The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 268, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1953 Page: 1 of 14
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FORMER MAYOR KILPATRICK
FOLLOWS HIS WIFE IN DEATH
'High-Balling Down Freedom Road'-
Planes Spot PW Convoy
Heart Attacks
Fatal To Both;
RitesThursday
Hamilton Wright Kilpat-
PANMUNJOM, April 15 —UP— munist capital of Pyongyang. ing him an opp
Reconnaissance pilots Wednesday Convoy No. 2 was seen 32 miles 16 vehicles, each separated by two on their way.
spotted two convoys of sick and farther north on "freedom road” truck lengths. UN authorities at their base at
disabled Allied war prisoners near Sinanju on the Chongchong Aylor said there was so much nearby Munsan viewed the sitdown nek, prominent Georgetown
"high - balling” down “freedom River. activity on “freedom road” that strike of returning Chinese pris- businessman and former ma-
road” toward this truce site where A third convoy which the Com- "it looked like the Pennsylvania oners as a sign of more trouble. f flnna* Prvplr HioH at
ailing captives of both sides in the munists had promised to start roll- turnpike.” The rebellion began after the XU1 T ' f “T
Korean war will be exchanged ing could not be found on the tor- Smith said he saw several trucks landing ship reached Pusan and / a.m. Wednesday ot a Heart
Monday. turous shell-pocked highway leading drive off the main highway to a 24 patients had come ashore in attack less than 24 hours af-
At Pusan, where the first con- from the Yalu River to Panmun- side road. litters or afoot. The remaining 745 . . . ., .. . . - ..
tlngent of homeward-bound Chin- jom. “That road,cuts back southwest refused to leave the deck volun- . .. , , , ,, , !
ese Communist prisoners arrived American pilots sighted the con- in through another main supply tarily. joviia, naa aiea suaaeniy at
in a U.S. landing boat, authorities voy shortly after it had been photo- route,” he said. American troops fixed bayonets their home.
had to break' up a sitdown strike graphed and made four passes over In all,
the line of vehicles before Com- probably at least half the 605 Al- and
munist i
them aw
Allied prisoners
wmen leit cnonma near the Yalu moit. atk-, ana
River Tuesday had reached Yong- Aylor of Ashland, Ky, ____ _ . ... ........
song, eight miles north of the Com- convoy had slowed its speed, giv- voys. although Peiping radio ear- in the exchange.
m J. BRYAN STRATTON C. M. (SPARKY) BONO
STAKING NO CHANCES ON TB — Bond, chairman of the 1953 United Fund drive here,
Ihr fjp,t in have hi* cheat X-ra>ed at the mobile unit being operated in Baytown by the
L TuherruloOa Association. Bond i* I* ing checked through by Mrs. Stratton of the Wora-
e League which i» handling the clerical work for the Cheat rurvey. The unit’s appearance
i a iponaored hy the Jmyceea, It will be at Wefngarten’s in W est Baytown Thursday.
S GIs Use Bayonets To
Inlrief End Prisoner Strike
. Tkr« American Jet
4 (town a single Red
l (kilter bomber* take
I tf charing weather____________________
fnmranist troop and ei-g Wednesday by threatening them
L Gt- -The White House
I be t major diecus-
t efforts to end the
some 68 trucks bearing to their rifles, put on gas masks „ ro H h e7
of 745 surly Reds. the line of vehicles before Com- probably at least half the 605 Al- and boarded the ship with tear ™ was do ana sne was ot.
The Fifth Air Force said a re- munist anti - aircraft fire drove lied prisoners to be returned were gas bombs. The sulking Chinese , 'e ;“™ services tor tne
connaissance photo showed that them away. in the three convoys. Communists ended their strike hur- couple will be held at iu a.m.
Convoy No. 1 of Allied prisoners First Lt. Robert L. Smith of Der- The photograph and the pilots’ riedly. The Chinese are part of Thursday in the chapel at the
■ley report were the first news the Uni- 3,033 Communists prisoners wnicn Fnederich funeral home at
said the ted Nations had received of the con- the UN will turn over to the Reds Georgetown. They will be brought
to Baytown for burial together in
the Cedar Bayou Methodist ceme-
tery after agraveside service at 5
p.m. Thursday. The Rev. Thomas
Granger, pastor of the Georgetown
Methodist church, will officiate at
both services. Arrangements here
will be directed by Earthman fun-
eral home.
Kilpatrick had been in an Aus-
AUSTIN, April 15 —UP— The The lochers’ pav bill was soon- the minimum pay to Texas public tin hospital, critically ill with a
House of Representatives, which sored by Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr,, of school teachers from $2,400 to $3,- heart ailment for several days
must originate all tax bills', Paris, longtime friend of public 000 a year. when his wife's death of a heart
Wednesday was handed a Senate- school education and co-author of The Senate debated less than attack occurred suddenly and un-
WA<5H[NrTnN Anrii is ttp approved $33 million teachers’ pay the Gilmer-Aikin ^educational re- three hours before giving it final eXpectedly at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Tie United Nations Command was raise Program its sponsor said was form program of four years ago. Passage by a 27 to 2 vote. Sens
prepared Wednes^y r^k^steps written for Texas' schocl children- Aikin’s new measure would raise (See Legislature-Page Four)
The House, if it joins the Senate
UN Is Ready
To Resume
Truce Talks
Where To Get Teacher Funds?
That's Problem If Pay Hike Rill Passes
Economy Comes First
Before Cut In Taxes
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The shipload was the first con- Gen. Mark W. Clark. UN com- ™n7nr thn $6Sa vear hik^ n
with bayonets and tear gas, tingent of a total of 6.033 disabled mander in Korea, has been author- Ptne »ow-a .tear nixes
A platoon of Americans put on Red prisoners to be turned O'er i*ed to propose a meeting of Allied Jr e
—. ■ gas mask* and carried tear gas to the Communists at Panmuisjom, and Communist liaison officers to The Senate approved the mea-
ti« President Eisen- p-engd^ aboard a U.S. landing ship beginning next Monday. set a date for resumption of the sure Tuesday as opponents warned
In Washington which ^ brought 769 sick and Before the sitdown strike started, talks its acoon would hasten the day -- - - , -
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amputees, to change tiieir minds The remaining prisoners, some of oners who refuse to return to their On Monday, both House and Sen- progress in slashing federal spend- ments. county. He Was assMiated with his
quickly. They left the landing ship them tubercular, refused to move. Communist homelands. ate approved a conference com- ing. RUBBER father-in-law. Will Ilfrey, in a
" ‘ There was no word here when mittee report on differing versions Indications that they were warm- Congress appeared ready to go general merchandise store at Ce-
* “ StrA Legiaature’s major _ . . _ v. - - -
WASHINGTON, April 15 -UP- or late May.
Relatives said it was her first
attack. She collapsed, they said,
as she walked down the steps at
her home in Georgetown to pick
up the morning newspaper. She
died before she could be taken to
a hospital.
Kilpatrick insisted upon return-
ing home when told of her death.
Soon after reaching Georgetown,
he collapsed and became so ill he
By that time, GOP was taken to a hospital there. The
I, South Africa—Spec-
[btm, airplanes and
tpnaied into service
fnlm to the polls la
election in
i wpremacy is the
i Nearly every poliee-
i Krantry is on duty
| sesinsit riots.
DX - Charles Chap-
1 gives, u» hi* statu*
t silts—a move which
I the actor does not in-
•stothe United States,
sr h r-o-'-o. Svitzer-
Spots
in orderly lines, some hobbling on Instead they either squatted stoi- _____ _____
canes callr or pretended to be sleeping Clark would deliver his proposals of the
Authorities at the United Nations on the steel deck of the hold.
Ing up to Rep. Daniel A. Reed.’s along with President Eisenhower’s dar Bayou for many years,
Man Beats Wife To Death,
Then Cuts Off Her Hands
to Red negotiators. It was expect- money bill and finished off the ses- measure to lop about 10 per cent suggestion that the government sell About 1923, he opened a clothing
ed he would act quickly to spike sion’s major task — appropriating 0ff income taxes July 1 came after the synthetic rubber plants which store and his father-in-law *tart-
Communist charges that the Allies a record $166 million to pay for a House GOP policy meeting Tues- it set up in World War II. ed a hardware store in the 100
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_____........ . jured prisoners a condition for re- maining $10 million will be eaten But Chairman John Taber (R- nossjhip investigation of commu- Kilpatrick—Page Four)
geles went to see him at his job sumption of full armistice talks. A away in administrative costs. N. Y.) of the Appropriations com- . g clergymen
in the Prudential Life Insurance real hitch on this would certainly That left the treasury empty. An mittee said after the policy meet- ’
chargee he bludgeoned his wife to Co. office here to ask about the dis- rule out the talks, amendment added to the Texas ing that he advised Party leaders AMMUNmON
death with a croquet mallet, cut appearance of his wife. Another disturbing factor is the Constitution during the administra- that he thinks federal spending can Sen. John Sherman Cooper In-
Fredericks, a former Marine, Communist invasion of Laos, The tion of, former Gov. W. Lee be trimmed enough to justify tax Ky.) said ammunition stocks in
said he would waive extradition United States has made it- plain (pappy) O’Daniel prohibits legis* relief. Europe should be checked before
when arraigned in criminal court that broadehing of the war in south- iative expenditure of more money A final decision on Reed’s bill the Senate winds up its investiga-
here Wednesday on a warrant east Asia could have an important tjjan jj on ;n cash, prbbably will be delayed until mid tion of shortages in Korea,
NEWARK. N.J
Authorities prepared Wednesday to
return a mild-mannered office
worker to California to face
April 15 —UP— murder story shortly after Detec-
Sgt. C, S. Stewart of Los An-
tive
off her hands and buried her body
by a Mexican roadside.
Edward Richard Fredericks. 42,
confessed to Newark police Tues-
I Here
t BROWN, of Oklahoma jan/ 6 at Van Nuys, Calif.
tern representative moved with their three children to
> National Service Com- New Jersey to start life anew in
day that he murdered his wife last charging him with being a fugitive bearing on the chances for peace
ton n ... v- Wiivc Calif and wanted in California for murder, in Korea.
Us Angeles police Tuesday night The Communists asked for re-
confirmed his account of the slay- sumption of the truce negotiations
ing when they dug up the severed last Week. As a “concession,” they
— ‘ ~ ■ ‘ proposed that reluctant prisoners
be handed over to a neutral state
hi* mother’* home.
A routine interview by a Los An- hands of Mrs Fredericks in the
geles policeman led to the confes- backyard of the Van_Nuys home.
Fredericks blurted out the <See Murder-Page Four)
Former Aggies To Musler
lb Baytown Tuesday
ffiMl visit to Baytown
lit the Interest of the
kfraternal order among
l veterans of Texa*.
[Mce Commission dis-
’$10,000 every year
hospitals in this Former atudent* of Texas A and The muster here will be one of
Is Baytown Brown M college who live in the Baytown more than 400 similar ceremonies Q •
•ah Olfford M. Bond, area will gather at the Knight* of heW a), over the world where OUlVIVOrS
hr, end Carl R Mann, Columbus hall at j p.m .Monday M 8tudent* pay
6fte Bavtown iod«. to carry on a tradition that is 50 r . .
™ Dayman lodge. ^ homage to fellow Aggies who have
They will attend the 50th anni- died and tribute to the Texans who
.eeuru m.ietoe Tovo. a won tho freedom of the state at
where they could be "gradually
freed" of any fear about returning
home.
Plane Crash
La Porte To Do Own Work On City Hall
All Construction Bids Are Over Limit Of $12,000
By GEORGE PRENTICE The original building design Plans also call for a glass front
La Porte’s City Commission made by Lammers included con- on the building, an awning over
Wednesday had rejected all bids struotion of a safety vault, one the *idewalk space to the street
on its buiding improvement pro- small private office, two rest and installation of an air condl-
gram and announced that the city room*, utility closet, and a coun- tiomng unit
Hack Thursday
KK station KPRU is
JJ k luck in full pow-
' »h»n repair* will
*0,1 an antenna that
N Sunday night
(% lightning. The
1 k eut back to it*
•"MS repairs could be
iMwts Tonight
“. Pruett and Council-
Campbell. Rufus Ber-
Lusk will be
Pwice when the council
'* P-m. Wednesday.
* Ik rage Four) j
'Had Feelinc
vamtry maatn of Teu, A and M j«
The Baytown observance is be- Houston some 117 years toto-
ing held a day early because of Reservations may be ma e y
difficulty in getting a hall. filing James Bond at 4M1.
SELLECK. Wash., April 15 -UP
—Army buddies, fresh from basic
training, told Wednesday how they
ter-partition mid-way in the room. (See City Hall—Page Four)
Ford Strike Streets Next
Is Ended On Agenda
DETROIT, April 15—UP—A 14- With problem* on the building
Porte property owners last Decern- day strike of 2,500 workers at a project near solution, La Porte’s
‘‘ - ' - - ,nded City Commission was beginning to
would undertake the job itself.
Mayor M. D. Burgin said after
a meeting of the commission Tues-
day night that every attempt to
cut the low bid of $13,506 had fail-
ed and the city would not over-
shoot its $12,000 limit.
The $12,000 was provided in a
$212,000 bond issue voted by La
N To
wn
BRUCE has a Col-
*»«l,htWed “P at her
I * a»4 now refuses to
Pwne number is
Ki-jr.-ss
fcjh ,°I Place* since
l„aer low.
1?2 that
nil his spare
Place ... Debra
Ij “one the worse, but
nerve-shattering
Z tun,hled out of
ll^thank yous” to
sifts
5 saras
u.,0,; to embalm-
1, ' y~ A. Traylor
* fft of a half-
“nf iell» 1 ** ,lle end*
^•nuking.
It's Got To Be Good!
Possibly you never thought much about this, but you should
—because it Is very important to you.
When we advertise anything, we are st<‘pp^* ,Stton°on 'the
the spotlight of publicity and staking our reputation on th
quality of what we offer.
Advertisers build a good reputation by ^JcrtUmg.
very careful to maintain that reputation. We must, to succeei
If, for any reason, an ad fails to gain er hold your confidence
the merchant resp
immediately. Ybu
him.
White space In a newspaper is a meeting place between a«
vertisers and readers.
Ordinarily we do all the Ulking-BIJT-during the Comm.v,
ity Survey we will appreciate your saying .\our saj.
your
MDonsible for that ad wants to know that foe
"ou will he doing him a great favor by teliin
LARGE ADS
Ferguson Motors, Inc. (New
Pontiac)
i. C. Penney Co. (P-2)
J. C. Penney Co. (P-8)
Reynolds Appliance Co.
Buck Turner Chevrolet Co,
(New Chev.)
MEDIUM ADS
Commerce Food Market
B. F, Goodrich Store
Moore’s Shoe Store
’aine Bros. (Ladies')
SMALL ADS
\eme Typewriter Ca
lax Altman*
Baytown Paint t Supply Co.
Hack’s Pharmacy * Variety
last Texas Theatres
"conomy (Men’s)
Ferguson Motors, Inc.
(Siiverloy)
Mike Franssen
Gulf Coast Venetian Blind C
Howard Hardware
Humble Station 32
J-B Motor Co.
Rayborn Johnson Agency
Kerr Insurance Agency
Kovar Appliance Co.
Lowry A Martin Cleaners &
Jim'Nelson’s Sporting Goods
Odorless Cleaners
Paine Bros. (Men’s)
Rodgers Dry Goods
Sasse’s
geeuriiv Service Finance Co.
Ted’s Auto Parts
Town A Country (Help Wanted
Town & Country (Ladies Dress)
Buck Turner Chevrolet Co.
(Used Cars)
Whitcomb’s
^Six* persons dw«e killed and 19 we’ve decided to reject them all,
injured Tuesday when the Miami said- ,
faggefCascade MoTtatos to°eariy eJ!ry bu,^t
morning darkness. Baytown Architect Lowell Lam
"All night long I didn’t think we’d nters had been able to cut the con-
make it,” said Howard Wormuth tract figure by $1,200.
of Carbondale. Pa. "We just sat Burgin pointed out, however
there waiting and calling to each that the deletions from original
other trying to find out who was building plans would not bring
alive and who was dead.” satisfacto— esults in the end.
“All 22 of the servicemen aboard “We be the job can be done
took basic training together at f°r $12,00t ,.'ith all the features
Camp Breckenbridge. Ky.,” Wor- of the original plans included,” he
muth said. "When we left Chicago declared.
we had to turn back for motor re- The $13,506 bid vva* placed by
pairs I think then we all had a contractor Bill Martin of Galves-
feelirig something was going to hap- ton. There were four other bidders,
pen.”
The plane rammed Against Ce-
dar Mountain after the pilot. Capt.
A. J. Lerette Jr., Miami, Fla.,
radioed Boeing Field control tower
at Seattle that one engine had failed
and the wings were icing.
All but 5,000 of the laid-off wtsrk- At a regular meeting of the
ers had beta scheduled to return to commission Friday morning legal
, “ ‘ ,. notices on the first streets to be
work Wednesday, even before the paved win probabiy be prepared
strike at Monroe, Mich., was set- and made ready for publication,
tied. In view of the settlement, in- according to Mayor M. D. Burgin.
dications were they would remain The $200,000 bond issue for street
on the job. improvement was authorized by
Meanwhile. 45.000 Chrysler Corp. vote at an election held last De-
and Briggs Manufacturing Co. cember 9.
workers in the Detroit area were The city plans to pave at least
idled for the second straight day 15 miles of streets on a one-third
by a wildcat strike of 350 truck driv basis with property owners pay-
ers who haul parts between Chry- ing one-third each and the city
sler Plants. paying one-third.
Ford said it was able to call its The city will also absorb the
assemblers back to work through a cost of paving alley-ways and in-
re-shuffing of available parts, tersections.
H. W. KILPATRICK
Brownwood
Developer
Dies At 85
Shell Official To Be La Porte Hi Speaker
Graduation Ceremonies Will Be Held On May 29
Leonard Reid Dies
In Daughter's Home
Leonard Reid, 61, died about 10
a.m. Thursday at the home of his
son-in-J&\je'and daughter, Mr- and
M$$Slfe Fj Gore at 501 Dyer.
Ftrqeraf arrangements will be
announoeij • by Earthman funeral
home.
Valjean McCoy, personnel direc-
tor for the Shell Oil Co., Wednes-
day had been named commence-
ment speaker for the La Porte
high school ceremony May 29.
The announcement was made by
School Superintendent J. H. Baker,
after a meeting of the La Porte
school board Tuesday night.
The trustees have granted the La
Porte-Bayshore Recreation Asso-
held April 24, ^nd on a request by
the Red Cross for permission to
use the gymnasium and cafeteria
in, case of emergency.
Guy Hamilton and Charles Nor-
ris were named to the equalization
\
Mrs. Antonia Dzilsky Dies in HospitaT
Mrs. Antonia Dzilsky, 68, of 2105
Survivors besides Mrs. Gore are children to the Baytown swimm ng
pool. The association will also
elation permission to use a school Carolina died late Tuesday night
bu, three times a week to take ,n # Baytown hospita, ghe ha(J
another daughter, Mrs. Dolly Wal- pool. The association will also b®6" » resident of Baytown for 32
tors of Los Angeles. Calif., and use the shop building for its c!a:sas years.
two sons, Ellis Reid of Los An- and clubs. She Is survived by her husband,
geles and J. L Reid, Jr., who left A stamp of approval was placed John F. Dzilsky, fjve sons, one sis-
Baytown only a few days ago to on plans for the La Porte high ter and four grandchildren,
go to Colorado. school band concert which is to be The sons are: John F. Dzilsky
Mrs. Myra C. Brown, 85, who
owned and developed the Brown-
wood addition in Wooster, died
early Wednesday at her home, 707
Holman, in Houston.
Mrs. Brown had spent most of
her life in Houston although she
lived for about 20 years in Deer
Park. Her husband, E. R. Brown
was a pioneer cattleman during the
early 1900’s and was well known in
Baytown and Deer Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown moved from
Deer Park to Houston in 1927 and
Brown died in 1928.
Mrs. Brown opened the Brown-
wood sub-division in Wooster dur-
ing, the early 1930’s, using the land
(See Mrs. Brown—Page Four)
La Porte Man Killed
In Houston Accident
Graveside services for William
Powell Parnell, 67, of La Porte
who was killed by an auto on Me-
. _ , , „ , . Carty Drive in Houston Tuesday,
Jr. of Brentwood, Calif., and Joe, were to have been held at 2 p.m.
Bill and Tom of Baytown. The Wednesday with the Rev. W. N.
fifth son, Ted, is now serving with Parrish officiating,
the Merchant Marines. Burial was scheduled
The surviving sister Is Miss An- gan’s Point
nie Cirbus of Staton Island. New rectlon of the Art
York. eral Home.
Arrangements for funeral serv- Survivor* are three sons R. W.
Ices are to be announced by the and B. A. Parnell of La Porte and
Earthman Funeral home. M. B. Parnell of Dallas.
board and a third member will be
named in the near future.
A report wa* made by the Ho-
well Termite Co. of Houston on its
findings after completon of the
annual building mspection.
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