Baytown traffic pivots to one way east on DeFee street
Baytown motorists face a new one way east pattern on DeFee from Pruett to Commerce effective Monday. Public notices note Baytown Demolays visiting Houston for the Tri Area Conclave, and DeMolays meet at Masonic Hall for transport. Citizens await police and civic schedules as local officials plan events.
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DeFee
Baytown
West DeFée
Pruett
Commerce
Houston
Robert H. Lee
Texas City
Masonic Hall
Local Life Notes Amid City Happenings in New Orleans and Nearby
Deborrah Ann Waldrop marks her second birthday in New Orleans while relatives in Houston Baytown and nearby towns are seen in casual scenes. Osteen hurries on errands as many residents mingle at ice cream counters and drive ins.
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Deborah Ann Waldrop
A. C. Waldrop Sr
New Orleans
Osteen
Georgia Pilgrim
Five Lehi Passengers Saved By Coast Guard
Monterey California UP Coast Guard cutter Active rescued five crew members from the raft Lehi forty four miles off the California coast after a Sunday night distress call. Skipper Devere Baker 39 and four crewmen were cold wet and weak but saved from a breaking raft in a severe Pacific storm that included a 20 foot wall of water. The men had planned to drift 2500 miles to Hawaii and subsist on fish and sea water until rescue. Baker asked to stay aboard the raft until dawn and preferred a tow into port to avoid salvage action.
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Monterey
Calif
Coast Guard
Cutler
Baker
California
San Francisco
Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Ocean
Devere Baker
Lehi, c
Salk Vaccine Distribution Committee Meets First
Washington papers report the President's National Polio Advisory Committee held its first meeting to draft quotas and priorities for national Salk vaccine distribution. Eleven members, appointed by Welfare Secretary Hobby, aim for tentative state quotas and priorities to be decided behind closed doors.
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Wassington
Oveta Culp Hobby
CIO
American Medical Association
Democrats Attack Eisenhower Farm Policy On Small Farmers
Democrats warned of a clash over farm price supports as the House prepared a three day debate. They accused the administration of trying to plow under small farmers by reducing loan funds and raising loan rates while promising more credit for low income farmers. The debate centers on replacing flexible supports with rigid, high guarantees amid uncertain outcomes.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Eisen
Hower
House
Road Cave-In Breaks Woman's Back at Morgan's Point
A Houston resident, 28 year old Mrs Krell, was seated by the water when an embankment slid and a road section caved in. She suffered a broken back and was taken by ambulance to Memorial hospital. The incident occurred Sunday afternoon as she watched her son wade nearby. Mrs Krell lives on Telephone Road and was out with family and friends.
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Houston
Morgan’s Point
W_ EB
Krell
Baytown officer killed in Docks gunfight during shift
Officer Charles Gougenheim, 59, fatally injured in a gunbattle with Manuel Smith, a berserk man who also killed city officer Jack Beets at a cafe before Gougenheim and Smith exchanged fire outside. Gougenheim had worked for Humble refinery since 1939 and Baytown docks as relief pumper.
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Charles Gougenheim
Baytown
Gougenheim
Manuel Smith
Smith
Jack B. Beets
Humble Company
Houston Terminal
Rotten Eggs For Tax Man In Lancaster
Mrs John Winkers aged 33 received a 20 day jail sentence after throwing rotten eggs at a tax assessor and refusing to pay a $50 fine in Lancaster Wisconsin.
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Lancaster
Wis
John Winkers
Bank official and abducted man die in car crash
In Kampsville Illinois a bank cashier Harry Waldheuser and his kidnapper were killed when their getaway car crashed while fleeing a posse. The other gunman Clifford Hubbard and Waldheuser’s wife survived with Mrs Waldheuser in critical condition. Wardheuser’s body bore two bullets suggesting he was killed before the crash.
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Kampsville
OPA
Harry Waldheuser
Waldheuser
Waldhouser
Thomas Underwood
Washington Park
Clifford Hubbard
St. Louis
Weldhouser
Carrollton
Ill
Underwood
Hubbard
Arrests total 118 in narcotics crackdown across five cities
Federal Narcotics Bureau in Dallas reports 118 arrests over a weekend crackdown on violators. At least 30 will face federal charges, six in Dallas, and others in Corpus Christi Laredo San Antonio Galveston Houston area. Raids net heroin and marijuana seizures, with Julio Almarez arraigned in Laredo on a $10,000 bond.
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United Priss
Ernest M. Gentry
Federal
Narcotics’ Bureau
Dallas
Gentry
Corpus Christi
Laredo
Sant’ Antonio
Galveston
Galveston-Houston
San Antonio
Webru
Hamburg crash destroys cow and a car on North Main
A cow and a car were wrecked in a collision on North Main Sunday evening. Driver Preston J. Jobe of Bay Town, on Route 1, was unharmed. The cow had wandered onto the highway from a pasture and died. the 191% model car was a total loss, according to State Patrolman Ed Gooting.
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North Main
Preston J. Jobe
Rte. 1
Baytown
Ed Gooting
Woman And Son Hurt When Car Steering Fails
A McNair woman Lillian J Henderson 35 and her 18 month old son Billy Ray Henderson sustained minor injuries Sunday after the steering sector of their car detached and the vehicle veered into a ditch at Thompson road and the McNair cut-off. The baby suffered a severe head cut while four other passengers were uninjured. State Highway Patrolman Ed Gooding investigated.
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McNair
Thompson Road
Lillian J. Henderson
Billy Ray Henderson
Ed Gooding
Peace Treaty Is Aim at Austria Parley in Vienna
Envoys from the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Austria met in Vienna to draft an Austria state treaty ending a decade of occupation. If an early accord is reached, the treaty could be signed in mid May, erasing four power zones and making Austria neutral and sovereign. Security surrounded the four power council building as 400 police and detectives kept crowds back and American troops guarded the interior.
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Vienna
United States
Russia
France
Britain
Austria
Inienna
Europe
Julius Raab
John Foster Harold MacMillan
Antoine Kay
Racheslav Molotov
Allied Council
Stalin Square
Kep
Confidence Unshaken Losses Rise After Polio Shot
A second child died after receiving the Salk polio vaccine as mass inoculations continue. Janet Lee Kincaid of Moscow Idaho died after a shot given April 18 or 19, with partial paralysis earlier. another Idaho child, Susan Pierce of Pocatello, died last week. Cutter Laboratories vaccine linked to most cases and a temporary ban remains. Idaho authorities report improved conditions in some cases while California and Vermont pause or adjust vaccination efforts.
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United Press
Janet Lee Kincaid
Moscow
Idaho
Janet Lee
St. Luke's Hospital
Spokane
Wash
Susan Pierce
Pocatello
Cutter Laboratories
Berkley
Calif
California
Air National Guard
Boise
Lewiston
Benny Gale Pound
Ahsahka
Malcolm Merrill
Vermont
Police Probe Decker Incident Negro Hurt by Passing Motorist
Police rush to Decker Drive to aid a reportedly drunk Negro, Ventrese McCreni¢, 35, of Barrett Settlement, struck by a car while staggering along the road. Witnesses say he waved a whisky bottle and shouted as a driver fled, leaving him badly injured and later treated at San Jacinto Memorial, then Houston hospital. Officers seek the driver to verify accounts and determine responsibility.
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Rosalie Myers
Statt
Western Police
Decker Drive
Stata
Ed Gooding
Hay Turner
Ventrese McCreni
Barrett Settlement
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Houston
Gooding
Sncident
Ford
Baytown
Afrhart
State Department of Public Safety
Austin
City Lmlts
Turney
REL Band Tops Records In Galena Contest
Robert E. Lee band students topped all records at the Regional Five solo and ensemble contest in Galena Park. The group earned 17 firsts in solos and eight in ensembles under director J. C. Burkett, with top soloists listed and multiple ensemble winners among Horace Mann and Baytown Junior High participants.
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REL
Galena
Cop
Robert E. Lee
Galena Park
J. C. Burkett
Gayle Robichaux
Judy Enderll
Glenda Williams
Nada Eberling
Bettie Marie Wilson
Stephen Linscott
Don Miler
Eddie Thompson
Greeh
Corinne Stout
Regina Gonzales
Jack Taylor
Pearce Watts
Nancy Semanuel
Virginia Wolcik
Richard Duarte
BH Frazier
Bilely Bridges
Edwin Mason
Robert Dippel
Danny Baker
Francea Oliver
Charlie Frogeh
Tommy Holmes
Horace Mann
Salon
Patty Taylor
Ann Parisher
Mollie Singleton
Lanny King
Baytown Junior High
Nanene Hall
Mary Killgore
Priscilla Arnold
Sharon Meyers
Carol Hil
Tina Esquivel
Carolyn Pattilo
Demos Seek Bread For Unemployed People
Democrats push to force the Agriculture Department to donate surplus government wheat for free bread to the unemployed. Representative Poage says a House bill would compel action, with Ezra Benson or True Morse to testify at a Monday committee hearing. The move precedes a clash over the administration’s price support program.
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Washington
Eisenhower
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
House Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
True D. Morse
Poage
Benson
Benson Or Morse
Battle Rages in Saigon Amid Viet Nam Turmoil
Heavy fighting erupts in Saigon between government troops and rebels as Diem launches counterattack against Binh Xuyen positions. Bao Dai denounces the military junta and vows to return home from the French Riviera. Col lins arrives from Washington amid uncertainty over American support for a revolutionary committee.
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Indo-China
Viet Nam
Moncayan
Bao Dai
French Riviera
Ngo Dinh
Diem
Hinh Xuyen
Eisenhower
J. Lawton Collins
Washington
Binh Xuyen
Cholon
Salon
France Soir
Paris
Viets Nam
Rae Pik
France
Sa.j
Mercury Hits 88 Tying Hottest Day This Year
Sunday proved among the year’s hottest with the thermometer reaching 88, tying a record set on March 26. Temperatures dropped to 8 Sunday night and rose again to 7 by 9 am Monday, with forecasters warning of more heat expected Tuesday.
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Wong
Wald
Mercury
Harris Child Has Polio After Shot in Harris County
In Houston a second Harris county child who received the first Salk vaccine shot on April 19 was admitted with non paralytic polio. Thomas Poehl, 9, and Harold Hilshire, 7, both in satisfactory condition, had taken the Eli Lilly manufactured vaccine with about 57,000 county students. Dr. Fred K. Laurentz called the cases a matter of averages.
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Houston
Harris County
Thomas Poehl
St. Joseph's Hospital
Harold Hilshire
Southwest Respiratory Center
Eli Lilly & Co
Fred K. Laurentz
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