
Howason International
Defense Attorney Attacks Testimony Against Giles
A defense attorney challenged a state witness who testified against Bascom Giles. G V Ruffin claimed immunity was discussed by Brady dealer B R Sheffield to secure a $75,000 payment for Kinney county land deal approval. Ruffin denied any immunity or deal with the district attorney, while Small accused Ruffin and Brady attorney Sam McCollom of colluding with the attorney general to smear Giles and Sheffield.
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Austin
Bascom Giles
Clink ¢, Small Jr
G. V. Ruffin
Brady Land
Ruffin
B. R. Sheffield
Giles
Kinney County
Texas
Sheffield
Smal
Brady
Sam McCollim
Baby Born On Texas Soil Shipped To Washington
Mr and Mrs McBride living in Long Beach Wash with son in Naselle Radar base sought an honorary Texas birth certificate for their daughter born on Texas soil. They sent soil to the delivery table and aim to return to Baytown Refinery work after discharge.
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Texas
Long Beach
Wash
Bil McBride
McBrides
Naselle
MrBride
Baytown
McReide
Austin
Melaride
Marvin Belcher
Sid Leo
Washington
Texag
FBI Seeks Clue To Oklahoma Bank Theft
FBI reviews three crimes across Oklahoma Missouri and Kansas tied to a $31 000 Moore bank holdup by two gunmen. Moore officials report 11 034 99 taken in five minutes with 3 000 left in an open vault. Gunmen forced five customers and four employees to the floor as they fled in a green Pontiac sedan.
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FBI
Oklahoma
Moore
Okla
Elimef
Wilson
Oka
Kansas City
Moora
K. Griffith
Moore Bank
Hobby Named Houston Post President and W. P. Hobby Chairman
Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby will become president of the Houston Post Publishing Co after resigning as secretary of health education and welfare. Her husband former Gov W P Hobby will be chairman of the board upon her return to Houston. She previously served as co publisher and led the Federal Security Agency before cabinet status.
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Houston
The
Houston Post
Oveta. Culp Hobby
Wyoming Fires Destroy 4 000 Acres Of Timber
In Medicine Bow National Forest Wyoming fires burned over 4000 acres of timber despite light winds and little rain. Forest Service officials hoped to contain two fires this week but past days saw high afternoon winds push the blazes past fire lines and undo workers' efforts.
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Laramie
Wyo
Forest Service
Medicine Bow National Forest
W.S. Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
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