Lusk Heads Council Committee On City Engineer Study
Councilman Lacy Lusk won a vote to form a committee to study hiring a full time city engineer. The panel includes M L, H M Campbell, and Al Clayton, with no report deadline. Debate focus lies on cost savings versus continuing private firm Rady Co. fees averaging $11,000 yearly since 1952.
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Lacy Lusk
Lusk
M. L
H.M. Campbell
al Clayton
J. J. Rady Co
Fort Worth
Clayton
Middleton
Lacy
R. H. Pruett
HH. M. Campbell
Campbell
City Fathers Act Urgently On East James Odor Problem
Baytown City Council directed immediate action to determine and correct the obnoxious odors from the East James sewage disposal plant after resident complaints. Councilman Al Clayton urged funds for a fence, citing danger to children, and called for a full-time employee to oversee the plant. The council asked engineer Syd Brady to study the site and recommend remedies, noting deodorant spending this year.
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Baytown
Nuraday
East James
al Clayton
Council
Clayton
R. H. Pruett
C. Darwin Middleton
Phl Mears
Lacey Lusk
Humble Company
Syd Brady
Cite
Bombers Face Highlands In Friday Baseball Clash
The Brown Bombers meet Highlands at Jaycee Park Friday at 7 pm. LULAC BASEBALL faces Le Forte Sports at Oiler Park Friday with first pitch at 8 pm. Scouts raise funds for Troop 100 via old newspaper drive in East Texas block. Ice cream and cake sale at 5:30 pm Wednesday at Cedar Bayou Methodist church funds youth revival. Kenneth Conway leads Pasadena revival at Alta Vista Baptist in Pasadena with 7:45 pm services. Sheriff Kern hosts Junior Deputies picnic at Playland Park Houston Saturday 12 to 4 pm.
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Bombers
Highlands Shenige
Leacus
Brown Bombers
Highlands
Jaycee Park
Lulacs
LULAC
le Forte Sports
Oiler Park
BOY Scout
The
Lions Club
East
Texas
Cedar Bayou Methodist Church
Pasadena
Kenneth Conway
Alta Vista Baptist Church
Spencer and Wafferty
Buster Kern
Playland Park
Houston
Baytown
Around Town notes from Lake Tahoe to Baytown
VI SAUNDERS writes from California about Lake Tahoe and the Baytown Sun. Pete Bailey visits from East Texas for a dairyman’s barbecue in Houston but gets lost in Baytown and seeks directions home. Judy Clements demands a yellow door for the new Scout house. Donald Walker, home from duty in Japan, will depart for Fort Bragg North Carolina, seeking automobile companions. A one month old yellow kitten with Persian-like fur is for sale by Bill Prochner. Mrs. K W Pipkin seeks two lost keys near Market Street Station A post office box and a house key. Residents along Bayshore Drive note a man seen running at night in underwear hunting an armadillo.
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VI Saunders
California
Lake Tahoe
Baytown
Army Pfe
Donald Walker
Japan
Fort Bragg
N. Car
Bill Prochner
K. W. Pipkin
Market Street
Bayshore Drive
U S Arsenals Are Bulging With Super H Weapons
The Atomic Energy Commission reports six months of 1955 saw combat versions of Bilini super H bombs flood into the U S arsenal. It notes strides toward an atomic airplane and the atom for peace program, plus record production of nuclear explosives, fuels, and materials. The report hints at a nuclear powered flight future and reactor development for industry, military, naval, and aircraft propulsion.
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Washington
U.S
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
ABC
Geneva
Commission
ALC
Vacation's Dwindling Away Cheer Up Kids
School children learn of holidays in the upcoming year with five days off beyond Christmas. A few extra leisure days are added as faculty meetings occur. Semester dates run Nov 4 to Jan 27 with holidays Nov 8 Thanksgiving and Nov 24-25. Christmas break begins Dec 22 at 3:30 p.m. and resumes Jan 3. The year totals 177 instructional days.
Boy Knocks Bike Rider After Brakes Fail
Ricky Wolfean aged 1 son of Dr and Mrs Morris Walfean of 303 Morrell sustained minor bruises and abrasions when a pickup truck struck his bicycle as brakes failed while northbound on Flrat near East Foyle. The driver Tommy Joe Kimmey of 1505 Colby is cited in the accident report. The boy was treated at San Jacinto Memorial hospital and released.
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Ricky Wolfean
Morris Walfean
Morrell
Bey
East Foyle
Flrat
Tommy Joe Kimmey
Colby
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
United States to Launch Small Unmanned Satellites
The United States announced plans to launch small unmanned satellites that will circle Earth at 200 to 800 miles altitude and travel at 18,000 miles per hour, marking a rapid advance in space monitoring capabilities.
Parking Fine Box System Expands in Baytown
Police Chief W R Montgomery reports strong initial response to new parking fine boxes installed June 22 in East Baytown. In first six days 354 tickets issued, 114 paid via the boxes as motorists drop fines in envelopes without court visits. Boxes placed near Hulary Altman’s First National and other sites with yellow signs guiding drivers.
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Baytown
W. R. Montgomery
CUSCO
Counei
East Baytown
Corporation Court
Montgomery
Two Alarms Hit City Fire Scene Early Friday
Fire Chief Art Lintelman battled a clothing and stove fire at 268 West Murrill when Glatys Dunvain found smoke at her doorway after leaving clothes boiling. No damage beyond the clothes occurred. A grass fire on Afrhart Drive was reported as the truck returned to the station.
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Art Lintelman
Glatys
Murrill Street
Grand Jury Turns Attention To Precinct 251 Vote Fraud
Houston grand jury hearings focus on Crosby Precinct 21 vote irregularities in August governor race. Indictments target Waldo Coffman and others in a land and housing scandal, with witnesses summoned and more charges expected as probe widens to city agents and contractors.
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Houston
Crosby
Harris County
Ralph Yarborough
G. W. Hunt
Hunt
Waldo H. Coffman
Percy Foreman
Holstein
Coffman
Foreman
New Orleans U
GIs Turncoats Face Arrest Upon US Return
SAN FRANCISCO UP Three American GIs: Lewis Griggs 22 of Jacksonville Texas William A Cowart 22 of Dalton Georgia and Otho G Bell 24 of Olympia Washington will be arrested on arrival aboard the President Cleveland They will be held for pretrial investigation by Lt Gen Robert N Young Sixth Army The charges include aiding the enemy conspiring to desert and informing on fellow POWs Date and location reflect 1950s capture to 195? timeline with the ship returning from Hong Kong and family visits planned
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San Francisco
China
United States
Lewis Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
William A. Cowart
Dalton
Otho G. Bell
Olympia
Wash
Cleveland
Robert N. Young
Sixth Army
State Department
Red China
Young
Hong Kong
One-Way Street Battle Irks Mayor Pruitt
A local council and Chamber of Commerce debate traffic flow on DeFee Street from Commerce to North Pruitt. The street has shifted between one and two way as store owners protest lost business and citizens react to repeated changes. Mayor Pruitt urged keeping it one way, noting it worked well and criticizing ongoing reversals.
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Pruett
Clyde A
Murrau
Chamber of Commerce
KR. H. Pruett
Proctt
Commerce
North Pruitt
H. M. Campbell
al Clayton
Clayton
Heat Flares In Domestic Disputes Across City
Police reports detail a string of heated domestic incidents from Thursday. A girlfriend asked help as a boyfriend refused to leave a home, a hammer-wielding husband threatened a woman, a friend struck by a quarrel, and a man confessed to causing a ruckus at an address. The man claimed he attacked a married woman during a dispute, then shot at her husband before leaving.
Teachers receive raises under new school salary plan
The 392 staff members gain increases under a new salary schedule adopted by the district. Beginning teachers keep $3310, with a maximum up to $4500 for 12 years. The plan costs $55,780 more than last year, and most contracts run ten months.
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Fred Hartman
Silarica
George H. Gentry
Houston
Baytown
Gilmer- Ailtin Achendule
Board Press
Sea Teachers
Integration Plan For Texas Schools To Be Announced
AUSTIN UP The United Press says Texas plans a three school desegregation policy with separate white and Negro schools and a mixed option. Attorney General John Ben Shepperd predicts the plan will be announced in a few days by one of the state’s largest districts. He notes possible alternative sex segregation and expects ongoing litigation on Texas school segregation laws, including a recent ruling affecting Texas Western College.
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Austin
United Press
Texas
John Ben Shepherd
Supreme Court
Shepperd
Virginia
R. E Thomason
Thomason
el Paso
Texas Western College
Shepperd Sud
SAS
Tenas Western
Sharpstown Developers Inspect Baytown Records System
Sharpstown developers from Houston plan to send representatives to Baytown Friday afternoon to study how the city handles its record system. City Manager Darwin Middleton says Sharpstown aims to set up its own records setup and wants to see Baytown’s billing by machines.
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Sharpstown
Houston
Baytown
Darwin Middleton
Middleton
Grid
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