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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1951
Page
2
Lee College begins fall registration under Dean Welter Rundell after a fire delayed scheduling. Early registration urged to handle the changed daytime and night class timetable. Courses include voice and various musical instruments, with classes set for 3:30 to 9:00 pm on Mon Wed Fri and 8:00 to 11:00 am Tue Thu.
John Pratt, brother of Hollywood actor Boris Karloff, was removed from his unpaid Foreign Office representative post on the United Nations China Committee amid charges that a recently aggressed Near East country sparked the conflict. Pratt alleged South Koreans started the current fighting and called for a neutral exchange committee to select test students at the Kenneth Bouger center.
A catalog of corporate names and entities appears, including Alco Steel Amex Western, Anaconda Copper, Celanese, Chrysler, Gulf Oil, Du Pont, Goodyear, Goodyear Tire, Gen Electric, Tex Gulf, Tidewater, Woolworth, and others. The list reads like a market snapshot of company names and brands referenced in the stock finals.
Two Houston men, Charles F. Smith and Max Throop, were injured when their car overturned on Beaumont Highway. They were taken to San Jacinto Memorial Hospital and later transferred to Heights Hospital. The driver fled after the crash as the vehicle rolled on the highway per witnesses. Another item notes a burglary in Alliance, Nebraska, where a grocer reported theft of several boxes of cookies.
Navy plane bearing Admiral Forrest P. Sherman’s body departed Naples for Washington after a simple seaborne ceremony. Italian and US servicemen saluted as the four engine craft traced a course via Port Lyautey Azores Newfoundland to Arlington where burial plans await his wife.
Turkish news agency reports Russian ships testing along the Turkish Black Sea coast near the Turko-Russian border. Russian troops maneuver near the frontier while searchlights sweep the coast and Rize town. Turkish coast guard watches increased. no official explanation given. Nightly gunfire and warplane sounds heard in the border area.
STRAUBING Germany Former GI Homer Cook 27 known as an Oklahoma badman for breaking out of two Army jails and slugging a dozen military policemen was released for good behavior yesterday from two German prison He had served only one year of a four year and two month sentence. Father Dies F H and J D Leggett of Baytown have returned from Livingston where they attended funeral services for their father Jesse Harrison Leggett 66 The elder Leggett was born in Polk County in 1884 son of a pioneer family He moved to Cleveland in 1940 Death was caused by a heart attack.
Galveston County grand jury calls for Texas Ranger help to reexamine the death of 15 year old Woodrow Ceri Kluge found 20 feet offshore at Offet Bayou after vanishing from a swimming party. Autopsy cites broken neck and injuries. authorities differ on accident or homicide. The jury urged continued, intensified inquiry to reach a conclusive answer.
A Baytown planning meeting endorses a united charity drive with 22 agencies. Leaders discuss payroll deductions, potential single annual drive, and coordination to avoid conflicting campaigns while inviting many national and local groups to join. Rev. M. L. Jordan delivered the benediction at the three hour gathering.
The University of Nevada regents voted unanimously to suspend intercollegiate football and cancel the 1951 schedule because of finances. They informed Joe Sheeketski, former Notre Dame backfield ace and Nevada head coach and athletic director, that his contract would be terminated September 1 to allow him to seek other employment.
Mr and Mrs N P Roberts of 130 Edison were notified in Little Rock Arkansas of the death of his father A T Roberts 58 from a heart attack. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at Healey Roth Funeral Home in Little Rock.
Dean Walter Rundell announced that college students meeting classes will be allowed to file the school buses along with grade school students. Transportation charges will be paid by the college. An inventory of fire and water damage in the Lee College bookroom was to be made, and an insurance adjuster would visit the college. A fire broke out in the bookroom Friday.
USDA Cattle show 4700 head with slow steady demand. Slaughter steer and heifer good to choice 30-34, utility 23-28, cutter down to 20. Beef cows 23-26, stocker steers 27-34 with some higher, calves 1500 head uneven and steady, sows and pigs 22.60 to 22.75 at 130-270 pounds, prime calves 33.50.
Yesterday at Lillie Duke Hospital a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joan Opryshek of 20 Alabama at 7:37 pm. The newborn weighed five pounds and a few ounces. The Opresheks already have two children, John Henry, 15, and Denna, 8.
Joseph R. Guerin, a Darton Ohio University teacher, married his sister in Philadelphia at St Monica's Church, then flew to Madrid to wed Senorita Conchita Guiibert. The couple returned to the United States to begin their honeymoon.
Baytown merchants attended an OPS price clinic at the Chamber of Commerce offices yesterday. OPS specialists Ed Xailins and Tom Groves led the meeting. A follow up session is planned from 3 am to noon next Monday with attendees including WC Ferguson Bryshore Coffee Show A T Cole Cole Drive In G L Eiland Biland Cleaners T D O'Brien O'Brien Grocery and H R Bray Scarborough's Pharmacy.
Four year old Carl Lee Compton son of Mr and Mrs Compton of 202 East Humble died at 9 15 am today in a Baytown Hospital Funeral services will be held at 4 pm tomorrow at Central Assembly of God Church with Rev C G Owens officiating Burial will be in Hill of Rest Cemetery with Barthman Funeral Home in charge Survived by one brother Laramie and grandparents Mr and Mrs Dewits Compton and Mrs Henry Evans Pallbearers will be Beri and Duke Fisher J R Speli and P M Cranshasv
A pickup loaded with drill bits broke loose a hatchcover on the ferry, causing two hours of service delay while crews replaced the damaged hatchcover and braces. Captain Conner Whitehead said such accidents are not unusual when trucks are heavily loaded and repairs follow timber delivery.
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