The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 69, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 26, 1953 Page: 1 of 10
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. Weather
■ WEATHER— Considerable
chsng* in temperature*
,tV wjth low of 74 Wed*
|nh“' scattered thundershower*,
‘moderwu*
easterly winds.
lagfurott
TUNNEL OPENING ,
I
DAY
MINUS 27
BAYTOWN. TEXAS
Wednesday, August 26. 1953
TODAY’S NEW TODAY
TELEPHONE: 8302. Fiv# Cents Par Copy
ROSBY - LYNCHBURG IS NO. 1 ROAD JOB
gple Mistake In Addition*'
ity 'Finds'
ow
$46,000,
Has Tidy Surplus
rtigSTER BULGIER
f of a mistake in addition,
(wn City Council now
546000 more to spend
J"»vernment during the
;„,r than it figured on.
F1M3.54 city budget is not
Ljnced. but as it stands will
ijtjijy surplus in all three
Italic Itself was a simple
from water department profits.
This left a difference of almost
$60,000. So members of the City
Council labored for three con-
secutive nights and slashed about
$60,000 out of the budget to make
it balance.
When Middleton began check-
ing his figures this week, he found
his mistake. The total of budget
requests should have been only
SnTnTits effects is a »bout $791,000 - $46,000 less than
aplatning us the figure which had been pre.
After a few minor changes, the
budget now stacks up like this:
GENERAL FUND: .Budget.
$730,907.70. Anticipated revenue,
$769,584. Surplus, $38,678.30.
WATER FUND: Budget, $225,-
301.32. Anticipated revenue, $305,-
000. Surplus, $79,698.68.
TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENT
^plicated.
. city Manager C. D. Mld-
UiiM UP t*,e tota* hl*
V ,,,h departmental budget
b* got a total of $837,356.
Estimated general fund rev-
L the coming year amount-
Ucut $779,000, including a
L mto the general fund of
liastead of the uaual $40,000
Pipefitters,
Pull Out
Iliades Council
sented to the council.
After the council's cuts are sub-
tracted. the general fund budget
now stands at $730,907.
“ emargency’ be put into a council emergency
^el0,n d*cided to transfer only fund an(j the council will decide
$40,000 of water department profits later on how it will be spent,
into the general fund, leaving the The councilmen will probably
extra $10,000 In the water fund. consider some salary increases for
city employes. Salary boosts were
not even considered at last week’s
budget hearings.
Councilmen’s relief at being In
better financial shape than they
had thought overbalanced their
chagrin at having trimmed the
budget more than was absolutely
necessary.
„.rxTr, „ . . ..... “It probably caused us to cut
FUND: Budget $19,623. Anticipat- out „ome thjngg whlcn ,hould
ed revenue. $40,000. Surplus $20,- have been cut, but which we might
377. (This fund can only be spent not have bothered with otherwise,”
for traffic improvement and con- said Councilman Lacy Lusk.
tr?L?I.0jeCtS) , . A public hearing on the budget
Middleton said the unexpected wlj, be hcId at city Hall Sept. 10.
general fund surplus will probably The date wiu be officially set at
a council meeting Thursday night.
The 'completed budget will be
finally adopted at a council meet-
ing Sept. 24.
MELVIN CLARK
COMMISSIONER RAMSEY
This bridge bottleneck will go.
Big Parade To Open Crosby Fair Baytown-La Porte
Nightly Rode0 Feature of Annual Event Bus Service Seen
With Tunnel Open
By JOHNELLA BOYNTON In addition, there will be at least
The seventh annual Crosby Fair five floats, plus numerous western
lomrrd Wednesday that will get an official send-off at 5 riders and various Harris county
Lure and Rubber Co. offi- P-m Thursday with a parade, celebrities.
Est finished with dmwn-out which this year will include at At the head of the train will be
ment and a color guard from
Crosby American Legion Post 658.
The Crosby fair will continue
through Saturday with a rodeo
every night. All exhibits will be
The Baytown-La Porte tunnel
means that Baytown and La Porte
Cost Of Living Hits
New All-Time Peak
the Crosby Volunteer Fire depart- judged Thursday morning, and an wiu have intercity bus service for
auction sale will be heid Saturday the first time in a year and a half.
C. Z Riley, general manager of
the Gulf Coast Rockett lines, Has
r?!! !1!.L announced that his company is
on three labor con- le«*t five bands.
i bsve to negotiate an-
rsoon.
k sale it will be with Pipe
ibscslNo. 211.
Up fitters and welders at
ia, in an election yesterday,
^gOsSt* ^ M their " ■«-»w - ■ turbances has been” reported'* in .The Baytown-La Porte run will
jrrsr Me'ui WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -UP- meant a two cent hourly pay raise b^^y^Vvtown day at Houston rite, hTSd! Bayt°W"'
II? the Houston Meta! ^ government reported Vednes- for the auto workers, whose con- *r‘day „ wM be ~ “
iiCouncil. Instrument repair- day that the cost of living climbed tracts are tied to the rise and fall “fv Saturda>
Jtthf plant, who voted in a to a new aj).tjtne peak in mid-July, of the government's price report, lJand"<Ut0 ^
afternoon.
The swine show was eliminated
from the fair at
su£* grs.'rr ■rs, fta
upon the advice of Dr H. B. Nay- j*® dltic*. 88 soon aa the tunnel
lor, veterinarian. Glandular dis- p *■
turbances has been reported in
The Rockett first started op-
erating a bus between Baytown
3KW"
Labor Relations hour.
! Station, is y was the second all-time .
for living costs in two months
Chrysler and other auto manu-
facturers -r will
r“v
t
Spots
r's Bock
■f iWf= =r=awM tfhrS- RSSSms
1 * , rent increases in such cities at, Include County Judge Bob Casey Baytown to Houston, Riley said.
Rising prices for food, housing Atlanta, Cincinnati. Detroit. Kan- and some of the county commis- - comDanv _ . w„a ,ho
and medical care and transports- sas City and St. Louis. Household Stoners. Fair and rodeo officials R™ d
tion raised the bureau of labor operations rose due mainly to high- will also be included. ^ on SeoT^Rnev h.u he
ORWV rrfn«e Chand- sUUstics consumers' price index er prices for laundry and dry businesses outside of Crosby £5 I!y
0RNEY Ge^e Chand , ^ cent ovpr thc micWunc rec- clea^ng serviceS, who will have a commercial booth in ,‘°r a"y
tack on the job jw*d'\ea ord. The mid-July index was 114.7 Transportation advanced .2 per at the fair are eligible to enter !, to h py 3 p an
mf. He returned Friday ^ cent of 194749 prices. cent with higher prices for gaso- a float in the parade. All Crosby
tuss after several days a further increase of just .1 per line and motor oil, while food costs businesses and organisations are
cent in the index would have edged up .1 per cent eligible to enter. . . ..
The parade Will start from the sUaion «ranted the suspension.
_____ _ a pa lair grounds, go north down First
133 Hoppy Americans Free! ^
Blondes Greet Blushing Reds - ba k to he f r
A trophy will be awarded to the
best commercial float, and first,
second and third prizes will be
awarded
ting the books of
i Telephone Co. of the
t is preparation for a rate
i Uses he has been In Ana-
|*here bis eight-month-old
rwss ill in a hospital. She
ring now, he said.
said the lines still hold the
franchise to operate between the
two towns and the Railroad Corn-
Aide Clarke that rebuilding will eliminate.
T
if X;
By LEROY HANSEN ken to nearby Kaesong fOr repa-
JSSSA.'SL ISST <*„, r. Dean.
Americans Wednesday and'embar- highest ranking prisoner held by
rassed their own returnees by in- the Communists, still was believed
jecting sex and military splendor to be in a camp near the North jq^jon McElroy,' Fori
into a reception ceremony. Korean capital of Pyongyang- and Dan gtallworth, «
Murh tho embarrassment of Um^d Nations officials do not ex-
the returning Communist prisoners Pect the !*er° *5$*$
,,,u ira'i* rdf thpir uniforms 3S Isst dsy. pOSSlWy Sept. 10.
^ X ^Jb dL,a?arierPr^ I" addition to the Americans, 267
duc«i two Stiful Wo^de inter- other Allied captives of the Reds
Ss ^ RefSps " o'- Pa^ed through freedom gate
Report
IBOHTH and ninth grad-
F Horace Mann junior high
|N»» to go out for football
at ,3:39 p.m. Thursday
tftirace Mann gym. Coach
ell hiw announced.
[Mangles Hand
l BAETHE of 1607
lost his hand in a
working at his preiacs. inc ncu j/ncn.t.o ■ . v ca„o
|Syan7oJra/tgd[v ihtT'r With thfjr C8PS' Chtsenior CommunKSt ^mbe^cd
Vh* ,bdd y All of the American soldiers re- ^ Ml|itarv Armistice Commis-
u H ws treated at San turning from Communist captivity n b<>ade<i the Red-faced wel-
.Heuerial hospital and was as Gyration Big Switch enteredI its ^mgeommiitoe. Allot themem-
final two weeks appeared healthy. ^ wore Russianstyle blue trous-
. • e . Their elation over being liber- ers with crimson stripes.
’ *0 apeak ated subsided at nearby Freedom At Freedom Village. Pfc. Charles
UJNTOX, agricultural Village where many of them re- L. Fronapfel of Alliance, Neb., said
I« Harris county, will be called such atrocities as the mur- a jqortj, Korean sadist described by
IVwkcr Wednesday night der erf a nun on a death march previous returnees as the “tiger”
pwr meeting of the Lav- and the torturing of officers to Ob- ordered a Roman Catholic nun and
rteue of First Christian tain "confessions.” an anti-Communist Russian woman
1 The dinner will be held Along with the bad news came killed on the death march early in
li. *’ Hi* church fellow- the good word that high-ranking the war.
officers, including colonels who had He said about 88 men had been
been jailed on false charges, had killed over an eight-day period on
been released from prison and ta- the march toward the Yalu River.
Rains Bring Water Rolling Down Rio
Swollen River Crests At 144,000 Gallons A Second
. . , . ... . . . . r. ^ ... ■ -• -VV ...
By UNITED PRESS Victoria 97, Salt Flat and Austin Spring 91, and Abilene, San An-
_____ _____ Thunderstorms, which have turn- 95, Wink and El Paso 94, Waco tonio. Houston, Wichita Falls, Tex-
"the three best civic ed the once-dry Rio Grande back 93, Junction, Dalhart, Mineral arkana and Midland 90.
floatg into a river, were predicted again Wells, College Station. Fort Worth Overnight lows ranged from 61
Judges will be Fred Hartman, Wednesday for South and East and Dallas 92. Childress and Big at Marfa to 77 at Corpus Christx.
Robertson
all of Bay-
town.
Thc four
(See Fair—Page Two)
Weather forecasters said the
drouth-stricken Rio Grande Valley,
ndidates foi sweet- Tuesday sent the river cresting to
144,000 gallons of water a second
at Roma, and there were reports
Wednesday that a tributary had
gone into two Mexican towns.
Building Code Is Up Again
Council Studies Delayed Changes
Completion
Is Scheduled
Before Winter
The first project author-
ized in the June 25 Harris
county $16.5 million road
bond issue will be the re-
building of the C r o s b y-
Lynchburg road from Mar-
ket Street road to Highway
90 through the business sec-
tion of Highlands.
The estimated cost of this
improvement for which High-
lands business men have been
clamoring since early in the year
is $300,000.
County Commisioner V. V. (Red)
Ramsey, freshman member of
Commissioners court, expects the
county to authorize an advertise-
ment for bids at Thursday’s meet-
ing. He said he intends to push
the project as fast as he can to
get it completed before the win-
ter rainy season sets in.
He said he had been warned
against trying to build permanent
road improvements in East Har-
ris county in the winter.
Much of the present road will
be used as the foundation for the
new topping. The specifications
call for building shell concrete
shoulders to make the whole thor-
oughfare 30 feet wide. Then the
entire area will be resurfaced with
asphaltic concrete.
"The section of the road between
Highway 90 and Crosby has al-
ready been fixed,” Ramsey said.
“We intend to make this 6.68-mile
strip the equal of that already
done.”
Curb and gutter have already
been laid in the business section
of Highlands.
’ At a later time the road rebuild-
ing may be continued to the
Lynchburg ferry. The lower sec-
tion of the highway will not he
started now, as Commissioner
Ramsey plans to await the out-
come of a traffic count at the
Lynchburg ferry after completion
of the Baytown-La Porte tunnel.
Ramsey made a final tour of
Inspection of the road earlier in
the week' and said that several of
the narrow bridges wili he torn
| out ami rebuilt.
“I realize that work on this road
will result in inconvenience to
some,” he said, “but I feel that
the quicker we get to work on it
and the faster we complete the
job, the better it will be for every-
body,”
Ramsey visited the Highlands
Rotary club several weeks ago and
told Highlands business men what
he would try to do. He even put it
to a vote, and the count was unan-
imous for doing the work as soon
as possible.
Ramsey expressed deep appre-
ciation to other members of Com-
missioners Court for supporting
this project as the No. 1 job.
“Other court members realized
(See Highway—Page Two)
Parr Brought
Info Laughlin
Ouster Trial
Bund Town
pTTLE lost blue parakeet
_ 'Jttmy comes knocking
■» door, he belongs to the
H»n’s over at 702 East
Texas City PW Returning
Town To Roll Out Red Carpet For Him
Thief Takes
Pity On
Bride-To-Be
AUSTIN, Aug. 26 -UP-
Mlss Merle Dunnagan. a dis-
traught bride-to-be, was happy
Wednesday — thanks to a thief
who repented.
Miss Dunnagan and John E.
Pulliam of San Antonio, went
to the county clerk’s office
Saturday where they obtained
a marriage license.
Sunday night a thief broke
into Pulliam’* ear while he and
his fiance were eating at a
downtown restaurant. A box
containing the marriage li-
cense, the wedding ring and^
gifts for the wedding attend-
ants was stolen.
Tuesday Miss Dunnsgsn
found s paper sack in the
driveway of her home. In the
sack was a note laying,
“sorry, wish you lots of luck.”
With the note were all the
stolen articles.
AUSTIN. Aug. 26 -UP-The po-
Ktieal maneuvers of George Parr,
potent force in South Texas poll-
■n,, tanto, £ JSttX sst SJZ SfiSsSSsiS
Water Commission said the Rio city.g properly owners a better for hiring an electrical inspector jlt} of A]jce despite efforts o, have
Alamo a tributary, had gone into jjre insurance key rate are sched- have been set up in the 1953-54 tbe ie/erences stricken.
Cerraldo and General Trevino. lllpd for consideration again at city budget. Donato Serna. San Diego drug-
...... Insurance men have estimated gist, a witness, testified at length
that adoption of the electrical concerning Parr, rather than
code and changes in the building Laughlin. whom 11 South TexaPat-
if
f§
Mexico, but reported “little dam- th„ at Council meeting Thurs-
9i«o ” Tho mvnr u/nc rf»nnrtf*d nnp- , *
Jimmy got away this TEXAS CITY, Aug. 26 —UP— The ceremonies will include
“nd the Allman’s would The full, red-carpet treatment will presentation of a new automobile
him back again- be given Cpl. Theodore Boudoin to the returning hero and Wednes-
. when he returns to his native city dav city officials began planning
H'nry Enax waving at from a Communist prisoner camp for a huge variety show to be given
s-ss. * “'rfrS.s
. M^EHs H anyone pop. we?ke WasU releasSto O^ratton Slew caf and^ssiuT for**afr-
^ ,Hopper up Md SffcJtrh euest of honor line fare so that his parents, Mr.
u» lln 'ths morning ®‘e itay cere- and Mrs- H. W. Ellis, can fly to
------ auxinquir- hu LSteM the West Coast to greet him on
his arrival there.
Mayor Lee Robinson said he was
drawing up a proclamation mak-
ing the arrival day one to re-
member and chamber of com-
merce officials, headed by W. J.
Peterson, secretary, laid plans for
a parade and other ceremonies.
•The corporal’s return will be —- —----— -—* —
A body found in Lake Michigan tempered with sadness, though, for tax suits filed to 6,950 and beat a
here is not that of Illinois State he, will learn that his elderly grand- midnight deadline outlawing col-
p_ Graver who was'kid- mother died less than a month ago. lection of delinquent personal-
Rep. Clem Ci nmvina nnnis live inj>o onraivh DroDertv taxes after four years of
BSfelSUS.toSw: •"», — »«* «
con dam, the international project Pm- at utX Ha“-
which will be dedicated by the
presidents of the United States and
Mexico.
The heaviest rainfall recorded in
Texas Tuesday was -at Corpus
Christi which received 1-72 inches.
Other points reporting rain during
the 24-hour period ending at 6:30
a.m. Wednesday included Browns-
ville .59, Beaumont .30, Houston
.44, Galveston .22, Laredo .02 and
traces at Dallas and Tyler. Gal-
veston, Houston and Brownsville
all reported showers at 6:30 a.m.
Wednesday.
The thermometer hit the 100-
mark at one place in Texas Tues-
day, after more than a week of
80 and 90 degree temperatures.
Presidio recorded an even 100. The
low maximum was 79 at Alice.
Other highs Tuesday included
Visitors To
Jail End Up
Prisoners
code can lower the city’s insur-
ance key rate enough to save pro-
perty owners about $15,000 a year
in insurance premiums.
The council will also hear a re-
port fronC'Engineer H. S. Berlin
on bids received on equipment for
the new sewage disposal plant on
West Main.
torneys seek to have removed from
office..
Serna said he was beaten with
a flashlight bv Pan-. He charged
that Parr, them sheriff, struck him
with a flashlight at the Duval coun-
ty jail in San Diego in August,
1952.
Laughlin’s attorney, C. C. Small
QUICKIES . . By Ken Reynolds
'Joyce Thteodaux inquir- for "<&■
« PictuiJ and finding !™nies Y
JZ, r* y- - Walter Queen herc'
taj y Writi*g thank you
Adam^ graciou® ones.
I i»» orderin8 the 10 a.m.
ia, with cream and su-
■ Wiley Ferguson , cas
m8 eye over
casting
his own
Body Found in Lake
Not Missing Lawmaker
HAMMOND. Ind„ Aug. 26-UP-
lileatV ™- hidna Banta
$niJWay* misses her boys
8 the Th bU' U Won t be
''^^tt ststioTwfxonine ^ TTJT Td pra^mg The could iive ioqg enough property taxe
Houston * 8 naP«t June 11 • Chidago police said to ^ hjm onCe more # non-payment.
Cities File 6,950 Suits
On Delinquent Taxes
AUSTIN, Aug. 26 —(W— Mass
filing of delinquent tax suits by
city authorities ended Tuesday
with docketing of 840 more cases
in justice, county and district
courts.
The action brought the total of
The deadline was pegged under
a new state law, which became ef-
jv crioir ra_ „ . - was of a man consiueiauij vuuukvi io me im wn-p me -ivjjcb »ic u fective Wednesday, getting a ata-
81 **2i ,, J ca ‘ hlm at than the 53-year-oid Graver. Also be able to see her grandson once tute of limitations on delinquent
r* f typo-ed it thp appeared to have more but died only three weeks tax collections.
weighed less than the missing leg- bfore it was announced he had Some of the cases Involved taxes
says that prospective
*/ Sho°iVthe ^ G0Ue‘e
Wednesday. Mrs. Erene Boudoin, of Maurice,
I Police said the body apparently La., mother of Mrs. Ellis, clung a new s
,as 0f a man considerably younger to life for weejes in the hopes she’d fective
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 26 -
UP—Two visitors tq the Bexar
county jail found themselves on
the other side of the bars
Wednesday after visiting hours.
The desk sergeant grabbed
Frank Martinez. 22. and Mike
Gonzales. 25, two visitors, aft-
er Mrs. Francis Lopez, a visi-
tor reported $15 missine from
her purse and Mrs Virginia
Rodriguez, a visitor, identified
tile men as the thieves
They were booked and placed
in a cell with the inmate they
visited when a $16 bill was
found in Martinez’s mouth and
police believed one of the men
swallowed a $5.
Bids on the machinery were re- of Austin, moved to strike Serna’s
oeived Aug. 13 but were tabled for testimony on grounds it was not
Appointment of a Civil Service relevant to charges against the
board member to take the place judge.
further study. District Judge D. B. Wood of
of the Rev. M. E. 'McPhail will Georgetown, appointed by the Tex-
come up again at the Thursday as Supreme Court as special mas-
— w— ter to take eviedence, overruled the
meeting. McPhail’s term has run
out and a successor has not yet
been appointed.
City Attorney George Chandler
has been asked to prepare an or-
dinance requiring that door catches
be taken off ice boxes and refrig-
erators left outside and not in use.
Recent tragedies in other cities
awakened the country to the dan-
ger to small children who might
get trapped in such boxes.
The council will also set Sept.
10 as the date for the annual pub-
lic hearing on the city budget.
islator.
been released. She was 81.
delinquent tot more than 20 years.
“Alvin! ... I ordered the coal
we saw in the Sun Want Ads —
and they’re delivering H im-
mediately!”
Mrs. Sarah Graybeal Of La Porte Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Wayne Graybeal of Montana and
Graybeal. 72, will be held at 2 p.m. jake Graybeal of Washington;
Frida>' « thp Porte Comm,ln- five daughters, Mrs. H. C. Rich of
'Vra 1 Graybeal died Tuesday Ir>di<»>«. Mrs. Harold Hansen of
night at the Pasadena Medical Minnesota, Mrs. Max
center. She”had: been a tesidenF of Indiana, Mr*. Robert Parmenter
La Porte for the laqt 18 years. of North Carolina, Mrs. Robert
The body will be sent to Brook- Hale of La Porte,
side crematory. Otl
Survivors include Mrs. Gray- Miss
beat’s husband, John Graybeal; brotW, —- ——,-----— --------
her 97-year-old father, Dr. F. M. Porte; 22 grandchildren, and one lem to _the
Harrison of La Porte; two *on*, greet-grandchiid.
motion.
Five sessions of the hearing were
held last week, two this week.
There was no indication when the
hearing would be concluded.
Die court Tuesday rejected a re-
quest by State Sen. William H.
Shireman for permission to add
four charges to ouster proceedings
against Laughlin. He is being tried
on eight charges specifying
“causes for removal.”
Houston FBI Agent Says
Shivers
Caldwell of duty,1
HOUSTON. Aug. 26
Lorton Jr., agent in <
FBI office in Houston,
dav be 1
tvas
have no apologies
Answering charges that
<’ in the
Other survivors include a sister. Tuesday, Lorton sad:
iss Georgia Harrison, and a “If tile governor wants
brother, Otis Harrison, both of La changed he should take k
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