New Floods Hit Tampico
Tampico, Mexico endures renewed floods as the Panuco and Tamesi rivers rise after Janet’s assault. U S Navy relief camps rush supplies while 16 aircraft airlift aid to the hard hit area. About 36,000 residents are homeless, sheltering in schools and churches as relief teams assess further flood risk.
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United States’ Navy
Miles
Navy
Tampico
Saipan
Pensacola
Fla
Mexican Gulf Coast States
Janet
Tampica
Panuco
Tamesi
New Heights
U.S. Fourth Army
San Antonio
Tex
Mic.quillen
Air Force
U.S. Navy
Frasier to go on trial for alleged land sale scheme
Georgetown Texas report states C B Frasier prepared to plead innocent Monday to charges he induced a Black man to buy land the state believed had been allocated to him. In separate item, two military aircraft collided northwest of Heht with five aboard likely, only one survivor reported by spokesmen.
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Georgetown
Tex
Lh— C. BP
Frasier
Lgovingson
Nlm
Here
Sun Spots DP Fund Drive In Deer Park Events
Community notices detail a volunteer fire department fund drive door to door in Deer Park at 6230 p.m. under Chief Frank Schindler with a $401 quota. Optimist Club meets at 7 p.m. at the Tower. District 26 official Da fed Daceff to attend both meetings. Dr. Sherman Shaffer from Baytown refinery to speak at dinner.
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Deer Park
Heise-Tohouse
United Fund
Frank Schindler
Seer Park
Optimist
Optimist Club
Pam
Tower
da Fef Daceff
District 26
Sherman Shaffer
Baytown
Around Town Notes From a Local Paper Boom
LOYS BON fixes a war horn only to find it blows fty own ace cord. Dorothy Powell promising a swallow of her Coke but never produces the real stuff. Mary Y Braden down from Big H for her monthly stint of hook keeping. Harry Hartman is among the missing on company business. Dean Schwartz over here from Pasadena on a bit of theater business. The Jack Furbees back from a vacation jaunt to West Virginia and Ohio reporting a nice trip. George Bays back to work for Uncle John after a Florida vacation with some fishing. Darwin Middleton visiting downtown. Faye Farrar almost elected cheerleader at Alabama in her freshman year. Jerry is hanging nicely with his brother. Lowell Lammers reports Tean is getting along with her mess. Wally Bond from Houston to see the Ganders perform. Dr George Bruce out early tending to hospital chores.
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Loys Bon
Dorothy Powell
Mary Y. Braden
Big H
Harry
Hartman
Dean Schwartz
Pasadena
Jack Furbees
West
Weather Spins A Busy Weekend Across Texas
The northwest region of Texas saw heavy downpours and floods with eight inch rain totals in Yoakum county. Shower activity spread along a line north of Gainesville to El Paso, with five inch totals west and southwest of Wichita Falls. A surge of moist air triggered new showers Monday as a cool front moved through, bringing localized rainfall including two inches near Wichita Falls.
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Unithd
Texas
Eartier
Gainesville
Mineral Wells
el Paso
Lamesa
Yoakum County
Wife Protects Mate Shoots Him Herself in Houston
A 33 year old Houston housewife, Clara Mae McNeal, took her husband Arthur’s pistol to keep him from trouble and shot him after he left for a tavern. She told officers he was in a nasty mood and drew a knife, then she fired. She was charged with murder before Justice of the Peace W. C. Ragan.
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Houston
Clara Mae McNeal
Mrs. McZeal
Two Cars Stolen From San Jacinto Hospital
Baytown police linked two weekend car thefts at San Jacinto Hospital to pranksters. Both vehicles were recovered in good condition, one missing Friday near the Baytown La Porte tunnel, the other taken between 6:20 and 7 p.m. Saturday and found abandoned on Labit Street Sunday morning.
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Baytown
San Jacinto Hospital
Baytown-La Porte
Labit
San Ja
President Eisenhower Doctors Probe Fatigue Cause
Denver dispatch reports President Eisenhower's doctors conducted a thorough examination Monday after he experienced unusual tiredness Sunday night. Officials noted stable vitals and that he slept well, though the fatigue prompted questions about underlying heart progress during his recovery from a coronary thrombosis.
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Heart
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
Supreme Court Opens 165th Year of Justice
The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren and eight associate justices, opened its 165th year in the marble courtroom near the Capitol. At 10 a.m. a hush fell as officials and visitors attended, while the court crier recited the familiar call to attention.
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Ashington
Earl Warren
Supreme Court
Capitol
George E. Hutchinson
Ovex
Ovez
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Kanady Freed Prisoner Returns Home In Illness
Kanady, a 36 year old Texas cotton broker and former prisoner of Communist China since April 1951, arrived in Houston and was admitted to Methodist hospital for a physical checkup and psychiatric care. His brother and Dr. E A Cox said he spent long years in solitary, living in his own world, and he seemed unaware Ike is president, confusing Eisenhower with Truman.
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Houston
Dijimus’ T
Kanady
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
General Eisenhower
William Kanady
Texas
Truman
Ike
China
William
E. A. Cox
Wichita
San Francisco
Mr. and
Talbert T. Kanady
Charles
John H. Crumb
Ers
Fall Weather Holds Tree Magnets
Fall is here but you couldn't tell it by the weather. Sunday and Monday saw temperatures rise with a 54 degree reading at 10 AM. Forecast calls for slight drops over the next two or three days.
French Leaders Postpone Moscow Visit Because Algerian Issue
Paris reports Premier Edgar Faure and Foreign Minister Pinay postponed plans to visit Moscow due to Russia’s stance on Algeria at the United Nations. The postponement follows France’s walkout from the UN and rising North African violence.
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Moscow
Paris
France
Soviet
Russia
Edgar Faure
Anisine Pinay
Premier Faure
Pinay
United Nations
UNN
General Assembly
Assembly
New York
North Africa
Faure
Pie
French National Assembly
Geneva
Morocco
Algeria
Soviet Union
Pierre Mendes-France
Middle East
Egypt
French
Arica
Tide Time Calculations for Galveston Bays
Fishermen learn to adjust official tide times for Galveston and Trinity bays with a practical table. It lists offsets for locations such as Galveston South Jetties, Morgan's Point, Port Bolivar, and Anahuac Round Point, giving plus or minus hours for high and low tides to avoid misjudging water levels.
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Galveston
Trinity Bays
Baytown Sun
20Th Street
Morgan's Point
Ship Channel
Baytown
Galveston South
Sin Lals Pass
Mxas City
Freeport
Carankansa
West Bay
Port Bolivar
Tolar Reef
Graveston Bay
Hannah's Reef
East Bay
Offats Bayou
Ada
Smith's Point
Sa Leon
Round Point
Anahuac
China Hints At Blackmail At Geneva Talks
Peiping's Peoples Daily and Peiping radio say the United States must meet Communist demands to expand Geneva negotiations if it wants to recover all American civilians held by Beijing. The broadcast accuses U S stall tactics and cites stalled UN trade embargo talks. Thirty-one civilians remain. 41 have crossed the border. 26 more are unaccounted.
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Tokyo
China
United States
Geneva
Peiping
Peiping Peoples Daily
Observer
U. 58
United Nations
Bet Chine Oar
Chou En Lai
John Foster Dulles
Peron Flees to Paraguay After Exile Move
Former Argentine dictator Juan Perón, labeled mentally unbalanced by officials, flies to Asunción, Paraguay, aboard an amphibian plane escorted by Argentine fighters. He leaves behind suits and memories of a 12 year rule as he eyes exile amid reports of wealth transfers and a controversial return.
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Peron
Paraguay
Buenos Aires
Dionday
Larceny
Justin
Jian
Paron
Argentina
Asuncion
Pam
Cordoba
Adm
Alberto Teissire
Edouardo Vonardi
Con
Sguoted
Tellaire
Fair Time Near Barbecue Today at Baytown Fairgrounds
Big parade Wednesday and a barbecue supper sponsored by Robert E. Techébter of the Future Farmers of America from 4 to 8 pm at the National Guard Armory Baytown Fairgrounds. Tickets are $1.50 with proceeds to the Baytown Fair Educational Tour fund aiding top point winners to tour educational sites in December. Chamber of Commerce board will meet after a 6 pm supper to finalize fair plans.
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Robert E. Techébter
Future Farmers of America
National Guard
Baytown Fairgrounds
Baytown
Chamber of Commerce
Arimory
Welson’ McElroy
Avitha
Bob Feinber
Joe Ware
Advanced Rodeo
R.T. Kerr
Mlcl Bray
Washburn Trial Moving To Waco
SAN ANGELO Tex Murder suspect Harry J Washburn charged with killing Mrs Yelen Har by fixing a bomb under her car to explode when she started the Starter will likely be moved Monday to Waco Sheriff Cecil Turner says Washburn will be taken there for trial The case involved a San Angelo wealthy ranchwoman and society matron killed Jan 19 Attorneys failed to select a jury prompting Judge Joe L Mays to transfer the case to the Fifth District Criminal Court in Waco on a change of venue
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San Angelo
Tex
Harry J. Washburn
Waco
Cecil Turner
Washburn
Yelen Har
Yanchwonan and Society
Goodwill helps polio victim learn to earn living in Baytown
Bertha James of Channelview, aged 22, uses on the job training and wages at the Houston Goodwill plant thanks to Baytown contributions of clothing furniture and appliances. Her typing shorthand and bookkeeping skills grow as she works as secretary receptionist. Baytown Goodwill office at Miriam and Morning operates weekly residential pickups by calling 6965.
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Baytown
Bertha James
Woodhue
Channelview
Goodwill Industries
Miss James
Houston
Goodwill
America
Army of Working Women
Bertha
Goodwill ” Industries
Miriam and
Morning
Poll Tax Sale Opens in Baytown as Collins Hopes Rise
A 1956 poll tax sale began in Baytown with A B Collins stating a large increase expected in taxed voters for Harris county. He noted 16 182 paid in 1945 and predicted a record 400 000 statewide. Tax receipts remain 8 50 and valid for all elections that year. Receipts available at 302 West DeFee until January.
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Baytown
A. B. Collins
Harris County
Bayloven
Collins
Citigen
Woot
West DeFee
Burglars Set Fire Destroying C. E. King High School
A burglary left only $1 in a crippled children's collection box before a fire started about 5 a.m. Sunday at C. E. King High School, destroying a 10 room wing. The Houston arson squad ruled the blaze as arson. Firefighters' efforts and water supply helped control the fire. the independent school district tallied damage around $100,000.
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Houston
C. E. King High
Harry Foster
Red Moat Park
Flonston
Charles N. Bighan
Independent
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Wil End
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Mark AM. Carter
Monachy
Nori, Jones
Dithman
State of Texas
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Betty Dean Benedicto
Robert’ Marcus
Ruth Berg
Mirs Loma
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Merriwan “Smitte
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Boston
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White
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Crumb
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Alexander Anikine
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Viga
Owens
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