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YOUR HOME
NEWSPAPER
Serving East Harris and Chambers Ceuntias
VOL. 17, NO. I0S
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IAYTOWK TEXAS
Wednesday, Jsnuery JO, 1957
TODAY'S NIWS TODAY
T&EPHONE> M02. Rv* Cants hr Copy
HEAVY VOTE PREDICTED ON PORT BONDS
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Thursday Night In Baytown-
Mothers Ready For Polio March
It if chiir- exclusively t disease of the young. The percent- polio In the same period Harris county has re-
age of adult* with polio has increased from ii (c|ved peck »,W7,5M J6 To [>ut it_ln plain words,
assistant per cent In IMS to SO pe
By SUM JONES the campaign ln Baytown R. K. Dugat it chalr-
sua staff Writer man of the overall March of Dimes in East „ ... _ ________,____....
_ ..___mnM r,,t Umrrtm Harrta county and George Crist Is amUUnt per cent In IMS to SO per cent In 1W Further- Harris county received WSO.OOS.TT more than it
ASS. 1WSA5LSS J .......jZ „ =fA M* “ £ 3T'”“a "*M
tZu'y 5£jiB -- «5?fi* mm. D«nt aM WMimd.,. -n»r- >» • u K M «1 P^'0 n,u Ol ,11 U» mo-, i»l»d I, 10. ommly duo
S^ret fund* to fttjlto Contribution by people just like Baytown people now and It todtcMM that ewryont tf ftut <* , Ihe of U sent to the Netionel
U>e area seeiong runos to ngm potio ind g*, cooper,don in taking Salk vaccine age or younger should lake the Salk shots. K’lmUUon for distribution
where it Is needed
yt*Jl.>,yto,WT) ro?lrfl’!l"M P00?,** shots f» the major factor Iq the decrease of Crts^added ythst v^b*e *{£ the most. The other half remains with the county
chapter.
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Id trials.
Foundation for dlstribut
^WTp,«» ill uq fc A. wmmimm hmkm hi ih» Amw—4a df IViil Added liiit IkUilora rWBorrTuo^^^^^^MgB
March of Dimes. Already this year donation* he wld
have passed the 17,000 mark and it looks as if money given to the March of Dimes Is those who will take the shots. ® ® u,-,,
SMS'S? •*•!**.•* to remit* and Dugttaaid that Mm people healtato togive fta^JSS
the 1987 gifts surpass tboee of JIM. oUler ph»Sf* demanded by the disease. It has to the March of Dimes because they feel Minh of D?mf* t Mn ...
Mothers'
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heard at the door. IWs way time wiU be wved lra left crippled from tnfantU# paralysis. released by the Harris" County chapter of the Dugat urged Beytonlaia to five to Mitel
and more territory mm be covered lo less time. , Dugat aBd his workers are asking' Baytown National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, of Dimes, if for no other reason, to propel them-
Mrs Georwe Soanrler Is chairman of the drive folk lo take their vaccine shots now, as well as The Information state* that since the founds- selves and their families against the crippling
In East Harris county and Mrs. B. M. Knots, give to March of Dime*. don was formed In IMS. Harris county has con-H
Is head of the Jaycee-ettes, who are sponsoring Crist, assistant chairman, sa.d “Polio is not tributed >1,5*6,870.59 to the national fight m
aur.5 Brta«BrtwaTfi2£ s’sjammt * “ *“* u “
disease
notice.
SUN
spots
New Officers
NEW OFFICERS for the Ro-
tary club were to be elected at
noon Wednesday at the weekly
club meeting. Nominated for
president were A1 Malinger,
Knox Beavers and Jack Jacobs.
G*fi Patent
1>, E. NICHOLSON and R. H.
Perry are co-inventors in a U.
B. Patent Just issued to them
baaed on work done at Humbtobf"
Baytown Reeearch oenter. The
patent describe* a method
making paraxylene, the hydro-
carbon used In manufacturing
-dacron”, from other xylene*.
Support Bonds
C. M BANKS, retired Bhell tt-\
finery worker of Baytown. Wed
BMday urged “all my MmA^i
neighbors ahd fonr.er union as-
sociates to support, the |7 thll-
lion' port bond Ukue Tbumday.
We’ve got to have these faclllt-
ies—so be sure and vote for the
bonds.”
Judge Speaks
DISTRICT JUDGE Spurgeon
Bell will be In Baytown Thurs-
day to address the Kiwania club
at Its weekly luncheon meeting
at the Tower. His topic will be
“A Citizen* Obligation to Jury
Service.”
Last Rites
FUNERAL SERVICES for Mrs,
Daisy Shepherd, 81, mother
Mrs. W. G. Wilson of Baytown
will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday
at Boulevard Funeral home
8829 Harrisburg boulevard. Buri-
al will be ln Fairvlew cemetery
in Woodville.
Roy Suffers
Hand Burns
Police Chief Roy Montgomery
burned his hands severely Tues
day night while putting out
fire in the bathroom of his honie,
Montgomery said his young
non, Roy Jr„ lighted a bathroom
heater aw,Much * towel wu
hanging. The towel caught Ore,
and the flames spread to plastic
bathroom curtains.
Montgomery’s hands were
burned when he jerked the melt-
ing plastic curtains off the wall,
Around Town
«.Sa
ANYBODY LOST a litUe black
cocker puppy with a red collar?
The cute little character ambled
up to Moore’s Grocery Tuesday
afternoon, sans chaperone. Own-
er may telephone 8-2703 or go by
110 Long drive for the puppy
where a Good Samaritan has it
for safe keeping.. . . B, B. Wil-
liams making a trip to Houston
on business ... Dick Hurst mafc
ing his early morning rounds ...
Clint Nettleton looking at the sky
and praying for tennis weather
. . . Pete Sultis saying he’s los-
ing weight. , . Holly McLemore
Bill Drafted
Curfew Law
Sought Here
$7 Million
In Election
May
East Harris County leaders in
the drive for pasasgr of the 17
million port bond Iseue confidently
predicted Wednesday that toe
bonds will receive a thumping ma-
jority in Thursday's election
Included on ihe bond drive com-
mittee are L. G. (Prof* Sander*.
R. H. Hemphill, Kchnl* Jr..
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IfilDOH Ml SHBOOM IN IOWA
City Attorney George Chandler officials may pass an ordinance i take the proposed bill whlrh he
Mayors
elation.
THIS PRIME grand champion of the 1*87 National Western
Stock show la Denver sold for a record price el MAS a
pound, totaling SAMI. At the left I* Paul Shank, who
bought the animal. With him are William Irvine (right) and
L. M. Beaton. FA**!-' (bMHilMal)
NOW YOU ALL KNOW
SONNY'S NAME
Hang a monicker on a Texan and he goee through life
carrying It. ; .
At haet that's the way it I* with Sonny Barrow of
Highlands, who recently returned from two years of duty
with the army ln Japan.
Sonny's wife Is Charlie Plowden’s secretary at Texas
Maintenance Supply. Someone asked Charlie the name of
his new secretary. "Oh, that’s Mrs. Sonny Barrow,” he
Mid.
4Wbai'e 'Benny's real namef*’"........*'
“Goals—you get me. I’ve known him for year*, but I’ve
never heard him called anything but ‘Sonny*.” So Charlie
contacted his secretary. . *
“Say, what’s your husband's name?” he asked.
“Sonny, of course,” she said.
“No, I mean his real name.”
“Oh, Ifs Wiliam,” she said. “But nobody knows him by
that”
Plowden said his secretary—the former Ruth Burnett
—probably discovered his given name when they took out
a marriage license Jan. 15. _,_
Hoods Hit Four States;
One Dead, Four Missing
, By UNITED PRESS
Colder and clearing weather to-
day was expected to ease the tor-
Eastem Mates.
■ The flash foods in Virginia, West
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee
swamped some 13 communities
and caused damages of several
KSSUim I
H, Va„ in the Cumberland
I Valley was flooded by a 16-foot
wall of watrf, and flood waters at
Barbourville, Ky., reached a depth
of 20 feet.
- 'The floodwaters isolated Logan,
W.Va., a community of 5,000 per-
sons, and Hazard, Ky., during the
night.
floods hit Welch, W. Va.,
jthat community snd Aw-
ing evacuation of some families.
A power failure blacked out the
Welch emergency hospital.
At Nashville, Term, the Cum-
Is preparing a proposed bill
which would give cities in Texas
the right to Impose a curfew on
juveniles.
Chandler was Instructed to
prepare the proposed bill Tue»‘
day following a conference be-
tween City Manager a D. Mid-
dleton, Police’Chief Roy Mont-
gomery and Chandler and the
Harris county legislative delega-
tion in Austin.
The city official* proposed the
bill as a means of curbing juv-
enile delinquency as result of a
study made by a committee
named by the Harris County
and Councilman's asso-
Montgomery and City
Councilman W. C. Swain are
members of the committee.
Montgomery said the confer-
ence In Austin was attended by
every member of the Harris
county delegation, including Sen
a tor Searcy Bracewell. All in-
dicated that they would favor
such a bill, Montgomery said
The bill will be introduced
the House of Representatives
by Rep. Robert W. Baker, who
once lived in Baytown and _
now a resident of Houston. Sen-
ator Bracewell said that he
would introduce it in the Senate.
Montgomery explained that
the proposed bill will not im-
pose the curfew on every city
and town in the state, but is a
‘may” bill, which says that city
to Impose curfew hour* on Juv-1 is writing to Austin Saturday for
enlie* if they so desire. I consideration by the Harris de-
City Attorney Chandler Is to| legation next week. «
WINTER TIME I* Igloo lime In Iowa, and children msko
the moot of It Following a hlg snow storm at Cedsr Rapid*,
these two, with the aid of their father, used snow shoveled
from the drive to make an Igloo in thrir own hackvsrd.
(International)
W. T. Hunch. I lifiy F. Massey
and Fred I Is n man. ail of Bay-
town; Theo Ramsey of Crosby
and Don Ur*; of Highlands.
Busch miule nn apfienl for sup-
port of Ihe bonds at Tueackty s
meeting of Ihe Raytown Lions
dub, and Hartman made a sim-
ilar appral at Wrdnrvlay 'a Rotary
club meeting.
Baytown Chamber of Commffce
and other grnupa in HdVtmsn and
the rest of I jut Hams County
have endorsed the port bonds and
urged voter support.
Although they predicted that the
bond* will win the necessary 3 to
1 majority required for paniage,
membrrs of Ihe Port Bond csro-
mittee warned ciUrtens not to tgke
the “let George do it” attitude
and stay away from the polls
Thursday.
Because tiro bonds will require
nn increase In ihe county property
lax rale, they must receive a two-
third* tor 2 to 1* majority vote.
This is mandatory under atals
law.
Pvt Rond committeemen <Jao
urged citizens to bring their m6
poll lax receipts to the polls. !frw
In Bayfown, Too--
Women Are Key Losers
receipts ennnot be used to vota in
ihe port Ixmd election* because
the present poll tax receipts do
not exprre until midnight Thurs-
day.
However, in ease a voter has
misplaced or lost hi* poll lax
yi'ipt. he can make affidavit that
State Land
Is Far Sale
To Veterans
berland gorged toward a 45-foot
flood crest and
and several families
WEATHER—Page Two)
on school functions .
Gray out
Mrs. Eiiht
and Eddie,
Bobbie Chandler
Act
nds
irbed by the city
Baytown veterans interested
in buying state lands under the
veterans' land program now
have a choice of at least 2,000
acres ln Texas on which service
men have defaulted on pay-
ment*, Grover K. Edge, East
Harris County Veteran Service
officer, said Tuesday.
Any veteran from Texas is
eligible to enter a bid on any
of the tracts listed, Edge said,
The bids must be in Austin by
10 a.m. on Feb. 5, when the land
auction will be held.
Anyone interested in buying
the land under the veteran#’ land
program may apply at the Vet-
erans Service Oenter, 3808 Min
nesota, for application forms
from 1 to 5 pm. dally. The Serv-
ice Center phone number is 8174.
Moat of the land listed for
sale la in Gillespie, Jackson,
Hamilton, Dimmitt and other
counties in the western and
Mrtliw«#grn part of the state.
There la none in Harris County,
Edge said.
By BEN TOWNSEND
Run Staff Writer Icar keys too,
Mrs. Average Baytown”j Lost car key* cost Baytonians a
wgn’t leave a mink stole hanging]lot of money each year, especially
on the corner drug store booth]those entrusted to women's rare,
this year-bccause she doesn't] Take it from Bill Roark, Bay-
own one! town keymaker, who take* order*
And no wonder — husbands at No. 8 South Axhbel, “It's the
keep a woman In mink stoles and In her husband's car and the misa-
have gone Into the “red” trying
to keep their mates supplied
with car keys, leaving no cash
for mink stoles,
women who keep losing keys.’’
The keymaker observed that
men seldom lose keys. “But
women—gosh!” he exelaim*. He
Any husband knows you can't (hen ellea the rase of the woman
ing key.
The woman drove downtown,
parked the car and embarked on
a showing tour. When she re-
turned site discovered her key had
been lost. So she phoned a garage.
Mechanic* rushed to the scene.
They removed the lock from Ihe
car door, Next they put in a new
lock—presenting the woman wilh
lie'hail one andVHl be permitted
to vote.
Owners of personal property,
such a* a ear or watrh or ring,
will be permitted to vote under
Ihe law requiring that voters In
bond issue eteriim* amt be prop-
mrnwi ♦ ■
Polls will he open from 7 a m.
to 7 p m. in all county voting pro-
Keymaker Roark. rind* and voting machines will be
’7tow long will if lake to make used
a bill for hubby. Twenty minutes
later the woman was talking lo
slat wanted to
key for me?
know.
“Only two or three minutes,”
Ihe keymaker said.
“Please make me one,” she
said. Then, fare red, she added:
You better make me half a
a new keytoUt. “Oo^'Uw (hid <*«". I Ju*t l<*t m.v second set
one," they admonished, writing nut1 IRee KEYS—Page Twoi_
PARENTS HELD
LARRY SOBLE, 17, son of
Jack and Myra Soble, Is
shown In New York after
his parent* were arrested by
the FBI as member* of a
Soviet spy ring in the U. 8.
The FBI charges Jack Soble
Election offfrials who presided
in elections lield in 1WJ were noti-
fied by county ot/ieinl* that they
are to hold' the port bond Issue
election.
In Baytown the following Wte
‘ &
Humble Rejects BEF Wage Request
Management Willing To Study Plan Further
Humble Refining Co. manage-
ment at the Baytown refinery
has refused to grant a wage in
crease requested by the Bay-
town Employes Federation, bar-
crease in the price of crude oil
once waa boas of all Soviet argument.”
agents In the United Statea.
(International)
gaining agent for 4,200 refinery
employes
R. D. Clark, secretary of the
federation, sqjd the BEK repre-
sentatives met- with Humble
management at 3 part. Tuesday
to discuss a wage increase
quest made Dec. 8, 1958. The re-
quest called for a minimum In-
crease of 10 per pent a month
for monthly employes and
minimum of 25 cent* per hour
for hourly employes.
Despite the rejection, man-
agement told the federation
representatives that the 'gate
would remain open for further
study” of the request, Clark
said.
The last raise granted by
Humble was Feb. 1, 1958. It
came five months after the first
request was made by the ~’EF.
It called for the same lncri- o
aa the present request.
Clark said the request for a
wage hike was accompanied by
ample justification in statisti-
cal data backed up by charts
and reasonable and justifiable
He also pointed out that since
the request was made, an in-
and a boost in gasoline price*
had been announced by Humble,
Clark aald that management,
"in an attempt to minimize the
importance the union had
placed on the data furnished to
back He request, went to great
lengths Jn an attempt lo show
that these figures and data
could be used m most any
manner In support o( the union's
objective or against same.”
The BEF secretary continued,
"It's foolish, however, to at-
tempt to tell a person that he
doesn't need an Increase In
wages when he see* hls reserve
gradually slipping away. . .”
Clark said that a different
condition exists In this area
than other area* throughout the
United State*. "When you at-
tempt to use a yardstick design-
ed for the nation overall against
existing conditions in the Gulf
Coast area, you need to add
several pertinent factors which
are missing in the cost of living
index which waa an argument
of Humble management.
These pertinent factors In-
clude the prices of houses, lots,
automobiles, food and clothing
which are higher here than in so
many other areas,” Clark said e,ectlon
Any Increase in the cost of
these items, which has been
great, reflects back to the con-
sumer. In turn the fruits of
general wage Increase are used
to buy these things. If you don’t
have the money, you can't buy.”
Clark said that the BEF
council will continue in Its flgnt
for a wage Increase for the
members of Its union, R. R.
Dawson is president of the
federation.
etnet judges will hold the elect:
at the regular voting places: B»»-
cinct 99. Thad Felton’s, T. L fct*
lerwhite; Precinct 100, Wilken-
fold’s, If. T. Hulme; Precinct 101,
Fireman's Recreation Hall, C. H.
Olive; Precinct 102: Baytown
Mexican Recreation hall, Natnl
Katribe;' Precinct 103, Cedar
Bayou school gymnasium, Mr*.
0. W. Fa vie: Precinct 149. San
Jacinto school, J. Rodger Read;
Precinct 249. Alamo school, Wayn*
McCIurg: Pmrind M Carver
high school, Woodrow I-ewH
Tuck On
Bracewell
Committee
Darrell Tuck, Baytown tnaur-
ance and real estate man and
a longtime friend and supporter
of State Sen. Searcy Bracewell,
has been named to a committee
of 100 In Harris County to help
push Sen. Bracewell's candidacy
for the U. S. Senate.
Bracewell, a member of the
state legislature for the past 10
years, is a candidate for the va-
cant federal post In the April
Tax Office Open Thursday Night
Flash!
LATE
NEWS:
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Bv UNITED PRESS
Student pilot, 23, who
terrorized Des Moines,
fow*„ residents in stolen
plane, attempted euicide
by swallowing cyanide
just before he crash
landed.
main open until midnight Thurs-
day for residents of East Har-
ris county who wait until the
last day to pay the poll tax that
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v.
The Baytown tax office will re- co-chairman of the Jaycee drive, might Thursday. These receipts
looking
mighty pale, afraid she may be-
come sick ... Lou McFarland
Still a patient at San Jacinto
Memorial hospital ... Eva
Cook reported doing some better
Here's What
Port Bonds
Will Buy
and bay:
In which they are located close,
makea them an eligible voter In but will not be
^Miieo new whams, ***»,-
1987.
A. B. Collins said that all
deputy tax books had to be in
his .office by midnight Thursday.
A number of the deputies will
keep their receipt books until
that time in an effort to sell
more poll taxes.
As of Wednesday, 28,870 re-
ceipts and exemptions had been
issued in this area. This figure
compares to 22,928 sold as of
midnight Jan. 81, 1968.
said,
Collins said that substations
throughout East Harris county
will be open until the businesses
open extra hours
He also reminded voters to
hold on to their old tax receipts
which do not expire until mid-
are required for a vote
port bonds election Thursday.
He added that If the receipt has
been destroyed, an affidavit can
be made at the polls, certifying
that you paid your poll tax last
year.
The new receipt becomes ef-
fective Feb, 1. >’
Other well known Texans In
the race include Congrtssman-
at-Large Martin Dies, Ralph
Yarborough, James Hart and
Thad Hutchenson, lone Repub-
lican entrant.
Lt Gov, Ben Ramsey also Is
pondering the race.
Houston mother kill*
self because of distress
over her 17-year-old
son's troubles with the
law. She was Mrs. Helen
Wilson, Whose son, Bob-
by, 17, was in troublb
for violating traffic
laws. ’ 1 :
QUICKIES. .By Ken Reynold#
Montgomery, Ala,, po-
lice holding two sus-
pects in connection with
racial bombings in that
city. More arrests re*
ported due today.
The Eisenhovy*? Doc-
trine headed toward
Shrine Drive Plans Ready
Albert N. Nelson, newly in- and industrial firms in East
Harris County,” Nelson said.
stalled president of Baytown
Shrlno club, Wednesday an-
nounced final plans for the
forthcoming annual fund-rate-
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"Our ticket sales drive will
get under way in about two
weeks,” he said.
tigs, vice president of
wijfws
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