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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1949
Page
2
A local drive seeks 59898 to fund services at Veterans' Service Center and Ske to purchase items for agencies including JTS Eychanne. The appeal lists costs totaling 2052 and notes 22,750 received or needed.
In Bellaire, organizers led by Dr Inia Filippone report more than the required 449 signatures collected to trigger a special election on annexation by Houston. Voters from the last election must sign 25 percent for action, while Mayor West and the city council remain uninterested.
The Bay town Examques Federation leaders G. G. Bowers and A. E Onphint will leave by plane for Col umbits Ohio to attend the ninth annual convention of the Federated Unions of America in Col minbes. The event runs Thursday to Saturday with delegates to shape policies for the year. Arthur Sorenson will present a state of the union report as CUA President Sorenson notes independent labor groups will be represented in Washington by the federation’s legislative conference committee to oppose the Taft Hartley Labor Law.
Fort Worth telegram reports cattle 4800 head with slaughter classes slow and stockers strong. Medium and good slaughter steers and yearlings mostly 17.00 to 25.00, cutters 14.00 to 16.50. Beef cows 24.00 to 16.50, canners 10.00 to 14.00. Feeder steers 19.00 down, stocker calves 23.00 to 24.00, slaughter calves 18.00 to 21.00, hogs and sows also described with price ranges and declines. Sun Classified Ads. Phone 2-10.
Obituary notes the death of William Dietrich at 69 from Lynchburg and East Harris County. Survived by wife Ele res AgneS Dietrich, seven children including H A Dietrich Crosby and N W Dietrich Nederland, two daughters in Nederland and Livingston, twelve grandchildren. Pallbearers listed as Bod Hand D C Kelly A Selkirk G E dan ratty Thea Ramsey and Jeff Davis.
Mrs Annanese Curran Houston math teacher and head of the Houston Teachers Association speaks to the Baytown chapter of Texas State Teachers Association at Horace Mann Junior High School on improving Texas schools through Gilmer-Aikin law implementation. The program theme highlights education quality in Texas and Baytown with invited guests from Robt E Lee High School Future Teachers Club and the Business and Professional Women's Club.
The open house for Lynchburg Elementary School is moved to 7 to 9 p.m. due to weather with the Deer Park School band providing music. The school sits south of Four Corners near the Lynchburg Crosby Road and Market Street Road, noted as a notable Texas school building.
At 1 P.M. stock notes show prices for Ames Ludell Steel Allis Chalmers Amerada Petroleum Armco Steel and related names including American Woolens Anaconda Copper Bethlehem Steel Budd Calumet and Hecla Celanese Chrysler Cities Service Hudson Creole Davison Chem Dow Chemical Gen Motors Goodyear Tire Greyhound Gillette Gulf Oil Gulf Star Uhl-H and P.
In Prasue Czechoslovakia on Oct 17 the Czech Communist party charged the Catholic Jesuit order led the underground fight against Socialism and claimed three American prelates were its agents. Names include Monsignor Joseph Patrick ur ley bishop of St. Augustine and Monsignor Joseph McCer Inick Cerrell auxiliary in Philadelphia and Monsignor Gough. The piece links Jesuits to a supposed third order of lay members across professions. Also notes Benny Moskowitz elected president of Alpha Epsilon Pi pledge class at the University of Texas in Austin.
Elizabeth New Jersey October 17 The 24 week walkout at Singer Manufacturing, one of the nation’s first for fourth round wage raises, ends as 7500 United Electrical Workers CIO members vote to return to work. The contract offers no general raise nor resolution of the incentive pay system, ending a costly strike that historians call among New Jersey’s longest and costliest.
City officials welcomed three representatives from the T. B. Trotter firm as they began the annual audit of Houston’s financial records. The firm has previously audited Baytown and Pelly and Goose Creek and assisted in resolving a past consolidation mess.
Congress may adjourn by Thursday as lawmakers clash over farm price support and displaced persons bills. Senate and House conferees battled over a flexible pricing program and a gradual shift, with further talks planned. Debate also stalled appropriations for armed services and foreign military aid while minimum wage measures moved toward votes in both chambers.
Sheriff Kern and Ranger J. J. Elevenhagen traced a tip ten days ago leading to a man who disappeared from Houston. The man, now in protective custody in another state, is connected to the Vallone killing, with the final bid coming from a sheriff's department spokesman.
Baytown members of the American Association of University Women will hear national president Dr Aithea K Hottel speak on a nation wide radio hook up. She will report on a round the world tour of 13 national capitals and discuss How Can America Contribute To a Free World.
A whispering bandit entered the B and B coffee shop in Fort Worth at dawn and took $421 at gunpoint from Mrs John Losero, the lone cashier in the front of the cafe. Police begin manhunt and review surveillance for leads.
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