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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1952
Page
3
The US Department forecast indicates Texas will produce spring crops at about one million acres less than last year. Cotton and feed grains show declines while hay and sweet sorghum face reduced acreage. Overall, drought and moisture concerns loom as planting proceeds.
Cpl. Carl E. B. McGee 19 of Town Creek Alabama earned a Purple Heart after a North Korean prisoner bit him following capture by a four man volunteer kidnapper squad inside North Korean lines. The incident occurred during action with the First Marine Division in Korea.
A Milwaukee woman who signed with an X asked a court to restore her maiden name. Mrs Maude X filed a divorce suit against Jerry X and asked to assume her maiden name Montgomery.
Ground breaking ceremonies for a new museum to house Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s $1 million collection of war souvenirs will be held in Abilene on April 2. Gov. Edward F. Arn will shovel the first dirt and deliver the main address as the Eisenhower foundation develops the site near the general’s family home. The museum, costing $100,000 with plans for future wings, sits on land donated by Eisenhower and his brothers. Since opening as a national shrine, over 160,000 visitors have registered there. The collection remains as it was in 1946 when Mrs. Eisenhower died, with her nightcap still on a rocking chair.
General James A Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, says the enemy is stronger and potentially less eager for a ceasefire than last summer. He notes Communist capabilities have grown offensively and defensively, with artillery now double the UN force. In Fort Sill, seven OCS candidates are sent back to Korea for not pursuing officer training in good faith, under a policy from last month. In Singapore, Communist terrorists kill eight policemen, two European-born officials, and two technicians in an ambush near Tanjong Malim, wounding eight more.
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