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Show r r Houston ranked sixth in the nation in construction. Houston, which expanded rapdly under the stress of war, has continued to expand just as rapidly during the postwar period and employment is even higher now than, at- - the peak of the war. For decades Houstons population has experienced a marked rise and the rise continues. The population is now carefully estimated at in the corporate limits and 'TUMSiO in the metropolitan area; a 32 per cent increase since ltm. To keep pace with this growth, the Houston municipal government has embarked on a $77,okmnx public improvement program while the Houston Lighting and Power company recently announced a $:, k,kx expansion program to increase its power output to care for the increased industry and population. Houston wasJounded in Win shortly after the Battle of San Jacinto and was named after colorful Gen. Sam Houston, hero of that battle vvhieh freed Texas from Mexico. The stately San Jacinto Monumentt .77o feet tall, and a memorial to the Texsnrheroes who won Texas free-domarks this battleground In miles from Houston. (Continued Next Week.) that in Published by THE INLAND PRINTING COMPANY Entered as matter February 15, 1911, at Kaynrille, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Advertising Kates on Application second-clai- m year in advance. $2250 a Subscription y Albert W. Epperson, Editor and Manager J Phone 17 Office Phone 10 V. Woolsey, Adv. Mgr., 179-ILona Udy Parrish, Reporter, t; -- 131-- i; J ON THE BEAM IfHH Kaysville, Thurs Davia County, Utah May 1, 1947 Page 2 slowly recovering and returned home Sunday. Mr-Mrs Donald Eatchell of Salt I.ake were .Sunday dinner guests of Mr & Mrs Harry Eatch-ell- . & Mr & Mrs. Glen Stuart. Mr A Mrs. Clifofrd Green and Mr & Mrs Wayne K. Sheffield visited " friends in Springville Sunday: MA. Lydia J. Sheffield was a last week end visitor to Irov. where she was the guest of rVla-tive- .Mrs. Winnifred Barton of Salt visited Kaysvile iJike days business trip t Chicago and! New York City. Mrs. William II King entertainMr &. Mrs James Burton of Sahara Village recently purchased ed the Evening Bridge club at her East home Thursday evening. Refreshthe Barton' home, corner and 2nd North Streets- - and mov- ments were served to Mrs George F. Barker. Miss Vesta Barnes, ed in on Monday Mrs. Roetta V. Kilfoyle. Mrs. WenMrs Montel Wrinkler of Salt dell Barnes. Miss Irene Swan, Mrs. Accessories . (Ttfudcih Tires Iake City visited with her sister, Alpheus and Mrs. La Rena! Harvey Mrs. Effie Barton for a few days Sandali. A Good Place to Trade! . this week. II. J. Barnes has returned from Mr & Mrs George Barnett of OgLAYTON a short business trip to Chicago. den w'ere last week end guests of Mrs. Vernelf Swanger. whp un-- j Mr, Barnett's mother, Mrs. PHONE KAYS. 15.1 derwent a major operation at a Barnett. Bingham hospital last week, is Mrs Rasmus Nelson of Salt Lake visited with her uncle and aunt, Mr & Mrs Lyman Stewart, Thursday. The East Side Neighborhood Birthday club met at the home of Misses Clara and Ada Maylin Thursday evening, honoring the j KAYSVILLE Even though we were treated royally during our three weeks' visit to Texas and Mexico, its a grand feeling to return home to this Val. ley of the Mountains!" The Utah delegation of newspaper people, composed of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. (laisford of American Fork, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Memmott of Helper, Mr. and Mrs.Roy A. Schonian of Salt Lake City and your !! editor and wife, boarded the train in Salt Iaike City on April S, headed for the annual convention of the National Editorial association in Fort Worth. Texas, and the tour of southern Texas and then oi. to Mexico as guests of the Mexican government. Our trip took us via Rio Grande to Denver and the C&S Texas Zephyr to Fort Worth, where we learned that our train had passed, by only several hours, the tornad that struck the Amarillo, Tex., area and claimed the lives of several hundred people. Arriving at Fort Worth, we were met by cabs and transported to the Texas hotel, convention headquarters. April 10, IP and' 12 were devoted to conferences on newspaper problems, with traditional Texas birthday anniversaries of 'Mrs. hospitality features of sightseeing in the Fort Worth and Dallas areas. Clarence Green and Miss , Ada Needless to say, Texas went Maylin. Dunng the evening each for us . . . even surpassing member was presented with a our highest expectation. We hear a lot of the jtraggadicb Texan,, "White Bunco was elephant. and how proud he is of his state, hut we can truthfully saythat it is played and at a late hour refreshments were served to Mrs.Ernest al) he says it is, and more, and we who saw Texas on this trip can add ' . Williams, Mrs. Harry Eatchell, that Texans arc the best of hosts. Mrs. Arnold M. Barnes, Jrs, Way-o- f Memorial The San Jacinto Lone the Star Monument, topped by Making the tour as representatives df the National F,dii Tdxas, rises, 570 feet abpve theSan Jacinto. Battlefield near nard Bennett, Mrs. Lois Stephens, ciation were 4.71 editors and friends, representing 4.7 states. Houston, largest city in the Southwest. The majestic stone shaft is Mrs. Herbert Smart, Mrs. Milton a memorial to theTexas patjiots who won independence for Texas L. Burton. Mrs. Robert Burton. From Fort Worth, the N. E. A. special train departed early on at the battle of San Jacinto 21, 1836. The mdnument, the Mrs. Luella Bateman. Mrs. Mer13 and for full a this Galveston, after April part museum of Texas history in theApril days ride through base and the battlefield are popular ritt Nance, Mrs. Wayne Eatchell, of Texas, the group arrived at this beautiful seaport city. Mrs. Dorothy Reed and Mrs Lilwith Houston visitors. lian Openshaw Galveston is the site where the pirate, Jean LeFeite came in early Mr & Mrs Raymond J. Ashton days. Three times this city was engulfed by tidal waveij. In a k.ach party, and the following morning entrained for Houston left Thursday morning on a ten of the citya population was lost, ami as a result, a large arriving about 11 a. m. Rea wall has been erected. Along this sea wull sidewalks and a high- We were met at the train by representatives of the Hughes Tool way have been constructed The wulk is lined with hotels, cafes and (ompuny. which is owned principally by Howard Hughes, air enthusiast spots. anil motion picture producer. The Hughes Tool company manufactures On the morning of April II, the N. E. A. party was given a sight- oil drilling equipment, principally drilling bits. This business was seeing excursion on the gulf. Our group wus abourd the Sea Rover" started in the early Iboos with five men, and it now employs .7,ooo men a converted army-navrescue boat, used during the past war. Our and women in the maufacture of its products During the entire day, party was taken around the hurbor and out past the breakwater, with Hughes Tool and newspaper men of Houston were our hosts views of Texas City and the large vessels loading and unloadAn industrial area unmatched in the South and a unique deep sea ing at the docks. Little did we know that the very next day one of To miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico were seen by the newsthe nations worst tragedies would occur at this very point, and we did port visited Houston, largest city in Texas not learn of this ureus disaster until our arrival at Houston the next paper editors when they The visit in Houston was an inteiesting one be-- j and tour evening. has Houston cause attracted attention all over the nation by its tremenOn the afternoon of April the N E A. party was entertained dous expansion piogram, ltj, rapid rate of growth and the huge con-- 1 struction program totaling approximately SI.'iO.kx'.kxi now underway in the immediate Houston area. Houston is a lively, vigorous anil friendly city that moved the sea .'si miles inland to its door and became the third ranking deep sea port in the United States in total tonnage handhd. The Houston Ship channel for 27 miles is lined with modern poit facilities and huge and! varied imlustiial plants valued at more than SiiKi.ixmiiKt. Included are such plants as oil refineries, synthetic rubber plants and othei petioleum product plants, chemical plant', steel mills, ship const i u t ion and repair yards, paper and cement plants, gram elevators, flout nulls, cotton commesses iron and steel fabricators and many othei ' post-conventi- DdveV T I i i J Zil-mor- all-o- ut HEADQUARTERS, FOR IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE PIPE ONCRETE OR CLAY SEWER TILE HEADGATES CORRUGATED METAL CULVERTS PLAIN & REINFORCED CONCRETE CULVERTS 1 1 y . W R. WHITE COMPANY 1625 Wall A ve. Phone OGDEN, UTAH R)jat two-thir- j Smart Comfort for -- y sea-goin- g the American Way of Life day-lon- g 1 1 WISE WAY MARKET SAHARA 5 VILLAGE ro:on $nm iTT , III ' SPAM 39c snowdrift. srit v ani ciasco. n. si :t . 25c ATOMIC FLUFF SPAGHETTI n . RAISINS, 2 lbs. 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