The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 5, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL 17, NO. 134
RAYTOWN, TEXAS
Tuesday, March S, Iff7
Today's Nows Today
TELEPHONE: 1302. Five Centa IW Copy
Resignation Held Up-
Daniel Eyes
Cox Ruling
ay o. a. UjOyd jr
I'nltod Press nun CorraqxMdrat
AUSTIN OJP) - Gov. Price
Dtrnifl waj expected to rule today
on the resignation of Rep James
E. Cox to Conroe who ha* been
indicted on a charge he cemented
to accept at 6,000 bribe to Wii a
legiaiativa hill.
Daniel temporarily refused to
accept the resignation Monday
night, saying he did not want to
interfere with a House probe of
the bribe.
There has been mediation If
the House could legally continue
the investigation If Cox wa» *>
longer a member.
"The House of RepreaenUtiva*
and the people of Texas are en-
titled to have all the farts In con-
nection with this matter, and I
want to be sure that the resigna-
tion will not bring a contrary
reault.”
The statement was issued at an
impromptu new* conference. He
was asked if this was a definite
refusal to accept the resignation
"No, 1 wouldn't construe it that
v ” nies) Kjaid
But House Speaker . ^sgK0|n*r
in of Mr.
way," Daniel said
He said he had asked Attorney
General Wilson when was the
earliest date an election could be
held to replace Cm m
Home After Eight Years In Red Captivity
RELEASED BY COMMUN-
ISTS after eight years at cap-
tivity, several of 165 Greek of-
ficers sad men Idsa the soil of
their homeland. Northers
Epirus. Repatriation was
worked out by the Iaterao-
Uonal Red Cross. The barbed
wire separating Albania tram
Greece was pulled bark. The
Greeks were captured during
the !»4*-'«e Communist at-
tempt te bring Greece Into
Hot let satellite orbit.
(International)
Carr said "the resignation or nu-i
©gggBSMW »• .mole. And LOpan
No Wooster Phone Fee
The governor issued the follow-
up statement Monday night:
"I have this day received the
resignation M RcP- J*mf* *;
Cox. The resignation wUl be ac-
cepted only b I thorougWy
satisfied that his resignal Ion will
not impede or interfere with com-
pletion of the investigation now
pending in the House of Repre-
sentatives
[ 'T am conferring with Speaker
jse Waggoner Carr;
chairman of the investigating
of the House
■ad Atttftwy G«—«1 WW
and will act upon the resignation
after these conferences have been
Holding Own
BOBBY FROCTOK,
■ old CWar Bayou boy who was
critically burned last TtiurldW
is “still holding bis ow«" *t
Mid Tucsdfljr, BH condition
Stiff critical, hovtevsr, and
jjlwnts. Mr. and Mrs. X
Proctor, are remaining at
hospital with him-
.v,7t?r*rr.7n::r
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BAYTOWN DOCKS
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STILL IN ACTION
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Flash!
LATE
NEWS:
The 800 Lakewood and Wooster telephone company patrons
will not be required to pay mileage rates in addition to
regular Baytown monthly rates after next July.
This fee amounts to about 11.20 per phone per month,
District Manager J- O. Ware said Tuesday.
- the change in policy will go into effect-simultaneously
with the completion of the new Wooster exchange that will
bring Baytown and Wooster together at the time of the
changeover here. ...
The new Wooster exchange wm be called Ixiganand in_
dialing the letten LO will be used. Baytown’s new exchange
will be called Justice with the letters JU to be used.
Ware also said that the company Is ready to talk to Bay-
town and Highlands phone users with reference to combining
those two exchange*. The main hitch will be the lncrea*e In
monthly rate* to each community.
Highland* now ha* 1.100 phones, and the adding of service
Baytown's 11*10 plus station* wilt up ths price of butlvas
(See WLEPHONE—Page Two) «.
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tram UNITED PREiW
TYLER, Tex. — Author-
ina Lucy Foster to at-
tempt to enter Univer*
aity of Text* in Septem-
ber.
eat t ran a port plana
crashes, killing 21.
WASHINGTON — Sen-
ate drives to past Eisen-
hower doctrine by night-
fall.
AUSTIN — Texas na-
turopath! reported to
have apent up to $59,-
000 in aecurmg paieag*
of fegialation in 1955.
SETUP FOR UN TAKEOVER—UN force* waltlns to take
ever Exyptian territory on evacuation by the Israelis were
stationed in the area »outh of the (ia*a strip (l). along the
Gulf of Aqaba (I), and held In reserve along Ike Sue* canal
(I) The Israelis occupied the (las* strip snd a coastal strip
(whiteI along the gulf to about 8# mile* Inland. UN force*
Include 1,100 (snadisn. W0 Indians, 740 Yugoslavs, (Me In-
donesians, 520 Colombians, 500 Brasilians, 480 Norwegians,
gee Dane#, 880 Swedes, MB Finn*. They will form a buffer
line.
WET-DRY ABSENTEE VOTES: 29
Precinct 2 residents who plan to vote ab-
sentee In the March IS wet-dry election have
■ntil March 12 I* do it, Chanty Ocrtt W. D.
Miller aaid Tueoday.
A total of 28 aboeotee ballot* bad been raat
la Ike election ap to noon Monday. Voting
began Feb. IL shortly after Harris Oaaaty
Commissioner* court yielded to a mandamus
and colled a second wet-dry election in the
predict.
Voters cast a total of T5 absentee ballot*
In the first wet-dry poll beM on Dee. 12, In
which Precinct S was voted dry for all alcohol
beverages by a S6-vote margin.
The March 18 poll will be a referendum
on the sate of all alcohol beverages tor off
premise consumption._
Trip Ptam©4
FRIENDLY AID club will meet
S a.ra. Wednesday In tbc
filr Gdoar
borne of Mr*. E. F- Bird,
Bayou-Lynchburg read, for a
trip to Harris County Home for
Agod. Each member is to brinf
* batch of homemade cookit
and a picnic sack lunch.
Attend School
THREE GENERAL Telephone
Co. of the Southwest employes
Ars attending A company school
in San An*elo. D. Kililngsworth, p REi^igy 0f >W West I/>blt
central office repairman p, one of two candidates in
CANDIDATE
central oince rep»jrram<, _
Harris, Inttaller-rspairman, and
M. C Reeves, lineman, will re-
crft'n a .certificate of award
altar completing Af
they arc taking.
the courses
Around lown s&hm
'Coffee Day'
MRS. MOSELLE Davis, quote;
“If you go in the dark room why
don’t you take this cup in there
and wash it?" . . . Preston Pen-
dergrass agreeing that there to
nothing wronga with having a
Democrat governor In Kansas
... Jim Bailey, quote:.‘Tf you
don’t find me In you’ll find my
father In.” ... Raybom Johnson
"It hasn’t gone up on
age dwelling, but
band--.” ...
"They got a big .
Let’* go look at It" . • • Mf».
M. HH
’» go look at ir . • • »«•
.... T. Thomas, quote: "Lady,
they're officers, not 'cops’
. . Horace Helms looking at
Water on the floor of his studio
following rain and contemplating
■ Coffee Day, benefltting the
Shrine Crippled Children’s hos-
pital. has been changed from
Wednesday to Saturday, Roy
Montgomery, ha'rman of the
event, said Tuesday.
Satuday was designated as
Coffee Day In an effort to give
more time between now and the
event and permit more cafes and
(See SHRINE—Page Two)
buying of small yacht . ., . Ob-
served: Small boy cxplatoli
Small boy explaining
that you can tell boys from girls
because of the color of their
bootees.
Milton Kelley enjoying a game
of golf but taking time to keep
up with hi* temperature. Along
with hi* club*, a thermometer
served as standard equipment
his recent trip around the
you want a
colored phone?” . • . Police
Roy Montgomery, “I
___nrlfn hrlninmr
greens.
Tn_ XKTm “Hi
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money right there and let Lois
E. Skinner, 1216 Parkway, has
A a Mexican Collie he’d likc jo
C
■■ ^nvggjr:-/.'—fcXi.wmn
the race fer. city rttoncli from
District A He I* opooMng In-
cumbent Ounclltr m Lacy
Lusk. Kefiey*i platf rm state-
MWkMWH M.Put Two
Is Saturday
Loses His Leg --
'Red1 Biggers Still
Hasn't Struck Out
Boyd (Red) Biggers, regarded leagues in this area, he pitched
as the toughest pitcher In semi- tor ^ Barbers IB# te|Oin
pro baseball throughout his ball-
playing career and as the man
who once fanned Joe DIMagglo, mound for the famou* Humble
_ _______ .. Oilers
was almost out of the
Tuesday.
Biggers rode a bicycle Into the
path of a tank car at a rail-
road crossing between Filter-
house No. 1 and Filterhouse No.
2 in the Baytown Refinery Mon-
day afternoon.
He lost hi* right leg, which
was amputated at the thigh, and
his pitching arm was mangled.
Hi* right ear also was damaged
and he had other injuries. '
Physicians said his condition
is critical.
■baggers, wno-got me wiiK
"Red” from the red beard he
grew while pitching with the
House of David baseball team,
(toce rttiw out DIMaggJo In a
service game to Hawaii.
In his heyday in the semi-pro
•Fat Tuesday*
New Orleans -an- a
half-million tourists joined
thousands of New Orleans
Mardi Graa revelers today for
a fling of “Fat Tuesday" Mer-
rymaking before the start of
Lenten repentance.
and the Goose Creek Gassers
Later he was employed at the
Baytown Refinery and took |he
Oilers.
Biggers was reding with' two
or three other men In the plant
area when the accident occurred.
Those who witnessed the acci-
dent said he remained conscious
after being Injured, and ex-
claimed that he did not see the
train.
He was In surgery for more
than five hours Monday night
at San Jacinto Memorial hospi-
tal.
Political Revolt Feared
k U*i
Israel Vote Delayed
JFRUSALEM Israel (UP) - and the Gaza Strip cut across gaining power would have been
- • - ~ —*--*-• party lines In the Knesset (parUa-lmuch more greater if It had held
menu and many deputies were re- Unto (he Sinai Desert position* It
ported to believe the PMt Jour [captured less than 10 miles Iron)
month* to negotiation* had b**Wtke Sun Cam! whew ©to tanteli
wasted. Army advanced in the flist days
The deputies said Israel * barlto the October ktoasion.___
DOCTORS’ TEACHER -
Nearing the end of three
months of plastic surgery
study under Dr. Morton Ber-
son, chief plastic surgeon at
Wlckersham hospital In New
York City, Dr. Yacko Ohta
soon will return te her native
Tokyo. She will Instruct Japa-
nese doctor* In method* she
learned here. She 1* holding a
cast used for correction of
skull depression. Dr. Ohta Is
an instructor of surgery at the
Woman’s Medical college.
(International)
Premier David Ben-Curion today
postponed a showdown in parlia-
ment over his troop withdrawal
policies In order to make a last-
minute effort to bold hi* shaky co-
alition government together.
Ben-Curion, faced by politics]
revolt and the threat of violence
by the opposition Herul (freedom)
Party, moved up today's sched-
uled parliament session three
hours while he held emergency
conferences with party leaders.
He had scheduled a parliament
session for Monday, but was
forced to postpone it when the rift
widened in his cabinet. Today P«j
Utica! leaders thought he had
patched it up enough to win a vote
of confidence, but opposition to the
withdrawal grew and he asked for
more time,
Feelings on the projected with-
drawal from the Gulf of Aqaba
JACKIE GLEASON GETS
BOOT AT STORK CLUB
NEW YORK —MB—Carnedton Jackie (Reason was re-
ported today te have been ejected from the Stork Club
shortly before Monday midnight for creating a disturb-
ance In the plush nightopet. _
Tankers Can
Go Without
Aid Of Tugs
The Baytown docks will not be
greatly affected by the seafarers
strike which ha* tied up 10 per
cent of the shipping along the
Gulf Coast from Houston to Gal-
veston.
The strike was called at 10:30
p.m. Monday when negotiations
between the O A H Towing CO.
and th* Seafarers International
Union of North America broke
down,
It wfet TfirsViitkv -ni in mm. -
port* where GAH Towing Co.
lowooat* operate, including
Houaton, Qalveston, Texas City.
Baytown Freeport, Arena**
Pass, Corpus Christ! and, Indi-
rectly, New Orleans where on*
of the company's tugs was dock-
ed when the strike was called.
The fact that Baytown is lo-
cated geographically near the
open bay and that the tankers
can be docked and turned around
without the use of the tugs will
mlntmtee *b» effect to the work
stoppage.
There Is more room and less
congestion than at the upper end
of the channel. Ships can mane-
uver In and out, tf necessary,
without the tugs.
The operations will be slowed
down somewhat, but there prop-
erly will be no stoppage.
One tanker sailed last Monday
night and another is due to sail
Tuesday.
The contract between the GA
H operates practically all tug-
boats la the Houston ship chan-
nel, including those to the In*
tercoMtal Towing Co. and Young
Towing Co , it was reported.
toto union to asking tar a
wage boost from 8105 an hour
for deckhands to D 8T an hour,
and a dally wage rate of (22 for
tug captains Instead of tha cur-
rent $1.47 an hour, and Increas-
ed daily flat pay scales for first
'—and engineers.
iff
Mil
The union etoo la asking for
an eight-hour day, 40-hour week
and overtime pay.
Grand Jury
Probes Oil
Price Hike
oHac W Wednesday For
Brad berry, Auto Victim
List ittes for ID 7, iPic'D.bc suffered s relapse Ui* past
Bradberry, 49, of 40t! South —•'■•e UnKt
Whiting, will bp held at 10 a m
Wednesday at the Paul U. Lee
funeral home. Burial will be in
San Jacinto Memorial Park
cemetery.
Officiating at the service will
be one of BradbeTry’s nephews,
the Rev. Kenneth Bradberry of
,Bryan, and the Rev. Wayne Mc-
Cleskey, pastor of St. Mark’s
Methodist church of Baytown.
Bradberry died at 9:45 a.m.
Monday, a little more than a
month after he was critically
injured in a traffic accident In
Liberty. He apparently was re-
covering from the injuries when
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (UP) - A
fe-metober federal grand jury
opened h brQftd*»cale investigation
of the oil industry Monday to de-
/u«nd»» whether it ha* violated
anfi-IrtiKT law* ~m wom,
after the closing of the Suez Ca-
^One aspect "W the inquiry, ex-
pected to last severe m*
may concern the recent increase
weekend, his family said. Most concern me rew* umhm
of his family was at his bedside i() crude ^ fUel oil. and gasoline
at hi© rlpfith. —
at his death.
Bradberry
, prices. ,, .
native of The Justice Department, which
jmmjirci i yt « jusiicre jl/cjjuiuiicjk,
Golmnesneil, had lived in Bay- requested the investigation, has
town since 1926. For many years, ^ it was interested in finding
lie was employed by Fred Ditt- 0U( jf there was "collusion”
''***1 J _ m' ---- UUl l» urc»v .- —
man Motor Co. In 1M2, he was among major oil companies to
employed on construction proj- bring about an industry-wide price
O'NEAL
VANDEWATKR
KLOESEL
KNGLERT
ects in this area and for many increase
years had been a
purchasing ^Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan They'll Be BliddlOS Ifl The AlT FoTCe
V Keiloee thp iurv wide latitude to '
agent for the M. W. Kellogg gave the jury wide latitude to
Construction CO. He was work- search for anti-trust violations in
i________*_.m,44^.. ^m^4/s.^6 4m _ • s____*„4« clnrooh Enin AIUI
ing on a construction project In the interstate sto
Baton Rouge, La., and was re- ’ *
the interstate storage, sale and
processing of oil products. He said
Baton Rouge, La., and was re- processing of on products, ne saiu
turning to Baytown on a bust- the jurors have the power to call
—- trip when his car was io»witnesses or records from any-
RITES—Page
ness
(See
Two)
where in the United States.
THESE six men are mem-
bers of (he largest group of
Baytown area men to enroll
this year in the Air Force un-
der the buddy system. Shown
with Sgt. Floyd Vandewater,
recruiting officer, are Ken-
neth O’Neal, Robert Barnes,
Clyde Hall, Ben Ed Kloerel,
Kenneth White and Jerry Eng-
lert. Two others who joined
but are not In the picture, are
Kirhard Zamwalt and Robert
WUson.
(Baytown Photo)
.
Memo From The Sun News Desk
Humble Expert Aids In Survey Of City's Water Needs
, nru\ back Dressure valves at each of the five 5. Budgeted expenditures should Include
.'f . ........ ...M V J*e.—e MW..A ViMm lfVtUlntr at SPVPrfll thousand rocks. ® . Pr. ..at ..miUms. ©km sirstam --i-l A - 1*lts«k nt ...atn. retain f/s avl
We think Doc and Lynn deserve great credit
for this splendid report. It contains information
that even members of the city council and citv
employes who look after the water system dldn t
isstMtt ©sad u tvrttito tHp.iimv t/iwArd OYtOfipt*ossiv6
been looking at several thousand rocks.
SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS
WE’LL GIVE YOU A "drop-size view" of some
of the things contained in the 28-page detailed
report, to which maps and drawings are attached.
11. Baytown’s water system consist* pt a total
> _________-si. _ist.__aMMoMla donaritv
of seven supply wells with an aggregate capacity
of 6.229 million gallons per day.
2. Tlie system"hits 730,000 gallons to elevated
....... " - Of g!
age, and 865,000 gal'ons ofnJ^0'|'n^n*gto^C
storai
By PRESTON PENDERGRASS
voC “'“w'
T. L. (DOC) Satterwhite (his given name is
ST™!
MkAitiKaf* nf the Baytown Planning commission, «*- ried out, will make it one of the most adcq e
iration to « voluminous report cover- in the country. . . .
■v Dhase to Baytown's water suptoy and 4 Of course, the Improvements projected over
ton jrjStem ^ the long haul will cost some money- But you
w5S5£«HsH
--as--.’MSS&
'
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and back pressure valves at each of the five
high lift pump stations now serving the system
to minimize a recurrence to the threatened lo-
calized shortage in supply experienced during
1958. HUs will require an estimated expenditure
immediate installation to two 500,000
gallon elevated storage reservoirs to equalize
operating pressures over the system, Cost ©115,000
per unit.
5. Budgeted expenditures should include pro-
visions for a 12-inch Cl water main to extend
from the proposed new reservoir and wellsite on
North Main and Cedar Bayou road into the pres-
ent eight-inch distribution line at • point near
Water Well No. 4. Cost (80,400.
6. It is recommended that five, one-half acre
plots be bought along North Main at spacing*
y 3,000 feet to serve as
3. Rework each of the supply wells to permit
lowering to the pump bowls s
lowering «i u.c tra...,, and thus prolong
the life to the wells. Average coat of reworking
each well will be *2,800.
4. Drill two supply wells, each rated at 2.0 mil-
lion gallons per day, in 1964. In order to meet
anticipated Increasing demands and replace the
falling capacity of present wells because of fail-
ing static levels, two additional wells of the same
capacity should be scheduled for drilling in 1967
and 1971, respectively. Estimated cost per well
■WOE
to approximately |_J ,-T-
well sites. Cost would be current land prices.
Satterwhite estimated the total cost to the type
water faculty improvement program the city
should undertake at nearly *3 mUUon at present
day prices, but he concluded that the city could
by for some time if it would spend about
1.000 cm reworking present wells and doing
jvements outlined ii
In Us report
.....
other Improvement* ■
We think everybody In Baytown should give
some thought to the recommendations contained
In this report. As Doc says, it’s going*, coil
i
us report As Doc says, it’s gator *
same money, but we've got to haw water.
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