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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1952
Page
1
Federal actions include a plan to spend ten jet costs and a call for four cent pensions affecting 30,000 workers. Census Bureau reports 158 million population. Notre Dame press endorses a presidential candidate. A British jet airliner had a crash landing with Clippers aboard escaping.
jumble of local notices including family aid request for a hospital visit and a sermon by retired Duke, a Second Baptist church talk, a film at Lee College, a party at JH Tipton home, Knights of Columbus invite, executive council meeting, BEF contract votes, a high school speaker, a rally tied to Nixon Talton, and City Hall renovations all in Baytown area. dated events with times and places, many names and locales.
Fragmented OCR reveals a jumble of names, offices, businesses, and events from a town page. It mentions NEZ Mendenhall, B EL Berry, Chandler, C. A Neff, Webb, Stikes, Busha, Spencer, Theo, and others in disjointed contexts such as a painting operation, private business, tax experts, and a fire impact.
In the windy rush to election day one week away, McCarthy plans a Chicago banquet speech aired on ABC and Mutual networks. He argues Stevenson has ties to communist fronts, while Wyatt cautions Democrats and Republicans alike on public reaction. Korea dominates the closing campaign amid fierce efforts for the northern Black vote in New York City. Stevenson and Truman visit Harlem as Eisenhower campaigns elsewhere.
Fay Woolley a Houston private detective and former sheriff candidate was ordered to testify before the Harris county grand jury about Constable J. W. Lambert’s affairs. The panel seeks details on an alleged murder plot against Sheriff C. V. Kern and named two men as go-betweens in a plan to blow Kern up with a nitroglycerine charge for ten thousand dollars.
Rimmed by hills near Korangpo northwest of the Hook, United States Marines repelled an 800 strong Communist assault in a decisive hand to hand fight. Mos t of the action occurred on Sunday night and Monday as the Leathernecks fought from bunkers and trenches, returned fire with grenades and rifles, and counter attacked to close a major breach in the main line. Allied air and artillery softened the assault, with heavy mortar and artillery barrages and 190 sorties supporting infantry.
A rash of forest fires swept through midwestern woodlands on Monday. Smoke hung over Ohio Indiana and West Virginia as firefighters battled blazes. Guardsmen and convicts aided rangers and volunteers in Ohio where 3500 acres burned across 13 counties while Connecticut Massachusetts and New England faced rising fire risk and a dry summer continued.
The first junior leader training course for the East Harris Boy Scout District was a success. Training Chairman John Baldwin announced the weekend sessions at Camp oss Sterling drew 0 boys and 14 men, marking the district’s first leaders training camp in Sem Houston Ares Council.
Cooler weather moved into the Texas Panhandle from Western Canada, dropping temperatures by 10 to 20 degrees over the northern half of the state. The front will blanket western Texas Tuesday, with clear skies and no rain. Dallas imposed water restrictions after a fire, with the last measurable rain on Oct 7 and no rain since. Junction reported the coolest low of the night, 30s, while Laredo reached a high minimum of 60 and other lows were mostly upper 40s.
Eight neighbors volunteered to finish painting the home of polio sufferer Bill Kubik. Work started at 6 am and ended after 7 pm, with Kubik, paralyzed from the waist down, returning home on weekends for visits between hospital stays. The group included Albert Jacobs, Ray Weaver Jr, Walton Scott, P G Steepleton Jr, John Martin, Ralph Powell, Lawrence Bianseet and Herman Thibodeaux.
Authorities warn the self styled three gun maniacs may be active again after a week of robberies across three states. James Francis Hill II of Framington Massachusetts and Charles Hopkins of Jacksonville Florida are identified as pursuing suspects with Curtis Le May, 15, Nashville Tennessee, forced into the crime spree. They are charged with terrorizing motorists and robbing 20 people while holding hostages briefly.
Manila reports a U S B 29 weather plane with 15 aboard vanished after entering typhoon Wilma. An air sea search yielded no trace amid poor visibility as relief flights were halted and a typhoon alert spread across central Philippines.
A South Houston man arrested by Harris County Sheriff’s deputies after a hit and run near La Porte was in Austin for a lie detector test. Victim Tru man Wilson, injured on Spencer Highway, lies in critical condition with a fractured skull and left leg injuries at Veteran’s Hospital in Boyston.
Two 13 year old youths confessed to starting a blaze at the Pasadena Furniture Co on Sunday. They said they found a railroad fuse and held it to a ventilating fan to see if it would melt tin, which ignited the building. Fireman Sam Orr was overcome by smoke but the fire was brought under control after about two hours. The youths, who fled and later watched firefighters work, are in Harris County juvenile custody.
Vernon C. Gibbs was unable to describe his attacker after being beaten early Sunday. his eye was slashed and he could not see. Nightwatchman R. E. Jones found him, Paul A. Lee ambulance was called, and police were alerted. witnesses offered no clue to the assailant.
Baytown Employes Federation head A. E. Oliphint will attend two major conventions this week joining Coalition Council sessions in Denver and Chicago. He travels Wednesday to Denver as a delegate for oil and allied unions, while Baytown executive council member C. K. Matthews heads to Chicago. Oliphint, secretary treasurer of the Oil Panel, will join executive board meetings on November 4 and 5.
A 60 year old Houston contractor James B Alford Sr was charged with murdering his ex wife Marie L Alford at the Fleetwood apartments. Investigators found a second bullet hole in a closet door and the victim's body with a 82 caliber bullet wound. Alford initially claimed death by own action and later said the shooting occurred during a struggle for a nickel plated revolver. He was held in jail as detectives pursued the case.
John L. Lewis urged 350,000 United Mine Workers to return to work at once as the government reviews the Wage Stabilization Board decision cutting 40 cents from the 1.50 daily wage increase. President Truman pressed for a resumption of mining while a review is conducted and invited union leaders to a White House meeting to seek a quick settlement.
In MIAME Florida a Sunday patrol found 35 to 40 nude visitors at a rustic nature garden near the Everglades edge. Officials plan to cite operators for zoning violations and possibly press charges of indecent exposure and contributing to delinquency of minors. A school bus passes by daily near the camp.
Kathryn Ann Staashen, daughter of Mr and Mrs Norman Staashen of La Porte, sustained a skull fracture and forehead cut after being kicked by a horse on the Spreé Ranch near Channelview. She was treated at Park View hospital then moved to a Houston hospital as specialists were arranged. Channelview Emergency Corps gave first aid and she was transported by Paul U. Lee ambulance.
Alfred Massey a Rockdale painter visited Baytown for a weekend, bought a car Saturday and arrived Sunday to see his girlfriend. He collided with telephone poles, caused an arrest, and faces a fine while his mother seeks relief.
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