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Dr. Joe Wells of Uke Charles,
La., agronomist for the Ameri-
can Rice Growers Exchange,
told of efforts to find a suitable
location for the fertiliser distri-
bution center.
He said most of the American
Rice Growers Exchange custom-
ers were within easy shipping
distance of Liberty which had
the required highway, Tail and
water transportation available if
the proper barge depth for navi-
gation could be assured.
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ANAHUAC (Sp) — A crowd of on the Trinity River to Milepoet
150 Chambers County rice form- 38 at Liberty will be available
ers and civic leaders Thunday for use by Aug. 15 of next year,
unanimously endorsed a resolu- Vernon Poole, chairman of the
tion urging the Chambers-Lib- board of the navigation dis-
erty Counties Navigation Die- trict, said the board would
trjct to underwrite an estimated Mfc the necessary steps with
370,000 expense to provide bait# full support of the county corn-
navigation to Liberty. mlssioners in the two oounties,
Last week Liberty County res- and the land owners of the area,
idents endorsed the same resolo- Former Gov. Price Daniel of
tion at a meeting in the Liberty Liberty told the group a freight
district court room. survey was being made in the
The American Rice Growers Anahuac and Liberty areas. He
Exchange wants to build a $600,- said this would probably prove
000 fertilizer plat# at Liberty if the need for making Trinity Rlv-
July 15 that navigable waters tr waters navigable but the
his group was solidly behind the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
in Galveston would probably not
have enough time to clear the
project before the deadline set
by the American Rice Growers
Exohiiiun*
“We spent $3,000 in 1938 to
provide a barge channel to Lib-
erty, and organized a barge line
to handle the freight," Daniel
said.
"We raised that money our-
selves. We can do it again if
we have to, but the cost will be
n little higher now, maybe $70,-
000. We believe we can do the
Job again._
"If you give us your help and
cooperation In providing us with
the freight you can use on the
river, We believe we can con-
vince Army Engineers the nine-
foot depth requested by the fer-
tilizer plant builders to econom-
ically feasible."
Guy Cade Jackson m was
master of ceremonies for the
meeting held in the American
Legion hall at historic Fort
Anahuac Park.
J. Robert Nelson, Anahuac
city secretary and president of
navigation district officials In
their efforts to obtain navigation
of the Trinity to Liberty.
Nelson noted teat “the Ana-
huac Promotional Association is
a non-profit organization whose
prime purpose to to promote and
advertise Anahuac and the sur-
rounding area.
“We jeel there Is a dynamic
remarkable future for the
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streets in
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and down
the main
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wide and
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fully loaded.
He said sand bare in the Tr
ity had to be moved to .-----
the needed depth for barge coun*y
traffic. He said an estimated ty said be
350,000 cubic yards of sand miss loners
needed to be moved at an av- 1
erage cost of about 35 cents a r)ver n
assist any way we can,’'
Nelson said.
farmer's
ay patrol
answer
nple re-
Anahuac area, and we're going
na
to invite you to help us to let
the world know we're here,"
the newly - organized Anahuac I Nelson told the gathering.
Promotional Association, said I The Rev. Bob Mitchell, pea-
ce head-
v blocks
yard.
Daniel predicted a bright fu-
c of vlo-
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BAYTOWN, TEXAS. 77520
Friday. June 24, 1965
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tension ' from Park Street to
Decker Drive,
Hie tod of $170,538.60 was low-
est of four submitted. Of the to-
tal, $17,000 ii set aside for con-
tion.
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struction Go., $176,808; Holland
* Little Constriiction Co., $181,-
013; and Slcria, Inc., $196,176.
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NASA are asked to meet at 8
A a.m. Saturday, July 3, at Rose-
" land Park Pavilion. Scout leader
Howard asks teat uniforms be
worn and that a aack lunch be
brought
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Council also awarded a $4,-
surveys at night and to
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062.80 contract to Bayshore
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Constructors, Inc. of Baytown
for the Maple ton Street sanitary
•ewer force main.
ate property without the own
permission.
The charge was made by 1
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tingencies to take care of ma>
terial and labor cost increases.
Broflwr DIm
GUS M. BORGSTROM Sr.,
brothsr of Mrs. Sophia Steirer,
15 High Street, died in Houston
Thursday. Services we set for
30:30 a.m. Saturday at Georgs
H. Lewis Funeral Home Chap-
Church Speaker
errro SCHLAMME, chairman
M the BBYO Houston Youth
-Commission of B'nal B’rith and
p -^Chairman of Temple Emanu El’s
religious group in Houston, will
tte guest speaker at 7:30 p.m.
Friday at Congregation K’nes-
seth Israel in Baytown. Sch-
- lamme it owner of Otto Office
Supply Oo. in Houston.
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Engineer John Busch, who
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handled plans for the city, rec- a « ■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ga
ommended Brown'& Root be A|Ha C
awarded the contract. City coun-
|158 000 ivtilsbk
project hi bond funds .
Cravey and
bers to “come d
yourselves."
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CAUHY takes charge
NEW LIONS CLUB President James M. (Jim) Cauley (right)
•ecepts tie gavel from outgoing President Dudley Hoekabee.
Cauley, Mmg with other new effle------ ------; “||||
installed Thursday
Ion will be of ce-
thell and an as-
phalt towing. It will be a seven-
inch thick roadway. The four-
lane project will be divided by
an esplanade of four inches of
stabilized shell and one Inch rtf
m asphalt,
Busch recommended the es-
planade be paved rather than
sodded. It is an added cost of
$3,000.
Cost of construction is about
$29,000 above the coat estimated
when the bond election was held
in March, 1965. Some $42,000
Baytown and Highlands tele-| Houston central zone and Chan- watt of drainage was Included
in the project
Mayor Seaborn Cravey point-
ed out that increased cost of
materials and labor, prices have
skyrocketed above original estl-
on public
al.
ment
Ky^re it m
a spur track, but
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WASHINGTON (AP)-A for-
mer aide to Sen Thomas J.
Dodd, DOonn., was quoted to-
day as saying he bad nothing to
fear from the senator because
ot the stakes had been
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on private property.
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:OL. ROBERT STEPHENS SHOWS A PICTURE OF HIS JET
To Kiwanians Paul OeVariar, (left) and Or. R, W. Pipkin
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Protests by Mrs Jones, Rob-
Direct Dialing To
Houston Due In '67
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Holds World Speed Record-
Kiwanians Hear Jet Test Ace
‘1 have too much on him."
Michael O’Hare, Dodd’s for-
mer office manager, attributed
the statement to Gerald Zeiller,
who once was a top aid to Dodd
and now works tor Sen. Norris
Cotton, R-N.H.
O’Hare did
ert W. Rogers of 1221 Parte
Jadt Alexander of 905 S. C
Drive, and Lamar Kelley,
Danubina, who said he
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board, were
not elabbrate in
before the Sen-
heard by the council.
Rogers questioned the
as to whether or not property
owners in the path of the spur
would have a right to protect
their property. He d
(See SPUR. Page f)
Weather
CLEAR TO PARTLY
with temperature# .
The “Silver Fox," as Col. Ste-
and technicians under bis com-
mand.
He Joked with Kiwanians about
Ms age and foe ages of other
By BILL HARTMAN
f cloudy
nelvlew zone.’’
phone customers will be able to
dial directly to certain zones in
the Houston area beginning in
December, 1987, according to an
announcement at noon Friday
by E. O. Cambem, Baytown dis-
trict manager for General Tele-
phone Oo.
Cambem told the Baytown
Chamber of Commerce at the
Chamber’s regular luncheon at
Holiday Inn that a contract has
been signed between General
and Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. to provide this new two •
way service.
Also, fo December, 1967, Cam-
bem laid, Baytown and High-
lands customers are scheduled
to have expanded direct diet-
dialing. This permits cm-
's to dial all of their own
ate Ethics Committee and
no reason for BHug'''
might want to retaliate against
Zeiller. Zeiller testified
gave
Dodd
phens is called because of pre-
Baytown Kiwanians were hi
Cambem said that two - way
local calling will be established
between Baytown and Bell ex-
Park and La
maturely gray hair, also showed
toe Kiwanians films that even
the press in California hasn’t
seen. The blistering pace these
giant Jets keep is a remarkable
sight — even If it Is oo film.
Arid as ig the case of most
happenings of national interest,
there’s • Baytown angle. Ste-
phens is married to toe former
Joy Stewart Fuller, daughter of
Mrs. Talbot G. Fuller of Bay-
town and a sister of gf| Perry
Britton.
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It was old home week for Mrs,
Stephens a# she visited friends
at the luncheon. The Stephenses
are in Baytown for a short visit.
The colonel, a native of Gil-
mer, Tex., where his mother still
lives, has been to uniform 22
mighty fast company at their
weekly luncheon Thursday.
Col. Robert L. (Bob) Sta-
te range from 71-ee degrees.
iMfSdAT* renge at the
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crack
fit
doing this type
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Iteer
day in support ot Dodd
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in dead seriousness
be pointed out that it takes old-
er and more experienced pilots
to do this crucial testing.
"You can’t take a lieutenant
right out of
him loose
greea, with aa 91-degree read-
ing at I a.m. Friday.
phens, senior test pilot at Ed-
Porte.
point. . 4 ,,
O’Hare was one of a group
who reportedly removed docu-
ments from Dodd’s files ’ ’ j
O'Hare said he had expressed
amazement to Zeiller how he
Two - way local calling will
be made available the same
date between Highlands and
Bell’s Sheldon exchange, he
said.
This additional service will
add approximately 450,000 main
telephones to these local calling
scopes of Baytown and High-
lands exchanges, Cambem said.
Cambem
way local <
only those zones mentioned.
Calling to other zones to the
Houston Metropolitan area Will
still require long distance
chargee, even alter December
1967 he said.
When the expanded local serv-
ice to certain areas to Houston
and expanded direct distance
dialing are made available,
to tiie Cambem (aid, the local rates
De- approved in September 1965 by
toe Baytown City Council will
be effective. ’
After to# cutover to 1967, the
rates which apply to Baytown
(See PHONE, Page I)
wards Air Force Base, Calif.,
was guest speaker.
CM. Stephens and Ms crew
hold the world speed record for
straight-piny speed and the rec-
ord fin- sustained horizontal
flight
Cravey said the projects can
be trimmed as much as possible
can include as much
money in the annual budget os
it will stand to handle increased
costs.
"With rising costs and ex-
panding needs caused by growth
to Baytown, we are to financial
trouble,” the mayor said
liman Andy Braswell
to award the contract
to Brown A Root Councilmen
Qem Massey and Raymond
LC Library
Renovation
Near Finish
GALVESTON TIDES Saturday
Si®
or
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will be high at I a.m„ lttll
pilot school and turn
in these type ma-
When pressed for the
cost of the YF12A, Col. Stephens
said it's to to# $35 to $50 mil-
lion range. ,
He got a chuckle when be
said, "The cost Is not In my de-
partment. Our Job is to fly
1 p.m., 5:08 p.m. and U :M p.m.
s No tow tide.
could have ended his relation-
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ship with Dodd "so gracefully
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with even a sendoff from the
In May, 1965, toe colonel pil-
oted a YF12A (called the A-ll
by President Johnson) to 2,069.5
Connecticut senator.
O’Hare quoted Zeiller as tell-
ing him *T don’t have to worry
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T1» Lee College Board of
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sized that two-
would include
mph and to a height of 80,000
night that the Library
tion ha. been *
about Sen. Dodd doing any-
thing against r
much on him.’
mot
feet This topped the Soviet Un-
ion’s records cf 1,665.89 mph and,
74,376 feet.
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me. I have too
them.’’
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At such great speeds, Ste-
phens said the plane, had to be
built of titanium or .tainiesa
steel. Other metals would melt
at the temperatures these planes
must endure, he noted.
He has been a test pilot since
1947 and has flown nearly all
type jets. He holds a master’s
to aeronautical engineering
from Princeton and is a former
Aggie, graduatmg from AAM in
(See PILOT. Page *)
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Architect James A.
Davis said toe worit is
for Inspection at toe
convenience.
Dari, .too reported he
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tomers . M ■■ ........
long distance calls to points
throughout the continental Unit-
ed States and Canada.
"No exact date for toe Hous-
ton calling has been set," Cam-
bem laid. "But
contract with
oember, 1967, two • way local
calling without • long distance
charge will be established be-
tween General's Baytown and
Highlands exchanges and the
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spent at Edwards AFB.
has rceived the Legion of Mer-
it, tiie nation's second highest
-peacetime military award.
The 44-year-old jet ace heads
toe Air Force’s testing at Ed-
wards. He has 400 military and
civilian test pilots, engineers
BERTIE CARPENTER
finds herself on the receiving
and of a
the staff
again
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pects nine contractors to
mit bids at 4 p.m.
(toy) at the school
ministration buiidin
joke Played on her by
of Tri-Bay Girl Scout
Day Camp . . . Mary Beth Me-
Elroy loon for reporter pro •
B aperte . . . Robert Sauls has to
miss a school board meeting.
Oty Manager Fritz Lanham
and family have returned from
. short vacation ... Pat Thulis
has to cancel a trip to the As-
trodome ... Mrs. Dempster
Heald gathers information about
• federal aid program.
Henry Armstrong checks on
a teacher applicant Marine
Cpl. David Alford, son of School
Trustee and Mrs. Sam Alford,
1. on Ms way horn, from Viet
! Nam . . . Maj. George H. Gen-
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Bell, during
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tion. * two
cepted and t
Camper Display Shows
Vacationers 'HowTo Go*
Reginald Brewer Named
Citizens Assistant VP
L.
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With vacation time at hand,
campers isn’t enough, you’ll al-
io be able to look at Bob As- J
promonte and Rusty Start), a t
pair of Houston Astro stare. And «
girls, they are also two of the r
most eligible batchelor. in Tex- (
Staub and Aspromonta will
snowing la 4
They’U be h
Baytown t
fans and also to sign
for baseball buffs.
Baytooians are mapping
i for long summer trips
outings.
E. Reginald Brewer, • Bay- and loan officer In 1963. HU
tartan since 1947, has been elevation to assistant vice presi-
named assistant vice president dent was made at the June <M-
i National Bank and rectors’ meeting.
Brewer was schooled to Bay-
joined the bank to town and graduated from Rob-
1968, to the stock department, ert E. Lee to 1956. He is tiie
Mi of Mr. end Mrs, E. t.
ou’ll be able to see "how
ought to go" Saturday when
Citizens
at
try Jr., eon of School Supt and
Mrs. George H. Gentry, to home
on leave after earring In Viet
ft
Oo. sponsors an all
noon to I
s to say
»ds and „
and
Nam.
of Jones and 2
lot,
He
2 p.m.
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Brewer ot Baytown.
In addition to all tbe new
He graduated from Lee Col-
lege and attended the Univep-
lily of Houston. Brewer married
the former Patsy Rowe, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Rowe
, Rocky Keens tries the view
from the back asst after per-
suading a friend to be ths chart-
ft
Co. wiB help
trips.
jg,
r Mr. and Mrs. John Wadley
, and family are spending a
"camp-out” vacation in the
Great Smoky Mountains . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Leeter Alton! and
M Bert Allman are vacationing In
Washington.
to 5 p.m. - win t
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tag
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Baytown n
win have their
GETTING YARDAGE OUT OF DOLLARS
ABOyaaLewnsr
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daughter, Pamela Marie, 2, and
live at 3307 French Place.
day, July L Many ether bargain* w« ga
If MthaS 4ay, se he ansa to reeerve it h
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and busl-
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 263, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1966, newspaper, June 24, 1966; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1144969/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.