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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, April 1, tm
Noon Stock Quotes
(Courtesy ofCtthcas Nattaal Baak ud Uafarwee4,
Neuhaus and Co.)
Allis Chalmers.........
9%
Interlake Steti .....
ATfcT-.................
. 49%
IBM
Anncooda........
26%
Jones A Laugh .......
Arinco'....
. 22%
Kerr-McGee
Ashland
23%
Kraft Foods ........
Atlantic Richfield ,
94 ,
S. S. Kresge
Bendix . . . ..........
Ling-Tanco-Vought
Beth Steel ....... .
31%
McDonnell-Dougias
Carrier Corp.....
15%
Magnavox
Cetonese . . . . ..
30%
Marathon Oil ........
Chrysler Corp.....r. . .
. 17%
Martin Marietta Alum
City Services ......
'M
Microdot ...........
Columbia Gas...........
Dart Industries . . nt
Delta Ait
25%
Mobil Oil. .v......
19%
26%
lioiMllto ............
Nat Distillers
Occidental Petro
Wvlw A4X- r-rrt-ri-i'f'r
Diamond Shamrock ..
Dresser Ind
DuPont ........
El Paso Nat Gas
Ethyl Corp
Humana Inc
Exxon ................
Ford
Foremost McKesson .
’Gen Elec
General Motors........
Gen TAT
■ Gen Tire
Georgia-Pacific. ..
Getty Oil
Gillette !.............
Gordon’s Jewelry
Greyhound . .
Gulf Oil
Gulf States Util' ......
Gulf West Ind. ..... ..
Halliburton .........
Hospital 'Affiliates ...
HLAP ,
Inland Steel ........
Shell.....
Sperry-Rand
Tunnel Traffic Backedll Fnrm-dl®-di^Had
Up Almost To PasadenJI Notices l^’8^
Up Almost To Pasaden
traffic was back to normal
Monday despite power line
problems and several stalled
vehicles that had rush-hour tunnel, forcing employes to|
54% Stan Cal
Stan Ind
4 Stan Oil Ohio
4 Stauffer Ghent.
4 Sun Oil .......
4 Syntex
Taft Broadcast
t Technicolor -X-
Teledyne . . .. .
> Tenneco
Texaco
92%
57%
. 43%
45%
49%
17%
12%
23
25% Texas Eastern
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4MW. «UM
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Texas Gulf Sul ....
Transamerica
Traveler’s Ins ....
29 |Union Carbide ..
Union Oil of Cal ..
United Aircraft
Upjohn
U S Steel .........
Walgreen's
Westinghouse ........
Woolworth t :t
^ erox;......... ,.
Dow Indus. Avg. ..
Dow Indus. Change
v-
39%
32%
9%
30
36%
40%
Im id J
in
26%
65%
42%
14%
.'17%
,115%
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Fanestiel's resignation,
In 1970 and J972 Cannon was
elected without opposition.
Cannon, wfio is the current
mayor pro-tem, is the coun^
man with the longest tenure.
Pool is seeking his second two-
year term this year.
Pool, 52, is a department
head in the maintenance and
construction division at
» COLON • A NrtOMl Omni MMmQ
FamiyNfe
MMl
Tt-MGHT
(Enry MMdayj
7:45-11:00
lives at 2011 Durain Road and
first moved to Baytown in 1943*
Both contestants in the Dis-
trict 4 .race are foreign bom
and both District 5 candidates
are native Baytonians. >
Cannoii, 43, and Bradley, 42,
both grew up in Baytown. Can-
non, who livesfat 1601 Donovan,
is an administrative coordina-
tor for Atlantic Richfield
traffic backed up to near Pasa-
dena on the La Porte side Fri-
day afternoon
Andy Nixon, tunnel super-
way traffic was
throughout the day wl
would have slowed traffic
some, but the situation
to close ope lane to traffic sened when
through the tunnel while they
worked on the cable. He said
BEWARE OF SHAKY GROUND
! Outlaw, left, and a Friend, Dianne Jones, Show Caution Sign Fronting Driveway After
I Began to (Stiver ■{ ,
Value Questioned Of New
York’s Off-Track Betting
go
NEW YORK (AP - Like a “We will do in five years to Guy; <%,». He won’t give
hot three-year-old, whith will organized crime what the re-me ^ full odds, I’U go
in April, this city’s peal of Prohibition did to the^^* C
bootlegger,” Samuels main- Gal. “You mean you
tains. .there?”
Others say Howie’s on the Guy: “Sure, we all do. You
wrong horse. can walk in like a gentleman
“A climate has been created You don’t' have to hunt for
to gamble,” said Chief Paul F. somebody in a'cellar. And you
Delise of the Public Morals Di- can get the full odds on a race,
vision’s Organized Crinje Con- no chiseling.”
trolBureau- before he was, District Atty. William Kahn
apparently, instructed to say 0f Nassau County, just outside
Ha rnnpo >lfionQiico if nmn to .. <■ •, t .i. . i
28% be.Its age in April, this city’s
Off-Track Betting Corp. has its
eye on bigger stakes.
By the end of the current fis-
cal year the corporation will
have contributed about $117
million to the city and state,
not to- mention $46 million to
the horseracing industry. Its
weekly take is.ninning higher
than its own backers predicted
20%“ when it started Operation April &> more. “Because it now is (be city limits on*Long Island
■8,1971.,.'. possible to bet legally on said his own legal wiretaps hac
But at least one studied opin- horses, thousands of people disclosed that bookies , were
946,76 fon contends that OTB’s city- who nevdr in the world would tuming*down horse bets of less
fide network of 123 horse pari have thought of betting on than $100. The army of small
lors has also contributed to the football or basketball pr fry wbo used to keep the neigh-
town’s delinquency. Nonethe- baseball are now betting with borhood bookie in business are
less, OTB wants to get a piece the bookies.” being told, “go to OTB.”
of the adion in numbers and Does legated gambling do A year ago, OTB authorities t^o«^*^^kMand
sports betting, too. more harm than good.. discovered what one described' . H?8
ftot only would sflch ex- In New York, the answer is as apparently “a major oper-
pansionibe-enormously profit- elusive, all the more so ayon by organized crime de-
CITY - -
(Continued From Page 1)
won a contested race in 1969 for
a one-year term that filled a .
vacancy created by Albert able.mtheviewof OTB’s first
signed to infiltrate OTB activi-
because those with the best
president* and guiding light, information regard the ties.’’They called the cops,
Howard Samuels, it would also question as “politically sen-wbo arrested nine alleged
st| sitive." It cannot h® members of a bookmaking
overlooked that Howard Sam-
‘strike a deadly blow again:
organized crime.'” ’
Syria, Israel
Clashes On
Exxon’s Baytown Refinery. He a New York Times last January collecting wagers
lives at 2011 Durain Road and WMll LOntUlUe after giving the paper a report
Corp. Bradley, 42, is employ-
ed in the process department
at Exxon’s Baytown Refinery.
Born in The Netherlands,
Waasdorp was raised in Cali-
fornia.-He is 53 and is em-
ployed with Ebasco Construe-(neitra, the large Syrian town
tion Co. as an elec- ' " “ ........
trician at the Houston
Lighting and Power Co, Cedar
you generating plant.
Waasdorp lives at 1209 E
Fayle on the same street as his
opponent, Bednarski, of 1501E
Fayle. Bednarski, who was
born in Poland, came to the
United States when he was,a
teenager and has lived in Bay-
town nine years. He is secre-
tary-treasurer of O’Brien’s
Food Markets, Inc. At 37,
Bednarski is the youngest
candidate in the city election,
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L Z AflKOfF And JAMES H NICHOLSON prmnt
.RAYMILLANO'Pc®
9:20
'BAT PEOPLF’
The first ice skates were
deer or ox ribs, strapped onto
hide boots with leather thongs,
according to the National Geo-
graphic Society.
-tt—- -
Israeli positions
time since the October war,
Syrian commandos tried
penetrate Israeli lines.
Israel said the attempt was
repulsed, and today the com-
mand said Israeli forces were
poised to repulse any Syrian
advance
Israel’s top military com-
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1^62 cenfsinrefile andm sports
For the 21st consecutive day, advent of OTB. Ask the bureau action which we are not per-
Syrian and Israeli andor and about the status of the report mitted to handle. They have
artillery clashed along their 40- today and one is given a formal ^ offered credit.”
mile cease-fire line in the Go- statement by.Delise's tioss, In- jj>0Uce statistics indicate that
lan Heights this morning. spector William G: Rockwell: eyen before OTB’s arrival,
The Israeli command said “The (Delise) study, com- horserace bets ayiwuhted
Syrians fired first on pleted over one year ago, oniy about 10 per cent of
determined that the statistical
southern sector of the plateau, documentation available was cause 0f an inordinate rise in
It reported no casualties, not sufficient tojnake definite rece„t years in the popularity
The Syrian command sajd its conclusions. Present data 0f betting on sports events,
heavy artillery pounded Israeli available cannot provide a That’s why OTB wants to get
positions on four major hills of definite answer to this in on it, as well as the numbers
the Heights overlooking Qu- politically sensitive question, game— a daily pastime which
“It would be inappropriate to the Quay[e study estimates
seized by Israel during the 1967 release information-based on handles $580 million a year for
war. .%—••• generalizations unsupported an annuaj profit of $58 million.
The report said tanks and by hard data or department a tidy sumr the entire U.S. air-
anti-armor guns were duelling lines business makes lass,
in several locations. / - be little doubt that uj believe that if we legalize
The Syrians also gave no re- 0TB~the only legal off-track
port of casualties. i,L ' operation in the
There was fierce*nlne-Iiour country — has cut deeply into
exchange of Bring Sunday, and the illegal bookie’s horse
Israel charged that for the first betting business; as much as
half, according to some
estimates. In fact, bookies find
OTB parlors handy places to
“lay off” — re-bet heavy
wagers laid on longshots so a
win won’t wipe them out. They
used to have to go all the way
out to the track.
Not long ago city detectives,
uels - “Howie the Horse" as
the betting crowd calls him af- “They have been
fectionately — has left OTB to proaching our customers
become a candidate for gover-our offices an(i telling them
nor- they don’t have to wait in line
Sett.saidSam«*atthe ^
'hite bread, hush puppies and
milk.
■ ANAHUAC „
LUNCH — Fish sticks with
tartar sauce, catsup, green
beans with bacon bits, lemon
mert ti anKt^tfiei JXSTtiSS poSs ami
J
bdokie’s action, anyhow, be-
manders, warned Sunday that monitoring a legal wiretap,
heard this conversation be-
ADULTS $1.00 TIL 6:30
k FEATURES - 6:00-8:00
IIPH0OUCTI0N of "PUNNY CAB SUMMER' SlKr.ng JIM DUNN
Eaecvltvt-peoducr JACK YOBP PtOducM 6» BON PHKLIBS, JOHN BROOKS
«) by AMBASSADOR RILEASWC ty OCLUXE*
the situation on the northern
front was deteriorating
The chief of staff, Lt. Gen
David Elazar, ffrtd the in-
telligence chief, Maj. Gen.
Eliahu 5&ira, met with
Premier Golda Meir’s cabinet
for three hours to discuss
developments.
According to Welfare Minis-
ter Michael Hazani, the mili-
tary chiefs said matters on the
Heights were “serious and
worsening ... both m the
political apd military
spheres.”
Defense Minister Moshe Da
yan, in Washington to
represent the Israeli side in
indirect negotiations with
Syria, said in a television in-
terview that there was still “a
big and wide gap” between the
governments on troop
disengagement.
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger is to present Israel’s
troop seporatio plan to Syrian
officials expected in Washing-
ton April 11. ,
tween a guy and a gal, as
Damen Runyon would have
called them, the gal having
just got a tip.on a horse:
Guy: “I think I’ll put down a
bet myself if jt’s that good.”
Gal : “Where you going to
take it? To Johnny?”
sports and numbers betting,
which is organized. crime’s
chief source of illegal income
we would deal a serious blow to
organized crime,” says Sam-
uels
“J‘m totally committed,” he
has said, “to government
being in on all gambling—first
the numbers, then sports
betting, experimentally. We’ll
have to learn how to do
because it’s so complex. If we
were in all three — horse,
numbers, other sports — the
city taxpayers would pick up a
quarter of a Mlioh dollars a
year
A French researcher found
that great vintages in Bur-
gundy wines follow maximum
solar activity.
the cable runs through the wall during one day,
CUNNINGHAM
Services for Aubrey (Fritz)
Against UJS.
NEW YORK (AP) - Even
as the Soviet Union, was
publicly supporting the Arab
oil boycott against the United
States* the Russians were
shipping quantities of their
Baytown-La Porte Tunnel and to inside junction boxes.
or ran out of gas inside the L at moch
tunne forcing employes to with ^
clear the one open tent: of traf- G Jr officiating
fie so tow trucks could get to mMg Bay-) - , ^ ^
town resident ^ Th^day, own petroleum products to this
- u Heexpiamedtto ventiiauon ^rch 28, in an Oakland, country,
visor sa^^t^ ho^s of fans operate off^the powerL^ hos ital while visiting
congestion at<#ie tube Friday '—
began clearing up aboutS p.m
when both lanes of traffic were
opened.
It was,one of the longest
jams in the tunnel’s history.
^According to Nixonf a main
power service line to the tunnel
shorted out, causing employes
supply along mth all .otherCake**
tumjel equipment. Repairmen Besides Mrs. Cakee, he is
worked all day FridayJ»tjsurvived by another sister,
tempting to sbee the shorted- Mrs Harriet Chandler of Bay-J
°* Wte- Htown: two brothers, Eugene
Cunningham of Baytown aisdH
Bea
Mary
Nixon sajd it is common
have two or three cars
McElroy Vows To Be
‘Fulltime Treasurer’
and an aunt, Mrs.
I Williams of Galveston.
He is also survived by six
J grandchildren. ^ /
Burial will be in Walter
| Brown Cemetery,
Arrangements are under
[direction of Johnson and
[Frazilr Funeral Home.
U.S. Customs records here
show that since the first of the
year, four tankers loaded with
Russian petroleum products
docked in New York and New
Jersey ports.
shipments.
r *.w****^4.:.: --; £_--
which included millions of gal-
lons of gasoline, originated in
the Black Sea port city of
Tuapse. /
Local oil brokers and federal
officials in Washington said the
Russian petroleum shipments
began long before the Arab
boycott was initiated last Octo-
f'f'ber. They added there never
CHANNELVIEW (Sp)
Questioning problems being and other county departments
experienced by the presentjshould be more open.
county treasurer, H. N. McEl-
thinks lines of communication
SCHOOL
LUNCJIES
y-
between the treasurer’s office
' + WASHINGTON - A
transsexual' man today was
said here over the weekend he to six Qn the staff of right to dress as he pleases,
previous treasurer, the late inching in women’s
Mrs. Constance McDavid. He I clothes,
needs this large staff because
he has several close rclationrl /+ CANBERRA, Australia
ships with all other depart-T — The United States asked
ment heads who could be a lot the Australian government-
of help to him,” said McElroy. todayto hand over a U.S. sol-
If elected, McElroy said he tier alleged to have deserted
... , „ , , while on leave from Vietnam
will reduce the number of peo- six years ag0| officiais said,
pie on the treasurer’^ payroll
by concentrating on hiring
better qualified office staff,
TUESDAY
Baytown
BREAKFAST - Orange
juice, sausage, buttered bis-
cuit and milk,
LUNCH — Fried chicken,
frankfurters (choose ohe),
green peas, carrots, breaded
tomatoes (Choose two), pine-
apple salad, buttered roll, milk
and peanut butter bars
BARBERSHELL
LUNCH — Barbecue franks,
celery, combread, milk and
applesauce cake. '
• DAYTON,
LUNCH — Corn dogs, mus-
tard or mayonnaise, pork and
beans, cheese garlic and grits,
seemed to be anyquestion that
the shipments would continue
uninterrupted diiring the boy-
cott, : ■
‘I would have been sur-
prised if there had been any
problem about the shipments,”
said ohe Federal Energy
Office official Jn Washington
who asked not to be quoted by
name. “I think the Russians
want to make a buck, ten '
The gasoline, shipments
today to hand over a U.S. sol- totaled more than 15.5 million
+ WASHINGTON
Washington attorney John J;
gallons, not a great deal when'■‘•r “
compared with the nation’s-
over-all needs but enough to
power 23,250 average cars for a
year,_____-■ .. ' V
‘After working 17 years in wilg^gjri<f today he has
the county ’s voting machine been replaced by William S.
department, I met and am stil ^ of Mfami as defense
acquainted with department counse, for former white
heads and grass roots em- House domestlc advisor
ployes. I can get along with JohB D Ehrlichman in the
these people, enabling me to Watergate Coverup case,
work with them in exchanguigl
^ By MARION NR
SunCorrespi
Tri-City Beach
hosted the Zone 3
day at the Comm
ing on Tri-City I
with a covered dii
About 45 mei
guests attended,
members of the Bi
Club, Anahuac, La
ver Harbor and W
Clubs.
Eddie Munger
Harbor Lions Ciu
trict governor of 21
ber of the Liens T
Fame, installed tw
•hers, Jim Normal
Whittington.
Members of Tri
Gub attending tt
Ladies Night' Tui
Mr. and Mrs. R(
Mr. and Mrs. Wal
and Mr. and R
Evans, Mr. and
Whittington, Mr. ai
yin Evans, Gus D
John Early and Sa
HOMEOWNER
A regular meet
luncheon at the he
Roy Bernard on C
was held Wednesd
Final plans are:
for a pancake supp
held April 20 at the
Building from 5
Barbecue Sandwiches
TF0RH ToGo
FRONTIER BARBECUE
1007 N. MAIN 427-6433
information and data and pool-
ing resources to eliminate un-||
necessary jobs.”
McElroy said the treasurer’s |
office is a service-oriented of-|
sweet rolls,
CV ELEMENTARY
LUNCH — Homemade ve-
getable soup, peanut butter
and jelly sandwjpHes, mixed
fruit, whitelced cake and milk.
CROSBY
LUNCH .t* Meat loaf with
creole sauce or manager’s
choice, whipped potatoes, mix-
ed greens, orange whip, french
bread and milk.
roy adjjed that the port cannot j
afford to become known as a|j
deadbeat around the world.’
position..
“I will be a fulltime trea-|
surer if elected which ineans |
the county’s bills will be paid
on time.” Responding to ques-
WE SPECIALIZE IN
■oysters!
shrimp!
JACK'S
STEAK
11 S-M.tlll T1 P.M.
tions concerning payment of j|
Port qf Houston’s bills, McEl-||
4829
Hwy.146
CATFISH
PRALINES ’N
.: CREAM
: BASm-ROBBIHS; y'
Ecology Pictures
Glass covered & Cedar_Farmed
Ecology scenes. . v, hand-crafted,
-and pure as nature!
6.50 to 10.00 .
3Ke Apple Oree
■ 5*3 N. Main- Hi^Klanda
Valid Thru April
“DON’T TOY AROUND
DU LL WIND UP
SORRY"
Fix up your Dir
HIGH PERFORMANCE
100% Silicone
■h »is Sale 19"
HEADERS
GuannteM not to rust
« 69
or net for a yaar. 124 W. Texas
ELECT
JACKWAASDORP
COUNCILMAN DISTRICT 4
FOR: * Drainage Maintenance
• Stmt Repair
• Update A Enforce
City Ordinances
Pd. Pal. Ad. PaM lar ty Sa emdMe la aM Jack Sandarp. Ma AtaraaSy
Chair. Ad. Paid hr ty Mi AkaraSy. 12011 Mi. Biytows r««
•"tun IhyM a Tin Mm Cm MW
_ * * fc|N" Iw Ml EmnW Mu. k|«M. Tun
JUDY ANN BROQ
graduate of La Po
School, was make-i
tor for the Columbii
ri College Theai
duction “Wait Unti
Miss Brock is the da
Mrs. Amelia S. Bro<
Aberdeen Way in
She is a freshman ii
eral arts and cart
lege.
MARQUIS DEMON
son, son of Mr. and I
car Johnson Jr. of
celebrates his sixth I
Monday. He has a
Dollie Williams. Gr
ents are Mr. and Mr:
Manning and Mrs. Lli
Johnson, all of Bi
Great-grandfather is
son Sandling of Bay!
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