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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1952
Page
3
Boston police seized a notebook with Greek looking text tied to illegal bookmaking. FBI lab experts decode handwriting and ciphers, aiding local prosecutors. lab performs thousands of tests yearly including spectrograph and chemical analyses.
ARDMORE Okla Sept 16 UP Workmen chipped through heat hardened sandstone in a gully south of here to uncover a huge nickel iron meteor believed to be a rare find. The specimen measures several feet across and is regarded as one of the largest meteor discoveries in the region.
BERLIN Sept 10 Soviet troops armed with tommyguns abruptly reimposed a security line on a strip of East Germany and blocked U S and British patrols in the American sector. Walter J Donnelly and Maj Gen Lemuel A Mathewson traveled to the Drei Linden checkpoint amid tense movements as Soviet soldiers and East German police restricted access to the border road. Other Allied motorists crossed the area without incident as the incident fed rising Cold War pressure in Berlin.
The San Jacinto Baptist association meets at First Baptist Highlands for a workers conference with an executive board session at 3 pm, a 6 pm supper, and a 7 pm devotional led by Rev Kopndth Raithrop. Speakers include Rev Burns Rev Osteen Rev Jordan at 7 20 pm on the budget theme. Main speaker Rev John Ight from Port Arthur will discuss Observing A The Commission. Host pastor Rev WC Keuster.
Senator John K. McClellan D Arkansas said he will campaign in southern and border states for Governor Adlai Stevenson. He noted Eisenhower's southern trip could impact votes but Arkansas will not carry for Eisenhower. McClellan also said Senator Mike Monroney is available for speeches in southern and border states. In Springfield Massachusetts a 104 year old Miss Josephine Flynn visited a beauty shop for her first permanent wave.
Sparkman the Democratic vice presidential nominee campaigned in Missouri with stops in Moberly, Kansas City, and Topeka. He attacked Senator Kem of Missouri as antagonistic to agriculture, praised Pershing and Omar Bradley, and criticized Dwight D. Eisenhower while urging farmers to back his agricultural-friendly platform.
The U S Department of Labor reports July regional factory employment in Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and Louisiana rose to a postwar peak of 723000. Hourly wages ranged from 1.57 in Texas to 2.04 in Oklahoma with earnings up several cents on higher contract activity after May petroleum disputes. Rail workers earned 2.04 to 2.30, reflecting state differences and industry absorption of gains. In Louisville the traffic department warns drivers as lights fail during cabling for a new one way street system.
Channelview Realtor Herbert Crate warned Highlands Rotarians that social poison corrodes communities more than one glaring wrong. He urged leaders to correct misconceptions, likening gradual poisoning to a rattlesnake’s slow bite. The club urged the Railroad Commission to keep Baytown area train cars, requested Houston hearings be moved to Baytown, and emphasized renewed recruitment as membership fell.
New York report says Adam Reisz announced he would marry Eve Lena, whom he met in 1949 while acting in a church play. The couple’s plans were revealed as they met in New York and Nashua coverage notes their theater connections and marriage timing.
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