European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes april scars disappearing from shattered Texas City population industries expand by Max Skelton Texas City pains Are replacing Texas cites scars and twisted a year ago today a series of waterfront explosions brought destruction to this Little Texas coastal docks were the shipping Channel and slips were filled with tightly clustered Industrial plants were wrecked or seriously there were 512 persons dead or Homes and 130 business Struc Tures destroyed or the cites Only in has jumped since last april from to and there Are predictions of within three to five Industry operating with a single the cites Industrial plants Are Back in operation with production figures equal to or greater than a year practically every Industrial Plant has expansion pro Grams the ship Channel is being dredged deeper to facilitate in creased operations and a foot Barge canal that will open new waterfront areas for development is two thirds with Only a few isolated the business Section and residential areas today the appearance of any Ordinary but there is a Sharp contrast at the docks and in the Industrial eighty per cent of Homes and business houses damaged in the disaster have been repaired and Over 600 new Homes or dwelling units and 217 new business Struc Tures have along the waterfront and Industrial area sprawling across the Southern of the City there is a Beehive of with Only one Monsanto chemical All plants Are in full scale operation and swarm ing with whose vast Styrene Plant suffered More than 000 is expected to resume operations in Early two freighters the huge docks and warehouses either disintegrated or were turned into shambles by the explosions of the freighters Grandchamp and High debris still litters much of the area and the Hull of the freighter Wilson sunk by the High flyer explosion in the Early morning of april still juts from the Waters of the i years april 1943 civilians Are ordered to evacuate Cherbourg and residents of Dieppe were ordered out a month april 1944 in British and Allied troops gain Possession of the Imphal april1 1945 Berlin rushes barricades in its ruins As russian and american armies approach the april 1946 in president tru Man tosses the first Ball to open the first genuine postwar base Ball april 1947 a blast aboard a French freighter sets off a series of explosions which devastate the Texas City waterfront killing More than 700 persons address All letters to 7744th stars and stripes it Apo include Tatj and address names Are due to space Ilmi Btij letters May be Cut for provided such editing does alter the meaning of the a year after the atom like blasts virtually levelled Texas Hope and Homes Rise out of the this Aerial photo shows part of a new housing one of the hundreds of this under construction these two Story each housing two will accommodate a part of the hundreds of families now living in and in the nearby cities of Galveston and main the Dock area still is closed to the general it an ammonium nitrate fertilizer compound that brought about the original explosion aboard the present plans Call for the City to grow to the North and away from the Industrial and housing Short inadequate housing facilities Force 47 per cent of Industrial Plant employees to live in nearby this undoubtedly carries away a Large portion of the cites estimated annual Industrial there is critical need of apart Small and a modern at present there Are Only a few Small Boardinghouse Type of schools Are extremely crowded and expansions already Are under one of the most pressing problems resulting from the Dis Aster Over 50 Federal court suits now on file in these suits seek Over 000 from the petitioners include individuals injured in the survivors of those Industrial plants and insurance it is alleged the government is to blame for the explosions be cause the ammonium nitrate which Imp set off the Chain of blasts was manufactured in government Ord Nance the government also is charged with failure to take sufficient Steps in warning of the explosive qualities of the chemical quiet Observance Texas City will observe the disasters first anniversary the bodies of the 63 unknown dead Are in memorial at the City police chief Foster Nelson continues to hold on file their few personal there has been no Progress on identification since two weeks prior to the mass funeral of june science harnessed to give americans Slimmer lines new York shape of things to come definitely is the 26th International Beauty show at grand Central Palace has revealed that miracles of modern science have been harnessed for the slender izing and beautification of and on hand Are such achievements of postwar civilization As radar and the by reducing the postural align ment the Massage mat and assorted other the accent is on time and com most of the gadgets Are by  to Harvard tuition costs go up and the Trieste Trust trooper likes we wonder if the forces network can extend services to the troops Here now that the Short was station is going to the voice of America for state department we will not be Able to hear an except j night As we cannot receive in medium wave during the Daj most of the troops Here have Small radios and cannot hear an at All and must listen to the local station All programs and newscasts an made up Here in Trieste and 1 Arent As Good As i heart j president Truman speech of night on an and the next night on the Trieste some of the Fellows didst know what Truman said until they read it in the stars and stripes and a you know they dont Here until 24 hours after publication with All the things going on a the it is s Good idea to keep abreast of the aug wed like to get the news while it is still How about an troops editors note the bore letter was referred to the Smej of who Mode the following comment it is regrettable that ass news and programs cannot be heard by those whose reception of the apr station in Trieste it not As they would like it to fans primary Mission is 14 serve department of the army military and civilian personnel is the occupied zone of Ger Trust heat quarters has stated that the chief signal officer of that command is making tests to determine whether an programs can by relayed by radio Well As the possibility of a direct Hookup Between ass pretty Blond demonstrator settled a on a Flat his legs were strapped to the table and his shoulders held securely by Metal then his hands were extended Back Over head to a Metal bar which was moved away from the table the demonstrator denied that the medieval torture rack inspired the the torture rack didst but the Couch Drivers get test Harvard University has announced that beginning in sep tember tuition in the College and graduate school would be raised from a year Provost Paul Buck said there Truman Loyal of Post in american legion bid Washington Naire Harry Truman re fused to play favourites Between had been no increase since 1929 the two posts to which he belong but that our estimates for next assuming the old tuition Are an operating loss of approximately he said the increase was the re sult of increased prices and the fact that for the first time since the War the student body will show a decrease in Radcliffe at the same announced an increase from to George Smathers and Leonce assistant adjutant of the american called at the White House Vite Truman to the legions in they gave him credentials As a member of Post Kansas the president reached into a drawer and pulled out an Cap inscribed Post of inde aimed at speeding up Miladys Beauty treatment or combining several Steps in reducing and the radar which Doest use radar is powered by electronics and can heat a clip to be used in setting a Perman ent wave in Only three the Gyrod cing showing tables and Hobby horses designed to oscillate various parts of the demonstrated another gimmick with it is attempting to invade the larger the Gyro Lator Barber chair can a Coin is dropped in a Box provide oscillation of the feet and legs while the customer is being shaved or having his hair one of the most fascinating sex the postural suspected of driving while drunk May argue with the cop on their sobriety but not with the findings of the Drunken meters and similar de vices for testing the intoxication of motorists now Are in use several the american municipal association said they operate with great the test is the suspect Driver exhales a measured Quan Tity of breath into a rubber the air passes through a series of tubes containing the chemical reaction determines the alcoholic Content of the blood six shots of whisky or six bottles of Beer boost the alcoholic Content of the average persons blood to per at that the association there is no question about 132 april ims William Summers managing Ken Zumwalt sports Jack Sills executive Kirkwood chief of Bernard my Luisaa news bureaus 846g81 846s30 Bremen 48146 Bremerhaven  b47184 76027590 the european edition is published daily at for the occupation forces under the auspices of we troop information and education division Frankfurt the stars and correspondence Sonuia be addressed to 7714th stars and stripes Apo mail to the new York office should be sent to 641 Washington this is not an official publication of the s reentered As second class matter at the pos Ohice at new the act of March