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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1951
Page
1
Off job crews in Spots Mesons push to speed foliage stabilization requests. Ray Nelson, a private first class, returns home after service in Korea and rests with parents in Highlands for 30 days. Corpus Christi Navy hospital care noted as his remains are prepared. Kiwanis and Cub groups hold a late meeting with attendance down from prior. Weather reports show cool spell and a 72 degree high.
A garbled OCR blend mentions Navy personnel from San Diego and Baytown, names like Reddell, Hicks, Beauchamp, Giddings, Knowles, and others. It references training bases, home concerns, a misplaced set of keys, decorating work, and an upcoming Baptist Brotherhood event, all in loosely linked fragments without a clear single story.
Iran announces a formula to restart talks with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company led by Harriman, Truman’s envoy, after a cabinet session. Iran’s oil commission backs negotiations while pledging no retreat from nationalization law despite Britain’s willingness to settle.
President Truman told Congress the nation may need a higher defense goal and a larger mobilization program whether in peace or war in Korea. He warned Russia seeks to blackmail the free world and urged continued expansion of military and economic restraints despite inflation dangers. The annual mid year report cites a 320 billion tax rise, stronger price controls, and a foreign program near 365.5 billion, with defense absorbing about 20 percent of national output and around 12 million people in the mobilization effort.
Red Cross appeals to Baytonians to support flood relief for Kansas Missouri and Mississippi River Basin. About 50 centers in four states operate. 45,880 families affected. 17,552 people in shelters. 47,685 fed. 17,000 families registered for aid. 19 disaster workers on duty with thousands of volunteers. Funds mailed to James Sherwood at Citizens National Bank and Trust Company. drive led by Tr W Gregory Jr, county chairman.
The State Department said Czechoslovakia rejected the demand to immediately release William M Oatis AP correspondent. McDermott stated Prague sent a brief note replying to the US Embassy and the reply was unsatisfactory for not granting the request.
Nine year old Barbara Joe Voparil of 300 East Gulf was diagnosed with poliomyelitis after falling ill about a week ago. She was treated at a local hospital then transferred to Houston for care. Health officials had begun a cleanup and spray program as Baytown hoped for a polio-free year.
Police Chief L Morrison personally took charge of the investigation into violent clashes between Houston teen age street gangs. Twenty two adults aged 17 to 20 faced disturbing the peace charges after arrests at an amusement park. six youths were sent to crime prevention officers. The gangs are said to control south and southwestern sections of the city with about 30 members each, one group identified by a cross tattoo.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee members return from Europe praising an effective beginning to the Eisenhower army pact while urging faster progress. They note some allies still not pulling weight and prepare to scrutinize Truman's foreign aid measure of 80.5 billion dollars as hearings begin.
City Manager Darwin C Middleton instructed department heads to study a proposed 2,005,000 bond issue. Officials will present to groups to explain the need and financing, with funds from annexed areas and not increased taxes to cover the bond.
Admiral Forrest Sherman dies of heart attacks in Naples after guiding U S naval cooperation talks across Europe. On the Mount Olympus in Naples Bay guards keep vigil as his body is readied for transport to Washington for a Arlington Cemetery burial.
Firefighters fought a range fire drifting through secluded canyons southeast of Llano for a fourth day. About 300 ranchers and volunteers battled to protect six homes and nearby ranches as the blaze consumed 10,000 acres of brush and dry vegetation. Water and bulldozer efforts aided control, but crews warned the fire could burn itself out in the draws with no rain in sight. Deer fled the flames, though some did not escape.
Waldo Sojourner 78 longtime Baytown refinery employee died Sunday morning. Funeral at 4 p m today at Earthman Funeral Home with Rev John H Ostean officiating. Buried in Rest Cemetery. Survived by widow Nanny Sojourner of Baytown, daughter Mrs A M Wilkerson of Lewisville Kentucky, two sons G A Custer of Sabinal and C W W.
Baytown night watchman John Gray of over a decade was struck by a car Saturday night on North Main near Sterling Street. He remains in serious condition with back injuries and head wounds at Baytown Hospital. Police report driver Lag Sims, 25, a construction worker, collided with Gray who paused in a pedestrian lane to permit another car. Witnesses noted no skid marks. no charges filed. Gray described waiting for a car to pass before being hit and knocked onto the pavement.
The Department of Public Safety reports 16 63 fatalities in the first six months of 1951, up from 1 071 the year before, with final totals expected to rise about three percent. In June, 149 lives were lost in Texas traffic crashes, down from 189 in June 1930.
Sulphur Oklahoma report cites a pair of black panties and a black brassiere as the latest clue in the case of 30 year old Milli cent Mutie Walker, a blonde ex chorus girl from San Francisco missing for a week. Sheriff Samples says a hitchhiking blonde, in black undergarments, may have headed toward Houston.
The article argues the Communists may seek peace or stall for time. It notes a 7 pm deadline for withdrawals and a resumed UN Communist negotiation, with Vice Admiral Turner warning the Allies will not concede withdrawal as part of any armistice. The outcome hinges on whether the Reds choose peace or continued pressure.
Tokyo dispatch reports top Allied delegates and Communist negotiators poised for renewed talks. Observers expect the Communists to push for concessions while Allied parties seek stall relief, with the conference resuming Wednesday amid doubt over agreement. The uneasy stalemate centers on Korean war issues and withdrawal terms.
Former Marshal Henri Philippe Petain died at 93 on the Atlantic islet where he had lived a prisoner for six years. Christian Lobus, prefect of Vendée, said the gravestone will read Henri Philippe Petain. His family plans a Roman Catholic funeral at Notre Dame Church before burial in the island cemetery.
Fleet still hunts a missing Korean airlift DG-£ with 38 persons aboard. UK and Alaska crews patrol Mt Exias area, crisscrossing a 31,000 square mile zone for traces as the ship’s last reported course shifted near the Alaska panhandle. CAA notes a deliberate change to hugland, not fly over open water.
An obituary notes the burial in Amman of King Abdallah hailed as the Bearded Lion of Jordan, reflecting on his reign and legacy as a dominant regional figure.
A spray plane from Pecos City operated by Pecos City Petrolman W was spraying a field near West Pecos when two planes circling for a burn drift collided about 106 feet above the ground.—The crash killed the crop duster and seriously injured a pilot from the White Rock Firing Service of Dallas. The officer stated both aircraft pulled up sharply before the impact. the exact crews and affiliations were uncertain in the report.
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