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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1954
Page
2
Fort Worth Texas March 16 Livestock pricing notes from Up Livestock show cattle activity steady with good and choice slaughter steers yearlings and calves in steady ranges. Hog market steady with butchers sows and various weight classes quoted and mixed utility and commercial grades.
North Texas State's golf team beat Texas A and M in a non conference match 51-21. Marion x and Addi David Vandervoort shared medalist honors with one over par 71s. Homer Calloway defeated Ray Ferguson 2 and 1. Vandervoort and Bill Franklin defeated Jiskey and Benny Castle one up to chalk up the Aggie points.
Dr L W Wisseman coordinator of Baytown schools guidance program and SMU psychology professor will address Pi Brotherhood Tuesday night. Dr L T Castutt chairman of Robert E Lee evaluation committee spoke to Lions Club at noon Tuesday. A desert need not be hot it can be cold like tundras of Stheria.
State Highway Engineer De Witt Greer outlined the Baytown bridge project noting the new span will sit 150 feet north of the present bridge and 300 feet north of the east entrance. The design calls for 975000 pounds of reinforcing steel, 4.5 million pounds of structural steel, 5150 cubic yards of cement, and 23580 feet of piling. The bridge length reaches 2995 feet with 25 feet vertical clearance and an elaborate interchange at the Cras by Lynchburg road. Bidments will cover paving from San Jacinto ordnance works to the San Jacinto river, with rapid construction to provide access to the completed bridges. Completion of Highway 73 is expected to shift northern traffic into Baytown, similar to the tunnel’s southward effects.
A fragmentary sick list shows numerous names with misread addresses and broken spellings. Entries include Joseph Broussard Sterling Mrs Theodore Kloesel Magnolia Mrs George Jeninache Route 1 Mrs Carl Thenemann Bay share Dr Allen Charles Webb II High lands Edwin W Baccus Circle Dr Mrs Charles G Pool Ore gan Mrs Paul Cunningham Peart Mrs Vincent Caverretti Sharwood Mrs William W Mitchell Utah Karl Miller Indiana Car Lee Ruez Utah Wilfred Spell Pruett Elroy Wright Alva Atthie Moye Willow.
The article compares Conroe and Baytown oil drilling plans, detailing section based spacing rules, royalty splits when wells extend under adjacent sections, and 2 two cent city oil taxes. Proponents warn small 20 acre royalties may be too small while supporters argue fewer larger wells yield longer field life and steady tax revenue. The Georgian calendar is used officially in China.
Funeral services for Reese H. Boren, 36, of Pasadena, will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist church of La Porte. The Rev. W. Parrish will officiate, with burial in Grandview Memorial Park Cemetery under Art Simpson Funeral Home. Boren, who lived in La Porte 10 years before moving to Pasadena two years ago, died Sunday morning in an automobile accident near Henderson. Survived by Jewel Marie Boren, his widow, and daughter Jewel Mariee of Pasadena. his father L. A. Boren of Gilmer. four brothers Clyde J, Tommy Lee, Johnny, both of Houston, and Claude A. of La Porte. He worked for National Life and Accident Co in Pasadena and previously for a BU tana gas company in La Porte.
Supt J J Jensen cites state law on detachment and annexation of land areas as Barbers Hill and Baytown district boards discuss requiring Baytown board approval for annexing portions of Chambers county. Emma Farr urges disclosure of indebtedness from annexed territory. Barbers Hill, presently debt free, plans meeting after 12 of 22 visitors request it.
Mr and Mrs Charles C Foot of Oregon welcome twin boys born March 15 at San Jacinto Hospital. The 1905 birth details are recorded for family history.
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