The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 207, Ed. 1 Monday, February 7, 1955 Page: 1 of 12
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^ A warm sun started drying up the soggy Baytown area
Monday morning, and citizens started to work to repair
the damage left by 8.02 inches of rain and a small twist-
by 8.02 inches of rain and a small twist-
r in xne i ri-Gity Beach area.
City Public Works Director C. W. Grantham said he
me damage
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could not yet estimate the rain damage in dollars and
cents, but that it was heavy in all parts of the city.
All repair crews were pressed into action Monday, but
it will take several days, barring more rain, to patch up
the streets, which, in some sections of the city, were left
full of "pot holes," Grantham said.
Tin and lumber were scattered along Tri-City Beach
road west of the Cedar Bayou bridge where a twister
Friday afternoon blew the C. W. Montgomery home off
its blocks and blew a barn down at the Gene Jennings
home. The Jennings home was also partially uprooted
from its foundations.
The twister shook down several garages and even blew
a railing off the Cedar Bayou bridge.
One woman said the wind became high and there was
r roaring sound in the air “like a Oklahoma tornado."
The twister hit at about the same time the rest of the
Baytown area was getting three inches of rain in 45
minutes.
Grantham said that work on sewer line extensions,
water mains and storm sewer installations had been
considerably retarded by the rain and will not be re-
(Seo RAIN, Page Two)
PARIS. Fob. 7 —— Antoine
Piney, a small town businessman
who aerved aa premier for el*ht
inonhta and 15 daya and didn't
like it, aald Monday he hoped to
form France’! Slat postwar gov-
ernment hy Thursday.
LADIES, NOW YOU CAN
SLEEP POUNDS AWAY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7- UP -
President Eisenhower will unveil
the administration's program for
easing the nation's critical class-
room stortage In a special educa-
tion message this week, Informed
sources said Monday.
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 7 -UP-
Vlce President Richard M. Nixon
arrived here Sunday on the first
stop of a month-long 7,500-nille
good will tour of the Caribbean
and Central America.
CHICAGO, Feb. 7—(IP>—Engineer Nell Sotter said Monday he has
Invented a simple electronic device which can put people to sleep
and help them lose weight.
Setter, «fl. developed the machine In two years’ sparetime work,
lie said It already has proved a boon to persons troubled with
insomnia and too murh Height.
The machine ran also reduce pain during natural childbirth, he
said.
Using rhythmic sound timed to the rate of a person’s breathing,
the machine can put him Into a deep sleep In J# minutes, Salter said.
By telling his wife, I.illian, not to eat between meals while she
was under the machine’s hypnotic spell, he helped her to loan 14
pounds, Setter said.
The machine’s subject, he said, sits In an easy chair and peers In a
light protector. The projector emits a greenish light which Increases
In Intensity while he exhales and decreases while he Inhales.
Meanwhile, a featherweight headset brings the subject similar In-
creases and decreases In a sound tone.
Gradually, the sight-sound cycles slow down from the normal
human breathing rate during activity to that normal during rest,
and finally down to It a minute.
By that time, the subject, who has been following the device with-
out conscious effort, Is asleep, Setter said.
Evacuation
Of Islands
Unmolested
By EARNEST HOBERECHT
TAIPEI, Formosa, Feb. 7-UP-
Communlst ships and planes which
dominated the Tachcn area for
weeks fled Monday before ships
and planes of the U.S. Seventh
Fleet and the Nationalist navy
evacuating the Nationalist garri-
son to Formosa.
No shots were reported fired.
Some unofficial ceaSeflre seemed
Danubina Acres -
Drainage Row Loom
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By ROSALIE MYERS
Sun Staff Writer
Danubina Acres residents who
were “almost washed away” by the
weekend downpour, will have a
representative group at the City
Council meeting Thursday night to
insist that the city take steps to
improve drainage east of Danubina
street.
The group will be headed by
Dave Parish, who lives at 1704
Wright Boulevard, where, he says,
a drainage ditch was “cut to drain
water uphill."
The drainage problem in that
area has long been a sore spot be-
tween property owners and the
city.
Parish said the city officials
claim that the drainage through
the area was cut before consolida-
tion and city officials of the old
City of Goose Creek failed to get
an easement so nothing can be
jiontf yww toward improving the
had in Baytown, and the water
was within a half Inch of running
in these houses then. Several
garages had water standing all
over the floor, and everyone's lawn
was flooded," he said.
Parish said property owners in
the area have been attempting for
two years or more to “get some-
thing done,” but city officiate have
failed to make any effort to assist
them with the problem.
*'We also have requested street
lights-asked for them long before
Fair Park was even dreamed of,
and when the time came to al-
locate etreet lights, who got ’em?
We didn’t," he said.
The street light matter also may
be discussed, he said.
Among the group planning to
attend the meeting with Parish
are Curtis Dunk. J. C. McMur-
rough, Jr., and L. A. Boadle.
Civil Defense Study--
California 'Scoops'
U.S. On Bomb Terror
SUN SPOTS Port Officials Push Expansion
They'll Meet Wifh Chamber Directors Here
ditch. As a result, property '*
to dam the
Cake Auction
BOY SCOUT TROOP 328, spon-
sored hy the Elks lodge of Bay- Two high officials of the Port They are Judge J. S. BraceWell, both sides of the channel
'f Houston will come here to meet chairman of the port’s five-man ..port are&.. and to ive th
toSm, will have a homemade cake °f Houston
auction at 7 p.m. Monday at the directors
as a
of the Baytown commission, and Gbl. Warren
Scout house on Texas avenue. Par- Chambe# of Commerce at 7:30 Lamport, general manager of the
ents and Elks are especially in- P m-
vjthd to attend. Troop leaders are tend
UVVVV liuuvt VIS 1VAOX Ty
ents and Elks are especially in- P m' Monday about efforts to ex- port.
~ th* “port area" to include a The port is trying to get public territory,
give the port
joint rights of eminent domain
(land condemnation) over that
erg have the right
ditch across their property ahd
some have done Just that”’
At least two property owners,
Parish said, filled the ditches to
focus attention on the serious
drainage problem In area, and “no
one blames them for doing It."
Parish said residents have gone
to the city officials several times
requesting relief, but were told
that the property owners them-
selves would have to obtain ease-
ments from one end of the ditch
Iph Pierce, Troy Sorrells, Dur- abater area adjacent to the Ship support for a movement to desig- «w« believe the people of Harris
od Meadows and Lowell Her- channel,
ijngton.
jtist Meeting
f JACINTO Baptist association
btherhood will meet at 7 p.m.
|sday . at the First Baptist
iirch in La Porte wiht P. J.
vS, president, presiding. James
SWhirter, chief of police at Bay
City, will be guest speaker.
$192 For
Library
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Ai;>i ' blood stream of Industry and com-
W ItlAVC merce>’’ Judge Bracewell said,
wlllvl9 “and we believe that if steps are
. . a m _ not taken now to protect the port’s
IlnHer Study lnterest-geographlcally-the costs
to the other before the city would
consider improving the ditch.
Father Dies
Vest Humble, have gone to Gra-
hfcm to attend funeral services for
her father, E. W. Maher, who died
Sunday.
Preliminary reports from solici-
tors show $192 subscribed in the
current Friends of the Baytown
Library membership drive it was
reported Monday by John W.
Striokler, chairman.
The annual membership drive,
may be too great and expansion
impossible 20 years from now
Supt. George H. Gentry’s an- when Harris county numbers two
nual recommendation of adminis- million people."
trativc personnel will be received at One of the direct results of the
a special meeting of the sctiool ays- effort would be to provide right of
tern’s board of trustees at 7:30 pjn. way for a freeway through the
Monday. heart of the City of Pasadena by
The recommendation, usuatiy use of the present Southern Pacific
made in January before the sec- right of way, he pointed out.
“We feel that it is the city's
business to obtain the easements,
and that we are entitled to a de-
cent drainage ditch out here," Par-
ish said.
"There are 41 houses on Wright
boulevard where drainage is badly
needed. Some of these houses are
built on slab foundations, and the
water literally comes in the houses
during a very heavy rain.
"Friday's downpour, we know,
was not the worst r*in we've ever
WASHINGTON, Feb* 7-UP-
Califqrnla has scooped, the federal
government hy publishing details
of the H-bomb’s vast power to kill,
destroy, and poison.
It did so in a state ctvil defense
study reporting among other things
that H-bomb "fallout" can spread
death and sickness for hundreds
of miles beyond the super weap-
on's explosive reach.
Tills fallout—radioactive atomic
fragments and dust silting down
from the explosion cloud—can pot-
son a region of 4,000 square miles
or larger, the report said.
This “new and important anti-
personnel effect" of the H-bomb,
the California study added, “pre-
sents an urgent reason tor re-
has access to some of the world's
foremoht authorities on radiation
and other atomic bomb effects.
They are the scientists working in
the University of California radia-
tion laboratory at Berkeley.
The California report was Issued
last Dec. 23 but has Just recently
come under study here. It assumes
thst Russia can deliver atomic
weapons ranging in power up to
20 million tons TNT equivalent.
examining all previous disaster
planning."
Authoritative sources here said
Monday that the report's basic
"assumption" is In substantial
agreement with still secret data on
superbomb, effects brought back
from the Pacific proving ground
after last spring’s H-bomb test se-
ries.
These sources pointed out that
the California civil defense office
There have been unofficial reports
that the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion tested a weapon of that mag-
nitude at Bikini last year.
Given such ■ bomb, “severe to
total damage or destruction ts
probable out to a minimum of 7-11
miles" from the detonation point,
the California report said. Lesser
damage from blast and ftl-a could
occur out to 40 miles away.
The March 1 H-bomb explosion
at Blldnl last year spread radio-
active fallout more than 100 miles
from the test site, but neither the
AEC nor any other federal agency
so far has published an authorita-
tive report on this or other effects
of the superbomb.
to be In operation In the early
hours of the pullback In which the
first three shiploads of Nationalist
troops arrived in the northern port
of Keelun under U.S. protection.
Military sources reported the
operation was running smoothly
and that it was expected to be
finished this week. All early re-
ports said the area was quiet but
observers emphasised the danger
was not over and that the danger
of war will last throughout the op-
eration.
The entire commando corps of
the Tachens under Cmdr. Yang
Yuan-Chung was taken off Tachen
before dawn and brought to the
northern port of Keeling aboard
one warship and two LSTs (land-
ing ship, tanks.)
First reports said "all was
quiet" and that the Communists
were lying low. But Peiping radio
angrily accused the United States
of criminal Infringement on
China's sovereignty and warned
thst U.S. participation In the evac-
uation could start a "major war."
London dispatches said either
Britain or India was believed to
have received a prior assurance
from Peiping that the evacuation
action would be unopposed since
any shooting could start a war be-
tween the United States and Com-
munist China.
Taipei press reports said there
were no Communist planes In the
air although the sky was filled
with Jets from the six mighty car-
riers of the 70-ship U S. task force.
They said Red ships which had
massed less than 10 miles away
were no longer tn sight.
The United States threw 45,000
sailors and fleet aviators Into the
operation that would carry the
ships within sight and shooting
distance of the Communist shore.
They were under orders to shoot
back If they were fired on.
Another 3,000 Americans manned
F-86 Sabrejet stations on Formosa
to defend It agalast any Commu-
nist bombing attack from the
mainland.
Downed
Inferior, Say
U.S. Fliers
Band Parents Meet
CEDAR BAYOU Band parents are
having a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Mon.
day at the band hall. Mrs.’ L. O.
Mustek, president, wil preside.
Middleton Rejects Patrol Car For Auxiliary
~City Manager Rules ’Extra’ Police Lack Authority
ed by the executive council of the the superintendent and the board Sanders anil R. B. Hemphill, form- '
Around Town-
R. B. Hemphill, form-
Friends organization. Proceeds are wrestled with building problems er members of the commission.
utilized to buy new books for the tlwt stemme<1 from bids on new Gordon L. Famed, new .president
buildings exceeding architect es- of the Chamber of Commarce, will
timates. be presiding at his first meeting
The board usually elects the staff since being installed at the annual
as early aw possible so the admin- dinner on last Jan. 24.
istrative staff, in turn, can work
local library and to finance other
needed improvements.
Particular effort- is being placed
on this year’s drive with the aim
vna
are not entitled to patrol cars un-
rulat
Manager Nelson McEiroy said
of establishing a surplus to'be set with the superintendent in select- that other organizational matters
aside as the beginning of a build-
ing fund.
ing remaining members qf
faculty for the coming year.
will be. discussed as the group
plans another year of work.
Baytonians Have Narrow Escape In Crash
Channeiview Worker Is Killed In Headon Collision
EVELYN TRCHALEK has a big
let-down when she learns of a
certain exasperating event ... Ni-
wassa Box trying to be clumsy and
finds out she’s more clumsy when
she’s not trying . . . Janet Kim-
ball, trying to gain weight, still
drinking that big glass of milk
every night
Nadine Jimerson getting an op-
portunity to use her singing tal-
ent . . . Becky Dickerson grinning
M„ EUan 0„„ w,,t
lane atrip of Market Street Road,
A Baytown family escaped ser- baby son, Terence, 13 months, suf-
ious injury Sunday night in a traf- fered bruises and abrasions. Their
fic accident which claimed the life . . *
of Harold Frank Barnett, 39, on n»vbL *' a”d
Market Street Road near Channel- avJ-d 5 "’ were un,n3<Jred.
The cars, driven by Owen and
favorite “boy friend"
Hazel
Stegall trying hard to make up a Homan, suffered a broken right
fkUclou, ni. ,M »“ l° S“
fit. arss-srs.1
about a half mile west of the point
Barnett, a Channeiview pipefitter,
was on his way from Baytown to
Greens Bayou at the time of the
accident. The Owena were driving
toward Baytown.
Barnett was thrown out of his
car and killed almost instantly, A
physician who happened to be
driving past the scene stopped and
where the two and three-lane pronounced him dead
who are having a case of the sore treated and rPiease<j Her husband stretches of the road converge:
throat ... Ida Stevens trying to _ ____t__, ____i-,_______ ______
throat . . . Ida Stevens trying
keep her cup from running over
. , . Anna_ Powell threatening to
throw a monkey wrench into a
friends statement . . . Bill Cates
get! her giggle box turned com-
pletely over. ' ;
'Lou McFarland runs an errand
and comes in late to a meeting...
CJebreia Pilerini makes a public
Harry Dunkerly, 85, Buried
Retired Refinery Man Died Saturday
Barnett was a pipefitter for the
Tantco Piping Co. of Houston and
ajnember M Pipefitters Local No.
211.
Owen is employed in the rigging
department at the Baytown refin-
ery.
der regulations governing opera-
tion of the unit. City Manager C.
Darwin Middleton ruled Monday.
Middleton’s decision was made
at a meeting of city department
heads Monday morning after City
Councilman Herbert Campbell
presented a request by "some
members" of the auxiliary force
that they be furnished a patrol
car.
City Attorney George Chandler
told Councilman CampbelUhat ae-
rord'ng to a ruling by Atty. Gen.
John Ben Sheppard auxiliary po-
licemen ere not vested wrii the
authority to carry weapons nor *.o
make wests, except by explicit
direction of city governing br-dlee.
‘Our auxiliary officers have
been a great help to the city,"
Mlddlton aaid. "They are not paid
for this service, which is strictly
on a voluntary basis. They are
used to aid traffic control, to help
handle parades, other holiday
functions and be on hand at foot-
ball games.
"The city very carefully screens
all applicants for work with the
auxiliary police unit and training
classes are held at frequent inter-
vals to acquaint the officers with
their dqtles."
Baytown now has approximately
80 auxiliary policemen, who buy
their own uniforms and who have
substituted tor regular policemen
at times when the force was short-
handed, the city manager ex-
plained.
He added, however, that the city
doe* not provide patrol cars for
auxiliary policemen. "They must
ride with officers of the regular
police force," he said.
Shepperd Fires Back In Row
With State Senator Phillips
AUSTIN. Feb. 7 - UP—Attorney mer Land Commissioner Bascom
General John Ben Shepperd Mon- Giles and started out, "Dear Broth-
day accused Sen. Jimmy Phillips er Giles."
—the lawmaker who hauled Shep- A few minutes earlier. Phillips
perd for a second time before a had linked Robert Trotti, Shep-
Senate investigating committee of perd’a first assistant attorney gen-
using his office to gain special at- eral, with a request for speedy ap-
tentlon from the Veterans Land praiaal on some West Texas land
Board. that Involved Rep. Waggoner Carr,
Shepperd, who quickly said there Lubbock, as one of 10 veterans In
was nothing wrong In the action, the proposed transaction,
read Into the committee record a Phillips said records showed ap-
By FRED RKHAL
TOKYO, Feb. 7 -UP-Two U.S.
pilots who shot down a pair of Red
MIG jet fighters over the North
China Sea Saturday, said Monday
that both the Communist planes
and the Red pilots were Inferior.
Both said they found the highly-
touted Russian built jets easy to
handle and added “the MIGs never
will compare with the American
F-85 (Sabrejet).”
Capt. George F. William of 3309
Cherry Lane, Austin, Tex., told a
press conference, "I had no
trouble with them,” and 1st Lt.
Charles D. Salmon of Port Jervis,
N.Y., agreed that the Red MIGs
"didn’t show much."
Both expressed surprise that six
other MIGs offered no fight when
the two Red planes got into ob-
vious trouble. The othef six zoom-
ed away instead of joining the
fight.
"If the situation had been re-
versed," William said, "you can
bet the other American planes
would have come to the aid of
any stricken plane.”
tetter from Phillips seeking early Dlication was filed Jan. 7, 1954.
appraisal—In behalf of some vet- Trotti telephoned, requesting
July 26, 11
erons-of some Fort Bend county etriy^sppraisal mJMly
The letter was addressed to for- July 27, 1954—the next day.
QUICKIES . . By Ken Reynolds
appearance Wearing her uniform Keriy, ao were nem ai jo-ajn. mo« . r^mk , ’ -
r w VoFarlanH rldin? around daY at the Paul U. Lee funeral
“ipr,Sh“
Lane In Lakewood, «Bd their phone Saturday at his home at j^j
Still No Opposition
For (^ Candidates
Mayor R. H. Priiett and Council
Ft. B. Bergeron, H. M. Campbell
and Lacy Lusk were still without
announced opposition Monday in
their Md for re-election in the city
ctection April1* '
and mar# good weli wishes}o her foreman aUthe Baytown Refinery pjeted their Pain t-?h*-lWn on JaU. 2*.
out in Room M9 when he retired. * prp|ecL markfng off parkhlfplaces Prospective candidate! have un--
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Deer Park Approves Bonds
Voters Also Authqj-ize $2 Tax Limit
Taxpayers of the Deer Park
school district Monday had ap-
proved a )2 million .bond issue to
construct new buildings for an in-
creasing number of school chil-
dren.
And they also authorized the
Deer Paris school board to levy
ta*w ap to $2 for each |100 valua-
tion.im. " ........"
ing had been previously set at
Lynchburg elementary school—was
any real opposition shown to either
proposition. At Lynchburg, the
tax boost eased by with a 23-17
vote and the bond lasue got a 25-
10 approval.
In Deepwater, where another
adUUtkm will be built to th* E(aa»>
water school with the bond money,
“If yeu don’t want to any in a
Sun Want Ad that it’s too small
—•ay it's an antique!" •
ELM.
Th# Deer Park school board
wlU meat at 7 p.m. Monday to
emiriii the returns of the ekie-
tion, held Saturday. Bonds were
approved by. a vote of 107 for arid
14 against. The tax ceiling boost
passed by a 105 toll majority.
i. In only ont polling place—the
towe. The tax boost received 15
favorable votes and the "bonds 14
vote*.
At San Jacinto school in Deer
Park, the bond* and the tax rates
were approved by a landslide 67-4
balloting.
The turnout for the election was
considered good ia view of the
rainy day.
SUSPECT
Zed with ,
Wescott, eklerty .....
eal worker hi Roxbury,
July, 12, 1953, Charles ’
26-year-old 0*1 jbha.
•mated to Chicago
eleri-
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