Labor Day travel warned as safety group predicts Texas toll
The National Safety Council warned Labor Day weekend traffic could claim 390 lives nationwide with 34 expected in Texas. Baytown reports indicate flat traffic, while local shutdowns occur as Baytown businesses close. The Baytown Sun plans an early edition and city crews adjust schedules amid the holiday.
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National Sefeny Council To
Hess
Homer Garrison
Jn. 4
Texas Department of & Safety
Texas
Baytown
Lee Drive
Brown and Root
Baytown Sun
Sun Spots at Day ODpAY x THE last day at The un for Reporter Merrill Carter
Reporter Merrill Carter resigns to take a position with Humble's Geological Apartment in Houston. He will attend night classes at the University of Houston majoring in armnalism. Grass fire threatens Goose Creek area. no damage reported. Barber, city tax collector, will turn away many license seekers not complying with state regulations. National Conference AR Blackburn to attend national Scout executives training in Lansing Michigan. Continued on page two.
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Carter
Humble
Geological
Houston
Univrsity of Houston
Barber
Berens
Sven
Blackburn
East Harris Counail Estrict
Lansing
Ichigan
United Tes
Michigan Ate Agricultural College
Laing
Baytown
Around Town News In Brief From Local Names
Coach George Perkins son Butch talks him into races. Cecil busy wallpapering apartments. LaNell Stewart off from Tk seeking a place and friends. Anne Jelly smiles at passers by while Emma Jo Neland plans Denton trip. Ekie Rosenfeld wants a game, golf. Colton Watkins discusses latest haircut trends. Don McNeely tells hair tale and fishing on Village Creek. near-miss hog incident. Ann Marie Fortney seeks apartment. Royersons and Johnny back from Braunfels. Pep Williams due back Baytown today. Bullington plans trip toward California maybe to see Texas A and M A game in Los Angeles.
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Orace Mann
George Perkins
Butch
Cecil Fistse
LaNell Stewart
Anne Jelly
Emma Jo Neland
Denton
Codl SC
Ekie Rosenfeld
Rarin
Bi McDowell
Colton Watkins
Don McNeely
Village Creek
Ann Marie Fortney
Roy Tkersons
Johnny
Braunfels
Pep Williams
Baytown
California
Bullington
Los Angeles
Security Council Calls Egypt to Lift Suez Blockade
United Nations Security Council urged Egypt to end the blockade of Israeli bound shipments passing through the Suez Canal. The move comes as tensions rise over the blockade impacting regional trade and navigation.
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Flushing
United Nations Security Council
Egypt
Suez Canal
Galveston Officials Reach Accord Ending Charges
Galveston authorities and city leaders moved to calm a public spat after Police Commissioner Ambrose Lukovich and official Vincent Licata traded accusations about payoffs from prostitutes. Licata apologized to Lukovich and others, and Mayor Cartwright confirmed the court inquiry into the charges was canceled, urging all to focus on public welfare.
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Galveston
Younty
Ledar
Attar
Vincent Licata
Ambrose Lukovich
Licata
Lukovich
Meyer Herbert Cartwright
Livata
Texas Island City
Lukovics
Cartwright
iSve Isle Row
Explosions Hit Plains Butadiene Plant in North Texas
A series of blasts rocked the Plains Butadiene Plant near Borger four miles west in the Bunariste industrial area, injuring eight employees and forcing fire crews to stand by as tanks burned. Phillips operates the plant for the federal government and said there were no serious injuries. Firefighters evacuated nearby residents and monitored the situation as officials assessed damage and containment.
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Siam
Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips
Casa Serene Medical Certec
Bunarista
Bunariste
Borger
James
D. W. McCullauch
Phillips Chemical Company
Bartlesville
Outnumbered US Jets Win Hot Dogfight
In eastern Korea over 1000 Communist attackers failed to halt the UN advance along a 30 mile front. US Sabrejets intercepted 40 MiG-18 fighters in a 20 minute dogfight, with all fighters returning. Allies bombed a Taedong River bridge to slow Red reinforcements as infantry pressed a two week offensive.
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Korea
U.P
United Nations
Yanggu
Taedong River
Sunchoen
Kaesong
Sea of Japan
Kumsong
Mies
38Th Parallel
Epidemic of devil's grip hits Bonham area records set
Virus experts from the US Public Health Service and local physicians conduct a house to house survey across Bonham area amid reports of up to 8000 cases. The illness, extremely painful but rarely fatal, causes high fever and abdominal and chest pains with a two to 36 hour cycle and two days of relief between stages.
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Bonham
Bonhamatta
US Public Health Service
Texas
Risser
R. H. Huebner
National Institute of Health
Huebner
Alaskan Air Toll Rises as Navy Bomber Crashes
Anchorage dispatch reports a Navy patrol bomber crash on an Aleutian island with eight confirmed dead and two more feared dead. A C-47 transport is missing after leaving Platinum en route to King Salmon, with at least four aboard. A second PB4Y-2 Privateer crash on Little Tanaga island killed ten aboard, the second such crash in three weeks in Alaska amid a spate of aviation accidents.
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Alaska
Navy
Aleutian
Lease
CAA
Bethel
Platinum
King Salmon
Ronald Green
Elmendorf Air Base
Agth Air Depot
Elmendorf
Tana~ga” Island
Here
Two Men Injured When Truck Overturned Near Lawrence Ranch
Two men described as negro rice haulers employed by Warren Clark of Chambers County were critically hurt when their six wheel truck overturned on a road near the Lawrence Ranch late yesterday. James Cook and Albert Ray were pinned under the cab as it rolled into a deep ditch and were taken to San Jacinto Memorial Hospital by Harthman ambulance. Hospital attendants did not know their ages or origins.
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Warren Clark
Chambers County
Lawrence Ranch
James Cook
Albert Ray
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Harthman
New Zealand Conservatives Keep Power in Election Victory
Wellington report shows Prime Minister Sidney Holland’s Conservatives secure 47 seats, one more than before, extending a rightward government after 14 years of Socialist rule. Labor gains 33 seats, 34 previously. Holland vows to press governance with reform and fairness while Labour vows continued battles.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Sidney Holland
Ntional Conservative Party
Socialistic Labor Party
Holland
Thes
Beefsteak Prices Signal Changing Economic Tide
Chicago Sun-Times Syndics report shifts in meat pricing as four dollars struggles to buy a round of beefsteak signaling broader inflation pressures and consumer adjustments amid a volatile market.
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Hinabor
Shore
Dolar
Chicago Sun-Times
Seaman Injured In Clash With Oak Tree
Starling Lee, 36, a seaman aboard Esto Parkersburg, suffered severe head lacerations when his teon station wagon ran off the curb and crashed into an Old Oak Tree on Texas. The impact shattered the windshield and drove the engine back toward the front seat, breaking two guard posts and sending a reflector 250 feet to the Thad Felton Ford Agency. Lee was taken to a hospital by an Earthman ambulance.
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Esto Parkersburg
Teon
Texas
Lee
Thad Felton Ford Agency
Reds Drop Flares on UN Base in Korea Night Raid
An unidentified plane dropped about 12 flares at roughly 2000 feet over the United Nations advance cease-fire base in Korea Saturday night, hours after Allies dismissed Communist claims that a UN plane bombed Kaesong as a fraud. The aircraft, seen from the northeast, disappeared in that direction as darkness limited identification.
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U.P
United Nations
Korea
Raesong
Kaesong
Baytown
Crosby Fair Rodeo Ends Colorful Annual Event
An overflow crowd is expected tonight for the finale of Crosby’s fifth annual Community Fair and Rodeo. The event features top Southwest riders, prize livestock, and homemaking exhibits, with 2200 spectators counted yesterday watching cowboys compete against horses and bulls.
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Southwestern Rodeo Association
Eagle Lake
James Hechler
Gairy
Hechler
Crasby High School
FFA
Betty Hechler
Crasby
Albert Lee Kratky
Vernon Bijlers
Melvin Jasek
Wrosby High
Dalquist
Charles Miller
James Haverd
Walter Sritren
College Station
Robert Dillard
Doe
M. B. Dillard
Barrow
James Howard
Saw
Malcolm Miller
Bear
Brahma
Miss Quinca
H-Lord
Channelview Boy Watson Dies in Hospital Operating Room
Thomas Charles Watson a 12 year old Channelview seventh grade student died yesterday in a hospital operating room during a throat operation. Funeral services will be held at 2:12 p.m. tomorrow at the Dell dale Tabernacle Channelview with Rev GW Gibon officiating. Burial will be in San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery under Hartman Funeral Home. Survivors include his parents Mr and Mrs T C Watson of Channelview three sisters and two brothers. Pallbearers named Olen Quisenberry Archie Walkoviak Tommy Donny Charlie Rumbrey and Nelson Gordon.
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Thomas Charles ‘Watson
Channelview
Delldale Tabernacle
GW. Gibson
Buriel
San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery
Hartiman Funeral Home
T. C. Watson
Chammelview
Margarine Whitlock
Galveston
Louise Cramford
Houston
Bobby Ruth Gates
James Carroll
Donald Marl Watson
Olen Quisenberry
Archie Walkoviak
Tommy
Donny
Charlie Rumbrey
Nelson Gordon
Polio Claims 2nd Victim At Four Corners
Polio case at Four Corners claims a second victim in Jefferson Davis Hospital. David Harris 13 was admitted with a mild paralysis, family says Cedar Bayou resident Pearce Purvis and son were recently treated and returned home recovered without after effects.
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Roma
Four Comets
Jefferson Davis Hospital
David Harris
Lloyd A. Harris
Harris
A. Mi Rhodes
Oakland Estates
Jeff Davis
Pearce Purvis
HL Purvis
Cedar Bayou
Reds Fight Over Treaty Gromyko Calls For Stand
In San Francisco Andrei Gromyko arrives to press a showdown with the United States over the Japanese peace treaty. The U S, Australia and New Zealand move to sign a defense pact in the Pacific at 3 30 p m PDT. Dean Acheson warns the peace conference will reveal which nations seek peace and which merely talk. Gromyko remains secluded at a rented 38 room mansion until the conference opens Tuesday night.
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Russia
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Gromyko
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific
PDT
Baytown
Dean Acheson
Gromyito
Judds
Kremlin
V _ Mo. Molotov
Gromyk
Washington
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