The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 133, Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 1958 Page: 2 of 10
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Monday, May 5, 1951
MANAGERIAL CHANGES AT
HUMBLE REFINERY LISTED
Major manage rial changes at oil
Humble’s Baytown refinery have
movements to coordination as maintenance and construction
announced by Russell H
enn, manager of the refining
; been
Venn.
-department, and are now in
operation.
Top changes included lames
Harrop, who has been general
superintendent of Baytown
plants, and H. H. Meier, form-
f erly manager of' technical and
research divlUffl® being pro-
moted to the new positions of
assistant managers.
Harrop will be-responsible-for
division. The utilities division
has been consolidated with oil
movements to form a new serv-
ices divisioit’ '
Tech service, engineering,
Service laboratories and Humble
inspection laboratory have been
consolidated into a technical
group headed by Dr. W. B.
Franklin.
H. F. Hartman, who until
recently has been head of engi-
* technical, employe reiatlona, ac-
counting, coordination and blend-
superintendent. Kelly announced
that he plans to retire Aug. 1.
W, W, Harris will move from
training assignment in process
nnsition of assistant StlD-
to the position of assistant sup
erintendent under Hartman.
John Cook and Jack Traxler
will continue in their present
assignments as assistants to the
maintenance and construction
superintendent. They will be In
charge of sones and crafts,
wm replaceC F. Kelly
Deaths-Funerals
«««operating, —
f tica and maintenance and con-
struction divisions.' %
Both men will report to Plants
. . Manager Gordon L- Farned.
| In another major change, H,
F. Goss, who has been opera-
tions superintendent in charge
Of operating utilities and oil
movements, has been made
^operations odvisorffee will work
ioilgnsnenta-and will
* report tdHgnmp.
* Departmental, cT» a n gel • an>
% niunccd at the same time as the
| nfuiagerial changes included
f moving blending personnel from
James 0, Summerstll, 72, of Summers!!!. all of
Coady, died at S.p.m. Saturday
in a Baytown hospital. -
He was a native of Jackson-
vilie, Fla., where he was born
Oct. 24, 1885. He had lived In
the Baytown area 10 years. He
was an automobile mechanic. He
was a World War I veteran,
Funeral services were set for
4:30 p.m., Monday in Earthraan
chapel. Rev. Dan Gardner of
Central Baptist Church officiat-
ed. Greveside services were
held at'Little Arlington ih Ce-
darcrest cemetery. Military
. ■
Baytown;
James Ellis Summetsill of San
Antonio.
Also surviving are four broth-
ers, Lester Summerslll of Jack-
sonville, Fla; Hqnry Summer-
sill, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Hom-
er Summersiil of Miami, Fla;
Theo Summersiil of Geneva,
Fla.; three sisters: Mrs. Ernest-
ine English, Albuquerque; and
Mrs. Erma Kennedy, of Jackson-
ville, Fia,; Mrs, Birdie Rawson
of Miami, Fla.; and nine grand.
Pallbearers were T. I. Tallent,
services were conducted by Rob- Parkinson, C. W. Hastings,
ert R, Tuck Post, VFW, No, 912.
Survivors include his widow,
Mary Summer®; seven daugh-
ters, Mrs. Lydia Carmody, Mrs.
V, R. Serbe, G. K. Edge and Joe
F. Harris.
Houston Councilman In
County Judge’s Race
Defeated Candidate
Issues Statement
Mor
Louie Welch, Houston city He is vice president of the
councilman, made a hectic affair
of the county judge’s race
Harris county when he announc-
ed Saturday.
The race was already consid-
ered a "hot” affair with ‘‘four
candidates already in the race
The other four, all considered
able campaigners and vote-get-
ters, are: County Commissioner
W. Kyle Chapman, Democratic
County Chairman Presley E.
Werlein Jr., and state Reps. Wil-
liam Elliott and Frank Mann.
In his announcement, Welch
said: “If elected I will be able
Crosby’s chapter of the Fu-
county services to include all
residents of Harris county with-
out regard to the frequently arti-
ficial boundaries of City ljmit
lines.”
Welch cited the
* complexities of metropolitan
government, and the Inequities
which have arisen in the expen-
diture of tax monies because of
obsolete and archaic state laws
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beauty contest to be
and Mrs. P. T. Hum-
Noon Call Stock Quotes
ters, -Mrs. j-yaia uarniouy, 0U01
Vada Boothe, Miss Dorothy U|«|l«UIM|r Of)
Summersiil, Miss Norma Sum- EllMlITVM J »w
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Wreck Is
mersill, Miss Mattie Belle Sum-
mersill, Miss Billye Lbis Sum-
mersill, all of Baytown; Mrs.
Mary Stone, of Pasadena; four
sons, James George Summersiil,
Johnny summersiil. and Charles
Fatal To 1
Library
"Sorry, sir...
* Mr. Snodgrass
* • in
:is out.
(Continued From Page 1)
The Friends have long held to
| the theory' that the city should
enlarge its budget each year for
the library, leading up to the day
that county and city ties can be
severed .
Tlie Friends, in turn, have been
greeted with such theories as,
“A library is nice but not essen-
tial. The city needs to spend its
money on other things."
For the past two years the
Friends of the Library have been
inactive. And it’s not that they’re
They've just
A Louisiana college student
was killed and six other persons
were injured in a head-on col-
lision at 4:35 p.m. Saturday on
Highway 90 four miles east of
the Crosby-Lynchburg road in-
tersection.
The fatality was Berton Allen
Richard, 20, of Crowley, La„ a
freshman industrial education
major at Southwestern Louis-
iana Instiute, Lafayette, La,
Richard died in Hermann hos-
jptital at 6:15 p.m,.‘ Saturday,
almost two hours after the
wreck. He was treated at San
Jacinto Memorial and then
transferred to Hermann hos-
pital.
The mishap marred what was
to have been a weekend of fun
at Galveston. The students were
on their way to Splash Day
activities there.
Three of Richard’s fellow a til
Courtesy Merrill lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith
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Allts-Chalmers 24
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Anaconda Cop ............. 45
Ander Prichard............ 26%
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Sinn NJ, SS”;...
Stude-Packard ............ 414
Sun Oil . .>..*.4;,'....... 60%
Beth Steel ■
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»is out—{of his head) to ex- for the people to really see the
; pact to do business with these *** for a new library
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| office geer that money can! ^ rl^*, n"w'
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^competitors who have such
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* If you need any of the stuff ^OSDlfdl Alld foil
4 we ere tatting about, phone was gent to M ............ ... ..
jus and well show you desks, Ja°nto Memoriai hospital and!Hermann hospital.
, chairs and other office equip- i another went to jail after an ar- State Highway Patrolmen C.
| ment so modern your em. gument at 1:49 a.m. Sunday at(®- Poiansky and C. W. Shearer
.* otovees undoubtedlv will start the Bavshore bus station. investigated the accident which
occurred near the A and L cafe
* til# first wheelc et it " cut on ,ne 00051 ncar tne snoiu_ on Highway 90.
Argument Ends At
dent* were hurt. One remains-in Gulf State Util —........42
San Jacinto hospital.
Raymond Landry of Lafayette
hai serious head injuries and is
still in San Jacinto hospital.
Two students, Melvin Larry
Maxwell, 19, of Chalmette, La.,
and Billy Floyd Elgin, 21, Of
Lafayette, were released Sunday
from San .Jacinto hospital.
A Bellaire housewife, Mrs.
Betty Burch Boykin, 27, of 4507
Merrie Lane, driver of the
other car, ajpd her two children,
| Craig Edwin, 3, and Bruce Lane,
San [ 11 months, were admitted to
Br. Am Oil ..................38%
Cclanese ........... 16%
Ceiotex ....................29%
Chance-Vought ..... 41%
Chrysler ...... 45%
Cities Serv ................51%
Columb Gas ............ 18%
Creole ............... 77%
Dow Chem .............. 55%
Du Pont ...................179
Dresser......... 36%
Eastman Kodak ..... 106%
Ei Paso....................32
Fairchild Engra ...........11
Freeport Sulp..............84
Ford ......................39%
Gen Electric ...............59
Gen Motors ....... 37%
(Sen Tele....................46
Gen Tire ......................
Getty Oil ..................26%
Gillette Saf..................37
Goodyear Tire.............74%
Greyhound .................16’%
Gulf Oil ..................116%
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Tennessee Gas .. i mrc~c^eS^f?'
ludge Bill Miller
*sk8 Re-E>ection
To Court-AHaw
. M
(Bill) Miller Jr., Judge of County
Court-At-Law No. 2, has announc
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HUMBLE ................52%
Imperial Oil ..............43%
Int’l Nickel ..............74
lnt’1 Harv ................31%
Jones & Laugh ..........38%
Kerr - McGee .............44%
Texas Co..................67 %
Texas Gulf Prod ..........27
Texas Gulf gulp ..........19
Tidewater ...........21%
Texas Eastern ...... 29%
Union Cand C............ 87%
Un Oil of Calif............48%
United Aiclines............26%
United Carbon ............52
Wilcox Oil ................ 36
U. S. Steel ................61%
Woodley Pet..............46%
W. R. Grace .............. 47%
NO Cotton ...............Up 6
UN SPOTS
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Scout Committee
THE BOY Seout District com-
mittee wilt meet at 7 p.m. Tues-
day in the Baytown refinery
main office conference room. At
7:30 p.m. the various groups in
the committee will have meet'
ings, D. A. Smith announced.
■ '
» Office Supplies and Printing
* 211 Wesf Pearce '
Phone JU 3-1718
Henry Smith of 608 Youpon was
cut on the chest near the shout
der. He was taken to San Jacinto
Memorial hospital for treatment.
murder filed by the Baytown
Police department.
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Students _______________ 75e ,
Children, under 12 25c
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Today and Tuesday
Accepts Russia's
Visit Invitation
WASHINGTON (UP) - Agricul-
ture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson
will become the first U,S. catenet
officer to visit the Soviet Union
since 1947.
Benson announced Friday he
accepted a Russian invitation to
visit this summer. He said he
hoped to leave for the 10-day trip
"sometime in July, or possibly a
j little later."
Libby McN .......
Liggett and Myers
Loew’s Inc
La Land .......•••
Mack Trucks ......
Monsanto
Nat Dairy Prod
Newp News ....
Ohio Oil ........
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Pacific Pet .....
Pancoastal Oil ••
Periney’s
Phillips Petr . j,*
Pure Oil
Royal Dutch
Sapphire
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Sinclair ...................58^
Schick ....................
Skelly ......... 55%
Socony-Vac ........ 50%
Sou Pacific ................42%
Sperry-Rand ........ H%
St. Regis paper 32%
Spring Concert
BAYTOWN JUNIOR High
mixed choir will present its an-
nual spring concert at 7:30 p.m,
Tuesday at the school auditor-
ium, The choir features a boys’
double quartet and a girls’ en-
semble.
PI— 12— • Groundbreaking Set.
GROUNDBREAKING ceremony
of the La Porte-Bayshore Garden
Center will be held at 10 a.m.
Tuesday at Park and Davis
streets, next to St, Mary's Cath-
olic church In La Porte.
"Being a firm" Reliever In the
adage that a public office is a
public trust, I will continue
serve as a full-time judge, with
all honesty, integrity, and sin-
cerity of purpose, with deep hu-
mility and fair and impartial
judgment in all matters before
toe," Judge Miller said.
"The record will show,” he
added, “that this Is truly a work-
ing court and the total of 8,592
criminal cases and 3,208 civil
matters handled in the past 44
months compares favorably with
any similar court in Texas,
“With the experience and
knowledge gained from my eight
years of legislative service and
my approximately four years on
the bench of this court, the pub-
lic is justified in expecting and
will receive even better services
from my continued position
this bench as being an important
link in the law enforcement' of
this county.
"I earnestly solicit the prayers,
confidence and continued support
of my many friends and con-
stituents in the task before me,”
Judge Miller said.
Judge Miller lives with his
wife and two children at 6420
Sewanee, Houston. He was state
president of the Texas Christian
Bndeavor Union in 1938 and 1939,
and a state, council member
since 1927 for this Protestant in-
terdenominational statewide
youth group,
He graduated from the South
Texas college of Law in 1936 and
has been a member of its board
of regents since 1953.
Welch is a native of Lockney,
In West Texas, and.fe a graduate
of Abilene Christian college. He
serves on tne college board of
trustees. He is in the auto supply
metal reclamation business which
he established in 1944.
ment.”
He said he; wants thifNiigi
government to provide a more
economical method of solving
such problems as health and
welfare for the indigent, rabies
Control, tax appraisal and col-
lection .water supply, recreation
and library facilities. T-
Pointing out that the office of
county , judge is the principal ad-
ministrative position in the coun-
ty government, Welch said: "I
feel my experience and back-
ground in Houston city govern-
ment fully qualify,me to. perform
tiiis service.” *
League of Texas Municipalities,
and is prseident-elect of the Har-
ris County Mayors and Council-
men’s association. He Is a past
president of the Humble Road
Lions Club.
He lives with his wife and four
sons at 81 Asaleadell in Houston
Crosby FFA Sets
Oinner Thursday
Douglas Tromblee, candidate
for school board, Position 4,
Monday, Issued a statement of
his appreciation for support In
the race.
His statement: “I would like
to thank my many friends and
supporters for their vote of con-
fidence in the school board elec-
tion Saturday.
To my opponent, may I ex-
tend congratulations.”
At St..
Misi
ture Farmers of America will
hold its annual father and son
barbecue at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
in the Crosby High school cafe-
tffiq. **SWS**-H*-»~-
Special guest4 speaker for this
rogram will be Dewey Comp-
wu, radio fam director for
radio station KTRH.
Invitations have been extend-
which apply to the state govern- ed by mail, according to Tex Yf.
Tyler, chapter advisor. Dress
for the affair will be informal.
Joe Ulrich is chapter presi-
dent And Clarence Baumbach is
aeeretagfcfll
The first canal In the Unlfed
States was built around the falls
of the Connecticut river at South
Hadley Falls, Mass., in 1793.
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U.S. Turns Down
A-Ban Proposal
Bayitti Mail Seeks
Tax Suit Mandamus
WARSAW (UP)—The U.S.
While iii Russia, he said, he rejected the “Rapacki” plan for
will visit farms and agricultural
research center and inspect the
all-union agricultural exhibition in
Moscow,
The last cabinet officer to visit hibit nuclear weapons in Poland,
East and West' Germany and
the Soviet Union was former Sec-
retary of State George C. Mar-
shall, who: attended a foreign min-
isters’ conference in Moscow 11
years ago. The'cold war was just
beginning at that time.
Agriculture Department officials
told newsmen Benson’s trip would
be‘'part of the U.S.-Soviet ex
;e program. They said nego-
for both countries, were comment
a nuclear ban' fn central Europe,
Polish sources said today,
The sources said the American
note turning down the plan to pro
Czechoslovakia was delivered this
morning.
American sources would neither
confirm nor deny the report, say-
ing any announcement would have
to come from either the U.S.
State Department .or the Polish
Foreign Ministry. 7
Polish officials also refused to
’« iNB«n*RMNi
A court order to force-taxing
of bank accounts, automobiles
and Mother property in the Goose
Creek Consolidated independent
School district has been asked
in a. lawsuit filed in district
in 4 U
HURRY! HURRYI
ENDS TONIGH'
iH) tirade Entriaiflment!
-GOD IS
. my.- ;
PARTNER
RICHARD TODD
"BATTLE HELL"
1WSDAY
THRU
WED.
"Affair In Havana"
given the green light’’ some
lime ago to try to work out
arrangements, ‘ ’*
" One official* said Benson hoped
to get a close look at Soviet live-
stock herds so he can reach a
first-hand opinion of the success
of the Soviet state drive to over-
take this country in the produc-
tion of meat, butter and milk-
■ Seutou has said to the past he
trade unto Ru>-
jhSf® fiju be expanded on ft voted ter TM-io turn down the
»p»a8y bwieficial basiS.' He has
farm products,
Commissioner Post
Sought By Mips
Ralph Phillips, 46, Greens
Bayou pharmacist, has tiled
a candidate for commissioner
of Harris County Precinct 2.
Phillips, who owns a drug
store, the Phillips Prescription
Pharmacy, lives In Home Owned
Estates, He has lived in Harris
county for the past 15 years.
Phillips is a former director
and vice president of the First
State Bank of Greens Bayou. He
is actlveTn^civfc work.
A new comer to politics, Phil-
lips paid his filing fee Friday.
U.S. would mean a death blow to
Poland’s major effort in the field
of foreign affairs. It was the
first- advanced by Foreign Mih-
ister Adam Rapacki last Novem-
ber and has been the subject of
several diplomatic exchange:
since" then.
The report of the American re-
jection did not come as a sur-
prise. The NATO council recently
court in11 Houston by
town property owner.
B. B. Williams alleged in his
petition, filed In district court
Friday, that George L. Bennett,
the school district’s tax assessor-
collector, hasj'conslstently, pur.
posety and studiously failed and
refused” to levy .and collect a.tax
against chattels.
Williams specifically men-
tioned bank deposits and auto-
biles as examples of 1 personal
properties which he said are
'subject jto being taxed for
The rejection of the plan by the school purposes to the same ex-
tent .and for like purposes
rea.1 estate.”
John O. Mitchell
r-^r. AGENT
Sll E. Texas • Hum# JU 2-882*
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REL Begins Spring
Football Training
The annual spring training
football session will get under-!
way at 3:2Q p.m. Monday for
the Robert E, Lee Ganders on
the Gander practice field next
to Memorial stadium.
Head coach Pete Sultis and
staff are expecting 80 boys out
for the workouts. '• •
The training period will last
for three weeks and will feature (
inter-squad game at the end
of the work-outs.
A mongoose is valuable for,
kilting poisonous snakes. It re-
ties on dazzling speed to kill
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 133, Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 1958, newspaper, May 5, 1958; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1042821/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.