Word: houston
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...salaries to any teacher, principal, or school-bus driver in any local school system that does not strictly observe the segregation laws. ¶ Appointment of the week:Lieut. General Andrew D. Bruce, 59, to succeed Walter W. Kemmerer (TIME, May 4, 1953) as president of the University of Houston (see MILESTONES). A graduate of Texas A. & M., Armored Forceman Bruce commanded the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific during World War II, was the first occupation governor of Hokkaido, later became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk...
Died. Dr. E. E. (for Edison Ellsworth) Oberholtzer, 72, one of the founders (1934) and first full-time president (1945-50) of the University of Houston, second largest (total enrollment: 13,361) university in the state (first: Texas U.); after long illness; in Houston...
...Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. In fact, they were all but burning a hole through his black coat. For the bishop had decided that the eyes of the world were more important, and last week canceled plans to hold the church's 1955 triennial convention in Houston. The city's racial segregation (though he made no specific reference to it in his announcement) was responsible for the decision, which Sherrill called "the most painful and difficult ... I have ever been called upon to make...
Segregation was a problem that Texas' Bishop Clinton S. Quin was sure could be taken care of when Houston was picked at the church's 1952 General Convention. He laid plans to serve nonsegregated meals three times a day at the Houston Coliseum and to build a nonsegregated motel that, together with the University of Houston dormitories, would house the convention's sprinkling of Negro delegates (about 2%) together with their white brethren. A car pool would provide non-Jim Crow transportation. But the Negroes would still have been barred from most hotels and restaurants in Houston...
...above the water, lay all the tools, cables, pipe and machinery needed for oil drilling. In the center stood an oil derrick, at one end a helicopter landing space and a small portable bunkhouse. Built by Manhattan's DeLong Engineering & Construction Co. and J. Ray McDermott Co. of Houston, and leased to Humble Oil, the odd-looking dock-barge is the first of its kind in the world, promises to be a great help in the hunt for offshore...