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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1952
Page
2
Mrs J J Hill has been named Christmas seal chairman for the Highlands area. Announcement made Monday invites interested residents who have not received seals to contact Mrs Hill at 3-1281. People are asked to mail checks for seals to Houston Anti Tuberculosis League headquarters Post Office Box 2193 Houston.
Fort Worth livestock prices show cattle strong with higher bids on good fed steers and yearlings trading near 27.50 for top loads. Cows mostly 22.50 to 24.30. calves up 50 cents to a dollar with good and choice slaughter calves 12.18. Hogs steady to higher. sows firm with choice weights 16.75 to 17, light hogs 15.50 to 16.50, dearer than prior day. In Des Moines a woman frees herself after being locked in a bathroom by crawling through a window as a neighbor helps. Housekeeping tip suggests dusting lamp shades with a soft-bristled brush.
The Men’s Brotherhood of Cedar Bayou Methodist Church will host its annual Father and Son Banquet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Cedar Bayou school cafeteria. Cedar Bayou high football players and coaches plus their fathers attend with 51 squad members. Entertainment features LeRoy the ventriloquist, sponsored by Phenix Daily. Brotherhood president E C Orn says last year drew over 200. this year 215 to 250 expected. Johnny Jennings chairs the serving committee.
On the sick list are Mrs. Kenneth Hansen-Racliff Mrs. James Brown-Galena Park Mrs. Simmie Wersham-Orange Mrs. NF Blanseet-Cedar Be you Mrs. Frank Lambert-Houston Wilma Armstrong-Crosby Mrs. Elmer Goss-Mont Belvieu Mrs. Rupert Horn-141 Weed Mrs. Doyle Lanningham-Ernie Mrs. Royal Jeffsoat-Baytown.
Stork stops Wright Baytown friends of Mr and Mrs Millard Wright of Dallas receive announcements of the birth of daughter Mary Elizabeth last Wednesday in Methodist hospital Dallas. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs B R Wright of Baytown and Dr and Mrs J H Ray of Dallas. Great grandparents are Mr and Mrs John Scott of Dayton. JEPECOAT Me and Mrs Royal Jeffcoat of Baytown announce birth of a daughter Sunday at San Jacinto Memorial hospital. SHIRLEY Mr and Mrs Travis Shirley announce birth of baby daughter Teresa Ann born Saturday in San Jacinto Memorial hospital. Her grandparents are Mr and Mrs W H Hill Mr and Mrs E W Shirley Mrs C H Blakeney and Mr and Mrs J H Hill all of Baytown. On vacation La Porte City Clerk J B Muldon starts second week of vacationing Monday. He’ll return to work Dec 1. Acid soil and high moisture level is necessary for success with blueberry plants.
President elect Dwight Eisenhower plans a heavy schedule in New York including a UN headquarters visit and meetings with two potential cabinet picks Ezra Benson and John Wisdom. He will also meet Vice President elect Nixon and prepare for a secret Korea trip while Gen. Omar Bradley notes the visit would boost morale at home and in Korea.
Robert L. Fincher, 21, of La Porte transfers from Houston Veterans Hospital to Heinz Hospital in Chicago. He injured brain, kidney hemorrhage, and mangled limbs from a motorcycle crash on Highway 146 near La Porte that killed Alva Bass. Recovery expected in months with no permanent injury.
Johnny Holmes, Oak Addition Negro, faces a district court murder trial in Houston charged with killing Claudie Bee, his common law wife. Police Chief H E McKee and Patrolman R Hardy are among witnesses subpoenaed. Holmes says he shot her because she wasn t fighting.
Nina Mae Cannon 63 of Raytown died Sunday at home in Dayton. Funeral 4 pm Monday at First Baptist Dayton with Rev AL Jordan of Memorial Baptist Baytown officiating. Burial Magnolia Park. Survived by husband C E Cannon, two daughters B J Stoesser Dayton and Harold Barkley Baytown, and son Devid of Waco.
City government was practically headless as city officials attended separate duties. City Manager Middleton and Tax Assessor Hanratty were in Dallas for a League of Texas Municipalities convention while Finance Director Barber testified in a murder trial in Houston. Marine Pfc. Cleveland T. Freeman, 22, husband of Genoa Freeman, was honorably discharged after recruit training in San Diego and service with the Sixth Marines at Camp Lejeune.
Report highlights ingenious time and labor saving machinery used for digging tunnels on British railways. The boring is performed by powerful rotary teeth that excavate 25 feet of railroad sized tunnel per day, indicating rapid progress in tunnel construction technology. The article also lists a wide array of company names and stock references, reflecting industrial reach.
Hart urges the county to shell the Siolander Road with eight inches of material and notes neglect on adjacent Archer, Wallisville and Cedar Bayou Crosby roads. He argues two graders are insufficient and warns that repairs will be a long range, costly project.
The C-119 Flying Boxcar capable of 200 troops and 2000 miles without refueling carried Capt. Kenneth J. Duval of Vallejo California and Capt. Alger M. Cheney of Lubec Maine. The last plane carried cold weather survival gear as it traversed near freezing skies above an area where 8 people died in 45 crashes over 52 days in 185. A prior C-119 with 19 aboard crashed on Mt Silverthrone Nov 7, and another with 20 aboard disappeared Nov 15 en route Elmendorf to Kodiak. Air Force feared all aboard were killed after the fruitless search.
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