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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1954
Page
10
Secretary of Labor James P Mitchell answers graduates concerns about entering a new world after college. He argues unemployment is not as dire as feared, cites March 1959 and 1954 figures, notes manufacturing and trade strength, and highlights military service as valuable training and personal identity in America.
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell cites wide job opportunities for graduates in 1950s sectors. Shortages persist in engineering natural sciences and health professions with defense work boosting demand for physicists chemists geologists and geophysicists while teaching and banking roles expand resumes.
A US Commerce survey shows Texas with a record 3.33 million motor vehicles registered in 1953, up 26 percent from 1952 and above the national 5.7 percent increase. Baytown’s motor vehicle office reports 17,842 registrations in 1954 as locals register locally to avoid Houston lines, says A B Collins.
La Porte city commission plans to pass an ordinance to issue 20000 refunding bonds for street work. The bonds bear 4 percent interest, paid semiannually, with repayment not increasing the tax rate as funds replace two recently laid off bond issues. Bond broker Ernest L. Brown explained the plan. he cannot attend the Thursday meeting. State attorney general approval pending.
La Porte Police Chief Walter Roberson announced a week of enforcement against overparking at meters. Officers Roberson and Kenneth Epperson will issue warnings before tickets, citing a $1 fine for overparking under the city’s honor system.
KGUL TV will salute La Porte with a city photograph and motto in a forthcoming salute noted by the La Porte city commission. Major Burgin urged the city hall image be used and the commission approved the plan. The well known La Porte motto Where Life Is Worth Living was adopted as the salute slogan. A Siberian temperature of minus 92F was logged at Derkhoyansk and 1356F at Azizia habiya.
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