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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1950
Page
3
J. M. Speck seeks full details on Ottawa Drive-In Church plans as Canadian churches expand toward New Jersey. Rev. R. W. Armine of Ottawa aids information gathering to push the drive-in church concept across the border.
A fragmentary letter by Davy Crockett to Texas leadership, dated March 1, 1828, surfaced as part of a Washington observance exhibit for the sesquicentennial. The document, believed authentic, was found by curator Ulade Adair at the Texas rise Museum and tied to Crockett’s congressional service and tariff debates.
Mitzie Wright and Blargie Lamont, ages 27 and 33, faced indecent exposure charges after an early morning dance show at the 20th Century Eurles Gue house on the town’s outskirts. Mitzie claimed her hip shaking was decent as she prepared to testify in Houston.
In Madrid Fran Priege dreams of fame as his cat Angelina sports 10 inch wings that won’t let her fly. Crowds gather outside his basement apartment as police keep order amid managing curiosity. A photographer and doctors confirm the wings as a cartilage-like growth, while other city news covers a library clinic, campus suspensions, and a naval officer’s funeral.
Nine persons were killed in two election day guerilla raids in Southern Korea during the first self run election for the national Assembly. Eighty percent of the electorate voted for 219 seats with first returns expected tomorrow. Guerillas burned facilities, police killed several attackers, and UN observers watched from the border area and Senchong City.
Tom Shanahan a nine year old and his seven year old brother John handed their mother stock and bond papers worth 1000 dollars found on the street. Police traced the securities to Gustave Budinski a sixty two year old man who kept his papers in a fishing tackle box. Robbers had visited him over the weekend and had left behind 2200 dollars in cash.
Mrs J C Schmeadl notes social activity with Mr and Mrs B G Ridens and daughter Mary Ann visiting Dallas. Gary Kilpatrick, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Kilpatrick, to perform in a Houston violin recital at 3 p.m. Wednesday, playing works by De Falla Kreisler and Corelli. he studies with Josephine Boudreaux. Mrs I G Murrell and Mrs J Tanner of Freeport visited Mr and Mrs I T Stanford. 300 and four students credited in Abilene P.-N. tally?
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