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VOL. 39, NO. 45
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Serving IAY-TEX—TH* Golden Circle Of Southeast Texas
BAYTOWN TEXAS , ' Monday, October 5, 1959 TELEPHONE NUMBER: JU 2-8302
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REPRESENTATIVES of three civic cluhs man, of the High
who will compete for Clean Sweep status in A. Milton, Pilot
the l'lilted Fund Drive toe the Unit.all pre- Allen Meister, who
pare for Tuesday’* kickoff in the campaign town Lions’ Club ef
which will cover BOO area business houses. On (fun is Mrs. Elaine
the line are left to right, R. L Creel, chair- _______
Rotary team, Mr*. E.
'rive chairman, and
arterliack the Bay-
'Aing the starter’*
ytown Photo*)
MOSCOW fAP) - The flying
Soviet space laboratory will reach
its closest (distance to the moon
Tuesday and make mankind's
first photographs of its hidden
fait, Tass said today. Reports on highway construc-
Slowed by the relentless gravit- tjon pi ogress in and around Bay-
Progress Slated Thursday
ational tug of the earth, the fly
ing laboratory should come within
4„'I50 miles of tlie moon at 5 p.m.
)—9 a.m. EST—Tuesday, the offi-
cial news agency said.
As it approached the moon, the
interplanetary station—that’s what
the Russians call it—has separat-
ed from the last stage of the cos-
nic rocket that launched it Sun-
fay, Tass added.
The agency said that at noon
Moscow time — 4 a.m. EST—the
station was 248,000 kilometers or
154.000 miles froth the earth and
over the eastern part of the In-
dian Ocean. This was well over
the halfway mark.
Tass said the apparatus is mov-
ing toward the moon more slow-
ly than the first and second Lu-
town will be heard here at 7 p.m.
Thursday at a meeting of the
highway committee of the Bay-
town Chamber of Commerce.
Members of the chamber of Enderli, L. L. Fuller, Norman R„ H. Pruett, William,, Quarti,
; commerce committee in addition Hargrave, Shmes Harrop. L F, A«;:%chai^sbrt, W."'R. Sloan,
-to Busch and President Harry Also Harry F. Hartman, KredLR. p 'Van Ddventer. Charles
Massey, ex-officio member of all Hartman. R. B. Hemphill, Floyd “White, TtVeo Wilburn. W. G. Wil
.
Watch Your Purse
niks. This is to enable it to pass in position to predict a comple-
round the moon and be pulled tion date for Highway 146 through
back to earth instead of flying off I the City of Baytown, and he and
into space as did the first moon, Commissioner Ramsey will also
And at the sanW time Commit- i E: H Bushy, George Chandler
tee Chairman W. T. Busch will Truman Cox. L. A. Derden, E. H
unfold a plan for routing of new j--’—----
industrial highways ir^Xtst Har-'
ris and Chambers Courity when
and if plant location announce-
ments come in the new Chambers
industrial section where Jones
and Laughlin Steel and Southern
Pacific now own nearly 4,000
gcres of land.
Special guests will be W. E
Carmichael, District Engineer for
the Texas Highway Department
County Judge Bill Elliott; County
Commissioner V. V. Ramsey.
Carmichael is expected to be
committees, are: R. Higginbotham. John Hollawav
R. P. Beman, W. D. Broyles, i W. E. Kerr. John M. Kilgore,
A. C. Kraft, Lowell Lammers.
Also Max Njittaa Paul Prince,
son and M. L. Wismer. . . ,.
The meeting wiU be held in the night.
| NeiF flooding arose Monday in
; Texas in thp wake of flash floods
and tornadoes Sunday.
! About 40 families fled their
homes in the "west section of
'Crystal City Monday when Turkey
! Creek rose to 175 feet, 'highest
ever recorded for the normally
tame stream.
The sharp rise came after fi.5
i inches of rain fell in the area
offices of the Chamber
merce op North Ashbel.
shot last January.
j discuss the status of Decker Drive
The unmanned space station has expansion to freeway proportions
a camera aboard. Its pictures and recent progress on the Bay-
! were to be translated into radio (town North Loop.
sigi
Ho the earth
Semi-Finals
Exam Set "Dec. 5-
REL Students In Scholar;
Jan Baethe, Mary Lee and Wil- high school students from 14.500 eligible for schol
ham R. Edwards, Robert E. Lee high schools .„ took the examina- j sponsored by an---
High School students, have been tions testing educational develop-j business and indutii^MUjamza
OiwdS'^n^tition «mdud- • ^On Dec. 5 the semi-finalists] dations! individuals awl.«Se Ka- is now in its fifth year. It was] town City Own
the NathAen, ^
ship Corn. MO WPB
Semi-finalists include 10.000 stu-|Test of the College Entrance Ex-] Merit scholarship sponsors
dents selected from each of the amination Board. Those who re- elude the Sears-Roebuck Founda
50 states Puerto Rico, the Virgin j peat their high scores on the sec-; tion, International Business Mach-
Last ond test will become finalists ~ ” “ ' “
Islands and the Canal Zone
spring more than half a million
. Shell Companies Founds-
As finalists the students will be tion, Time, Inc., the B. F. Good-
irieb Fund, Inc. and many others.
Sun Spots
;nals which would be sent back Ramsey also will discuss the
county’s project to push North
Main to Highway 73. It is known
that encountering of pipelines on
the i proposed right of way has
caused some delay on the North
Main extension, but Ramsey is
working on a plan that if adopt-
ed, may save the city thous-
ands of dollars In lowering pipe-
lines that cross the right of way
north of Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg
-ds cation grants ranging to $500 per
year to help defray the actual Road.
costs of educating the students, i Busch said that Mayor R. H.
The Merit Scholarship Program Pruett and members of the Bay-
town (Sty Council will be invited
tion and $500 thousand from the
Carnegie Corp. of New York.
We want to keep the city In-
formed on every move we sup-
port,” he said. "The city and
Rash Of Burglaries
Reported
of f Vl
over tgp
loors or through windows that
screens had (fen pried off.
In each Case, billfolds were
pilfered of money and tossed into
the yards of homes where they
were taken.
Mrs. Velda I. Cannon of 501
Scott, found her purse gone from
the coffee table in the living
room Saturday morning, investi-
gating officers Sgt. H. H. Steele
and H. L. Alexander said. The
contents were In the back yard
except the money.
Russell Colburn of 800 live
Oak told police a purse had been
taken off the bed in a bi"tr-ooin,j
ficers Steele and Alexander said
the burglar entered by punching
Sponsors have thus far awarded count}’ have to follow through holes in the screen and remov
more than $15 million worth of when projects are officially ac
scholarships.
Icepted or designated.’
In the final phase of the com-
! petition the students will be evai-
juated on high school grades, ex-
j tra - curricular activities, school j
j citizenship and leadership quali- >
i ties along with the scores on the !
!tests.
I Each merit scholarship is a I
! Shotgun Missing j four-year award covering the four
TWO WELL-known Baytown men MRS. M. C. TERRY told '^h^a^camesT S tto
in the field* of football were re- a shotgun valued at $80 had been;,. * ™ es a -‘Pend Lu-
cent luncheon guests in Montreal. (taken from a closet in her home ^ StiDends have been aver
One was Herbert Gray, a great |at 1902 Tennessee, Police Chief aver-
professional football player tn^y Montgomery said. The gun ^ °fir
Montreal Visitors
Canada and a former Robert E. i ()acj t*>Pn stored two months be
Lee star. The other was Moselfore she knew it was missing, she
Sumner, great Gander and Grayed,
suppor'er. Mr. and Mrs^Sumner
are vacationing in Canada.
TEXAS’ coastal area i* due a
few showers during the day
Tuesday. Slightly cooler tem-
perature* are expected tonight.
Election Tuesday
nancial resources which will en-
,d Aft'
ernoon
ing it.
Apparently the thief did not
enter the room but lifted the
purse from the bed. It was found
near the house without the
money.
Mrs. Betty Kelly McMahon of1 „ ......
607 North Gaillard told investi- aml College Ability tests at
Many homes had three to four
(feet of water in them in the South-
! west Texas town about. 75 miles
southwest of San Antonio.
The Corpus Christ! ° Weather
Bureau said farmers and ranchers
on the Nueces river, into which
Turkey Creek’pours, should pro-
tect property and livestock.
Army helicopters rescued five
oil field workers south of Crystal
City. They had been stranded at
an .oil rig since yesterday by Tur-
key Creek’s high water. The
stream was two miles wide near
the rig. Tlie m’en work for Pronto
Drilling Co. of San Antonio.
Weekend floods and tornadoes
left destruction and suffering
from Southwest Texas into north
•glaries (plagued screen. The billfold and coin) purse was found without. the
purse were found in the vicinity money. Entry was made through central Texas around Dallas
I the screen.
A rash
Baytown over jge weekend,
Billfolds and money were taken
from at least five residences,
Police believed the burglar en- , ....... „
tered the homes through open Cowan and A. L. Soileau that 'about where they keep purses and millions of dollars in property
without any money
V. A. Bradburjr of 507 Williams
j They left two persons feared
v. a. Diduuuiy ui j\ji v> imaiiis; Police Chief Roy Montgomery drowned, four others dead in ae-
told investigating officers C. W. i warned residents to be careful Indents in which weather figured
his daughter, Miss Judith Brad- and
bury, was missi
her bedroom Friday night.
■other valuables until thejdamage.
sing-, a purse from burglar can
Friday night. The tody.
be taken into cus-
Guard's Job Hazardous
A 'guard’s job at the Ba,vtown-La Porte Tunnel is getting to
be a hazardous one.
Guard H. O. Bush was struck by a flying beer bottle shortly
after midnight Sunday. Relief officers said the missile was
hurled from a passing canjt struck Bush on the hand.
Last week a ear careened wildly off the road and demolish-
ed the guard house on this side of the tunnel, seriously injur-
ing Guard A. J. Thihadaux.
__....___ ... „ _...... A description of the car from which the beer bottle was
Friday night. Investigating BpWftiW was given to police but no trace of the vehicle had
been found up to noon Monday.
Tunnel Supt. Travis McKinney said he planned to install a
metal guardrail around the new guard house.
Rundell Announces College Tests
At least eight persons were in-
jured in the tornadoes.
Dozens of families were made
homeless. Hundreds more re-
turned to water-soaked, mud-fiiled <
houses as flood waters receded
in some areas.
Weather forecasters and river
watchers said cautiously the worst
may be over, however.
Forecasts called for scattered
jrairi in the Hill Country where
flood destruction was centered
alter rains of up to IX inched
paired down from Friday night
through Sunday.
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BaytoniarisP
Father Dies
Lee Cbllege will givg the School
9 for
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Monday in Paris, Tex.,
These tests are given primarily'for WaiteE James Brown 82’
inose tests are given pnmamy fath{l|, flf gh(?riff M M (Fats5
students who have registered
j gating officers her purse ter" Ru,SeU announewi Mon' latP f°r the fal‘ semester but may
From AP Wires
The United Steelworkers’ deci-bles today to open a new term
that is certain to produce impor-
tant decisions in the civil rights
field . . . Representatives
sides in the five - day - old long-
sion-making Wage Policy Com-
mittee today rejected as “com-
pletely unsatisfactory” a steel in-
dustry proposal for ending the 83-
day-old nationwide steel strike
been stolen from a back room.
Steel and Alexander found entry
had been through the screen,
removed by punching holes in- it
and |imatching the catch. The
found empty,
iteele and Alexander in-
vestigated a burglary at 208 For-
rest when Ted. F. G’Seil re-
able them to attend the college . . , Prime Minister Harold Mac- meet separately with federal ichange Purse bad becn token
of their choice, awards of $100 a millan and Labor leader Hugh mediators . . . The U. N. General I Saturday night. G’Seil said he
shoremen’s strike planned to ported Sunday a billfold and
federal: change purse had been taken
year are granted. For students jGaitskeli clashed today on the is-
The colleges chosen by merit!House of Commons. ''~-
scholars also receive cost-of-edu- The Supreme Court reassem-
servation District will meet at 2
p.m. Tuesday at the Baytown
Chamber of Commerce offices
to elect a District Supervisor.
'39 Study Club
’39 STUDY CLUB will meet at
2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home
of Mrs. James Sherwood. 555
West Lobit.
« mvinoriai service was nein i ijienn invei
at 2 p.m. Monday at Channelview ! school choir.
Duplicate Bridge
Tuesday's Tides baytown duplicate Bridge
GALVESTON TIDES Tuesday I Club will meetat 1:30 p.m. Mon-, nje Burk 25 - year - old football
will be low at 12:36 a.m. and,day at" the Community house. (.(wr(, vv|,0 died of polio Saturday
12:50 p.m. High tides will be at Jack Furbee will direct.
Memorial Services Held
For Channelview Coach
A memorial service was held j Glenn Owens, director of the
5:31 a.m. and 8:47 p.m.
Delta Kappa Gamma
DELTA KAPPA Gamma Society i
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
at the Community house. Guest
! speaker will be Dr. John "Willis
j Kisler.
morning in a Houston hospital
Channelview’s Ministerial A1
liance conducted the memorial
with music led bv Joe
SJ Music Meeting
SAN JACINTO Music Teacher’s |
|Association-will have a social!
meeting at 8 p.m. Monday in the]
jhome of Mrs. E. A. Milton, 164:
|Bayshore Drive. Ail music teach-
CONSTABLE PAUL Anderson isjers are invited to attend,
recuperating from a severe cold (Continued On Page Eight)
he caught on a hunting trip to the
cold country of Wyoming. Still in
Rawlings hunting deer and ante-
lope are Gently Hathaway and
Dick Wilson. Paul and Jim King
couldtjit take the snow, ice and
cold wind so they caught a plane j
Mrs.’James Donnelly makes «n jhave fen rai ded 1 AdverttowTcmnpaign'
early morning call to find out how worth $li5 each b} CiUzcns Na- _ .....
Lee College Students
Awarded Scholarships
Three Lee College studen^™ ^ my w! and Ronnie s: Burk
Funeral rites were held at 10
a.m. Monday in; Brady, Tex.
Members of the Channelview
school coaching staff served as
pallbearers. K
Burk came to Channelview’ this
fall from. West, Tex., where he
had coached football. He assumed
coaching duties for Chartnelview's
junior high fobtbail team and the
senior high B-string team.
He tiecame ill on Sept. 17 dur-
ing a B-string game. His case
of polio was diagnosed as the bul-
bar strain and was complicated by
pneumonia.
Burk had not taken any of the
Salk vaccine series, although his
wife and one of his sons had tak-
the shots. His other son was
scheduled to take his first Salk
shot soon after his father became
UL .
Burk was a native of Brady.
Surv ivors are his widow
Better Buy Drive
’To Be Success/
ChairmauSays
"There is no doubt about it,
jour ‘Better Buy Advertised
Brands' campaign is going to be
a success.”
These are the words of R. C.
Stephenson of Commerce Food
[Mkrket, who is chairman of' the__ __ _ _ _
arrangements committee of the Ronnje Burk, and two sons, Tpm-( Wednesday 'luncheon of the Bay
Investigating officers found en-
try had been made through the
Assembly today hears the Umted thought he heard a noise on the
Arab Republic’s defense of its bail porch Saturday night but no one
on Israeli ships and cargoes from! was there when he looked out-
the Suez Canal . . . Three Hous-! side
ton men are found safe after be-
ing reported on the San Jacinto
River near Conroe. They are
Earl McDonald, W. R. Anderson
and Bob Oliver.
A group of investors is report-
ed studying a multi-million dol-
lar downtown business commun-
ity which would be Houston’s an-
swer to New York’s Rockefeller
Center ... An anonymous tele-
phone warning that a bomb had
been placed aboard a plane car-
rying a Negro integration leader
forced the craft down at Fort
Smith, “Ark., for ■ a search,
bomb was found . . . Fire which
razed t».ee stores in a shopping
center in Midland did an esti-
mated $175,000 damage.
The firing of a Deer Park Po-
lice officer on charges including
the unauthorized release of a
story to a newspaper has drawn
criticism from Houston's Sigma
Delta Chi, professional journalism
fraternity.
Late News
HOUSTON (AP) — County
Judge Bill Elliott and com-
missioner* were called today to
the Sylvan Beach park into- | are te^T^eTexaVEduca-
be used to qualify for entrance in
the spring semester. Rundell said.
On Oct. 19. 20 and 21 Lee Col-
lege will give the Genera! Educa-
tion Development test for persons
who w’ant to try to secure a cer-
tificate equivalent to a high
school diploma, These certificates
gratiou hearing in Federal
Court.
The suit was filed by four
Negroes in June of 1958. They
claimed they attempted to en-
ter the park, located near I-a
Porte, and were denied aximis-
sion because of their race.
| tion Agency
! On Oct. 19 and 20 the GED test
will be given from 6 to 10 p.m.
] On Oct. 21 the test will be given
J from 6 to 8 p.m. A $5 fee is re-
] quested. Not more than 20 people
Brown of Baytown.
He died at 7 a.m. Saturday at
his residence in the Gibralter
Hotel in Paris. He was a lifelong
resident of that community.
m addition to Sheriff Brown,
he is survived by two other sons,
Wayne W. Brown of Beaumont
and Jack H. Brown of Houston:
a daughter, Mrs. Roy Parsons of
Garrett's Bluff, Tex.; a brother,
M. L. Brown of Direct, Tex.;
and four grandchildren.
Services w’ere held at the Belk
Methodist Church, with the Rev.
J. L. Whiteman and the Rev.
Henry Mood in charge. Burial
was in the Georgia Cemetery,
Gene
lean be tested and Lee College;under the direction of
I will take the first 20 applicants. < Roden and Sons Funeral Home,
’Eagle' Rotarians
Will Lunch Here
Several members of the-Pasa-
Mrs. ,dena Rotary Club will fittend the
tionffl Bank.
The current highlight of the
campaign is a kickoff dinner
she can get an item in The Sun
. .. Miss Judy Wood has been
nominated for freshman football
sweetheart at Southern Methodist
University . . . Janet Bryant in-
quires about whether she can
bring her students to The Sun
office for a tour of the plant . . .
Frank (Butch) Kalmus wonders
whether he can ever pick t h e
right team in the World Series, j
Sylvia Jean Garrison, nine- highest ranking Robert E. Lee!State Jtetfiil Grocers Association
Recipients are Kay Clhi k. ^ held at 8 p.m. Tuesday at The
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred, 7<mTr
G. Clark of 707 Lin.ienvvood Bay-Tex grocers and business-
Drive; Gere Dean Hale, daughter j mPn m-jj attPnd. along with lead-
of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. | ma Houston suppliers and well-
president
toau. i Retail Grocers Association; Bob
Kay and Gere Dean are thejCrozier. executive director of the
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Sylvester Garrison.
Massey-Tompkins Road,, had been provided no other sphdfa
surgery Monday at 'Gulf Coast ships. Judy Carolyn is the hig
Hospital . . . Mr. and Mrs. Gor-|est r
don Keiso of Midland have been bers Hill yigtl School, attending
visitinf with the Pat Morris: Lee College and having no other
family el Baytown. j scholarship.
sr. executive
Rethil Grw
High -School graduates who are j in Waco, and John Murphy, exec-
attending Lee College and hayeriitjve director of the Texas Daily
’ Newspattor Association. Other
high- leaders of the food industry are
Mr. and Mrs. Gor-iest ranking graduate trom Bar- expected to attend. 1 , 1
Reservations are' being
through Mrs. Corrie
The Hkytown Sin. justice
City’Wetter’
Than Usual
Another 1.16 toe he* of r*in
fell from OeL 1 through Sun-
day to bring the year’* rain-
fall total to 56.93. The average
rainfall for ftavtown to Sept.
39 i* 34.78 inches.
More rain is scheduled u
the year approaches the rain-
ing season.
"Club
the Tower
town Rotary-
to discuss football and the up-
coming Gander-Eagle game.
John Magruder. president of
the Pasadena club, said he hoped
the meeting will strengthen the
spirit of sportsmanship between
the two schools and help produce
a clean, sporting contest on the'
playing field next Friday night.
TV Ganders will meet the Eag-
les at Pasadena stadium after
having a week's rest because of
an off-week; , ,^-
Dan' Stallworth, athletic direc-
tor of Baytown School District,
and Weldon (Stonev) Phillips,
athletic director of Pasadena
School District, will be the prin-
cipal speakers on the program.
They will stress the importance
qf good sportsmanship between
the two rivals.
OLDEST RIDER ON TRAIL
Baytown had the distinction
in the annual trail ride from
Liberty. Grandpa is 84. He said
In years, and he always makes a
pilgrimage in a covered wagon to hi* birthplace every year
on hi* birthday. In the photo with Grandpa are his daughter*,
C Sk (GRANDPA)
of being the oldest
the A. B. Iawrence
he hadn't missed
Miss Doris stone, left, and Mrs. Pansy Mattingly, both of Bay-
town. The picture was taken at laiwrenee’s ranch wumtay
afternoon a* riders prepared to move out Monday morning
for the annual trek to the Trinity VaBey Exposition at Lib-
erty. In th - background is a replica of a stare coach.
(Baytown Photo*)
Space ’Lab'
Is Moving
In On Moon
Meeting In Baytown
Helicopters
Rescue Oil
Report On Area. HighwayM Men
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