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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1952
Page
5
Galbraith and Port of Independent Petroleum warned at Oil Progress Week against federal control of private oil interests. They argued government overreach could stifle free enterprise and industry progress. They favored legislative scrutiny but opposed heavy regulation and monopoly tendencies.
Emergency orders by Colorado officials close human use of the eastern slope from the Continental Divide to US north of Fremont for fire risk. About 75,000 hunters on the west side already warned, with a ban spreading across nine counties as dozens of fires burn. Authorities stress vigilance while authorities debate oil monopoly charges and industry regulation.
Mrs Myrtle Dobbers filed for divorce claiming her husband married her for her money. She financed most of their home and paid most household expenses by working and using savings from their 10 year engagement in Milwaukee on October 2.
Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont will seek approval of a master site plan featuring 16 major changes to the campus, with an estimated 6.4 million dollars needed to fund expansion. The plan, urged by President F L McDonald, aims to add instructional buildings, dormitories, a new auditorium, library expansion, a recreation building, stadium, pool, ROTC armory, chapel, and expanded dining and housing facilities to accommodate projected enrollment growth over the next decade.
Mrs. Joe H. Payne and Mrs. L. J. Kahitfarber have returned from the funeral of Mrs. Frank Zinn in Cleveland. Zinn died Saturday in a Houston hospital. she was Payne’s sister-in-law and Kahitfaber’s aunt. Survivors include her husband five daughters and a son plus a sister and grandchildren.
Mr and Mrs Dewey T Harrison purchase the Barnerd Baros residence on East Houston street Highlands. Harrison works at a refinery and the sale was handled by Avey's Real Estate of Highlands.
Mrs. Calvin Compton of La Porte returned home Monday after a weekend with her father O F Jackson at Baird. Jackson, Abilene resident, has been critically ill for the past week.
At USS Princeton on October 20 a Navy pilot Lt Carl B Austin attached a kitchen sink to a 1000 pound bomb under a Skyraider and dropped it on a North Korean target. He said the impact was substantial and that the Reds could take the hint.
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development says it has sent a mission to Japan to assess the economy and discuss a possible loan. The delegation, led by John C. De Wilde, arrives in Japan after a Pentagon news conference with Gen. Lawton Collins noting intensified Korean communist attacks may extend frontline U.S. troop deployments.
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