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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1949
Page
7
Residents prepare for the annual Texas Prison rodeo with events announced for Sunday through Wednesday October 19. Newsreel from Hollywood and NBC will be broadcast coast to coast. Inside the walls inmates rehearse for the big show as presses run overtime and the band tunes up for the performances.
Charles H. Golen urges strategic caution in canasta, detailing discard choices when an opponent nears going out. He analyzes melds, the value of keeping or throwing cards, and a partnership convention to request a partner complete a Canasta.
About 106 Beytown 18 year olds registered for the peace time draft during July and August per a release from Selective Service Local Board 63. The report also lists 13 men who registered after discharge from the armed forces and the board is seeking 17 others who failed to register. Names read include Bidee Lacina William Vines Follig A Lauderdale Charles R Williams Isaiah Lovejoy Grover E McDowell George Byrd Ernest J Phelps Milton President Leg Moore George S Glover Archie Mack Khay Joan M Brecheen Bobby Wayne Eick Archie C Bates Isaz Devis Jerald M Jackson.
In Cork Ireland on October 1 a battered surplus landing craft designed for under 100 soldiers carried 426 hungry refugees from Eastern Europe to the harbor after a grim North Sea crossing from Gothenburg Sweden. The crowd included 138 women and 100 children. bread tossed to them from the docks was snatched up as the refugees endured a five day voyage.
Redeemer Lutheran Church will observe its annual mission Sunday with special prayer offerings instruction and inspiration for mission activities Guest speaker Rev C E Kaspar of Houston will preach on The Scarcity of Harvesters in the White Fields Service begins at 10 30 am Adult Bible class led by Don Coyer Junior Bible class under Fred Clark and the pastor Children hear a lesson on Gods Loving Care Classes start at 9 30 am
Notice states that the partnership between B Morrow Ward and David M Maxwell of Bay Town Harris County dissolved by consent on September 6 1949. Maxwell to receive all debts and the partnership property to be settled. Name and date appear garbled but indicate dissolution and asset handling.
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