Conservative candidates lead in Harris County runoff races
Harris County voters show a conservative tilt in two State Representative runoffs with Don Garrison and W H Miller winning positions 4 and 5. Garrison and Miller carried Baytown and East Harris precincts though liberal majorities prevailed in several boxes. Across the county, total votes favored conservatives, while District Judge McDonald won statewide for the Court of Criminal Appeals.
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Baytown
Harris Coun Pa
Latur
Harris County
Maregins
Aght
Don Garrison
W. H. Miller
Garrison
Bill Kilgarlin
Miller
Chet Brooks
East Harris County
W. T. ‘McDonald
Bryan
Lloyd W. Dawson
Court of Criminal Appeals
McDonald
Davidson
Frere
Kilgarlin
Brooks
East Harris
Crosby
Hain
MacDonald
W. Kyle Chapman
W. Gail Reeves
la Porte
Phillip E. Sayers
Gould Beech
Hatrng County
Rep
Criss Cole
Lberals
Missile industry crippled by nationwide labor strike
IAM members walk out at Convair and at Vandenberg Cape Canaveral and Warren bases disrupting Atlas Polaris and Dyna satellites and halting missile tests across California Florida Wyoming Nebraska and Oklahoma with 900 unionists picketing and production slowed across key facilities.
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San Diego
Calif
IAM
Nlbion
Pasadena
Vandenberg Air Club
Force Base
Gels Grill
Warren Afb
Wyo
Francis Afb
Neb. Totel
Convair Division
General ‘Dynamics
Atlas
Head‘quarters
Midas
Samos
Discoverer
Polaris
Lockheed
Santa Monica
Long Beach
Tulsa
Okla
Charlotte
N.C
Douglas
Cape Canaveral
Vandenberg
SAM
Fla., Missile Test Center
West Coast
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif. Warren Air Force Base
Cheyenne
Offutt Air Force Base
Omaha
Neb
Convair
Air Force
Pasadena man drowned in San Jacinto River incident
A 36 year old Pasadena resident Melvin W Phillips of 410 Randolph Street disappeared after his boat capsized in the San Jacinto River four miles south of the Highway 73 bridge around 1040 am Monday. Rescue teams from Baytown Highlands and Wooster searched the river for his body, marking a second river accident victim since Sunday afternoon.
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Pasadena
Melvin W. Phillips
South Randall
San Jacinto River
Highway 73
Phillips
Baytown
Highlands and Wooster Emergency Corps
D-Day Anniversary Marked in Bayeux Ceremonies
In Bayeux France on the D-Day anniversary, French officials and veterans led wreaths at a floodlit liberation monument. The ceremony commemorated the Allied landing in Normandy sixteen years earlier and honored those who served in the operation.
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Bayeux
France
Normandy
Europe
Nazirue
Raymond Triboutet
Maurice Couve de Myr
Villeald
Inman Named Probation Assistant in Baytown Move
Monty Inman is transferred from Houston to Baytown to replace John Jackson as assistant probation officer with Harris County Probation Department. He will work with the Galveston Tides and Goose Creek School District as attendance officer and visit homes of Baytown youths on probation to take them to court as needed.
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Monty Inman
Baytown
Houston
John Jackson
Harris County Probation Department
Galveston Tides
Goose Creek
Lowides
Taman
Tion
Baytown Officials Plan Joint Juvenile Work With Police
A probation department member will collaborate with the Baytown Police Department on juvenile issues, visiting Baytown at least weekly on Wednesdays and reachable via J. C. Bickerstaff. Local residents include Inman, Harvey graduate considering Baylor, and ROTC camp plans. Boxed community notices cover social visits, teaching plans, and family happenings.
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Jimmy Weeds
Horsee Helms
Bill Laughlin
Scottie Liggett
Ralph Anderson
Perry Simmons
Jim Bond
Nancy Abbott
Houston
Sherry Bramlett
Daugh
C. Brament
J. E. Treadway
Lee College
J. E
Highlands
Sephomore
Baylor
Ratfaa Honevett Sound
Workers search San Jac River for boat victim
Rescue crews looked along the San Jacinto River near Loraine's fishing camp in Highlands for James Lynn Brown a 27 year old Houston man believed killed when he fell from water skis behind Calvin H Small's boat. Eight boats aided the search as officers sought the boat pilot and Brown's body remained missing at 10 am.
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Bill Hartman
San Jacinto
Loraine
Highlands
Houston
James Lynn Brown
Brown
Calvin H. Small
Clemson
Small
Baytown
Wooster
Setar
Broad protest lawsuit over Broadway shutdown damages
Ralph Belamy and Alan of Actors Equity sued the League of New York Theaters for 2.4 million dollars, alleging damages from the Broadway theater shutdown. The item follows a string of political and international notes from the era, including primaries and academic references.
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Ralph Belamy
Actors Equity
Alan
Pet Ved
With & Summons
League of New York Theaters
Performers Union
W. J. King Rites Set
William J. King 92 of 127 Alva died at 3 30 pm Sunday in Highlands He lived in Baytown 35 years and was a familiar daily figure in downtown Baytown He was a former city employee and a native of Mississippi Funeral services at 350 pm Monday at Paul U Lee Chapel with Rev R M Cheek officiating Burial in Hill Crest Cemetery Survived by one daughter three sons one brother three sisters eight grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren
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William J. King
Alva
Highlands
Baytown
Mississippi
Paul U. Lee Chapel
R. M. Cheek
First Baptist Church
Hill-Crest Cemetery
King
W. J. Milner
Henry King
R. J. King
Dray King
Mont Belvieu
Frank King
Stonewall
Okla
Kennie Mayfield
Crosby
Barkers Hill
William Brad
Ford Hale
Cleveland
Charles
Ten
Calhoun
East Ten
Wild River shown with hometown locals in Calhoun Tenn
Reporter Preston Pendergrass visits Calhoun and nearby towns as the Elia Kazan film Wild River shoots on location. Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick lead a cast portraying TVA land purchases during 1933 36 amid social clashes over dam projects on the Tennessee River.
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Preston Pendergrass
Bay
Cleveland
Charleston
Calhoun
Tenn
Brunson
20Th Century Fox
Nic
Elia Kazan
Wild River
Montgomery Clift
Lee Remick
Je van Fleet
Albert Salmi
J. C. Flippen
James Westerfield
Barbara Loden
Frank Over
Malcolm Atterbury
Rober Earl Jones
Bruce Dern
Clift
Chuck Glover
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Washington
Garthville
Ella Garth
Jo van Feet
Garth Island
Miss Remick
Carol Garth
Efla Garth
Congress
Tennessee
Chossen Paints
Houston Integration Vote Fails to End Desegregation
Houston voters rejected racial integration in a referendum affecting 277 public schools while the school board awaits a judge's ruling on a desegregation plan. Judge Ben Connally had ordered integration and warned against basing plans on popularity.
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Houston
Houston School Board
U.S. Dist
Ben Connally
W. W. Kemmerer
Conservative Delegation To Texas Legislature Named
Harris County will send a conservative delegation to the State Legislature in January. Five conservatives, two liberals and one cross endorsed will represent the area. leaders include Paul Floyd Don Garrison Henry Grover and W H Miller. Burton Burrus, 18, a veteran Sun carrier for six years, graduates from Robert E Lee High School and is praised by customers for his service.
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Burton Burrus
Baytown Sun
Carrier Force
Robert E. Lee High School
Burton
B. M. Burrus
Missouri
Harris County
Paul Floyd
Bob Eckhardt
Henry Grover
Don Garrison
W. H. Miller
Fea Epic Itipley
Criss Cole
J. C. Whitfield Jr
Ridgecrest
N.C
The
Sun
D. C. Walsh Jr
New Mexico
Fred Hartman
Isaues
Somone
Sen Burros
Funeral Service Today For Highlands Woman
Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia Liverman Davis, a Highlands resident since 1920, were held at Pal U. Leeertian Chapel with Rev. Marvin V. Setl officiating. She died Friday at 3 p.m. in Highlands near White Cemetery on 402 Avenue. She is survived by two brothers Velma Liverman and Leroy Liverman and sisters Mrs. Louis Plunkett and Mrs. Daisy White. Burial followed at St Paul’s Temple Cincinnati New York.
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Virginia Liverman Davis
White Cemetery
N.C
Marvin V. Set
Louis Plunkett
Isles
St Paul's Temple
Cincinnati
Daisy Whitelin
Channelview
New York
Kennerly Nominated for U.S. Judge in Texas District
President Eisenhower nominated Thomas B. Kennerly, a 57 year old Houston lawyer in private practice since 1925, to be United States judge for the Southern District of Texas to succeed the late James Allred.
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Washington
Ebenhower
Thomas BE. Kennerly
Houston
United States
Southern District of
Texas
Kennerly
James ¥. Allred
Repub
Rean
Kinfolks, Duncan, and Baytown Link in Old Times
In Duncan Oklahoma I chat with Joe Fleming, GM of the Duncan Banner, about Baytown ties and kinfolk. The Hartman and Benton families once neighborly near 211 West Loblite, with Duncan famed for Halliburton Cementers and a young Danny Eoff being signed by the New York Yankees, stirring local pride in Yankee territory.
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Fred Hartman
Wade
Duncan
Okla
Joe Fleming
Baytown
Joe
Marrie
Benton
Doug Benton
Oklahoma
Hartmans
Damascus
Stephens County
Stephens Counity
Tex
B. TL. Aber
Nathy
Halliburton Oil
Halliburton Cementers
Itime
Otto Utt
Bruce Sloan
Munns
Jimmy Walkup
Toe
Big Otto
Utt
Big Halliburton
lQiler Park
Comwenters
Danny Eoff
New York Yankees
Mickey Mantle
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West Wright
Earthman Funeral Home
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State Board of Water Engineers
Atlanta, Ga
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Oliver. W. Powers
Pound
Soviet Union
Dallas
J. G. Estes
Feader
D-Day
Inman New Probation
Natant
Taylor
Bobbie Turner
Carel Turner
Jeannie DiMauro
Fe Beach
Monty Inwan
San Jac River
California
South Dakota
Sociallat Bine
Tokyo
Thase
Nobusuke Kishi
Eisenhower
Japan
Victor Paz Estenssore
Bolivia
Fidel Castro
Red China
New York Times
W. J. King
Burton Aurrus
Nerro
Charles White
the Sun
la Porte Independent
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Baytown Sun Classified Department
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