Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside a furniture warehouse that was being used as a sorting station for casualties in Beaumont, Texas, the "wounded" were lying on litters in the street. There was row upon row of forms splattered with red paint, wearing torn and dirty old clothes. Word came that the disaster hospital, set up in an elementary school ten blocks away, was ready. Volunteer bearers lifted a litter. "Hey, what you got?" asked one of the cases. "Both legs blown off!" was the grinning reply...
...Beaumont (pop. 60,000) and Houston (pop. 385,000) were giving the biggest practical test to date of an idea which so far has flourished in the U.S. only in civil-defense manuals-the plan for mutual aid between communities. Several U.S. cities have had major "disaster" workouts (Chicago in 1952 assumed 100,000 casualties, 20,000 dead), but have counted on their own medical facilities. In the Beaumont test, the presumption was that a refinery blast had caused 250 casualties* and knocked out local medical aid. It was up to Houston, 90 miles away, to give succor...
Died. Robert Woodward Hathaway, 67, American-born Seigneur of Sark, 2-sq.-mile, semifeudal English Channel island; of thrombosis; in Sark. Hathaway acquired his title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool...
...Since Beaumont's day, however, Britain's Property Acts have wiped out most of the manorial lord's "perks" (or perquisites;. Today the best a lord of the manor can hope for is a few pounds a year from public utilities for putting telegraph poles on his property. But the deeds are still inscribed on heavy, ancient parchments that make magnificent souvenirs. Unfortunately, the deeds cannot be taken out of the country, which discouraged Americans last week from scooping up such handsome titles as Lord of the Manor of Overhall and Netherhall, or Callis Metholds and Wimbolds...
Some 500 curious oilmen gathered at Bethlehem Steel's Beaumont, Texas shipyard last week for the christening of an odd contraption called "Mr. Gus." Built at a cost of $3,500,000, the rig is a monster (4,000 tons) barge for drilling oil wells in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. It can operate in 100 ft. of water (v. 40 ft. for most other rigs), will triple the area that can be explored on the continental shelf off Texas and Louisiana. Mr. Gus was bought by (and named for) C. G. ("Gus") Glasscock...