The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 182, Ed. 1 Monday, June 9, 1958 Page: 2 of 10
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(Jfir Satttnmn Gnu
June 9, 1958
Memorial
Schedules
Teen Time
Memorial Baptist church is
scheduling a new phase of Va-
cation Bible school this year un-
der the program of Teen Time,
A special session for youths
13 and above is being held at
6:30 p.m. each night, beginning
Monday and continuing through
next Tuesday, June 17,
! This age group has formerly
attended the regular morning
classes of the Bible school. But
the new program is being inaug-
urated this year.
Each night's schedule will be-
gin at 6:30 p.m. with a supper
in the church recreation room.
Following the meal, a Bible
study period will be conducted
by Miss Eula Potter.
After this study, there will be
an emphasis on missions and a
time known as personality time
and hobby time.
During these two periods, men
and women from Baytown will \
speak about -or
things of interest to the youth.
Some of the highlights will be
photography,, archery, fencing,
lapidary, flower arrranging, hair
styling, manners, social poise,
weight lifting and mechanics,
. ,«s . well ...as, films .and. ..colored .
Slides. .. .
Herb Barren, educational di-,
rector, said the object of Teen! .
Time is to provide for young) NEW YORK, N. Y. --(Sp)-“
people a time for Christian fel-, Fifty-five per cent of the $480
low-ship, Bible study and an op-;™'1’0*1 out by the Metro-
portunity to develop information! P01’*31! Llfe Insurance, Co. jast
• «.»— was fop
WENDY RAMSEY MRS. AUDREY SMITH
WHILE MOST youngsters* minds are occupied with vacation thoughts on the last day of
school, Wendy Ramsey is more concerned with “electioneering* for her dad, County Corn-
fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Audrey Smith, at Channel view elementary school. (
(Baytown Photos)
Insurance Death Claims
For Heart Ills increase
ter living.
• FRIDAY MEANS « second
J flUrthday- for Sheila Lynne,
•s daughter of T-Sgt. and Mrs. A.
fZjk. Avant. Grandparents are
•--lir. end Mrs. W. D. Wiley of
■ Moot Belvieu and Mrs. Grace
* -Avant of Baytown.
diseases of the heart and arteries
and about 20 per .cent for can-
cer, the company's statisticians
report
a
Together, these causes of death
accounted for somewhat more
than $3 of each $4 paid in claims
to beneficiaries. Twenty years
ago they accounted for only 52.7
per cent of the total.
The proportion of disburse-
ments for the degenerative con-
ations, the statisticians note, has
been increasing largely because
of the sharp reduction in mor-
tality from the infectious diseases
and the rise in proportion of poli-
cyholders at the older ages.
These other aspects of the
■ Metropolitan's 1957 claim experi-
ence were reported:
Although payments for all
causes increased by 12 per cent
between 1956 and 1957, the
amount paid out on account of
deaths from pneumonia and in-
fluenza rose almost 50 per cent,
largely as a result of the epi-
demic of Asian influenza and
last
other respiratory diseases
autumn.
Death claim payments for poli-
omyelitis continued to decrease
dauaxUcfllly....Last^,yfiat^. ...dis-
bursements were $52,000; this
compared with $215,000 the year
before, and with $849,000 in 1952.
Fatal accidents accounted for
disbursements of about $40 mil-
lion, somewhat over half of which
was for deaths in motor vehicle
accidents.
The bulk of claim payments
during the year was on deaths
of policyholders at the main
working ages. Somewhat over $7
million was paid in death claims
on Ordinary and Industrial poli-
cies in force less than three
months
Port Member Turney's
Term Now Clarified
Hie final year of John G. Tur-
key's current two-year term as
a County member
Refinery's Camp
AtfentffResearch
Meet In New York
E. Q. Camp ^ attended the
Ninth Annual Industrial Re-
search-confeJerice' at Columbia
University’s Harriman, N, Y.
Ravfowit Soldiers
Heloina Prepare
Training Camp
Three Baytown enlisted men,
Pvts. Charles H. Mills Jr.. Jim-
mie Isaacks m and James G.
Carroll, are helping prepare
Camp McCoy, Wise., for a re-
serve and national guard train-
inf, post this summer.
The three youths have been in j
the army since Jan. 7, 1958, and 1
are stationed at Camp McCoy as i
cadre in the 33d Ordnance De-I
commission has been made doubly ,achm<’nt 'Ammo Supply)
official, . ■ Camp McCoy will be the site
Commissioners court quickly of summer training for 64,000
| passed an order reappointing
Turney to the port board when
i Mrs. Ruth Hamric, cierk of the
court, said she thought his term
had expired.
Mrs. Hamric discovered later
| that Turney had been reappointed
June 3, 1957. The court had re-
j appointed R. Vernon Whiteside as
the other member at Monday's re-
jguiar meeting.
army reserve and national guard
personnel from a 13 state area.
The three Baytown youths In-
volved are among 2.000 active
army service troops who will
clean and rehabilitate barracks
and administrative buildings and
set up a supply system.
Camp McCoy is closed for
training during the winter and
is opened only for the summer
period.
Mills is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Mills Jr., 2107 Ala-
bama; Isaacksf III is the son of
Mrs. Leola D. Isaacks, 2712 %■■
Kentucky; and Carrol is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Carroll
2418 West Mai,n.
campus.
Mon in management positions
from about 50 research organi-
zations participated. They repre-
sented industry, the armed serv-
ices, colleges, and technical pub
lications.
At these conferences the most
significant activities take place
small group sessions where
problems and work On projects
are discussed-under the guidance
of trained leaders.
These specialists aid in exam-
ining problems of immediate im-
portance to managers of
search organizations. This year's
conference'placed the manager
at the center of attention and
analyzed his job in its varied
dimensions at different levels
Camp 'is assistant division
sections under his supervis
arc engaged in research on
product quality of fuels and
lubricants, on corrosion (
waste disposal, and on new
fining and petrochemical p
cesses.
Noon Can
Stock Quotes
(Courtssy Morrill Lynch.
Alleg Ludlum.............. 36%
Aliis-Chaimers ............. 23 V,
Amer Cyan ................ 44 4
ATandT ...............171%
Anaconda Cop ............. 46
Ander Prichard ............ 284
Armco ................. 49%
Beth Steel 42%
Br Am Oil 42
Celanese 16%
Celotex ................. 27%
Chanpe-Vought .............46%
Chrysler >*...... a......... 43%
Cities Serv ................ 55 >4,
Columb Gas ............... 19 U
Creole .................. 73*1
Dow Chera ................ 56%
Du Punt...................179%
Dresser . .................. 34%
Eastman Kodak ............33%
El Paso ....... 34*i
Fairchild Engra ............12%
Frcenort Sulp ..............88%
IW .. ................ 41%
Gen Electric .............. 60%
Gen Motors................ 88%
Gen Tele .................. 48%
Gea Tire ...................25%
Ge«y Oil .................. 28%
QlWette . ,**..
Goodyear Tire............. 77%
Greyhound .............. 16%
Gulf Oil ...........,..,.11/!%
Gulf State Util ............ 44%
H L and PO .................53%
HUMBLE ................ sty.
Imperial Oil .......... 48%
MTNTcfiel- .T................ T7%
tet’U Harv ..................36
Jones Si Laugh ............40%
Kerr-McGee .................. 48%
Libby McN - .............. 9%
Liggett and Myers.......... 69%
Loew’s Inc .........16%
Much Twieii5rr.:T.7r^l7rP%
Monsanto ................. 32%
Nat Dairy Prod ............. 46%
Newp News ............ 38%
Ohio Oil ..........».........36:’.,
Olin-Math ................. 34%
Pacific Pet ................. 19-%
Pancoastal Oil .............. 6
Penney’* ..................92%
Phillips Petr ................ 42%
Pure Oil ................... 36%
Royal Dutch ................ 46
Sapphire .................,11"5
Sears ........... 29%
Shell .......... I'll-
Sinclair .................... 564
Schick ..................... 9%
Skelly ..................... 61
Socony-Vac ................. 49%
Sou Pacific ................ 44%
Sperry-Rand ............... 18%
St. Regis Paper............ 33%
Stan Calif.................. 54
Stan Ind ................... 44%
Stan Ohio ................ 49%
Stan NJ .................... 54
;
MRS. EVA ^WCOMB, manage of^ the^ Wallpaper depar,
nne, assists a customer In looking through some wallpaper
books In the new booth set aside for that purpose at the
store. The hew booth features one of the most complete
setups of over 1,000 different patterns of wallpaper,' murals
and scenes and enables the customer to sit while they look
through them. The booth- was constructed. in a complete
remodeling project recently completed at the store In which
offices and store were rebuilt, facilities were improved and
new display fixtures were installed.
Black--
(Continued From Page One)
hero's stable of planes, for the
flight check. Bert made it in a
rainstorm over at Pearland. He
dropped it in on the first time
around, but made It the second,
Holt signed that piece of
paper which gave Bert a lot of
privileges, including the one
which says he can take people!
with him.
But now he has trouble find-
ing riders. With the ink hardly
dry on that piece of paper which
says he can safely fly an air-
plane, there are some doubters.
Undaunted, Bert keeps talking
flying-r-and the first thing you
know you are in his airplane,
Stude-Packard .....
Sun Oil .......
Sunray-Mid Cont ...
Tennessee Gas ....
Texas Co
.......C
Texas Gulf Prod.....
Texas Gulf Sulp
Tidewater .......
Texas Eastern ......
Union C and C.....
.......90%
Un Oil of Calif......
United Airlines .....
United Carbon......
U. S. Steel .........
Wilcox Oil ..........
.......41%
Woodley Pet ........
closed 56%
W. R. Grace........
NO Cotton ..........
Sheets Are
Needed For
Bandages
Dis arded clean white sheets
are needed by volunteer work-
ers of the American Career
society to make bandages for
distribution to Baytown pa-
tients, it was announced Mon-
day.
Persons wishing to donate,
these materials may leave
them with Mrs. Charles Pier-
son, nurse at the Baytown
Healtii league, at San Ja-
cinto Memorial hospital.
Ilundereds of such bandages
arc prepared each month and
dispensed t-> cancer intents
needing such assistance.
Doaskf Shipley In
Legisaiure Race
Kids Under Four
Hit Hard By Polio
Donald K. Shipley, 717 Zola
road, Houston, has announced
his candidacy for state represen-’
tative, Position 3.
Shipley, who graduated from
the South Texas College of Law
in June 1953, advocates a more
flexible system of disbursing
and administering funds to the sor,
various sections of the state gov-
ernment “to avoid being poor
one pocket and rich in the
Shipley also favors a stern
look at the present’ state tax
structure and cost of adminis-
tering it.
The 32-year-old navy veteran
favors economizing to avoid im-
additional taxes, he said,
Scouts-
(Continued From Page One)
She must study and under-
stand all about conservation ot
natural forestry.
She must know basic types of
cooking and be able to plan and
prepare three meals a day for
10 people.
She must know how to estab-
lish a campsite and be “hep" on
everything from pitching a
tent to tying a square knot.
Simple first aid, -how to purify
drinking water, how to take
care of health and equipment
are all required of a Patrol
Trooper.
Survival depends on camping
sfitll and teamwork, two of the
j highest ideals stressed in the
j Girl Scout organization,
By now Troop 63 members
are veteran-: the camping
world. Four of the girls—Donna
Bond, Dia: Dauphin, Linda
Nelson and Billie Kay Robertson,
—have been together since
Brownie days.
The troop is raising its own
money for the
They are currently selling pea-
nuts and last fall they sold Alley
theater tickets for additional
proceeds, (Patrol Troop En-
campment may be primitive, but
it is not free of charge.)
Troop funds also are annually
subsidized by the “ange!’’ spon-
Kappa Kappa chapter of
Beta Sigma Phi sorority.
Red Cross Needs
More Staff Help
At Reserve Camos
ST. LOUIS, Mo. <Sp)—While
all needs for Red Cross person-
nel to car y on the tra'itional
Red Cross services for the mili-
tary at National Guard a"d Re-
serve training encampments
'.his summer can be wet by
shiftine workers alrestd on duty
at military installations across
the nation, there Is a nee-> for
t limited -.umber of additional
-taff members, It was reported-
today by Elisabeth Bruce, di-
•ector of Personnel at the MH-
vestern area office here.
At the summe • training
amps, Red Cross fadltionally
provides counseling, assistance
/here needed, such as is provid-
i for regular American military
ersonnel world-wide.
Some of the National Guard
ind Reserve encampments are
held in locations where large
number of regular army person-
arf. aai not maintained .it M*
times, and thus Red Cross work-
ers are not .permanently as-
signed there; however, from oth-
er larger installations the or-
ganization can shift to handle
the demfands for service during
the-summer-months.----------
At some Installations, due to
large number of military per-
sonnel on duty, yeur-round, Red j
Cross staffs are assigned at all
times. In such cases, these
workers will assume the addi-
tional case load that may be
brought about by the presence
of National Guard and Reserve
training units.
According to Miss Bruce, due
to numerous other contributing
factors, a limited number 0?
young men, preferably veterans
and college graduates are need-
ed to fill permanent positions
now open to furnish Red Cross
services to persons in service.
Information is available through
local Red '’ross chapters and
the Midwest’-n Area Office at
<w50 T fndell Boulevard, St. Louts
8, Mo.
MARY KAY HOOPER
IONDAY MARKS' a Hr:
tirthday for Maty K»y,
laughter of Mr. and Mrs. K.
K. Hooper,' 211 Chandler,
Grandparents are Mr. Mid
Mrs. A. ISttHtM of Bay-
town and Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Hooper of Kerrville. Great-
grandparent is Mrs. J. R. Rob
ertson of Smithville.
(Continued From Page One)
of Houston; one half brother,
Archie Rutherford of Baytown;
one half sister, Mrs. Johnny
Barnes of Beaumont; four
grandchildren; and one great '
granddaughter.
Rev. M. S. Jordan, pastor of
encampment. Grace Methodist church, where
Arnett was a member, officiated
at funeral services. Burial was
In Forest Park cemetery, Hous-
ton, with graveside rites held by
Goose Creek Masonic Lodge No.
1192 AF and AM. Arnett was a
charter member of that lodge,
Born near Henderson, Tex., in
1882, Arnett came to Baytown in
1917 as an oil well driller and oil
Leaders" are *Mrs.**Jarnes Nel- «*« superintendent. Eight years
SANDRA KAY BLETSCH
DAUGHTER OF Mr. and Mrs.
A. W. Blctsch, 1304 Monroe,
Sandra Kay is two years old
Friday. Grand parents are Mrs.
Hubert Etheridge and Ernest
Mason.
Houstonian Sentenced
To Jail in Chambers
Joe Franklin Crawford, Hous-
ton longshoreman, was sentenced
to 10 days in Chambers county
jail and fined $50 plus com by
County Judge Carroll Roland
after Crawford pleaded gutty to
misdemeanor theft charges,
Crawford was accused of steal-
ing a net from Jerry O'Brien of
Double Bayou on June 1. Hie
stolen net was valued at $45.
Deputy Sheriff R. R. Mathews
of Anahuac investigated the case.
AUSTIN (UP1)— More than
two-thirds of all paralytic polio
cases in Texas during the first
five months of 1958 occurred
among children four years old
and under, the State Health
partment reported today.
cloud-hopping right along with
I May 31. Of the total, 25 were list
‘■Yep,’’ Bert admitted, “been
wanting to fly to Oklahoma City
for 30 years, so Tm going this
weekend. Want to go along for
free?”
General Land Office
job Asked By Allcorn
of four, accounting, for 67.57 per
cent
The 5-9 year age group regis-
tered four cases, or 10.81 per cent.
Qther categories included 10-14
years, three cases; 15-20 years,
three cases, and two cases were
listed for persons 20 years old
and older.
.....Twentyrsix non-parplytic cases
Were reported during the first five
months of 1958, making a total of
63 cases reported for the period,
compared to 203 over, the same
period in 1957. ......
Four paralytic cases and sev-
en non paralytic cases were re-
corded dhring the week ending
May 31,
Bill Alloom of Brownwood is
seeking re-election to the office
of Commissioner of the General
Land Office of Texas.
Allcorn, who took over the
duties of commissioner on Feb,
1, 1958, has a long record of law
investigations on land problems
in Texas.
• The 35-year-old father of two
children is married to the former
Maritia Shaw of Brownwood. *
Allcorn graduated from Baylor
University with a bachelor of law
degree in 1948:
After graduation from law,at 1224 Cheshire lane, Houston,
school, he practiced law in! is a candidate for Judge for the
Catholic Charities
Offices Are Moved
HOUSTON - (Sp) - Hous-
ton - Harris county offices of the
Catholic Charities of the Diocese
of Gaiveston have moved to a
ed for children through the age new "home” at 511 West Ala-
bama in Houston, Daniel J. Mar-
tin, chairman of the board of di-i
rectors, and Msgr, John J.!
Roach, director, have announc-
ed. J Pitts, ..
The new telephone number is Charles A. Pitts, 203 S. Fourth,
JAckson 6-4323. Highlands, is a launcher crew.
The United Fund-supported "ia" in battalion’s Battery
child care and family counsel- ,^e entered the Army last
ling agency formerly was at f^ruaty and received basic
Herman Mesd Seeking
Vstfc* Court f»j*
son and Mrs. J. L. Clements.
Mrs. Clements will not be able
to attend the encampment, but
Mrs. Nelson will chaperone
She will leave a day early, Mon-
day, for special instruction,
Patrol Troop Encampment
will be composed of Girl Scouts
from the entire South Texas
Council — the “cream of the
crop.”
Hinhhitdc fit Is
In Ack-Ack Unit
Pvt. Charles E. Pitts, whose
wife, Iris, lives at 5714 Lauder,
Houston, has been assigned to
the 75th Antiaircraft Artillery
Missile Battalion in Waldorf.
Md.
son of Mr. and Mrs,
later he bought into what is to'
day the insurance agency bear-
ing his name
Stork Stops
CANANT
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Canant Jr.,
1709 Sheridan Drive, are the par-
ents of a son, Richard Louis, born
June 7 in the Lillie Duke hos-
pital. He weighed nine pounds
and three ounces. Grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs, Fred Canant
Sr. of Baytown and Mrs. Joseph
A. Reeves Sr. of New Orleans,
La. Great grandmother Of the
new arrival is Mrs. B. H. Oakley
of Palacios.
AIR CONDITION
PLUMBING REPAIRS
fit
PHONE l JU 2-6377
Texas Water Heater
AND
Plumbing Co.
1104 S. PRUETT
1034 Electric Building, Houston,
Catholic Charities provides
foster home, adoptive and insti-
tutional service to an average it
about 400 children each month
It also offers counselling ser-
vices to children and families, as
well as ccnfdentia! maternity
care to unwed mother*.
"aiis Of Engineers
M Division Head
GALVESTON - (Sp) - Wili-
am Whipple will become de-
training at Fort Carson, Colo,
The 17-year-old soldier attend-
ed Robert E, Lee High school
and was formerly employed by
Robert’s Construction Go., High-
lands
Baytown Cadet Gets
Alien AraHemv MMa1
Dixon received the Waldrop
—- -A^sWe Kiddies Me
ed In that capacity for seven lawyer in Houston since 1948 * ------1--------- '
years. {and during the years of 1949-51,
For a brief period in 1955, All- he served as assistant city at-
com served as special assistant jtorney.
attorney general in charge of | A member of the First Chris
tminrone’ lon/t
George M. Dixon, son of Mrs.
ig4JteSii,r
dels from Allen Ac,den, reeele- j " ‘
tag awards during the Acad- "I sincerely believe that
emv’s 72nd graduation exercises Chrysler Airtemp is the finest
in Bryan. equipment available," states
Dots Gunn of Gun a Air Cot
, , 'Honing tnd Healing
is on0 of Bnyloun’s outstanding contractor1.
,<s Airtemp it thi
veterans’ land prosecutions.
Agriculture Post Is
Sought By Kothmaim.
Glen H. Kothmann, 30-year-old
livestock man and legislator from
San Antonio, has announced his
candidacy for State Agriculture
Commissioner.
A native of San Antonio, Koth-
raann graduated from Texas A
and M In 1950 with a degree in
agriculture.
Kothmann belongs to livestock
associations throughout Texas,
In 1957 he was chosen one of the
five! outstanding young men of the
year in San Antonio,
In making his announcement,
Kothmann said he felt his wide
background and experience ta
ffiriptt wn lUffiwn*. uni
iMjtgpmd on al tMMMMl
agriculture committee* while
serving ta the legislature, ‘‘quail-,
fy me for tha post.”
tian church, he is a graduate
of the South Texas Colic’"' of
Law and has been a member
of the faculty there since 1948.
Mead is first vice-- esident of
the South Texa sLaw Journal
and is past president of the Ex.
nglneer at Galveston,
He succeeds Brig. Gen.
E. Seeman, division ei
-,lnce September 1954, who has
>een assigned to the Office of
the Deputy Chief of Staff for
Logistics, Washington, D. C.
General Whipple comes to
Dallas from Poitiers, France,
where he commanded the Com-
munications Zone Base Sertio r
le has been serving with U. S.
Students Association of South A Eu since 1955_ Pre.
Texas Colleges. He is now a ’
director of the association.
TRY SUN CLASSIFIED
viously, from 1952 to 1955, he
was Executive,' Civil Works, ta
the Office of the Chief of Eng-
ineers ta Washington, D. CT
THE BAYTOWN SUN’S
Houston Phone Nwnbor Is
CA 62443
Why Don't You Call Us Sontethne!
was presented b" Allistor Wal-
drop, Bryan busi-essman who
•psespnts the medal annually.
A total of 69 cadets received
diplomas at the ceremonies held
in Bryan’s First Methodist
church.
TRY SUN CLASSIFIED
Doug Gunn of Gunn Air Con-
ditioning and Heating, 1607 N.
Alexander in Baytown.
The Chrysler Corporation has
lgineered Airtemp units to
rovide more cooling power,
nd to give trouble-free service
year after year. To back up their
fine equipment, the Chrysler
Corporation has established a
factory branch in Houston to
provide local inventory of units
and pans. '*
"We are proud to recom-
mend and install Airtemp air
conditioning. We will be glad
to give you free estimates and
recommendations on your par-
ticular1 air conditiom'iig needs.
Call us at JUstin 2-7401. Have
your air conditioning installed
by Gunn Air Conditioning and
Heating."
GUARDIAN LOANS
ARE SIMPLIFIED
No need to get tied down with large payments when you
can get low-cost Guardian loam of up to $800 without
red tape or emharraM^ent
Guardian loans are easy tj get—easy to pay, because
there is no red tape. So to get the money you want for
any purpose, phone or visit any Guardian office for dm-
mU <pe-4aj aarvloo.
G”*»*cK**
NUMMAL
tAYTOWN
107 W. Tessa Ave. JU 2-1251
No* to Pronsee TliHfer;
Supervised hy Tents
Banjoul DtfL
PASADENA
207 E. Shaw Avo. OR 2-1607
Aeroaa from Lonc'i Thoitor
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