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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1955
Page
16
In Oklahoma City on May 17 officials announced no uranium in commercial quantities yet. The state passed a bill imposing a five percent gross production tax on any uranium mined locally. Separately, tourism in Berlin rose 30 percent in 1954 from the prior year, as America leads in visitor numbers.
New York historian Allan Nevins argues Jerediah Smith was the real king of the wild frontier, not Davy Crockett. Smith, a quiet brav e man who opened routes from the Mississippi to the Pacific, died 1831 at Cimarron River. Nevins contrasts Crockett and Boone's showmanship with Smiths frontier achievements.
In Myer Virginia the nation presented posthumous Congressional Medals of Honor to the families of two fallen heroes. First Lt Richard T. Shea Jr. of New Milford New Jersey and Pvt Charles H Barker of near Six Mile Creek South Carolina lost their lives in Korea in the summer of 1951.
In Austin on Wednesday six more Texas counties were approved for participation in the federal drouth emergency feed program. The counties named are Borden Gillespie Guadalupe Lampasas Llano and San Saba, increasing Texas’ total eligible counties to 122.
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