Highlands residents clash over garbage disposal plan
Local Rotary members and Highlands businessmen face strong opposition as a sanitation program faces uncertain fate. A survey finds eight of ten residents oppose disposal, while club leaders debate whether a petition means actual implementation or only an election. Some see added water charges as a political move. others demand a democratic vote.
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Rosalie Myers
George Prentice Anghlands
Yederstancine
Direethe Highlands Rotary Ciub
Ity
Highlands
Rotary
Ray Marlin
B and C
Rotary Board
Harris County ‘Water Centre
Edith Young
Hohl
Water Board
NEWS In Brief from state fair and Houston incidents
The brief item highlights about 175000 people fed at a Texas state fair opening. It also covers a Houston murder-suicide where a man killed his wife and stepson before shooting himself in a rooming house. Additional notes mention a university applauding conduct, a young operator's attempted murder plot, a church relocation, and street construction plans affecting storm sewers.
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Eustox
Pioneers To Attend Club Banquet And Tour
Humble Pioneers plan a dinner at Lee High School cafeteria Saturday at 2P M. After the dinner guests will proceed to the Community House for a program. President Barkey Ward will introduce the club and Boullion will present six prizes at 825 each.
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Lee High School
Boullion
Rherom Community House
Buster
Barkey Ward
Around Town Notes On Peace and Local Events
Local column highlights scattered chatter about a teacher and students in Houston, a launderette owner, a bachelor trend, and a capitol visit. Mentions of Bond styles, Brooklyn and Corpus Christi events, and a New Orleans connection appear amid fragmented town news and social notes.
Poll tax sales begin early at Baytown fair
Harris County Tax Collector Carl Smith promotes early poll tax receipts at the Baytown fair to enable voting in November. Receipts cost $3 and are available at the county tax office, with deputies distributing them after January 1. Smith encourages voters to be ready for 1953 and emphasizes early purchase.
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Baytown
Harris County
Carl Smith
Autek
Bagtown
Gene Bauer
Gene
Smith
DeFee and Gaillard
Ex Con Charged With Robbing Cubans In Fort Worth
Fort Worth police charge Orville Lindsey Chambless a 35 year old ex convict with robbery by assault in a case where two Cuban counter revolutionists claim $240000 in gun running money was stolen. Victims Candia De La Torre and Manuel Fernandez Madariaga initially reported $8000 but later admitted the full sum. Police say the men were in the United States to buy guns and ammunition to aid Batista. Detectives say the two admitted being agents of deposed Cuban government. A Fort Worth used car salesman labeled a contact man is linked to the case and had been to Mexico recently.
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Orville
Lindsey Chambless
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Roy Bergman
Chambless
Bergman
McAlister Penitentiary
Candida de la Torre
Manuel Fernandez Madariaga
Magariaga
de la Torre
United States
Fulgencio Batista
FSI
Washington
Mexico
Shamrock Hotel
Houston
A. C. Howerton
Black Market in Babies Exposed in San Antonio
San Antonio officials accuse a large scale infant black market. Calvin Dodds calls a joint welfare conference to plot state wide action. Weak adoption laws blamed as reporters describe exchanges for hundreds of dollars and a so called special attorney.
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Texas
Calvin Dodds
Robert L. Armor
Texas Mission Training Home
Dodds
Texas Department of ‘Public Welfare
What Are Election Issues series begins in The Sun
The Sun launches a six part series by Paul Martin detailing presidential platforms from both major parties. Martin, a veteran Washington reporter and Raymond Clapper Award winner, explains aims and petty issues guiding each candidate if elected. The editor calls the series vital for readers.
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Sun
Paul Martin
Raymond Clapper
Truman
American’ Society of Newspaper Editors
Eens
Martin
Washington
Rees
Editora of the Sun
Round Up of Campaign Blows Ike Harry Abl a
Political roundup reports Truman and Stevenson attacking Eisenhower while Eisenhower counters with claims of Communist manipulation. Harriman and Nixon criticize the opposition. McCarthy appears with Eisenhower in Milwaukee. Stevenson accuses Ike of piggybacking on Democratic farm policy. Truman campaigns in San Francisco while planning a whistle stop tour.
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Abla
Adlai EB
Stevenson
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Eisenhower
GGP
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Thi Tis
Heath Dignity
Minnesota
Dakotas
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Joseph R. McCarthy
Muital
Averell Harriman
Teaneck
N.J
U.S. Demands Recall of Kennan in Moscow Row
Washington reports an angry note to Moscow over an unprecedented demand for the recall of Ambassador George F. Kennan. Officials consider stiff retaliation including possible expulsion of the new Russian Ambassador Georgi N. Zambin, though a full break in ties was not contemplated.
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United States
Moscow
George F. Kennan
America
Tsiman
Dean Acheson
State Department
Kremlin
Georgi N. Zambin
Pres. Truman
Soviet Union
Mrs. P. L. Brumfield Dies At 72 In Hemphill
Mrs. P. L. Brumfield, 72, of Hemphill, died at 7 45 am Saturday in a Baytown hospital. Earthman funeral home to announce arrangements. She previously lived in Baytown with daughter Mrs. P L Williams, moved to Hemphill when Williams went to Venezuela. Survived by four other daughters Estelle Stone Ethel Exgamfield Hemphill Harvey J. Fall Quemado and L F Boullion Brownwood.
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P. L. Brumfield
Hemphill
Baytown
Earthman Funeral Home
Williams
Estelle Stone
Ethel Exgamfield
Quemado
L. F., Boullion
Brownwood
Wife Held in Killing of Army Colonel in Tokyo
In Tokyo a wife of an Army colonel at General Mark W. Clark's headquarters was held for observation after allegedly stabbing her husband to death in their Washington Heights home. Col Aubrey D. Smith, 45, chief of the plans and operations division, died in Tokyo Army Hospital. Mrs Dorothy Smith, about 39 or 40, is hospitalized for observation. The Army opened an immediate investigation into the slaying. The Smiths lived among many officers and civilians in the Tokyo area.
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Mark W. Clark
Sfashionablington Heights
San Antonio
Walter Kreuger
Col Aubrey
D. Smith
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Tokyo Army Hospital
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Mmrs. Smith
Army
Smith
Beiag
Tex
West Point
Smiths
Washington Heights
Japan
Binion Free on $5,000 Bond in Nevada Elopement Case
Binion, a Las Vegas gambler, posted a $5,000 bond after a Dallas indictment for income tax evasion. Federal officials moved the trial to Nevada, while Texas authorities seek extradition over a million-dollar policy racket in Dallas. Binion previously pled no contest to evading taxes in Nevada, with a $25,000 fine and back taxes totaling about $20,705. The case heads to Carson City for a binding hearing to decide possible extradition to Texas.
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Texas
Binion
Dallas
A. G. Brad
Biad
Nevada
U.S
T. Whitfield Davidson
Brad
Horseshoe
Carson City
Nev
Roger Foley
Fort Worth
Old Pete the faithful dog run over near Gulf and Second
Lee Dunn, a 12 year old Missouri Pacific motorman, mourns his pugilish dog Old Pete killed Friday at Gulf and Second. The white dog with a black patch over one eye followed Dunn home from work daily, but on a hot late-Friday afternoon he failed to stop at the intersection and was hit by an auto.
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Aubrey Baank
East Gulf
Fourth
Missouri , Pacific
Pete
Lee Dunn
East Guilt
Missouri Pacific
Gulf
Lee
San
Baytown Fair Attendance Expected Near 20000
As the fourth annual Bay town Fair closes attendance may top 20000, up from last year's four day festival. Frost Brahma Ranch in Sugarland won grand champion horse show with Mr Snapshot. reserve champion Powers by Mickey Sapere of Lake Charles. Mare class winners include Mopsy owned by George Scott Baytown.
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Stessi_ Distri
F Ind
Mr. Snapshot
Frost Brahma Ranch
Sugarland
Champion Powers
Mickey Sapere
Lake ‘Charles
Mopsy
George Scott
Baytown
Annual Fire Prevention Week Set In Houston Area
Plans for annual Fire Prevention Week include a county-wide rally and barbecue at 6:20 pm Monday in Houston's Armadillo Club. Mayor J A Ward and Fire Marshal TH Bounds oversee details while Olin Culberson of the Texas Railroad Commission will address the event sponsored by the Harris County Fire Prevention Council.
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Baytown
Olin ‘Culberson
Texas Railroad Commission
Houston
Armadillo Club
Harris County Fire Prevention’ Council
Funeral for Jesse Sims Scheduled in Channelview
Funeral services for Jesse Floyd Sims age 47 of Channelview are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Paw U. Lee Funeral Home with Rev. Bert Matting of Channelview Baptist Church officiating. Interment will follow at San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Terece
Lakewood
Bae
John A Street
Fletcher Zein
Jesse Floyd ‘Sims
Channelview
U. Lee Funeral Home
Bert: Matting
Channelview Bantis Church
Sen Jacinto
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