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VOL 44, NO. 114
•AffOWN. TEXAS. 77MO
Thursday, March 2, 1947
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2ND ZONING HEARING FRIDAY AT CITY HALL
Incumbents Do Not File-
Only 4 Running
For School Board
School district voters will
■ choos* two trustees from four
candidates in the April 1 elec-
HIE**
** Neither of the incumbents —
Tillman O'Brien nor Boyd Hill
filed for re-election, leaving
four new contenders for the two
positions to be filled.
M The filing deadline was mid-
£ night Wednesday There had
been speculation that Mill would
seek re • election, but he said
. Thursday morning that he did
* not make up his mind "until
the last minute."
HOI gave his reasons for not
running in a statement on Page
7 of Thursday's Sun.
The four contenders for Posi-
tion I, to be vacated by Hill,
and Position 4, to be vacated
by O'Brien, are all newcomers
to school district politics.
Don Wynnemer and James
(Slick) Ellis are running for Po-
sition 1
Champ E. Crawford and Tro>
eterson are running for Posi-
tion 4.
The fact that no other candi-
dates entered the trustee oon-
Cotisin Dies
CARL DAVIS, of Grove, a rela-
five of several Beytonlans, died
WtpttMday in Veteran's Hospi-
tal In Houston. Funeral services
will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at
Grove Baptist Church. Among
his survivors are his cousins,
J, H Tipton, G. M Tulloa, Nora
Brasher, Rex Tullos, Lucy Tip-
ton and Allie Reeves all of Bay
town,
Smlrti Rites Pending
MRS DELLA Sarah Smith, 87, HUMBLE PIONEER Chib mem-
bers will meet for their regular
monthly games party at 7 p.m.
JM
died hi a Jacinto City hospital
Wednesday morning. Arrange-
Rptiti are peaOtig at Carttnnan Friday at Holiday Inn
Funeral ‘Home. Survtvoee in- J
elude her daughter, Mrs. Lucy
M. Mullins of Baytown; three
sons. William H. Smith of Bay
town. Otto S. Smith of Corsi-
cana. and Jack C Smith of
Humble. Fourteen grandchildren
also survive.
I
Texas Exes
BAYTOWN .TEXAS Exes 1
hkue their annual banquet
_ 7J0 p.m. ThuAday at Goose
#CiWt Country club. A social
hour starting at 6:30 p.m. More
than 100 Baytonians are expect-
■ ad to attend the affair.
• ★ ★ ★ '
Weather and Tides
CLEAR TO PARTLY cloudy
and warm through Friday Is
the Baytown area weather
forecast. Temperature range
expected Thursday, 46-7S de
greet.
GALVESTON TIDES Friday
will be low at l:M a-m., high
at 1 p.m. ,
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Toastmasters
BAYTOWN Toastmaiterj
Mill meet at 6:30 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Tower restaurant
Toastmaster for the meeting
win be A1 Sanders. Table topics
chairman will be Jim Fors-
man and Genera] evaluator will
be Bill Smith. Prepared speech-
es will be given .by Jim Dodson
Richard King, Clarence Johnson
and 0. B. Lee.
PioMar Gam«s
Hoffa Must
Serve His
8-Year Term
test means there will be no
runoff. School district and city
officials had been negotiating
for some time in an effort to
reach agreement on the possi-
bility of combining school and
city election.
I The candldstei will draw for
ballot position* at 6 p.m. Thurs-
day at the school administra-
tion building. The school board
also plans to hold a brief meet-
ing at this time.
In announcing that he would
not seek re . election. Hill, one
of the moat controversial
members of the board, said he
would support Wynnemer and
ICnitiM. ' -
Peterson It, supervisor of safe-
ty and training ai Humble Oil
and Refining Cb.'g Baytown Re-
finery. Crawford ia a metal In-
spec tor with Enjay
Co.
Ellis is a life underwriter for
Great Southern Life Insurance
Co., and Wynnemer Is a ataff
advisor In the petroleum labo-
ratory. Esso Research and En-
gineering Cb. .|
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JAMES (SLICE) ELLIS
DON WTNNEMEB
nor PETERSON
CHAMP E. CRAWFORD
4 * * *
Contractor, Trustees Disagree—
Sterling High Bill 'Held Up
Public Invited For
Questions, Answers
Caimkhael Can't
Attend Highway
146 Meet Friday
The death of Ross Scott, ■
tired Texas Highway Depart-
hMtit HKpioye now living
Jacksonville, will prevent Dts-
Wet rmfcmi Wiley E. car-
mlchael from attending* the
Highway 146 luncheon here
roon Friday at Holiday Inn.
Carmichael will t* In Jackson-
ville at Scott’s funeral. Scott
was formerly maintenance sup-
ervisor for Carmichael’s dis-
trict .
John Smith, a Carmichael aide
with the assognmen» of design
engineer, will represent Car-
michael at the luncheon here
and will taka ’a report of the
meeting back to the head man.
"I will come to Baytown
soon ss you want me to meet
wtth your highway group on
these problems, but in the mean-
time you can get my feelings
direct from Smith," Carmichael
said at noon Thursday. |
There will be representatives
communities along Highway
Me as well as municipal officials
and Harris and Chambers Coun-
By JOHNELLA BOYNTON
A misunderstanding between
some members of the aehool
Qiemtcal board and the contractor at
Raas Sterling High School has
resulted in delay of a final pay-
ment to the contractor,
The difference in question tot-
als a little more than $1,000
So far, the school is *5,841 un-
der Its original contract price
of *3.13 million.
The contractor, Spaw . Glass
Inc., has requested additional
payments of *3.289.90, but has
offered a credit of *1.936, mak-
ing the difference *1,363.90.
If the bill is paid the school
district would still be *4,458.90
to the good on the contract.
But some members of the
board apparently feel that one
Of the request* for additional
In payment — a bill of *1,296 for
TEARLIE WOLCOTT about
beat the "bug’’ she’* been suf-
fering from.. .Elizabeth Schiller Ms trial here in 1964, would
takes over a new Job.
schel Nead gives out a list of eight-year term before becom-
m
committee aslgnments .. . Nor-
ma Cox tries to straighten out
some information and coordinate
a lot of other reporter * effort*
.., Mrs! John Nesselrode brings
ir. a photo.
Margaret Speldel, Cleta Black-
wood and Jenni« Osterhaus are
busy learning a new cralt Idea
... Annelle Lovering is busy with
decoupage . . . Mrs. J. C. Mc-
Caleb and Mrs. John B. Wheeler
almost get "stood up”.
Lanay Simmon* celebrates an
anniversary with cake, coffee
and friends.
Martha Jones and Helen
Chamblee busy with plan* for a
forthcoming Eastern Star tea
a • • jvii •• mat y »m wv
lighted Thursday morning over
the return of her Siamese cat
, . . Francis Portis doe* some
planning ahead . . . Winnie
Brown back at her office after
a principals’ conclave.
Eddie Cox makes a visit to
The Sun office to spread some
cheer.
SEE HOUSTON
LIVE STOCK SHOW
AND RODEO
CITIZENS NATIONAL
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP)
- U.S. Dist. Judge Frank W.
Wolson has ordered James R.
Hoffa, Teamsters Union presi-
dent, to appear here Tuesday
morning to begin serving an
eight-year prison term for Jury
tampering.
Less than an hour before Wil-
son announced his decision
Wednesday Hoffa designated
Frank E. Fitzsimmons, genera]
vice president of the union since
last July, as his successor.
Wilson's move came after he
denied Hoff as request for con-
tinuance of his *75,000 bail pend- ty at the luncheon,
mg disposition of a new trial
motion. Attorneys for Hoffa,
who took over the 1.8-mWion-
member labor organization aft-
er Dave Beck, long time Team-
sters president, was handed a
15-year sentence in 1958 for
stealing union funds, said Wil-
son’s order "more than likely"
would be appealed.
However, when asked if the
legal maneuver would again
delay the start of Hoffa’* sen-
tence, P.D. Matkos, an attorney
of Washington replied: ”1 doubt
Hoffa, 54, who also was hand-
ed a *10,000 fine at the end of
installation of vtnyt covered ceti- quest, he said.
tng trim — Is not Justifiable
The misunderstanding seems
to have occurred because of ■
oral agreement between the con-
tractor and member* of
board.
The board, on an Inspection
trip earlier this year, kwked
samples of (rim and decided on
t)» vinyl tile. The difference of
opinion is whether the contrac
tor said there would be no addi-
tional cost at all or whether he
Indicated that there would
no nddttitioMl cost in Miorl
The MB of $1,298 represent*
cost of materials only and does
not include labor or profit, Archi-
tect James A. Davi* told
school board Monday night. The
contractor's original request was
(or *2,070, but
tinop to material Ad method
o. Installation reduced the re-
Powell Is In Bimini
Bemoaning Ouster
have to aerve one-third of
Ing eligible for parole. And the
federal Landrum. Griffin Act
would prohiblt Jiim from holding I
further union office after hi* I
release. '
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thei Clayton Powell." Oilier told
House has barred Adam Clayton reporters. “I’d take the case to
Powell, It* moat controversial court right away. I think he’a
and flamboyant figure — but got a good esse."
may have trouble making the And Rep. Arch A. Moore Jr.,
ban stick. the West Virginia Republican
While the Harlem preacher who fought alongside Oeller for
relaxed at his Bahamian fishing adoption of the censure propox-
retreat at Bimini, his attorneys al, referred reporters to his
termed Wednesday’s action of statement midway through' the
the House "unconstitutional." five-hour debate: “If we turn
They raised the threat of a fed- him out. his* constituency will
era! court suit to overturn It turn him back with an even
The House Itself may have to greater majority.” ■
deal with the matter again, per- The galleries were packed but
haps within two months. A spe- orderly. Although Powell, 58,
cial election will be held to fill was absent, his lawyers were
Powell's seat and there Is every there. They listened Intently but
likelihood he again will be elect- left when the outcome became
ed to fill the post he has held 22 clear,
years. Later, they issued a terse ^
“It will come back to haunt statement through Powell's of-
the House,” said Rep. Emanuel flee which said: "Within a few
Oeller, the venerable New York days an announcement will be
Democrat, after the House re- made by or on behalf of Mr.
jocted 222 to 202 the re com- Powell as to any future course
mendatlon of his select commit- of action.”
tee to seat the Negro Democrat The House floor was hushed
with a stiff censure, a $40,000 during most of the debate, al-
assessment and the loss of all though at one point the hum of
seniority. . conversation rose so much that
The action also rejected lead- presiding Rep. Hugh L. Carey,
TVM V rAmlrolA^ momhart '
from both parties, who D-N.Y.,
had backed the committee ac- "Gentlemen, we’re voting on -
tion, and led to the final ouster matter involving'decorum in the
307 to 116.
"If I were representing Adam the House.”
Davis recommended th« bill handbook. The anchors are call-
be paid, but he had reservation*
about paying a bill of *633.90
submitted for installation o( steel
the angles to hold down iteel bar
Joists at certain areas.
Davis said the Joist hold down
anchors were not on the original
drawings but were' Included
specifications which referred to
the code of the American In-
stitute at Steel Construction
Sun Presents
Fashion Edition
-. i
The Baytown gun’s second
section Thursday Is devoted to
the outlook lor spring tank Ions
an the Texas Gulf Canal end
right hare la Baytown.
Women's News Editor Mar.
fka Ana Hemphill sad her as-
sociates, \1ckJ Hutchinson and
Uada Ferrell, have coordl
anted several news source*,
including personal Interviews,
to preseat a complete picture
of the spring fashion task.
Pictures were mad* tor the
cover right la The Saa's new
ed far in the handbook, he said.
Later an, working drawings
were made which Included the
anchors, he said. But the con-
tractor had not figured (hem in
his bid, and hence the request
for additional payment, he said.
Board President Seth Mitchell
recommended that all the re-
quests for additional payments
be honored because coat of the
actual work was winding up
within .2 of one per cent of the
original contract
Trustee Boyd Hill objects to
paying the additional coat for
ceiling trim. Tillman O'Brien,
Mrs. Karl W. Opryshek and Bob
Wahrmund seem to want addl-
ttotiMMormstioa bateau —to
HtotofeS
Sam Alford and Paul
l arktoM M that tot aatoto
Mil should be paid. '
The contractor's otner re-
quests for additional payments
include *610 for welding and *200
for engineering connected with
the welding, for *370 for the in-
sinuation of two additional out-
side bells, tor $176 for addi-
tional electrical work.
The credit for $1,936 ia for 704
cubic yard* of top soil to the
school district for furnishing
four Inches of sandy loam top
soil on the football field.
ing up their
Mitchell. Sa
A second public hearing on
city zoning ordinance proposed
by th« Baytown Planning and
Zoning Commission will be held
at 7 p.m. Friday al city hall
All Interested persons art In-
vited to attend, state their
view* and ask question*
Lary Hate, commit*ton chair-
man, will moderate the meet-
ing. which will be an open for
urn type. He said he hoped the
turn . out would be as good as
It was at the first public hear-
ing In January.
Those particularly urged to at-
tend the meeting by members
at the commission are citizens
and property owners who have
suggestion* and advice regard-
ing the tentative zoning ordi-
nance already submitted.
"W# are attempting to write
an ordinance which would be
particularly adapted to Bay
town's needs," Hate emphasized,
"and all statementa of citizen*
will be recorded on tape at the
meeting, transcribed and given
to members of the zoning com-
mission tor study and consider
ation."
Explaining the zoning ordi
nance, suggested by the city's
planning consultant*, Bernard
Juhnson Engineers of Houston.
Hale said it would establish resi-
dential, commercial'and Indus-
trial areas of the city if enacted
Section* of the city, most
adaptable for any one of these
iet, have been designat-
ed on a zoning map, giving a
wide scope and area to ail three
Hail asked that any property
vner not satisfied with the
original zoning of hi* property
fill out a form available at the
city manager’s office to present
to the commission.
The form, specifying whether
an owner want* his property to
be commercial or residential, is
to be completed according to the
legal description of the tract
of land on the deed wtth block
and tot number, at well «* the
street address noted.
Not only did the experts who
designed the ordinance consider,
water, sewage, garbage handl-
ing and disposal, streets, drain-
age, public facilities, such as
the municipal buildings; electri-
cal ordinances, bulldii* ordi*
nances, subdivision ordinance*,
traffic flow and pattern, narks,
and recreation, atrporrwatb,
and an over - all oomptet* study
of the fommuntty, they ateo
took the Jong view, wtth thought
as to how the ordinance would
affect the city within th* next
2S yean, Hate explained.
"This zoning program," Hate
commented, "to actually a pro-
tective measure to both resi-
dent* and business."
It would assure a residential
property owner that his proper-
ty value* would not decline be-
cause of commercial buikhia*
In their area. It would aasufe a
businessman that txMintsar*
would be established in com-
mercial instead of residential
area*. Hale explained.
He said that although restric-
tion* are act up tn some subdl-
vteiona, this teats a certain peri
(8*» HEARING, Fags t)
Rev. Henckell Will Be
Jaycee Speaker Friday
Rev. P. Walter Henckell will vatsing service clubs urging
be guest speaker at the Junior
Chamber of Commerce's annual
Distinguished Service Awards
Banquet slated for 8 p.m., Fri-
day at the Tower. Rev. Henc
•<eli, a long - time resident of
Baytown and active in civic and
service organizations, is pastor
' Trinity Episcopal Church.
'Dm Nolan, originally schedul-
‘ to speak, will be unable
appear.
The affair will begin at 7 p.m
with a social hour and will be
followed by the banouet at
p.m. R. L. (Bob) Gillette will
be in charge of the program as
master of ceremonies.
Highlight will be the presenta-
[r tion by Jaycee Preaident
a Haddox of the DU
Service Award to Baytown's Out-
maximum attendance and sup-
port. Tickets, $4 donation, are
available to the public at
O'Brien’s, Gray . Hall Pharm-
acy and Gregory's, or may be
IHirchased at the door.
MARVIN CECIL BOBBITT
iaytown Resident
44 Years Is Dead;
lites Set Friday
Marvin Or 11 Bobbitt. 61, of
101 Fleetwood, a resident of Bay-
town 44 yean, died at 6:30 a.m.
Thursday In a hospital here.
He wa* the father of M Cecfl
Bobbitt, well-known Baytown ac- .
roununt
The elder Bobbitt was employ-
ed at Humble’OO and Refining'
Co.'a Baytown Refinery 34 yean.
He retired in 1960. He had been „
in ill health about a year.
Me was active worker in Mem-
orial Bapttet Church of which
he was a member.
He Is survived by hte widow,
Mrs. Pearl Bobbitt and one
acn. M. Cecil Bobbitt, both of
Baytown; three brothers, Hu-
bert, Manuel and Marshall Boh-
bltt, all of Dallas; two sisters,
Mr*. Lite Moon and Mn Alice
Haynes, both of Ben Wheeler,
Tex.; two grandsons, Barry
Bobbitt of Austin and Randy
Bobbitt of Baytown.
Funeral services will be held
at 4 p.m. Friday at Earth man
Funeral Home Chapel, with the
Rev. A. L. Jordan, pastor of
Memorial Baptist Church, offi-
ciating.
Interment trill be in Memory
Gardens of Baytown Cemetery.
How* — there if no (tecohjm in j5S3*n*SE--«
The DSA committee, headed
b> Dave Bloom, ha« been can-
JAMF.S HOFFA
Cedar Bayou Students
Ready For The 'Fair1
Youngster* at Cedar Bayou Mrs. Douglas Stewart
Junior High School, at least 35
of them from »the seventh and
eighth grades, are busily pre-
paring for their Science Fair
which is scheduled from 2 to
Mrs. "Mary Ohlsson Is de- 4 p.m. on Thureday, March 9.
Most of the students, accord
ing to their teachers, have their
(See Picture#, Page 11)
projects completed or near com-
pletion.
One of the largest number of exhibits parents and guests wifi
1505 Southwood.
Vicki's project involves two
mice. It U a nutritional level
which, shows what the lack
vitamins will da
Douglas is interested in rock-
ets and missiles. Hi* experiment
concerns a working model rock-
et, which by application of bat-
tery energy, he can make slm
late a large rocket.
These are two of the
entries registered are from Mrs.
Odls Mucnnlnk's seventh grade
class.
Two of these students, who
have been interested in science
and project* for several years,
are Vicki Badgiey, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Travis Badgiey
310 Midway, and Douglas
I Stewart Jr., the son of Mr. and at Sterling High School
see at. the Cedar Bayou fair
March 9.
The top four winners from
each of the four divisions, bio-
logical sciences, physical sci -
ences, earth sciences and mathe-
matics, will display their ex -
hiblts as finalist# In the regular
Baytown Science Fair March 16
Sterling Play
ROSS’ STERLING High School s
drama department wt) present
"The Great Sebastians," jfl
three-act comedy-melodrama, at
7:30 p.m. Friday in the high
school auditorium. Ticket* will
be available at the door. The
public is invited.
MAKING BANQUET PLANS
MEMBERS OF THE Chamber of Commeree
Banquet Committee dlteas# final plans for the
annual event scheduled for March to. Guest
speaker will be R. Heath Lurry, executive
rice president and vice preaident of the board
of V. 8. Steel. Those making arrangements
for the affair are Preston Miller, Mrs. Flora
Wilhite, Dave Moore, Robert Saute and Perry
W. Britton, chairman.
u Community Chest Annual Meet Monday
• Contributors to the Baytown Five will R- 4a**„ *v.„, « i *%._ «ut,Uiiw_ — ——*- *,
RELAX, BABYI
ADAM CLAYTON Powell, the Harlem preacher, is relaxing
in hia Bahamian fishing retreat at Bimini pondering his
next move after being ousted from the House Wednesday.
His lawyers raised the threat of a federal court suit to ever*
toot hte unseating.
Community Chest fund drive will
have an opportunity to hear re-
ports from all the Red Feather
agencies and to participate in
election* at the Chest’s annual
public meeting set for 7:30 p.m
Monday at the Chamber of
Commerce building.
Dr. Max Mosesman, Commun-
Chest chairman, said the
public ia urged to attend. ’!Any-
one who attends is eligible to
vote,” he pointed out.
Dr. Mosesman said there will
be elections tor new members
Welfare League Board. The Wel-
and officer* to the Community fare Board, also a 15 • member
Chest Board, the Welfare League group that serves three - year
and the Health League. In addi-
tion, the Red Feather agencies
will report on their operations
in the past year-
be ejected to thei Nominees for the
Chest 15 member Board ar* Earl Lively, M. C
Rushing, R. R. Wame, C E
Httlepage, Ed Summers, R. M.
Cheek, Joe Brock, Clay Hooper,
B. L. Ward, Blair Mann, Jack
Arvin and Levcster Smith,
Nominee* for the Health
League, which will have
new member tor a three - year
term on a three - man board,
are Dr. Karl Opryshek, Dr. H.
W. Kilpatrick, and Dr. H. O
Sappingtnn.
Other balloting will include a
chairman for the Chest for one
year. Nominees are Lee Bras-
field, John Coates, the Rev.
Burnette Dowler, Clyde Messiah
and Ed Vaught
Nominated for a one • year
Community
board for, three • year terms
Candidates are Jack Tyler,
Byron Bailey, Fred Adams, T.
H, Gaiphln, Richard Strahan, R.
E. Pennington, Marvin Gillespie,
Dr. A. K. Morris, L. J. Marsh.
E. C Wood, Marilyn Under and
F. G. Turpin.
Robert Barnes, chairman of
the nominating committee, said
eight are to be elected from a
field of 12 candidates for the
terms, has had three of its mem-
ben to move out of town in
addition to those five whose
term* expire this year.
lian R is her and Miss Odena
Childers.
The meeting will be conduct-
ed by Dr. Mosesman as chair-
man.
Agency reports will be pre-
sented by Baytown Opportunity
School and Sheltered Workshop,
Welfare League, Thrift Ex-
change, Health League, Child
Care Centers, YMCA, Crippled
Childrens Society, Boy Scouts,
and Girl Scouts.
Join the parade to the 4th
Annual White flate At
THAO FELTON
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