The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 272, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1964 Page: 2 of 16
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VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM
LASHES TEXAS COASTLINE
ALBeiryFuneral SOUTH VIETNAMESE TRAFFIC ENDS-ALL QUIET
Services Friday
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rain-slick street and overturned firis parts of the upper Texas
Violent thunderstorms and at
Ipast one tornado injured thir-
teen persons on the Gulf Coast
lengthened
cent
A
irmed staling elsewhere.
Houston city bus ran off
during the storm, injuring six
persons. They were treated for
rninor injuries at a hospital.
...Five persons wercJiurt.during ■
a*n a temperatures. the tornado at Keith Lake i
around Sabine Pass, 'and dam-
age was reported heavy. Two
others were .injured when high
winds and rains lashed Groves,
a Port Arthur suburb.
The most intense storm area
centered around Sabine Pass,
where the Coast Guard reported
winds-gustlng .up to 103 miles an
hour. Winds gusted up to 61
di
Funeral
Notices
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Romero of Franklin; one daujht*
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rvicts.
coast this tftoming. The forecast
was tor most upcoming thunder-
shower activity to center
Eqtt. and ..Central-Tfixai. this
evening and later tonight in the
Panhandle. ,. .
Showers Wednesday fell near
Texarkana and Longview and
,23 of an inch at Lufkin. Heavy
rain also briefly flooded parts of
Beaumont.
degrees
of the storm.
P o to e r and communication
failures were common along the
coast for abort .periods of time
TheCoasf Guardrescued a man
from a 16-foot boat being swept
to sea and the crew from an-
other boats were overturned in
the churning waters.
R. T. Ausjjp Said a tornado
[struck his home 10 njilcs West
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were sighted in the area. Gal-
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Houston’s precipitation w ms
1.02 inches at the airport. Gal-
veston recorded .74 of a n inch.
The coastal area is the part
of Texas suffering least from
the seven-week drought. Its veg-
etation is still green, compared
to a dusty Beige of many-other
places. Water restrictions were
impost daily in smaller-towns;
Wednesday was also one of
the hottest days of the year
degrees. ~at- .Jteymouc.
Storm
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Sheet iron, 32 feet long, was
stripped from the building and
crumpled like tinfoil all around
the fair grounds. Tfie roof was
lifted in the storm. The 'rodeo,
arena, however, was not touch-
cdi- A wooden concession stand
by the rodeo arena remained
intact and a string of flags over
the arena were waving gaily
the breeze Thursday mom*
ed.
Funeral services for Albert
Lav ton Berry, 80, of 1230 Pine
who died Wednesday Morning
at his home, were held Friday
afternoon at the Paul U. Lee
Funeral Home.
The Rev. Robert Che.ek. F rat
Baptist Church pastor, Officiat-
ed in the services. Burial was
in Cedar Crest Cemetery.
A retired school custodian,
Berry had lived in Baytown 27
years. He was s native of Mil-
am County.
Berry is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Ela Chambers Berry of
Baytown; two sons, V. L. Ber-
ry Sf Baytown and W. W. Berry
of Taylor; two brothers, S. M.
Berry of Sherman and Willie
Berry of Fort Worth: two sis-
if ijothing had happenei
r the Storm Wednesda
After the storm Wednesday
night the hew Open Door Bap-
tist 6mrch, 1100 Cedar Bayou
Road, will have to start all
over, Mrs. Jack Shanks, a
(jjiith. Ill ...
and 110 at Sulphur Springs and
Wichita Falls sotting the pace. _ _ ...____
ft-was ■ W* 4 c h 1 ta- Falls’ .’12nd ripped atMt ^wntcr -amt
straight day of ovcr-100-degree
from {20,000 to {30,000. The
church was started only three
weeks ago. Cement blocks ex-
tending to the roof were blown
all the way down Wednesday
night. The roof, however, which
was partially finished, was not
damaged. • ■ —
It was a "double blow” for
.the Open Door congregation
whose temporary tent was also
feSsaseifc-—
tent, where-the.members- were nttef ^rviTee
having their services until their uties hervlce
building was completed, was
chairs
j weather.
|' Early this morning, light to
■ moderate showers spread south-.
from east of Waco to Corsicana J,
to near Wills Point. Another iso-
lated light shower moved south-
ward from Ardmore, OWa. :
Strong winds were still batter-
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Pallbearers
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W. L. Ward,
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By MALCOLM W. BROWNE . near normal levelNtf Ih some re-
SAIGOft, South Viet Nam J—**“ *“
(AP) — Air traffic came to
virtual halt throughout South
Viet Nam today as U.S. and
South Vietnamese forces stood
ready to meet any attack from
the Communist North
was that if nothing important
happened In the nexti24 hours
ipon
hoi
the crisis probably Would
'"a* steady shuttle of transport
planes through the nlfeht com-
pleted a buildup of troops and
material in the area adjoining
the North Vietnamese from
Vietnamese and American i
cers in the area were reported
expecting a major attack to-
night.
However, the alert status 1
wh.
Saigon was nowhere near
attack were
Irroat . erandchildren__________• So jar, the grials" in the Gulf
Pallbearers were G. B. Scott, oLTonkin-has producedI no up-
surge in attacks from the Viet
Corig guerrillas in South Viet
Nam. Fighting was reported a~t
A hearing resumed Thursday
on Pasadena's lawsuit to re-
cover some of its records from
the district attorney’s office,
Uifi» A sic w * oaauciio ip
k a asking- more than {200,000 dam-
Nooh'Call StockQuotes
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S32 ™ SHTSXteaS............S,
Allis-Chalmers ............ 20,4
Aluminum Ltd ........... 29U
Amer Cyan ..............67%
Amer Tel.& Tel '••••••.•• 70%
Am Viscose .............. 88H
Anaconda Cop ........... 44%
Armco ................... 73
Ashland Oil .............. 38
At Tp ft SF 3434
Baxter Lab .............. ?4%
Beth Steel
Celanese
fthkx » 2714
‘ -5134
were flying everyhwere, Mrs,
Shanks said, ' V1- -
The church will now start all
over jilst as planned with their
Diamond Aik ............55
DowChcm ............... 6934
ward from Sulphur Spiwgs arid, new construction. The Rev. R
Coots is pastor.
Mrs. David A. Womack, Ce-
dar Bayou - Lynchburg Road,
said-a sandbox in her back
yard was lifted three feet off
the ground and “turned around
;md around until it slammed on
the ground.” A'swing set was),
rturned ixom plefelyv upside
too, she said. A picnic table in
back of toe sandbox was “not
even touched” in the twister,
she said. She added her whole
house was "quivering.”
The roof was blown off the
home of Eugene Prinzel, 111
Bell view Drive, during the
storm.
E. C. (Jack) Kimmons, man-
ager of; Houston Lighting and
Power Co., said electrical dam- Kerr-McGee
age was "pretty widespread.”
We had quite a bit of dam-
age wherever there were
treesr" h* said, “A lot ofdam-
age was in the Country Club
Oaks area, some in Britton-
damage all over town. We think
tool now
During the storm the lights
went out at San Jactoto "Meth-
odist Hospital where doctors
made their patient -rounds with
Tennessee Gas ...........21%
Texas Co .......v....... 80%
Texas Eastern ...........80%
Texas Gulf Prod ..........58%
Texas Gulf Stop ..... 52%
Tidewater ...............32%
Timken .................. 8634
Union Carbide
Un Oil of Calif
United Aircraft
#•••
,49%
.121341
Colgate Palmo .......... 45%
Columbia Gas ........... 2934
Delta Air L 7834
70% OpjoHri Drug
.Xerox
DuPont .................260%
Easthtan Kodak .........12934
El Paso ~ ................. 21 _
Ford ............ #134
Foremost Dairies ...... > 12%
mtt
Gen Elec ............ 83%
Gen Motors ..... 9334
ffeh Tele ............ 38%
Gem Tire ........ 22%
■ ■a.......-5534:
.......... 2734
Goodyear Tire ........... 4434
Greyhound ............... 243s
Gulf Oil . .................58
Gulf States Util ..........46%
Gustin-Bac -............... 2134
II I ft Po ............«..$»%
IBM ...... 44934
Int’l Harv ............... 7734
Int’l Minerals ............® ,4
Int’l Nickel ............- 7734
Jones t Laugh ML
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43%
Liggett^Iyrirs ... • • * 7934
Utton Ind ...............M%
Lockheed ........ 36%
Inula Land -------- - 88 A
Magnavox -----------
MarathcM Oil ............62J4
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Cravens^additooa ancUhen-xome MonsaSM, j.is*Asss»t•’; •* • * .4
dorn nevn nil 4mi ,n IHn tL.nl. Mpf m '
Nat Diet ............... 27%
Newp News .............* 47%
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DRIVE-IN THEATRE
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Two plate-glass windows were
knocked out of Yeager’s Mar-
ket in the Kmart Plaza and a
window was blown out of the
Western Auto store on Texas
Avenue.
Ditches caved in
between Ashbel and Gallia;
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SHOWING ■ j
maintained however for part of
the hospital building.
Telephone trouble Was describ-
ed by E. A. Carabern, district
manager of General Telephone
Co.
Cambern said, “Beeau&f of
wind and rain and' falling lighl
wires, . we........
Pfizer
Philip Morris .....
Royal Dutch ..... v...... 4834
Saleway.....*«#•*••**•• **••••o9-v»
Sears ....................™
SfiicMr .................. 45%
hadf 1,850 pairs^of Ston'ctotf^.......—...... 6434
telephones out of order. We re-
stored about 600 of these last
right and early this morning arid
should have the majority of the
others back in service before to-
night,
the Nottlv Vietnamese attacks,
SS iSSS*p.u£Lis‘5E“
where the city is putting in new acta in Tonkin Gulf represe*t-
water lines. Power lines were
down across Commerce, West
Humble, Graham, Hawthorne,
Barrymore, Jones, Decker
Drive.
A tree fell; in the back yard
of the E. K. Erwin home, '3502
Woodcrest, and Mt the roof of
the home. ”
Mrs. R. B. Morgan, 210 W,
Gulf, declared tfiat it “rained
turkey". Wednesday night. In
the middle Of the storm a great
hie turkey wandered Into the.
Wednesday was
day of thn year so far In Bay.-
tnwn with a high of 101 de-
tnwn A high_______m .... -, ___
grees. When the storm hit thej developments
sjBSSU
Stan Ohio ................ 47%
Brands
the South Korean people "wel-
come and support" Pres
Johnson’s "resolute reaction” to
jiumhh^..4834 is--
51%
U S Steel .................57%
.10834
duction in incidents. pH ... bp**
The government . -reriorted Plovtnce l20 miles southwest of
South Vietnamese forces suf-
fered 108 casunlties during'four
strong Viet Cong attacks in van,
ious parts of the nation W'ednes-
day.
All the Incidents occurred be-
fore the U.S. bombing raids on
North Vietnamese coastal bases
and did not appear ‘related to
the tension in the Gulf of Ton-
kin
Records Lawsuit
> s;
Moorhead is conducting the hear-
ing. The city of Pasadena Is
assisant DA; and Dave F,
Thompson, justice of the peace,
The city also wants the return
of several boxes of city financial
records which were subpoenaed
June 1 at a court of inquiry
Surtray-Mid ..............30% mto Pasadena fiscal affairs in
Syntex ....................65% Judge Thompson’s court.
Last. week the May
grand jury subpoenaed the
term
same
records,
Defendants are expected to
ask 1he court to dismiss the
suit because records are now in
the technical-. custody of the
trand jury, which is not named
n the lawsuiuThe defense also
9134 Is Expected to claim the suit
invalid beeprse Pasadena
Mayor James L. Brammer, who
. signed the pleadings, was not
Del Webb ................ 8% identified in them as the mayor Franklin
Westlnghouse ......^434- of the city and therefore he hasIHbme S
The heaviest action wa* at Ba arrived In Saigon Wednesday to and to be on the lookout for ex-
Ring, a hamlet in Ba Xuyen,
Saigon. A major guerrilla force
smashed through the town’s de-
enses. Ater the fight, 13 de-
fenders were dead, 8 were
wounded and 36 were mis;
Reports from the field
cated no special Viet Cong ac-
uity today. •*
The U.S.-supported South
Vietnamese fotees were 0
around-the-clock alert. All rou-
tine military air traffic was
halted. All leaves except for
emergencies were suspended
for the 16,300 U.S. servicemen
Six U.S. Air Force F102 jet in-
terceptors landed at the bi
coastal base of Da Nag, I
miles from the Communist fron-
ier, sources reported. They
aid five Vietnamese army divi-
sions also were prepared to
ight in the area.
Another six American F102’s
Louisiana Carpenter
Dies In Baytown
George M. Romero, 61, a car-
penter from Franklin, La., work-
aihci ii viii A- I aim HI I, Jua,, nvin-
mg in Baytown during the sum-
mer, died at 12:30 a.m. Thurs-
day at 711 Jones Road where
he was staying.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Irene Romero of Frank-
lin; one daughter, Mrs. Larkin
McKay of Highlands; and his
mother, Mrs. J. M. Uhsworth
of Highlands.
Other survivors Include a
brother, Earl A. Romero of
Highlands; a sister, Mrs. S. G.
Abernathy of Highlands, ;and
four grandchildren. v-..
The body will be shipped to
the Ibert Funeral Home in
no legal cause to file the suit, funeral services,
Earthman Funeral
for Friday
defend the capital. The U.S
Embassy issued security pre-
cautions to Americans in the
form of a "gray alert" after
two bomb Incidents in Saigon,
although neither involved Amer- in
leans.
U.S. personnel were asked to
remain home as much as pos-
sible When off duty, to avoid
large crowds in the city, to take
special precautions in their
choice of public transportation
plosive devices in vehicles.
However, an erpbassy spokesr
man again emphasized that
Last Rites Held For
Charaielview Infant
Funeral services will be held
at 4 pun. Thursday at Earth-
man Funeral Home Chapel for
the infant daughter of Mr. and
Mr*. Stephen Sumpter of 16421
Mrs. Sumpter was Injured in
wreck at noon Tuesday.
Survivor* include a brother,
Michael, and a sister, Susanne.
Other survivor* are grandparv.
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Rost-
rom of Highlands and Mr. and
Mrs. T. L. Sumpter of Channel-
view
Interment will be In Cedar
Crest Cemetery, with the Rev.
Woodrow Nesbit officiating at
graveside services._
there are no plans for evacuat-
ing the 1,900 American civilians
‘ Viet Nam.
Viet Nam’s premier,
Mat. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, ap-
pealed to the nation to unite in
the crisis touched off by North
in., attnnlfc
Viet Nam’s torpedo-boat sttaj
on (J.S. destroyers and the
taliatory American raids.
“'PKn rVxinm
The Communist traitors of
the north, obeying orders from
Red China, have deliberately
set In motion an armed provo-,
cation, opening the way for a
war of aggression in Southeast
Asia of which Viet Nam consti-
tutes the principal objective,’’
fin a bow
By
WASHING!
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tret
lessage of
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cral policies 1
conservative
xn.
When I wa|
this summer,
debating the
sonality of
generally aj
in following
Khanh said in a broadcast
most popular
ry. On thd
history. I
is a powerful
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ident
ed “the kind of firmness that
can raSy the people of South-,
east Asia against Communist
aggression here; and anywhere
else in the world.”
The Manila bulletin said the
United States ’.‘deserves recog-
nition for showing firmness
tempered by restraint In the
face of provocative action.
Australian Foreign Minister
Paul Hasluck said his govern-
ment believe* the American ac-
tion against North Viet Nam
was completely justified. Aus-
rtMrt
SO*) ‘TM&iiiiSi
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wmimm ,g;
a «••«» « * *
Morgans’ yard. Mrs. Morgan
said they didn’t catch it but
“sure wondered where the tur-
key came from. It looked like
it fell from the sky.” •
Ricky W’olfean, son of Dr. and
trallanx newspapers also sup-
ported, the move # and hMlwl
Presidtnt Johnson for hi* ttapti.
yanks
XvlCKy VfOucall, bull vl XJi. aiiu ■ ■-
Mrs/MOTris^Wdfean, 18W(Hhe, J0|5 ■■
raised the top on his converti-
ble. It was left "topless’'park-
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n’s torpedo boats endshore
ed in front of his home during
the storm and was filled with
water-,
It was reported a house trail-
er blew over at the corner of
Waliinrtlle and.....John Martin
installations.
; Th8 United States is consider-
int: bringing in more air power
if it is needed, he said, but
there are-no nlans to increase
ecu* *r mum
I Jr "
—PLUS—
BRIGGET BABDOT
havftug f,«96 recently announced,
White-youngsters
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Pedro Armandarl*
fun Thursday morning crawling
over trees lying in the yards,
their fathers were busy nailing
down wind - blown shingles on
the roofs. .
The rainfall varied in the
area. Only, .30 of ah inch was
recorded at Humble Oil and Re-
while f.63 inches Was gauged
in the downtoM jrea.’_____________
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)
— The United State* has or-
dered two squadrons of fight-
er aircraft into ’DtoRpjd In
connection with the Tonkki
Gulf criato, a U. «. Embassy
spokesman announced today.
military personnel in South Viet,
Nam how number between 16,-
^ 300 and 16,500.
the
U.S. Ambassador IfaweB JP.
touch with
Taylor kept in close touch
developments throughout
Friday
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