The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 255, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1956 Page: 1 of 32
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By UNITED PRESS
Former Series Funds* ]
> Malenkev p*Mk*y mpiidtataa
former mentor, Malta, •tom to charged wttfc R
totapltag ta be a superman.
WASHINGTON - Houae - Senate confer** put final touche* on
oonnevarslal farm bUI designed to toereaa* farm Income about SI
bUU».
S’GTON — Sea. Thye (R-Mtan.) oaaeedM Mtauaeat* amd
primarten (bowed farm veto » winging away from Bv-
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]N0 PRIORITY ON SALK SHOTS
■| chest xjwt [Unit Begins Tour Friday- Special Quota
SCHEDULE ^ m m ^ mmL*. MW. **. M m P _ fA„lL
'DETROIT - Police *ma*h vice ring who* "extremely attract!**"
catt girls included houtowivei and teenager* paid a* much as $300
IKXTl ISLAND, m. _ Roy Eaton, «. to freed after M yearn la
jjfcaen for a crime be new committed.
-jBTON ROUGE, La. - Owner* of Baton Roue* bate ball park
aye notice Negro* will be barred from playing thru.__
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FRIDAY. April d-l# am to
1 pm, Wriafarton’i atom
SATURDAY, April W am.
to S pm, Welagaitoo'. atom
MONDAY, April Mm .to
It noon. Cedar Ragan inherit
I to I pm, Haltaway** «*wery,
Highway MR
TUESDAY, April Ib-ltM am
to S pm Heraoe Mean wheel.
WEDNESDAY, April 1I-SM
am to I pm Raytown Jm-
tor high wbari.
Chest X-Ray Tine Here Again
W'r
Special Quota
For South
Is Rejected
WASHINGTON -UP-The
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Aa oreoarationa progt*a tor rurt one'i cheat to free from de> County TS aneoclation. Fianow M. Brown, dUMtof ef Vtt Public Health Service flwbhf
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cruaade to etort Friday at Wrin- With many community leader. X-ng lari year, you need another ' ’ w_|iuf
nrton'a authorlUejrirem the wtlrilng. the women* Service one now, for you mny have been ^
{SlTfi each pereon to *el an L*gue toegatn eponeortng the an. Infected by TB ferm. ttorlng the »«• toi^iU^ earj
X<ray annually for the peace of nual X-ray campaign In eoopera- past year, or may have developed ™ ,n* 1
C from making Son with the Hourion - Herrin other trouble In the ehtoC Mm. <8* X-RAY-Fage Two)
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Inc the Smith priority on ounw
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OAR GOING WRONG WAY KILLS WOMAN-InJured orittoaBy In * total, head-an ooOtolon whUe
Arirlnc the wrong way on the raeadena, Calif., freeway, Richard Turpin, M, Ilea beride hit car. Ho
* received a pouiblr broken neck, cut throat and muneroua fracturea. Margaret Loutoe Hail, *1, of
Ftuadena, hvaa kiUrd In the other car. There waa no Immediate explanation of the noeident
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LIBERTY. Tw. -UP- Sheriff
W. P. (Red) Roe* ordered up a
freth batch of bloodhound* Thur*.
day to renew the reared for an
§w ocoapod convict.
Thoma*. ». an eacapee from
Ft PUlow, Tenn., honor prtron,
ha* been the object of the largvet
manhunt tn 15 year* In the Ja-
. clnto and Trinity River bottom*
ai« rinro Iwt Wednredny
Thom*s wa* born Ut the aw*
and know* every tree, btwh and
thicket Ho |m* been dubbed "The
Fok" by hi* punuera.
Row »td he feared Dipt if the
w*—Thomaj already haa killed
n at thera-don't ttuah Thomaa
In Auto Crash
doge-Thomar
two of thera-
Thurtday he will
to another state.
be on Ms way
In Briarwood Area.
Drainage Problem Eased
wood Addition
Wednesday at
City Council.
misunderstanding ager, said Ttmr»day the council water at the internet ion Into an
agY approved payment of approximate- 18-lneh cement drain pipe below
___,.ine- ly $400 necetaary for Inatailstton rtreet level, and carry R to the
cleared of two catch baalna at the Inter* drainage ditch two block* away,
meeting of the aertlons of Briarwood and Fourth According to C. W, (R*d>
•ineeto. . Grantham, city public work* dl*
Loot Lost
Baytown1* brawlere burglar
lost some of hto tool Wodoeoday
right, police said Thursday. Sev-
eral hmatiem and n girdle were
found in an alley off Market
stroet to Weat Baytown. Foltoe
record* thaw teveral toirgtortM
In which nothing hut “hr**" and
othar Item* of woman'* under-
wear were token.
Painter Shot/
Walks Block
To Get Help
Two Other Lee High
Students Injured In
Decker Drive Collision
A Robert E. Lee high echool etudent is dead and two
othere are eerlouniy Injured as reeult of an auto-truck trim* in *
crash late Wednesday at the intereectlon of North Burnet ^ t0 8»rgv<m (L-n'rai t^onnrd
because the season rirtk* thera
earlier.
It dtotond "the nation*! toter-
*t can boat bo **rv*d" by oon-
ttnulng th* present nalkmwlde
dutrttwittoa-.togtoBMn-whlrit ell
ttato* get their vaccln* at about
th* atm* ttme.
"Each atate," It aatd, "...need*
It* full share of vaodn* to order
to protect aa large a portion of
ito poputotton *» poMlhl*." -
In anollw. d^op^t, to-
formed aouro* dlsdnaed that the
government ha* daelded to sum-
man the National Polio Advisory
committee Jn*“ *e»»lon In the next
coup)* of weeks to mike a full-
*c»le rc\1?w of the distribution
program on the eve of the 1(M
doIIo SCAtOn.
The committee, which hasn't
met since last June, will consider
such thing* •* broadening the
formula urging postponement of
third ahot* lo extend supplies, ami
determining how far the vaccine
will go thi* year.
The decision of the Health Serv-
ice against giving th* South pri-
ority on current Salk Shipment*
was dlselnsed tn a letter to Ben.
George A. Smalhcrs (OFl» ). A
copy of the letter wn* made
available to the United Proas.
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Civic Meeting
PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS are
invited to attend a meeting of the
SSSEa* UBEKTY TO BEAT DRUM
assist. - fORBIS.BICm^lAL
... mwtoer* sriU be gueri* Frid«r a Ctoed WU tour <MMh Rtatoritof the liberty Btoentenntol
Mgkt at Ooel-Inn, Baytown Junior tf|,bnritos, wffl he to Aewwtowu Baytown at HU pju. Friday to (rot
high recreation center. The Mann •„ a shew that will preview the eelebratton scheduled for April 15-tL
etudent* are asked to bring their The caravan will consist of a sound truck transporting six shew
canteen membership card*. A can-
teen session will not be held Sa'ur-
day night
Auxiliary Meat «—
MRS. LOUIS VAN Meldert will
be hostess'to a meeting of the
American Legion auxiliary at }:M
a.m.Tridayin her home,HlB"Car.
olIne. Almual reports will be mad*.
iBstoNoHoii
JOINT INSTALLATION of offi-
cer* of Robert R. Tuck Po»t No.
912, Veteran* ©if Foreign War*, and ...
the Ladle* Auxiliary will take Th* City Council will meet at ved an appropriation of $890 t<
place at 7:30 pm. Friday at the 7:30 p.m. Wednesdty. Aprll^ lL^to pay expenses of rite, recent fed
«nd Decker drives.
William Warren Culllson,
Culllson of 413 East Wallla-
villa Road, Highlands, died
at San Jacinto Memorial
hospital of head Injuries at « p.m.,
an hour after the crash.
Walter (Pud) Wilaon, 1*. eon of
Mr. and Mr*. John A. Wilaon of
Highland*, and Mike Fulmer, 1«,
son of MY and Mrs Clifford Ful-
mer of Highland*, were admitted
to the hospital. Young Wilson wa*
17, son of Mrs. Elizabeth
■ to the hospital. Young wwson was
37-year-old Baytown painter luffeHng from cuts, bruises and
girls and a school hue carrying Liberty burineeamen. BUI Daniel of
Liberty la the director general and trill be en the hue.
Mtoe Kay Wren, of Houston, who 1* working with publicity group*
for the celebration, said the ahow will be here for about M minute*
and veto he toae to th* puHta. - • -t- ' - ■ ' ^
Follae Chief Roy Montgomery told a police eeaert wilt be awaiting
the arrival ef th* caravan and win accompany the group through
the downtown area- ‘ .. . _——
Council Meets
Set Runoff Election Dote
VFW Hail on Decker Drive.
Romp Missing ninon unweni w.u tropi awsin
TWO ANGLE iron* being used a* R ^ McKee for the District
a ramp at Hamil Electric Co. on .4 council *e*t
make an official canvas* of votes
cast in the Tuesday city council
election and will set a date for the
runoff between W. C. (Pop) Swain
to th* various homo* would have to
be romoved and re-poured to uni-
form height to Insure proper
drainage. 1
The mlnutei of that meeting
show that the cl:
the labor for t... _______ .
residents would supply the m*
torial. According to the minute*,
Oral public housing election, the the figure for curb material
city council election and the run- amounted to 50 cent* per foot,
d Darwin Middleton, eity men- flte four-fooUong, 30-Inch wld. ^Sr^ioHJtort m t£c!^ ^mulK'f^tu^oTthrT.n
nl HThto emmert boxei by a tt-oallbre bullet about * ajn. arm, cut* and bruli**. ------
gt^w&es
rsssrtfs«r,3 jiSSsiHs
drivewayi at homes Mon, the .*%* Into Decker driv. from
Th* problem arose Sept. 22 when VNrobi"t bilked*'from th* rote- Th« oar overturnedandstopped
residents of the addition met with tire's home to .Petty's house and about 10. feet from the point of
the CJty Council to **ek a remedy told him whef happened, Prity Impact, he said,
for the drainage problem on tho said. PHty called an Bartbman The tore* boy* were rsturnlng
section of Briarwood that oatends ambulance and Neabltt wa* taken to toelr home* after attending
from Fourth street to the stroet* to San Jacinto Memorial hospital. C|UM,, at Robert E. Jaw Wednes-
dead-end. Alter motiving em«gency troat- <toy, CuUtootfAJ»Dcte, X«wi# OuUk^
to home, wild have to Hourt<rt' )“«*<*• »« rogalnci eon-
WailpvA-.'i
Junior at L . .
adousneca after the crash amt died
as be was being given medical aid
In th# emergency room at the
hospkal.
City Council
MirS Okays Housing feV* SS X
Vote Returns
East Texas avenue were stolen
Wednesday night, according to po-
lice report*
According to the city charter,
the council mutt conduct an of-
r
h
- Grand Jury —:
LEWIS KLA.BER, 58, charged ,
with growing martouna to flower
pets at'his trallet1 house home on
west Main, was bound over to the
According to unofficial figure*,
the total vote cast to the Tuesday
city election was 1344: The only
contest was in the DlstrM 4 race
In which Swain, McKee and
Arthur J. Undstrom.
Swain polled ««9 votes; McKee,
452, and Undstrom 191. Swain
lacked six vote* of receiving
flclal canvass of votes oh the first
Wednesday after the flrat Tues-
day in April and must Set The
date for a runof.f election, if on*
Is necessary, not less than 10 nor
more than 20 days from tfce date .majority of the total vote and waa
of the official canvas* thus forced Into a runoff with
nw bond after u appro' ,ornw B‘yto’"m pr,!:i
■ a pr-litninary hearing in Juatlc*: tog Wednel^ afternoon, appro- ehief. --
ot the Peace WaltCr Queeh's '
court,
Cor Loafed
Mrs. Maudie, Whitaker Die
Funeral service* were to be hald
at 4 p.m. Thursday at Karthman
chapel tn Highlands, with toe Rev.
and the coat of the driveway ma- Baytown Oty Oouncll, at a urt^u^chur^and ^he^Rlv*
a*., fragg
. The agreement further provide! proval on return* In toe federal , „ rt . M £ u. g»n
for to* eollecUon of money due public housing election held «-ggg SSSEriTlto* UR
from each rorigtot for oonsteuo- March ^ under ditocUnn of Eartom.n's,
tion of driveways, by a spokesman The official canvas* siiowea no gufvivnr. tn the vouth'a mothbr
for thb group, with the money to rhange In the original vote total* 77^* yR°7*^^r
jbe depoilted in escrow and paid of 1,01a for, 8B7 against addltlon.1 nte ' Mr and Mr*
directly to the firms from which federal public housing to Baytown. J1* m m s.
toe material was bought. - When the Issue first cam*.tom Rtek. Sv
None Of the council member* re- council', attention, It voted »»#• K
call where a figure of t» per mou* approval of <»«• AWJiususa-wage a
driveway originated,‘"buy 'money housing unka on application by the ...........
was collected and deposited, on a Baytown Housing authority. Later,
baste of that figure. al a public hearing, the eoitocil
Middleton said the amount TJf-reselnded,It* action and ordered
alope required On varloua drive- a referendum.
** 1 ttme
RBPREMENTATIVE - (dry-
ing cotton bell corsage* tor the
40 delegate* from M countrtee,
Marilyn lie* Grave*, l»-year-old
4-H girl from Ibbron, Mtea,
leave* Waehington, D. ft, tor an
International teen - age confer-
ence In Faria Ahe wee ehoeen
by a national magaalne to re-
present the 3,000,000 teen-age
girls to the United Atate*.
— (International)
A, Scheelc (hat FlorMa’a shore of
tho nation’s vaccine supply be In-
creased now on the grounds that
polio hits there 'curlier each
yrnir limn In any other atete, and
"other states are not *v»n using
their full Allocation." Later on,
he said, Florida's allocations
could ho cut so that over the year
tt would get no more vacelno than
any other area,
tn reply, the health acrvtee
said, "our concern In this pro-
gram is lo prevent too largest
possible number of cases of polio
this year," Die earlier season to
the South, tt said, "must be
weighed against r*M»aD varis-
ttQna Inf pbfiomjf*ntlB attack
rate*."
SMvers To Testify
In Crystal Qty
Land Bribe Trfal
AUSTIN -UP- Gov. Allan
Shivers wa* expected to go Thuri
dsy to Crystal Qty to appear as
a witness In the trial Of J. Paul
Idttler Crystal tSty attorney ac -
cused of ottering a brilw In con-
neellon with toe veterans land
program
The governor'* office said Sldv-
m was told he prohahly would
be called to appear Thursday aft-
ernoon.
Uttlo'* trill opened Wednesday
at Crystal City on ono of three
Indictment* slleglng he offered a
bribe to former I-and Commis-
sioner llaacom Giles, now serving
a slx-ysar sentence In too atate
penitentiary on oonvtctlnns In con-
nection with
.scandal.
the veterans land
3. W. HAWKINS of Highlands re- Ran Qjj 0QQ5Q Creek Boerdinq House c^pefdSi?Mto2t ^toe av* toritos'taunoll sttpulatad that B
■> ‘ ' ■ - - w . . erage coat of the approximately 20 would abide by the declsWn of to*
Funeral Aerrices tor Mrs. Maude Hi M. Whitaker of Baytown, driveway* constructed waa about electorate, and at th# n*«t toting
Civic Week
Dinner Sef
paritlag lot
Robert E. Lse high school stud-
portci to police Thursday morning —~ , erage cost of the approximately 20 would abide by the
that:ion» on* brokt tote kta m- mMlti Hi M-Whitaker of Baytown, ' driveway, constructed was about electorate aw at to# n«txm)«mg ^g. js. w.r,
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Nothing Unusual, Dockmen
Say In Explosion Inquiry
Dockmen aryl pumphouse sm- ployes testified, Although *u«h a
ploys* of th# Baytown rsflnsiy, situation setdom arise* during the
qussttoned by tb* Coast Guard loading of th* tankers, It 1* not
t»o*rd Wwtoeaday In the public considered •‘unusual,'' they said. ^
hearing concerning the explosion All wore quretioned at length
of the Esso Patertqn, Inilatsd thAt shunt a riew-type bonding cable or ,
nothing unusual oocurrod at th* “statta Mhe" wttteh WH uled diilKt'’
dock* or on the ship during ths- Esau Paterson on the night of th#
tow hours preceding ths explo* exploslonf and about too pump*
slon. . And pressure used to force the fuel
Kerosene did not flew, and could torcugh th* plp#iln# to the ship
not b# pumped Into th* No, I tank
Around Town-
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Rain On Tap For Spring Gardening ' ■
Rev. Ira H, Jones, officiating.
Burial win be In Hollywood ceme-
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MRS. JOE FARLEY hanging on Botm'tomn toaT^lo^air
to the kiddie* white her husband operated a boarding house in old
•hows off his pretty roses . , . Goose Creek during toe early (toy*
Jerry Btaan, Henry Schulte# and of the dty. ,
■- Don Camp giving out with some - she died Tuesday m a Houston
■ mmt
WUf IftUMr. .... . _________ . ..........
has found * new home—one to her She 1* survived her husband,
llktag^... ■ Edna Jett passing John M. Whitaker of Baytown;
around that smile of her* ... Mrs. four daughters, Mrs Adda Oopple
Everett# Jonea enjoying her new and Mr*. Kate Milter, both of Bay-
position over on Marion atreet - towp; Mae. IL‘L. JnrtfM' M -|
Doc Satterwhite.**ya the trouble Gardner, Mont, and Mrs. A. *
with his tape recorder ha* ceased 5f*”**^ ^
ta be a laughing matter . . C. F. C Whitaker of Houston, R-’E. «4 .
Purdy looses a. little'sleep'''each;'-
Sunday night waiting for hte chil-
dren to Wave the recreation hall
R.C Soils greeting hi* friend*
with * pleasant "hello". . , Bysjrd
Sony expects to be a much busier
man vrrv *oon. * ...
Ray and BIB Ferguson drooling
over a beautiful boat . . • B- B-
.WUltama getting Inatructiona on
t to n*e the
MNGS EVER 1
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hr*-.-ditto Gordon Wttaon and
Hern Hinkle . . . Shorty Sander.
- - Mg eye on ba^ . . *
workta* and work-
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Pago
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rif dfta* weak-
Dr. S. A Shaffer of the Baytown
refinery will b* gU#tt spmker. HI*
•object, and the theme for the
program, will be "I'uWlr relation,
for youth leader* today and work!
" Biinftaritah wlU be toastmaeter; 8pftag-ljW (MwimtlttW AMI
... «f«flras ant^etiatlon of *Iv(a iifgalj*
Did You Know--
and and ta eolllelon with cooler air,
*.'•1
thundershower* Ttair. . I. ■
furnlah motaturo
and Friday ta
for th* aoll ta n
planting and
’Urns**,
roadtaaaa for spring
growing. _ , . .
Mr, typl-
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to* praa* ermferewwtfcat taM KeHyggB wSefcy f*r
Mam talik
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