The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 52, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 5, 1952 Page: 1 of 8
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'TO*’1' . warn, with a few scat-
Low expected Tuesday
' « hirh Wednesday 94. Gentle to
^ soulberi-v winds.
IAYTOWN, TEXAS
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The BAYTOWN STOBY
Tuoiday, August 5, 1952
TELEPHONE: 8302. five Cants Par Copy
ITY SCHOOL BUS
1VERS RAPPED
, School
oriicrs Get
y Increases
Clothes Dryer
Complete
With Music
ESCAPEES CAUGHT
OUTSIDE HOUSTON
Dty.one key adminis-
e personnel in the Bay-
'school district Tuesday
been granted substantial
increases for the 1952-53
MANSFIELD. O. Aug. 5 (IPU-
Engineer W. A. YVasemann of the
Wesinghouse Corp. -appliance
plant here has developed a new
device for an automatic clothes
dryer. • "\
---- . - ... . . When a toad of laundry is fln-
whlch will cost the aiAv the dryer plays the tune,
{8,712 more a year m -How Drv, Am-» -
trustees Monday
t minted the pay hikes
nended by Superintend-
t -Gentry, They^ average
kl*.per cent: but this, in*
- several merit raises that
grated along with a cost of
iloost:;
Mr cent pay increases
had been given the 2^6
i teachers in the district-,
too pay' increase went to
Swart, director of curricu
whose annual salary
'Disaster Area'
Growing As U.S.
Gives More Aid
By PATRICIA WIGGINS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (IPUFed-
eral ofigcials promised "disaster ing a discussion of pay increases
was area" status to rain-starved North for bus drivers at Monday night’s
Trustee Says
They're Too
Reckless
School bus drivers on the
^between Highlands and
criticized for reckless driv-
ing. ■
Trustee I, L.'Kellogg, who
lives in Highlands, said the
drivers go around cornprs so
fast the rear end of the bus
whips around. He charged
that the .drivers make a habit of
racing each other. often-yaiiqp
down the highway at two abreast.
Kellogg added that the buses of-
ten have to be pulled out of ditches
where they have skidded. x
"These drivers are teaching the
youngsters that speed laws mean
nothing,” Kellogg said.
Kellogg*! charges came up dur-
Signs Needed -
Freeway's Fine, But
Where Is Baytown?
The beautiful new Houston-Galveston Freeway has ev-
e*y possible facility for the convenience of motorists—al-
most.
Meek Felons
Surrender
To Officers
HOUSTON, Aug. 5 (UP)
sfe- The urge for a drink and
Long Island. Balloon
II||t, which resembles
riea radio equipment and battery-powered
ghtnlng in photo.
emergency The pay was left as it is
By JUD DIXON he found no evidence of mechani-
■ said part of this increase may join tne last-growing rrst of iogg said. WACO, Aug. 5 -HP—An attempt cal failure in either of the buses,
raise because of Stuart’s eligible for emergency The pay was left as it is — *75 by two A* Force civilians to He said he was "beginning to be-
iob of organizing a dr0''<h loans-. a month. Superintendent George clamp censorship on the release of lieve another vehicle was involved,
co-ordinating the cur- The entire states of Tennessee, Gentry had recommended raising r]an)es of ‘dentified dead in Mon- a vehicle which was not hit ai ’
, Leht throughout the dis- Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Miss- the pay to $2.50. <**y s disastrous bus crash near did not stop,”
■ taskbar teachers and coun- issippi, South Carolina, Maine and The superintendent had com- was .-.thwarted Tuesday- . •.
Massachusetts, 44 counties of Mis- plained that it is hard to hire good /be Waco Times Hfrald appeal-
caiarv of Athletic Director s°uci. and 27 counties in Arkansas drivers under the present pay b)p Air Force officials in
rus: rss,ad ,M°‘ *“■ u UM
Rnhert E Lee high The Resignation a Hows the Ag- Most of the drivers are school Fiitarson Air Force Base, Dayton,
in *6 800 instead of riculture Department's Farmers teachers, who- drive after school Ohio,-identification experts, sought
111 s ’ Home Administration to make honrs. to bar release of names of the
. . wpre emergency loans to farmers in. the- , Board President A. R. Stark op- .. , ' .
hlgL Pflaclpa** All area who have suffered crop and posed the increase because it The accident-worst of its type
- ^ f , L^k were livestock losses, and who are un- would make the bus driving pay *? the nation * history - took 28
** able t0 private credit to buy higher than that paid for other bves and injured 25 in a headon
fttsn 55,380 * seed, feed and other items needed extra-hours work, such as coach- ?°IclsI0n a» crest of a hill at
; increases. . . to keep their farms going. ing and counseling. These workers ':25 a,n}; Monday. WACO, Aug. 5 (l'.Pi—Authorl-
J. J. Jones, assistant ro North Carolina asked Monday get *30 a month for working an Tbe attempted censorship appa- ties Tuesday resumed the grim
that it be. added to the list, on the extra hour each day, and *45 for rently was imposed because some task of identifying tiie dead from
basis of a two-months-drouth that an hour and a half. °f tbe unidentified dead are be- the flaming two-Rus craah which
- .... has burned up *11)6 million worth Stark told Gentry to see what *•»■? to, he military PCTsqnnql.
,awch assistant tax a o{ tobacco and an equal value of he could do about getting drivers
•=—>' otber crops. under, the present pay scale with
: Wiilig, director 01 /a"s*Ci ‘ Louisiana farm officials were in- the provision that if it becomes
i maintenance, mOW *3’* vited;to an Atlanta conference too difficult, the matter will be
But members of the Baytown Chamber of Commerce br4?kt lights of the city
were cornplainmg Tuesday that it and other new highways Decame overwhelming and
in this area lack one important item—signs pointing out £wo ^usties walked away
the Way to Baytown. from the Sugar Land prison
The more intricate the freeways and superhighways be- {a™ sometime after supper
come, the more involved become&the job of telling a stran- M°nday night. ______________
ger how to get to Baytown. ------ Both were recaptured eafiiV
--..stt, 7. If a driver who is unfamiliar with highways in the area ty Tuesday. - ;
SO, IT ISN’T—This could aecountfor some flyMg s»uc#r nfmors. - starts out from Houston or Galveston, you might be able Later Tuesday they suffered the
* * JN** fde«»d at MMcheB Air Foiee bMe, to Show him how tff reach Baytown, but it's idrnoat imt»a. S"mmces ot their misbehavior.
Sif.Sew«vL hta' b"‘U" ttere *" 100 fw W10 %
P™ „ way. Fort Bend-Harris county line to
The Baytown Chamber is willing to pay for such signs, Harlem prison farm No. l and put
but policies of the Texas Highway department may block 10 work in the cotton fie,ds'
such action in some Cases. - ' The convicts were identified asf.
Ih, job of . wb-committ* of tbe highway commits of TS
ke to study the needs, confer with El Paso, and Jesus Garcia, 38,
State Highway District Engineer Jim Douglas and find 25 years ior murder from
out just what can be done. Chairman W. T. Busch will „g0 ^nty’ , " '*<■-‘i
name the committee. Marmatyjo was in a jovial mood.
The point was raised at the director’s monthly meeting Chris Weirich foimd^rne^ c^*7ct *
sd, Monday night that the absence of a state highway between re?iin* alon* ^ highway about
“d Eay“w- ^
the only way to reach Baytown from Houston is bv wav of ong som« 100 Holton police-
HJ0h‘S ™utln^ evolves long ferry waits at peak traffic Marmalejo carried an almost
times. Of course^ when the tunnel is completed, this will empty Pint whiskey bottle and sue-
be as good a way as any to get to Baytown • rendered meekly'' P *
“We need more markers off these freewavs and at these „G/rcia was 9?*^ *t 3:45 a.m.,
traffic interchanges,” Thad Felton commented. He snear-
Air Force Tries To
Censor Bus Victims
1
Here's List
Of Dead In
Bus Crash
beaded r?angf’’” Thad Felt°n commented. He spear- soberi along toe road hear Pity,
headed the drive to get more and better routings to Bay- J “ “
uiauircuciuv^ vuea. to S
I5jM0; Carolyn Kilgore, Wednesday on drouth loans—a
11,620 to $4.833: W. L. ware, strong hint that state was due for
,‘iior of industrial arts, from '‘Wisa-te- area” treatment
Only one
been identified since Mbnday'hight.
It was- toat of Charles W. Wright
27, an airman stationed at Cars-
f
Identification expert*
M«*»»:■
land Park just outside the Houston
city limits.
He.*». ‘••"‘•■I.ijffmojitr.'’
to *6.012: J. C. Burkett, sup-
ref instrumental music, from
*6,012; Tommy Seale,
of vocal music, from
to $4,915; and Miss' Edna
, assistant librarian at Rob-
Lee, .from $2,900 to'.*3,150.
r special porsonnel, such as
and counselors will get
creases under the same acale
drouth loans—a discussed again.
There was no discussion of Kel-
logg’s charges of reckless driving.
well Air Force Base, Fort Worth.
Names of 11 dead have been es-
tablished but not all the bodies of
these victims have been identified
definitely.
County, city and state highway
patrolmen said no evidence was
available at this time to indicate
a third vehicle was involved,
though they did not rule out the
possibility,
By CHARLOTTE G. MOULTON won the nation’s highest military Th„
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 W -May- decoration in World War II for risk- rafter toe c^to^n when
nard H. 'Snuffy) Smith, who has ing bis life to put wit a fire aboard flre after the colllslon when their
Woman Bares Hero's Hoax
'Suicide' Publicity Stunt, She Says
«tup or classroom teach- ^ hlg a„^downs a hero. a ^17 bombe" aboard- 4K ST„to^terarn^’ g
Iwrements for extra-hour* faced arrest Tuesday for the served as waist gunner. I manager
When Snuffy broke into the head. for 'southwest Grevhound ^nsMct
lines again, in 1947, it fas for chTrred^ wreekaee aSid
d!imf1 ag(akfit^px>httmoT “there is n° indication that the
nim8^3 r^rlaM1-!,?rea,n’ steering mechanism was the cause
named fir mo, to elderly men 0f the accident.” He said there
who were assured it would'restore were fi0 wheel sUde marks or in.
toeir vigor. He drew a susiiend- dication the brakes on either bus
ed sentence for that one, when the had been applied,
court took cognizance of his war j g Havdnn Fi
record. -
veer »ot raised. Those work- "brave deed” which nnade him the
extra hour each day get *30 joasj 0{ lbe capital last week.
,a mouth and those working,' False alarm charges were lodg-
'f and a halt get.*45. " ed against the Medal of Honor win-
! raises were given clerical ner after a bereaved young moth-
ucreUrial employes by ex- er, whom he "rescued" from a
tithe pay scale'another yeer, sixth-floor window ledge Thursday,
W for secretaries Who work confessed that her attempted sui-
^;tha.: went from *1,950 to cide was just an elaborate hoax.
Mrs. Ernestine Lucille Whom-
ble, 21, said she was offered *500
to fake toe jump because “Smith
wanted, publicity to promote him-
self for governor of Virginia.
Assistant . Corporation Counsel
' Clark King promptly issued a war-
t rhnt for arrest of toe 4t-year-old
.former Air Force sergeant - on
chatges of causing false reports to
the police.. Conviction Von the
from the
State Department of Public
Safety and Wright-Pattenon
Field in Dayton, Ohio, aided
Compton Funeral Home In es-
tablishing identification.
These identified were:
Mrs. Maria C. Mune*, #7,
Waco.
Mrs, Charles L. Tucker, 28,
Georgetown, Tex.
Ronnie Tucker, 7, her son-
Sharon Eilene Tucker, 5, her
daughter. 4 ; r
Nelda Christine Tucker, 20
months, another daughter.
M. B. Herring, Waco, driver of
northbound bus. ■
Billy Malone, Waco, driver of
the southbound bus.
Mrs, Mahle Sigle, hometown
unavailable.
Known to be dead but not pos-
itively identified were Mr. and
Mrs.” Hilario Zamouda of Waco,
Dixieerat Group To Support Ike
Democrat Leaders Spurn Mississippi Rebels
iw,"? ■»-* ITS “
wilfi their pary, nwnlniM heH rebelUMtt fLmrntl^Lff^Sly . ^ p*^'rrl P«i<oftWntioii
» strategy meeting THuriav fa. rind iy with’ 8Qdl a*-tl?n °t Densocraticbodies in the
wme way to xu^nTDwight^ "blaTM toSs”Tn ^ iT^ ,lateul^ be more cleal-
Eisenhower without voting Repub- nort nf iho narK, ll^“g sup* y ^^cated by then. South C«ro-
lican. P°i.nmr>ir!ne-f^rLy nomlnees;,,,, hnas Democratic convention re-
sSSSSsS ^ wjs=ss» »- - v
licans, but an independent move i a
SZ'ZTl For VFWSpeech '
- effort to switch the state Demo- fiOP KI/mviimaa \A/_ _1 j B_ I rCn/> I ' fl
I cratic machine to Eisenhower, de- iNOfniOB© VYOfl T DdCK FEPC LAW
‘ nrMvro v .
School—Page Two)
Spots
Rites Set For
Mrs. Krenek
OPS Chief
To Resign
ing small likelihood of success of DKNVER, Aug, 5 (IP) — Dwight be in, response lb this
such a move. D. Eisenhower planned to fly to tion. s
SjtSs&JSs JstflrtFawift
jraS’SJS&atLfflg' • “ m“ “ " PM1!«
John Sparkman, associates said -the speech, a taste Monday of some of the
f Gov. Adlai Stev
aim Sparkman. . .. . . . . ____________
Ggm^r Mwiday became toe i?-beldeli,I.er.ed T«e|Way night he- tough political problems that lie
rst m flye south©
J. E. Haydon, Fort Worth, of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
was here conducting an inquiry.
One investigator said he was
"beginning to believe” that art un-
known mqtorist, who did .not stop __
y-JSS 5g?rSB'S&f5ai 5%ftfiSTRfia?S Sa£.him>
mm#1P pis pHlli ISi
ing "from hallucinations of gran- a rosary will be recited at 8 , "It is possible* but strictly con- "no matter what happens.” With Eisenhower were “satisfa:- The VFW planned to award Eis- compulsoryFederalFairEmploy-
» wua- deito,” He firmly denied toe sui- p,m. Tuesday at the Krenek home jecture, that something could have Arnall has an appointment with ““7- „ . . enhower its first annual Bernard ment Practices Commission He
. company ,E of the Na-cide attempt wa> a hoax 8MS8M jB Crosby. A 'service win be held at shown up in front of the north- President Truman Wednesday aft- Lffle Mississippi Republican fac- M.Baruch medal. This award is to had taken that same nosition 'nrior
wlll '»«*i i#t j*e he nevir had "seen or met” J&s. 9 a.,n. Wednesday at the.reaid«n<»,' bound bus;” W. B. Stallings^Grey- ernoon, they said, and he may which had to*-- - ^----------.. . . . ... - - .. .=. 5 '
VlfUAmkln Kofneo attoitintlhfl tf) ...UL (..->-*1 .abiJa.. a) fl 'tJfl a >M hiu'l«i4 (fAriAunt '• olatMAi. n mKm4 rtnl*I brillj? up ill© subject of bis ffiSiCTS* VI6W of pfe
tion then. ‘ . ^g^ntled Democrats
5WK SHACK will be
Wursday, Friday and Sat-
»» »wk instead of the
schedule qf Tuesday,
1 *nd Saturday.
«„.D - To Meat •
GUARDETES, women’* aux- deur
attemnt wa_____
_____ w__________ ..een or met” Mrs.
*7:S0 p.m. Tuesday., Whomble before attempting to
SMBve. been asked to drag her iff off toe sixth floor
™> ng tq the meeting for ledge.
-r family the organisation "If this girl was making an act
she should be in Hollywood, Smith
said. - •' , ' -------
" Sffiito, who works" as'a salesman Funeral home,
in a Washington radio-TV store, Mrs Krenek was an active,
said it was ridjgulous to say he ber of the Crosby P.TA
was running band mothers ciub.
he just recently moved into Vir- she i, survived by her husband,
Poland M. Bennet, 27, a Mow- L E enek; a daugher, Mrs,
9 a m. VVednesday at the. residence, bound bus;” W. B
with funeral services at 9:30 a.m. hound general claims
at the Sacred Heart Catholic . “It looked like
ernoon, they said, and he may «<» 1*4-taken- a favorable be presented each year to toe per- to his presidential nomination"
bring up the subject of his. resigns- teamwork with; son^whp "has made the greatest Desjffte .this fact NiS and
church wjth Rev. Paul Michalka, emergency
pastor, officiating: Burial will be boys.
the Catholic Cemetery
Crosby under direction of Crosby
. ..... . .. . . . , Monday contribution to the cause of Ameri- the other five members of the Ne-
ted one of these These officials said Arnall is not Held a harmony session with the can unity and world peace.” gro group said they were "con-
marks and the po- leaving his job in a "huff.” They other faction. —■« ~ .....
Qund^Town
dropi a Pitcher
^ totem* P^fin* coffee
?«ng. Ld^L*^! Z radio-TV Billy i.urtin of Crosby; and two
."Vi ‘he nerve to store 'who was -named b>‘ ^hs'‘ anT’srt “wfirur^renek Ita^ioned
««ew Fitzgerald taking Whomble as go-between in toe ^"l^ Hood ’
l“i ““--JiJESWySS “AS. Lvi.in,^ h„
Mrs. Martin Sralla of Crosby; five
sisters, Mrs. Matilda Bittick of
W. H. Gilbert--of
the buses indicated the said he took the job last February
a u„. across the off toe “understanding” that he
would stay six months. He will
mainten- have spent six months as OPS
Worth, said boss on Aug, 19, - ‘ r , ‘ '
Eisenhower's brief speech will
UN Calls Red Bluff On Prisoner Parcels
Were Commies Sincere About Geneva Convention?
;
•toiler, ber story
fantastic and complete-
on Texas ly false."
^ commenting on how" routin^or'Smith°'H? was busted Dayton, Mrs. w « uiioerv-or ,
W - these state laws are from sergeant to private on AWOL Highlands, Mrs. O. J. Baumbach of
> zt rr; «*- u —*' - irJfis
sf«"m'te*S£s: •=•"»“■s-* SS?55a<S5!
•" ptoa.” that is.
is™ u 13k18 \
:keti 8*h*a tour sea- I
Down Four MIGs
- tfo tn 6 8 to trad#
!l>6ttr 2SJnefme that wants
* NW. The te^ephone num-
.^^“P^ninf about the
»atch^i ?!llJerside, suffered
- 5 in!l8S8istant P°9-nd
Tag tpllil^t’ of concrete
to nAii!1'*' hQw some new-
I « IXs were awad by
8C the county conven-
*mart re'
I. L * "’end's scuffed up
i, JTcnt report* tbflt
5 gomg well with the
and a grandson, Kenneth Martin.
Pallbearers will be Roy A.
IBrown,' Calvin Gilbert, Donnie
HSfttsey, A. H., Franta, Willie
Miehalsky and James Bond.
First Rice Sales
Bring Good Price
Sale of toe 1952 rice crop began
I
<;L
Gen. Van Fleet Hay
Be Up For Rotation
A,
^epartme
SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 5 (U.F)-’rtie
U.s. may move Gen.-James A. Van
Fleet from command of the
Eighth Army in Korea.to another
four-star job soon.
A re juggling of the top echelon DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
of the United Nations command
in Korea seems possible following
“But, lady, thrifty housewives a streamlining of the command
sell their electric .'weepers with and mils t° J«P»" a"f £0re*
Sun Want Ads!” high Washington officials.
JAMES H. RAND
GOES TO WORK-Gen. MacArthur, new
R-mington Rand, Inc- at reported salary of *100,000 » year
lh Ranri naa-V*--* - “
over company records with Rand, nr--
retain?, present inactive arr>v
-
PANMUNJOM, Wednesday, Aug. are «ince.re about the Geneva con- Article 72 of that instrument.”
5 ' m — Korean truce talksi came vention. Harrison proposed toat staff offi-
Sr* srsTB ”*r
challenged the Reds to prove they of negotiators — completed their parcels ^ prisoners of each side.
work and adjourned. Senior dele-
iu| aii . |>i a"1 - gates already were in recess until
UN Pilots Shoot r ww
Maj. Gen. Wiiliam K, Harrison,
chief Allied truce delegate, asked
the Reds to let Allied war prison-
ers in North Korean-camps receive
SEOUL Korea, Aug. 5 (UA—Unit- parcels of food. medicine and cloto-
J* « win show whether2? ^ ^
damaged six more Tuesday in five be ComraunBts were sincere m *l*?\**> «f° barrels of
separate aerial duels over North ft* a«eptance last mopth of toe zemth bringing *10.03 at Alvin.
Korea. The first of the 1952 crop in toe
One of the damage claims waa Article 72 of the convention nro. ®aylown area is expected to be
made by an F-84 Thunderjet, which £ ^ ° prisoners "'shalfte ready for marketing between Aug.
built Red Rghters because of iut any otber individual par- Duncan Bros, of Alvin were 1
slower speed cels or collective shipments of get openers in a sale at
In Tuesday’s battles, the Com- food, medicine, clothing, books and w T ..*7* at
munist jets ventured farther south even musical instruments warehouse in Alvm,
The" iX!Le to™0* 6ddressed request in *** ^ »
UN Planes took their largest writ^g t0 North Korean Gen Nam $10.20 in
toll of MGs since July 4 when n_ head o{ the Communist armi- United
they destroyed 12 .enemy jets. slice delegation was the
probably destroyed another and "Since vou have often expressed
damaged five. ybup interest in supporting toe hu-
While the F-8S Sabre jets were at manitarian aims
work, fighter-bombers attacked all *ventioii,"
across the Korean peninsula,-hit- should be
ting scattered targets. purely
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