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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1952
Page
2
Baytonians marked Labor Day with minimal labor as fall approaches. The note hints at upcoming changes in Baytown, including the start of the Gonder football season and the shift from summer to autumn temperatures.
Allied air actions targeted a key refinery near the FHene border with B29s and fighters. A previous strike disrupted the facility, damaging multiple targets and drawing continued Royal Air Force and other Allied bomber activity. Reports say several planes were lost or damaged during the April operations, with ongoing efforts to probe enemy defenses and test Allied advances.
Baytown Elks will present 1740 to the Texas Elks Crippled Children’s Hospital in Houston. The gift, to be presented by Raymond Wright of Houston, comes after a weeks long fundraising drive. A brief entertainment precedes the ceremony at the new Judge Hall on Market Street.
Baytown area theaters join the Texas Theaters Crippled Children's Fund drive to support the Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation. Prominent figures R J O'Donnell and Col F E Cole head the effort. Miss Crawford appeals for donations to aid polio and neuromuscular patients with the nonprofit center. Contributions can be sent to 1209 National City Building, Dallas.
New York organist Gledys Goodding, longtime fixture at Marison Square Garden and Ebbets Field events, values baseball above all sports. She recalled Dr. Pee Wee Reese presenting a ring after her ten-season Dodgers run, noted her 3000-plus performances, and shared opinions on players, teams, and the star system while relating memories from boxing, basketball, and other stadium moments.
President Truman begins a whistle stop tour with stops in West Virginia and Milwaukee as he campaigns for Adlai Stevenson. He will speak at five AFL-CIO Labor Day rallies and broadcast the Milwaukee speech on CBS from 8:25 to 10:03 p.m. est. Senator McCarthy accuses the trip of aiming to damage his renomination bid in Wisconsin.
Miss Angeline Adams, 17, a Crosby High School senior, was chosen FFA Sweetheart for the 1952 53 season. The crowning at Crosby followed a three day fall fair including a Saturday night rodeo and poultry auction. Adams was among three finalists for FRA Chapter Honors as Crosby’s fair was co sponsored by local associations.
Cordell Hull secretary of state for 11 years in the Roosevelt era is critically ill at the Naval Medical Center Bethesda Maryland. He suffered cerebral thrombosis and was admitted Friday evening and placed on the critical list Sunday. Hull, s , has had prior serious conditions and earlier illness kept him from public service. Hull helped shape Pan American solidarity and wartime diplomacy and was known as the father of the United Nations.
A deer crashed through a restaurant window and sprang onto a couple’s table in Wisconsin Dells. The frightened animal weighed 99 pounds and was shot after being cut by broken glass, ending the unlikely dining interruption.
Ouosops a playful note from Ben Reynolds appears amid The Sun Want Ads. A quirky line blends humor with a self deprecating jab at a punching bag prop used in a photo or mock ad.
Stork notices report multiple births Sunday at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. Ray J. Mann of 5210 Wisconsin welcomes a son. Freak Robin of La Porte greets a son. Eugena Chatham of Baytown announces a daughter Jeanne Diane seven pounds twelve ounces. Cedar Bayou and Maryball families listed.
Partial sick list and addresses show names such as BAN JACINTO MEMORIAL Mrs Roy E Mann Wiscon sin Mrs Frank Robin La Porte Geneva Gilliam Raytown Eugene Chatham Ray town Myre Bonble Sublett 2179 ie diana Mr Manton B Stewart 2205 Alabama Brien Worth 223 Lakewood. The fragmentary notice lists individuals with locations suggesting a memorial or hospital record context.
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