Chrysler Shows 1955 Models To 600 At Shamrock
Chrysler unveiled the 1955 Imperial New Yorker and Windsor lines to about 600 attendees including dealers, sales staff and media in a technicolor moving showing. A female model demonstrated features while stating the car is low wide and handsome as gear shift dash placement and power brakes were highlighted ahead of its salesroom display on Nov. 17.
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Chrysler
Floyd R. Higginbotham
Baytown
Jesse Higginbot
Houston
Che Baptews Sun Buohenet daily paper details Baytown
Baytown newspaper by Bax dwa Sum Inc lists Pearce and Ashe offices with editor Fred Bartman and publisher Syd Gould. Advertising director Beulah Jackson and managing editor Warren Edwards are named. Subscription rates by carrier 8 120 monthly 14 00 yearly prepaid. mail options and second class entry noted.
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Baytown
Texas
Postoffice
Births and a Migration Note From Local Hospital Wing
Stork stops at San Jacinto Memorial with multiple births on October 27 including Laura Ursula Barajas Donna Kay Darby Thomas Randall Wilson Nona Marie Miller Melissa Donald Gilbert Priest Grandparents listed for each family. The Golden Plover migrates from Alaska to Hawaii. the Texas petroleum industry spends about 60 million dollars yearly on geophysical exploration.
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Ward
Herman Ward
Travis
Nona Marie
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
J. le Peacock
Hillsboro
G. R. Priest
Cedar Bayou
Donald Gilbert
James P. Smith
C. R. Priest
Houston
Local Sick List Notices From City Residents
A dated listing of residents and spouses with partial addresses including Mrs Emilio Berajas Mrs Raymond Darby Mrs Thomas Wilson La Porte Mrs Gilbert Priest Baytown Mrs Kenneth Sutton Houston Larry Buchanan Mrs Ray Wilkins Emma Larkin Herman Ward Jimmie Gray Elva Stanley J Hopper William Defoor and Taylor Miller among others. The fragmentary OCR reads like a community sickness record with names and rough street cues.
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Thomas Wilson
la Porte
Gilbert BR
Baytown
Kenneth Sutton
Houston
Larry D. Buchanan
Cher
Ray Wilkins
Emma. Larkin —Chanel
Herman Ward
Travis
Jimmie H. Gray
Weat Humble
Wilburn Drive
Elva Stanley
West Francis
J. T. Hopper
Wood
William Defoor
Rock Island
Taylor J. Miller
Louisiana
Guard Officers Inspect Army Unit and Boots Award
Visiting officers led by Col. David M. Frazier inspected a company, with classes in 57 mm recoiless rifles, 60 mm mortars, .30 caliber LMGs, and M 1 rifles. Corp. Billy G. Ashcraft won Army boots for best dressed soldier amid unit expansion from 82 to 100 members. At Port Radium Arctic ore, geiger counter confirms radioactivity with a flashing light.
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David M. Frazier
John S&s. Carrier
Richard M. Burrage
William R. Williams
43Rd Inf
James P. Clark
Axel H. Schoyen
Arlie Martin
143Rd Inf. Regt
Nit
Daves
Col. Frazier
Carrier
Maj
A and L Army
Baytown
Corp
Billy G. Ashcraft
Minnesota
Cpl. Ashcraft
Canada
Port Radium
Arctic Circle
Endigsa
National Geographic Society
Benson Grested In Kansas City With Summons
Secretary of Agriculture Lara Benson faced a legal summons in Kansas City over a 1954 wheat crop records case. The suit, by Robert E. Gibson near Independence, Mo., challenges the constitutionality of the Benson farm program amid price declines cited as Democratic responsibility.
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Kansas City
Lara Tenson
Benson
Muehlbach
East
Robert E. Gibson
Independence, Mo
Gibson
Harriganville
GOP
City weighs stepping in on stalled project amid bond claims
Council officials debate ejecting Ward Construction and funding a city run completion. The bonding firm may cover losses and seeks a method to restart work with minimal trouble. A feud predated a carpenters union strike over unpaid materials and payroll methods.
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Ward
Carpenters Union
Pritchard P Ells Appointed To Draft Board 63
Pritchard P Ells production foreman at General Tire and Rubber Co has been appointed to Bay town draft board No 63. He lives at 70 West Morrill and replaces Col George L Keene who resigned due to ill health. Keene also worked for General Tire and had served since the board’s 1940 formation.
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Pritchard P. Ells
General Tire and Rubber Co
Baytown
Ells
West Morrill
Col
George L. Keene
Keene
General Tire
Stock Quotes Special Ts The Baytown Sun
Baytown Sun prints a dense stock table listing many companies with varied figures such as American Cyanamid at 40 percent and Celanese at 21 percent. Names span American and Canadian firms including Anaconda Copper DuPont Chem Eastman Kodak Gulf Oil and General Electric among others, with scattered percentage shifts and ticker-like fragments throughout.
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Alley Ladhim
Allis-Chalmers
Seeene
Amer Cyan
American Repub
Overeenserne Bbr
Amer Woolens Anaconda Copper
Beth Steel
Calvan -Oil
Nat'l Gas
Fairchild’ Eng
Freeport
Gen
Gen Electric
Gen Motors
Gen Tire
Gillette Safy
Goodyear ‘Tire
Greyhound Bus
Gulf Oil
Houston Oil
Hland P Co
Humble Oil
Jones and Laugh Imperial Oil
Interlake Iron Int’ Nickel
Kirby Pet Libby McN Liggett and Myers
Loew's Inc
Sss Sone
la Land
Iu reensNo
Morrill Pet Espeesasceeves
Olin Math Ase
Eeceerenes
Mack Trucks
Mid Con
Monsanto
Chem
Mont-Dakota Util Wat
Dist
Nat Dairy Prod
Ohio
Pac
Seeee DY Packard- Studebaker Motors
Pac West Oil
Panhandle P and R
Penney
Ine
Phillips Pet
Pure
Rem Rand
Steel Shell
St. Regis Pane
Stan Oil Ind
Stan Oil
Stan
Sun
Sunray Oil
Sys
Texas Chase
Texas Gulf
Tex Gulf
Tidewater Corp Union
Cal Tls
Steel Ceeseeenennee Wilson and Co
Woodley Pet
Dee
Crash era stock market plunge and the Black Tuesday collapse
The passage recounts a late 1920s stock boom driven by high profits and optimism, highlighting the market peak on September 3 with the industrial average at 81.17 and a 344 percent rise in six years. It describes October 24 chaotic trading and Black Tuesday, followed by a rapid fall to 41.22 by July 8, 1992, an 89 percent drop from the peak.
Middleton Flu Condition Improves but Remains Weak
City Manager C. D. Middleton’s condition was reported better Thursday though still awfully weak. He contracted a severe flu attack while attending a meeting in Fort Worth this week, returned home, and was put to bed. Doctors advise him to stay at home for several days.
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C. D. Middleton
Middleton
Fork Worth
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