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Sunday, May 5, 1968
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
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5-Sfep Proposal
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U S. Due Crosby In Crash
84 Perish
'Mixing' Plans
By JOllNELLA BOUNTON with the U. S. Civil Rights Act.
A new plan for desegregation The five steps, recommended
of the Crosby School District by Reynolds and approved by
will be carried to Washington the board' in a meeting Monday
May 16 by Attorney Joe Rey- night, would retain the freedom
nolds.
The Crosby school board, The school district, but 'would step
Baytown Sun learned Saturday, up the assignment of white
-has approved five desegrega-
— tion steps recommended by their Drew High and Elementary
newly - hired attorney to pre- Schools and would eliminate the
sent to a U. S. Office of Edu- current busing of white children
cation board. past the Drew campus and the
Hie hearing is being held Busing of Negro children to went house to house gathering
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to determine if federal funds who live closer
Should be cut off from, the Cros- Crosby campus,
by School District, because of The five steps are
its alleged failure to comply 1) Maintain freedom of choice
with all children going to any
school they desire
dren who live within two miles stand tot fescue workers sur-
of an existing school campus vtowr. of plane victims and oth-
vvould not be transported
Past Matrons Picnic
CEDAR BAYOU Past Matrons
Club will have the annual pic- 0f white teachers to Drew. A
nic honoring the worthy matron minjmum 0f 10 white teachers
and patron and the incoming woUld be sought for Drew.
worthy matron and patron at
tricians, from tne U.'S. for Rus- ronstructe(j jn the Drew area, w’ite^ett "sir' of Mtoakoff
ary; arid Vienna, Austria, on
the two-week tour. .
Sr. has !La“enTtthL^rin?hit IZ
town Local 6180, will have a for the district, although a Beau-
meeting beginning at 8 a.m. mont firm has been used to
Sunday at Holiday Inn. The draw up plans for a new cen-
■eriflp' will mec-t with city of- tral high school, for which bonds
fidm were defeated twice last year
in the district.
Weather And Tide*
CLEAR TO PARTLY cloudy office of Education Civil Rights
with scattered showers over
of cl
DAWSON. Tex. (AP)-Town.
folk and farm and ranch people
pitched in to do all they could
after 84 persons died in the
crash of a Braniff Electra.
, As ambulance drivers from
- .-—...— ——- ‘.Waco, Corsicana and surnound-
hoice plan in the Crosby ing towns arrived at the crash
scene, the muddy barnyard ..
an abandoned farm,’ttejy toowl
teachers to Crosby’s all - Negrolpienty of willing help,
Dppui Hlirh nnH Fl^m*nt*trv "EVupwWvU/
to the
2) Eliminate all Illegal bus
routes. This means that chil-
Mrs. L T. Rowan, who lives
eight miles south of Dawson, and
Mm. Lloyd Berry and Mrs.
W. Truelove were helping J
Lawrence run the hastily organ-
ized coffee, cake and sandwich
school buses. Parents who de-
sire to transport children at
their own expense could carry
them to any school.
3) Where buses are provided
by the school district, buses
must take the children to the
nearest school.
5) Have a bond issue after
6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home fjgUres are presented ,by an pr-
of Mrs. Cuba Greer, Ward Road. cf]jtect vvhere the wooden build-
To Russia ing at Drew would be convert‘
DR. J. J. -BURIANEK left Fri- *1*° and^ee^M^ents.f°A
day, along with 73 other pedia- ^ ejementary school would be
Soviet • American Pediatric . Drew’s elementary
Clinical Symposium. The doctors “ ® " elementary
will .tour Mosc’ow“and "Lenin-
grad, Russia; Budapest, H ng- ^ approve(j paying the
expenses of Reynolds, School
Board President James Ewell
Hi may cau
Communication Meet Architect Matt Howard to de-
THE ASSISTANT division rep- the proposed newJaciUties
rionsnWortefs^?At^Tcr^| [reviously ^elwed as architiftt
Of Electra
CHILDREN OF 2 BAYTOWN
FAMILIES KILLED IN CRASH
Everybody just pitched
aid Helen Lawrence. "In about
30 minutes, everybody had their I
coffee pot at the City Hall.
up sheets to wrap the
ers.
Mrs. Truelove's daughter, Di-
ana, 20, a sophomore at Navarro
Junior College in nearby Corsi-
cana, was helping too,
"I’ve done everything I can
to help," the tall blonde said,
"but everything’s been done
now.’’
Not everything. There were . _ . ..
relatives of-the dead. - -•>- . .. t* ff J
This is the sad part of it all. ” *■ '• * * *■
said Mrs. Paul Potts of Dawson.
She nodded toward a family
whose son was due to reach Dal-
las on the plane. “They’re the
people who are hurting, really
hurting
Among those wanting to iden-
tify a relative they believed was
on the plane were Mr. and Mrs.
ineir sun, ui. dw-dmawi ui
Dallas, had telephoned his wife
A^its^meettng Monday night that be wwM be on Flight 352,
th"Hr was ^hf only child
had,” said Mrs Barnett simply
, _ . t, ti , i as she left the City Hall to go to
and School Supt. O. R Jerkins Corsicana, where Braniff set up
(See PLANE, Page 2)
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the weekend is the Baytown Crosby’s current freedom of
area weather forecast. Tern# cboice plap is not resulting in
peratiire range expected, mid- suffjcjent desegregation to meet
60s to high goo- federal guidelines.
The May 7 deadUne for
protesting of the Houston
0 Lighting and Power Oo.’s pro-
posed intake, and discharge
canals on Cedar Bayou has
been extended to June 6, the
U. 8. Army Corps of Engl-
neers in Galveston said Sat-
urday.
A corps spokesman said the
■i»v; , « - t. . deadline was extended at the
Division on the grounds that requegt of the !Department of
GALVESTON TIDES Sunday
wilt'be high at 12:18 pm. and
low at 3:06 a.m.
■9:51 p.m, and low at 1:18 a.m.
and 7 p.m.
Supt. O. R. Perkins reported
io the board Monday night that
38 additional Negro students had
chosen Crosby schools, instead
of Drew schools for the con
ing 1968-69 school year. '
Perkins said that' the addi-
tional choices would result in
UR0UND
Interior, which said it needed
more ttme to jirepare its com-
ments. The corps spokesman
said he didn’t know what the
comments would be or If they
would constitute a formal pro-
test. ■ ,
The Baytown City Council
Friday morning drafted a for-
mal protest, and this was sent
to the Corps of Engineers
Friday afternoon.
MR. AND MBS. J. J. REDMOND Sr„ *07 N. Pruett, were among the early voter*
Saturday at Precinct 98. They are looking over the sample ballot before entering
the booth. Election clerks aiding Precinct 89 Chairman Jack Hester are, left to
right, Mrs. O. C. Tate, Mr*. Mark M. Carter and Mrs. Hester. Precinct 99 to at
Courteay Ford. Voting started off heavy In all precinct* east of the San Jacinto
River a* Baytown area voters Joined thousands of Texans flocking to the polls.
Voting Heavy In Baytown Area Boxes
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and area precincts was heavy
during the early morning hours
%‘onkn. jbW btoeTFexlnTto
nominating candld8tes and M»
Storm May
Have Caused
Ship Plunge
The Houston - Dallas airliner
crash Friday brought tragedy
to two Baytown families.
Among those killed on Bran-
J International flight 352 were
Mrs. Craig Brown, 23, daughter
of AF Res. Col. and Mrs. John
It. Combs of 1902 Gillette; and
John C. Kubitz Jr., 35. son of :~T .
Mr. and Mrs, John C Kubitz i
t. of 309 Kelly Lane. ^1
Neither Mrs. Bop'i husband
lior Kubitz' wife were aboard
the plane. „
Mrs, Bnown; the former Miss
Elaine Combs, was enroute to
Oklahoma Q|y to visit her broth-
er and wife, AF Lt. and Mrs.
John R. Combs Jr. Mrs. Brown’s
parents were already in Okla-
and daughter-in-law. Mrs. Brown
had planned to return to Bay-
town by car over the weekend
with her parents. ;
Mrs. Brown was a 1963 grad-
uate of Robert E. Lee Hign
Schgpl and attended Umar Tech
one year Uefui1** transferring ~t
and Republican primaries.
Although the American Party,------------------. . . - ., _ ..........—-
which is pushing to get former several Baytown locations Sat- attend the preclnct conventions. contested.
hold a primary, its members Houston preaiciea tnai za.vw races in state itepresemauve
did hold precinct conventions In persons in Harris County would strict 23, which includes Bay-
name on the general elect:
They Know What Life's
a degree in elementary educa-
tion. She lived in Galveston und
’ ......-2-"^ ---------------------- probably Is the 10-man contest
for the gubernatorial nomina-
tion. According tJ political ob-
servers, the front runners arc
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith and Don
in TexaitTn Novemto as a from the American Party con- In the Baytown area Saturday
' —-—!—-;- morning In what appeared to be
a record turnout, bearing out
predictions.
Votes cast in Harris County
will be tabulated as quickly as
Like Without Freedom
lie broadcast and televised tot
all radio and television stations.
One of the moat hotly-contest-
Voters in Baytown area pre-
By MIKE BLACKMAN
was May, 1961.'Jorge Batl- f«ad. 3ust
le 'had just come to the States.
Miami. It was his first home
here.
By some standards' Jorge Batt-
le (pronounced ‘ ‘Hor-hay Bot ■
yeah”) had more than most
people.
of Havana, Cuba.------------------------
He had a successful record
operations manager of a
large cement plant in Santiago.
He had. a lovely family —a
wife and five children. .
He had lots of determination,
much optimism, more probably
than have most men at 40.
Maybe that’s what he needed
most, for he had little else,
no job, no money, no- other pos-
•ession except the ’ clothes he
cincts.were alsogparttclpating in
Jorge Battle and his family "When I came to toe States ^^ Saturday ls bfc drink, parimutuel horse ^ace 0t san ,
■*etoe ctother r had oh-=: Sfk, vtekerv and chal.lbettlng and mllk^price flxjig. All l0^ “ho revived “is deg
distinction of being seven more
Cuban refugees ... refugees
who had given up all they had,
all they ever hoped for to escape
Ihe oppresswe rule of Fidel Cas-
tro. “ - ' ’ - ......—--------
Fidel Castro . the bearded
rebel who was determined to
ad’
i .the man to whom Batt-
le, like mihy other Cubans,|mtorn.”
sent money and food in his
struggle . . • toe man w'ho fin-
ally conquered and who for a
while was as lauded in America
as he was in Cuba-. . . the in-
ternational champion in the dy*.
mg moments of the 1950s.
Fidel Castro. The man .who
ronceived, nurtured and finally
built dreams for so many, the
man who also destroyed those
nothing at ail.'' Battle, who now
lives in Baytown, was telling a
tween Glenn Vickery and chal*
longer C. D. "Sonny" Ferguson
of Channelview for the Precinct
.*"*• *" - of uianneiview tor me rrecincx state-wide interest,
visitor in his home recently 3 justice of toe Peace post now Baytown area voters, accord-
s,hni<» his mmina tha itnitari . ... — |ng f0 Section judges, were vot-
ing during the. morning hours
more than three times As last as
they normally due — and the
heaviest voting appeared yet to
come.
about his coming to the United
States; 1 ' ' •
"And knowing you were 40
years old and had five chil-
dren. It was something very
" tautiu tk. —on
held by Vickery.
Another hot race is between
incumbent Harris County Demo-
crat Chairman Bill Blanton and
challenger Bill Williams of
Houston.
Trying to understand what
Battle Was saying, the man said,
"I guess it wa a funy feel-
mg. . , •
Battle, a slight smile leaving
his face, his voice becoming low,
answered, "No, not funny. It
was sad, quite sad.’’
"I’m sorry,” toe man said.
I didn’t mean funny. Odd, may-
be . different J:.* -
"Yes, different maybe,” Batt-
le said.
It was seven years ago and
Youngsters Give Penney
Founder, 93. A Big Hand
AVERY MARTIN helps report- I
ers obtain enough information to f
complete a/i important, story • > •
Ditto R. L. Parker ■ . . Glenn
Vickery and. Jerry Don Pace
are among early morning Voters
in Precinct 99.
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). '"jflp
. frequent v isits to The Sun where
/ he used , to wwk. j-He- fa x
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hurries to make a B
tog on time.
_ ing on ujuc. • ___
Mrs. Ed Schiller gives a mes-
sage for daughter, Sandra ...
Judy Burnett enjoys playing
tennis . . . Pam Campbell and
daughter, Stacey, drop in for
a visit. -------—
George Cassity expecting his
; mother for a two-week visit...
John Stuart has been missing
something.
Get well wishes to Elaine
Buckels who has mumps . . .
at Lee College'w--- -
know who has the key to the
costume crate.
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No Senke Charge
SI.
Peoples State Bank
•tank* F.D.I.C.
THE BATLLE FAMILY OF BAYTOWN
MEMBER OF THE Battle family, back row,, are: Mr. and Mr*.
Ignacio Battle, Jorge I ‘ ‘ -----------
Carlo* Wood Jr,) and
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Carlo*, Angle (holding picture of atoter Mwi* OurisUaa Sariol)
and Jorge Jr. ' *- " _
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oauie iiiraij, often row, u.
Ignacio BatQe, Jorge^a^Syl^Da^§ntX« tTri^axe
he had nolhing. No money. A
wife and five kids to feed. No
job. Hardly able to speak Eng-
lish. Having to start life over
By BILL HARTMAN
HOUSTON (Sp) - J. C. Pen-
ney sat back In to> cushioned
toair and fielded questions as
he has Jn thousands of inter-
views.
And as always, the reporters
and listeners were enthralled by
the comments and-stor-ios-oMha
93-year-old Penney as he remi-
nisced over his 66 years as
president, chnrrr.an and direc-
lish. Having to start life over or'Mthe h« fkwbnfa7w called the (fQolden Rule, Mer-
-n a strange country. Everything Zfn ^ to l‘V.P
in a strange country. Everything
90 miles to the south, in CUha.
How does a man explain what
it was like?,How does he ex-
is still in business and now 1,500 . ,
pcople- live thei-e,” he Smiled, children,
“In iaet I was, to Kemmerer
a couple Of years ago, and they
wanted to honor . me- In some
way. ■ -
"The mayor said he would
like to buy a shirt. I told him
that would make me happy, but ;
tKiTwe never sold anyone just since 1960
one shirt.' He left wltti two." mmmmm
J, C. Penney has tong been
called toe "Golden Rule, Mer-
niiawt •’ i,1tWn./a> frioH fo ItVO
ing, the feeling of jjneertatoty,
insecurity and loneliness? How
does he make another under-
stand?
chain that bears his name,
Penney was on a whirlwind
trip to Houston to accept a
for his
by the Golden Rule, he said,
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and I think toe application
it is largely responsible for bur
company at toe national meet-
ing of Distributive Education
<3ubs-<rf;Americ8r::-:~‘-.--
He held 3,400 youngsters ipell-
He doesn’t This is an exoer- lwu,iC> witft hu acceptance and
ao?" *’ “ . e.xpe . thanks “from the bottom of my
heart.”
ience a man can , only feel, not
explain.
No, It was not funny. It was
sad, quite sad.
Today Battle and hls family
a married dan
Taking time out to chat with
newsmen, Penney recalled hls
first store he opened in 1902.
The place was Kammerer, Wyo.,
■ including a„married daughter
!^22: Store
. brtekhome at 1708 Narcitte:
U.a, okxi, moving here last
July with the Influx of stee'
emplqyes- '
He is agam a man with much.
Juickly likablT " “ ' ”
Quickly likable, tolkativp, Batt-
le’s accent Is heayy- and often
his speech is interrupted
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company’s success.
Although officially retired,
Penney Still goes to his office
(which“keeps three secretaries
Hopping;,; in New York, every
day he can.
"We have K mandatory re-
tirement, but. since they don’t
have, to pay me anything, they
let me continue to hang around ”
he kMded. ' •
.There are many great stories
about this alert and extrenwjb
Former Baytown manager
'' yd Jones stcpped across Tex-
Aventie One day for a cup
of coffee. On his return, he
tound Penney behind a counter
' -selling a ti?.''
Wm
her husband, Craig, a student
the University of Texas Me
at
Medi-
cal School in Galveston; her
brother and parents. Funeral
arrangements are pending.
Her father is vice commander
of the 446th Troop Carrier Wing
at EIIirigton Alr Force Baser
Houston, and ia employed in
the coordination department at
Humble Oil and Refining Co.’s
Ian An-
petroieum engineering from
Texas A&M in 1955, was presi-
dent of Frio-Tex and Suburban
Natural Gas Processing Co. of
San Antonio.
Kubitz was in .Houston this
week on business and met his
jarents there Thursday night for
a visit. He was to have been
in Dallas this weekend on bus-
iness.
Memorial services for Kubitz
will be held at 11 a.m. Tues-
day at Colonial, Hills Methodist
Church to San Antonio. Besides
his parents, Kubitz is survived
by his wife, Marlene; three
children, Scott, 8, Annette, 19,
and AUIson, 2; and - a sister,
Mrs. Lloyd McDonald of Lon-
don, England.
Kubitz’ father has been em-
ployed in the accounting depart-
ment at Humble Oil and Re-
fining Co.'s Baytown Refinery
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"How you say.1 - as he
reaches for too proper English
word.
The American government
provided tor. us- They have A
of refugeei- at toe beginning.
(See BATIXK, Pa* 2)
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theory of his. “I never hired a
i man who wore his hat tilted to
toe left side. Reminded me too
much of what gamblers look
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Another «tory is how he test*
1 piwpe^tive associates<he
never refftrs'to *em aa em-"
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