Highlands News: Sings Convention Meet at Cedar Bayou
The Baytown area notes a Highlands group gathering for the Cedar-Bayou Baptist Church singing convention at 2 p.m. Sunday with Curtis Parrish as president. Two new music books will be used. Also covered are Charlotte Liles eleventh birthday celebrations and a Highlands girls picnic at Battlegrounds with listed attendees and a bridal shower for Exarline Batherton hosted by Mrs. W. A. Morgan and co-hostesses.
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EN Cedar
Bayou
Harris County
Cedar-Bayou Baptist Church
Highway 146
Curtis Parrish
13 Year TC Group Entertained At Picnic
The 13 year Training Union group of the Intermediate department of the First Baptist Church enjoyed a Friday picnic at the Battlegrounds with attendees including Shirley Mul Hnix Darlin Jean Schraad Bonnie Gassett Jimmy Crawford Donald Perry and several others. Joyce and Thomas King were feted at a kitchen shower at their home on San Jacinto Street. The town band at Hard Luck Morryhysboro suffered three casualities at a festival incl a fainting member and injuries from a baton and cymbal incident.
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Battlegrounds
Highlands Girls
San Jacinto Battlegrounds
Janet Crawford
LaNelie Bryant
Beth Potect
Jackie Dietz
Geneva Young
Geraldine Ford
Training Union
Intermediate Department of the First Baptist Church
Shirley Mul- Hnnix
Darlin Jean Schraad
Bonnie Gassett
Jimmy Crawford
Donald Perry
L. R. Reynolds
E B. Savell
Dorothy Brackin
Joyce
Thomas King
San Jacinto Street
Robert Peel
Moryhysboro
HI —Tip
Storey Runs Statewide Campaign for Appeals Judge Nomination
Cecil Storey, long Texas legislator and lawyer, campaigns across the state for the Democratic nomination as Judge of the Court of Civil Appeals. The piece outlines his past work, including drafting oil proration laws, chairing committees, and backing major bills like Gilmer-Aikin, with notes on his Texas roots and education.
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Austin
S.P
Cecil Storey
Et Aptis
Coe
Court of Cela Appeals
le Clamon
Texas Law Bible School
Texas
Beth Poteet
San Antonio
Storey
Myrtle Tative
Bower
West Texas
East Texas
B. P. Hopper
Immedi
Ately
Adrs
A. O. Dunaway
Tmani‘peginner
House Oil and Gas
University of Texas
J. W. Storey
Freestone County
WF ‘Storey
Vernon
Longview
Custom Tailors Name Ava Gardner Best Dressed Woman
New York report shows Custom Tailors Guild of America voting Ava Gardner as the best dressed woman in a contest. Jane Russell narrowly followed, with other winners including Faye Emerson Gertrude Moran Dana Massey Lynn Fontaine and Senator Margaret Chase Smith in their respective fields.
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New York
Custom Tailors
Ava Gardner
Custom
Taiors Guild ‘of America
Miss Gardner
The
Guild
Jane Russell
Foller
Faye Emerson
Gertrude “Gussie” Moran
Dana Massey
Lynn Fontaine
Margaret Chase Smith
Baytown Boy Wins Top Sooner Award
IL. C. Mitchell Jr. of Baytown received the gold Letzeiser medal, the University of Oklahoma’s highest honor for a graduating senior in the school of art, at spring graduation exercises. He was also named an outstanding student earlier this year and returned to Baytown with his parents, sister, and two brothers.
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Letzeiser
School of Art
University of Oklahoma
IL. C. Mitchell, Jr
Baytown
Mitchell
E.G
C. Mitchell
West Francis
John B
Tucker
John
Bill
Flying Disc Sightings Explained as Air Whirlpools
Report purports that so called flying saucers are air whirlpools three nautical miles away in a streamlike airflow. The explanation likens the phenomenon to shimmering light reflections in moving air, clarifying the misidentification.
Dr. Humphrey To Close Baytown Office This July
Dr. Stanley G. Humphrey will leave Baytown to return to Kansas and close his Baytown office in July. His suite at Pruett and De Fee is leased to Dr. John T. Porter. The Humphreys plan a vacation in Ottawa Kansas and he may pursue postgraduate work in a medical school this fall. Mrs. Humphrey will move to Ottawa this week to find a home. They have lived in Baytown 12 years, with 39 months in the Army and 19 months medical corps plus 20 months in the European Theatre.
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Stanley G. Humphrey
Baytown
Kansas
Pruett and de Fee
John T. Porter
Humphreys
Ottawa
Humphrey
Beytown
Vandals Target Wichita Falls Used Car Lot
A vandal smashed several used cars at a Wichita Falls lot using a two by four and stones. Police determine the unknown suspect entered the lot and caused damage. The report notes a historical Chicago skyscraper built in 1883 as context.
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Wichita
Chicago
Traffic violator’s ghost check puzzles Texas judge
Judge Roscoe Zierlein pondered a strange Baytown case where a Port Arthur traveler sent a bogus payment for a $10 traffic fine. A stranger produced a check bearing an unfamiliar name and signature, prompting the judge to question the man’s character and the check’s validity. The story probes whether generosity or malevolence guides the attempt.
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Port Arthur
Houston
Beaumont
Higshway
Baytown
Martey
Ang
Gord
Boweye
Ice Cream Party After Truck Overturns
Lindenhurst New York an ice cream tragedy turned celebration when a trailer truck carrying 10 tons of ice cream overturned. About 400 youngsters gathered as residents say the driver William Polak 31 swerved to miss another truck and veered onto a soft shoulder releasing a classic but chaotic candy city moment.
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Lindenhurst
N.Y
William Polak
Texas oilmen complete 190 wells in week report
Texas oilmen completed 196 wells last week, raising the year total to 4628. The Railroad Commission noted 16 gas wells were finished this week, with 527 gas wells for the year, compared with 315 at the same point last year.
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Texas
Austin
Railroad Commission
Good Humor Men Strike For Higher Commissions
In New York City about 500 Good Humor ice cream salesmen in white coats went on strike. AFL Teamsters Union members demanded commissions rise from 24 to 30 percent of gross receipts.
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New York
AEB
AFL Teamsters’ Union
London Newsman Seeks Communist Asylum
Berlin reports John Peet a 34 year old London born chief of the Reuters bureau asked for asylum in East Germany saying he could no longer serve western warmongers. He was granted a job by the East German press ministry led by Gerhard Hisler, ex American Communist leader now a propagandist.
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Berlin
John Peet
Lon’sborn
Reuters
East Germany
Peet
Gerhard Hisler
United States
Hast Gertiny
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Edwin Dobbs
G. Becker
J. L. “Browder
B. E. Hales
Charlotte Liles
E. H. Liles
Linda Sue Schmaal
Martha Huskey
Marcyle Grew
Sylvia Liles
Janice Welch
Jes. &. EL Lies
Esaleine Batherton
Exarline Batherton
James Schultz
W. A. Morgan
R. F E. Martin
David Cullison
Ethyl Morgan
A. O. Oebler
J. ©. Schmadl
Ann Ruth Schmadl
Wayne Gray
N. F. Eatherton
E. May
Azeline Eatherton
J.C. Schmad
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League City
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