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BAYTOWN, TEXAS
■«BWm
The Baytown Sun Invitee
D. W. HARGRAVE
504 Midway
to the Brunaon Theater to ae«*
Will {R THE BOVS ARK’
Thla coupon la rood for two ticket# when
presented at the Brunaon hex office.
. Wheat is
per cent of
reage allot-
res.
CkcM of
BAY-TfX—
bruary 5, 1961
S-UN
Spots
Group To Meet
CITIZENS’ for Good Government
will have a District 3 meeting at
8 p.m. Monday at St. John’s Meth-
odist Church. Interested persons
are invitfd.
Honor Student
ROBERT RAY Dailey of Bay-
area
|
I
town has been placed on the dis-
tinguished students list at LaMar
State College for the fall semester.
He is exrraffl from all absence
penalties for the next session of at-
tendance.
Crosby Barbecue
THE MOTHERS Club of Sacred
Heart School of Crosby will s on-1
sor a ttBiMBK ham suppenjfcS,
p.m* Saturday. Feb. 11: at the
American Legion Hall. Plates are
11 for adults and 50 cents for
children.. A dance-will be held
at 8 p.m. All profits will go to
upkeep of the school. The public
is invited.
Classes Begin
SPRING SEMESTER class at the
Univers;ty of Houston begins Mon-
day, Feb. 6. Students may register
after Monday, but a late registra-
tion fee will be charged.
Army Exercise
ARMY PFC. Jerry W. Berry.-19.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer S.
Berry of 718 Nugent St. in La
Forte, is participating with other
personnel from the 585th Signal
Company in Exercise Winter
Shield II at the Grafenwohr-Hohen-
fels training area in Germany.
Economics Group
BAYTOWN HOME Economics As-
Goose * Creek School District had
an exceptional percentage of tax
collections as of Jan. 31, the last
day to pay taxes without penalty
and interest.
Taxes for 1960 became due for
_____________— the school district and the city on
sociatidh wUl meet at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1, and the final day to pay
Monday at the home of Mrs. without penalty and interest was
Steele McDonald, 1503 Olive. C. T.
Spencer, Gepfial Mill* “les ai-
pervisor. will show a film, A
Visit with Betty Crocker.
Valentine Donee
MRS. CL FULLER
Horace Mann students are to bring
their membership cards to be aa-
IZZARD PARAL
W ENGLAND ST
LAOS COUNTER ATTACK
TO PAD OUT their military diet pf govern-
ment-issue rice, pro-government soldiers lay
siege to, an outdoor market in Vang Vieng,
Laos. They are buying vegetables, hot pep-
pers and dried fish.
Over 90 Per Cent Of
School, City Tax In
The City of Baytown and the The city also collected $27,255 in
sold at the door.
Mttfe Meet Set
SAN JACINTO Music Teachers
town.
Accordion Contort
MEMBERS OF the Pasadena Jun-
KttmirtCtabwnipr^an
accordian concert at 7:30jum
Monday in the Baytown Junior
COOL
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP>
- the United States is quietly
sounding out U.N. delegations on
a sweeping program to end the
Congp crisis, informed sources
said otday.
While not yet firm policy, in-
formants said, the Ul plan in-
cludes: 1. Freeing the Congo from
big-power interference, 2. Form-
ing a government with broader
support than that held by Presi-
dent Joseph Kasavubu, 3-. Disarm-
ing all Congolese troops, 4. Re-
convene parliament, 5. Releasing
aS political primngrs.
Chief U.S. delegate Adlai Stev-
enson would have to win the So-
viet Union's agreement to stay out
of die Congo's affairs. The dis-
armament proposal would need
?teeldng.
nm
Moderate to jV1!?
southeasterly winds are.
wt along with temperatureo of
38-68 degree#.,
Sunday's TWt*
GALVESTON TIDES Sunday wttl
be high at 12:51 a.m. surf 1 -«
p.m. and !ow at 6:48 a.m. a^
7:54 p.m. Monday?* tides will be
high at 1:39a.m. and 1:31 r"1
and low at 8:15 am. and 8:16 ]
own
SSSgjgg
I Tuesday
The city collected 91,1 per cent
of its billing of $865,488 and the
school district collected 97.3 per
[cent of its biding of $3,619,015 dur-
ing the four-month collection pe-
iriod. -
The $788,911 collected by the
dty represents 96.97 per cent of
the anticipated current collections,
•'Vw -
delinquent taxes and $7,004 in pen-
alty and interest for a total col-
lection of 8823,171.
The amount of taxes collected
by the city includes $194,502 from
Humble Oil and Refining Co.’s
Baytown Refinery but does not
include ari additional $308,000
Humble paid to the dty. ; •
The council annexed a portion
of Humble to yield $308,000 in
taxes, but the annexed patten
cannot be taxed until one year
after it is annexed. The 1961 tax
roll wall include the entire an-
nexed area.
C. C. Redd, Baytown tax asses-
sor - collector, suits are be-
sonal property taxpayers. Last
summer the city legal department
filed suits against delinquent real
estate taxpayers but so far none
of the cases has been set for
hearing.
The school district collected $3,-
520,589 of its current billing plus
an additional $21,513 in delinquent
taxes during the four-month col-
lection period
George Bennett, tax awBswv
collector for the school district,
and Redd asked all tai
who have not paid this
taxes » come to the tax
before making payment because
interest and principal must be ad-
ing filed against delinquent per- ded to the amount billed.
U. S. Seeking
Congo Remedy
seems to put high
priority on exclusion of big-power
interference and low priority on
freeing political prisoners, toe in-
formants said.
Stevenson probably will take
up all the ideas with Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zor-
in with the suggestion they become
the U.N, program for toe Congo,
toe informants said.
But die new U.S. administra-
tion's Congo policy apparently still
is under study in Washington,
they said, and Stevenson probably
is just trying out toe ideas on his
coBetgues.
Diplomatic sources said SteWM
SOI seems to feel that if such a.
program received broad Support
from the Security Council, Secre-
cy. oacurng. tary-General Dag Hammarakjold
The rest of toe program would could go ahead with
ft even
depend upon the bijtterly feuding though no formal resolution was
Congolese politicians themselves ~ ->-<
adopted..
12
aCinder
moulins sous - run-
ON, Belgium (AP) -Mare
than a dozen victims were be-
Ueved entombed today beneath
a flood of flinders from a huge
stag heap that weakened under
heavy rate and spilled into this
Hoy village Friday night.
A snowstorm swept over town
before dawn, and with daylight
th« avalanche of cinders looked
like a giant sand dune colored
elephant gray, The town Is in
Belgium's corf mining district
near Lelge, located near some
of Europe’s oldest *
—
Rites Set \
It; r
For Former
Baytonian
Opryshek To
Headllty's
Plans, Board
Karl Opryshek, retired Humble
Oil and Refining Co. supervisor,
was elected chairman of the Bay-
town Advisory Hoard at its first
meeting Friday night at the
Chamber of Commerce building.
He will serve oRe year.
The boartf JWas appointed by
the city eotlnfil in December to
act in an’Mrisory capacity to
the council toff long range plan-
ning.
After taking over toe chairman-
ship Opryshek followed tempor-
ary chairman Harry Massey's rec-
ommendation that the seven-mem-
toe dty charter
budgej before
ted for the
■HHHPH^ltecUned. He
said. "I will work to toe best of
my ability,” but did not want the
post since he was chairman of a
: ormer planning commission.
Massey tod outline a program
the group could follow.
In an overall picture of dty
government, he said it embraces
seven divisions: recreation, water
department, streets, fire and po-
lice, sanitation, finance and real
etorfe development.
, after study of the
Midget, that each
saEffrs&Sif
Massey was chosen vice chalr-
tanaf the group and W. O. Tld-
mon was elected secretary. The
board will be furnished a secre-
ber board
and the
beginning a
Massey was
chairmanship
rd stotjy the c
1960-61 city bu
g a planning
iss&r
NEW REALTOR PRESIDENT
B. A. (BERTIE! STEWART, left, retiring
preside#t of the Baytown Board of Realtors,
hands the gavel to his successor, W. P. Jones
of Im Porto, who was installed at the organ-
ization's 12th annual banquet K. E. All tone,
center, past president of the Houston Board
of Realtors, conducted the installation.
* (Baytown Photos)
Two More Candidates
File For Council Posts
I Twt) more candidates have filed
in the city council race, bringing
to six the number to candidates
who have announced for the
three positions to be filled In the
April 4 election. No candidates
* ‘M M Ml announced.
for mayor have yet
W. L. (Dub) Ward will seek by a “substantial number of ob-
jatwia
■ be held at the Chamber
ot Commerce building.
Other members to the board j
are Lowell Lammecs, Champ E.
Crawford, Kenneth Dismang and
E. C. (Jack) Hmmons.
■
OUR
World
Tod
Funeral services for A. C. Lam-
bright. 64, of 6725 John . Ralston
Road in Houston, a former Bay-
town resident, will be held at 10
a.m. Monday at Howard Funeral
Home, 12401 Market Street Road
in Houston.
Lam bright was a partner with
a brother in Baytown garage. He
also worked to the gauging de-
partment at Humble’s Baytown
Refinery during his 14 years to
Baytown.
A member to the Masonic Lodge,
Lambright died at his home Fri-
day morning. Burial will be in
San Jkdnto Memorial Cemetery. ----, „„ „
Masonic funeral rites Will be con- m atomic test ban.
ducted.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
s County has 33,000
isers, toe most of
liny Texas county, available tor
federal surplus food outer Ken-
nedy's program.
JAMES M. BRYAN
-
his third two-year term from Dis-
trict 2, and James Monroe Bryan
has- entered the race to District
6-
Ward, 45, is a foreman to the
research and development divi-
sion at Humble Oil and Refining
Ox's Baytown Refinery. Bryan,
ery and was persuaded to run by
the Citizens for Good Govern-
ment.
Other candidates who previous-
ly announced are Kenneth E. Bad-
gett. seeking- re-election in Dis-
trict 3: John R. (Johnny) Fox,
District 3 candidate: James Al-
fred Bryan. District 2 candidate;
I and Fred Canant, District 6 can-
I didate.
I In announcing for office, Ward
I said he had been considering run-
ning for some time and decided
to offer his services because of
toe need for experience on the
council. He pointed out that Coun-
cilman Lacy Lusk and Mayor
I R, H. (Red) Pruett are not seek-
ing re-election, and that all other
members to the council except
Badgett are in their first terms.
Ward said he had been urged
jectively - minded acquaintances
and friends to nm." After four
years on the council, his best ref-
erence is toe record he has made,
Ward said, pointing out be has
(See COUNCIL, Page 8)
W. L. (DUB) WARD
• Congolese forces loyal to
ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba
appeal for cease . fire after
suffering heavy casual!ties bring-
ing an end to fighting with
.U. N. Nigerian troops.
• Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of
New York,. answeftog. ctetBHi
of corruption to state agencies
by Mayor Robert Wagner, says
all case* cited have been In-
vestigated or are being.
;!u
• U. 3. officials potato over
Moscow ’s failure to answer Pres-
ident Kennedy’s request for
postponement of Geneva talks
Headline Tour Prizes
How About Free Trip Abroad?
'rr T .
sisters, ...i „, „, wo. uuu ......
Sam Nelley, both of Houston,
Mrs. A. Raley of McOomb, Miss.,
and Mrs. C. A. Byer* to Ash-
ville, N. C.: two brothers, Louis
G. Lambrirfit of Dayton and
Ralph W. Lf&hbright of Baytown;
and a number of nieces, nephews,
great nieces and great nephews.
day
«*•£?»*£** -
«*,have some news aoon....
will begin Sunday . , 2 Mrs, CM-
^M^l^anTpato
an office . i— Maty ana rau
Dick, is home from the Shrfner
Crippled Children’s Hospital. II
is to return to the hospital Wf
.....
IN WJWN^FOR a^nlghtcluh opeato^remedlan Jtoroij^Bte .
temperaSttelwtersore, seWng smw IM1 law
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Order Of Arrow
A BOY Scout Order of the Ar-
row meeting will be held at 2:30
.m. Sunday at the Troop No. 255
house. The program wttl to-
[and ceretoonials. Vice *---
Wilhite urges all members to at-
tend.
O Some 80,000 auto worker*
across nation will be Idled as a
result to production cuts order-
ed by auto maker* to bring out-
put in fine with awotten stock*
of unsold 1881 made! cars.
• Amin May Wong, famed
Chinese actress, dies at age 54
uunese actress, toes at age m each week for one to he
of a heart attack to Hollywood, for - ” *-~3^
^^■*y JIM HAUB
A trip abroad for two persons,
hundreds of dollars to merchan-
dise certificates and other prizes
will be given away during a sev-
SSsSX:
by Baytown merchants, Citizens
National Bank and The Baytown
Sun.
The grand prize winner whose
name will be drawn from 70 week-
ly winners, will receive an ex-
penses - paid, 17-day trip to Eu-
rope for two persons.
This spectacular European Holi
day program is aimed at spot-
lighting the advantages to shop-
ping in Baytown. However, there
is nothing to buy and no gimmicks
to be eligible to win. / ■
The program will consist of sev-
*“’‘**'£33
by customersintteatea
toe.promotion
Each weekly towing will he
entirely new and a new entry
blank or blanks must be dejwsited
h week for one to be eligible
that week’s drawing.
All of toe seven weekly winnersjwide event. The Baytown Sun ad-
(M each week for seven weeks) yertistog staff is now winding up
toe European trip for two. TheJfog ^fo —
grand prtase winder's name will
be drawn from file 70 weekly win-
- '*»
Two
Snow Hits
Some Areas
NEW YORK (AP)-^A
formed by
eaBBBB9d& i
paralysis in its wake and threat-
ening additional havoc.
The storma merged in the New
York State area Friday night after
one had swept to from toe Ohio
| Valley and toe other had wallowed
up from the East coast
They left as much as two feet
of snow at widely scattered points,
shutting down airports, snarling
traffic and generally disrupting
transportation.
Poor visibility caused the col-
lision Friday night to the passen-
ger liner Nassau and the freighter
Brott outside New York Harbor,
Both vessels, outward bound re-
lumed to their moorings to to*
harbor.
There were no injuries and only
slight damage was reported.
In northern Utah, an all-out
search was ordered for a light
plane carrying a Maryland execu-
tive who took off from Salt Lake
City and headed north into a snow
storm. _
The pilot was William D. Kelley
Jr., technical director to the Al-
legany Instrument Co. to Cumber-
land, Md.
Forecasters said as much as a
foot could be expected today as
far north as southern Maine as
toe bliz2ard moves northward. It
reached Boston at dawn and
swept onward.
The violence of fins storm, phis
another which hit toe upper Texas
Panhandle, moderate storms in
the part 24 hours.
The blizzard had wind-whipped
more than 10 todies over the
New York City Metropolitan Area
early today and occasionally
heavy snow remained to the fore-
cast for the area.
Subfreezing temperatures ac-
companied the storm and in New
York City it marked the 16th day
of subfreezing readings — topping
the record of 15 days set 80 years
ago.
Eleven thousand men and :
pieces of equipment were
into the battle to keep the
3,000 miles of streets
It was the third major i
hit toe metropolitan area this t
son and gpmnants to the
ones still lay heavy to "
urbs . .
Idlewild and La Guardia air-
ports were closed down.
More than two feet to snow was
reported at Kane to northwest
Pennsylvania wifii 42 inches on
the ground. __
BULLETIN
• Dwight D. Elsenhower flte
to Palm Oreert, Crfif., for <otf
and recreation, < ,. ... ;
The first name drawn in each
’^Krtifeato^remalble for that
^r^reha^ CottTnS
—... winners w^l receive gifts from
‘reSS
All" Baytown merchants are to-
yited to partidpate in toe dty;
Merchants who desire W par- j
ticipate in the program should
contact their Baytown Sim adver-
STT** te ““
.
City Installing Modern
Traffic Control System
................I ” 1 -- -- I|.'jt.'l
its to make left _
MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet
Unton launched a sputnik weigh-
ing more than seven tons today,
Tam said.
The Soviet news agency reid
the earth satellite wan blanch-
ed to conformity with Soviet
plans tor perfecting sf*<* f*ip«
to increased weight and that It
was hurled Into the skiea “by
means of aa Improved multi-
stage rocket.”
I ■ By JOHN MARSH
Development to an efficient traf-
fic control system in , Baytown,
red by the success of the
ket St.-Lee Drive devices, is
Texas Ave. and
All equipment has arrived for
other intersec- lights to be red except for a green
MM i allowing traffic to torS
installation to three complex sys- allowed to make right toms when j^ars fled Saturday morning to
:ems at James, Fayle and Texas
Ml on Highway 146, replacing
the single four face traffic light at
each to those intersections. 1
An overhead light will hang in
the center lane on each side to
on Highway ^con-
trolling traffic. Controlling cross
traffic on Texas Ave., Fayle or
146 which want:
turns. These arrows wili be con-
trolled by detectors, limiting use
to the lights only when a car en-
ters file slot to make a left turn.
The detectors wttl cause afi
Highway 146 traffic will
weight of the new sput-
nik was given as 8,483 kilograms
approximately 14.388.1 pounds.
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^vtown Resident
40 Years Is Dead :t
Mrs. Mary Aline Olive, 45, to
1506 Elm, a Baytown resident 40
the left arrow is functioning.
Preliminary work began this
week by Massey Electric Co. and church,
installation of the signals will be Mrs. Olive is survived by cm
completed by the end to next
eek, All three lights will be h
»rconnected to aid traffic flow.
The signal lights now being used
will be taken down and used at
.ZL.I Ate -will tia
my Foster of Wooster and Mrs.
other intersections, (toe “will be Bill Curry of Houston; several
placed at Pruett and Park inter-1 aunts, uncles, nieces and nepfr
ii
—
'Citizens For Good Government' Names 'Steering
1
council district They are «s fol-
md District 6, Ed Griffith aad
“wiiSS
■wtejtewl, fort there hu* here
organization has already
a small gnmp met to dlM-uw the of the eftort would be pfofiMMioii mM)ts o! the <1«
idea and decided to go hack to ami support to good adnltoWra to their pla«
idea and decided to go buck to
their districts to see If there was
Baytown voire*
tor Good
UA. tejitel D. C. Sea-
and fo
Gerald A. Hay* amt
mans; District .3, R.
££ns3i
ngc. John R. Marfte to
reteetton department at
s Baytown Refinery to
m T. L. (Doe) Sattre-
Canant
i to the
Ion to
its
J.
work
tow - .^paS^.agTf8lf*A>c i- j £ -
Packer explained that the for-
mafion of lhl! (1tizeo4 for Goad
(ioveynment came about after
discussion* by business men.
houaewhea and nteera with
varied political background*.
There was a common feeling
' that qualified person* should be
encouraged to run tor tottcu to
the April dty eteetto#, he said.
In mid-January. Parker saki,
It wu* decided af toe taitta)
meeting that the only objective
rtM to any particular
activities to
interest in a oonimuultv wide ef-
to encourage candidates to
file independently
candidates
and then to
and support to good admirfrtra
lion in city govcrimient.
“Neithg .dnrtSg to#t or any
subsequent meeting has there
ever been any favorable -thought
given to the support or aqyxre*
Jtssrar- .snSflSiSi’ -7^~,sr^iCt2Stefe!!-3BS3
incuts of the city
to their
Parker said. “Nor
been any tre '
(ion to the e
toward any
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