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Vol. 47, No. '238
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 4224302
Tuesday, June 24,1968
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
Ten Cents Per Copy
Officials Continue Search For Victims Of Miami Plane Crash
Tickets On Sale
TICKETS ARE still available for
the Thursday night performance
of the Baytown Little Theater’s
production of “The Moon
Blue.” The performance is being
sponsored by the American
Association of University'
Women. Tickets may be pur-
chased from Mrs, Pat Mann at
422-540<f or from Mrs. Robert
Kelley at 424-5956- Tickets will
also be sold at the door.
Gun Club Meeting
GULF COAST Gun Club will
have its regular meeting at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday at the Chamber of
Commerce Building.
Billfold Found
MRS. BOBBIE Hughes found a
billfold on Bowie Street Monday.
The owner may claim by iden-
tifying. Mrs. Hughes can be
contacted at the Civic Center at
427-7477.
MIAMI (AP) — A DC4 cargo
plane with an engine ablaze
roared into a busy street Mon-
day, cutting a four-block swath
of flaming destruction.
Ten persons were killed. One
building was destroyed, eight
damaged. Flames and flying de-
bris destroyed or damaged 42
cars and trucks.
A police spokesman estimated
the over-all property loss at
about $1 million.
The known dead included the
plane’s four crew members and
six persons on the ground. An-
other dozen were injured.
Hours after the crash, a half
mile northeast of Miami Inter-
national Airport, rescue work-
ers probed the smoldering
wreckage and rubble for more
bodies. %
“We’re sure there will be
more," said Police Lt. James
Reese.
A Red Cross worker said he
believed there were at least two
more bodies in the debris.
The Dominicans Air Lines
craft was attempting to circle
back to the airport from which
it had just deputed, one of its
four engines was out and a sec-
ond was smoking.
Maxine Burmester’s televi-
sion winked out at 3:40 p.m. as
the plane sheared power lines a
block and a half from the apart-
ment building where she lives
and bounced off a roof top.
“It was coming at a terrific
speed," she said. “I couldn’t
move before it hit.”
A wing struck the comer of
the Burmesters’ apartment
building about a dozen feet from
where she sat.
The plane crumpled the second
story of a medical center,
skipped over a bakery, plowed a
furrow in the roof of the next
building, took the corner off an
auto transmission shop, knocked
over the pumps of a gasoline
station, and slammed burning
into Charles Knapp’s auto body
shop, killing four persons in the
shop.
Pieces of the plane and debris
from the building were scat-
tered over a wide area.
One engine demolished a car 20
yards down busy 36th Street.
Other pieces sailed 50 to 100
yards farther.
The plane spewed burning
fuel from its own tanks and
more flaming gasoline poured
from the ruptured service sta-
tion pumps. It took firemen half
an hour to bring the fires under
control.
Two persons were killed in the
street.
Mrs. Burmester’s husband
Edward had just left the Knapp
shop and was in his back yard
about 40 feet from the rear of
the building when the plane hit.
He ran to the front of the shop
where he said he saw Knapp
staggering near the wreckage
“all broke up.”
Burmester said Knapp asked:
“Am I the only one to get out?
Have you seen my boys? Have
you seen my boys?"
Knapp’s sons Clyde, 17, and
Clifford, 15, were among the
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Civic Association----------
LAKEWOOD CIVIC Association
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
at the Lakewood Club House. All
members are invited to attend to
discuss plans for the coming
year.
Rotary Meeting
BAYTOWN ROTARY Club’s
annual officer installation party
will begin with a social hour at 6
p.m. Tuesday at the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Lee Liggett, 1 Bay
Villa. Dinner will be at 7 p.m.
There will be no noon meeting
Wednesday.
Our World
Today
ibomap wmu
+ Metal trades unions,
meeting in Angleton, reject a
contract offer from the
Chemical Co. amj
Chemical Co. by a
vote.
+ The government admits tl
FBI changed — without in-
forming the Justice Department
— a recorded log of wiretapped
conversations Involving former
heavyweiiht champion Cassias
Vocational Equipment
Given Okay By Board
Will Aid
Expander
Programs
TARS SET ACTIVITIES
TARS Meeting
BAYTOWN TARS will meet
from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday
at the Roseland Park Pavilion.
Anyone interested in joining
Teens Aid the Retarded is in-
vited to attend the meeting or
may call Joan Teter at 424-5829
for further information.
Bookmobile Spots
BOOKMOBILE, sponsored by
Sterling Municipal Library and
the Baytown Service League,
will be at 1900 W. Texas Ave. at
9:30 a.m. Wednesday and
front of the washateria on Clyde
Drive in Archia Courts at 10:30
a.m. Wednesday.
OFFICERS OF TARS, a group of teenagers who
help retarded children, plan the activities of
their next meeting with their sponsor, Mayor
Glen Walker. The youths donate their free time
to visit and entertain retarded children in the
Baytown area. Left to right, back row, are Mike
Gray, Anna Clements, Roxanne Clarke and
Mayor Walker. Melanie Bains and Steven
Rosenbaum are sitting at the desk.
Commissioners Court
Delays PowerLine Vote
-(-Senate Critics of President
Nixon’s missile defense
program charge ad-
ministration officials with
redefining thp Soviet nuclear
potential to support their
arguments for the Safeguard
missile system.
+ A group of 100 students
who call themselves
“squares” launch a meeting
they hope will lead to
development of measures to
prevent campus take-overs
next fall.
+ NoCh Vietnamese troops
attack U. S. Marines who will
he among the first 25,000
American soldiers withdrawn
from Vietnam.
CB Baptist
A YOUTH-LED revival will
continue, through Wednesday at
Cedar Bayou Baptist Church, H
-witiL services scheduled at
a m. and 7:30 p.m.
On Critical List
JOHN L. ADAIR of Baytown is in
critical condition at
Methodist Hospital in Houston
and cannot have visitors,
salesman with Courtesy Ford
Co., he was a patient at Gulf
Coast Hospital for the past two
weeks.
purchase in the downtown cerning the beality contests,
PFC CHARLES WATERS, son
of Mrs. Bertha Waters
Highlands, is serving in Korea in
the Army . . . Ann Hill busy
painting a car . . . Mrs. E. K.
Echols finds a Dallas Morning
News clipping, dated March 12,
1938, which reminded her of the
current news in Port Neches.
This Dallas story was about a
photo taken in a garden in which
an image of Christ appeared.
Mrs. Jim Boone and children,
Kenneth and Martha, of
Tuscaloosa, Ala., visit her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B
O’Brien ^r. and Edwin G. Davis
Sr.
Mrs. Lois Steadham of Mont
Belvieu is visiting her son,
Wilbie Ray Steadham, who has
undergone eye surgery in
Virginia. Wilbie, a former Mont
Belvieu resident, trains Arthur
Godfrey’s horses and has ap-
pealed with Godfrey on
television. His address is Beacon
Hill Farm, Paeoian Spring, Va.
HOUSTON (Sp) - Harris
County Commissioners Court
has ppstponed a showdown vpte
on a request by Houston Lighting
and Power Co. for a 340-foot
easement to run overhead lines
carrying up to 345,000 volts of
electricity through the middle of
Albert Deussen County Park.
County Commissioner V. V.
Ramsey told the court Monday
that light company officials
think the lines would help
blackout in the
Baytown-Houston area such as
occurred in New York a few
years ago.
Ramsey said the company
wants the easement for an ex-
tension between its Cedar Bayou
generating plant, now under
construction near Baytown, and
its Greens Bayou generating
plant in northeast Houston
connect the generators and
serve other areas as well.
Deussen Park, on the shores of
Lake Houston, is in Com-
One WeekRemainsTo
Save Auction Bucks
You still have over a week to
save those “auction bucks” for following the auction, the
merchandise to be auctioned off beauty contest finals will be
at 6 p.m. July 3 in the downtown
merchants special promotion
Money will be no good at the
auction — just the special named
auction bucks. For every $1
stores, the purchaser is entitled
to a 81 auction buck.
Merchandise to be auctioned
off includes a blanket and be sidewalk artists and special
matched sheets, luggage.., a
transistor radio, a lamp, cuff
links and tie pin, a watch, a golf
bag, a |50 savings bond and a
charcoal grill.
All items to be auctioned are
now on display in the lobby of
Citizens National Bank.
Participating merchants in the
auction include Penney’s,
Morrison Furniture Co., Carl’s
Mep Shop, Famous Brand Shoes,
Town House Furniture Co.,
Beall’s, Gregory’s for Men,
Kovar’s, First National Bank,
Sears, Moore’s Shoe Store, Tri-
City Pharmacy, Courtesy Ford,
Black’s Drugs, Inc., Merle
Norman Cosmetics, Whitcomb’s,
Paine Brothers, The Cage, The
Bopk Stall, W. M. House
Jewelry, Anderson Shoe and
Saddle Repair, Minute Man
Drive In, Robson’s Jewelry,
Drew’s, Wilkenfeld Furniture
and Scarborough's Drug
Store.
There’s more happening
besides the auction on that day.
There will be a beauty contest
for five to 10-year-olds from 10 to
11 a.m. and a contest for 17 to 23-
year-olds from 2 to 3 p.m.
At 7:30 p.m. immediately
held and Little Miss Baytown
Retail Merchant and Miss
Baytown Retail Merchant will b?
For more information con-
contact Mrs. Mary Lynne Johns
at 422-7217.
There’s even more. There will
sales by the downtown
chants all day July 3.
mmm&mm
missioner Ramsey's precinct.
Only Commissioner W. Kyle
Chapman indicated he would
vote with Ramsey in support of
the request. County Judge Bill
Elliott, Commissioner Bill
Elliott and Commissioner E. A.
(Squatty) Lyons expressed
opposition
But the court postponed a vote
on the proposal until Ramsey
can get a light company
representative to tell the court
why the line has to be run
through the park.
Judge Elliott said the New
York blackout has been used as
an excuse for “everything.’
Commissioner Elliott, a
frequent foe of what he calls
excessive local power rates, said
the company had plenty of
money and could easily route the
lines outside the park.
“I don’t know why they want to
come through the park unless
they can get it cheaper than from I Zealand
someone else,” Judge Elliott
said. ,
+ Egyptian commandos slip
+ U. S. nuclear missile
production has been halted for
perhaps the rest of this year
because of a crippling fire at
the Atomic Energy Com-
mission plant in Rocky Flats,
Col.
+ The Justice Department
threatens an antitrust suit if
InternatloUl Telephone A
Telegraph Corp. and Hartford
Fire Insurance Co. go ahead
with their planned 88 billion
merger.
+ Former newspaper
columnist Westbrook Pegler
dies in Tucson, Aril., at the
age of 75.
+ Houston oil operator
Kenneth Franzheim, 43, is
named by President Nixon to
be U.S. ambassador to New
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he did not think the lines “would faltte ^ Unlelil light
• give us any trouble at all’’- j anM ^ grenades,
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By JOHNELLA BOYNTON
The school board has approved
the purchase of about $83,000 in
vocational equipment to be used
next year in Ross Sterling’s and
Robert E. Lee’s expanded new
vocational programs.
The equipment will be paid for
on a 50-50 basis by the school
district and the federal govern-
ment through funds
ministered by the vocational
department of the Texas
Education Agency.
Recommendation to purchase
the equipment was made to the
school board Monday night by
Supt. George H. Gentry. Gentry
said the purchase had to
approved by June 30 to qualify
for state-federal participation,
He said participating funds were Means,” Ford said,
made available to the school
district earlier this month
•Close Vote Seen-
Surtax Extension Due
First House Floor Test
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep,
Gerald R. Ford, House Republi-
can leader, expressed confi-
dence today that the House will
vote to extend the income sur-
tax.
After GOP leaders in the
House and Senate met with
President Nixon, Ford told
newsmen that at least 130 Re-
publican members would vote
for the extension, which he be-
lieved would come before the
House Wednesday.
“I am confident that with the
cooperation of the Democrats
there will be more than
be enough votes to put the surtax
through as it came out of the
Committee on Ways and
tore June 30, the dateit i
pire.
He said Congress would have
to pass a continuing resolution
until the Senate can take action
on the measure.
The Democratic leadership
made final checks Monday and
seemed to be satisfied the
House Rules Committee would
vote the bill out on a “closed
rule” basis, which means
straight yes or no vote, with no
amendments considered.
Surtax opponents contemplate
challenging the “closed rule,”
but they have been putting their
main pmphmig on defeating the
measure. Earlier, House liber-
als had attempted to persuade
the committee to allow a vote
by a split committee vote,
would continue the tax at 10 per
ceht for six months and five per
cent for another six months.
The tax expires June 30 unless
extend^.
If the effort to defeat the no-
amendment rule fails, oppo-
nents then must work to defeat
the measure outright. Passage
depends on solid Republican
support plus a generous slice of
the Democratic majority.
Rep. Charles A. Vanik, D-
Ohio, opposes the bill and he
has written to all House Demo-
crats that the measure must be
killed to force quicker action on
general tax reform.
The Nixon bill will pass, said
(See SURTAX, Page 2)
Purchasing Agent. David fidence that fe Senate wotdd
Sherron said bids were prepared
on June 11, hand delivered
pass the surtax extension after
the House takes its action but
Garland Death
Not Due To
Pills-Police
LONDON (AP) - Reports
bidders on June 12 and opened on doubted it would go through be-1$
June 18.
Trustees questioned a few
discrepancies in acceptance of
the bids, which Sherron said
reflected the haste in which they
had been prepared, and
authorized the administration to
make the purchases subject to
more detailed study in cases
where there was some doubt if
the low bid had been accepted.
Some 10 firms shared in the
award. Participation of the
federal-state funds is expected to
save-the district more than
841,000 of the 890,000 that had
been ailocate<r in the district's
Officials To Open
School Work Bids
# The new addition to the Administration Building will provide A;
for a new board room, new offices and an extension of the #
budding program for vocational
equipment at the high schools -
a shot in the arm to financing
needs as the district nears the
end of the bidding phase of the
87.7 million bond program.'
The equipment will be used in
cosmetology, vocational building
trades, vocational machine shop
and welding and vocational auto
mechanics courses at Robert E.
1*4 to vocational machine
shop, vocational auto mechanics
and vocational welding at Ross
Sterling High School.
Architect James A. Davis
(See BOARD, Page 2)
Bids are to be opened at 4 p.m. Thursday on a 4,330-square- #
foot addition to the School Administration Building and a one- :£
story library addition at Baytown Junior School containing |
2,400 square feet of floor area.
Both projects are to be constructed under the school#
speculating that Judy Garland district’s 87.7 million bond program now drawing to a con- §
may have died from an g elusion of the bidding phase. Some 880,000 has been allocated g
overdose of sleeping pills are I# for the addition to the Administration Building and 836,000 for »
pure rubbish,” a Scotland ft the new junior school library. Both have been designed by#
Yard spokesman says. A $ Architect James A. Davis. J/
coroner has ordered an inquest
Wednesday into the death of
the 47-year-old star. k business office.
Police said Monday there ft Both structures are to have concrete slab foundation, drilled #
were a number of pills In the ft footings, steel framing, vinyl asbestos and carpet floors and £
singer’s home when Miss # acoustical tile ceilings. The contract includes plumbing,#
Garland was found dead in her ft electrical work, heating, ventilating and air conditioning,
bathroom Sunday. Die pills | The school district is also due to receive new bids for con- #
nowhere .near the body ft struction of 20 educational television systems, lo be located at £
but have been taken to Scot-ft 19 schools and the Administration Building, at 3 p.m. Thur- £
sday. The school board failed to accept previous bids on the #
I# systems. New specifications were subinitted for the second %
# round of bids excluding electrical/Work, in an attempt to £
S whittle costs. * #
land Yard for examination,
officers said.
Police doctors performed aa
autopsy Monday but did not
dbchwe the results.
“As of this moment nobody
died from, nor will we until we
know the results of the
autopsy,” s police spokesman
said.
• • Board Calls Meeting
Baytown Youth Finland-Bound In AFS Program
School Chief Could
Be Named Next Week
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By ALAN McWHORTER
Ted Watson, 17-year-old son of Dr. and
Mrs. A. T. Watson, left Sunday for Finland as
a summer student in the American Field
Service program.
. Ted will spend three days in New York City
and then fly to Brussels for three days of
briefing before joining a host family in
Finland the early part of July. He will return
to Baytown the first week in September to
enter Robert E. Lee High School as a senior.
Ted left Houston Intercontinental Airport
Sunday, not knowing where or who his host
family in Finland Would be. When his mother
returned from the airport, a special delivery
letter was on the door with the information
Ted had waited for. He will hear about It
Tuesday night when he calls home.
Ted’s host family is the George Wallgren
family in Helsingfors, Finland, near
Helsinki. George Wallgren is a physician,
and the family will be spending most of the
time during Ted’s visit at its sufnmer home
on an island.
There are four children in the Wallgren
family. The oldest boy, 18, and his parents
speak English. Surprisinglyr Swedish ii
spoken in the home. Ted has been attempting
to study Finnish for several weeks to help
him with the language barrier. • . ■
After a month’s stay with the Wallgrens
Ted is to go for a month to Mikkeli, a board-
ing school about 60 miles from the Russian
border. There he will study from a course
selection of English, Swedish, Finnish,
Russian, mathematics, chemistry, physics
and international politics. About 110 students
attend the school during the summer months.
Ted is also to participate in student
discussions in English at the school.
For his summer trip, Ted was allowed only.
44 pounds of luggage for the two-month stay.
That included all his needs for the trip except
personal articles — including a guitar - he
carried aboard the plane.
Ted’s family pays 8750 for his expenses and
he was allowed to carry 880 spending money.
Othere expenses are paid through the AFS.
The trip to Finland is not Ted’s first ex-
perience in special summer study. Last
summer, he spent several weeks at a sum-
mer camp of Columbia University in Con-
necticut studying physical chemistry.
At Robert E. Lee, Ted is president of the
REL chapter of the National Honor Society,
vice president of the JETS, plays football and
participates in track. He enjoys boating,
surfing and other water sports.
•'V -
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ready to announce next week
that it has selected a
superintendent to succeed SUpt.
George H. Gentry’’
Mrs. Karl W. Opryshek, board
I president, somewhat pointedly
asked board members Monday
night if they would be able to
meet in a special called meeting
of the board next week — either
Monday or Tuesday night. She
did not say for what reason, and
trustees did not ask. But next
[ITuesday is July 1 - the board's
stated goal for announcing
completion of its search for
new superintendent. Trustees
indicated they could meet either
Jnlght.
After the board’s regular
| meeting Monday night — which
| ended at the comparatively
I early hour of 1:30 pjn. —
| trustees met behind closed
I doors, presumably to discuss the
I appointment of ^the new
{superintendent. The board is
1 to have been interviewing
unofficial reports last week said
the search had narrowed to two
men.
The board's goal, outlined in a
procedure statement this spring,
is July 1 for an announcement of
iifi selection and Aug. 1 for tbe
new appointee to assume his
duties. Supt. Gentry is to become
superintendent • emeritus for the
remainder of his contract, which
expires Aug. 31, 1970, when the
new man begins work.
TED WATSON PACKS FOR SUMMER TRIP
He Will Be An AFS Sommer Student In Finland
FULL SERVICE
NO SERVICE CHARGE
CITIZENS NATIONAL
Bank & Trust Co.
PARTLY CLOUDY and
continued warm through
Tuesday. Temperature range
expected, upper 70s to ipid-9te.
Slight chance of thun-
dershowers through Wed-
nesday.
MORGAN'S POINT tides
Wednesday: Highs at 1:25 p.m.
sod 9:37 p.m.; lows at 12:61
a.m. and 1:19 pjn.
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