Deputies Beaten as Drunk Drivers Clash on Baytown Roads
Baytown deputies faced a chaotic weekend as multiple drunken drivers crashed and resisted arrest on Decker Drive and Beaumont Beach near Crosby. JR. EL Barron of Liberty was jailed after a collision with Charles Ross of Houston. Barron posted 460 bond. Willie Ms Doval of Cedar Bayou and J. Fr. Dardig of Baytown were also charged with driving while intoxicated. Deputies reported several more intoxication arrests, two property-disposal cases, and a reported eye injury in a separate cutting scrape.
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EL Barron
Liberty
Ira Jones
Sem
Frick
Beaumont Beach
Crosby
Barron
Charles Ha Ress
Houston
Ross
Jones
Willie Ms Doval
Cedar Bayou
Decker Drive
J. FR. Dardig
Baytown
Grove
Doyval
M. Brown
Highwear
Griver
Myron Schrock
Brown
Enby
Schrock
Granny Peoples Dies at 83 After Hotel Work and Family Life
Funeral notices reveal Mrs. Granny Peoples, age 83, died after a Baytown hospital stay while visiting daughter Mrs. A. Shefrid at 200 East Agne. She retired from hotel business in 1939, lived at 215 Fest Adone, and cared for many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Survived by one daughter and numerous descendants, including Mrs. W. E. Powers and Mrs. Savannah Tsyior, Crosby. Grandchildren and great grandchildren number 25 and 10 respectively.
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Baytown
W. E. Powers
Forrest Pete? Hargrave
Savannah
Tsyior
Crosby
Gren
Hearing Set On Barbers Hill Oil Field Regulation
A hearing on March 20 in Austin will consider reducing the maximum efficiency rate for Barbers Hill oil field production in Chambers County. The proposed cap is 209 barrels per day plus 280 barrels per day for additional wells, with a possible reduction to 50 barrels per day and 50 for extras. Phone 2-100.
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Austin
Barbers Hill
Chambers
Two Convicted Of Spy Conspiracy
Two defendants, Coplon and Gubichev, found guilty on the second count of attempting to pass secret documents. Coplon faces up to 20 years on the fourth count, with possible death in war time. Judge Sylvester remands them for sentencing, defense cites confusion over verdicts.
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Sylvester Hren
Miss Coplon
Washington
Miss Coplan
Gubichev
Abraham Pomerantz
Gubitehev
Dry Vote Sought In South Houston
Rev H J Thames Rev J Cartmill and Rev S W Williams asked the Commissioners Court for petitions to circulate in South Houston for a local option liquor election. County judge Glenn A Perry said the petition must be signed by at least 500 persons before preparation, due to recent withdrawals causing county clerk extra work.
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H J. Thames
J. Cartmill
S. W. Wiliams
Commissioners Court
South Houston
Glenn A. Perry
Livestock Prices Report Fort Worth Market
Livestock market notes from Fort Worth show cattle at 1640 head with steady to weak demand for slaughter steers and yearlings priced 21.00 to 26.00 with some higher for top yearlings. Cows range 12.00 to 16.50, cutters to 20.00, bulls 16.00 to 20.00, stockers 16.00 to 26.00, calves 16.00 to 37.60 for culls, good calves 23.50 to 26.00, stockers 21.00 to 26.00, and heifers up to 26.00. Hog figures show good end choice weights 185 to 265 pounds around 17.00, larger hogs 14.75 to 16.75, feeders 11.00 to 12.09.
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Fort Worth
Maren
USDA
Assistant Takes Over As Flood Control Chief
Houston March 7. Jensen is named county flood control engineer after Putney resigns. Commissioners vote unanimously to accept resignations and appoint Jensen, who will be paid 700 dollars monthly. Putney plans to open his own engineering office in Houston.
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Houston
H E. Jensen Jadas
Commissioners Court Yvesterday
R. J. Puimey
Jensen
Putney
Hugh A. May
District Army Engineers
Galveston
Furney
Votes To Name King Queen Of Lollipop Land Contest
A baby popularity contest begins tomorrow for the stage play It s a Date presented by Business and Professional Women. Babies receive one cent per vote and are crowned King and Queen of Lollipop Land during the March 16 17 show. Entry displays at Culmepper s Furniture Store. proceeds benefit the Robert E. Lee Band Lee Brigadiers for new uniforms.
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Lolipop Land
Culmepper
Robert EB. Lee
Lee
Washburn First To Drive Through Tunnel
Houston March 7 The man for whom the 5 million dollar tunnel under the ship channel between Pasadena and Galena Park was named yesterday Grove the first automobile through the new traffic tube County Auditor H B I Washburn invited by the contractors Merritt Chapman and Scott to be the first driver through the tunnel Completion of the work on the tube is slated for May 1 but the roadway through has been completed making it possible to drive from one end to the other
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Houston
Pasadena
Galena Park
Yesterday Grove
BH. I. Washburn
Merritt, Chapman and
Scott
Civic clubs hear philosopher at Humble Dining Room
Lions Kiwenians and Rotarians join in a dinner meeting to hear Jeff Williams, famed as Oklahoma's ambassador of goodwill, with Tiliisms a former Rotary leader. Toastmaster Walter Henckell will introduce him and the program will be broadcast on KREL at 8 50 pm after a 7 30 pm dinner. Tickets remained at noon with 54 left at 2 75 each. Joe Atchison will play piano as the group sings. Typhoid reduced to one tenth in occupied Japan since 1955 immunization began.
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Jeff Williams
Oklahoma
United States
Tiliisms
Rotary International
Rotary
Walter Henckell
KREL
H.C. Stephenson, Jr
Glid
Joe Atchison
Blind vaudeville duo persists with Seeing Eye Lady
In Chicago March 7 CP report, Mike Sachs a blind comedian since childhood reopens with Alice Kennedy after a near end of show. Kennedy guides him on stage using voice tone and cues, earning Sachs’s nickname Seeing Eye Lady as they perform together in vaudeville.
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George S.edsl
Central Press
Chicago
St Louis
Mike Sachs
Alice Kennedy
Todey
Mike
Hir
New York
Boston
Cid Heewerd
Smith
Ziegfeld
Sachs
Alice Taok
Alice
Miss Kennedy
Old Howard
Alee
Mile
Pioneer Resident of East Harris Dies
A Pioneer resident of East Harris who returned to Highlands to live with her father after Mrs Magee s death will have a Rosary at 8 p m today at St Jude s Catholic Church. A wake and funeral mass follow with burial in Garden of Gethsemane Houston.
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Paxe
Highlands
Baytown Landmark Gets Face Lifted
The project to rejuvenate a Baytown landmark proceeds despite challenges of building work. Officials say the facelift will enhance the structure and aims to finish in about six to seven weeks.
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Baytown
Stock Quotes and Company Names From Aged Ledger
A fragmentary list of companies and stock references appears, with names such as AT and T, Dow Chemical, General Electric, General Motors, Goodyear, IBM, Sears, Woolworth, and others. The text reads as a dense roster of manufacturers, utilities, and producers spanning chemicals, steel, oil, autos, and consumer goods, likely a market or quotation page. The exact bids, prices, and dates are unreadable in this OCR segment, but the assortment signals a period stock commentary or broker reference list.
Phillips Gas Deal Subject of Inquiry March Hearing
Washington March 7 investigation of the natural gas operations of Phillips Petroleum Co will be the subject of a March 20 hearing by the Federal Power Commission in Bartlesville Oklahoma. The commission will consider Phillips subsidiary application to build a 21 mile pipeline to Northern Natural Gas Co and the addition of a compressor station in Texas. The FTC said the proposed sale would permit Northern to buy natural gas direct from Phillips.
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Washington
Phillips Petroleum
Federal Power Commission
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Phillips
Texas
Nothern Natural Gas Company
FTC
Northern
Natual Gas
City Bans TV In Bars And Taverns
Duluth Minnesota city council banned television use in ten taverns after a protest by church groups. The vote followed a public demonstration of about 500 people and affects current television facilities in bars and taverns.
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Duluth
Minn
Maren
O City Council
Ety Hay
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Sheriff's Deputies
Hoss
Peontes
A. Shefrid
East Agcne
South
David Rose
Steer Bate
Descentor Mersey Aidor Co
Lars Roesner
Beacon Speakine
Steiodtes
Bob Nolan
Shaw
Blaine Tix
Behins
Steeis
Ron
Masi
Mesia
Cuperper’s
Bud —Erel Bis
Stassi Dist
Washburn
Packard
ASX
Andrew £. Bougias
University of Arizona
Tree Ting Laboratory
Japan
Hiland Theatre
Twe Jima
John Wayne
John Agar
East Harris
Tovar
Thorsdax
Marikes
Y. VF
Kers
New’ Jersey
Alfred Driscoll
Trenton
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company
CIO Communications
International
Allez Lud Steel Allis Chal Amered Pet Ae Aimee Steel
Amer Woolens
Anaconda Ca
Beth Steel Budé Ca
Csiumet and
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Carysler Corp Cities Service
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Chem du Pont
Chem Eastman Kodak
Gen Electric
Gen Motors
Goodyear
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Gulf List
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Interlake Iron J and L Steet Kirby
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Wat Dairy
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Jese Penney’s “Inc Pure Oi
Packard Motors
Repab
Sigel St Regis Paper Sea -Pacif — Woolworth Inc
O. Cotton
Phillips Gas
Ry Son
Glenn Lancay
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Robert Presto
Sussn Haywarn
Tulsa
Alexander Ero
Alen
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Ricardo Mortalban
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