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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1950
Page
1
A four person census team will finalize Baytown 1950 census checks this afternoon in the Fort Bend County Census Director George F Findlay office. An updated Baytown figure is pending after late additions to the prior count of 22.
The Railroad Commission raised Texas oil allowables to 2,530,325 barrels daily, up 107,528 from the prior total and the highest since 1948. Most fields return to wartime 100 percent rates in August, except five fields. Scurry County gains lead the rise, with Gulf Coast regions increasing as well. August national gasoline and distillate allowables set at 502,890 barrels daily.
Five 20 000 gallon tanks exploded and burned at a bulk plant injuring several firemen and causing an estimated 500 000 dollars in damage. A Sinclair refinery unit blast near Hartford spilled four miles away and burned for two hours with no deaths reported.
Ongoing Baytown Town gossip notes a big square dance at the Baytown Community House. Friends of Fred Ferguson ponder if he has golf club mishaps and odd plastic card issues. Jack Hod enjoys a quiet month with his wife visiting Utica New York. Mr and Mrs R F Adams and sons head off on vacation. Werneke Mix seeks a ride to the University of Houston campus. Max Altman and Edgar feature in Saturday plans with a downtown street corner crowd observing.
Tokyo dispatch describes Colonel Echols barring Peter Kalischer of United Press and Tom Lambert of Associated Press from returning to the Korean front after rest break. Echols criticized Kalischer’s write up of recent military reverses as counterproductive, while UP manager Hoberecht signaled possible retractions if the Army proves any dispatch errors.
A fragment suggests NABOR by Olin Miller discusses a Sunday School Picnic causing a strong impact on a child’s faith. Copyright notes indicate 1950 Sun and Times 2. All rights reserved.
ANGLETON P Two convicts hid under a load of cement while a third drove a dump truck to flee Ramsey prison farm near Angleton early today. Frank G Anderson 23 year old trusty led the escape and is serving a four to five year term for forgery. Other escapees Daniel Roy Look 20 serving eight years for forgery and Ernest George Bland 20 serving a life term for burglary were identified in the incident.
Tokyo dispatch reports US forces yielded the Kum River line after a 15 mile Communist beachhead outflanked them and pushed toward Taejon. Thousands of North Koreans moved into the west and northwest of Taejon while other spearheads probed from the northeast. MacArthur announced a pincer drive to trap the US force near Taejon within 24 hours as fighting continued around Kongju and Chongje-Korean areas with air support and heavy artillery.
President Truman convened Joint Chiefs of Staff along with Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and service secretaries at Blair House to review MacArthur's Korea war needs. Initial talks aim to set funding and manpower, with estimates suggesting up to 5 billion dollars for emergency support.
Sergeant Jack T. Taylor, Baytown Army and Air Force recruiting officer, reports a seven day week as young men flood his office with enlistment inquiries. He has enlisted nine in 1-A recently, while over 50 were rejected for failing exams. He will be on duty at the Texas Employment Commission in Baytown from 8 am to 5 pm daily, with Saturday covered by his jeep office outside when offices close. He will be available Sunday at his Harris Road home in Highlands. He requests discharged forms for re enlistment and notes tests and birth certificates are needed for qualification.</S>
SAN FRANCISCO AB Transports loaded with Marines and the Navy carrier Boxer raced across the Pacific to aid UN forces in Korea. The First Marine Division leaves the U.S. for the front with Marine Fighter Wing, the support aviation unit. The Boxer carried P 31 Mustang fighters and sails toward the northwest as equipment moves from Puget Sound for the 2nd Infantry Division. An airlift plan to the Far East involves about 45 planes.
Baytown draft board 63 received a note setting its share of 40 inductees. Harris County boards must provide 444 men, as Texas draftees total 4020 for August army physicals and September induction. Calls went to 137 Texas boards. 65,090 Texans classified 1-A eligible for service.
Korea front lines tighten as reinforcements rush to contain two North Korean beachheads on the south bank of the Hum River. Four attempts to force the river failed while guerrilla bands and infiltrators complicate American efforts.
Washington The Marine Corps became the first armed force to ask its women veterans to volunteer for extended active duty to free leathernecks for combat. The call targets enlisted women and some lieutenants and captains in reserve and non reserve status with initial quotas. The first group will return to duty east of the Mississippi at Camp LeJeune North Carolina and west at San Francisco and Camp Pendleton California. The Navy says few women volunteers are needed at present and no plans exist to recall reserves to active duty in the four women's branches.
The Navy urged inactive Naval Reserve physicians dentists and nurses to volunteer for extended active duty due to staffing shortages from authorization increases. Rear Admiral Clifford A. Swanson, the Navy surgeon general, said applicants are being sought nationwide through the Navy recruitment channels.
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