Lifeboats Missing as Gull 65 Miles Off Monsteads
Wine passengers and 42 men abandoned the Norwegian freighter Gull sixty five miles off Mon, with lifeboats missing. Gripsholm picked up 45 survivors as rescue planes, Coast Guard cutters, and Excalibur searched in calm seas toward Goteborg. Black Gull carried napothatsne a volatile coal tar product. rescue hampered by darkness and the ship’s rapid listing.
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WYORK
Mon“Lg
Gripshelm
Olfmgt
Excalibur
Alaut
Mon- Point
Tend
Busck Gull
Cap
Wae
Coast Guard
Bar-Hil School Board Hearings Set
Local notices list hearings before the Board of Equalization for Bar-Hil Independent School District next Tuesday and Wednesday. The report mentions board members Joseph Delno and J D Griffith and Crosby High School staff, with names like Ruth Foster and Beth McDonald cited among revival service activities and community events.
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Bar- Hil
Iomely Joseph
Delno
J. D. Griffith
Kerr Says He Can Deflate Eisenhower
Sen. Robert Kerr, Democratic unity candidate, claims he can deflate Eisenhower as he once deflated General MacArthur. Kerr predicts securing about 150 votes on the first ballot from 25 states and rising to the 60th tally, arguing he can unite Democrats across regions in a coordinated campaign.
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Chicago
Robert S. Kerr
Democratic Party
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Oklahoma
Han
Body of drowned man found under San Jacinto bridge
The unidentified body of a negro man was found Friday afternoon in a lake at the west end of San Jacinto bridge on Market Street Road by Frank Ford and Elvin Walker, youths who saw it while fishing. Only the name Reninald appeared on the waistband, and deputies planned fingerprinting to identify him. An inquest was held by Justice D F Thompson, who suggested the man drowned. the inquest verdict awaits autopsy results.
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San Jacinto Bride
Market Street Road
Sheriffs Office
Frank Ford
Elvin Walker
Cloverleaf
Reninald
M. M. Brown
F_ Patton
Edd White
Justice of the Pesce
D. F. Thompson
Harrisburg
Thompson
Lo Randuet
Justice of the Peace
Roscoe Zierlein
Four Year Old Linda Suffering From Progeria
In Chicago Jay 18 A four year old girl, Linda, is dying of progeria also called premature senility. She arrived at University of Illinois hospital aged two months in January 1958 and now appears aged far beyond her years. Doctors say there is no cure and she could die in her sleep at any time.
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Chicago
Jay
University of Hkknois Hospital
Linda
Barbers Hill Hikes Teachers' Wages and Board Actions
Barbers Hill school trustees raised starting salaries for Mont Belvieu View teachers by 3180 to 2707 annually, exceeding the state wage schedule by 300. A tentative 127000 tax budget was presented, with final approval postponed to the next August meeting. J J Jensen authorized hiring Don Knapp as band instructor. Knapp will move from Beaumont and holds a master's from North Texas State Teacher's College.
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Mont Bel- View
J. J. Jensen
Don Knapp
Knapp
Barber's Ann Independent
Beaumont
North Texas State Teacher's College
Big Finals Tonight In Turtle Derby
Chica Chief Pontiac and Anonymous led Friday’s Jaycees Ter rapin Derby heats and race favorites for Saturday’s finals. Jaycees expect thousands for the final night amid carnival booths and the dusking pool gathering of Raytown elites. sponsors listed for Friday’s top five finishers.
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Chica
Chief Pontiac
Anonymous
Raytown
Waterloo
Derby
Tommy Ward
Durwood Horn
Ottomar Ziegler
Chico
Gonzales
Planner
Craft Foreman
Toni
Mallory
the Cedars, Cedars Drive
VEW rally at VEW hall invites candidates for July primaries
An old-fashioned rally hosted by the Women’s Auxiliary of Robert R. Tiel Post No. 812 VFW is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the VEW hall on Deck er Drive with hot dogs, pop, speeches, and a Price Daniel Senate representative among speakers. Hugh A. May’s loudspeaking gear will be used with the county commissioner present. Grovec Edge will MC. Refreshments run by auxiliary members. mosquito control planned on the parking lot. May also attends a reily at Crosby Parish House Sunday at 7:30 p.m. inviting all candidates.
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Vew Hall
Decker Drive
Women's Auxiliary
Robert R. Tiel
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Price Daniel
U. S. Senate
Hugh A. May
Rosenberg Firemen Set Speed Record in Pumper Race
Rosenberg firemen won first place with a 16.5 second time in a pumper race against 12 Gulf Coast teams Friday night. The Gulf Coast Firemen’s Association held its July convention at the old Elks Club, with Jim Colin presiding. BH Townsend was named honorary chief of Baytown station No 3 and received the Goose Creek volunteer badge as retirement nears.
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Rosenberg
Gulf Coast
Bartown
Richmond
Genoa
Gulf Coast Fireman's Association
Old Elks Club
West Texas
Jim Colin
BH. L. Townsend
Baytown
Off Goose Creek
Townsend
Four Way Race For County Commissioner on East Harris Ballot
The Baytown Sun plans front page profiles of four county commissioner candidates in the East Harris precinct. Names drawn by Little Miss Nona Higginnotham place Ram sey, Philpot, May, and Dacne on successive days from Monday to Thursday. Coverage runs through election day, with a hat-draw photo of the oversized ballot prop borrowed from Uncle Sam Paine.
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Harris
Baytown Sun
Meyer C. L. Dacne
Jacinto City
Sun
Baytown
Local races loom as parties set Saturday conventions
Baytown voters face busy day with Democratic primary voting from 7 am to close of polls and precinct conventions at 4 pm for Republicans. The 1952 Texas scene features factional battles between Shivers led Democrats and Loyalists, while Zweifel controlled Republicans seek influence as campaigns heighten party stakes statewide.
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Aubrey Banks
Baytown
Texas
Eisenhower
Jack Porter
Henry Diveisel
Porter
Riots Rage in Tehran and Abadan over Mossadegh
Rioters clashed with troops and police in Tehran and Abadan on Saturday, tear gas and rifle butts used as crowds demanded Mossadegh. One civilian killed and two seriously wounded in Tehran, as tanks moved to Abadan's refinery center.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Abatan
Abadan
Mossadegh
Ahmed Qavan
Ahwaz
Polio Tests Pending for 18 Month Blanton Boy
Jefferson Davis polio center reported late Friday that 18 month old James Blanton son of Mr and Mrs James D Blanton of 40815 Neal was admitted as a possible polio case. He is the third Baytown patient admitted this week and could be the 24th polio case in the city this year.
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James Blanton
James D. Blanton
Neal
Blanton
Baytown
Precinct Meeting Places by Party and Site List
Election judges and party convention sites listed with multiple locations in Houston area. Democrats and Republicans noted for city schools, community buildings, and halls including La Porte, Seabrook, Sheldon, Highlands, Crosby, Bay Villa, San Jacinto, and Cedar Bayou venues.
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Iblicans
la ‘Parte Court House
Seabrog
Houston
Sheldon
Johnson& Johnson
Highlands
Crosby High
Lamer
East Fayle
Denby
Cedar Bayou
San Jacinto
Bay Villa Retreation
le Porte High School
Simse Seabrook
Highlands ‘School
Crosby
Thad Fellon
Wilkenfeld
City Hall
Mexican Recreation
Cedar Baron
David G. Burnet
Kefauver joins left wing fight to bar Texas Regulars
In Chicago the credentials committee backed placing anti administration Regular delegations from Texas and Mississippi on the temporary roll for the Democratic National Convention. Kefauver denounced the Texas and Mississippi Regulars as sailing under false colors and said he would fight seating them. Humphrey led the left wing charge aided by labor and the ADA wing, aiming to unify forces amid North South tensions while Stevenson remained noncommittal.
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Sen. Kefauver
Texas
Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Mississippi
Estes ‘Kéfauver
Dem
Lyle G. Wilson
Democratic Party
Maneuves
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Allan Shiv
Hugh White
TB Este A
Yee
Dimigle Lee
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Averell Harriman
New York
Sen
Humphrey
Americans For Democratic Action
Alben W. Barkley
Adlai'e. Stevenson
Akol Shiisces
Fk Karce
United Press
Stevenson
Soh Stevenson
Shivers
Puege
Anti-Filibuster Civil Rights Plank Faces Wary Democrats
Chicago dispatch notes a proposed Democratic platform plank on civil rights could trigger a floor fight. Leaders Humphrey Lehman still weigh a compromise to avoid a southern walkout like in 1948 while resisting a full end to unified Senate debate on civil rights legislation.
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Chicago
Lehs
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Sermisad
united+Senate
Staunblies “Block
Dacus attacks May in Decker Drive dispute for commissioner seat
Harris challenger c L Dacus labels incumbent Hugh A May the Houdini of county politics and blasts a Decker Drive widening plan as visionary and impractical. He accuses May of using Decker Drive as a political football and urges funding from maintenance funds or state federal sources, warning taxpayers against a quarter million dollar rush before election.
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Hugh A. May
Houdini
Baytown
Decker Drive
Baytown Sun
Dacus
May
Docker
New Steel Talks Scheduled Amid Seizure Threat
Washington reports say the steel industry and CIO Steelworkers Union will reopen negotiations in Pittsburgh at 9 a.m. Sunday to seek a wage accord. Government pressure on price talks remains, while Union Railroad signs a 2000-seat agreement extending union shop terms. Critics dismiss partial seizure rumors as a scare tactic.
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Washington
Steel Industry and
CIO Steelworkers Union
Pittsburgh
R. Steelman
Steelman
Steelworkers
Philip Murray
Steelworkers Union
U.S. Steel Corp
The
Union Railroad
Murray
Se Wake
Enenwhile
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