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VOL 45. NO. 238
BAYTOWN, TEXAS. 77520
Thursday, March 28, 1968
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CITY PLANS PUBLIC HOUSING CODE MEE
of First National Bank, con-
tinues to improve slightly at
Hermann Hospital in Houston,
His condition was still said to
be "fair" Thursday. Brasfield
was critically injured in a priv-
ate airplane crash last Friday
in Central Texas,
Rites Pending
MR. AND MRS. Joe M. Doug-
las are in Memphis, Tenn., to
attend the funeral of his brotil-
er, George Douglas, who died at fa
9 a m. Wednesday. Funeral rites
are pending.
BAYTOWN STAMP Club will
meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the
Sterling Municipal Library.
Salt
CLUB, Campfire
Girls, will hold a garage sale
from 8 a.m to 4 p.m. Saturday
at Westminster . Presbyterian
Church on Bayway Drive.
Garage
HORIZON
Over 125 At Party-
Esso Research Honors
Four For Long Service
Joe Dzilsky was honored Wed- technician since March 1954. He chemical methods. Mr, and Mrs
nesday in celebration of his
49th anniversary, and Russell R.
Burch, Jack M. Powers, and C.
W. (Flash) Gordon their 30th by
Esso Research and Engineering
Co.'s Baytown Research and
Development Division.
More than 125 fellow employes
and friends attended the banquet
in their honor at The Tower
Dzilsky and Burch are in the
Analytical Research Laboratory,
Powers Is in the Chemicals Re-
parch Laboratory and Gordon
in the Petroleum Research
Laboratory.
Dzilsky grew up in Baytown
and attended Lee College. He
joined the company as a lab-
ia engaged in the analysis of
multicomponent samples by
means of gas chromatography .
Samples come from bench
scale and pilot units and occas-
ionally from plant units, and
cover a wide range of types,
from gases to high boiling tars,
Analysis of the samples aids In
the success of many research
projects Including liquid and va-
por phase catalytic studies, de-
velopment of synthetic fuels and
lubes, the production of various
petro-chemicals, and exploratory
polypropylene studies
Earlier in his career he was
involved in solving analytical
problems using Infrared and
If
Rainbow Girls
MR. AND MRS. VICTOR Whit
field and Janice Wagner, grand
worthy advisor of Texas Rain-
bows, will be honored with a sal-
ad supper at 5:30 p.m. Friday
followed by a meeting of seven
assemblies at 7 p.m. at Goose
Creek Masonic Hall. All Rain-
bow Girls, Eastern Stars and
Masons are Invited to the meet-
ing,
Lewis Goodnot
LEWIS LEE GOODMAN. 6, of
160 Cabaniss, was struck by a
car as he rode his bicycle out
in front of a car on Cabaniss
about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday. The
boy was treated and released at
Baytown Hospital. No charges
were filed.
Explorer Meeting
ALL POST ADVISORS and cab-
inet members are asked to at-
tend the Boy Scout explorer cab-
inet meeting a 7 p.m Thursday
at St. Mark's Methodist Church.
Registration fees will be collect-
ed and final plans made for the
Explorer Olympics to be held
April 6.
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Weather And Tides
BAYTOWN WEATHER Friday
should be mild and warm. Low
Thursday should be In upper
SOa, and the high Friday
should reach upper 70s. No
rain in sight. '
GALVESTON
will be Ugh at 4:4* a.m. and
4:18 p.m. and low at;
and 10:0 p.m.
oratory assistant in January mass spectrometry, and a multi-
1928 and has been a research tude of other physical and
Teachers Here Get
Continuing 'Pacts'
The school board has awarded errors. The list had 378 oontinu-
continuing contracts to about
370 members of the school dis
trict's instructional staff under
its new
with new
islation.
At a meeting Wednesday
night, trustees granted the new
contracts, plus about 180 proba-
tionary contracts to instruction-
al personnel and 102 term con-
tacts, mostly to secretarial and
clerical personnel
The meeting had been billed
as a closed meeting, and so it
was, until about 10:45 p.m
when the doors to the board
room were opened, and the new
contracts were voted upon by
trustees.
The figures given are approxi-
mate, because a list given The
Baytown Sun Thursday morn-
ing was said to contain some
mg contracts .checked and 174
probationary contracts listed,
but Supt. George Gentry said
Dzilsky have two daughters:
they live at 1909 Tennessee
Burch is a graduate of Robert
E. Lee High School and Lee
College.
He attended the University of
Houston .rnd the 20th Century
School of Commerce in Houston.
He joined the company in Jan-
uary 1938 and has been a re-
search technician since 1955.
Burch is engaged in develop-
ment and application of methods
of chemical analysis using neu-
Iron activation. By this tech-
nique artificial radioactivity
Imparted to a sample by neu-
tron bombardment, and the ele-
ments of which the sample
constituted identified and meas-
ured tor (he characteristic radi-
ation given off.
Earlier in his career, he was
involved with radiochemistry,
emission spectroscopy, mass
spectrometry, and various other
analytical techniques. Burch has
a son and two daughters, and
lives in La Porte at 222 East J
St
Before joining the company in
February 1938, Powers was a
teaching fellow at the University
You Can Buy
'Tags' Until 8
P.M. Monday
The Harris County Tax Of-
fice next to the Brunson Thea-
ter ea West Texas will stay
open until 8 p.m. Monday to
take care of the expected Ult-
ra lnute rush to buy MM vehicle
license tags.
The new white on, black
plates must be displayed by
midnight Monday.
Another vehicle • related
deadline Is approaching —
April 10. All Texas vehicles
must display 1968 Inspection
•tidier by midnight April 16.
The inspection stickers may
be obtained at numerous gar-
ages and service stations In
Baytown.
Vehicle owners most pro-
sent last year's license re-
ceipt and title certificate to
obtain license plates. No
checks wlU be accepted.
License plate fees are |U4M
for vehicles, weighing up to
8.800 pounds; 822.S0, 8,000 to
4.800 pounds; end $80.00, 4,000
to 0,000.
It's Needed
If Low-Rent
Growth Said One Reason-
Arguments For A City
Sales Tax Are Listed
(EDITOR’S NOTE) This to
the third In n series of arti-
cles dealing with the city salsa
tax which will be voted on by
Baytontons April t. This arti-
cle deale with the cnee for
the sales tax. The next srtt-
de will deal with the ease
against.)
One of the basic factors be-
hind the city sales tax proposal
Is the rapid growth of Baytown
whose population is expected to
reach 114,600 by 1980. Only
two sources of revenue are
available to meet the Increasing
needs of the city — an Increase
in ad valorem taxes or a city
sales tax.
The following are presented as
reasons favorable* to the pas-
sage of the tales tax. Attention
will be given to the opposing
view Friday.
Sales tax revenue could re-
lease ad valorem tax revenue trade In Baytown. More people
try and did graduate work in
bacteriology. A research associ-
ate, he is engaged in a project
designed to develop a new pro-
cess for producing valuable
aromatic hydrocarbons.
Powers has had broad experi-
ence in the field of aromatic pro-
cessing and was one of the
major contributors in the devel-
opment of the crystallization
process used by Enjay Chemi-
cal Go. at Baytown to produce
paraxylene. He recently com-
Mitchell said. Administrators of pleted a loan assignment with
the staff was checked.
Continuing contracts, he ex-
plairied, cannot be awarded un-
til ater a teacher has had three
years of continuous experience
The new permissive law, to
which the board adjusted its pol-
icy Monday night, specifically
states instructional personnel
und does not include others.
The school board Will not re-
view administrative contracts
•his year, Board President Seth
OUR WORLD
TODAYS
in a like sum to finance s pot
stole future capital improve-
ment bond program, if voted by
the people.
The city sales tax to applica-
ble only to those sales now
taxed under the two per cent
state sales and use-tax. (A list
of items which would be exempt
from the one per cent city sales
tax was published in Wednes-
day’s Sun.)
There to no city sales tax on
automobiles, as the state two
Iter cent tax is an excise tax
The city sales tax would ap-
ply only to retail goods, not
wholesale or resale goods.
City sales tax payments are
deductible from federal income
tax
While elderly people and those
to the lower jncome area would
liave to pay city sales taxes,
most of the money these people
spend will be primarily <for es-
sentials — food, medicine, lodg-
ing and gasoline. All these items
are exempt under the one per
cent city sales tax.
The city sales tax is appllca-
only to residents, but
who come to Bay-
town to make purchases. This i
mean more business and a more
active economy.
It is doubtful that the city
sales tax would hurt business to
Baytown, since experience of
other cities which already have
adopted the measure report that
a clean, attractive and well-run
city attracts people, makes
grow and In general makes bus-
iness better.
Property owners should favor
a city sales tax because ad-
quste police and fire facilities
will protect a property owner’s
Investment. The money to pro-
vide these service* must be de-
rived from some source, which Uncompleted
has primarily been property
tuxes.
A city dweller trim rents
should favor the sales tax he-
ro use he enjoys the same serv-
ices available to property own-
ers. And If It were to become
necessary for the city to raise
propoerty taxes, the increased
tost of this tax would be passed
along in the form of higher
rents.
By MIKE LONSPORD
A public meeting will be call-
ed within the next few weeks
by the city council to discuss a
housing code that has been un-
der consideration for several
months.
The housing code appear* to
he the major obstacle standing
in the way of the Baytown Hous-
ing Authority in its attempt to
start construction of 250 more
low • rent housing unite
The housing authority met
with the council and City Man-
ager Fritz Lanham Wednesday
afternoon in the conference
room at city hall. ,
Bob Martin, chairman of the
housing authority, asked the
council how long it would be be-
fore a workable program could
‘Councilman Andy Braswell
said the council was not in full
agreement on some aspects of
the matter, and that the council
wasn’t sure it should adopt
something as stringent as the
Southern Standard Housing Code
under consideration by the coun-
cil.
Lanham said a zoning ordi-
nance is not definitely a re-
quirement, and cited Houston
ns a city which is also consider-
Getting down to specifics, the lng southern Standard Hous-
city council has said that city
sales tax revenue would be used
-since ,.the outsider street, sew- g
facilities. « and water line repairs. w
the district were given term
contracts last year and their
contracts will not be reviewed
until 1969, he said
rhe Industrial Products Division
of Humble Oil and Refining
Co.,s Headquarters Marketing.
(See ESSO, Page 8)
• Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s
entry today Jpto the May 7 In-
diana presidential primary
sets up the first primary test
Involving him with Sea Eu-
gene J. McCarthy and a stand-
in for President Johnson.
★ ★ ★
• Congestion has begnn to
murk the campaign road In
Wisconsin where a high source
Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s
camp acknowledged the sena-
tor’s staff is being retooled to
get fewer backfires.
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AROUND
BETTY BOND WARD finds her-
self in a rush these days...
Belated birthday greetings to
Dorothy Jurek . . , Ruth Rich-
ards trying out the new ruffled
look, and on her, it looks great
.., Nell Jones does a very nice
favor . . . Louise Maystorovich
having to make some explana-
tions about a beautiful shiner
. /. Pat Singleton gets ready to
doctor some temperamental iri-
ses with bonemeal.
Seen at the opening of “My
Fair Lady’’ at the Houston Mu-
lic Theater was Mr. and Mrs,
Pete Jones and daughter, Jen-
nifer, Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Ram
ley and Mrs. Ophelia Jones ..
Carolyn Baker and Jean Ven-
able enjoy a late supper... Don
Anderson always fixing some-
thing . . . Richard White en-
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THEY'RE MIGHTY PROUD OF THESE TROPHIES
ROBERT E. LEE’s LATIN Department has successfully de-
fended its state championship, breaking all previous records
by placing first in seven different contests. Here, these top
seven winners, pose with their teacher, Sherman W. Children
Left to right they are Patti Comeaux, Carolyn Comeaux, Paul
Ostermayer, Children, Becky Burns, Tommy Whatley, Curtis
Sanders and Cliff Witt
• During Gen, WUltom C.
Westmoreland’s tenure In
South Vietnam the allies have
reported killing 188,066 of the
enemy — 114,860 more than
the enemy was aald to have
in the country when Westmore-
★ ★ ★
• Handsome Soviet cosmo-
naut Yuri A. Gagarin, who
flew the world’s tint manned
space mission In April 1061,
died today In a training-flight
crash Wednesday.
u* ★ ★
• U.8. Air Force BS* Jet
bombers pounded North Viet-
namese supply depots and
command centers In the A
Valley west of Hue to-
day with hundreds of tons of
explosives la an effort to
new enemy buildup
the former Impe-
rial [capital._
enjoys the city’s street facilities,
police protection and other ad-
vantages for which city resi-
dents pay.
Any registered voter can vote
in the city sales tax election.
Eusinessmen should favor the
one per cent tax because poor
city services mean poor busi-
ness, while well-financed and ef-
ficient
tract new
Only minimal repairs to Bay-
town streets, tijis yar was esti-
mated to cost about $550,000
ing Code and one which is not
considering a zoning ordinance,
requirement for federally Jtind.
ed low • rent housing.
Davis Taylor, administrator of
the Baytown'Housing Authority
raid there are about 255 people
But the council cou'd allocate. ln Baytown’’who need housing."
only $225,000 in the current
budget.
Expenditures in excess of $1
million per year would be re-
quired, over a period of several
municipal services at- years, to bring streets, sewer
?w people to live and|(8ee HOU8INO. Page it)
"We have an average of three
applicants a day,” Taylor sakl.
"This includes everything from
elderly people to families who
need a five - bedroom house."
Taylor cited moving and death
(See SALES, Page 11)
11
Joe Gibbs'
Last Rites
Friday
"ral services will be held
at 2 p.m. Friday at Earthman
■1 for Joe Gibbs, 57, of 2301
Who died at 5:22 a.m
iy in a Galveston hos-
He was retired from Humble
Oil and Refining Cb.’s Baytown
Refinery and had-been a resi-
dent if Baytown for 18 years
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Mary Wilson Gibbs; one
sons, James D. Gibbs of Hous-
ton! one grandson, James D.
Gibbs Jr. of Houston; and sev-
er^ brothers and sisters.
Burial' will be in Forest Park
Lawndale in Houston with the
Rev. H. Rudy Pace, pastor of
St- Mark’s Methodist Church, of-
ficiating.
Paflbearers will be Perry
Britton,' Avery T. Martin, C. R
Martin, Floyd O’Neal, Roy
Comeaux and Oollis Chambers,
The family asks that donations
be made to John Sealy Hospital
in Galveston in lieu of other re-
membrances. Checks should be
made payable to Perry Britton
at People’s'State Bank.
REL Latin Department Proclaimed 'Best In Texas'
but not in ’Bo' Tunner’s pre-
sence.
. Larry Hale has card signed
Karl Spring^ of La Porte is a
guest at Baytown Rotary Club
. Rick Wickman represents
Jaycees with talk about sales
tfpm ternm 'tSs mtm
Baytown’s newest Rotarian,
School was proclaimed to have meet of high school Latin stu-
*he best Latin Department in dents, the Lee contestants broke
Texas as a 'Result: of- a series all previous records "by placing
examinations at the state first in seven different contests
meet ln Austin attended by 1,- REL also won five second-place
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Peoples State Bank
Mentor P.O.I.O. 1 •
Baytown-’s- Robert E, Lee-Highf • At-this, -the 28th annual-state}' - The -flveaerond --place win-
ners are Ewell Clarke, advanc-
ed level derivatives; Johnny
Carrell, Greek history end life)
Bill McElhannon, , decathlon.
, Becky Burns, research paper;
medal*, and three third - place'
awards.
The first * plage , winners are*
Carolyn Comeaux, first - year
I .a tin grammar; Paul Com-
eaux, second -"year Latin gram.
Latin students
Fifteen REL Latin scholars,
under the direction of their
cher, Sherman Childres, suc-
cessfully defended their state
title, which they won in Dallas
Building up a commanding
lead of .224 points, Lee devastat-
its nearest rival. Richfield
Waco, which received 165. In-
last year. They competed against mar, Paul Ostermayer'second-
78 schools. , ‘i year derivatives; Becky Burns.
vocabulary; Tom-
-flrst- year Roman
history; Sandra Mitchell, second-
year Roman life; and Curtis
’A' -
te Word High School of Sfiit&N and CMJWtL first marjg. rewardiq|^|xperiences
place scrapbook.
ewresy ouuis, icscai cn poi-ci,
Mary Jane Bickley, publications
Placing tfcjgd were Curtis San-
ders in advanced level mytholo-
Paul Ostermayer in original es-
say on a crasstcaTsUbject.
Receiving the 15 , individual
medals and the beautiful state-
championship, trophy was the
thrilling climax of the trip which
provided-the REL students witli
The delegates heard speeches
by- well ■ • hfteterf
tended seminars on archaelogy,
Cicero, and Greek culture, and
served on several committees
Unexpected humor was provid-
ed when, while on a tour of the
University of Texes campus, the
I.ee students witnessed tote-,
resting campus custom- A
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py, Kay Armstrong in first-year student, who was observing his
impromptu Latin recitation, and - -
birthday, was unceremoniously
dunked ln the university’s fa-
m'Kisfountata“-
The next goal of theJee I<at-
in students is to win national
sweepstakes at the annual Na-
tional; Junior Classical League
Convention at Michigan State
University tn August.
EVERYBODY HAS ONE
HERE ARE DOUBLES for John Wayne,
Brace Cabot and Jim Hatton to the movie,
“Hellfighters,’’ being filmed in Baytown. Left
to right are Chuck Roberson, Everett Crench
end Jim Bark.
Movie Stars’ Doubles Tell What It’s Like
By JIM KYLE
"Hellfighters” was back
Baytown on the Goose Creek set
Wednesday finishing up some
fire scenes.
The schedule of the stars was
so busy that it presented .an op-
portunity to interview tbeir dou-
bles.
Chuck Roberson from Joy,
Tex., has been John Wayne's
double in 22 movies. "He is the
\iccst man I have ever known
in my life," was Roberson’s
words to describe the, man he
doubles for on the screen.
“ ’Duke’ is capable of doing
all of his scenes himself, but the
in should get hurt we would all be
out of work plus a tremendous
investment would go down the
drain,” hq said.
In answer to the question:
“How does It feels to always be
playing a double tn a movie and
not to be recognized for your
work?” Roberson had this to
say: "After every movie Duke
gives me a small cup with the
movie’s name glazed on the side
with his "thank you.” "To me
this is greater than any Os-
car,” Roberson said.
"Does Wayne ever get upset
during the filming of a scene,’
him to chance him getting In-
JOE GIBBS
BULLETIN
GRADY, Ark. (Sp) — The
state police have completed a
thorough and 'Unsparing report
on a dark age of mistreatment
In the Arkansas penal system,
with enough to it, a state of-
ficial says, “to put several
people in the electric chair.”
It appears tmlUcely that the
full report will be made public.
v •■JKJ'JS-aJkSSflpT KOCMWxjWIIBW
(his week be was not “terribly
-excited' by the findings. He-
tugggested that the report
might be released with, the
names deleted.
But an Independent Inquiry
by this reporter during the lest
ton months has produced the
same bhtarre pM»re.
jured,” Roberson said. "If he movies I’ve doubled for Hutton.
studio has too much Invested ^to j asked. "Very sekfom, end
““ *“ when he does it’s only fora few
seconds,” was Roberson’s an-
swer.
"What do you do In this
movie,” ws* my next question,
to which Roberson answered,
'I’d rather not say. The credit
is due Duke for everything about
ihe "Hellfighters’ and the im-
portant thing is he deserves it,
not me.”
, "I, just can’t explain to you
what a'great person John
Wayne 4s to work with. He is an
All-American man and ft’s aft
honor ton me to be associated
”,,th
There is plenty of action in
both and I’m sure movie-goers
will enjoy them,” he comment-
ed. ,
"Hellfighters” is the first
time Everett Creach, from San
Fernando, Calif., has played the
double for Bruce Cabot. Cabot
is one of the top-billed stars in
tl e movie.
Every man has his job to do
and movie doubles seem to be
as proud of theirs as anyone
else. No doubt alien the "Hell-
fighters” is on the screen thre
will be three doubles tn It who
will feel a secret joy of accom-
plishment and one of them will
be up for a cup.
tlon, Roberson said, "You’ll
have to excuse me, I've got to
get ready for the next scene."
Jim Burk calls Newhall, Cali-
fornia, home and ha* doubled
for Jim Hutton in another Iriovie’
"Grron Berets.” ’’Green Ber-
ets will be released July 4,"
Burk said. "Green Efcrete” and
“Hellfighters’’ aro the only two
Felton Murder Suspect
To Be Tried June 24
, The trial of Edward David
Kullane, charged with murder in
the March, 1967 slaying of Bay-
(own Automobile Dealer T h a d
Felton, has been set for June
21. .. ^
The trial has been set for
179th District Court with Judge
Sam W. Davis presiding.
m«t. remains m Harris County
jail. f
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