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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 27, 1950

Page

2

Community Chest Seeks Baytown Film Cast

Baytown Community Chest announces auditions for a film about Red Feather activities. Casting calls include a middle aged couple and family, a teen, a Boy Scout, two young girls, and a preschool child. Shoot starts next month. cameraman David Arnett returns for a third year. Call 5903 to audition.

Baytown Gaonth David ¥. Arnett Community Chest Happolinessind Security Ing Movie Robert L. Lynn W. O’hegan Ivera Berbert

Spry Great-Grandma Weds She's 'Dead In Love' With Groom

Warwick report says Alfreda Jencks a widow and twice divorced married William A Baker a 24 year old restaurant cook in a simple parsonage ceremony witnessed by her son and his wife. The bride, a mother of six with 22 grandchildren, flies to honeymoon while Baker plans to resume work at the restaurant tomorrow. They obtained a marriage license Friday and declared they were dead in love with each other.

Warwick Alfreda Jencks William A Baker Forest J. Persons Warwick Central Baptist Church Baker Leo Tor

Texas veteran learns cabinet making despite injuries

Ex GI Paul R Grant, blinded and missing both legs, trains at home in cabinet making in Tempts Texas as one of 300 World War II veterans pursuing new vocations under a postwar education program. He earns by selling furniture his neighbors bought, while others like Alonzo Bowers in Eldorado and James Redford in Fort Worth build businesses from home training.

Washington Paul R. Grant France Grant Titor Veterans Administration Eldorado Dinois Alonzo Q. Bowers Fort Worth Tess Redford Bas Richard Schwartz

Radio Schedule Fragment from KREL and HREL-Aired Evening Lineup

A scrambled listing shows KREL 1360 k.c. and HREL-FM programs for Monday evening through Tuesday afternoon. Items include a reve l e round-up with Deacon Sac of Deacon, Massey Motor Co. contact, Luncheon News, Movieland with East Texas Theaters, World of Songs, Musical Variety, and Drivers Safety Campaign.

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Safety Tape For Night Bicyclists By Refinery Workers

Baytown Jaycees distribute reflective Scotch Lite tape to Baytown youngsters to boost bicycle safety at night. The effort uses bright glow tape picked up by headlights and will continue at refinery gates with instruction sheets. About 1000 more bicycles can receive tape from remaining supply. Jaycees organizing include Cleon Exssley as chairman and George Spangler among others.

Baytown Seateh-Lite Cleon Exssley George Spangler R. O. Jobaron T. B. Cook Tito Zamora Bert Kegler Roy Dudley Bert Johnson Thad Fenneme Roy Johnson

Burglars Trapped At Four Corners

Burglars trapped at Four Corners after breaking in through a fan vent at a grocery store. They alerted owner J. C. Epps who identified stolen merchandise. Officers arrived as burglars broke in and they had no time to take items. no loss reported at the service station amid the incident.

J. C. Epps Jones

Good Old Days Myth Shows Workers Now Faring Better

New York dispatch reports a National Industrial Conference Board survey on purchasing power. It notes 1948 factory workers needed fewer hours to pay family bills than 1914 workers, despite higher prices and taxes. A 1914 wage earner would require 86 hours weekly at 1919 wages to buy the same goods.

New York National Industrial Conferencee Board

Stock Market Quote Roundup From Historic Exchange List

A dense OCR list presents stock symbols and company names across steel, oil, automotive, and tech sectors. It includes Con Edison Dow Chemical Du Pont Texaco Gulf Oil U.S. Steel General Electric General Motors Packard and more with scattered percent figures and ticker style codes.

Alleg Tard Steel Allis Chef Amerid Pet vArmes Steel Amer Woolens Amaconds Cop Beth Steel Budd Co Calumet and Hee Celanese Corp Chrysler Corp Cities Con Edison Creck Pet Davison Chem Dow Chem du Pont Chem _ Eastrman Kodak Gen Electrica Gen Motors Goodyear Greyhound Bus Gillette Saf Gulf of Gulf Stet Util Hdl and P Co Hous of Humble Oi Intl Nickel Intl Harv

City Clean Up Drive Starts With A Bang

City cleanup crews begin in the Perly area collecting household trash in a multi day effort. Trucks will then move to Goose Creek and Baytown areas, aiming to minimize backtracking and maximize use of donated vehicles. Grantham outlined phased pickups through Wednesday.

Farge Goose Creek Grantham Perly Baytown

Livestock Market Report Fort Worth March 27 Educed summary

Livestock market totals 2400 cattle slow with mixed demand. Slaughter cattle and yearlings 2100-2650. cows 1650-1900. canners 12.00-16.50. Sausage bulls 16.00-21.00. Stocker steers 20.00-27.00 with some 25.00-26.00 calves. Hogs higher on butcher hogs with most 16.50-16.75. feeder pigs 10.00-13.00. Load choice calves 2725 steers and 2625 heifers.

Fort Worth USDA

Storms Cause Deaths and Damage Across Mid West

Dust storms crippled travel as 75 mph winds lashed Kansas to Iowa. In Mississippi, an eight room house collapsed near Pops and a roof blew off several homes in Courtland and Grenada. Fatalities included Jack Stockstill and Mrs. Nore Shurtz in crashes blamed on zero visibility. Phillip Bell and Kenneth Bell died under a tree near Jackson City. Moscow remains Russia’s capital since 1918, with Petrograd now Leningrad in history notes.

Jack Stockstill Andrews Kansas South Dakota Minnesota-Iowa Jackson Massissippi Pops Mississippi Memphis Courtland Grenada Hansas City Missouri Jackson County

Union Agent Hails No-Strike Pact

A union agent hails a no strike pact with arbitration rules. If within 30 days of an anniversary a party refuses arbitration the matter goes to arbitration only with three-fourths approval from all signatories. If the union or employer association denies, three-fourths approval may still allow rejection. If no three-fourths approve, arbitration becomes mandatory.

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