The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 122, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1968 Page: 1 of 17
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Your Ranger-Gander Souvenir Program Is In Today's Sun
The Sun Invites
MR. AND MRS. W. C. DAVIS
720 Cedar Bayou
to the Brunson Theater. This coupon good
for two tickets when presented
at the Branson Box Office
Good Through Nov. 21.
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VCArms-LadenConvoy
Filmed In Cambodia
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MORE WARNING NECESSARY?
THERE MAY BE A NEED for additional traffic warning signs or signals at the end of North
Main where it intersects with FM Road 1942. A number of accidents have been reported at the
intersection. Some motorists do not obey the stop sign - at this one didn’t - and wind up in the
ditch. Wrecks at the intersection are more numerous in bad weather. (Baytown Sun Photo)
Trustees Keep Insurance
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a Herbert
The school board’s
committee has moved that
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agent-of-record in
district’s extensive
• program but that one of the
monitor the
rotated off the
Trustee Boh Wi
the recommendation
the board up-to-date on the sta-
“I
nesday’s Baytown Sun said the
Hurricane* would play the OB-
«k in Satuiday night’s Good-
fellow Bowl game at Memorial
Stadium, The story should have
said the Hurricanes will play
the TEXANS in that chami
....." - - ...
Parents Night
PARENTS’ NIGHT will be held
from 6:36 to around. 9:» p.m.
Monday at Robert E.
School
Weather
PARTLY CLOUDY and fab
through Friday, with the low
near 65 and the high in the
upper 70s
MRS. HASKELL Cooke lends in
a large packet of recipes for
Cookbook scheduled for publi-
cation Thanksgiving week
Mrs, H. J, Echols will attend
a meeting of Daughters of Re-
public of Texas in Huntsville
rsday . . . Mary Uien Cun-
hingham looking forward to
hearing a noted
.
Mb. Alton Laird tried a «Wr
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tus and operation of its insur-
ance program.
Wahrmund proposed that Miss
Odena Childers be named to re-
place Pat Ban as one of tbe
There’s No
Inspection
At Border
NEW YORK (AP) — A Na
tlonal Broadcasting Co. news
team says a bicycle convoy it
filmed was moving supplies
through Cambodia to a Viet
Cong encampment in South
Vietnam.
The film, shown Wednesday
night on NBC’s Huntley-Brink-
ley Report, shows the convoy
carrying supplies from a Cam-
bodian border town identified as
Ba Vet to the Viet Cong strong-
hold, said to be less than 50
miles from Saigon.
NBC News correspondent
Dean Brellis, one of the mem-
bers of the team, said in narrat-
ing tbe film:
“As the bikes pass through
tbe official customs barriers,
they were ignored. It was as
though the traffic was normal.
But It was not normal. It is how
the Viet Cong and the North
Vietnamese keep supplied in or
der to fight.
‘The flow of tbe supplies was
uninterrupted and unimpeded
by the barriers.”
Newsman Chet Huntley said
tbe four-man camera team dis-
covered the convoy last week in
tbe town of Ba Vet, which he de-
scribed as one of
Communist installations along
the Cambodian border.
The news team said it
watched tbe bicyclists for a full
school board when he brought two monitoring agents. Jim
Bond would continue to serve
as the other monitor.
Trustee Fabian Greenweli
moved that the recommendation
be tabled “until wc have time
to give it further study” and to
consider it at the board’s next
meeting Nov. 25, The motion
was approved with Trustees
and Troy Peterson of the Viet Cong.
voting against it.
Wahrtnurtd, who serves as
chairman of the insurance com-
mittee, also recommended that
In Hospital
B, C. LITTLEFIELD SR., is *• tdmlnirtration designate a
recovering from surgery at San
Jacinto Methodist Hospital and
can have visitors.
L-ss
NASA Trip
LEE COLLEGE
dub members will go to NASA’s
Manned Spacecraft Center Fri-
day afternoon for a tour of the
facilities. Anyone interested in
going on the trip may meet with
them at 12:15 p.m. Friday in
front of the Lee College Techni-
cal-Vocational Building.
Needs Blood
Engineers To Hear
Air Control Chief
needs blood donations to con-
tinue using the kidney machine.
Donors are accepted at the VA
Hospital in Houston from 8 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. Mondays, V
days and Fridays; from
8 a.m.
the fourth annual Baytown Sun t° 9:30 P-m- Tuesdays and Fri-
days and 1:30 td 9:30 p.m. Sat
unlays and Sundays. Mis. Kim-
ball said he is improving and
allowed home some weekends.
Turkey Dinner
WOMEN’S SOCIETY of Chris-
tian Service of St. Mark’s Meth-
rn uait u* sh. max a s otcvii-
odist Church will serve a tor
key dinner Friday from 11 a.m.
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inquiring about a recipe. *“"*
The Sun inadvertently omit-
ted the names of Paul Edwards
and Lewis Wilburn from the
names of Bank of Baytown di-
rectors in a story Wednesday
about our two new banks.
same time.
Spaghetti Supper
SOCIETY OF Helping Hands of
Redeemer Lutheran Church Fri-
day wilt sponsor a chicken
spaghetti supper at the church,
Danubina and Loblt. Serving
hours are from 5 to 7 p.m.
Homemade pie, salad and
be included. Dona-
, -™~ for adults and 75
| cents for children 12 years and
1 under. Call 4234436 for tickets.
out.
asked that an addi
board member be ap-
nAiniru! 4a tKn L/v.mI inMiMnnA
pointed to tne ooara insurance
committee and seTrve as its
chairman to maintain continuity
on the board. (Former Trustee the road, Brellis said. “They at
Paul Parkinson served on the
board, along with Wahrmund,
until his defeat in the Oct 5 other traffic was stopped."
school board election.)
(See TRUSTEES, Page 2)
CHEMICAL PLANT NEARS COMPLETION
NEAR COMPLETION AT BAYPORT near La Porte is the 40-million-pound synthetic glycerine plant of FMC Corp’s Organic
Chemicals Division Construction of the facility, which will make glycerine by a new peracetic add-glyddol route, is scheduled to
be finished by the end of the year. In the foreground, beyond the Southern Pacific railway spur, (left to right; are finished
product storage ares, warehouse-maintenance building, and plant offices. Behind them, from left, are cooling towers, main control
and peracetic acid facilities, glycerine production center, and auxiliary area containing oil heaters, incinerator and transformers.
The new plant, located on a 244-acre site, also will produce epoxidized soybean oil, allyl alcohol, and acetic acid. The FMC
division, which also has plants in Baltimore, Md., and Nitro, W. Va., is a major supplier of plasticizers, organic phosphates, organic
intermediates and synthetic resins
DPS Boss Speir To Speak Our World
To Police Banquet Here
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Col. Wilson E, Speir, director
of the Texas Department of
Public Safety, will be principal
speaker hare Jan. 13 when toe
Baytown community honors
day as they delivered supplies
from the Ba Vet marketplace to
the Viet Cong camp.
The newsmen said that most
of the riders appeared to be
Cambodian, but that others
were believed to be Viet Cong.
Tbe Viet Cong supervised the
movements of the unloaded bi-
cycles to the marketplaces,
NBC said.
Brellis said that some of the
riders wore GI clothing and that
wore toe black pajamas
He said his team followed the
convoy about too yards into Viet
Cong territory under the hill
view of uniformed Viet Cong
guards. Tbe team stopped when
It reached a barbed-wire barrier
around toe Viet Cong camp,
Brellis Mid.
Apparently we had surprised
them and only got as far aa we
did because they didn’t know or
weren't quite sure what we
specific individual to keep up
with the district’s insurance
and to inform the
agent-of-record of
changes, such as will be nec^-
sary when new buildings or
buflding ntoaftottore-rn com- werejolngto do,” Brellis Mid.
the police department at an ap-
preciation banquet
The affair is being sponsored
by toe Baytown Citizens Traffic
Safety Council and will be held
at the Community Building. Tick-
ets at $5 each will go on sale
soon and will remain on sale
as 300 persons attend
the banquet, or more if the idea
meets with as enthusiastic com-
munity reception as we antici-
pate," Feinberg said. He added
that “This is a fitting way for
the community to honor toe
who devote their time and
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until shortly before the banquet, energies to the continuous pro-
which will be catered. tection of the individual citizens
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chairman of the traffic safety In addition to members and
council, announced Thursday (See BANQUET, Page 2)
that committees were named at
a council breakfast meeting
Wednesday to plan the ban-
quet. A list of the committees
and their’ assignments will be
published shortly.
Feinberg said toe council de-
cided some time ago to go
ahead with plans for a police
appreciation banquet and to
make it a community - wide
project by asking Baytown citi-
to participate,
would like to have as
‘Flank, Counter
or Brigadiers, Stars
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entertain files to form ah “X”. After an-
other Step 2 series the band
will form a diamond.
To the march, “Southerner,”
toe bank will flank, halt and
countermarch. After correcting
into block band by means of a
Step 2 drill, toe band will
into eight company
newsmen did not
dare to take any pictures inside
the Viet Cong-controlled area
NBC said toe bicycles carried
medicines, rice, vegetables,
cooking oil and
‘There were uniformed men on
lowed toe bike convoys to pass
through unchallenged, but any
(See CONVOY, Page 2)
Charles R. Barden, executive
director of the Texas Air Con-
trol Board, will speak at noon
Friday at the November meet-
ing of the Baytown Chapter of
toe Texas Society of Professional
Engineersat theTower.
Barden’s talk will be primarily
concerned with young engi-
neers’ responsibilities in a mod-
ern society.
arden is a graduate of toe
University of Texas, receiving
BA degree. He also holds a
MS degree in engineering from
Texas A&M University, and
he has served as a director of
Environmental Health Field
Training and the Taras Public
Health Training Unit
In addition, Barden served as Cindy Couch, president; Cynthia
an instructor in the civil engi- Zavodny, vice president; Luan
nearing department of the Uni- Biakey, secretary; Becky Smith,
versity of Texas, and as chief
of the institutional section, Di-
vision of Environmental Health
Engineering.
He is also active in profes-
sional organizations, including
treasurer; and Kathy Kirkland,
historian. The corps is directed
by Miss Nikki Rylander and
MlaaCarolyn Bakst
The REL Band will march
onto the field in a wide entrance
the Texas Society of Professional formation. After the entrance,
Engineers, Society of Nuclear
Medicine, Texas Public Health
Association, American Confer-
ence of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists, and the American
Industrial Hygiene Association.
toe band will step off
Joyce’s 71st” Following
eral maneuvers toe band will
correct to block band formation
and then execute a cou
march. S
Nest, the band will ext
The students, Calvin Keating
and Len Ford, received a "con-
duct report” - which auto-
matically bars a student from
holding any school office, elec-
tive or appointive, for a full
calendar year.
The boys received the “con-
duct report” as a result of be-
absent for three class pe-
riods on Oct S without permis-
sion from
toe sophomore class last year
and recently was in election
runoffs for either president or
vice president of his junior
class. He was representative-at-
large for the junior class,
(See BOARD, Page 2)
Lee Brigadiers will
the Sterling Stars at a -pro
game party Friday night in toe
Brig. Pam Kelley and Mary
Beth Wood are special
chairmen for to is event
Traditionally, toe 219-girl
corps honors its mothers at the
REL homecoming game by in-
viting toe mother of the corps
president to sit with the group
during the game. Mrs. Leslie
Couch has toe honor this year.
Brigadier maneuvers are di-
rected by company commander
Kathy King and drum major
Lee Entire. First lieutenants
are Loma Dickens and Kay
Walker. Lieutenant of twirlres
is Debbie Johnson and lieuten-
ant of flags, Elaine Triche. Hon-
orary second lieutenants are
Cindy Couch and Caria Harrison.
After the fanfare, the Brig-
adiers will enter the field in
staggered block formation. With
the corps in augmented block,
fronts.
Then, to toe strains of “Gip-
psyland,” toe band will do a
Step 2 series by files of two.
The band will march downfield,
countermarch and correct back
into block band formation.
Stepping off to toe march,
“Vedette,” the band will maneuv
re flanks and then make a
wide rideline exit
Wilhife Is
State Head
Of Planners
FROM AP WISES
+ A flight to less tore
miles of the moon’s surface
will be undertaken next year
Official
Nixes GOP
arges
AUSTIN (AP>—State Agricul
'ture Commissioner John C.
White Mys Republican claims
that he made employes help fi-
nance his campaign are nothing
“but an attempt to cover up
their failure to carry Texas.” <
7 have not this year or any
year asked or accepted any
money from any of my em-
ployes for campaign expenses."
Mid White, an 16-year Demo-
cratic veteran in the Capitol
who won re-election again Nov.
White’s news conference was
held late Wednesday Immediate-
ly following one'in which state
GOP Executive Director John
M. Stokes charged that bogus
travel vouchers were used in
White's department to hide em-
ployes' campaign contributions.
Stokes Mid the evidence pre-
sented Dist. Atty. Bob Smith in-
cluded a sworn statement from
Wardie Lee Burnett, a former
employe under White who is
now employed in Cleburne.
Burnett told The Associated
Press by telephone that he
made the sworn statement “but
I sure didn’t know they were
going to use it like this.
No sir I’m not going before
any grand jury,” Burnett told
The AP. “They (Republican in-
vestigators) told me they only
wanted that statement for cam-
paign purposes. That’s toe only
reason 1 gave them that state-
ment. I sure don’t like this.”
Burnett also Mid he was as-
sured by toe Republicans that
be would not be subject to
prosecution if he gave them a
by a crew of space veterans,
NASA officials disclose.
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+ The Central Committee
of Czechoslovakia’sCommunist
party assembles for a crucial
meeting amid widespread fear
that it would wipe out the
final trace’s of toe year’s lib-
eral reforms.
. *■;. . . . *
President-elect Richard
Nixon is pushing toward an
early announcement Of his
choice for a new federal bud-
get director.
♦ An unmanned Soviet
spaceship circles the moon
raid apparently heads back to
earth, according to British
astronomers.
+ The U. S. warns North
Vietnam that continued vktfa-
City Planning Director Ross
Wilhite is toe new president of
the Texas City Planners Associa-
tion. ./*.
The election took place in
Dallas at toe annual meeting of
toe Texas Municipal League,
attended by Wilhite and other
city officials, including City funs of the demilitarized zone
Manager FfaxWSSlt, and
City Councilman Albert Fanes-
tiel.
Prior to his appointment as
planning director here last De-
cember, Wilhite served as
member of the Houston City
Planning Department. He was
city engineer at Orange before
joining toe Houston department
as a senior planner in 1965.
As director of planning in
Baytown, Wjlhite plans and
supervises preparation of plats
and subdivirion regulations and
all other phases of immediate
and long - range municipal
planning.
Wilhite holds an engineering
degree from Lamar Tech in
Beaumont. His wife. Flora, is
head librarian at Sterling Muni-
cipal Library. They live at B
Bay Villa.
certificate in public health the following maneuver will be
from Vanderbilt University.
He was a lieutenant colonel
in the U.S. Medical Service
Corps from 1948 to 1946. Em-
ployed by the Texas Depart-
' of fah “ "
Board Will Conduct
Discipline Hearing
Box 4 by files. The block
will move into two fronts dowa-
fiekl and then back to midfield
in a Step 2 maneuver. The
corps will execute a manueva
By JOHNELLA BOYNTON
The school board will hold
Len served as president of Rob-
ert E. Lee’s Interact Club,
an open hearing Nov. X on a vice president of the Robert E.
bile Health in 1987, at midfield to “Bugler’s Holi-
day” and exit in two interlock
mg diamonds which move into a
double V formation
Corps officers for 196&jj9 are
protest brought by two sets of
parents over disciplinary actions
taken against then two sons at
Robert E. Lee High School.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. S. Keating and Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Ford, had requested
a closed hearing, but Mrs. Karl
W. Opryshek, board president,
said the hearing will be open
at the request of the school
administration.
separating North and South
Vietnam could wreck the Paris
peace talks. ,
♦ “All women” should have
the right to “safe lepl abor-
tions,” the American Public
Health Association’s governing
council declares.
____________ ’ :
Stokes said toe Travis County
Grand Jury would be told that
Burnett and four other present
or former employes in tbe state
Agriculture Department were
‘through intermedia-
ries to contribute money to Mr.
White’s campaign. They were
later rtonhursed through the
(See OFFICIAL, Page 2)
Leave Knives,
Guns Behind
A new state law prohibits
the carrying of weapons into
places where alcoholic bever-
ages are sold, Baytown Po-
lice Chief Blair W. Mann
warned Thursday.
Specifically, toe taw pro-
hibits taking knives with
over 5 1/2 inches long
or ridearms of any kind into
such places, toe chief ex-
plained.
He aid knowledge of this
law could be important to
hunters and fishermen who
may hare occasion to stop at
place where alcoholic bev-
erages are sold.
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An Editorial—
ShowTheKidsYou
Are Behind Them..
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Baytonians rarely if ever fall short in supporting
their children.
Friday night the young people of this community
will be on display and it behooves us all once again to
stand up and be counted in showing our youngsters we
are behind them
The occasion is the annual rivalry between Robert E.
Lee and Sterling. It’s more than just a football game,
though.
There will be keen competition on the gridiron as
the two teams square off for their second varsity
meeting. Then at half time the Sterling Stars and band
vie with the Robert E. Lee Brigadiers and band for
Lee Student Council
Gcmd Spcrtananahip Leyre your entertainment and pleamn\
mm _ **** ‘ Neither football team has an outstanding won-loss
record this year, but both head coaches agree they
couldn’t have asked for more effort from their players.
Both drill teams and bands have put in equal time and
energy to wave their school banners.
We urge all Baytonians to put forth a visible effort to
at-large of the senior class.
He had worked in toe school
office, an honorary position, and
was recently chosen Student
of toe Month for the Optimist
Club.
Cabin was a Robert E.
cheerleader, president of show these youngsters we appreciate them and what
they have done to represent our community.
Today the popular phrase is “generation gap.”
Athletics in Baytown has always been a common bond
between adults and students. It is a great bond and one
we hope lasts forever.
A good start in showing our support and
appreciation would be to pack Memorial Stadium for
their big performance Friday night.
Our youngsters have always mirrored Baytown in I
highest respect. Let’s continue our '
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 122, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1968, newspaper, November 14, 1968; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044345/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.