The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 111, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 1, 1963 Page: 1 of 10
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BAYTOWN, TEXAS
Tuesday, Ja
Spots
Tshombe s Ba
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BULLETINS
Troops
LONDON {AP)-The Brif.
!th government today urged
President Moise Tshombe of
breakway Katanga province
to return to Elisabethville at
tmneral-rich province inti the im-
poverished rot ef the Congo.
Previous negotiations betwen
Tshombe and Cyrille Adouia. pres-
ident of the Congolese central gov,
emment, proved fruitless, with
one or the other hedging hen-
ever a solid agrement seemed
near. Belgian Foreign Minister
Paul-Henri Spaak told newsmen
that Tsbomte’s presence is essen-
tial for negotiations. As Spaak put
it, “To negotiate, you need some-
one fit to talk with.”
Tshombe indicated Sunday he
felt that the United Nations’ mil-
itary operation aimed at a forced
solution, saying that if had been
long under preparation. The U.N.
command on the other hand, said
it sent its troops on the offensive
only after enduring two days of
growing bombardment -rora Ka-
tangan forces.
Thant said in his statement that
"the United Nations is seeking no
once to help In prompt uni-
fication of the Congo.
fication of the Congo.
A Foreign Office state*
ment said that Tshombe’s
in-
were
presence in his bullet-riddled
capital would make it pos-
sible for him "to lend his
the-erea.
,8ft£
No Report Yet
NO REPORTS of a New Year’s
baby were received at The Sun.
A check of the city’s three hos-
await die first baby of 1963 and
its parents. Births should be re-
ported to The Sun.
Claim Service
THE-TEXAS Employment Com-
mission’s itinerant claim taking
service will be moved from Fire
Station No. 2 in the Roseland
Park Pavilion, effective Jan. 3.
The claim service representatives
are in Baytown each Thursday
and Friday.
Vacations End
HOLIDAY’VACATIONS for Bay-
town students, public school and
college, will end when classes re-
sume Wednesday morning. Nearly
13,000 students will go back to
the “old grind” after a two-wr*
Christmas -New Year holiday.
i Corps
-----,----. Emergency Corps will
meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the
corps building, according to R. L,
Auto Accident
ELDA BEE Tucker Duzant of
1608 Elm as admitted to Bay-
town Hospital Monday after an
auto accident at the intersection
, of Willow and Nazro, police de-
partment records show. Jessie^
Green, Negro of- McNair, was
charged in Corporation (four! with
failure to yield right-of-way and
speeding after his car crashed ftito
the Duzant vehicle, police said.
BHHoU
MRS. LUClLLBBetl of 608 Bar-
zvjrsiitt&'iz
tailing $28 and- valuable papers.
She said the billfold' was taken
from a purse she W* carrying on
a shopping trip.
ifeSKSSL*.
an’* Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday at the Chamber of
Commerce, instead of Tuesday as
regularly scheduled,
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Guerrilla Warfare Threatens In Congo
Busy Year For Counciknen-- _
Tax Hike, Annexation
1962 Top Stories Here
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(Dub) Ward were against the in-
crease. So was a group, of ether
Baytonians who promised to cir-
culate petitions to force a ref
endum on the action. They lai
decided- that legal grounds for
such a referendum were hazy, and
V“fa"P
A 14-cent increase in the city
tax rate and the annexation of 10
I square miles of hew territory
’ were the two. top news stories of
V it was %° busy year for city it"was decided to circulate protest
councilmen. Many of their deci-
sions made a few people unhappy,
and some of the decisions made
many people unhappy.
The 14-cent tax rate increase
was improved by a 4-3 vote of the
council. It was the first Increase
cin™i enncaliHftfinn nf the Tri.
since consolidation of the Tri-
Cities. Mayor At Clayton and
Councilman Jade Huron and W. L.
petitions instead.
The formal motion raising the
city tax rate from *1.72 to *1.86
per *100 was passed Sept. 10.
Annexation of 8.4 sqhare miles
on Nov. 29 (at 8:37 p.m. to be
exact) was the biggest news of
the. year for residents of Lake-
wood, Brownwood, Wooster, Craig-
mont, Ponderosa and Country Club
Money, Milk Among
Main School Events
'• — , \ .
Increased tax rates, federal to *1.64 were A. R. (Von) Stark,
milk and a second high school ^Op^ek and J)r. L. D.
ST;*™ >to~ ij.
Oaks. The subdivisions
eluded-in two water districts an-
nexed by the city. About 6,000 per-
sons were added to the population
of Baytown by the annexation
which also included an area
north of the city to Baker and
Massey-Tompkins Roads.
Two council members, Jack Hu-
ron and Seaborn Cravey, voted
against the annexation.
The council’s other annexation
action drew unanimous support as
1,400 acres, or about two square
miles, were taken in on the south-
east side of the city. Hie annexed
area includes several large un-
developed tracts now being, usi .
primarily for oil production and
grazing of cattle. Members of the
council held a special meeting
Dec. IS to annex the land in a
move they said was designed
spur development of the
Other "big hews”
city council during
eluded:
the school districts trustees in
1862, .a year that saw several
44 votes on key issues.
School and college district, budg-
ets totaling *6.6 million and re-
voted
tax rate
The same three trustees were
on the winning side, however, in
the controversial federal surplus
milk program vote Aug. 30. They
favored entry of the school dis-
“ dfcfcj
f by one’of those fl
the
year to-
POLICEMEN’S PAY RAISE -
The council turned down a request
to raise policemen’s pay but Was
forced to call a special referen-
dum after petitions with the neces-
sary signatures were presented to
the council. The election to raise
policemen’s salaries *45 a month
authority to the making . of'
the necessary arrangements der
for a: peaceful solution of the . T!
Kfltangan problem."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen.
Robert S. Here, D Okla., 68, a
former Oklahoma governor con-
sidered by associates as one of
the most-influential members of
the Stellate, died today. He had
under treatment for a
ailment.
reputedly the wealthiest
of the Senate where he
has served^ since January 1948.
entered Doctors Hospital here
Dec. 16 for treatment of a res-
piratory infection and a phy sical
. <Vf.
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Got
—API—Katanga President Me
Tshombe gathered remnants of
his battered forces arounpiiim irt
the stronghold of Kdwezi -today
and prepared for possible guerril-
la warfare agaiiKJKthe United Na-
tions's Congo L«g>on.
Koiwezi, ]50 miles northwest ot,
the Katapgan capital of Elisa beth-
ville. is the main base for Tshom-
be'g/Snall ail’ force — ivfistce
hfieh the U.N. command has
en until noon today to surren-
or face destruction..
The secessionist leader reached
Koiwezi from a temporary haven
in Britain’s Southern Rhodesia
Monday as U.N. Secretary; Gen-
eral U Thant declared in New
York that the; time has come for
a solution to the division of the
Congo. Thant suggested he was
setting a time limit of-two weeks
for putting his national reconcilia-
tion plan into effect, *.-
Thant noted that Elisabethville
said fa^wrekh 'figfato^t^ afletay and no surrender in Ka-
prove decisive in opening the way
for a solution of the Congo rift.
Tshombe has indicated that he
would give the signal for scotched
earth warfare rather than bow to
any forced reintegration of his Security Council.
His . main objective, he de-
clared, is ip bring about unifica-
tion of the Congo according, to di-
rectives given him by the U.N.
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Brother Is Btodl
J. A. WARD, brother of Mr*.
Hub Bounds of Baytown, died at
11 p.m. Monday in a Houston
lital. Funeral services wifi be
2 p.m. Wednesday at
Funeral Home in Hous-
ton. .
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WmHmt A
MOSTLY CLL56 ► and mild
with little OhtUn -nt'k
tore through Wed * . *
.vHj
w Year's Holiday -
irst '63 Dawn Yawns Quietly
New Year’s Day of 1963 dawned tory. A few scattered service sta- up Wednesday to <b
“ tlons and drive-ln groceries were
quietly in Baytown as many Bay-
tonians took the holiday as an
opportunity 0 catch up on sleep
they lost the night before.
Downtown stores were closed
for the day; Employes wanked at
Post offices were closed for the
holiday Tuesday. The city hail
will reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
. There was no garbage collection
en- Tuesday, but crfws will double-
some of the stores, taking
Commissioner Ramsey Is
Arou
Now Set !n 4th Term
, ? nd f ask your continued CO-
1, Without your help, I
■ i)\ to get the job done,
•ant to wish each of you
own:
y.
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LARRY CARROLL barefooted on
a cold day . . .. Linda Hanson
rides around town . . . Jennifer
Jones tries her best to ride
horse . . . Judy Korenek has
big frown on her face . . . Ron-
nie Johnson unhappy about a foot-
ball game.
has been on the “ailing list1
lately . . . Garrett Herring
sports a Mack vest, claims it’s
vest season ... Rev. Ed Sum-
mers and Lloyd Jones wishing
friends a happy New Year while
a cup
with 'a cold . . . Police Sgt.
Charles Cowan gets ready for a
........It1. ...
by hfi
scene
long New Year’s night shift
Earl Harvey conspicuous t
absence from the downtown
in a runoff election, will begin his that I am always a
- - gr *»
fourth term Tuesday.
Commissioner Ramsey and, oth-
er officials elected in 1962 -Were
sworn in Tuesday morning in a
ceremony in Houston. Also taking
the oath of office was Precinct
3’s new justice of the peacd, M.
M. (Fats) Brown. He will be at
his desk in the Pruett Building
here Wednesday morning.
Ramsey defeated Baytown's
Mayor Al . Clayton in the May
1962 primary to win the Demo-
cratic nomination, which is tanta-
mount to election in Harris Coun-
ty.
A native of Shelby County, Ram-,
sey graduated from high school to
~ ...... luateff-Wi
,, md prosperous New
and - <,ant-you to know
I, am always as near as
'you need
Trustee* Knox Beavers and Clif-
when the
voted on
at a specify meeting. He later
said the vote should not have
be® token * * special meeting
called for another purpose. The
board agreed to vote ra the mat-
orrniit ansi Deidrme aristas! hi,.
city employes.
PUBLIC WORKS REORGAN-I
IZAHON - A broad reorganiza-
tion of the city’s public works di-J
vision was approved by the coun-
cil Sept. 4. A. J. (John) Busch,
city engineer since 1955, was
placed at the head Of the newly-
created operations department.
work. City
Fevre has
garbage is
Tuesdays or
it out early
County, state and federal of-
fices in Baytown were also dosed
Tuesday but will be open again
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The Baytown; ■■■
said Tuesday it had received a
saasi
aeddents were reported in the
city during the New Year “cele-
brating,”-although a couple of
St#*-*
?nts occurred earlier
School-age youngsters in the
hod district enjoyed th
day of freedom Tuesday
returning to the cl As
Wednesday
before
sr o o m s
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. (Dubl at Center in 1931. He graduated
Ward and children are spenoing from Stephen F. Austin State Col
the New Year’s holidays in Ros- •— ■-
berg^.^, , Robert (Doc) ^Hill
men’s Association officials
to allow striking
unload a banana
. Union
banana
lege in Nacogdoches In 1936 with
a major in , mathematics. He
coached and taught for nine j
at Teneha and Texas City before
World War U.
He served in the IJ.S. Navy in
the Pacific and after the war
went into business for himself in
Wednesday in Galveston,
plans to picket another I
boat Wednesday which is bring-
ing cargo for Tans Forwarding
Co. which has hired members
of independent
picket linen an
OUR WORLD
TODAY
workers
enjoying a cup of coffee . . . Greens Bayou and Chaimetview.
Police Chief Roy Montoomerv is He still operates hi* Channdvlew
feeling better after a holiday bout auto parts business but has sold
parts business but has sold
his Greens Bayou interests.
After being sworn ih Tuesday,
Commissioner Ramsey said:
“I want to say at I have said
on this occasion since I have beet!
M tWW STS?
Hazel Stegall says her curiosity forts to the fob. You know and
is too much. She just has to know
what two dominoes are thrown
off in an “64V game . . . Mike
and Phillip Williams enjoy a holi-
day stay in Baytown . . . Bill
and Fannie Wnght, along with
Tommy and Johnny, take off on
a holiday trip , . . Betty and
Tommy Kimball among the Bay-
tonians at the Cotton Bowl con-
test. / c I
Harold McFarland is a man of
leisure for a few weeks .. . Nell
and Ray Dix-selty manaf to stay
up and see the olfl yew away
. . .Jack Wilson tells about an
inierrstlng ride he took In a jeep
that had no Mw . . . Oarer*
Bradley starts k on tee
stpus task of ktof saktet
end of this term
right. I know it will be done hott-
____to cross
and unload ships.
Traffic fatalities continue to
mount slowly in final hours of
the four-day New Year holiday
weekend. Traffic accounts for
214 of 381 violent deaths through-
out nation.
. J
- • New Year dawns bright
And dear in West Texas, over-
cast In East Texas and showery
along the upper CM Coast.
Temperatures mild throughout
Texas for first day of 1963.
hold out
mg-staUed
• U. 8. authority
growing hope that
U. N. p!»» fofc Congo reunifica-
tion will now move swiftly for-
ward. Secretary • General U
Thant and Moise Tshombe. pres-
ident of Katanga, expected to
come to terms on rectetdliation
Plan within 15 days.
• Skybolt missile program
gets axe officially as Defense
Department announces teat
Air Force is taking steps to cut
off all production linked to de-
velopment of tee controversial
air-to-ground missiles.
/•Associated Press and
American Newspaper Guild
reach agreement ta New York
ter a new contract which eaite
for an *8 package spread over
two years. • / /
• Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
embarks on. second four-year
term as chief executive of New
York while being moot toned
-Ojry-
S,<* votes
tie on both
each time for the
•The board
deciding vote
which agate
shek-Vlctory votes on
the Bridges-Adams-r
on the other. The
appointment of a cl
department of
sic. Horeczy sided
Adams and Beavers in
Fred Parker to the pi .....
vote, once again, was 44-
No vote has yet been token on
a school bond issue recommended
by Supt. George Gentry for con-
____struction of a second high school
their last Baytown. Most board members
Police Post Cbil Service Ennis Scheduled
v V ■ - . . , . J . . J
iclri^mice examinations tor turned in by 5 p.m. Friday, Jan.
positions as patrolmen in tee Bay-
lown Police Department and as
firemen in the Baytown Fire De-
partment will be given at « .30
p.m Monday, Jan. 14, at the
Chamber of Commerce building.
Application blanks are available |
from the Civil Service Commission Special qualifications a
office. 3120 Wisconsin, or from the be met by applicants, ace
Applicants must be between 21
to it years old, have a minimum
height of five feat amt eight
Inches, and weigh at least 16o
pounds. The probable rate of pay
is *380 a month.
also must
cording to
CivU Serv-
• Mexican Congress adjourns
several history-
including labor
after pasalng
■2WTHHL
law which grants workers right
to ihare ta company profit*.
• tmw
s
to California In^aeetrtenUl
day deaths New Year’s Day.
six violent deaths re- Annie
la Texas, 22 of them fa
seemed to be in favor of calling
such a bond election before the end
of the school year in May. At
least none of the trustees raised
any arguments to Gentry’s state-
ments that increasing enrollment
figures made a second high school
necessary.
Figures on the cost of the new
school and additions to the pres-
ent high school are now being
prepared by the administration
or presentation' to the board,
is -expected that the question
building a second high school will
be a major news item of 1963,
as it was in 1962.
Construction of a second high
school would mean, for one thing,
that Baytown would have two
football teaks. , /
The cost of the new high school
facilities has been estimated at
*3-*4 million. The second high
school would be built on an 86-
acre site the district owns north
of the city. >
/Another important action taken
by the board in 1962 was
division of school .
lems into 12 /categories for
studies by committees. The top-
ics for the studies were: finances
(See SCHOOL8, Page 8)
BOND ISSUE DEFEAT - A .ft-
840,000 capital improvement bond
issue election was set by the coun-
cil for Jan. 27. A record number
of voters (3,218) turned out to
soundly defeat an four proposi-
tions. The bonds would have been
used as follows: streets, *2 mil-
lion; new city hall, *390.000; drain-
age^and park taprove-
COUNCIL ELECTION - Three
5
... made It. Councilman Sea-
born (kavey drew no opposition in
his race for re-election. Council-
man Roy Hughes was defeated in
the April 3 election by Jack Hu-
ron, 1,867 to 1,225. Velma Ansley,
Bavtown’s first woman member of
(See STORIES, Page*)
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'i-Baytontai Dies; ' "
Rite Are In Brenham
Funeral services ter Henry C.
Northeast Is
Being Lashed'
By Icy Gales
By |rHK ASSOCIATED PRESS
Icy gales accompanied by sub-,
zero temperatures continued Jo
lash the Northeast today and were
blamed for fire, traffic accident
and boating disaster deaths.
Blasts of arctic winds gent tem-
peratures throughout the area to
record lows in some areas.-Little
relief is promised during th* day.
Temperature*, to New York
State plunged as low as 27 below
zero.
New Year’s j Eve celebrations
were curtailed in many areas by
ravages of gales that gusted as
w~ — much as 80 mile* an hour. At '
district prob- least 20 persons tost their lives
in Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey and Rhode Island.
Ihc Weather Bureau in New
York said it wa* neither the cold-
est nor windiest New Year’s Day
on record. But the bitter cold kept
the Times Square- crowd at mid-
night down to 300,000 — lowest
number to many year* — and
drove celebrators from the area
within nine minutes after th?
New Year. The official.....
was 11 degrees.
Small vessels and tugs were
hapless victims before the gales.
One was reported sunk to Long to<
- ‘ m ■' avini, t I
reported
Island Sound, apparently carrying
nine crewmen to a frigid death.
employe of Humble Oil and Re-
fining Co.’* Baytown Refinery,
were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at
Brenham Memorial Chape!
Emshoff died Sunday. He re-
from Humble to 1946. Em-
joined the labor department
Baytown Refinery in 1920.----------—-
ter worked in the boiler- and death throughout the area
maker and pipe departments be- “ ” ‘ ” *.....
fore becoming a welder.
Burial was to Prairie Lea
— at Brenham
his wife, Mrs.
of Brenham; a
Riedel
•ephews.
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A
Emshoff, 81, of Brenham. retired tore in the aquare at
as,
HU IM'nilI ItllVUKJIUUl UNt
The Coast C >ard was still look
ing for tee 100-fool vessel, -Gwen-
dtyn Steers, apparently down In
Long Island Sound with nine men
aboard. One member of the crew
found frozen in ta lifeboat,
body SK-axcd in ice from
atid ■
HERES JHE FAMILY
BAYTOWN'S NEWEST judge, Justice & ‘he Jimmy Brown, their son; Bta. Martha
Peace M. M. (Eats) Brown of Precinct *, er, their daughter; and WilUnm R.
pores with member, of his fnmily for a their son-in-law. Brown wna formerty
T‘ Mr. and Mr*. Brown and sheriff in Baytown. Mr*. Brown ia the
_ Kay Harper ore seat- connector at Horace Mann Junior “
cd^On the oouch. Standing toft to right are (Baytown
y deputy
'Ms' Brown's New Career Begins
By WANDA tyRTBN—^ In Bsylown to IMS. They clenred fsn*’\d^tion
county. Brown r*
for the sheriff’
By WANDA
,M- M. (Fats) Brown begin the
jiew year with a new career Tues-
day, taking office as Justice of
the Peace of Precinct 3 in Bay
He was sworn in by Judge Ben
Moorchead at 10 a.m. Tuesday in
Fires that inevitably accompany the CivU District Judge’s 11th
cold weather spread destruction ‘
Court.
“I want lo do the best Job that
1 can for tee |*-oPle,’’Brown said
of hi* new duties. The former
deputy sheriff is already widely
known for his civic work, partic-
ularly with the youth of the com-
Pfed Fred Hartman organized
the first youth baseball program
** ■ ■- h
out a vacant lot oq East T<
Avenue to build the baseball dia-
mond and had two teams that
first year,
t “We managed the teams and
worked as umpires, too,” Brown
recalled.
Increased to five teams, ^ by
1966 tee Junior Chamber of Com
Mercf organized the program Into
the Little Learnt. In later years
the Bavtown OptirnW Club eo-
rath baseball to In-
and senior teen-age
larged the
elude Junior
leagues.
meantime
were attracting
M
eluding boys ft
lands. Crosby,
nriview,- Katy
Bombers won
piomhip six y
Brow n has II
and
thp
life. In his
Paris, Tex
Philly
Brown was
Robert
the
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