The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 221, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1954 Page: 3 of 24
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'Homegrown' Talent On Shrine Club Show BHB
12 Acts Scheduled For Crippled Children Benefit
A trio of talented Baytonian* school, and Lee college, Leon at- 12-adt variety revue booked early Bf- M'
will be featured on Baytown tended Sam Houston Teachers col- last year by Entertainment Chair- JttflEpi
Shrine Club’s variety show and re- lege, and is currently stationed in man Norman D'Olive who will ero- If ' ®
J vue Friday and Saturday nights. BaytoWn. cee the show. The show starts k&uM - »A'I'
Mss Julie Bonner, petite accord- Joe Fred Whitfield is a native promptly at 7:30 p.m. both nights.
fcmtot, is a Robert E. Lee high of Baytown who is returning from ‘The U tickets also admit the
school co-ed whose artistry in- Tyler for the two-night show. Joe holder to the Crippled Children's §. - jp MPgPT'TPglj
eludes popular and semi-classical Fred’s parents moved to West Tex- Dance in the Baytown community HgV' -
numbers as well as imitations and as when he was a tot. thence to building Saturday night," D'Olive ■§£ i H Wtm
\ novelty tunes Tyler where he has grown Into a concluded.
Leon Sanders, basso profundo, U handsome teen-ager. He stated also that special music IMfL
a native son whose resonant voice Joe Fred has a new routine, and and lighting effects will be used I . aMI '
: has pleased audiences in the Gulf a technique which he has not during the stage show which fea-
* Coast area for several years. A pulled before on local audiences. tures the Robert E. Lee high school f ij* ,
graduate of Robert E. Lee high These three artists are part of a band^Beverly Bergeron, the magi- - J|l t*
l _ _______ «ene Lauiand, harmony duo; Ma£
i Texan Charged With ES~ JlTS
| Hitchhiking Murder SsSif
LORDSBURG, N.M., Feb. 18- The district attorney's office said All funds from the sale of tickets
UP—Marvin H. Vaughan, 30, was it also planned to file charges go to the Shrine Crippled Children’s iauad.lm _ _
charged Wednesday with murder- against Waughan’s wife. The cou- Hospital. The tickets are now be- “* wo”t Britlril
ing an Alabama hitchhiker, but au- pie was arrested at Midland, Tex., ing sold by Baytown Shriners and wlnter Year*’ Pauline M.
thorities could not fathom the mo- Sunday when the wife of the dead Master Masons. AdF> awmber of the rugged
tive for the slaying. man, Mrs. Flora Burgess, passed in addition to the big stage show “PoIar Bears,” dons an expo-
a note to a service station attend- and dance, Shriners will also have suit and - helmet, breaks
ant- , a big parade through downtown into thin lee and goes for a
Mrs. Burgess told authorities Baytown next Saturday afternoon, swim in Laughing Water creek,
‘after the arrest that Vaughan shot beginning at 2:30 p.m. While the Dartford Kent (International)
her husband. Amos, twice in the parade is under way, Major James
head with a Luger pistol Saturday, T. Crump of the local unit of
after the Vaughans had picked State Air Guard will lead a squad-
them up in Arizona. She said ron of eight jet planes through
THE BAYTOWN SlfN, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY It, >954
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Rabies Epidemics Hi1
Three Texas Cities
DALLAS, Feb. tt —UP—A »
par-old bjrtcher, John K. Santa*
________,— --- ------------- ___ —. ». was free Thursday in 81,000
=: ‘jxtm
Wednesday. The worst rabies outbreak was ' ' "
‘T’ve been sitting here quietly," at Santa Rosa in the Rio Grande
he said, “and I’ve come to the Valley, where seven mad dogs
conclusion that neither side knows have been reported this year and
what you're doing. 21 persons are taking the Pasteur
"Neither side know* what you treatment for rabies.
W?,nAl V know. HofheinZ Mid
. “ Slde knows you Houston situation was a "semi -
..." epidemic," and proclaimed "Ra-
Then Burdick sat down. bies Control Week."
The third outbreak was at Ama-
1 Survives
r Dudley Johnson, assistant direc-
A||Ia Pwfieh tor of the Cameron county health
MUTW wrasn unit at Santa Rosa, said a "def-
inite emergency’’ existed. It was
SEDALIA, Mo., Feb. 18 -UP- pf“posed do*! J*
Only one member of the Wffliax ** “ Ind Johnao, urged
E. Sprinkles family survived a col- that owner* tav* &tir «*u
lision of an automobile and a Mis- vaccinated,
souri Pacific passenger train here Johnson said not all of the per-
Wednesday night that took the live* son* who were taking rabies treat-
of six persons.
The accident occurred at a cross-
ing less than two blocks from the
Sprinkles home. Sprinkles, who was
driving, had passed the intersec-
tion many times 1b and from his
Colts Sign Eesirom work as a glass factory employe-
BALTIMORE, Feb. 18 —UP— Dead were the 43-year-old
Roy Ecstrom, 270-pound center Sprinkles, his wife, Frances, three
from Westminister College, Thurs- of their four children, and Mrs.
day became the 21st player to Sprinkles’ father, Lester Dillard,
sign. a 1954 National Football 70.
The, chilren who died, in the
12s 3?
12-79’
Charter At Dinner
home early Wednesday morning.
More than 150 Cub Scouts, he went to the apartment again,
parents and guests attended tb# Samaras said his wife tod him
annual Charter Dinner for Cub she wouldn’t go home, and ha shot -
Paek 142 Wednesday night at the her and Bowers.
smsw'&rars - SB S
them had handled dogs later diag- Father M. A. Hebert, assistant fA-J T_..l___
nosed as rabid. pastor of St Joseph's Catholic Alff XIKXH ICdCncr
At Houston, humane officers ohurch, was the principal epeaker. ui j « |f_AU1 ».aa._
were ordered to pick up all strays. Paul Cater, chairman of organiza- WOUIQ MOW DClicT
More than 1,000 dog* had been tlon and extension for the East
impounded by Wednesday, and 182 Harris Boy Scout district, present- UN FRANCESCO. Feb. 18- '
of them killed. They were held in ed the new charter for the p*ok ur Bnonenra of the sonar neo- i
the pound 72 hours and then put to Dan Girard, grand knight of pig, symphony concertsdecid- ('
to death In a gas chamber. the sponsoring Knights of Coluin- ^ Thursday to taeoe precram* I
AmarDlo authorities took action bus. to yuan* members of the aud- I
Be* Kloesel served as matter of few* .ft«r the concert
tl.J___B|-_. Dtl.t I. oeremonlea. Cub Scouta of the Musicians said It was dte*
Modem Plane rfloi is p*<* p* <*, *»«■* * nay ww#
it* e* h ai aij and group.singing. George Toupa airplanes were aoarlag
Like NfllJor Of Old Cubmaster of Pack 142Lend R. through the opera boose.
unv «AiNWi vi vim v Comeaux ie assistant Cubmas- .............. ' J ,, T*
MIAMI, Feb. n — UF—H
Mrs. Blanche I. Morse sued to
divorce Kenneth C. Morn, aa
employe ef Pea American Air-
lines.
She charged her husband has
a girl in every airport She
named them.
niblets, vacuum pack
Low Bidder On
Funeral Jiome
High By $12000
Rmf'j In Heavy Syrup,
PFAfHFC 2 5
An anouncement will be made Hew Mexio police found Burg-
Friday by the Art Simpson Fun- eSs’ body eight miles east of
eral home on whether a contract Lqrdsburg in a clump of bushes,
is to be awarded the low bidder Sheriff B: C. Richards said the
on the funerarhome’s nevf build- case 'was “the strangest I ever
ing or whether new bids will be worked.” . .
asked for He and sheriff Ed Darnell of Mid-
o '. . , . land found *21 in Burgess’ poc-
Seven bide were recleved and kets_ an(j discounted robbery as a
opened publicly Wednesday, but motive for the kming Nor ^d
the lowest bidder’s estimate was Parnell uncover any motive by
about *13,000 more than was ex- questioning the Vaughan couple,
pected, Simpson said. Midland police said Vaughan
Low bidder on the construction gave Ormandale, Fla., as his ad-
was Martin Construction Co. of dress hut that the couple was tran-
Galveston, whose bid totaled *63,- sient without any established home.
175 with an alternate on automatic Burgess was a former Alabama
doors of *450. Bids ranged up- lumber jack,
wards to *79,750. Yau*han /*«nedu a" «tn,du>n
Simpson said that Bill Martin, jwWfrjnH *«
the low bidder, Architect Lowell Mexicf n^t wik N
Lammers and he will confer Fri- C ’ 1
day, and arrangements will be
worked out Rites Arranged tor Sawmill Victim
The four low bidders will be in- HENDERSON, Tex., Feb. 18 —
vited to submit new bids if the UP-Funeral services were ar-
speciflcations are changed in or- ran«ed J- W. Sibley, 21, Cross-
der to reduce cost, he said. * £.?ads' i^ex., who was killed j
f*1 ducted by Bayshore minis- cbtiies were 'caughfto a “pulley j
tera is scheduled for that date.. and he was crushed to death. 1
League contract with the Balti- T... vi.lL L.
more Colts. Ecstrom was the Colts crash were two-year-old Dickie,
28th draft Choice and is believed Lyla. 14.' and Carol, 9.
to be one ol the biggest rookies -_■ ’
in the NFL.
—-- school. He was a top-ranked grid-
„ . . . .. . . iron and track star at Cleveland
Saturday is the most dangerous high school, following literally in
day of the week to drive your car. the footsteps of his brother Billy,
according to the National Safety outstanding star at the univer-
Council. Tuesday is the safest. sity two years ago and last year a
Adolphus!
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 221, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1954, newspaper, February 18, 1954; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1042429/m1/3/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.