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MORE THAN 8,000 READERS EVERY WEEK
VOLUME 29 NUMBER 19
HUMBLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1968
1CK PER COPY, $3.00 PER YEAR
Constable Race Vote Totals By Precinct
Area With County, State Trends
Pet. & Location
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| 108 - Humble
§ 111 - Bammel, Westfield
199 - Forest Cove,
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254 - Aldine
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In School District
College Petitions
Due Here This Week
Petitions calling for an
election to establish a com-
munity junior college sys-
tem are to be circulated in
the Humble School District
starting this week.
Some 10,000 petitions are
to be distributed in 14
school districts included
in the greater Houston area
where the junior college
system is proposed. Hum-
ble Superintendent of
Schools George Turner
said the petitions here are
to be circulated by PTA
organizations after a
Thursday meeting.
Dr. HoM. Landrum, ex-
ecutive director, said ap-
proximately 50,000 signa-
tures, or 10 per cent of the
qualified registered voters
in the greater Houston
area, will be required be-
fore an election can be call-
ed.
“Voters who sign the
petition will not nec-
essarily indicate their ap-
proval or opposition to the
creation of a community
junior college system but
will merely indicate their
willingness to have an elec-
tion called to determine
whether or not such a sys-
tem shall be established/’
Dr. Landrum stated.
“The voters will have
several weeks to evaluate
the proposal after we have
completed our survey and
made the results public,”
he added.
When the required num-
ber of signatures are ob-
tained, Dr. Landrum con-
tinued, the petitions and
other pertinent data will
be submitted to the Co-
ordinating Board, Texas
College and University
System, for that body’s ap-
proval. When this approval
is obtained the board will
then authorize “proper lo-
cal officials” to conduct
the election. The commis-
sion has tentative plans now
for holding the election late
in September.
The Greater Houston
Community College Com-
mission is now conducting
a survey to determine the
need for a multi-campus
community junior college
system. The study will be
completed some time dur-
ing the summer. However,
the Texas Co-ordinating
Board on Higher Education
has already released a
study showing Harris
County has a “greater need
for a community college
system than any other area
in the state.”
Preliminary studies al-
ready indicate an initial
enrollment of 25,000 stu-
dents in the first year of
full operation of the sys-
tem. These studies further
indicate that the enrollment
will increase to 40,000 in
five years.
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POSTER WINNER - Susan Knight, second grade
student in the Humble Elementary School class of
Miss Dorothy Snyder,this week was named an honor-
able mention winner in the statewide Fire Prevention
Poster Contest. She received this certificate Monday
from the State Board of Insurance. (ECHO Photo)
Dwight Johnson, Chair-
man of the Spokesman Club
of the Humble Chamber of
Commerce, has announced
that the American Cancer
Society Business Crusade
will be conducted this week
in Humble. Members of the
Spokesmans Club will par-
ticipate in the drive.
“The club members are
volunteering their time for
the cause of cancer con-
trol.” said Johnson. “A
cure for cancer can only be
found through research,
and a large part of the
cancer research program
is financed by the funds
raised during the American
Cancer Society Crusade.”
The Residential Crusade
in Humble has already been
completed. Mrs. C.J. Pan-
zarelia served as Resi-
dential Crusade Chairman.
Educational posters re-
minding the public of the
seven warning signals of
cancer have been placed in
businesses by the Medical
Careers Club of Humble
High School.
Eddings, Clauder Gain Runoff
Berths In Constable’s Race
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Dr. Hinton
Speaker For
Dedication
Dr. W.H. Hinton, presi-
dent of Houston Baptist
College, is to speak at a
7:30 p.m. Thursday dedi-
cation ceremony at North
Belt Elementary School,
8105 North Belt Drive.
In addition to Dr. Hin-
ton’s talk, tours of the
new building, which open-
ed at midterm, are to be
conducted.
The speaker is former
president of Texarkana
College, president of
Northeast Mississippi Jun-
ior College and executive
vice president of Howard
Payne College.
Western Auto
Store Sold
Rev. Owen Dry last week
bought the Western Auto
associate store in Humble
from E .E. Domengeaux.
Domengeaux has joined
Frontier Ford Sales, Inc.,
where he is co-owner.
“$440,000 will be spent
this year on cancer re-
search alone in Harris
County,” Johnson said.
“Contributions made to the
American Cancer Society
will help hasten the day
when cancer will be con-
trolled.”
Tuesday Meeting
For School Board
A 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
meeting is scheduled for
the Humble School Board in
the board room at Humble
High School.
Council To
Meet Thursday
The Humble City Council
is to meet at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday at city hall.
Incumbent J.C. Eddings
and Frank Clauder gained
runoff berths in the pre-
cinct 4 Constable race in
Saturday’s Democratic
primary as Humble area
voters went with Harris
County and state trends
in most contested races.
In the hottest area race,
Eddings picked up 1,899
votes in the Constable
chase, which includes nine
voting precincts. His total
represents 38.6 per cent of
the total votes.
Clauder, with 1,075 votes
for 21.8 per cent, edged
C.R. Davis and Buck Lind-
sey for the runoff spot.
Davis polled 1,027 votes
for 20.8 per cent and Lind-
sey had 18.8 per cent on
921 votes.
In precinct 1QJ8, in Hum-
ble, incumbent Okey Lan-
don defeated conservative
rival Ray Francis, 453-392
in the Executive Com-
mitteeman race.
In precinct 108, Preston
Smith led the 10-candidate
Governor field with 344
votes. Don Yarborough was
second here with 243.
Other Governor can-
didates came in in this or-
der: Waggoner Carr 72,
John Hill 62, Eugene Locke
59, Dolph Briscoe 52, Pat
O’Daniel 25, Ed Whitten-
burg 21, Alfonso Veloz 1
and Johnie Mae Hackworthe
0.
Ben Barnes rolled up a
546-110 lead over Don Glad-
den in the Lt. Gov. race.
In a. race of local in-
terest, Joe Mills of Hum-
ble outpolled Ray Hardy,
406-318, in the race for
district clerk, although
Hardy won in complete
county returns.
Voters here favored the
liquor by the drink prop-
osition, 373-288, but went
against parimutuel betting,
335-323, and milk controls
406-185.
In the Constable race,
Eddings led in six of the
nine voting precincts in
the race. His biggest lead
came in Humble’s pre-
cinct 108 where he rang
up 584 votes to 153 for
Lindsey, 91 for Clauder
and 63 for Davis. Pre-
cinct 108 registered some
250 more votes in the Con-
stable race than any other
precinct with 891 ballots
cast here.
In addition to Humble,
Eddings carried precincts
83, 106, 111, 241 and 254.
Clauder carried precinct
61 and tied with Lindsey
for the lead in precinct
199 while Davis led in pre-
cinct 104.
See complete results by
voting precinct in the Con-
Francis Named
Chairman Of
RC&D Program
Ray Francis of Humble
Monday night was elected
chairman of the newly
formed Sam Houston Re-
source Conservation and
Development Program.
The organization covers
Harris and four surround-
ing counties.
Other officers include
vice president S.W.Dor-
rells Jr. of Huntsville,
secretary Jack Phillips of
Angleton. Other directors
are Wilbur Gibbs of Hunts-
ville and Joe M. Skrabanek
of Bellaire.
stable race in separate judicial district court with
listing. 506 votes to 89 for his
The Democratic primary closet rival, Shearn Smith,
runoff election is scheduled Bill Bear led Pat Greg-
June 1 with a special Leg- ory, 334-193, for judge of
islative election for dis- probate court no. 2 and in
trict 23, place 1, coming Supreme Court justice
May 14. races, Sears McGee led
In contested judge races Matt Davis, 495-94, and
here, Bill Ragan led the Tom Reavley paced James
five candidate field for 61st Denton, 354-134.
HL&P Upgrading
Facilities Here
A major upgrading of construction work, such as
electric service facilities we are doing in Humble,
in the city of Humble has occasional interruptions of
been started by Houston power are required for the
Lighting & Power Co., safety of the construction
Humble division manager crews and to prevent dam-
Julian Taylor Jr. an- age from short circuits,
nounced last week. We have required, and will
The program, Taylor continue to require, some
said, will provide better outages to complete this
and more reliable service work. Actually many of the
to the entire Humble area, outages whichhaveoccurr-
' For the past two months ed during the past two
as part of our $84 million
1968 construction program,
Houston Lighting & Power
Co. has been rebuilding
and increasing the capacity
of the distribution circuits
which serve the city of
Humble,” Taylor said.
“The purpose of this work
is to provide better and
more reliable electric ser-
vice to the Humble area.”
, “In the near future, we
plan to rehabilitate all of
the electric sevice facil-
ities in the City of Humble,
A part of this work will
include implementing new
industry concepts in elec-
tric service system design
which will improve our
reliability as well as the
appearance of our electric
service lines. In some lo-
cations the larger conduct-
ors which are being install-
ed will require additional
supporting guy wires to
prevent the lines from
being blown down by high
winds. Also, in some cases,
additional service poles
will be required between
lots to provide safer sup-
port for our service drops
to homes and businesses.
Normal tree trimming, of
coqrse, will be required
to assure good continuity
of services.
“In major electrical
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FFA Steer
Returned
To Chapter
An ex-student of Humble
schools now living in Sum-
ner, Washington, won the
Angus steer given away at
the annual advance sale
drawing by the Humble FFA
at the April Fair and Rodeo.
C.M. Dunn, who had
bought his ticket from
Travis Redmon, donated
the steer back to the FFA
chapter. The animal is to be
sold at auction Friday in
Conroe.
A grand champion buyer,
A.Z, Ward of the Log Cab-
in Restaurant, again treat-
ed the FFA officers, ad-
visor Justus Smith, prin-
cipal Elliott Curtis and Su-
perintendent George Turn-
er to a chicken dinner,
using the champion fryers
he bought for the 20th time
at this year’s show.
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STATE CHAMPION - Senior Gaston Sanders won
the class AA division of boys prose reading at last
weekend’s UIL State Literary Meet in Austin. It was
the second trip to the state meet for Sanders.
(ECHO Photo)
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NEW HUFFMAN SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE - Superintendent Frank Devereaux,
left, greets school broad president Dr. Fred Dodge at Saturday’s open house
at the new Huffman junior-senior high school in Huffman. Seated at the recep-
tion table in the foyer of the recently completed building are Mrs. Helen
Fullerton, secretary of the board, and Mrs. Joy Kemper, PTA vice president.
(ECHO Photo)
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