Baytown Plans Painless Extraction of Parking Fines
City adopts a new Traf-O-Terra style parking system to simplify payments. A stamped front envelope will hold the fine, with four money boxes placed citywide for drive-by drop offs. City Manager Middleton says the council approved installation, and samples were received from Tras-o-Terra Co. The notice ends with a courteous plea to motorists to follow regulations and respect pedestrians.
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Baytown
Middleton
Tras-o-Terra Co
el Dorado
Kan
Ingtall
Jst
Deeper Probe Into Baby Death Slated
In Baytown a coroner's hearing will be held at 9 a.m. Monday before Justice of the Peace Walter Queen to probe the death of a baby found at the city garbage dump on Barkaloo road two weeks ago. About 24 witnesses including City Manager C D Middleton and Police Chief W R Montgomery will be subpoenaed. a district attorney's assistant will question witnesses and a court reporter will record testimony. If the baby came from a hospital, the hospital should be cleared from the inquiry. if not, a murder could be investigated.
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Baytown
Justice of the Peace
Walter Queen
Barkaloo Road
Judge Queen
W. R. Montgomery
Queen
Eo Wudgé - Queen
Jess
Grant Quits, Lee Steps Up at Baylor
WACO Texas Lt. Col. Grant resigns as registrar at Baylor University and is replaced by Lee. The transfer is announced in Geneva. Lee assumes duties to oversee registrar operations at the university.
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Grant
Lee
Waco, Tex
Geneva
Col. Grant
Baylor University
SUN SPOTS TV PANEL PROMOTES CAMP TAHOE ACTIVITIES
SUN SPOTS reports Camp Tahoe director TOM MANISON and seven campers will discuss activities on KGUL TV at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The panel includes Bryson Filbert Shipley Arty Webber Bob Harris Mickey Spencer Douglas Kenney and Douglas Rose. Newcomers MR and MRS R G Henry join Baytown later residing at 3420 Michigan Street Henry joins Baytown Refinery Technical Service Division and is a recent Oklahoma A and M chemical engineering graduate.
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Tom Manison
Camp Tahoe
Kgultv
Bryson Filbert
R. G. Henry
Baytown
Michigan Street
Henry
Oklahoma A and M College
Around Tows and Towns Quietly Shuffled by Local Goings On
Nell Jones concentrates on two tasks as Jack Strickler and W T Busch squeeze through a doorway together. Grover Edge heads to Galveston for a day not for pleasure. Howard Boyles remains an emergency patient at Houston VA hospital. Norine Rosser from Highlands buys gifts, Don Lang’s desk overflows with work, Lester Allard grabs a coffee break, Dutch Ptacek guards a street corner. Martha Barrett and Connie Price visit Goslyn Inn with plans for Baytown junior high next year. Betty Lois Cooper preps for a trip toward El Paso. Ronnie McElroy expects to catch a prize fish. Insurance man J Wright Griggs travels to Beaumont on a big selling tour.
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Nell Jones
Jack Strickler
W. T. Busch
Grover
Galveston
Howard Boyles
Houston VA
Norine Rosser
Don Lang
Lester Allard
Dutch Ptacek
Martha Barrett
Connie Price
Baytown
Goslyn
Betty Lois Cooper
Paso
Ronnie McElroy
J. Wright Griggs
Beaumont
Dogs At Large Turmoil In Harris County
Lakewood and Highlands residents faced a dog running crisis as 50 canines were captured during a three hour raid. County dog catchers and Humane Officer Pete Butler filed charges against S Gray of McNair for letting dogs run at large. The crackdown follows complaints from Baytown to Highlands as residents demand vaccination and containment, with dogs returning to owners' properties and locals seeking safer neighborhoods.
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Lakewood
McNair
Humane” Officer
Pete
Leroy Butler
S. Gray
Harris County
Butler
Gray
Highlands
Lands ‘Park
Sheriff's Office
Baytown
Sone
Northeast Texas Storm Damages Crops and Buildings
Heavy storms struck northeast Texas near Paris with up to 3.7 inches of rain in 40 minutes. Minter reported strong winds and hail, uprooting trees and damaging a grocery roof and a barn. Rockston, Gainesville, and Trenton recorded rainfall as storms moved along a 4 belt.
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United. Press
Texas
Paris
Minter
Wes Ingram
John Brown
Rockston
Gainesville
Trenton
Dallas
Fort ‘Additions
Soviet Nehru urge China admission to UN and disarmament
Soviet Premier Bulganin and Indian Prime Minister Nehru called for China to surrender to the Chinese Communists and for Communist China to be admitted to the United Nations. They urged a ban on atomic and hydrogen bomb manufacture and an end to bomb experiments, urging global disarmament during Nehru’s 15 day visit to Russia.
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Moscow
Nikolai Bulganin
Jawaharlal Nehru
Formosa
China
United Nations
Wehtu
Warsaw
Russia
Nehru
It Looks Like Peron Won't Be Around Long
Montevideo dispatch reports Argentine Navy leaders demanding the removal of President Juan D Peron from government while a three man military council negotiates power. Army elements reportedly seek gradual change and to keep Peron in place. The piece notes censorship shifts and muttered signals from officials.
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Peron
Long Military Council
Navy
Montevideo
Uruguay
River Plate
Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
Romman Catholic
Jank
Eva Peron
Evila
Battle over BEF leaders blues Baytown vote outcome awaited
The final run off on the Baytown Refinery BEF leadership pits President Henderson against Vice President Dawson amid a furious fight over a sickness benefit plan. Ballots counted Thursday night after about 1408 votes cast in the primary and 1350 impounded. The council backed the plan. Dawson and allies pressed for a membership vote, but the plan was rejected by 750 to 469. The plan then shifted back temporarily and awaits further talks as illness delays decision.
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Johnella Boynton
Playes
Employes
Baytown
BEF
Henderson
R. Dawson
Dawson
Hender
Humble
Pam
BEF Council
Planty
Gordon
Caiinci
Baytown Tax Board Holds First Public Hearings
Baytown Tex Equalization board held its first public hearings Thursday morning with 11 citizens presenting complaints about property tax assessments. Sessions continued Friday and Saturday, with at least 40 complaints filed at city hall. The board can lower assessments or leave them unchanged and suggested raising some street assessments while lowering taxes on Arkansas Street.
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Baytown
Tex Equalizsition Board
Tax Department
City Hall
H. G.‘Corneil
Robert
Beverly
C. H. Miller
Jack
A. Ward
Arkansas
Gulf Tankers End Strike Ends Work Stoppage
About 200 East and Gulf Coast tankers could sail Thursday after CIO National Maritime Union and three officer unions settled a six day strike. Pickets halted at Sinclair Refining in Texas and Pan American Refinery in Texas City as contract terms included an unemployment benefit plan. The three CIO allied unions named were the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the American Radio Association, plus the Masters, Mates and Pilots.
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Houston
Gulf Coast
CIO National Maritime Union
Texas Gulf Coast
New York
Jacko@s
Sinclair Refining Co
Nearae aPorte
Pan American Refinery Corp
Texas City
Port Arthur
Gulf Corp
Texas Company
Maras Engineers Beneficial Association
American Radio Association
CIO
Fisher Body Division Expansion Planned by GM
General Motors said a half billion dollar expansion will add more than 4.5 million square feet to Fisher Body Division. About 970,000 square feet of new construction will be added to plants in Atlanta Baltimore Los Angeles Nearwood St. Louis Lansing and Grand Blanc.
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Detroit
General ‘Motors
Fisher Body
James E. Goodman
Atlanta
Baltimore
Los Angeles
Nearwood
Ohio
St. Louis
Lansing
Mich
Grand Bianc
Fred Hartman
Baytown
Bonds and borrowing drive Baytown school bond vote
A Baytown school bond election seeks 750000 for an NE Baytown elementary plant Cedar Bayou additions at Alamo Stewart Heights and Lakewood projects plus future site purchases. Bond terms run 16 years with 3 percent max interest backed by scheduled repayments from 1956 onward.
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Cedar Bayou
Alamo School
Stewart Heights
Horace Mann
Isave
William
B. Travis ‘School
Lakewood
Baytown
George H. Gentry
Gas rate increase decision looms for city council
Sun staff writer reports City Manager C Darwin Thurs day predicts the City Council will likely reject Bouston Natural Gas Corp. rate hike at Thursday night meeting. Middleton says council may refuse outright or delay vote. Hat gas rate request was previously turned down.
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Clyde A
Murray Sun
C. Darwin
Bouston ,Natural Gas Corp
Middleton
H. E. Magsey
Baytown
Macket
Wooster
Deuker Drive
Chamber of Commerce
W. V. Ramsey
Fire Ninth Report In Three Weeks Seen In June
Baytown fire officials worry June may set a record as Fire Chief Art Lintelman reports the ninth blaze in three weeks. A vandal damaged the North Mainstradt Weingarten building before an 8:30 p.m. Wednesday fire, with damage yet undetermined. Five hoses fought the flames, and the vacant structure will require full inspection to assess losses.
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Rosalie Myers
Sun
Art Lintelman
Baytown
Linterman
Walla
South
Malin
FMES
Cleveland Man Defeated and Robbed in Texas Kidnaping
A two hour chase ended near Huntsville after three Black men slugged robbed and kidnapped Cleveland Tex filling station owner Henry R Wood. He was struck with a jug wrench robbed of 115 dollars dragged into a car beaten released two miles away. Sheriff Red Rose ordered roadblocks and Huntsville police stopped the suspects.
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Cleveland
Tex
Huntsville
Henry R. Wood
Wood
Liberty County
Red Rose
Huntsville City
Vante Hayman
Woo
Lt Col Combs Promoted to Air Force Reserve Rank
John R. Combs, petrol cargo inspector at Baytown Refinery, is promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He commands the Mth Troop Carrier squadron of the San Jacinto wing at Billington Air Force base and has long served with Humble since 1945 after Baytown relocation. He flew B 17s in World War II and taught in San Antonio before enlisting. He and his wife and two children reside at 319 Gresham and he assists in Baytown Hast Little League.
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John R. Combs
Baytown
Air Force Reserve
Combs
San Jacinto
Billington Air Force Base
Humble
Air Force
England
North Africa
Combsng
San Marcos
Southwest Texas State College
San Antonio
John Jr
Elaine
Gresham
Baytown CAP Aids In Search For Plane
The Baytown Civil Air Patrol unit joined six CAP planes in a full day search for a downed Air Force aircraft near Victoria. Pilots included Ray Prince and Babe Badgley with observers G B Fletcher and Bert Black among others. Planes departed Baytown around 9 a.m. and returned about 6 p.m., with the missing plane finally located by a CAP plane from another Texas town.
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Baytown
Civil Air Patrol
Air Force
Victoria
Ray Prince
Babe Badgley
W. C. Stewart
Sparky Nelson
C. G. Swick
C. A. Behymer
G. B. Fletcher
Bert Black
John Scott
W. O. Kubik
Ed Cathriner
Elva Stanley
Kenneth Wielder
Texas
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