The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 168, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 19, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SUN
GIVES FULL COVERAGE OF
HOMETOWN NEWS
WITH SPECIAL TREATMENT TO
STATE NATIONAL AND
LOCAL NEWS
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hGeorge Simpson examines eohippus skulls in sandstone.
Ground Crew Called 'Well Qualified'
Air Force Denies Charges
^WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—UP— Hearld-Post that "teen age enlisted the accident, but said an investiga- out from Biggs when it asked for
The Air Force reports that a "high- men’’ running the ground control tion still is being made. a GCA landing, the spokesman
ly - experienced, well - qualified” approach (GCA) radar gave the Each of the three men in the said.
crew was operating the radar at plane crew “wrong headings.” GCA team had at least one year of GCA gave the pilot a heading of
Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso, The spokesman said there was a experience, the spokesman said, 260 degrees and a final heading of
Tex. when a B-36 global bomber 4.000-foot cloud ceiling and two and two were 25 years old and one 350 degrees to take him onto the
crashed last week while attempting miles of forward visibility over the 21. runway.
a ground controlled landing. Biggs field Dec. 11 when the atomic The key man in “talking’’ down Then these things happened, ac-
An Air Force spokesman replied bomber struck 7,200-foot Mount the airplane, the “final controller,” cording to Biggs’ report to Wash-
Friday, on the basis of information Franklin during a snowstorm. Nine had performed some 2,000 GCA ap- ington:
from Biggs, to questions arising men were killed. proaches in the last four years. The flight controller, watching on
from a report in the El Paso The Air Force gave no cause for The doomed plane was nine miles (See Air Force—Page Two)
Fire Razes Isle Boaty
Texas Labor Lauded For Loyalty
Trade Union Points Out Not One Red Found
Four Vessels
Destroyed;
Damage High
FORT WORTH, Dec- 19 —UP— puted experts on the Communist patriots can be made the butt of
Texas labor has an "unbeatable party, not one single Communist unfounded alarms then other
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the
record” for loyalty, a trade union was named in Texas labor-An., wpl) ff
group reported Friday night. CIO or otherwise,” Horn said. groups as wel1 may SUIIer
The Fort Worth Trade Assembly The assembly’s statement said it same treatment.”
asked business and civic leaders thought business and professional Attorneys in particular should be
“in all fairness to bear public wit- men would be among the first to concerned, Horn said.
,.vul „ „„ ness to the fact that recent inves- defend labor and “condemn the “It is generally known that the
least four vessel, and » »Dokes- tigations in Austin (Tex.) failed to implications raised, for they will so-called Lawyers’ Guild on the
- f’n,‘ ov“n f*10 know that if one group of Texas (See Labor—Page Two)
GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. 19—RP)
-Fire, which broke out shortly
before midnight, destroyed the
Four Brothers boat yard and at
man for the company said dam- even one Communist in the
ncrt*m ormilH roonh “aovarnl Hurt- *3 DOF mOV6m6nt
ADMITS KILLING—This is a
police photo of Robert N.
Malm, ex-convict of Newing-
ton, Conn, who allegedly con-
fessed to police that he strang-
led U-year-old Irene Fiedero-
wicx in Hartford, Conn., Dec.
10 because she threatened to
tell her mother that he had
molested her. (International)
I skeleton of eohippus, also known as “dawn horse.”
0RIC HORSE SKULLS — Representing a major
I discovery, a block of red sandstone from Colorado
I the skulls of eight miniature, prehistoric horses and a
i itiier bones is described to newsmen in New York by
I Giylord Simpson, who directed the excavation. He is
id the department of geology and paleontology at the
i Museum of Natural History. Called eohippus. the min-
! wts the prehistoric ancestor of the modern horse,
i eight eohippus skulls protruding from the block of
t discovered 50 miles southwest of Colorado Springs,
i M to 60 million year* old,
(International Soundphotos)
ages would reach "several hun-
dred thousand dollars.
Texas.
“Labor in Texas has an unbeat.
At least four other teats, two of f“e
them oil exploration seismograph 1«L!S2J? Om*
ships with some explosives aboard,
ristmas Decoration
irs Are Listed
were threatened momentarily but
were towed to safety by Coast
Guard cutters. They had been
docked nearby.
Destroyed were a $40,000 shrimp
boat virtually completed for John
Parks of Port Isabel, another
shrimper under construction for
Anthony Bowdoin of Port Aransas,
two small yachts, a new shipment
of mahogany lumber, expensive
equipment used in boat building
and the construction sheds them-
selves.
A watchman who turned In the
alarm at 11:30 p. m., told author-
ities he spotted the fire in a cor-
rugated metal shed In which
Parks’ boat was being built
assembly’s statement said.
The assembly criticised recent
Post Office Gets Set For Yule Onslaught
Baytown's post office employes prepared for
the onslaught of late Christmas mail Saturday.
Clerks at all windows in all units of the post
office were to work straight through the day.
Main office windows were to close at 6 p. nru, and
the two stations at 5 p. m.
Postmaster N. B. Ballard announced that there
Lock Of Funds Blocks
La Porte Fire Plan .
[Often* decorations Park, Stewart Heights and Busch #* , * .
' 1 Friday night as Terrace; Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Brum- \fr\rlr Hflff
I the Baytown area lett and daughter Sherry, 3228 In- *** w* ”
1 contest sponsored diana, for West Baytown; Arthur IT If
1 East Harris County B. Wlntringham, 104 North Holly / FODDGO
Garden club*. drive, for Lakewood, Brownwood » I
iin five sections were and Wooster; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
vft J. Burton, 511 Wil- C. Oehler, 515 West Oak, in High-
ly section of Morrell lands, and the Five Stephenson
GW* at 221 East Sterling for the
M . district of East Baytown.
2|R0(fi Repeats from last year’s winners
» w Were the Oehlers, the Stephensons,
■■■ ■' “ ‘ and the Bramletts.
First prizes of $10 have been
awarded to these ’bests” in each
section.
IN John Gray
law window at the
[Wey at Fayle and
1*» Bight. I’ntrol-
IfcteN.E. Taylor
I'lmdow open at hi*
Awards of $7 and $3 were given
also for second and third prizes.
These went to Mrs. Frank Wilson,
515 West Homan, second; Mrs
L. J. Choate, 13 North Airhart
i. . drive, third, for the Morrell Park.
? "Wilting Busch Terrace area.
> elub Lion-O-Dimes C. O, Grayson, 308 Miriam, wc
1 to $315.22 Friday in second and B, I* Wood. 1906 Mis
7 of operation. souri, third in West Baytown.
P Wwds brought the Mrs. L. E. Busy, 105 Cabinesr
840.88, second; Mrs. Carl G. Hammei, 31.
i^ili be captain for Burnet drive, third, for Lakewood „
and Bob Gil- area.
Rogers will be G. S. O’Brien, 201 Begonia, sec-
fiwm members will be ond; Mrs. J. R. Prince, 518 North
tel1' Buschl M- w- Maln* third‘in Highlands.
1,7 Higginbotham, Mrs. L. L. Woods, 1500 Wood-
I Yount, Dr. Ly- lawn drive, second; W. Wesley
“ Milton Kelley and Woods, 1710 Wood lawn drive, thirc,
In East Baytown.
In Highlands the businessmen
and organizations went all out in
competing for blue, red and white
ribbons. Second Baptist church on
East Wallisville road was awarded
(See Decorations—Page Two)
In Hospital
The stork flew in San Jacinto
Memorial hospital Thursday and
couldn't get out By midnight
Friday, there were 14 new babies
in the nursery.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry William-
son, Rt t, Baytown, have a girl
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gene Er-
win, 216 Hackberry, a girl; Mr.
and Mrs. Otto F. Mullins, 115
Wooster, a boy; Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Watford, Texas City, a
Injunction Tossed Out
AUSTIN, Dec. 19-UP-Work
for the Texas Industrial Com-
mission’s legal advisory commit-
tee was outlined Saturday by a
district Judge’s decision that
Texas taws don’t stop Commun-
ist-dominated unions from doing
business.
Judge CJiaries O. Betts Friday
dissolved an injunction against
the International Fur and Leath-
er Workers Ind., which was
granted last June 16 on'» request
by Attorney Genera) John Ben
Shepperd. T The City of La Porte has re-
. ... . ,, V .. ceived some fire protection recom-
mendations from the State Insur-
toWnSf a"Ce Con>ralMlon. but it’s doubtful
'”deP^lent that the city will do anything
F1?0655* about mo,t of them,
mg and Office workers of Amer- „ . , „
ica; International Mine, Mill and Most of Hie four recommen-
Smelter Workers, and Internation- dationi will require too much
al Fur and Leather Workers) were money for the city to consider
dominated or influenced by Com-
munists.
Roscoe Horn, president of the
assembly, said the setting for the
hearings “tended toward a sensa-
tionalism in which the essential
fact gained little recognition—the
essential fact being a complete ab-
sence of any testimony linking
any member of organized labor in
Texas with communism.”
In the face of Texas labor’s
"Matchless record, it is regret-
table that wild charges of Commu-
nist infiltration should be made,”
said Horn, "based solely on the
will be mail delivery Sunday on all routes. “We
have to do it in order to be able to move around
in here Monday," he said.
Ballard said that a window will be open at the
main post office at 9 a. m. Sunday and stay open
as long as needed for people who still need to get
packages off, buy Stamps or even call for parcel
posts at the office.
News Briefs
VERSAILLES, France, Dec. 19
—(W—A historic deadlock re-
mained unbroken Saturday when
parliament, in joint session in
historic Versailles Palace, failed
on the fifth ballot to elect a
president of the French Repub-
lic.
now. the city commission decid-
ed in a meeting Friday.
The insurance commission wants
the city to run a six-inch water
line, tying several areas on the
southeast side of La Porte to-
gether. The line would run down
the Morgan’s Point road a block
past Blackwell, back to Bayridge
road and Sylvan Beach.
The insurance commission has
also recommended that the city
increase its water surface stor-
age facilities by about 35 per
cent, from its present 380,000 gal-
lons to about 600,000.
The other two recommendations
were the passage of a new fire
Baytonian Thinks
CROP Donation Is
'Biggest Bargain'
11450
. 10
Previously Reported
Marilyn Capps ......
Trinity Episcopal Sunday
School Grades 2-3-4-5-A ...... 10
Mrs. Bessie Triton ......... M
Mrs. W. C. Shepherd,
Donnie, Texas ............ 10
Mrs. J. C. Burkett’s Robert
E. Lee Home Room No. 214 5.50
Baytown Elks Lodge No. 1649 10
Total Reported To Date . $1505.50
Take It Easy
Over Holiday,
McKee Warns
Police Chief H. E. McKee Sat-
urday appealed to motorista and
shoppers going to town in their
cars to be more careful during
the rainy weather and holidays.
Five minor accidents, which in-
jured no one *nd caused a total
damage of around $1,000 to 10 au-
tomobiles, kept the Baytown polios
busy Friday.
A major accident qr.taidn the
city cost the life of Harris Coun-
ty Engineer R. K. Baisden when
he stepped in front of a passing
truck.
It was not careless driving, but
a high hedge at the southeast
corner of Alford and Fifth that
caused the collision when Howard
T. Nations, 819 West Main, and
Loyce White Herrington ,38 of 501
Peggy, met at the intersection.
Nations’ car hit the Herrington
car on the right door. There wan
little damage to the cars, and Pat-
rolman Herbie Freeman gave no
tickets. Both drivers said a high
hedge at the corner obscured their
view.
A third vehicle blocked the view
of Harry Grimstead Mitchell and
L. W. Sowders, ambulance driver
for Earthman, at the intersection
of Texas and Pruett, causing them
to collide. The Mitchell car struck
the front bumper of the ambul-
ance, after skidding 12 feet Neith-
er driver was given a ticket Pat-
rolman Freeman investigated thin
collision also. The ambulance driv-
er, on an emergency £all had just
hit his siren.
Both drivers were given tickets
after a collision at Thibodaux and
Bowie about noon Friday. John
Jacob Compton, 61, of 303 Travis,
was given a ticket for failure to
yield right-of-way when his car,
going east on Thibodeaux^struck
the left side of Billy Sherman’s
car. Sherman. 16, a student at
Robert E. Lee, lives at 205 Bowie.
He was charged with exceeding
safe speed when Patrolman W. E.
Few found he skidded 85 feet try-
ing to stop before he reached the
intersection.
Donald Wayne Cobb, a 17-yeap-
old soldier of 319 West Gulf, was
given a ticket for improper right
turn into traffic lane when he
made a wide right turn on Texas
Avenue and sides wiped Robert
Oliver Hensley’s car in the center
of the street Hensley, 3406 Wis-
consin, is & refinery worker. Pat-
rolman Frank Yeager investigat-
ed.
B. J. Smith, 25, and W. H. Smith,
45, were both driving east on Mar-
ket when a third car forced W. H.
Smith off the road. As he pulled
off, B, J. Smith made a right
turn and W, H. Smith struck him.
The cars were only slightly dam-
aged. B. J. Smith was given a
ticket for no drivers license by
By FRED HARTMAN
Mrs. Bessie Triton says she likes Patrolman E. R. Hardy,
bargains, and she considers her
marshal’s code and arranging for $io CROP investment the biggest
the paid fireman to have sleep- bargain of her life,
ing quarters in the fire depart- “Imagine the privilege of per-
haps keeping a child alive for a
ment.
The city sent the proposed or-
dinance to City Attorney E. J.
Cade for study. The newer ordin-
o«relv uii uic NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19—UP— vaue ior siuuy. me newer orura-
testimony of two or three ex-Reds a raging, $500,000 oil well fire in- ance is supposed to take care of
to the effect that some Commu- creased in intensity Saturday and a faulty clause in the old city
. . u, rhwU. T J?* somewhere, but not in Texas, officials appeared willing to let it ordinance which court* have held „ct ™,ve™u«i
boy, Mr. and Mrs. Charlet T. in some way would like to infil- burn jtself out if thev can salvage makes only one person liable for The Baytown Sun
FWmu. SittK MWO^agW. trte: ourstate ________ “11** ______________ She didn’t ston
year by investing a mere *10,” she
said. “I thank you for the oppor-
tunity.”
That was the way Mrs. Triton,
a pioneer Baytown resident, began
her conversation in the office of
i’jjvni
Harding,
°P*fatlon at
■F Wprta) )„ Houston
P*o'og well, friends
Edgar, an em-
. jyfcl depart-
Iytoytown Refinery
All were born Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Baker,
Raytown, have a boy; Mr. and
Mrs. Janies D. Heinrich, La
Porte, a girl; Mr. and Mrs. Ira
S. Ferguson, Houston, a girl;
Mr. and Mrs. Billy G. Walker,
Rt L Baytown, a boy;
Mr. and Mrs, Billy N. Young.
Highlands, a boy; Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Krampota, Rt. 2 Crosby, a
girl; Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Sel-
man, Houston, a boy; Mr. and
Mrs. Winfred C. Bethel 321 East
Hunnicutt girl; Mr. and Mrs.
Henry J. Tarski, 2417 Missouri a
boy. These the stork delivered
on Thursday.
JJOR Catalytic Con.
Jerboas’’ i» the
’**$* Two)
“In three days of testimony at
Austin by ex-Communists and re-
Cop Hope*
For Bail
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 19-UP-A
26-year-old suspended St. Louis po-
liceman hoped to raise $25,000 bail
Saturday to gain freedom while
awaiting arraignment on a charge
that he lied to a grand jury investi-
gating the disappearance of $300,-
000 of the Greenlease ransom
money.
Patrolman Elmer Dolan was ir
dieted by the grand jury for per-
jury Friday and spent the night ir
the same jail where kidnapers Car!
Austin Hall and Bonnie Brow:
Heady were lodged pending thev
trial for the kidnaping of Bobb
Greenlease. %
U. S. Commissioner Charles E
Thompson ordered Dolan confine
in jail when the patrolman failec
to make bond late Friday. Thomp-
son said he understood Dolan wa?
valuable equipment from the area.
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Dec. 19
—MB—1The United Nations sent
“come home* letters Saturday to
22 unrepatriated American war
prisoners and made plans to re-
mind them of better days by
broadcasting 1856 “hit” tunes.
_______ stop there,
Other business taken up at the went on one step further.
La Porte commission meeting was There is only one thing about
granting of the Seventh Day Ad- the conduct of the campaign that
ventist church permission to run she doesn’t like,
a sound truck through La Porte
with Christmas carols.
Commissioners also discussed
the current $200,000 street improve-
ment program.
ISltlAH '•roar me
Itjj’a7eiT>* that
a. j week ., vir-
i&WBf ,V‘r
PS
Ilk, j-*16 WR1 be sur-
§?.**» what her
IL. f°r Christmas
u , f Ing coatless
,..p ms,he ,or«ets
S®r„sT,
S and Ra„dy
I Jz*** Calla-
Christmas
.srfcssss
deco!a*Te<i ^yman
ltd y ?tln* 00ntest
St ,i;'e's°n telling
Kidnap-Killers Are Buried
Bonnie Heady's Last Wish Is Denied
By UNITED PRESS out the $600,000 Bobby Greenlease
Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie kidnaping.
Brown Heady went to their graves They did die together, however,
Saturday in cemeteries separated strapped in chairs in the grisly
by 200 miles of rolling Missouri- gasTamber at Jefferson City'
KK'„sr..? - a&jr
Clearing Skies Are
Seen For Sunday
___„ ____ It may be hard to believe, but
old family friends, along with three forecasters say that skies are go-
reporters, were scheduled to at- ing to clear,
tend the brief burial rites.
Hall’s body remained In a Jef-
ferson City funeral parlor until
early Saturday, when it was sched- inm m
uled to be taken in a hearse with ditlon| wouid ]Mt forever.
police escort to Pleasanton, Kan., _____ .. .
town just across the Missouri ®ul the weathermen *ay the rain
C0^lPlan- of ,her last, wishes-that she be ^ 0f Mr»f Heady, who
'Widay. aa {°r buried beside the body ot the man gavg her )over and partner - in-
V'W tn BtcX*e with whom she plotted and earned crjme a parting kiss moments be-
Watson ____,ear.. e fore they died, was taken to Mary-
QCICKIES By Ken Reynolds ville, Mo., Friday to await burial
' in her family plot at nearby Clear-
mont at an undisclosed time Satur-
day.
Only a handful of relatives and
Saturday morning, however, It
seemed to shivering Christmas
shoppers who braved the wind
and rain that the miserable con-
line where Hall was born and went »h°u>d fSuad‘y
to high school.
No important temperature
« that chicken I got in the cai townspeople over the burial <n
Sun Want Ada wm not only fat— their cemetery of the notorious kid
but big> tool” naper.
Hall’s grave' was dug during the changes have been predicted, how-
night in the family plot where his ever, with a low of 42 forecast
father and mother and a brother f°r tonight,
who died in childhood also are bur- .Weather Observer Chester Rog-
ied A spokesman for the Pleasan- era reported that 168 Inches of
ton Mortuary said resentment had moisture fell in a 24-hour period
“orettv well died down” among lo- ending Saturday morning. The
v i _____in toriiAnrofiiPo rivneifiAri 50
temperature dropped to 39 Friday
night after getting only up to 44
during the day Friday.
SANTA’S TRIP LONGER THIS VfeAR—The western tradition of
celebrating Christmas has taken hold in Japan, but without the
religious significance Tokyo stores have a Yuletide look, even to
the Santa Clauses. Tfhis Japanese version of Santa on a Tokyo
i street is drawing the attention of passeraby to the quality of hia
atore's shoes. (International)
She said she believes that every
person in Baytown ought to have a
(See CROP-Page Two)
Yule Parties
For Children
The Baytown Junior Chamber
of Commerce will stage Ha
first Christmas parties for
youngsters next Tuesday. At 5:45
p.m. they will go to McNair
school and at 8:88 p.m. the same
day they will be at Carver. At
7:80 pjn. Wednesday they will te
in Robert E. Lee gymnasium.
Children are invited to attend
these parties. The Jaycees prom-
ise all who come a good thne.
Goodfellow Bags Needed
Miscount Results In Big Shortage
.$1144.62
thought \
bags.
If you of the P-TA members
made Goodfellow bags and have
not turned them in, please do so.
The packing is to start Monday,
and those bags are urgently need-
ed.
If you can’t deliver the bags to
the K’Nesseth Israel community
house or to The Baytown Sun, call
The Sun and a Goodfellow will pick
them up.
Although we need bags, we euro
can’t complain about the money
that has been given Goodfelkw*
_ .. „ ... . . this year. About $150 more in con-
Goodfellows, your help is needed tributl)}nl! were ^ved Friday.
The Goodfellowg also received
more toys from the Lee College
French club, the Kebekah circle of
Grace Methodist church, Beta Sig-
ma Phi, ancj the Library club of
Previously Reported .
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
grades, Episcopal Church
School ............... 7.65
Operating Engineers Local 847
General Tire and Rubber
Co..................... 61.00
Boy Scouts Troop 184 ... 5.00
Goodfellows and Ladies Main
Zone Office and Mechanical
Foreman.............. 68.05
Michael Joy......... 2.00
Baytown Assembly No. 158,
Social Order of
Beauceant ............ 16.00
$1298.82
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
again!
It’s not money this time, it’s
Goodfellow bags that we need to
pack our toys in for the needy
kids.
Our growing list of names for
bags of toys has expanded to 551 Carver high school,
children this year, more names
than we have had in the last five
years.
But only 401 Goodfellow bags
Beta Sigma Phi also gave candy.
The Library club’s gift WM $0
books.
Goodfellows actually beUevs ttoey
have been turned in to pack the will have better bags than
toy* in. Through a miscount which before this year—If they ean just
we discovered only Saturday, wc
Nine Cub Scouts To Graduate
Nine Cub Scouts will graduate
to scouting at the East Harris
Scout District court of honor at
2 p. m. Sunday in the Commun-
ity House.
The Cuba will be given grad-
uation badge* in a special cere-
mony known a* a “Webelo*” cere-
mony. 1
The graduate* are;
Cole, Pack 178; B<
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