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Wednesday, March 20, 1961
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Incumbents
Fear Bobby
Hurts Them
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dem
ocratlc senators tee king reflec-
tion are privately expreulng
tear* their chance* are endan-
gered by Sen. Robert F. Kenne-
dy't entry into the presidential
con teat
Their reasoning: The New
York senator'a candidacy for
the Democratic nomination—un-
like that of Sen. Eugene J. Mc-
Carthy, D-Minn.—sharpen* the
threat of a party split.
Almost to a nan, Democratic
senators seeking re-election
made It clear at a luncheon cau-
cus Tuesday they are not going
to take any stand It. the three-
cornered contest among Presi-
dent Johnson, Kennedy and
McCarthy for the presidential
nomination.
A key party strategist said the
consensus of the informal dis-
cussion was that Kennedy is
heading for a collision with the
President that could wreck
chances for post-convention par-
ty unity.
Several of the senators cited
die New York senator’s refusal
to commit himself at this point
to support of Johnson if the
President is renominated.
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RFKOpposi
In Two Big
TexasDtles
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Formal opposition to the presi-
dential ambitions of New York's
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy became
evident Tuesday in Democratic
ranks of the two most populous
Texas counties,
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'BEWARE THE IDES OF
BAYTOWN POSTMASTER M. U Neal, left and Charles H.
Hudson Jr, Baytown’s new Internal Revenue service
officer, look at a porter on a pout office mail truck empha-
sising the necessity for income tavpayers to rend Instructions
before filing returns. Most people are concerned at the moment
with paying Dude Sam his annual due*. The deadline la April
(Sun Photo by Jamea McLain)
Lutheran Service
A COLOR FILM entitled "Time
for Revolution” will be shown
at the close of the 7 p.m. Wednes-
&srs£ Mas
tie of the Rev. Harold O. Bom-
hoff’s sermonc tte will
“Christ, You’re Quiet”
Student Teaching
MRS, DARRELL, Radle, the for-
Fairbanks Returns
JOHN B. FAIRBANKS has re-
turned from Ft. Worth where he
MRS. DARRELL Radle, the for- attended Grand Lodge IOOF of
mer Susan Gill of Baytown, is Texas. He was commissioned
student teaching this semester
in Alpine Elementary School.
She Is the daughter of Mr. and
Mn. E. P. Gill of 1600 Ivie Lee.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Radle are
attending Sul Ross College in
Alpine.
★ * *
Woothor AndTWe*
MILD WITH scattered show-
ers through Thursday Is the
Baytown area weather fore-
cast. Temperature mage ex-
pected Wedaesday, W-70 de-
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GALVESTON TIDES Thursday
will bo high at UiSt p.m. and
low at S-M a.m.
msm
Music Chib
JUNIOR MUSIC aub, the Bass
and Treble, will meet at 2 p.m.
Sunday^ in th parlor of First
Presbyterian Church. The meet-
ability and judging of perform-
ances.
District Deputy Grand Master
of District 47 which is composed
of Baytown, La Porte, South
Houston and Pasadena IOOF
lodge*.
Shelter Course
A CIVIL DEFENSE shelter sur-
vival course will be held from
6 p.m. Friday to 10 a.m. Satur-
day at file city hall’s emergency
operating center. It is sponsor-
ed by the Baytown Civil De-
fense.
Bonney Appointed
ROGER BONNEY has b
of Humble Oil and Refining
Oo.'s Houston office. Bonney
previously served as tax man-
ager of_ Humble's Southeastern
Division In New Orleans,
PTA Meeting
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN PTA will
meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday In
the school auditorium. Student’s
fathers will be honored In ob-
J. B. HOLLAWAY has problems
with a donkey . . B.
"Bertie’ Stewart is back
work . . . Blenda Bliss and
Mary Raley are Lions Club
guests . . John 0. Mitchell
talks about one of his favorite
subjects.
A1 Johnson in Room 510 at
John Sealy Hospital in Galves
ton . . . When you ask Ruth
Givens a question, you can de-
pend on getting A complete an-
swer.
Raybom Johnson picks up his
mall early- . ■ 8tth Mitchell
gets a taste of jury "duty . . ;
M. P. "Pal’’ Fuller Is on time
... Caroline Lilly expects Eas-
ter guests . , . The Erwin Wil
bankses attend an Austin party.
Dave Bloom caught throwing
shoe at the audience during re-
hearsals for "Barefoot in toe
Park” at the BLT ... Get well
wishes to Brenda Casey. Lowell
Majors, Gail Kana and BecWe
Burnett . . . Congratulations to
Mary Howard Brown, her new
car finally arrived, broken blink-
ers and all . . . Kame Schnell
has her car washed . ... Anfiete
Maroney tries to direct a Lil
Abaer rehearsal . . . Roy Mont-
gomeiy visits the Baytown Sun.
Birthday greetings to Robert
E. Lee student Donna Mitchell,
18, 1906 Maryland. .
will be served. The executive
meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. ®
Membership Extended
CRAIGMONT GARDEN Hub is
at now able to Include-persons for
membership living outside the
subdivision. Membership is ex-
tended to toe Ponderosa subdi-
No Service Charge
At...
Psoptoa Stats Bank
ISW*>W P.O.I.C.
servance of Father'* Night. Par- panhandle-Plains area;
ents will visit classrooms aft-
Regent Absentee
Voting Starts
Absentee voting for the Leo
College Board of Regent*
started Monday, according to
College Comptroller Alvin
Miles.
Voters win fill three seats
on toe baud.
Seven candidates have filed
for the three seat*. Regents
tte elected at • large, not by
district designation.
The seven candidate* are
Incumbents Royai D. Burnside
Jr. aad O. A. Boatright, pins
Cheney Bay Coker, Claude N.
Cook Jr., John Henderson, MR-
ton Campbell, and William H.
Ha imp.
Incumbent Bill Strickler did
not file for reelection.
Absentee voting la being held
from t a.m until 5 p.m. until
April * In Comptroller Miles'
office at the college.
LBJ Calls On U.S. To
Contain Aggression
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presl- groups attending a foreign poll-
dent Johnson has evoked Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt’s pre-World
War n call tor containment of
aggression in a new plea tor
homefront support of his Viet-
nam policies.
Johnson said Tuesday that
President Roosevelt urged the
nations of the world in 1937 to
‘quarantine the aggressor" but
it took World War n to make
men understand the message.
“Let tola generation learn
from toe mistakes of the past,"
said Johnson. “Let us recognize
that there Is no resigning from
world responsibility. There is no
asy road to freedom and or-
der.' ’
He drew cheers and proka^S)
applause—along with shouted
pledges of support—from repre-
sentatives of nongovernment (See LYNDON, Page t)
cy seminar at the State Depart-
ment.
Punctuating toe President’s
fervent pledge to pursue his
Vietnam policy "as long as
aggression threatens” were re-
port* from congressional
sources that Johnson's decision
:o commit an additional 35,000
virtually final.
These sources reported that
key congressional leader* have
remains unresolved.
The Pentagon meanwhile
called for the drafting of 44,000
men in May—making It the
lerttve Service summons has
topped the 4C,000-man mark.
Surprise Storm Rages -
Panhandle Area Gets 7-Inch Snow
By THE ASSOCIATED PRE88
A surprise storm on the first
day of spring struck Texas a
ROGER’BONNEY has been ap- sledgehammer blow today,
pointed chief tax attorney in the dumping more than seven inches
Headquarters Tax Department of snow in tlie Panhandle-Plains
country and triggering mon-
soon-like rains and flash flooding
elsewhere.
Winds gusting to 35 miles an
hour sent thick, heavy snow
whipping through the air almost
area.
Scores of schools .and roads
closed as the wet snow piled up.
Visibility was near zero in the
Tl>e Weather Bureau said Cros-
er the rfert&g. Refreshments byton ta ^ south Plains report-
vision and other Interested per- tbf,|r own h.i.
ed seven inches of snow. Other
heavy amounts included Morton
6, Muleshoe, Dimmit and Floy-
dada 4, Post 3, Lubbock, Spur
and Tahoka 2.
Stockmeh Were warned to pro-
tect their cattle. Air travel halt-
ed at Lubbock. Highway travel-
ers were warned to proceed at
sons in the Immediate area. For
further information, call Mrs
M. E. Durant, 424-8130,
CV Ups Tax
Assessment
For Schools
Die Channelvlew School
Board has raised the school dis-
trict's tax assessment ratio
from 60 to 80 per cent of full
market value.
The Increase was approved
Tuesday night at the regular
meeting of the school board.
The aetksn was taken, upon a
motion of Trustee Mrs. Wanda
Martin, after Supt. H. G. Scho-
chler reported the district could
maintain the present program
on a tax rate of $1.45 per $109
if the assessment, ratio fra*-in-
creased.
The present tax rate at Chan-
nelvlew is $1.93.
Trustees also voted to hold A
Crosbyton,’ which had heavy
rains until about , midnight,
awoke to find up to seven inches
of snow on the ground and the
flakes still falling.
At Silver Falls Canyon Park
near Crosbyton, from 30 to DO
automobiles and trucks were un-
because of the slick highway, a
main one, state police reported
Said a Crosbyton1 observer
‘Tve never seen anything like
this so late-on toe first day of
spring."
At Floydada, a canyon nine
miles south of,town posed similar
problems. Cars must negotiate a
steep grade over a din to get
out of the depression and they
were unable to-do so during tire
morning.
Snow at midmoming was four
to five inches deep at Floydada
Temperatures were In the low
39s as the near-blizzard raged:
through mid-morning.
Thunderstorms hit many areas
in wares. A heavy downpour
flooded homes in low areas of
Brown wood in West Central Tex-
as. Virgil Gray, assistant city
manager, opened the City Coli-
seum for flood victims seeking
shelter as more than two Inches
of rain pounded toe town. Two
underpasses in Brownnwod were
closed.
Hail peppered the Abilene
area as twin fronts collided with
a warm air mass. A Pacific cold
front first slipped into Texas and
was reinforced by much colder
Arctic air,
Streets were closed in Dallas
in North Central Texas because
of flash flooding. One«pollce dis-
nr. 1/4 •‘Vaii /Inn’t mane.
able to get out of the canyon patcher said, “You don’t meas-
ure travel this morning in miles
per hour, but inches per min-
ute."
The Cochran County sheriff's
office said a school bus from
Levelland skidded off an icy
highway south of toe Pep Com-
munity and pliufgfcd into a ditch.
There were no injuries and those
aboard toe bus made their way
to a farm house.
Telephone service was disrupt-
showed no signs of abating.
In Lubbock, a newspaperman
on toe Lubbock Avalanche-Jour-
nal said “big globs of wet snow
are falling: It s really coming
down.”
The WeatherBureau said trav-
el hazards would increase at
nightfall,
‘ Although snow is wet now
and is melting on most roads and
streets—as these surfaces cool
fome freezing will take place,
the Weather Bureau said.
The Weather Bureau said
blowing snow would be less of a
problem tonight.
The Highway Department said
traffic was stalled over most of
the Lubbock district. Driving
was extremely hazardous hi the
Lubbock and Childress districts.
fw, comrttw. In *• «* "I1
nonlnfe. tM. *nmm .1 th.
other states from as far away
as Hawaii. We must stop this out-
flow Of talent.”
Before moving on to Dallas,
Smith told Houston supporters he
will win because of "proven abil-
ity and experience in state gov
eminent.
Rancher Dolph Briscoe like-
had some things
U.S. troops to the war zone Is
er move and that only its timing k«p experienced per- cer saW. it started to eoiM
sorarel and attract newcomers to doae| we would have to build up
the public schools.
tolMrtral^month that these- JgJtaS S's^te £d
(Bee KENNEDY, Page *)
Passes limited
To Movie Set
Nassau Bay Phone Co.
Official To Talk Jere
J. O. Kiser, manager of the
Nassau Bay Telephone Co., will
speak at a meeting a 7:30 p,m;
Thursday in the 'Community
Building. „
Kiser has proposed to the
Baytown City Council that his
company come into the Bay-
town area, where, H6 said, Nas-
sau Bay would give better and
cheaper service than General
Telephone. -v
Kiser told the council last
Thursday that it would cost his
company half a billion dollars
to move Into Baytown.
Sponsored by toe Citizens
Committee For Better Telgph
Service, Kiser’s talk is open
the public.
500 of approximately 1,300 bus
riders live within two miles of
not emitted ^retaburaernem
from the state for transporting
them.
THEY’RE MAPPING STRATEGY for the April Crusade for t
the American Cancer Society in Baytown. Bob Stakes, execu-
tive vice president at Flret National Bank, 1a chairman of
the crusade, and Mr*. Lon I* DelHomme Is residential chair-
man responsible for the April! t hourt-to-house campalfn.
Volunteer workers are still needed. Any interested person
should contact Mrs. DMomm* U4-MN.
| NO SERVICE
CHARGE
CITIZENS NATIONAL
Bank <S Trust Co.
scene from here on.”
Thursday Session Sef
Seminar On City
Sales Tax Slated
By MIKE LONSFORD
A seminar to inform the pub-
voting on and can make up i group* to explain the overall
their own minds," he added. sale* tax situation In light of city
_______________ ___ After the seminar Thursday I needs," Miller said.
city sales tax will be held at night, the cittens committee The sales tax will be on toe
~ ‘ ‘ will “make a concerted effort to ballot In the city election April
Reds Pull
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Campaign utterance* of toe ^ ^ ^awstlon. *°
party’s candidates tor the guber- rtudy Uie tax questloii.
natorial nomination center for Miller, who f* administrator
the most part, meanwhile, on o* Gulf Coast Hospital, said the
subjects many of them had "whole purpose of the citizens
brought up previously committee is to Inform voters
Former Secretary of State ^ the public on the needs of
John Hill, speaking to Southern the city and how toe tales tax
Methodist University law stu-will meet those needs."
dents in annealed for TN moderator will be either
support of young voters and pro- Miller or T. L. "Doc” Setter-
pdsed, if elected governor, to set white, vice chairman of the dt-
up a youth advisory committee. lzens committee.
Mil said, "The social con> “We won’t be there to give
science of young America the pros and cons," Miller said,
is often more attuned to our ‘ We’ll just explain the city sale*
problems than is the conscience tax ’ and let toe citizens make
of their parents ’’ up their own minds.”
In Austin earlier Hill backed Miller said that members of
pay raises for peace officers, leg- toe city council committee who
islatore and teachers. studied the sales tax will be on
Lt. Gov Preston Smith, also in hand to answer questions — Pat
Dallas, told a gathering of teach- Ball, Glen Walker and Albert
ere there will be 14,000 too few Fanestiel.
of them to fill public school posts Miller said again that tire
(hi* fall and urged classroom seminar won’t try to "sell" toe
pay scales of "professional stat- sales tax.
i.’’ , "We just want to have an in-
Smith said, "Young men and formed electorate so that the
women educated right here in citizens will know what they’re the spotty contact which toe
Texas are being recruited by
Saigon Threat
By VC Eased
SAIGON (AP) - Some 13.000 force of 50,000 U.S. end South
hard-core Viet Cong have faded
Info their jungle hideaways near
the Cambodian border, easing
the threat of a second invasion
of Saigon, senior American ntU
dais said today.
The five Viet Cong regiments,
bloodied in toe Communist lu- Saigon
nar new year offensive that
tamed Saigon Into a battlefield,
slipped Into War Zones C and D
to escape the biggest allied of-
fensive of the war launched 10
days ago, the officials said.
A- U.S. spokesman said the
Viet Cong withdrawal explains
tuts Mediterranean
luiklup Is Watched
ranking military officers of toe
North Atlantic Alliance see no
wife Janey joined him to cam- need to do anything now about
paign in Central Texas. Noting the Soviet naval buildup in toe
that Texas ranks 33rd among Mediterranean.
in teacher salaries, Bris- 'Their strength is still far be-
largely psychological, a way to
boost the morale of the Arab
countries which the Soviet Un-
ion backs against Israel.
They also point out that toe
comparatively untried Soviet
ileet is also gaining operational
experience in the special condi-
Only persons with business on lions of toe Mediterranean—a
the set are being admitted to long body of water, compare
the "Hellfighters" locations in lively narrow at vi
the Baytown area. with good sailing
A Universal City Studios of- year round,
tidal aaid passes have been The allied officers are im-
issued to Baytown people who pressed with the feat of the
are assisting with the produc- Egyptians in sinking toe Israeli
tom. No other persons will be destroyer Eiath with a Soviet
issued, he said. Styx missile. They note with
•This te a dangerous produc- concern that the Russians have
tion," the official said. "We do delivered similar missiles to
not have faculties for visitors.” other Arab countries.
"John Wayne had time to talk Another worry is that the
with everyone last week because Algerian government will allow
The Soviets are already using
Alexandria, In Egypt, tm mod-
em techniques of supplying
ships at sea make naval bases
less important than they once
were. But Mere el Keblr could
he valuable to the Soviets as •
repair yard and leave center
near the western entrance to the
Meditcrranan.
"Even the Soviets can’t keep
Ihelr men at sea Indefinitely,"
one officer pointed out.
U.S. officials estimate that the
Soviets now keep about 35 ship*
in the Mediterranean though at
times there have been as many
as 46. A year ago there were
rarely more than a dozen.
The U.S. 6th Fleet ha* about
60 units, Including two big air-
craft carriers that the Soviets
cannot match. It is under the
command of Gen. Lyman Lem-
. „ Tiltzer, commander of U.S.
ifion* all forces in Europe and also the
Supreme Allied commander.
Hu headquarters has been near
ihe south Belgian village of Cas-
teau since President Charles De
Gaulle expelled the NATO com-
mands from France last year.
said, “but he is in almost every Keblr, which France recently
TwMng Contest
PUD WHEATON and Jesnle tt
Edwards, Sterling High School
Twirling Association contest in
Webster.
Vietnamese troops have made
in Operation Quyet Thang—Re-
solve to win—now under way in
five provinces north, west and
south of Saigon.
Although the danger of anoth-
er major infiltration Invasion of
ened, it ha not pa***L U.S. of-
ficials said, because the enemy
regiments are Mill 30 to 50 miles
north and northwest of the city.
The allied sweep force report-
ed only one ground action Tues-
day. About 400 South .Viet-
namese rangers routed a .band
of guerrillas camped five miles
south of toe capital and sold
they killed 21 in running, five-
hour battle.
In the 10 days that Operation
Quyet Thang has been under
way, the American and Viet-
namese troops have reported
killing 903 of toe enemy in spo-
radic fighting and detaining 201
suspects. The allies are believ ed
to have encountered local-force
guerrilla units or rear guard
elements of the main enemy
force that fled from the action.
The allies say their casualties ‘
so far are 34 Americans and 43
South Vietnamese killed and 308
Americans and 139 South Viet-
namese wounded.
In toe Mekong Delta SO miles
southwest of Saigon, enemy
runners shot down a U.S. Army
helicopter Tuesday morning but
the crewmen were not wwunded.
the U.S. Command reported.
Viet Cong terrorists mean-
while renewed their attacks in
Saigon and killed four civilians
in Cholon, the city’s Chinese
section, in the last two nights. A
policeman also was killed and a
civilian wounded in an attack on
police station Monday night.
Along the northern frontier,
North Vietnamese gunners fired
125 shells at the Khe Sanh com-
bat base in toe west and 46
rocket and artilery rounds at
the U.S. Marine supply base at
Dong Ha In the east. U.S.
spokesmen said casualties and
damage were light.
U.S. B52 bombers struck four
met Tuesday night and today
at enemy positions around Khe
Sanh, aiming to one raid at ene-
S. my construction seven mills
southwest of the U.S. Marine
fortress.
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'HOT MUCmHANGEiH40YEARS’
WHEN RAYTONIAN JIM BURGESS saw a picture lay-out to
The BaytoWn Sun the other day showing crowded conditions
in and around the police administration boUdtax, Justice of
the Peace and Corporation courts, ho recalled n headline he
anw to a former Baytown newspaper, the Gulf Coast Dans*
**•*• by Henry Hstosmk) -
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