Front Pushes Across Texas After Severe Storms
Dismal fog over Texas as a double barreled cold front swept Friday causing tornadoes hail and thundershowers with widespread damage. A Pacific Northwest front was due Saturday night pushing across Texas Sunday with more thunderstorm activity and possible twisters. Damages from dozen plus tornadoes injured at least 16 people and reached millions.
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United Press
Texas
Pacific Northwest
Robert Blancaster
Amon Cartertween Fort Worth
Dallas
Imva
Midwest
Abilene
Olney
Clyde
Lenville
San Augus
Not Hard To Count Votes For Trustees
Baytown area voters stayed away from the polls Saturday morning in the school district trustee elections due to lack of opposition and unpredictable weather. Only incumbents Edna Grey and J. L. Kellogg had announced. early tallies from six large voting districts showed about 45 ballots cast by 10 a.m. with seven votes reported at each of Box 99 Thad Felton, Box 100 Wilkenfeld, and Box 149 Sandacutto school.
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Baytown Area
Edna Grey
J. L. Kellogg
Thad Felton
Wilkenfeld’s
Sandacutto School
Sea
Sergeant Says He Ordered Stevens Photo At Base
An Air Force staff sergeant testified the famous Stevens photo at McGuire Air Force Base was taken under his direction as part of public relations work. He said he asked the photographer to take the picture and did not hear anyone say they wanted a photo with Stevens. The image, tied to Army Secretary Stevens and Schine in McCarthy hearings, had earlier been shortened to feature only Stevens and Schine.
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Washington
Air Force
Army
Robert T. Stevens
McGuire Air Force Base
New Jersey
Herbert R. Manchester
United Press
Stev
Ens
David Schine
Joseph BR. McCarthy
Jack T. Bradley
McGuire Base
Francis P. Carrs McCarthy
Stevens
Schine
McCarthy
Steans
Hoy M. Cohn
Subcommittee
Dix
W. J
Manchester
Lea McCarthy
Government Operations Committee
Deer Park Teachers Get $300 Across the Board Pay Rise
Deer Park teachers receive a $300 across the board raise for next school year. The minimum salary for teachers with bachelor degrees becomes 3,606 dollars and the maximum reaches 4,400 dollars. Eagle Scouts Meet in East Harris County discuss forming an Eagle Scout service organization at Grace Methodist church Scout house. Allan Withite Troop 93 Scoutmaster says the idea has been under discussion for some time. Boy Scout Troop 43 Cedar Bayou to hold a barbecue on May 25 to raise funds to convert an old gate into a Semaphore house for the troop. Tickets are 1 for children and 1.50 for adults, available from troop members and committee. Scouts also selling magazine subscriptions to finance the project. Wilburn to Fort Worth Theo Wilburn Harris County Soil Conservation district chairman attended a conservation group banquet in the Texas Hotel. Top prize of 1,000 dollars goes to the Dalworth Soil Conservation district for leading Texas 168 soil conservation districts. Continued on Page Two
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Deer Park
Harris County
Grace Methodist Church
Allan Withite
Troop
Cedar Bayou
McCarthy Dworshak feud deepens during Army inquiry
Washington May 1 UP Senator Joseph R McCarthy and Senator Henry C Dworshak have a serious falling out over the Army McCarthy inquiry. Dworshak sits on the investigating subcommittee in place of McCarthy and both exchange sharp remarks as the feud intensifies.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Henry C. Dworshak
McCarthy
Dworshak
Senate
Pvt
G. David 3Chine
Ana
McCarthy Calls Hearings Aids Yet Waste Of Time
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy criticized the Army hearings as a fiasco that disgusts ordinary Americans yet said he does not want them halted. He blamed Pentagon civilians and spoke on arrival in Milwaukee before heading to Burlington for a May Day celebration.
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Milwaukee
Joseph R. McCarthy
Army
McCarthy
Burlington
Wis
Wisconsin Republican
Pentagon
Congressional Roundup on TH Revisions Battle
Senate Republicans plan amendments to the Taft-Hartley revision to block a Democratic bid to derail the measure. Democrats urge sending the bill back to committee while Republicans seek to win southern Democrats and add state labor-relations power and secret union strike vote provisions.
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Ted Lewis JR
Washington
Senate
Republicans
Sen
Ate
Barry M. Goldwater Mariza
Istic
Wiliam A. Purtell
Rconn
GOP
Sea Congress
Dulles engages in secret talks to break Korea deadlock
In Geneva on May 1 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Red China’s Chou En-lai met face to face for the first time in a secret session with Western and Communist bloc ministers. The talks at the palace of nations included representatives from 16 nations and followed a week of general debate. No press briefing was held after the meeting.
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Joseph W. Grigg
Geneva
Switzerland
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Red China
Chou En-Laa
Faer
Sanuday
Korea
United States
Great Britain
France
South Korea
Debstexpad
Palace of Nations
Lex Molotov
Principal’s home pelted after student discipline case
Baytown police investigated vandalism at Assistant Principal Holly McLemore’s home on Wright Boulevard after seven students were disciplined in a Friday incident at Robert E. Lee High School. Five projectiles hit near a dining room window as neighbors heard shouting. Police followed several leads, and a whiskered man linked to a separate attempted abduction was reported missing.
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Baytown
Holly McLemore
Wright Boulevard
McLemore
Robert I. Lee
McLeémore
Robert 2. Welag
Brownwood
Kelley
Robert Lee
H. E. McKee
San Jacinto Elementary School
18th Parallel May Be Line Of Truce In Indo China War
From Hanoi on May 1 French Union forces reportedly clear Communist pockets along the 18th parallel and may set up a tentative demarcation line. Dien Bien Phu siege enters day 50 as Gen. Cogny's spokesman says the situation remains serious but not dramatic, despite alarmist French press reports.
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Hanoi
Indo-China
Dien Bien Phu
Rene Cogny
Alaroint
Ben
Christian Beastries
de Castries
Cogny
Traffic Officers On Alert In La Porte
Drivers in La Porte face heightened enforcement as police monitor speeding and parking. Police Chief Walter Roberson reports issuing many tickets to theatre-goers blocking the Fourth Street site near the Part theatre despite visible No Parking signs, creating bottlenecks in a fire zone. Conrade Jake Bussey says he is patrolling church zones for strict compliance.
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la Porte
Walter Roberson
Weet
Fourth Street
Part Theatre
Conrade
Jake Bussey
Chemist Injured In Two Car Crash Night Collision
A two car crash on Tucker street left a chemist injured and two other men hurt. Lonnie W. Vernon 91 sustained arm chest and abdominal injuries with no skull fracture. Lorey Brunson 31 of Baytown head injuries and facial lacerations. Grady Tont 35 Baytown reported with a broken right hip and facial and arm lacerations. Brunson was treated at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital and later discharged, while Tont received care at Duke Hospital.
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Bay
Ehérnlat
Jean
Certeat
Lonnie W. Vernon
Berry
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
LoRey Brunson
Baytown
Baytown Hospital
Peres
Death of Cedar Bayou tax collector Moyers ends 22-year service
Floyd Marvin Moyers 53, longtime Cedar Bayou Independent School tax assessor and collector, died suddenly at home after a heart attack. He served 22 years before district consolidation and continued with Baytown district as tax department assistant. He was active in Odd Fellows and Cedar Bayou Methodist Church, survived by wife Amy, two daughters, a son, and several relatives. Funeral set for Sunday at Cedar Bayou Methodist Church with burial in Cedar Creek Cemetery.
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Floyd Marvin Moyers
Cedar Bayou
Selael Piatrick
Baytown
Auddenly
Masacy-Tompkins Road
Codie Bayou Methodist Church
Cedarcreat Cemetery
Paul A. Lee
Moyers
Nolan County
Colleelor
RA Ray
Odd Fellowsa Wxige
Gedar Bay
Justice of the Peace Tierlein Seeks Re Election
Roscoe Zierlein announced Saturday his candidacy for re election as justice of the peace in the county. He filed by mail and stated the Democratic primary deadline is Monday. The announcement calls for county officers to run in this area.
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Justice of the Paare
Roscoe Zierlein
Rerlain
Justice of the Peace War
Jask of Conty
Greece tremors rock Thessaly as villagers mourn dead
In central Greece a fresh series of tremors followed a deadly quake that killed 11, left hundreds homeless. The Athens Observatory recorded 39 shocks in Thessaly Friday night and Saturday as rescue workers moved the dead and injured. Navy aid arrived, and villagers told of omens as nearly 70 houses were destroyed and thousands were left homeless.
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George Androulikades
Thens
Greece
Inast JT
Athens Observatory
Thessaly
Sik
Rexoe
Soviet Unveils Giant Jet Bomber at May Day Parade
Moscow May Day display featured a four jet swept wing transcontinental bomber capable of delivering atomic and hydrogen weapons. The unveiling came as Premier Enkov warned of retaliation to any attack, with foreign observers impressed by the new aircraft alongside other swept wing and twin jet bombers.
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Kenneth Brodney
Moscow
Soviet Union
Re Square
Alsg
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