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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1955
Page
8
Chevrolet announces its 1955 Task Force Trucks with 75 models across 15 wheelbases, redesigned for efficiency and highway stability. The new line emphasizes lower cab heights, wider panels, improved suspensions, enhanced visibility, and tubeless tires, unveiled at Buck Turner Chevrolet on March 25.
The 1955 Texas Easter Seal campaign begins this week with mailed solicitations by the Texas Society for Crippled Children and county societies. Gov. Allan Shivers proclaims Easter Seal month as organizers urge local support to fund cerebral palsy centers and services. Olin Culberson chairs the drive, urging communities to send contributions to aid crippled and disabled children.
A young lobster sheds its shell much like a grade school boy outgrows shoes, highlighting growth patterns in crustaceans.
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov faces questions over a Tito rebuke as Moscow presses to mend ties with Belgrade. The fragmentary dispatch hints Molotov’s position is fragile in a Kremlin circle led by Khrushchev Bulganin and Malenkov, with uncertainty about his future. In Guilford, Conn., a separate brief notes two men killed when their car hit a tree while passing a funeral procession.
The Texas Legislature opened its second half with the veterans land scandal at the center. A special House committee will file a preliminary report on the $100 million program Tuesday as Senate hearings resume this week. Also on the agenda are water conservation taxes and insurance law reforms along with a push for four additional Travis County assistant district attorneys to aid the land investigation.
Harvey Matusow, once a self described ex communist and noted liar, seeks a judge’s leniency before a federal contempt sentence in El Paso. He faces up to five years as he defends his testimony in Clinton Jencks case and promotes his new book False Witness, amid admissions of lies.
District Judge John E. Welch fined Pawther R. L. $24 after ruling negligent driving. Police said Everett Wiechert, 35, traveled from Taunton to Dighton at about 30 mph on three wheels.
Firemen reported a spark from burning rubbish landed on John Testa’s coat, igniting a $700 fire inside his home in Warwick. The coat and spark were hung in a closet when Testa entered the house.
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