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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 20, 1950

Page

2

God of Atom film to be shown at First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church in Kentucky hosts a 7 30 pm screening of God of the Atom a Moody Institute of Science film featuring real nuclear explosions and a cyclotron sequence. Dr Lewin Moon notes the film questions human conflict beyond weapons with physicist Larry Johnston providing wartime bomb insights.

First Baptist Church University of California Larry Johnston Ment Los Alamos Moody Institute of Science Moody Bible Institute Chicago

Lee Junior Heads Future Teachers Club Formation

Lee Junior outlines the Future Teachers of America club goals and plans a statewide, district, and local network. Members study teaching careers, leadership, and college pathways at morning meetings while Miss Ellis leads efforts to establish ten districts and five clubs per district.

Lage 1 Texas Future Teachers of America Club Miss Ellis Ellis Robert, H.lee Future Teachhers Club Tag Elis Linda Pierce White Hillis Iso Lee ‘Club Denton

Livestock prices and a birth notice in Fort Worth scene

Livestock report from Fort Worth lists cattle, hogs, calves with varied price ranges and declines noted for hogs. Also carries a birth announcement for Marilyn Stevene Murphy born March 18, 1950 at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital, with weights and family details.

Fort Worth USDA

Brutal Sex Killer Eludes Police Net Continues

Mrs Ed Romach and two others attended a bridge party when the killer targeted Htile Gregory Eomech 2% who slept in his crib. Police sweep of houses yielded fingerprints and hair samples while bloodhounds traced a scent to Columbia bus depot. Sapp noted blood splotches in three rooms of the Romanek house and smeared hand prints on a wall.

Ed Romach Gregory Eomech Highway Patrol Sepp Columbia Sapp Janett Romanek House

Washburn Predicts Lower Tax Rate Budget Plan

Washburn forecasts a reduced tax rate as four county precinct maintenance is funded. The 1950 budget raises the total to 1,206,479 from 1949s 985,240 and general fund revenues jump to 33,325,647. It includes 16,000 for county audit starting Monday and 25,000 for Jefferson- Davis Hospital police unit expenses. New funds cover Washburn tunnel operation, and the renewal contracts for Freese- Nicholy and inner property revaluation are dropped.

Jefferson- Davis Hospital Washburn Commissioners Court

Stock Quotes From A Fragmented Steel and Oil Ledger

Readable items include ticker like Amersid, Armco, AT and T, Chrysler, Cities Service, Eastman Kodak, Gen Electric, Gen Motors, Goodyear, IBM? no, Steel producers Nat Steel, U S Steel, Tex Gulf Prod, Texas Co, Texaco not listed. Includes percentages and company fragments, outlining a chaotic quote ledger for steel, oil, and related firms with multiple brands and placeholders.

Aligned Steel Amersid Armco Steel Amer Ansconda Beth Steel Buddha Calumet Delensse Corp Chrysler Corp Cities Service Con - Edison Creole Pet Davison Chem du Pont Ciem Eastman Kodak - Gen Electric Gen. Motors Goodyear Greyhound Bus Gillette Interlake Iron J and L Steel Kirby Pet Libby McN Liggett and Myers Bs Mack Tricks Nat Dairy Nat Steel Packard Motors Repab Steel St. Regis Texas Tex Gulf Tidewater Corp Yimken U. S.steel Woolworth Inc May N. O. Cotton

Winter Winds Challenge Spring Debut Reach

Winter winds and unseasonable warmth marked a volatile start to the year. Record high January temperatures and early blossoms contrasted with heavy rains that flooded the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Flooding forced tens of thousands from homes, while blizzards in the northern plains disrupted communications and dust storms swept Texas and Oklahoma.

Mercury Ohio Mississippi Plains Texas Oklahomia

Realtors Meet Tonight For Special Session

Active Baytown Real Estate Board members are called to a special session at 7 p.m. in the Keystone Realty Company offices at 18 North Ashbel. Board president Elmore Wooldruff says topics of vital importance to the real estate business will be discussed and all members are urged to attend.

Baytown Real Estate Board Keystone Realty Company North Ashbel Elmore Wooldruff

Mayor Proclaims Clean-Up Campaign Starts Next Sunday

Mayor announces a citywide clean-up drive beginning next Sunday with City departments coordinating debris pickup. Police Chief McKee notes traffic hazards at North Jones and West Jack and at Holman and Austin require safety actions. Public Works designs routes to cover all areas in one pass, avoiding backtracking.

Gant H. E. McKee North Jones West Jack C. W. Grantham Public Works Grantham Bimon Holman and Austin Alamo Department of Public Works B. E Berry McKee Highway 146 Tri-City Beech Road Robert E. Lee High School Middleton

Girl Not Sorry She Killed Twin Continues On Page 1

Alice recounts waking, arming a 22 rifle from a closet with two other guns, finding bullets among lipsticks and hairpins, and firing at her sleeping sister Sally. She describes praying hard before bed but says she did not feel like it Saturday night.

Alice Stone Sally

Bumper Baby Crop Reported For 1949

The U S Public Health Service reports 1949 saw 3 729 000 births the second highest since 1927 bringing the four year postwar total to nearly 15 000 000. The agency notes wartime and postwar families likely contributing to the elevated birth rate with second and third children forming in many households.

Washington U. S. Public Health Service

Strikers protest Leopold cry return in Belgian port

In Bruesets Belgium on March 20 more than 225000 longshore and shipyard workers walked out for 24 hours in Antwerp to protest the return of King Leopold. The strike aims to pressure Leopold to abdicate in favor of his 19 year old son Prince Badouin as Acting Premier Gaston Eyskens seeks a short term coalition with liberals while his Social Christian party favors the king's return.

Bruesets Belgium Antwerp Leopold Europe Socialist Party Prince Badouin Gaston Eyskens

Minister Injured When Car Overturns in Texas Incident

Rev. A. I Bast pastor of the Mexican Baptist Church sustained a bruised shoulder and minor cuts to hands and face when his car overturned on Decker Drive Sunday. He told Deputy Sheriff M. Brown he lost control and the vehicle left the pavement striking the shoulder.

A. I Bast The Mexican Baptist Church Decker Drive Rev. Bast M. Mr. Brown Fead

McPhail Son Is Born in Baytown

Mr and Mrs Sammie McPhail of 705 East James announce the birth of Samuel Morton McPhail born yesterday at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. He weighed seven pounds four ounces. Grandparents are Mrs S L McPhail and Mr and Mrs Morton Williams, all of Baytown.

Penl .C. Brurghy Amnouneé Marilyn Stevene Murphy Sen Jecinto Memorial Hospital D. A. Murphy

Sanitarian Learns New Ways to Control Pests

City sanitarian Odis Muennink said a Houston three day meeting sponsored by the Texas State Department of Health gave him useful ideas on pest control. He noted lessons would aid Bay town Clean Up campaigns and ongoing efforts to improve local wealth conditions.

Odis Muennink Houston Texas State Department of Health Muennink Baytown

Germans Fed Up With Occupation Rise in Tensions Noted

A German populace grows restless under occupation as an intelligence officer notes no rise in incidents recently while an American colonel reports increased aggression among Germans. He cites fear of deliberate attacks and asserts German truck drivers could carry out smashes without personal danger.

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