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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1950
Page
5
Baytown resident Mrs. Elmer Gray announces her candidacy for a Goose Creek Independent School District board seat. She emphasizes serving all students, highlights PTA work, real estate and oil interests, and notes no plans for major system changes.
Washington lawmakers unveil a $150 million program to help cities finance modern wholesale markets for perishables. The plan, led by Harold D. Cooley, would provide $100 million for mortgage insurance and $30 million in direct loans, covering up to 45 percent of project costs over 40 years. The aim is to cut consumer food costs by speeding and cheapening distribution in large cities.
Mrs Welle Kateman of Riverside California a former Texan seeks return of 20 sections valued at 310 000 000 and eight years rent 27000 annually. Kent County Court took the land July 2 1941 while she was deemed of unsound mind. Land later restored to sound mind October 4 1948. Suit filed asking nullification of sale while she was legally incompetent. Property lies in Kent County near a newly found oil field in Scurry County.
International Harvester refuses to resume talks to avert a 40 000 worker strike across 11 plants. Farm Equipment Workers Union plans a strike by next Tuesday midnight if a satisfactory offer is not made, citing unauthorized stoppages at Richmond Indiana and Louisville plants. Richmond workers have returned to work. Union leaders warn the walkout could affect Chicago and multiple Illinois and other city plants including Rock Island East Moline Canton Rock Falls Aubur n Louisville and New York.
Rufus Glover an 18 year old boy despondent over an attempted robbery charge shot himself at his home in Houston. Found by his mother Lydia Glover the youth lay across a bed in a small apartment behind the Glover home after a single shotgun blast to the head. Glover had been arrested April 22 on a warrant from Rusk County for attempting to rob a grocer with a toy pistol.
Holland, 28, a former Norfolk pollman, married Mary Lée Jones Ott, 27, in a quiet civil ceremony yesterday. He had been acquitted days earlier of the 1988 killing of Als bride’s first husband, for which he previously faced a life sentence, claiming he had been misled in the case.
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