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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1952
Page
2
A lighthearted look at Soviet claims of many firsts in technology and history. The Trud newspaper boasts television and color TV origins in Russia, cites advances in oil wells tanks ships and electric power, and even credits Stalin with proposing the United Nations.
Virgil Knutson, two years with the state Liquor Centre board, is assigned to Galveston replacing veteran W B Mille who threatened to quit earlier. Tom McPhaul says Knutson arrived this weekend and will move into Galveston next week, with no new orders from Mille on sick leave and no February transfer to Amarillo received.
Livestock prices in Fort Worth show slaughter cattle down 50 to 100 cents. stockers firm with top slaughter steer 34 and yearlings 34.50. Hogs weaker with butchers 25 lower. sows steady and feeder pigs down 1.00. Lone Star Producing Co plans a 5 million gasoline plant west of Winters to process Fort Chadbourne field gas. 22 miles of pipe to gather gas and deliver to plant. Stratford on Avon draws 350,000 visitors annually to Shakespeare birthplace.
La Porte City Council met in a brief session to open bids for 1200 feet of assorted hose for the Fire Department, with samples to be reviewed later. Fire Chief I O Rollins said the new fire truck project is progressing and likely cost somewhat under the $4,000 budget. The council also approved Houston Lightning and Power Company for street light installation around Fire Point Intersection.
A scanned stock list shows numerous company entries with prices and listings. Major names include American Republic, AT&T, American Woolens, Copper, Seth Steel, Zalyan Oil, Celotex, Chrysler, Crystal Oil, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, El Paso Natural Gas, Freeport Sulphur, General Electric, General Motors, Goodyear Tire, Gulf Oil, Humble Oil, Interlake Iron and Nickel, United Airlines lines not shown, Texaco related firms, Packard Motors, Phillips Petroleum, Pure Oil, Stan Oil, Sun Oil, Texaco and Tex Gulf. The compilation reads like a brokered quote sheet with percentages and potential sale indications.
A Bay town Christian Science church plans a lesson sermon titled Matter focusing on valuing spiritual understanding over material things. It cites Colossians 3 2 and Matthew 6 31 33 and references Mary Baker Eddy from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures page 228 to urge reliance on spiritual mastery rather than bodily conditions.
Rev Burge will preach Sunday at 11 am and 7 30 pm at Airhart Drive Church of the Nazarene. Sunday school is set for 3 45 am and Young People Society at 6 30 pm. A cottage prayer meeting will be at Mr and Mrs A Masses home on Doris Street Tuesday at 7 30 pm. A church visitation is scheduled Friday at 6 30 pm. The pastor invites all to help in the visitation program.
Insured fire losses in La Porte for the first two months of 1952 are about $1,600 less than the same period a year earlier. Estimated losses this year total $2,970, compared with $3,900 in 1951. A unrelated county district notice mentions annexation hearings set for April 14, 1852, at David G. Burnet Elementary School, with public testimony allowed.
Petitioners seek annexation of described Harris County land into Fresh Water Supply District No. 6 and possibly District No. 8. The hearing before the Harris County Board of Supervisors is scheduled for the 14th day, with notices and map references detailing property boundaries, rights of way, and drainage easements along Maine Street Road, Burnet Bay, and Decker Drive. Officials note affidavits and signatures from residents and landowners supporting the move.
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