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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1950
Page
1
Baytown locals note ongoing traffic shifts near Goose Creek and Park Street due to a temporary bridge. Memorial of a new football scoreboard by Pfeiffer Electric nears completion as Baytown prepares for a Friday September 22 unveiling.
City council approves amendment to Ordinance 73 raising drilling permit fee from 100 to 500 dollars effective September 17. Fifteen permits granted within a small area on Causeway Road and Amelia Street, including two for F A Richardson and nine for Glasscock Drilling Company. A protest filed over state approval of a lease, while other permits proceeded.
Reeves asks amendments to the city charter. He says council members should transfer power, hire and supervise all city staff. City Manager Middleton says no amendments were seen. Three paths to amendment election exist, with each amendment voting separately and a simple majority needed.
Baytown observes Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur with services at Knesseth Israel Synagogue. Rabbi Samuel Schwartz notes the two holidays as the most solemn in Judaism. Rosh Hashona marks the first and second days of Tishri, while Yom Kippur follows ten penitential days. Services planned for September 11 12 and 22 with evening start times.
Baytown elementary students enjoyed a reprieve as registration delays halted classes until Monday. First graders faced a daunting start, mothers guiding timid children while juniors and seniors at Robert E. Lee High School enrolled, and Horace Mann and Baytown Junior High welcomed seventh to ninth graders. Enrollment reached 1231.
Two Baytown policemen Cleve Dickens and Elmo Anderson pleaded not guilty at arraignment and posted a $1000 bond. A city council committee was named to study an alleged November 24 1929 beating, with a secret session planned to decide possible suspensions. The case drew calls for broader inquiry and scrutiny of police conduct amid a federal probe initiated after a threatening letter was sent via US mail.
Mrs Marie Hayes, 12 year old Baytown woman, received a two year sentence on three felony forgery charges after pleading guilty to forging and passing worthless checks in Baytown and Highlands. Judge Langston King ordered concurrent terms and postponed execution pending her plea on another charge. Hayes previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor forgery on checks written while out on bond and was sentenced to a day in jail on each charge. Hayes and Thornton Adams faced similar forging and passing checks at Highlands Appliance Company and a Channelview store. Adams also pled guilty.
A fragmentary balance sheet notes that winters may slow UN forces, while Chinese Communist losses are described as severe. It claims the Communists have vast manpower and first class troops, with about two hundred thousand Chinese troops said to be amassed for renewed offensives.
Baytown draft board will send another group into the armed forces early in October. This is the second draft call ordered by State Selective Service Headquarters. Baytown must supply its first 28 men on September 20, with the second call for 2580 men, the same number as Harris County's quota.
Allied air units conduct raids on Ko Red Chemical and rail center targets, striking industrial facilities. Operations involve multiple aircraft and strategic locations, aiming to disrupt enemy supply lines and production capacity.
Poor conditions kept air units grounded as heavy rain and soupy weather disrupted fighting, but clearer skies allowed B 29 bombers to reach targets amid shelling of Ceremunist troops, tanks, and supply columns.
In Cumnock Scotland a shaft collapse traps 28 miners as mud and slime threaten the trapped workers. Rescue teams dig by night while surface lines report limited air and water. Nearby Balmoral figures contact crews for updates as hundreds gather at the hillside colliery.
Southwestern Associated tele phone company will show off its new business offices on September 14 and 15 with an open house from 2 to 5 pm. District manager WW We Hani says staff will assist visitors and meet Baytown residents.
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