Drilling Rule Talked Spacing Favored By Chester Bulgier
Public support for a city ordinance governing drilling well spacing was voiced at a City Hall hearing. Six speakers, all from Wynnewood or Harper additions, urged eight‑lot units while opposing large 200‑acre units. Mayor Pruett noted acreage, depth, and royalty concerns, and the need to protect property owners. Sea Hearing Page Two.
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Chester Bulgier
Old Wells
City Hall
Wynnewood
Harper Additions
Contoe
Harner
Fr. H. Pruett
Baytown
Prisett
Payor
U S Alarmed Over Fisherman Burned By Atom Dust
World news in brief reports a US concern and aid offer after 23 Japanese fishermen were exposed to radioactive dust from an American atom bomb blast. Physicians say none face immediate death, while the 23 are not in danger at the present stage.
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U.S
Tokyo
Ith
United States
Physiciana
Ptacek leads pressure facing Sun Spots League tests
C Ptacek presides as Inter scholastic League activities unfold at Robert E. Lee high school with district meets scheduled on April 9 including debate, declamation, extemporaneous speaking, typing, shorthand, ready writing, slide rule, number sense and spelling. Debating team will face South Parkes on March 31 in Beaumont. girls team led by Lugg Stallworth and Tobye Fram. Baytown Woman's Club hosts a 7 30 p m game party at Community House with tickets 50 cents at the door. bridge and other games plus refreshments. Missing money bag reported. loss of 28 dollars cash and 24 in change. Sex education study session set at Crosby PTA auditorium with booklet Lets Tell the Whole Story About Sex discussed. public invited. Two Baytown men named officers in Houston section of Instrument Society of America to be installed Friday night at John's Restaurant.
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Robert E. Lee High School
Riel
Freeport
Pasa
Lugg Stallworth
Tobye Fram
Baytown Woman's Club
Ben Love
Crosby Parent-Teacher Association
Edward B. Lyman
The
Christophers
Paul Larsen
Inc Tepera
Baytoniens
Baytown
Houston
Instrument Society of America
O. J. Howell
Constitution
J. R. Martin
John’s
Senate
State Affairs Committee
Robert 5
Calvert
Shivers
Senterfitt
Hearings Open On Teacher Pay and Tax Plans in Texas
Senate Education committee schedules hearings on Gov. Shivers proposed 402 dollar annual teacher pay raise while lawmakers discuss financing. Alternate House plan by Speaker Senter and Rep. Joseph paves a different route. Tax legislation to fund a 37 million program moves with hearings planned. other measures include death penalty bills for Communists and state employee pay raises.
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C. B. Lloyd Jr
Austin
Senate Education Committee
Allan Shivers
Texas
Thotse
Sk H. Aikin
Jy. Paris
Delph di
Uvalde
Reuben Senter
Tom Joseph
Waco
R. Chambers
Senter
Shivers
Hig
Company E To Open Spring Campaign For New Recruits
Baytown's Company E 143d Infantry Regiment of the Texas National Guard will launch its spring reining campaign on March 22 to reach full strength. Capt. John Kader says prospective guardsmen can report at the National Guard Armory for enlistment and advice. Age 17 to 25, parental consent for under 18. The guard emphasizes training, pay, and promotion opportunities along with patriotic service.
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Baytown
Texas National Guard
John Kader
National Guard
West Main
South Pruett
Capt
Kader
Guard
Baytown Couple Admit Forging Checks Under Threat
A Baytown couple confessed to forging and cashing at least five checks signed M. L. Roden over recent months. James W. Tubbs and his wife, both 26, admitted the acts. Tubbs, illiterate except for signing, allegedly forced his wife with threats of violence to write the checks. Charges of forgery and passing worthless checks were filed in Justice Roscoe Zierlein's court.
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Baytown
Billie Bennett
Big Chief
Holloway Food Market
Justice of the Peace
Roscoe Zierlein
Mrs Orra Brown Dies Rites Thursday Funeral
Mrs Orra Tsanhour Brown died at a Raytown hospital at 12 40 am Wednesday She lived at 243 Market Street a native of Preston Iowa but moved to Baytown 46 years ago Survivors include husband Bert Brown three sons Francis R Brown Howard Brown Norman Brown one daughter Mrs W E Collins a sister Mrs Doris Kay Peterson three grandchildren and five great grandchildren Pallbearers were George Winterhaller Douglas Warren First Manuel Mex Brown Clifton Adams and Joanny Wooster Funeral services set for 10 am Thursday at Pant A Lee Funeral Home with Rev M F B McPinail of the First Presbyterian Church officiating Burial in Cedar Crest Cemetery
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Myre
Orra Tsanhour Brown
Pant A. Lee
Bert Brown
Francis R. Brown
Vernon, Fla
Howard Brown
Crosby
Norman Brown
Baytown
W. E. Collins
Doris Kay Peterson
New York City
George Winterhaller
Douglas Warren
Flist Manuel
Mex Brown
Clifton Adams
Joanny Wooster
Detour Plan Outlined For Tri City Beach Paving
County Commissioner W W Ramsey announced two detour routes for East Texas Avenue and Tri City Beach road during a 4.11 mile paving from Texas at Highway 146 to the bascule bridge on Cedar Bayou. Evergreen Road will detour the upper section while Canam Btra county detours cover the lower near the bridge. Crews aim to keep detours available at all times during a 60 day construction period, and public cooperation is requested.
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W. W. Ramsey
East Texas Avenua
Tri-City Beach Road
Texas
Cegar Bayou
Ramsey
Evergreen Road
Canambtra County
No Fight Says Scott After Scratched Face Incident
Houston March 17 William H Scott district attorney appeared at work with a badly scratched face and denied a vice squad report he tangled with a madam saying the scratches came from a coat hanger His wife backed him while Capt Joe Clark described a disturbance in a parked automobile with Lorraine Lou Ayres as the other occupant Also Scott Miss Ayres and her brother Curlew Meyers have been indicted on charges of operating a bawdy house near Scott s courthouse office.
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Houston
William H. Scott
Vice Squad
Scott
Joe Clark
Clark
Lorraine (Lou) Ayres
Miss Ayres
Curlew Meyers
Ex Candidate Denies Owing City Taxes
Ex candidate Placek denies city taxes liability and says pressure from unnamed persons kept him off the ballot. He cites a disputed $39.70 claim by Chandler and a Water District No 2 tax suit in Harris County court. Placek plans no court action now but says others influence the ballot outcome.
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Ceretain
Placek
Tio
Haliot
Solineitinna Hoff
Bay Town
Baytown
Chandler
Ty Alty
George Chandler
Water District No. 2
Leger Addition
Harris County
Mrp
Dellot
Anderson To Run For Constable In July Primary
Constable Paul Aalarson and fellow candidate Rory Tucker are among those contesting the July Democratic primary. Anderson announced his bid for re election and noted his ties to the county Democratic Chairman. WL Ramsey of Channelview also declared plans to seek re election to the county commission.
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Paul Aalarson
Anderson
Rory Tucker
County Commissionar
WL Ramsey
Channelview
Finance Director Besins Tax Tour in Baytown
Finance Director A V Barter began his annual personal property tax tour of Baytown businesses. He started in South Baytown and will visit West Baytown and Mid Baytown in about three weeks. Barter urged businessmen to have inventories ready to speed the process.
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A. V. Barber
Baytown
South Baytown
West Baytown
Paratroopers Aid French Garrison At Dien Bien Phu
Paratroopers totaling about 800 landed on Dien Bien Phu airstrip amid heavy anti-aircraft fire to reinforce the besieged French garrison. The operation raised the force to roughly 10,000 able soldiers, as pilots supplied aid by dropping serum to wounded defenders and fortifying the fortress under mounting Communist pressure.
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Indo-China
Dien Bien Phu
Fuesday
Hanoi
Army To Query McCarthy On His Blackmail Charges
Senator McCarthy proposed cross examining Army witnesses under oath in the Senate Investigating subcommittee inquiry into his clash with the Army. He would allow the Army to cross examine witnesses, while remaining a subcommittee member and witness, and plans Midwest speaking engagements that keep him away from Washington.
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McCarthy
Herbert Foster
Washington
Joseph TW. McCarthy
Pnt
Questintira
Wisconsin Republican
Senate
Subcama
Congress Opens Big Tax Battle in House Bid
Congress moves toward a major clash over Democratic tax cuts and exemptions. The House debates raising personal exemptions from 600 to 700 dollars while considering substituting the exemption hike for a GOP dividend tax plan. Also noted are Hawaiian statehood talks, a $420.98 million Army works program bill, and missing classified documents inquiry at Hanford Washington.
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Washington
House
Jed
James Easthind
Senate
Voien Vale
W. Sterling Cole
R-N.y
House - Senate
Hanford
Wass
VFW Elects Oscar Ingram Bay town Commander
Oscar Ingram an employee of Ethel Corp in Pasadena was elected commander of VFW Post 912 in Bay town at the annual officer election held Tuesday night in the VFW hall. John Case was chosen senior vice commander with Jimmie Sanderson Jr as vice commander and Victor R. Serhe as quartermaster. Retiring post commander W. C. Moravity presided. installation set for April 17 at the VEW hall. Case also works for the Bay town Sears. last year he served as post adjutant.
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Oscar Ingram
Ethel Corp
Pasadena
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Baytown
Ingram
Johan
VFW
John Case
Jimmie Sanderson Jr
Victor RK
Serhe
Joe R. Zorn
Posal
Cate
Fred Murphy
W. T. Jones Jr
D. W. Tastings
M. L. Dickerson
Stede Neer
W. C. Moravity
VEW
Case
Baytown Sears
Texas Supreme Court Removes Alice Judge for Misconduct
The Texas Supreme Court ousted 79th District Judge C. Laughlin of Alice for partiality and official misconduct after finding he illegally discharged the Jim Wells county grand jury to avoid indicting his brother. The unprecedented removal, supported by clear evidence, blocks further appeals, and the court rejected a due process challenge.
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Texas Supreme Court
C.' Wood
Laughlin
Alice
High Court
Texas J
Texas
Supreme Court
George’ “Parr
Duke of
Duval
South Texas
Supreme ‘Court
Laughlin Uwegally
Jim Wells County
C. Small
Laugh Iln
Small
U.S. Supreme Court
Robert W. Calvert
Barbers Hill School Board Candidates List
Three candidates filed for the Barbers Hill School Board with a week left before the filing deadline. Incumbents include George A Mills and Emma Farr. Lined up are Lee Tilton and O A Forbus from Baytown Refinery. four voting places were set at the high school library Traverse's store Scott's and Harper's stores. deadline for filing is next Tuesday.
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Barbers Hill
George A. Mills
Ncumbent
Texas Gulf Pros Ducing Go
Mant Belvieu
Alvo
Lee Tilton
O. A. Forbus
Baytown
Emma Farr
Judge Frank Williford Dies After Heart Attack
Judge Frank Williford of Union County, a longtime criminal jurist who served nearly a quarter century, died early Wednesday from heart attack complications during the Christmas holidays. The 68 year old presided over one of the county’s criminal districts.
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Frank Williford
Uarris County
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