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Cloudy And Mild
BAYSHORE WEATHER— TmilHin%
doudv and mild through Thursday. Scat-
tered thundcrohonrn Wednesday night
Temperature range: M-TX
GALVESTON TIDES: High Low
For Thursday- *:J4 a.m. l/: lXa.ro.
4:00 pjn. t :05 pm
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Serving East Harris and Chambtrs Countias
VOL 37, WO. 170
BAYTOWN, TEXAS
Wednesday, April if, 1957
Today’s Nay* Today
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PUT UP OR SHUT UP, AFL TOLD
SCHOOL KIDS GET
FOUR-DAY HOLIDAY
Nearly 10,000 student* In the Baytown School district
will get a feur-day heWay—Thursday through Supday— ', J
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in oberrvance of Good Friday and San Jacinto Day. Supt
George II. Gentry announced Wednesday.
The schools always obarne Good Friday and San
Jnetota-Day, but because San Jacinto Day fa#» «*
Sunday thin year it will be dimmed »n Monday. For that
reaaon atudenta will get a “bonus” holiday.
(laaaea will dismiss at the regular time Thuraday
afternoon, Supt. Gentry wild, when the 9JW0 atudenta in
the diatriet will begin the laat long holiday before the
term ends in May. ' • • " ' .
Flash!
LATE
NEWS:
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Wife Also Dead
Gambler
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Murdered
THE FLAGELLATION
"AND SO PILATE, willing to content the people, released
Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had
scourged Him, to be crucified." — St. Marl 15:15. ("The
Flagellation," by engraver Albrecht Durer, courtesy Toledo
Museum of Art.)
HOUSTON (UP) - Johnnie I Mrs. Bninnan also had been re
Brennan. 59-year-old policy gam- peatedly beaten tm the head,
bier, and his wife, a semi-invalid, j Polio- questioned a ILyenireld
were found beaten to death in: man who was known to have been
their home Tuesday night. The associated with Brannan to gam
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WASHINGTON — Eis-
enhower says U. S. could
go to Jordan’s aid if it
becomes victim of ag-
gression,
JERUSALEM — Israel
accuses Egypt of insti-
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house had been, rawawked,
Brennan's body, his head
bashed in from Ihe force of blows
by a heavy weapon, was found in
a front bedroom. His wife, Lillie,
57, was found dead in a chair in
a back bedroom.
Brother Attacks
Ike In Family Fuss?
WASHINGTON The,., battle against
President Eisenhower's record peacetime
budget picked up a new~champion today—
the President’s own big brother Edgar.
The elder Eisenhower attacked the budget
as “loo big” and said he ‘‘can't understand”
why the President approved it. He said gov-
ernment spending is '‘ridiculously higher* -
“His campaign promises and speeches were
for decreased government spending,”- Edgar
told newsmen Tuesday night in his hotel
suite. “I’d like to discover what influences
are at work.”
He said he has never discussed the budget
with his younger brother, but he presumed
the subject would come up tonight when he
attends a stag dinner at the White House.
- The subject—and Edgar’s comments on it—
also were certain to come up this morning
at the President’s news conference.
Edgar, second oldest of the seven Eisen-
hower brothers, held an impromptu news con-
ference of his own shortly before midnight
when he met newsmen sitting in the hall out-
side his Statler Hotel suite door,
The well-dressed Tacoma, Wash., lawyer
and his wife Lucy hesitated a moment at the
elevator door when they saw the newsmen,
Then “let’s face the music,” Mrs. Eisen-
hower said. She took her husband by the arm
and they walked to their door.
bling activities, and a 47-yew-nlii
.woman friend, ,qf. Brennan:?. No
charges were filed.
Homicide Capt. L. L. Watts said
it appeared that two or more
person* were involved in Ihe kill-
ings and Homicide Lt. W. C. Doss
said, in his opinion, the slayings
were a result of ’ more than just
straight robbery ”
Police said Hip Brennans had
been dead for some six or seven
hours before the I todies were dis-
covered. There were bloodstains
in both bedrooms and in a bath
SUN SPOTS
QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds
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Poetry Society
GUEST SPEAKER:, for the Bay-
il ’25 will
town Poetry society April
be W'illiam Lee Pryor. Univer-
sity of Houston English profes-
sor. He will discuss poetry of Walt
Whitman. The meeting will be in
the fellowship hall of First Bap-
•' tist rhureh....... “
Stores Open
Late Friday:.
For Easter
Players Needed
FATS Brown’s Brown Bombers,
members of the County Sheriff
Baseball League, are in bad
need of players. Any youngster
from 12 through 14 should re-
port to Fats at Busch Stadium,
behind Brown’s Chicken Shack,
;-fon -Hlghway if* Thuwday_at
p.m. Brown Issues a call for all
his players to report at that
time for, practice.
College Play
LEE COLLEGE Curtain club will
stage ”W;e Three' Angels” at 8
p.m. Wednesday in ihe college i
ditorium. The public is invited.
Grandmothers Club
Two notes of interest were an- GRANDMOTHERS CLUB of. Bay-
luneed today by Baytown retail °wn will have a pie and cake sale
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firms. .
Most of the downtown stores
will remain open until * p.m.
Friday for the convenience of
late Easter shoppers.
Most of the retail firms in Bay-
town will be closed Monday in
observance of San Jacinto Day
which falls on Sunday.
Since these same firms are
usually open until 8 p.m., Mon-
day as a convience to shoppers,
the same late closing hour, 8
p.m., will be observed Tuesday,
next week only.
from 10 a.m. to 5:30 pro. Satur-
day in front ’of J, C. Penny’s. Mrs.
Fred Litton will be hostess to the
club at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Carolyn Chosen
CAROLYN ANTHONY has been
chosen by the La Porte Kiwanis
club as its representative in the
first annual La Porte Day cele-
bration contest to be held at Syl-
van Beach on May 11.
room.
Wardrobes and dresser drawers
hail been ransacked, police said
The bodies were discovered by
„ friend of Brannnn’s. Shelby
Williams, identified by Hire as
‘■another gambler.'’ He said he
went bv the Brannan home every
day and usually st(>p|»ed to see
Brannan.
Seven In
Board Race
At Crosby
mando attacks from Jor-
dan. Syria and Lebanon
to complicate situation
in Jorfrn whi^&flfc
Hussein has won pre-
carious political victory.
ATHENS —t Archbishop
Makarios returns from
British exile to conquer-
or’s welcome and tells
thousands of cheering
Greeks that Cyprus will
“fight” for union with
Greece.
HOUSTON — James
Hof fa, Teamsters union
vice president, says boss
Dave Beck may "retire”
before long.
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Get Tough
On Cleanup
WiWHINGTUN (UPT-The «F"T
nle Racket* (bmmtllee. chnBcBg-
In* Ihe AFI.-0O to pul up or shut
up on it? hwwccleaning pledge,
culled for testimony today from
four unum officiate convicted in
i tomlung ease but stUl holding
blfice. :
The cnqwnittep aongM Oil*' At*.■
tail,* on the ISM bombing of« non-
union construction project in
Scranton, Pa, Among three called
to provide it were hi
...,........ .. .......:«ir local bffi*
ivVs itiflvkied of conspiracy in
rormeetom wuh the Mast.
.MRS .1 \V STEWART MRS O. A. BROWN
MRS. W. W. HARRIS
MRS BRYAN STR VTTON
Ark.) Mk) be itopreted sufte of' |
the wilfwaam in claim ito Fifth <
Amendment privilege n*4*t self-
sscr queatHNis. ______ _ , ____
Ttic’bnmhlng care was featured
Tuesday a* the committee heanl
YOUTH INFORM ATION eenier project «f the Baytown
report* of terrorism and vinlene*
in die .Srranltm area by union
'traders ttlm allegedly used thug*
.and strong arm men against their
own nM>mt»'n a* wi ll ns against
balky cmploycis, ;
McCleHan Issued the challenge
[to The AH, (TO high cmnmaret
terl wtj is- held fropn *:*> •« after tin' testimony pointed out
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haven, MOV NlM
i i,i i mi —_ sir*, i—n o iiri
head* the Youth BftnMbn at the Information Hemtgwre
YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OPENS
I >no-
Monsanto
Blast Kills
The Itayfown bervlee Icagiip ha* sililed a
Yunth Intonnatlon center to II* growing li*l
«f chit- [iiop'il*.
A non professional agency, (he fthnfer will
provlih' Informafhm hImiuI Health, welfare,
ediieatloii ami *plrftual ■rJIvlUes, AnyWwi
may gel aid In lhe*e aethllle*.
An 0|M'H house will In- held from .1 30 lo
* Hi p.m. April 75 at the loteiinallim Mead
ipmrier*. HO.V Martel, in the tynnhuveu
toiifdlng sir*. J, H Stenarl nt Ihe Servlen
la<agua I* ehairman of (he project.
Im tied to the epeu liouwi wilt be ropresento
lives (nan I'huri’hes, sehnnls and service ami
eivie organisation* In the city.
Ihe Youth Information eenier ha* evolved*.
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Four Persons So Says Rep. Thomas
Baytonians Talking Economy
Ihre ^ ik»W***m*» Albayt Thumas Parts had
persons
Passing of the dredU.re for re.l^ buiWln« «’a» nlb
questing places os the ballot in J Four. of fhr* Injured were In
the M?y « Crosby school election “very critical" condition at Thom-
resulted in five candidates seek-|n, Memorial Hospital and the fifth
ing one spot and two the other wos listed ns serious.
vacancy.
Incumbent C. E Houghton Jr.
is *a candidate for place No. 1
with Floyd R. Curtiss, Mrs
Rosemary Hanson, Leroy Mach
ala and James E, Marek the
other candidates,
“That’s a sharp looking lawn-
mower you got tn the- Sun
board, is a candidate for are
I other" team from porttign Np, .2
•jam! he is opposed by Dr. Leslie
(Hinton.
Policies of Crosby school ope-
ration, particularly tax policies
which-have resulted in recent
which■ have.....resulted in. recent
ha* found Harris County people
economy-minded in their
talks a* be has discovered In
letters during Ibis session of
congress.
Harris county’s, veteran repre-
sentative, now in hist lltli term
and a ranking' Democrat on the
House Appropriation* commit
tee, rame homi* to talk at nt
observance of the National
Guard air wing- at--JSUtogton
field • during the weekend and
elected to stay at home this
week because of the Impending
State police ordered more than congressional Easter recess.
others amt unleashing
fumes which forced 1,500
to leave their homes,
.The blast, of undetermined ori-
gin, "blew apart" the building,
one of several single-unit strut-
lures known as "sliells,” at the
sprawling Monsanto installation at
Nltro, W. Va., 15 miles from here.
a date with the eon-(Tower Invitation* through the
gresman with a La Porte com-[press have been eitepded to aii
that John Durfctn, Anthony Borta-
n»e. Phihp Brody Md Junrnb
l«Hetr - all dflielals nt AFL-ciO '
affiliates In the Scrgfdan area —
had m en convicted in the bombing
cane.’
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Hie chairman said hu doc* not
lyiieve tile l isle of ethic* recently
Adopted l»y llw A FLOG contem-
tempbiU'd that convicted crimitF
al* can htdd union office,
At da meeting in Miami in Jan*
AFL • ClO Entctatlvt
uwy, l {• e
Board approved stroigent rode*
designed to eliminate ail form* of
unloipreclartmtog. The hoard at
die time stated that '’obviously, if
a person has town convicted of a
crime involving moral imptiiul*
(dfcnsivc to li’mic union ’mprabty,.
ft* stiould )»’ barred from office up
resisawiWe position in the tobog
movement,”
Thomas’ friends
welt
mlttee. Supt, C O. Dusek of
Crosby school* also planned to I (wirter*
come to Baytown to see Thomas, I who ha
who had been one'of the schobl'r! Etm Texan and
friend?. in helping with fiscs!, since LW7,
Who have never met the native.^ ^
congressman p|Ajn th**ir statements” He said
... .the ridtemimt* of the'Leader*
problem* brought about by Mayor If. If Pruett In out nf iamounted to "extolling” flic rcc-
1,500 peretm* to leave their homes
when the chlorine fumes spread
from the Wrecked building after
the blast. Company firemen quick-
ly haded the escape of the gas
and: the residents later were al-
W. H. Miller, president of the lowed to return to tlietr ho/nes.
Race Bills
Are Stalled
"f nni enjoying « chance fo
gel out among our people ami
to talk to them about their
problem* and - ours,” Thomas
said He arrived in Baytown
shortly after noon Wednesday
*nd planned ,tn_ remaherc un-
tii about fi.pm.
Me hud, several -conferences
arranged with group* at (he of -
fice of the Baytown Chamber
of Commerce.
Mayor M h Burgin of fa
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rapid growth.
At 4 pm. Wednesday Thnrtia*
was Sihciulcd to be guest of
honor at a reception at The
iting the re
town dp # short vacation, and jtods of the e onvicted officiate,
Gouftellman W C. Swain bid AFLUfO officials-had no imme*
been asked to act«»the vteltoF* (dinto copntetil on the lotruoitiee’*
formal host, ; ^ ^ ■ , ,tehaf|p*g«. 1 __
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AGGIES TO GATHER
FOR 1957 MUSTER
. Former students of the A and M College of Texas who
livo in Baytown will gather at the National Guard
armory on North Main al 6:SO p,m. April 2* to carry on
a tradition that is 54 years old.
The Baytown muster will be one of more than 4,000
similar ceremonies held all over the world where Texas
(See AGGIE SI—Page Two)
redStotg ‘ |p0||ffd ‘
tjorr measure awaited Senate afe
provaJ today but chance* were
the bills wotild not be considered
until after the Easter vacation
A measure providing the first-
shuffling of Texas congressional
districts since 1933 and a bill to
maintain racial segregation
-far stofenf
Perhaps the thief left it over
In old. Baytown.
Rolire Wednesday recovered
Ihe sixth stolen vehicle alwnd-
oned In that section In the pa«t
two weeks. It was a red pick
MtEWrON PENDERjlBAM
, Sun .Managing Editor 4
OhI Number 8»5 I* back in Baytown to
alav.
The only Ihiag (’hat’s missing from Ihe..
big ’“too* Nrse-’t ls ^-Jdagliiglftre^to If*
toiler—sad the engineers who odee sat proud
ly In the cab.
Two long lime engineers un fids pafftcular
lueoimdlve were the http Amoa Andrus and
Ihe late ft. H, Jacobs, both of Baytown.
Jacobs was fireman for Andre# lor year#
before be’ became (lie pngtator.
Andrus was at work In he -engineer’s cab
when he siiffemj a heart attack which later
proved fatai JarSdNi onifasted the engine in
service; TaTeV"worked oft M tH>e locomo-
tive# which rrqtlar-ed (tie steam engine
(S.O- 01 ll «M~-I’age Iwo»
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through toes) elections won final „p truck stolen from ft.' D,
approval in the House Tuesday. {Hlurdin of Mont Belvleu,
The legislature is expected lot ,.0|ir, itm4 thr tni(.k wh).n
work through May and then re-; lt w«,
cess for Easter until next Monday. Making a driveway in the
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of local and uncontested bills to-
day:
5300 Mock of Wisconsin.
Sun Sla-■
Around Town Being 'Sfove Up' Not Too Bad After All
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MR. AND MRS. R. M. Murray
visiting Tom and Marian while
Mrs. Murray is under a physician’s
treatment in Houston. They are
from Port Sulphur, La.....Jarvis
Chance being quizzed about
■Close-cropped shock of graying
furDuke Jones taking a look
at the weather . . . John Wilson
keeping a hopeful eye on the Bears
. . . Fats Brown making an carly-
moming phohe call... Sue Jones
entertaining visiting relatives .. .
Tom Cranford happily going lo
work ... Ray Ferguson, popular
young Baytown business man, has
moved to Daytona Beach, Fla.,
With his wife Dianne, - Daughter
Terry and Son Raymond .,. Sick
Ellis making-the iwatds.
Mrs, Dickson herd's three
JUUe charges, Scheryl and
Denice Lewis, and Donnie Rae
Cuttrell into a pleasant picture
assignment ... L, M. (Smok"-'*
Alford could tell more tall t?
than anybody else about Bay-
town’s locomotive moving down
East Texas Avenue on Its last
run.
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By FRED HARTMAN
IT WAS ALL we could do the other day to keep
from changing doctors.
We have been trying for 10 years to lose
weight. Then all of a sudden we get a prescrip-
tion in which the doctor tells us to take two pills
after each meal FOUR times a day.
What kind of doctorin’ do you call that?
JVE’ I P ' ~
the ad staff is at liome recovering from an oper-
ation and that John Whatley,, also of the ad
staff, is puny with a'Tddney infection.
It all started a few days ago when Dick Hurst
of the ad staff tried to cut off one of his fingers.,
If anybody has an ad that isn’t doing anything,
flow about bringing it by the office. We’re a little
shorthanded.
WE HAVE BEEN “stove up” mo#t of fids
week, not being able to get around too well
because of some old-fashioned sort of rheu-
matics.
We ran truthfully say that we hare cer-
tainly enjoyed poor health.
We’ve bad everybody in the office waiting
on us and at home It’s been the same thing.
njory we t
» Before y
we can sa;
found that
you get to
iy that we
We will mj, that we’ve had more lurk at (he
office than at home. It couldn't be that they
know me better there, could It?
EVERY BODY’S AILIN’
THERE SEEMS to be a heap of measles going
around these days. Two members of llie Sun
staff B itch SoRelle, the makeup man, and Mrs.
Charlotte Woods, one of the accountants, are
CLIMACTIC BAD LUCK
AND TO ADD Insult to Injury
we tad lost a *77# check, B
feeling too sorry tor us, we
hsve got another one to take It* place, and
everybody I* happy, _ [
CRffSBY DECIDES AGAIN
'WE'RIghET to see that the folks up at Crosby
. decided -thgy would^ not vote a bond issue to
furnish them with water and sewerage.
We realize that what the people of Crosby
want for themselves comes Under the head of
their business, but even so we are just a little
disappointed.
tody couldn’t make up hi* mind whether lo
spell hi# name IJam*. flam#, ism* or Jlam*.
It wouldn't have been #o bad but every
lime R should have been one, It was the other.
SP ON THE MARCH
WE DROPPED OUT by pin J. M. Huber plant
the other day and found the Southern Pacific
had started wrok on their new spur into Cham-
bers county," /' -
It is our understanding that they’re going to
build the spur from their own mainline to a
spot hear HIghway 148. That means the brklge
over Cedar Bayou will be completed. The HP
will try to develop the land alongside the rail
spur, and it certainly Is Ideal land for small
Industry.
rarasoy. ,
And then whep .IAL finaiiy decides to come
to (hamtors County the SP will to in position
hr get there fo a hurry. All toytl have to do
will to to build an overpass of Highway 116 and
scoot through the prairie.
BELIEVE rr OR NOT
ADD LAND stories of 1*67: w* understand
TAKE YOUR CHOICE
WE READ A legal la n recent Issue of the
bon d’eombat . -- Annhnnr Prufws, and M seems that a whole
And add to that the fact that Sue Haynes of totnflawfa’becameacceasaryhacnaneanmn-
that some, Baytown acreage tost wat turned
down toss than 1* years ago at St,800 an acre
la now being held tor f35,000.
In other word*, it’s easier lo octt now at
gCHEBVL LEWIS DONNIE K \E (TTTRELL DENIECE LEWIS C. D. MIDDLETON
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Sonthero Pacilk citation early
ifos' b y.niilg, Baytown .Sun
Staff Fhct-igropher Horace
Helms (ouad these thro* iittto
C. Darwin Middleton.
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