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VOL ff; WQ. 210
BAYTOWN, TEXAS
Friday, July i I9S7
Today's Naws Today
TELEPHONE 8302. Rvo Cmfc Par Copy
DAMAGE WASratlmatedat abmit 8i million after on Em**. Airline. DC-7B (foreground) * V“'
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■lot And Clear
SJSrsg-yys IrCi:
Teinperature range expected from 7« to -
96 degrees.
vtjlajn. 6:86 pan.
StirSaotn
snrs ** mow humor
3U 2-8302
EFFECTIVE JULY 7
2,500 See Beauties-
Priscilla Blakeney
:-V% tfS'Oftref ura^S nrSH #. -
.
Baytown'
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' *5fS IS»S£tl SAMS
named over 15 other candidates in the annual State Teachers college In Huntsville.
July 4 contest at Roseland Park. A crowd estimated at from 2,000 to 2,500 at-
_Last year she took third place in the Miss tended the contest sponsored by the retail mer-
Baytown contest, third place in the Miss Syl- chants committee of the Chamber of Commerce,
van contest in May and second nlace in a Second tiiaoe winner T.irlv nnm, „r 1«
,,. ,—. v. «* >*«v. 4umo tjjt- vuaiiia ^HBuuutr yi uit: vilHiiluer or vOiiiniCI
a XU XL XXTCUi ySS &
ihoater . . Hit* tell ffiia t* five foot t„n .
issssi mmmis
cation Sweetheart. (See BEAUTY, page Two)
-il.
I
Flash 500
Times More
Than Sun
t BiggestY
***********
Hot As Firecracker
'^ '"sd r** 't*irS weren * **lf! on*v ohject* popping i* Baytown
By ROBERT BENNYHOFF
’’KffiS&SffiMR
-American scientists today set
Off a monster atomic device that
appeared to b« “
JUDY CLEMENT
’ THREE win
THE TOP
PRISCILLA BLAKENEY NORMA SHAW
./inner* In the Mis* Baytown of 1957 contest at Roseland Park Thure-
day were all blondes, they were all hue-eyed and they all had white hathtog suit*. In the
water of the trio above is Priscilla Blakeney, ofl901 Tennessee, who won the Miss Baytown
title. Left, is second place Judy Clement, 16, of 495 Wright, and right is Norma Shaw, 18,
of 112 E. Fayle, who finished third. (Baytown Photos)
- "1;' ' f'4" ‘ "Ji'T
'''**m****
W«tobortotRr*
Church Bqtbecue
THE CONTENTS of a waste-
basket went Up ip smoke when
someone dropped a cigaret in it
at 1286 Cherry Thursday night.
No one was at home. Neighbors
saw |
fire
one was at home. Neighbors
v the smoke and notified the
; department,
Judy Tyler
Is Killed
In Wreck
OLD RIVER ASSEMBLY of
God church at Mont Belvieu will
have its annual barbecue for
Three Children
Become Two
.vo uC *y» wniut wnra sne says tnree
the benefit of the building fund ; of her children are two. Her
frnrn 4 until b m So f merle, v orarl tainWn n«L
from 4:30 until 8 p.m. Saturday
at the Old- River pumping
plant. Tickets are $1 for adults
and 50 cents for children, ac-
cording to the pastor, L., P,
Thomas.
Wyo. (UP)
T.ATtAMTF
body of actress Judy Tyler,
brilliant Broadwav. moi
--------- Broadway,1 movie and
television career ended tragically
in an automobile accident Wednes-
day, will be returned to her par-
ents in Ridgefield, Conn., Saturday
for burial.
Never Again
A YOUTH who locked his keys
in his car, notified police that he
was going to "prowl” Ms Own
W puni uwn
car- .^trMman . Ray Turner
rushed to the scene and helped
him. They used a wire coat-
hanger to manipulate- Itgfxte
handle to open the «ar. "
On Vocation
MR. AND MRS. Nelson McEl-
roy and daughter, Molly, left
Singer Elvis Presley, who hau
just completed the lead rale op-
posite the 24-year-old brown-eyed gone two ^feks. McElrpy 1;
actress in a new movie, was heart manager of the Baytown Cham
broken when he learned of ter ter of commerce.. _
death Thursday. _
“All of us boys really loved that Caravan
girl," Presley said at his home in mrl Iln„ T
Memphis, Tenn. "She meant a iot INCLU,DED IN the
Memphis, Tenn. "She meant a lot
to all of us, I don’t believe I can
can.'
Miss Tyler and her husband of
Wednesday when their automobile did not give their names,
collided with another just north of
Rock River, Wyo., on U.S. 30.
They were returning to their New
York home for a vacation as Miss
Tyler had just completed the
movie, "Jallhouse Rock," with
Presley in Hollywood
- -.....caravan of
men Who went to Cameron, La.,
to carry food, clothing and medi-
VMMMHMMHMPI Hoot °>b*°n< _ „„ t„ueu
Around
Town
Baytown
'Area' Is
Growing!
Oops! The Sun omitted ____
of “its own” in'the list of-boy
scouts going to the National
©lores Avant lost her purse
Saturday night at McCollum
rk. If found phone here at
Metropolitan Baytown, In-
cluding Houston and the
other suburban cities In Har-
ris counfy, now ha« a popula-
tion of 1,115384, aa compared
' 1,090,08# last year.
Thlf Information is contain-
ed In a report of the Houston
Chamber of Commerce.
It went on to pay that
lent as old-fashioned A , bombs
which destroyed two Japanese
cities.
The device was set off exactly
on schedule at 4:40 a.m. p.d.t. It
was suspended from a helium-
filled captive balloon come 1.500
feet above the desert floor of Yuc-
ca Flat, 75 miles northeast of Las
Vegas. Some 2,000 Marines were
entrenched 3% miles away.
It exploded with a blinding flash
-lore than 500 times brighter than
SSUFJXSSSSSX
as a tremendous fireball boiled
upward in a clear sky.
The customary 10 - second count
down was repeated by the
ominous loudspeaker voice of the
control point from which the
scientists directed the test. .
Ten... nine ... eight... seven.,,
six ... five ... four three
two . one *’
zero man-made hell broke
The blinding flash of the de-
the pro - dawn
_ . ©light — lighter
a . JV T than any sun could muster.
At Crncciltn , explosion unleashed vio-
VI U33IV1H fence estimated to be about 70
^on£;.or ‘o 70,000 tons of
TNT. The A - bombs dropped on
CHICAGO —TIB— Mrs. Rose
Laux knows what she it talk-
ing about when she says three
girl triplets, Dale. Daryl abd
:xrsr.“ '
Train Kills
■ mm The bl
JACA VflrflflC tonation turned the pre - dawn
* UlQUj darkness into daylight
m _ —. T than anv sun could m
Thursday, . . ,
Thermometers joined the din aa the mm sent mercury
soaring to the highest level it has reached this year-a
Mistering 96 degrees. , «
, The reading <#f reded by one degree, the previous high ot
the season, a 95 set Wednesday. - - .
By early morning Friday the reading was only 26 degrees
under the peak reading. It stood at 78 degree* at 8 a.m.
The weatherman could promise little relief from the heat.
^**^**^*^***************0
He Was 76- .
Heart Ailment Fatal
To Hugh Roy Cullen
Stassen's
flan Is For
'Open Skies'
Agin* The Low?
By UNITED PRESS
rash ........ ' '
If it s agin' the law to shoot
firecrackers lu Baytown, the
small fry seemed unaware of
it in celebrating the Fourth
_ ''K MW « OtJrill* it muAj if XtlS Wliil me
lAta ijs s,scsff'“k“‘"”“
By WILLIAM c. SEXTON
United Press Stall Corre*|Hindeni
IJlNDON (UP) ~ U.S. delegate
Harold E. Masson is ready to sub-
mit a new European "o|X'n skies"
plan which the West hopes will
nf ihn
i---. '• mil
WtlllwdS JjJhap^w«y^ffl»
nerves. Only wcasionail.v
reported today.
ss
accident in the Baytown area,
but Friday was scarcely two
hours old when a man was run
over and killed by a train at
the Missouri-Pacific crossing on
Airhait Drive.
Joe Vargas, 75, was lying on
the railroad track with hit head
on a rail when he was first seen
by the train, crew, according to
statements made to police by
A. J. Davis, engineer, and W. M,
Parks, conductor.
Before the train could be
stopped, it had struck Vargus,
' 7---- “ »«.6vso, rtCLUiuiy iwu
»t sxs.'inxt xs xnrx
“,J Vargas’ body was 1
rolled
vargM, long reurea. naa liv-
ed, in recent years, with a son,
Mateo Vargas in a small house
near Market street, Sgt. Dick-
ens said.
One minor accident occurred
in the city on West Main when
a car driven by Mrs. Geraldine
Sadler struck the rear of one
driven by J. C Malone.
Minor collisions were report-
ed at Ooady and Thompson
roads, and near Four Corners.
The only other incident re-
quiring police action on the hol-
iday was a stabbing which took
place on a parking lot by Har-
bor Drive. The victim refused to
file charges.
' "
Japan by comparison were
only to
----------were equal
,000 torts, and the big-
■ in the U.S.
gest A-bomb set off «i .
(See A BLA8T, Pago Two)
HOUSTON —(UP)— Hugh Roy Cullen, who
gave away an estimated 200 million dollars, die<
at the age of 76 Thursday night.
duftTS^
HeJad entereci the hospital last March 23.
The Houston oilman, one of the world’s wealth
est men, was founder and head of the sprawlin
Quintana Petroleum Co., which discovers, drill
&SJA ”“csUed the-father °f ,h
umvernty of Houston, >.
Born in Denton county, Tex., in 1881, his forma
education stopped after completion of the thiro
grade. He took his first job in San Antonio at the
age of 15, wrapping candy for $3 a week.
Cullen often said he gave away 90 per cent d
his^wealth. Close associates set the figure at 20
million dollars funneled into charity.
He donated millions to the University of Hous-
ton and the Texas Medical Center.
'T have a warm spot in my heart f<
Onrl rrt nl n ntliA ^.1 . ... i
subcommissiun which includes
representatives of the Unitedl
States, Britain, France, Canada
and the Soviet .Union.
! The sources said that If u.J
r permits, Stamm will deliver the
inew “open skies" proiswal. They
said all the. Atlantic pact partnersi
New Numbers Effective Sunday
Baytown Phones Go 'Big City'
3avtown's teleohone svstem K’lr.f (a tho -
than the West. The sources
PfAUirm inc otfl/1 /m ikl» nrm/1
* vwinufiuii
in exchange for placing the whole Drivers and assistants
^ '^ ‘erritory under aerial in- needed for this service, Mr:
spection.
■Baytown's telephone system
goes “big city" at" 1:01 a.m. Sun-
day.
‘Actually two separate events
.....tee then, both of
representative of
large city telephone systems,”
said J. O. Ware, district man-
ager of the General Telephone
Company of the Southwest.
First is the introduction of,office 'elt
metropolitan - type telephone
iu> numbers consisting of two let-
^ te« of five digits.
Second is the establishment
of a second telephone exchange
in the Wooster area which will
make Baytown the first multi
Mrs. Louise Burke Is
New City Health Nurse
Office 'city In General of tte
Southwest’s five-state territory.
At the outset the new ex-
change will serve only 360 cus-
tomers who are now served
Safe/y Sessions **»«» *■»»•*»
METHODS OF artificial respi- ers, Mrs. jonnsmi said, "not
ration wli! be taught from 9 a.m, only In the particular phase in
■ to noon, and from 2 to # p.m., which he or she i* interested,
Saturday at fire station No. 2 on but in otter phases as well. And
Market by Instructor, of the! we also train them in safety and
Baytown %iergetey Corps. i disaster work.”
►wysw.,,, mKKMmammSSmi
I unuiiif
down firecracker complaints,
but in most instances the
celebrants were gone when
they arrived. Those who stay-
ed put were t«'d <» stop
shooting them.
In most instances, the fire-
cracker* were small and rela-
Volunteers
Red Cross
rmiwes, ... ili
calls for aS%i^cte)nhover *a Wr. workers, partlculary for
Baytown Red Cross chapter Is
* “desperate need" of volun-
vast area of Europe, slreldiing motor yrtiitde service, Mrs.^An-
from. Portugal in the .West lo .....
line far to the east, of Moscow. --
' Russia, according to the sources, rhfl ebapter furnishes free
would lie asked to open propor- ambulance service for transport-
tionateiy more of its territory in* patients who cannot afford
res said to j
---to pay for the sendee to Hous-
f ranoe insisted on this condition ton hospitals.
A rash of traffic aeddenfs in
tte waning hours of the Fourth of
•luly sent the holiday death toll
in TfiYflfi GflltnlMai
in Texas seari|§, I
A total of 13 persons died on
the highway, five otters were
drowned, and one was burned to
death to bring the overall total to
JaRPJW —
National
A United Press count Iran
traffic. Another 78 person*
drowned, 5 were kilted in
ptitie washes ami 10 in mis-
S! B . „ ri'llancous accidents for a to-
PPM
inentt
Brian Spwks, was killed near
Crockett in a traffic mishap,
west
•woman
sot®;.....
weren’t seriously hurt.
W Alien Williams; 88. Rockwall Ne-
are gro, was killed Thursday night
■ih walking On UN, 67 four|
west of
APSSkfli more drivers are raSwbyacar driven tor'joyre
,.i principle to tile "open skirs" needed to heln maintain this R r °"-'1—"
Proffl &nLlfTf1bby Mrvlce' said, t
Piesident Eisenhower. But they addition to the 32 now engaged
have denounced the idea of pro- i„ „,nru
m __ OtherZiunteer workers for
, • various phases of Red Gross ac*
Rockwall. He was
Rar driven
Rockwall,
. Langford, Rockwall.
Joel Her Cornish, 26. a Univer-
sity of Texas student from Nash-
ville, Ark., was killed in a one-
car crash 25 miles west of Austin.
Mrs. Ethif Allen Clifton, 32, of
Wes areX neeiled. ”ourf ,n ^ r onetear
f?an Sate, was killed in a car-
trtick collision near Cherokee on
SH 16. 14 j
Derrell NewmAn, 16, was burn-
ed to death 'wfieh » huge tank
(tee TEXAS, Pagljj Two)
through the Baytown jafflce. Its
capacity, will, however, be ex-
panded six times by 1958 when
It Is expected to serve 3,000 cus-
itavtltro in f hn T nl/mirnA/i DvA,..n
An Important newcomer in nurse, Mrs. Joan Johnson.
Baytown clttsenry is Mrs. Louise
Burke, who begins her duties
this week as city health nurse, o
Her office Is at 3012 Market
street with the county health
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Jamboree at Valley Forge. He U Houston1, nopulation stood -t
Sun carrier Jay Smith. ■■tXT'J 1t00d “*
Mrs. E. H. Lewis, 621 Hard-
ing, has just returned from the
Methodist hospital in Houston
■Where she had eye surgery. She
reports she’s ‘‘doing fine.’’
A six weeks vacation in San
Francisco, Calif. Is on docket
for Mrs. H. Kaderll who left
by plane Monday to visit her
sister. Mrs. W. W. Holden.
Nat Condor, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Condor, confined at
St. Joseph’s hospital in Hous-
900,928 In January 1#57, well
above the 872,000 estimate for !
1936. ' i, _Jj
Tim report, said Dr. LeaHe
T. McDonald, chairman tt the
population and housing di-
vision of the research com-
mittee, I* a remit of close
cooperation among a number
of agencies.
Hie data upon which tte
Students may now register for
the second term of Lee College,
Dean Walter Rundell announced
Friday. ,
Pre-registration will continue
through July 18. Fees may be
deferred until July 19, registra
tion day. v
Second term classes start July
22. The present faculty will con-
tinue throughout the semester
. . . z — ‘except that A. H. Mites, Dr. Carl
report is baaed were obtained Green and Guy Johnson will
mainly from the public school take vacations. Florence Neill
census In the 21 independent and Ben Moskowits will join the
school districts of Harris (.summer faculty for tte second
term.
'
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MBS. LOUISE BURKE
Mrs, Burke will be doing
much the same work as Mrs.
Johnson does to the county— —
giving shots and going home changed.
and school visits. The only dif- *'---1 ~
ference is that Mrs. Burke’s
work is entirely restricted to
the city limits.
She is employed by the City of
Baytown, under the medical di-
rection of Dr. L. D. Farragut,
Harris county health director,
and Miss Norma Myers, direc-
tor of nurses of the Harris eoun-
ty health unit.
Until the first of July Mrs.
Burke was employed to the
county health department in
Houston. She also has held
county health nurse positions
to McLennan and Milam coun-
ties.
A native of Waco, Mrs. Burke
was graduated from Providence
School of Nursing to Waco, ghc
has done graduate work in pub-
tomers In the Lakewood, Brown-
wood and Wooster areas.
New directories containing
the new “2-5” telephone num-
ter* were delfvcred this week.
Ware said.
He urged all telephone cus-
tomers to acquaint themselves
with tte book before making
calls July 7 because the letter
prefix has boon added to every
number and more than 500 num-
bers have been entirely
Almost 70 per cent of those
receiving new numbers are cus-
tomerjpwho will be served by the
exchange. Their numbers
jh gif
and ^numeral "8" plus four other f
college, Nashville, Tenn.
She and her 16-year-old daugh-
ter, Linda, recently movdd to
505 Live Oak. Soon they plan
to join a Methodist church and
(tee NURSE—Page Tire)
digits.
Tte remainder who will re-
ceive new numberir about 175
-are Baytown business sub-
scribers who are being given
new listings so they wtll get 1m
proved service by the more
equal distribution of traffic
.hrough the recently expanded
dial switching equipment.
The remaining customers —
the bulk of the entire Hat— will
receive the prefix JUstice.
Those who currently are as-
signed five digits will have no >
further change made. Those
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health at George Peabody who have only four digits, how-
Vaftlivillfk TV»nn avo* ...III - i__a aw. ...»
ever, will be assigned the num-
eral "2" before their existing
four numbers;
*In addition to tte new direc-J
tmies which were delivered by
(tee PHONE!*—Page Two) >
Grab Those Duffle Bags
BAYTOWN NATIONAL Guardsmen were parking up for their two-week tour of dutir at Fort
Hood when the gun Photographer “-Not" this quartet. Left to right, 1st Lt Aubrev L.
Rrntit, ,.« ISM I____—........ . . „ . „ . . “
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Broun, ex- itlve offleer of 1602 Richardson Lane; W. C. Turner, 1st Sgt. Route 1, Box 234:
r°w,er> company commander, 308 E. DeFee, and Sgt. Jimmy Ray Stanley,
of 315 Avenue J. <fi«ytowil Ph*M>
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