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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1951
Page
2
Reported breakthrough as Reds push 20 miles into allied lines near Hongehon highway and Chunthon area under a massive air artillery barrage. An officer described attacking troops as relentless, indifferent to their own losses.
Cadet Banning, son of Mr and Mrs J Bo Nelson of Ws Adone, will receive a certificate at San Marcos commencement on March 25. The report mixes local schooling details with wartime battlefield updates, noting Red attacks near the Pukhan River and clashes around Changpyong and Seoul with American counterattacks and heavy enemy casualties.
The Second Armored Division, stationed at Fort Hood, will sail for Europe in late May. It will depart from ports at Fort Worth and Galveston and join General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atlantic Pact command.
Walter Casey, Baytown businessman and international traveler, urged full arming and troop training in Germany and Japan. He said the U S must face the first brunt of a new war and praised the Marshall Plan while criticizing its effects on European will to fight. He criticized the United Nations and noted limited international aid in Korea.
A compressed stock listings page lists major industrials and manufacturers such as Armco Steel American Can, Calumet and Hecla, Celanese, Chrysler, Cities Service, Con Edison, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, General Motors, Goodyear, Gulf Oil, Libby, Mack Trucks, Pure Oil, Packard Motors, U S Steel, Texaco, Tex Gulf, Tidewater, Woolworth, and many others. The page shows tickers and partial figures, reflecting a historical market snapshot.
Livestock at Fort Worth steady for cattle with good slaughter steers and heifers 30 to 34. Odd cows 92 to 27, cutters 16 to 23. Calves scarce. Hogs 300 head with butcher hogs steady to 23 lower than Thursday. Sows and pigs steady. Good to choice 190 to 260 pounds. Prices around 21 for heavier hogs, sows 15 to 17.
President Truman said he considered dismissing MacArthur for about a year before firing him on April 11 after the peace ultimatum to China. The Senate probe by the Armed Services Foreign Relations committee heats up as questions on Formosa policy and past discussions with MacArthur unfold, with key officials debated over the dismissal and national strategy in Asia. In Vietnam news, a French troop transport was hit by a fatal explosion at Nhatrang, killing five soldiers and injuring 1160 according to late reports.
Trustees of the Cedar Bayou Independent School District received lifetime courtesy certificates at a school cafeteria banquet. Forty two living former and current board members were acknowledged, with 21 attending, including Joe Kilgore who served 32 years. Akridge led the program with remarks, a band and choral program performed, and meals were prepared by Nona Hatchell’s class under H. A. Going.
Mr and Mrs Ostar Martin of La Porte welcomed a son yesterday at 5 40 PM at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. A daughter weighing seven pounds one ounce was born to Mr and Mrs Arthur Mick of 504 North Fourth at Baytown Hospital.
Radio Station KREL manager Bill Lightfoot was no-billed by the Harris County Grand Jury on a statutory rape charge. Houston police said a 15 year old girl hitchhiking alleged Lightfoot assaulted her between Smithville and Houston. The girl was later arrested at a Houston hotel and implicated Lightfoot.
HOUSTON JH L. L. Pugh, former Harris County schools superintendent and Texas educator, died yesterday one day after his 79th birthday. He led the county schools from 194 to 1914 and later supervised Texas rural schools for four years. A Parkersburg Illinois native.
Notice is given that on the 17th of April A. D. 1652 Letters Testamentary were granted in Harris County Texas for the estate of Mark W. Eakin deceased Cause No. 47. All persons having claims against the estate are required to file them within the time prescribed by law at the residence of the said Canine office post Dareth Nort Co. Mar 4-38-38 7.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a corporate leader from a gas company urging continued drive actions and negotiations. The text mentions a presidency, security at a facility, and potential increases in efforts or costs labeled as “drive.” Details are unclear due to garbled source material.
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