Local Community Calendar Echoes Busy Week in Baytown
Bridge Club meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Community House with O. H. Dawson directing games. Lee College summer term registration runs 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. June 10 with classes starting June 13. Memorial Baptist youth present a drama Release at 8 p.m. Sunday. Barbers Hill Alumni Banquet set for June 4 at 3 p.m. in the school cafeteria. $2.50 per person. deadline May 30. Anahuac Legion Auxiliary hosts a box supper with entertainment. Buddy Poppy sale proceeds. Baytown Music Study Club meets 7:15 p.m. Tuesday at Velma Tharp’s home for final club year meeting. Redeemer Lutheran Church Kindergarten closes with a 7 p.m. program Wednesday. Registration for next year underway with local attendees. Beta Sigma Phi Lambda Chapter holds season-ending meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fellowship Hall.
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Barbers Hill
Anahuac
American Legion Auxiliary
Freeman South Post
Baytown Music Study Club
Velma Tharp
North Pruett
Redeemer ‘Lutheran Church
W. C. Kubic
PI Lambda
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Fellowship Hall
Wednesday Tides for Galveston
Galveston tides predict high water at 5 12 a m and 2 48 p m with low tides at 11 22 a m and 10 02 p m on Wednesday.
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Galveston
Local notes highlight June events and travels across community
Short items mention Pioneer Club banquet plans for June 4, a lecture by Dr. Sherman Shaffer on Russia, Sun Woman editor Bobby Sutphin as Beta Sigma Phi guest speaker, and family visits including Lufkin grandparents and European returnees. Also noted are lemonade serves, party calls, staff posts for the summer, theater scheduling, graduation trips to Europe, a Gulf Coast Hospital surgery update, and a bees relocation plea at 601% East Alford.
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Mark Froneberger
Lizette
Pioneer Club
Sherman Shaffer
Russia
Debbie Amir
Sun Woman
Bobby Sutphin
la Porte Beta Sigma Phi
T. W. Nelson
Lufkin
Gary Hill
Rel
Ralph
Myrteel Bozarth
Europe
Ann Comeaux
C. L. Woods
Burton Burrus Jr
Ridgecrest
Marie Fisher
Linda Pierce
Campobello
Jo Ann Wilburn
Carolyn Duttman
J. W. Shaw
Gulf Coast Hospital
V. K
Vic) Davis
East Alford
Davia Anid
Tidal Wave Toll Still On Mount
Japan bore the brunt of quake driven tidal waves crossing the Pacific from Chile. The toll across Japan, Hawaii, Okinawa and Chile rose to 526 dead and 898 missing with 50 million dollars in damage. Coastal flooding, wrecked villages, and shipping losses followed as warnings lagged behind the onrushing surge.
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Associated Press
Japan
Pacific
Chile
Hawaii
South Pacific
Paris
Tahiti
Philippines
Australia
New Zealand
Formosa
Weather Bureau
Tokyo
Yokohama
Tokyo Bay
Hogshu
Hilo
Hawaiian Island
Hawaiian Islands
No Tornado Damage Is Reported
No tornado damage was reported after alerts covered much of Texas on Monday night. A 3.48 inch rainfall drenched Beeville in Southwest Texas over six hours and a large hailstorm hit the sparsely settled range country north of Langtry near the Rio Grande. No damage was reported in the area while patrolmen and rangers noted two feet of hail near Early. Skies were cloudy in Central and Southwest Texas with 51 to 75 degrees across several cities and no rain early Tuesday.
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Associated
Texas
Beeville
Langtry
Rio Grande
San Angelo
Texas Rangers
Dalhart
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Laredo
Senate to Launch Bipartisan Inquiry on Spy Plane Incident
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to open a full bipartisan inquiry into the spy plane incident and the summit’s collapse. The inquiry begins Friday at 9:30 am EST with testimony from Secretary of State Christian A. Herter in closed sessions. edited transcripts will be released after security edits.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Christian A. Herter
Nine Americans Freed by Soviet Summit Fallout
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson urged calm inquiry into the Soviet summit collapse to preserve national unity. He said unity requires cool, objective treatment of facts, not masking unpleasant truths, amid heat from a Monday Senate explosion over accusations of appeasement by Kennedy and Stevenson. Kennedy denied being an appeaser and said he was quoted out of context regarding a possible presidential apology for the spy plane incident.
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Washington
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Adiai E. Stevenson
Kennedy
Portland
Ore
Eisenhower
Rel High School Graduation Honors Wide Scholarships
Baytown REL High School prepares Friday night commencement at Memorial Stadium with 516 graduates the largest in history. Valedictorian Mary Lee and Salutatorian Marlene Rushing receive state or church scholarships, Citizens National Bank awards 175 dollars to top two Lee College entrants, plus numerous honors from local groups. If rain, ceremony moves to REL auditorium with indoor tickets limited to four per graduate.
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Robert E. Lee
REL
Mary Lee
Marlene Rushing
Citizens National Bank
Lee College
American Assn. of University Women
Business and Professional Women
City Council of Parents and Teachers
Baytown Education Assn
Baytown Home Economics Assn
Kiwanis Club
Lions Club
Rotary Club
Jayceeettes
Lulac's
Sociedade Mutualista Miguel Hidalgo
Wooster Lions Club
Field-Franklin
R. B. Sparks
Mae Jarrett
Hazel Echols
Holly McLemore
George H. Gentry
Bobby Paulson
John Sylvester
Memorial Stadium
Eisenhower Meets Security Panel Ahead of Address
President Eisenhower convened the security council in a special session to discuss the forthcoming report to the nation on the summit conference collapse. Attending were Allen Dulles and Douglas Dillon, though neither is a formal council member. no decisions were announced.
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Washington
Elsenhower
Security Council
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Douglas Dillon
Dulles
Eisenhower
Four Baytown junior highs to issue diplomas in four-school ceremony
A combined commencement at Memorial Stadium will issue 611 diplomas Thursday night to ninth graders moving to senior high from Baytown Highlands Cedar Bayou and Horace Mann. M C Rushing leads arrangements. Dr Paul Hodge B P Hopper and A L Fred Tillery present diplomas. Processional by joint junior high bands, invocation by Robert Floyd, benediction by Rev Jimmy Gray.
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Baytown
Highlands
Cedar Bayou
Horace Mann
Memorial Stadium
Highlands Junior High
BJH
Elmer Hargis
E. W. Buelow
Singing of America
Robert Floyd
Missouri Street Church of Christ
Jimmy Gray
Baptist Temple
National debate urged on bipartisan summit failures
Republican Gov Nelson A Rocketeer calls for a national debate on why the summit failed, urging free of party politics. Dr James R Killian Jr warns against cynicism and urges America to stay militarily and economically strong despite sacrifice and hard work. A Steelworker discharged from mental hospital shoots wife and neighbor near Cooperstown Pennsylvania then flees with rifle prompting wide manhunt. Second Finch-Tregoff murder trial previews further court rulings on prejudice. Kentucky voters greeted by balmy weather as primaries lack luster. Investigators probe Convair 400 crash in Atlanta killing four airline employees. National Safety Council warns 373 may die on highways during Memorial Day weekend.
GOP Blocks Wage Law Session Over Senate Rules
A planned 9 a.m. session to consider a minimum wage bill was blocked by Republican Leader Everett M Dirksert of Illinois who objected to a committee meeting while the Senate was in session. Under Senate rules, unanimous consent is required for a committee to sit during sessions.
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Can Olons
Senate
Everett M Dirksert
Illinois
Wallisville Opponents Plot Course For Reservoir Fight
More than 200 residents gathered at Wallisville to oppose a proposed Army Corps reservoir and saltwater barrier. The group pressed for Fish and Wildlife Service briefing and questioned Houston city plans favoring a larger four-foot water level to meet future needs.
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Wallisville Land Owners Assn
Wallisville Reservoir
Trinity River
Wallisville
Galveston
Army
Army Engineers
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
the Wildlife Service
New Mexico
John Bradshaw
Houston
Cochairman
Steve Richards
Lewis Cutter
Richards
City of
Wallisvie
ILS
Fish and Wildlife Service
UN Debates New Summit Push on Soviet Espionage
Security Council discussions on Soviet spy charges against the United States moved toward a call for new Big Four talks. A Argentina, Ceylon, Ecuador and Tunisia sponsored a resolution urging resumption of discussions and continued disarmament talks, with the Soviet resolution likely to fall short of veto. France Britain and Argentina spoke as the council weighed next steps after Andrei Gromyko and Henry Cabot Lodge speeches.
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United Nations
N.Y
Security Council
United States
U.N
Argentina
Ceylon
Ecuador
Tunisia
U.S
France
Britain
Andrei Gromyko
Henry Cabot Lodge
Space satellite launcher boosts early warning defense
CAPE CANAVERAL AP The United States launched an experimental Midas spy satellite to orbit to provide nearly instant warning of a ballistic missile attack. NEW YORK AP Gov Leroy Collins of Florida was named chairman of the fourth coming Democratic National Convention and Sen Frank Church of Idaho was chosen keynote at the arrangements committee meeting.
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Cape Canaveral
Fix
United States
Midas
New York
Leroy Collins
Florida
Frank Church
Idaho
Eichmann to Face Trial in Israel for Nazi Crimes
JERUSALEM AP Israeli legal experts say the death penalty could be sought as Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi official responsible for the Holocaust, is to be tried in Israel. He was arrested after a 14 year hunt and arraigned in a Jaffa court with Premier Ben-Gurion stating he will be tried under Israel's Nazi war crimes law.
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Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Hitler
Israel
Jaffa
David Ben-Gurion
Eichmann
Heinrich Himmier
Gestapo
Australia
Switzerland
Las October
Middle East
West
Soviet force downs and release of C-47 aircraft incident
A Soviet protest in Berlin followed the forced down of a U.S. C-47 transport plane with eight airmen and a woman on a Copenhagen to Hamburg flight that crossed into East Germany. The Soviets agreed to turn over the crew and plane to U.S. command in Europe, while denying any plan to escalate the incident.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
U.S. Air Force
East Germany
West Germany
Warsaw Pact
Air Fstan -S. Air Force
Eght Air Force
Air Force
Clyde D. Eddleman
U.S. Army
Europe
Eddleman
LL Yakubovsky
ADN
Berlin
Yakubovsky
Eddieman
Cd7
Copenhagen
Denmark
Hamburg
Grundshagen
Soviet Union
Civil Defense Course Offered to Public in Goose Creek District
Baytown’s Civil Defense Department offers another 12 hour disaster survival course through the adult education program. Registration was distributed to Goose Creek School District students and must be returned by parents. The course, taught by Robert E. Lee instructors and Dr. Alvera Griffin, runs Tuesday and Thursday for three weeks in three time slots at Baytown area high schools.
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Baytown
Robert E. Lee
Alvera Griffin
Cours
George Weatherford
Carver High School
Perial
Beth Sae
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Duplicateridge Club
O. H. Dawson
Memorial Baptist
John, Carter
eLorge
Jim King
Lester Attord
John Holly
Moody Center
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
Queule
Santiago
Philippine
Sydney
Nrc
Ike
Nelson A. Rocketeer
James R. Killian Jr
Nation
Cooperstown
Pittsburgh
Finch- Tregoff
State Supreme Court
Kentucky
Atlanta
National Safety Council
GOP
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