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Serving IAY-TEX—Tht GoMm Circle of Southeast Texas
Sunday, March 6, 1941
U.S. SAIL
BY ANGRY
BAYTOWN'S LIBRARY SITE
Wert Sterling, and to abm* SW teat went at
Thorn** Circle. C*»t of «b* tract wai mm,
leaving *23,000 available lav WMtnMttef and
equipping the building.
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mjbfsts.
Creek Eastern Star are remind-
ed by Mr*. Sam Bramlett, chair-
man of the welfare committee, to
• old Christmas cards
7:30 p.m. Mon-
brtog their old Ch
to the meeting 7:!
day Masonic Hall
Machine Wrecked
A CIGARET machine was wreck-
ed and robbed of an uhdeter- ... . Jit
mined amount of money Friday
night at Lonnie Hooper'* Blue
Room No. 2. 700 Oak, police re-
ported.
REL Parents Night To
Highlight School Week
lie Schools Week will be Parents
“ at Robert E. Lee High
trict award will be given the
school having the largest num-
ber of visitors for the week.
O'Brien has appointed vice
chairmen to head observance
plans in Baytown Schools.
Representing fee PTA groups of
the elementary schools will be
Mrs. R. H. Holmes, Anson Jones;
Mrs. Ed Heintsehel Ash be! Smith;
Mrs. R. E. Mann, Alamo; Mrs.
S. Garrison, Stephen F. Austin;
Mrs. John E. Moore, San Jacin-
to; Mrs. J. W. Fowler, James
Bowie; Mrs. Ben Araujo, De Za-
vala; Mrs. H. E. Lumpkin. High-
lands Elementary; Mrs. Roy Nei-
digh, Lamar, and Mrs. W.
Johnston
Sam Houston.
WEEKEND WEATHER will be
cloudy with shower* and little
changes In temperature. Fresh ----- --
to occasionally strong souther- in the proclamations.
ly winds expected with temper- -------“ “
stares of 66-W degrees.
Sunday’s Tides
'• GALVEsfoN TIDES Sunday will
be high at 6:03 a.m. and 6:20
p.m. and low at 11:54 a.m. Mon-
day’s tides will be high at 12:0*
a.m. and 12:37 p.m. and low at
7:08 a.m. and 6:37 p.m.
For die first time b) the school's
history, the affair wtil be staged
at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Parents will
Mow the regular student class-
room schedule and will discuss
it with teachers.
This event.is designed to
acquaint parents with methods of
modern education, and school of-
ficials hope it will become an
annual afair.
All patrons of the Baytown
School District are urged to be
on hand for Parents Night. In-
terested citizen* who do not have
children in school are also invited.
T. D. O’Brien, Baytown busi-
ness man, beads up a citizens
committee for observance of Pub-
lic Schools Week in the Baytown
District. He is assisted by R. R.
SStfS&f
The week has been proclaimed
by Gov. Price Daniel of Texas
and Mayor R. H. (Red) Pruett highlights of the State Distribu-
of Baytown. Both emphasized the live Education Conference here
importance of the school system tonight will be an award to Lloyd
the proclamations. T. Jones, manager of the J. C.
Visits by parents to the schools Penney store in Baytown and
will continue throughout the week longtime friend and supporter of
Appointed from civic groups are
Robert L. (Bob) Gillette, Cham-
ber of Commerce; George Lerch;
Optimist Club; Rev. Earl Bissex,,
Ministerial Alliance; Mrs. R. B. 5£3S
Battarbee, PTA Council; Mrs. El-
mer Gray, Pilot Club. Lowell
Lammers, Rotary Club; Mrs. Lan
Williams, Service League; J. C.
Sheffield, Shriners; Roy G. Holz-
heuser, Wooster Lions Club; By-
ard Sooy, West Baytown Kiwanis
Club; F. E. Kelley, American Le-
gion. Mrs. Thurman Tckes, Amer-
ican Legion Auxiliary; R. S.
(Dick) Manne, B'nai B’rith;
Frank Thompson, Junior Cham-
her ot Commerce; and David L.
Norton, Baytown lions Club.
in Baytown. A certificate will be the DE program in Texas,
awarded tbe classroom register- Jong* has used DE students
ing the most visitors, and a dls- (rom Robert E.Lee High School
in Baytown since the program
route to Baytown
Rogers is
phoned ... ......... .(■ ___________
Road that a pickup truck cany- and had served as president and
the would-be thief w~ “ —
dicurch Mendenhall was also a member 1
of the Christian Church.
... Tom Slack and Kdnneth Mil-
ler need all tile information they
can get about nutria for a biology at the funeral
• ‘ ' will be at Anah
der the direction
Ajcui gn awui iiumw
Chambers Phone
Owner Dies
was introduced into the school
curriculum at the end erf World
War H.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones are .
pected to come to Galveston for
the banquet at which presenta-
tions will be made.
services for C. G. Men- One of the others to be hon-
69, president and man- ored is Dr. John McFarland, su-
of Chambers Count}' Tele- perintendent of schools in Hous-
Cb., will be held at 3 p.m. ton. He also has been a strong
at first Baptist Church advocate of the DE program
erf Anahuac. which gives a student a chance
Mendenhall died at 6 a.m. Sat- to learn and earn by employ-
urday. He was born Dec. 6, 1*91, ment while In high school,
hi Versailles, Ohio, and moved Jones estimated that at least
„ ... _ ^ to Winnie as a young, man.
C. W. PLATO spots a party toy- a past master of Anahuac Ma-
in* to make off with one erf his sonic Lodge 995, Mendenhall was
calves, but couldn’t catch him. recently voted a life membership. uatM Robert E Lee now
Police lost h^traU^r Rato g*.«* permanent jobs as associates of
Charter director W u£"KKl ScilOOl Cdndiddt0$
Draw For Position
ih^wSend.
t C. T Freeman is Besides owning the Chambers
from a bout with flu County Telephone 0>.. be was on
erf'Poli«'sftto Omri« as* Independent Five candidates for two port-
W. Cowan, a student at Horace ation. He had served as the first tions on the Baytown School
Maim Junior High, is a patient Chambers County auditor andas Boaiftl Trustees are scheduled
at Gulf Cowl Ho*)tol. She is In rounty to awessor, and! wax On to meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at
room H3 and may have visitors the Anahuac School Board many the school administration building
and Kdnneth MU- years. «' to draw for ballot positions' in
Rev. C. B. Bass win offiefate the April 1 election!
Trustee L. L. Hiller, now presi-
un- dent of the board and a six-year
ncil plus veteran trustee, is being op-
structor. You can «rU Tohi at Funeral Horne d Liberty. The posed by Fred Dittman, retired
JU 3-4622 and Ken at JU 2-4710. family asks Jiat donations be car dealer, and Kgrl C
Mayor R. H. (Red Pruett en- made to the-Cancer Fund in lieu retired Humble Oil andn
ytog watching the mayor’s Ace of remembrances. Co. process department
from the sidelines,. . . Cedi Sut- Suijdvors are Ills wife, Mrs. Ula tendent. The three
phin having trouble with glasses Gripon Mendenhall of Anahuac; seek Position 4,
that ‘‘my lads beatup” . . . Jack two sons, Lee Mendenhall of Win- Dr. W. H. Bridges and Dr. L.
Simmons caught by surprise with nie and Corwin Mendenhall of Ana- D. Victory have filed for Posi
S£ VfiCS Mf- SvS
urdsy morning. ren and ons »rsat-frandchikL terms.
only other position,
red wo three-year
Lloyd Jones To Get
State 'DE' Citation
GALVESTON —(Sp)-One of the Store Manager Jones. They start-
ed as students.
Included in this group are Ed-
ward Schiller, manager of the
rime department; Mrs. Janice
(gee JONES, Page »)
• Experts explore depths
Viking Coal Mine to Terre Haute,
lnd„ seeking to determine cause
of explosion which killed 22 men.
• Texas Rangers question ex-
convict in Beeville about tear gas
holdup of poker game which net-
ted three gunmen *36,600.
• California Gov. Edmund G.
Brown cays that former Vice
Presktont Richard M. Nixon would
be ‘‘hard to whip" if he ran for
California governorship in 1962.
India often 3.000
brigade to help beef up UN Congo
command and restore order in
divided African nation.
• Treaty for the Organization
far Economic Cooperation and De-
velopment runs into unexpected
trouble in Senate committee, but
under way to remove
“vagueness of language in the
document,’’ said to be the cause
for opposition.
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr., spec-
ial presidential assistant who just
completed three - week visit
Pop' Swain G
In Mayor's Rac
W. e. (Pop) Swain, 41-year resi- ated
dent of Baytown, former city
councilman and former president
of tiie Chamber of Commerce,
Saturday became the fifth candi-
date to file tor mayor in the
April election.
Other candidates are A1 Clay-
ton, L. W. (Slue) Maawsy, Her-
bert M. Campbell and C. Dutch
Ptacek.
Swain who came to Baytown in
1920 with the R. S. Sterling in-
terests. served one term on the
city council from District 4, from
1956-58. In 1956, be was defeated
for re-election by W. D. Holla-
way, Baytown grocer, in a run-
off.
Sterling waa a former gover-
nor of Texas and one of the found-
ers of Humble Oil and Refining
Co.’s Baytown Refinery. In 1935,
Sterling sold his light and
interests, which
for him, to '
Power Co.
City of
parttime basis with
the insurance firm of Kerr and
Bond,
Swain also served two terms on
the Baytown School Board and
was a member of the board that bent
facilities
At that time, Swain became
manager of HLPCCs Baytown
office and held the job until hi*
President Kennedy that Fidel Cas- *" 3OT1
tro’s popularity is on the decline
in Latin American countries.
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• Rush of candidates to enter
on
• Actress Elizabeth Taytortas
pneumonia and is aeriocaly ill,
doctors say in London where she
is working to a motion picture
filmipg. ” '•
hall at a date to be
after each has been
mag* to draw for ballot j
• Interview of two cold war
troes. Grot. John R. McKone
and Capt. Freeman B. ©lmstead,
raises new questions about fate
of three fellow crewmen missing
since their RB47 reconnaissance
bomber was shot down by Soviets
last July.
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• Four new federal judgeships
for Texas included in bill passed
by Senate, creating 63 new fed-
eral district judgeships and 10
mere judges on circuit courts of
appeals.
• Tide at civil war to Laos is
beginning to run dangerously
against American efforts to unify
and neutralize the Southeast Asian
country, reports say.
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• Ten convicts injured at Fol-
som Prison to California during
race riot at mess hall. Some hit
ft ftf? of the 1969 junior dtizen award,
by lead ricocheting from ceiling ^ cjtfcen award was
when guards fired warning shots.
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&•ssr
dent is vacatioi
vacationing.
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JC Service Awards
ilyear award
presentation
The spec
Howard wai
Cecil N. Sut
Four awards were presented to I year award tor -1969, made tbe of the Boy Scsut District
Baytonians Friday night at the
annual Distinguished Service
Awards banquet sponsored by the I Howard
to Mrs. Halter,
special award to Mrs.
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Frank Goss received the senior
citizen award and Jack Simmons,
the junior citizen award, tor their
civic contributions during the past
year.
The woman of the year award,
given by the Baytown Jaycee-
ettes, was presented.to Mrs. R.
C. Halter.
In addition, the Jaycee-ettes
presented a special award to Mrs.
Mattie Howard, member of the
recently formed Library Advisory
Board and librarian at Lee College
fo her work on the pttojic library
James E, (Jim) Sherwood
served as master of ceremonies
tor tiie banquet. Hie senior citi-
zen award was presented by Cecil
N. Sutphin, immediate past presi-
dent of the Jaycee* and recipient
N. Sutphin, president of the
s!»re b**n * r”ident
from Humble'cSl and Refln-
and tore-
tog Co.’s Baytown refinery, was
cited for his activities in com-
munity projects during tiie past
year.
• Goss served as vice presdent
of the Kiwanis Club in I960 and is
now the president of the club. He
is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce where he is serving
as a member of the newly formed
tax committee, Active in the Com-
munity Chest, he has served as
over-all membership chairman
and he headed the commercial
division in tiie drive last year.
He is a member of tiie Library
Advisory Board and was instru-
in obtaining Baytown's new
library.
A member of the Official Board
presented by W. D. (Bill) Hinson of St. Mark’s Methodist Church.
Jr., 1969 senior citizen award re- he is the finance Committee chair-
clpient. , man. He was district head of the
Miss Jessie
• Eisenhowers and Nixons plan
~ wn«« Jessie Lee Pumphrey. U.S. Census this past year. elor erf arts degree from Sam
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12 Questions Answered
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Candidate Pete Bryan
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Tax Reva ua ion Program
■■PPipB- ,<* *
J. A. (Pete) Bryan Jr., one
of three candidates to the District
problem oHaektog funds.
Bryan made the statement in
his answers to 12 questions asked
mayor and council candidates by
The Sun to direct voters' atten-
tions to some of the problems
new city officials will have
to fare. I
Here are Bryan’s answers:
1. Further annexation of Hum-
ble Oil and Refining Co.: I see
no reason why. tiie remaining
Humble property shouldn't be an-
nexed. Humble hss long been the
sssrAr-Tsa '
iroperty would strengthen
own.
2. Annexation of other areas:
The present annexation laws are,
to my opinion, out-dated. I think
a system could be worked out
where tiie people living iu the
area to be annexed should have,
some choice to the matter. I have
several friends that have remark-
ed that they resent being ''grab-
bed." I think as they do that a
that it was under consideration
and then have a committee from
the area meet with the council
and work out the details. This
would also work in the first ques-
tion.
fiiLcKrert im^v^entef1! provements: I see rib reason the
mi
5. Library bond principal pay-
ment being postponed: I think it
was a very good policy. It means
that more capital will be avail-
able now to improve the more
necessmy things at hand.
6. City contracting bond im-
am of the opinion that Baytown
is five years behind to making
street improvements. I live
Utah and it is not one ot our
city's best streets by far, but
comparing it to New Jersey, Park
city should want to contract all
and several others, it is a'super
highway. This is one issue which
has become a critical problem in
our city. Something needs to be
done to correct this problem and
Our city is good sizze
, and has much potential wealth
* but something must be done to
"■ corredF this serious problem be-
fore it can really expand as it
should.
4, Opinion of new city hall: The
present city hall seems to be ade-
quate now, but as Baytown con-
tinues to grow something will
lutye to be done about replacing
it. We certainly would not try
to send ali the students at Rob-
ert E. Lee'High School to an old-
one-room school, "flus same prin-
ucu. x tunm as uiey uioi « wv>wt«
method should be worked out ft opal applies to th$ growth of
the people of the are* would know Baytown and Its government.
the work. There have been times
when help was needed and part
of the work was contracted. How-
ever, I think it would be casting
a poor reflection on our city de-
partment if all the work were
contracted out.
7. Council salaried or expense
account: I think that any time
a mayor or councilman incurs
expenses in the line of city work
it ought to be repaid in full. A
small salary each month could
be Used for these expenses. A
working councilman should not
expect pay for his service to his
community. However. If he does
have extra expenses to his work,
it should be repaid.
*. Municipal buildings on amor-
tization plan: I think the city 3
could finance more municipal
buildings on an amortization plan
It would be a very good way for
the city to help finance a civic
center or more recreational fa-
cilities. The present facilities for
junior high and high school age
students are sadly lacking. Hie
swimming pool las king i*en too
crowded to be enjoyable. -Some
Kehoe of San Marino, Calif,: one
step should .be taken' to givg the son, (.1ft Welch of Baytown; two
mittee on Extension and Organi-
zation and is a member of tbe
Houston Area Boy
Council Governing Board. In tbe
past he has received the Silver
Beaver Award, tiie highest given
to a man to Scouting.
Jack Salmons, a sixth grade
teacher at James Bowie Elemen-
tary, is president of the Baytown
Education Association and has
served as director for a program
for elementary athletics for sev-
eral years as a community serv-
ice.
■ He has served on the teacher
welfare committee and on the
board ot directors of the Teachers
Credit Union. In addition, he has
assisted in the school census pro-
gram.
Simmons is a member of Cedar
Bayou Methodist church and presi-
dent of the Men’s Brotherhood of
his church. He is also a teacher
for a young peoples Sunday School
class.
Mr. and Mrs. Simmons have
been residents erf Baytown since
1955. They alto their four children,
ages from six months to seven
years, now live at 12M Trenton
Lane, Simmons received his bach-
elor of arts degree from Sam
and his masters in elementary ed-
ucation from Stephen F. Austin
College to Nacogdoches. Prior to
coming to Baytown, he taught in
Alvin.
Mrs. Halter was chairman of the
TB Seal sale in Baytqwn during
the past year and was chairman
for TB bangle day tor 1960. She
is immediate past president of
the Baytown Service league.- Marcus Cathrtoer and Ross New-
to the ton Cathriner, all of Baytown;
This recipient assisted
organizing of the Senior Citizens
Club and is an active assistant
with the Golden Age Club. A mem-
ber of St. James House Auxiliary,
she is an active worker at the
home. She is a member of Trinity
Episcopal Church where she sings
to the choir and participates in
toe Women of Trinity and in St.
Cecilia’s Guild. She assists with
the church Christmas Pilgrimage
each year.
(Sre AWARDS. Page S)
Dundorw police reported no dis-
turbances to toe town during toe
international get-together.
Mi Cathriner,
Pioneer Resident
Is Dead At 81
Mrs. Julia Riggs Cathriner, M,
of 201 S. Whiting, pioneer Bay-
town resident, toed at 10 pun.
Friday to a Baytown hospital. She
had lived here 34 years.
Funeral services will be held
at 3:30 pjn. Monday at Earth-
man Chapel with Rev. P. Wal-
ter Henckell, pastor of Trinity
Episcopal Church, officiating. In-
terment will be to Forest Park
Cemetery in Houston under di-
rection ot Earthman Funeral
Home.
Mrs. Cathriner was a member
of the Priscilla Club, Eastern Star
of Houston, Chapter 385 and toe
Women’s Benefit Association.
She is survived by her husband.
Henry Cathriner; one son, Ross
Cathriner; iwo grandchildren,
and a number of nieces
nephews.
Baytonian Gets
3-Year Sentence
Walter Carl Sanders. 52, former
vice president ot People's State
Bank in Baytown, has been Sen-
tenced to three years to prison
and fined *500 on charges of em-
bezzling an estimated *11,000.
Sanders was one of three bank
employes sentenced Friday by
Federal District Judge Ben C.
Connally to separate cases tried
at Houston. All had pleaded guil-
ty to embezzlement charges.
The sentence against Sb
mm five character
______ who testified for
that he would review toe
Sunday Services
For G. E Welch
George Ervin Welch, *0, of 300
Stewart, 48-year Baytown resident
and retired employe of toe City
of Baytown, died at 9:o0 p.m.
Thurstoty while visiting a daugh-
ter in Killeen.
Funeral services will be held at
„ p.m. Sunday at- Earthman
Chapel. Interment will be to HU1-
of-Rest Cemetery under direction
of Earthman Funeral Home. Rev.
A, L. Jordan, pastor of Memorial
Baptist Church, will officiate.
Welch is survived -by three
daughters, Mrs. Vela Mae Kirk
of Baytown, lit* Georgia Louise
Woods of Killeen and Mrs. Eva Galveston.
Reynolds was
given S iwo-yftr
derfwia&torSSS
30 days on bond.
The other two
were Robert
who worked at
Bank to Houston,
laid Lee 46 tor
HuKtongvSeaiy
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J. A. (Pete) BRYAN
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teenagers of Baytown more good brothersAlbert Welch and, Rob-
clean recreation. I firrnjy believe jert E. Welch of Highlands; nine
that it would stop much of our j grandchildren and three great -
BRYAN. Page I) grandchildren.
tenee on
000. Lee was
year* and
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