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YOUR
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HOMETOWN
NEWSPAPER
IC Pages, I Section
35
30, 1961
Telephone No. OL 8-3353
Editorial Telephone No. OL 8-4773
Price 10c
Hill
City’s Growth Problems
canoe
UH
HTUH
.Hl
FIRST AID
gain
upon
Commissioners Ponder
i n
Jackets Set To Play
taxes.
In Cage Tournament
and
ammonia
son when bot.i teams will have
pissioners Settle
tarage Firm
thousand cubic I higher rates based on a study of
IS
(ounty
Auditor
and
for
car
about
Fire Marshal Warns Of
“Right across tic fence.
Mustangs Launch New Basketball
Schedule In Tuesday’s Double Loss
Joe J?phBon
c Hardie OL 8-2561
by battle trumpets of tae
A
thing else, this army is shooting
at us all the time,” he said.
He said it couldn't possibly be
Mayor Eddie Hillyer
wt thz. maHot* 4/x f'i
in
Andrews
Bryan. $37,045;
was
Com-
t h a t
and
and
it
■
JEPHSON
INSURANCE AGENCY
IPI CONTINUOUS
TO POftYHOLOEWS
■ ALVIN ASIA”
Every young lass or kid
re-,
9
______ at Pearland
Friday and Saturday nights,
See OKLAHOMA
Page 5, Column 6
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by the plaintiff vdith pre 11958.
Angleton and the
B i folder ■ i.
warned of dangers from high
See DANGERS
Page 5, Column 3
I ai
■> the
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A cast, consisting of mon than
50 high school students at Pear-
land, will present the popular
musical, ‘‘Oklahoma”, in t a e
school auditorium
on
)f tae settlement.
At a s
Plague Council Group
Alvin s City Council met in a had been made previously
lengthy executive session Tues- two otaer builders and ask
Please do not mail news to the
Sun e m-
et would include 400 cubic feet
of gas, and the secom top would
cover an additional iOO cub i c
I
gregate, the company says, while
the consumer price index for the
Gulf Coast area has increased
141.5 per cent since 1933, aver-
age monthly gas bills here have
increased only 24.8 per cent in
the same period. On the otaer
hand, according to the company,
total operating expenses per cus-
tomer have risen from *oc
year in 1951 to $43.12
» New-
man, Tommy Bettes, Ronnie
King. Mike Kirk and Ronnie
Junks.
The junior high players will go
JI Help You Shop
Christmas - See
been a single loss except in that
10-acre area, out of the 500 acres
a in that tract of pasture land.
Anot.ier rancher, Teddy Carr, safe. If we were, why didn't they
^ported that he had lost one cow turn the ran re toward the road.
Why don’t they build them next
to houses These people are out
here for the purpose of playing.
We are trying to make a living.”
Ho said no matter waet her
they are shot by the club mem-
of Angleton, $31,136.50; and
Southland Welding Works of Ros-
enberg $29,024.50.
The bids are to be tabulated
by the city engineer and a con-
tract let at the Dec 13 meeting
of the council.
One of t le lengthiest discus-
sions centered on the city’s in-
surance coverage 'hospitalization
”' ) for city employees.
Councilmen Lawrence
and G. L. Garwood.
be handled at the editorial of-|
fices of the newspaper ... up-
stairs in The Sun Buildin;; . . .
and at these offices ONLY.
Items may tie mailed to Box |
431 . . . or delivered in person
the
I fiauif »»ui pwauij uc played i
during the Christmas holiday sen-
but before proceeding with
al . . I think you should
the possibility of! settling
ass .
the year 1951 Wimberly recalled
that at the time of tae 1958-1959
request. Houston Natural agreed
to withhold filing an application
to recover these other costs of
service for at least one year. “We
have in fact withheld this appli-
cation for three years.” he said,
“while sincerely hoping that each
ensuing year would see a rever-
sal in the spiralling upward trend
of all costs of providing ser-
vice . . . Tais delay in the in-
terest of cur customers makes
our present need for immediate
relief most urgent. ’
Exhibits with the application
sought to trace the history of
rising service costs. In the ag-
k’1 losket '
rn°1"
K" 'Wii-
r ,.r.
>1 other handsome gift is
-star flag, created in the
\5-foot size which L
•i hutflb display This
• .-ular banner is of hideproof,
The Alvin Sun
J edicafc-rl 3c (c»i Humify tPctorice (hei ft 3ca't^
ESTABLISHED 1390
j TRAVEL KIT
to J517
P £t i:
an al,(rF(
P •foch w0U]u
of J750 •*
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total uln
Coach Joe Peery’s Alvin Higa
School basketball Chib cancelled
out its scheduled pre-district
game Tuesday night with the
Sweeny Bulldogs since athletes
there are still engag<?d in a foot-
ball schedule aimt-d at a State
championship.
It was announced that
game will probably be
in- are soft to the touch, eyes open
and close, anti the real hair is
deeply rooted. The doll is un-
__'breakable. She wear; an attrac
i s tive ensemble, complete with
liigl: hct-Ted srppers.
Equally pleasing as a gift for
a child is the Black Cloud
archery set. The four-foot bow
has a plastic handle and makes
a handsome gift for a young
man. Arrows are feathered and
are steel or rubber-tipped. A tar
get comes with the set, and al-,
See PREMIUMS
Page 5, Column 4
1)
gas purchased by the company
and
_____________ - . ex-
.. ,W3MUUM, iHM suigc umm w would remain the same, indu'd-1 penses which had occurred since
ation by a pa v inent of district win and put them in the ing the special sumir. riime rate the only previous application for
Neptune called his row exhaust-
ed forces home.
Then life stirred gain upon
the land, and gazed upon damp
j RUjn every-
gone,
i n
Sheriff’s Requests
A formal decision concerning
uniforms for Brazo ia Coun t y i
S h e r i f f’s Depart i nent e m-
ployees is to await consultation
by members of the i «urt with
two or.her county officials.
The court informal . agreed to
the purchase of th uniforms,
but said it would not take offi-
cial action on the natter until
it could consult Disti ct Attorney
Sam Iree and County Auditor
Frank A. Taylor.
These two officials are to be
asked for their opinion on the
legality of buying the uniforms |
with county funds, ai d th< lega-1
lity of a budget transfer
finance the purchase
The matter came up for the
second time at a recent meeting
of Lie court. County 'heriff Jack
hewn
----- had
been a tremendous one, for the
dugout was 30 feet long and four
feet across at the widest point.
It was marked with curious signs
and letters and no one could
guess from whence it might have
I come. Finally it was iden ified as
■ an African war canoe .it least
100 years old.
The anti climax to this story is
- it drifted, not across tie miles
and miles of ocean from the
snores where it was made, but
from Galveston.
1 It is the property of M. O.
Monger of Offatts Bayou. Galves-
ton who had it shipped he re from
Africa.
Monger has stated that he
would like to place the dugout
in a museum or give it to a
charity organization.
for
. ... ------ ------the
day night wita officials remain- <ame consideration. He was ask-
ing at City Hall until well after <d to present evidence of the
midnight .... but most of the ■ (ommitm* ■ > on the two houses.
- S was time-consumingl Bids we.e opened on extensive
water and sewer extensions to
the triangular area at Five Points
which has >x?en taken into the
City Limits, and to Bayou Bend
Sub-Division located to the east
of the same area.
Three bids were received
the following amounts:
& Parker Inc. of E........
C. B DeAugelo C >nstruction Company
> and
Houston Natural Seeks
Gas Rate Hike In City
feet for all monthly consumption
above 6.000 feet. The company
estimated that the maximum ef-
fect of the new schedule on any
customer’s monthly bill would
and average about three cents a day.
The letter of application, sign-
ed by President Joan H. Wimber-
ly, said that Houston Natural’s
request for a rate adjustment
Grass Fire’’ Dangers
dangers, are especially high this
year because of the rainy sum-
mer which caused thicker grass
and weeds to remain on vacant
lots.
“A lot of these lots haven t
been cleared,” Delesandri jointed
out “The rain probably stopped
toe mowing operations too.’
At any rate, the fire marshal
Marshall made the uniform
quest by letter to the cou't about
a week earlier. The plan propos-!
ed by the sheriff calls for pur-
chase of 27 uniforms, for both
men and women employee in that
d€*partment. Total purchase price
will be about $3,150.
Concerning another Sheriff’s
Department request, that for
establishment of a Crim nal In-
vestigation Department with i n
the Sheriff’s Department, t a e
1 court gave no definite indication
of what its decision will be.
Commissioner George Dune an
of Sweeny commented tliat he is
t o in favor of the uniforms, but th?f
I he believes further discussion is
needed on the Investigation De
see coMMissnrrns
Page 5, Column 4
Are Reported Prickly Problem Eyed By
Two weekend accidents were i
reported by police Chief Glen; 1 1 VW
S:H”Court In Gun Club Bow
bout 4 p.m. Saturday at House
and Slataper Streets when Miss
Marilyn J. Dollar, 15, of Alvin
pulled over to let a car pass and
hit a telephone pole. There was
about $2(10 damage to tae
which she was driving.
The second wreck was
12:45 p.m. Sunday at Gord in and
Sealy Streets when Frederick Mc-
Donald, 31, of Lake Jacksoi stop-
ped for a traffic light aiid the
car driven by Seth R. Adf ir Jr.,
18, of Alvin struck the rear of
the McDonald vehicle. The.-e was
about $75 damage to McD maid’s
car and $10 damage to Adair’s
car.
Shcpperd said Adair was charg-
ed with following too closely.
______Alvin Brazoria County, Texas, Thursday, November
- Storm Mystery From The Sea -
The winds that bl-w and the strangely marked canoe
waves that rolled si «amed and from a single tree, whici
pounded with rage as the co 1
horts of the sea attacked the
land anew in fury to oossess the
earta once more; ant I surged and
crashed and thundered; urged on
by battle trumpets of tae gale;
driven into madness by their
shrill shreiking; lash d to frenzy
by the wild insistent wind.
But the land stoo: firm
hours passed, and days;
----Please Help Us----
News for The Alvin Sun should ... or telephoned to OL 84773
'I between the tours of 8 am. and
5 p.m.
| tome addresses of
See HELP
Page 5 Column 4
repellent plastic, firmly
ied with a re>inforcbd bind-
It will never crack, peel
or chip.
there's a youngster <>n your
tmas list, she'll delight in
■ in,: the 12-inch "Miss Gin-
doll. This charmini; model
movable arms. Idgs and
■ ■'■ Paris Court
the nr
Angleton area landowners told and the location of the range are | we are working our cattle, mow-
of the problems in trying to live connected, since there has not ing our past ires, or doing any-
and work in an area "where
there is an eternal war going on
right across the fence," in
hearing held before Brazoria! /___________;____ - ~______
County Commissioners Court this reported that he had lost one cow
week.
The group is attempting to get
Commissioners Court to rescind a
lease of county owned property to
the Brazoria County Gun Club
for a shooting range. A decision
is expected on Dec. 11.
About 12 persons pe t i tioned
Commissioners Court to canc e 1
the lease, and the court call«l
this hearing to air the matter.
Eight or 10 ranchers and resi-
dents of the area were present
and three officials representing
the Gun Club.
Lloyd Carr told the court the
situation was "unthinkable" and
that the county signed the
lease over the strenuous obje>
tions of his father, R. H. Carr,
who owns 500 acres north of the
range and in a direct line with it.
“I don’t go around jeapordizing
their life, limb and property," he
said, "why should they be allow-1
ed to do this?"
Carr said he and his
have lost seven head of fine,
payment of any and a 11
»s -t forth in said law suit.”
file else had been set for
" I Monday, in 130th Judicial
in Angleton, but;
t'l-sid A pokesman for!
' voners Court said at tnat
thit Foreman had made a
See FOREMAN
P»ge 5. Column 3
great deal next fall. However, we
hope that we have : ome squad-
men. junior varsity layers, o r
freshmen ready and anxious to
fill these spots left bj graduation.
The following 11 boys completed
their football eligibility for Al-
vin High School: Bily Bob Mc-
Bride. quarterback; Janies Mar-
tin. halfback; Nick Cordova, half-
back; Harry T.tomas, halfback:
Vernon Sauer, halfback: Dwight
Green, center: Johniy Ashcraft,
tackle; Joe Tom Maxwell, end;
Ferris Maness, end; Nilo Esqui-
See ’JACKETS
Page 5, Column 4
an open date.
Peery will take his Yellow
Jacket crew into their first tour-
nament of the 1961-62 season
this weekend. The tourney i s
hosted by West Columbia and will
be played out Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
Alvin’s first game will be at valuation ,la(i lwn'
5:30 p.m. Thursday when the land in com.
jlocal eagers face up to a Dan- proper)ies
bury clu0- Mr. Moller also asked that the
|city accept 500 feet of Highland
Drive into the municipal street
network and he was told that
City Engineer S. A. Russell must
first ascertain if the street meets
city specifications.
The city’s new sub-division or-
j dinance came in for some discus-
sion also. The planned construe-;
tion of nine duplexes on Orms-
by Street, to be located on a pre-
viously undivided tract of land,
appeared to councilmen not in
keeping with the provisions of the
ordianance and the builders are
to be contacted concerning this
matter.
The same situation developed
concerning a request for the
city to build a street on what
aas been known as Gubert Lane.
Investigation of both matters
was suggested.
$25.56 per! Another question having to do
----- _ T---per year, with the city’s growth and new
in 1961, and the company’s plant ordinances was brought by Bruce
investment per customer has in-; Pennington, contractor, who ask-
creased from $168 in 1951 to near- ed an adjustment on tap fees at
ly $210 in 196J. A schedule o f1 houses where he had a firm com-
s(4crted salary and wage rates | mitment to build prior to the
also shows increases of from 37 I city’s deadline for increasing the
See GAS tap rate. Mr. Pennington remind-
Page 5. Column 3 cd the council that adjustments
I devastation. Ruin -. as
where, and known things
and things unknown were
taeir places.
Drifting on the gray waters at
the Chocolate Bayou larine Base
was a mysterious thing; a
(on his 50-acre tract south of the
property, and that his animal
was also found near the shooting
> range.
1 Thurman Bennett, who lives
about a mile from the shooting mey are snui uy uie ciuu ineui*
range, said he can stand on his|bers or the so-called “outlaws”,
front porch and see Lie g u n or
, ner of the dirt backstop at the
range.
“If they happened to see a bird
or something, I would be in a
direct line,” he said. “It says on
leach box of 22 cartridges that
they are dangerous in a one-mile
range. I have five children, and
they all play in the yard. I can’t
keep them in Lie house.”
Bennett told the court, “What
we are trying to do is to secure
our homes, our cattle and our
living.’
Lloyd Carr called the shooting
range a “hazard, menace and
extremely dangerous” situation
father | forced upon the landowners in
imvc ______— that area- He said property there
heaw' caSe worth" about S2(« dropped in value by one-half be-
each, within a 10-acre radius of cause the shooting range makes
the rifle range He said it was adjoining property unsuitable for
too late to post the animals bv th* nnrpose of living, ranching or
the time they wore fo""- >- an"«*>"
that it seems e' ident their death. . “Eight across ttc ferze, i... ,
_____r________J see Lie g u n j or trespassei s, they will be just
mounts across the northeast cor- as dead. “Even if we were safe,
.L. u—^4 the mentai strain of having some-
one point” >g a rifle at you is
pretty great, ’ he added.
I. IL Carr and Teddy Carr
both told the court that despite
recent promt es by the Gun Club
officers that the gate would be
kept locked :t has been open on
several insta ices, including both
Sunday and Monday of this past
week.
“It was no: even pretended to
be closed afer the storm, until
I protested,” R. H. Carr said.
• Anybody co ild go in there and
shoot.”
Llojd Carr said keeping the
gate shut wculd not solve the
problem, bet ause anyone could
get in if he wished.
“Almost ary time we are on
the road to .or pasture - about
500 vards distance from the
See COURT
P? ? >. Co’ irrn 5
to Sweeny Thursday night
their second game. The “A”
team will play at 7 p.m. after
the opening “B” game at fc p.m.
“Oklahoma” To
Be Presented
This Weekend
* Tta.......
l.n “0Ur
-•d a real good job for is and
•••—js very impirtant.
are going to miss them a
- - Straight Line To North Pole - -
For the convenience of all the; town is invited to send their let-
ter to Santa to The Sun’s
editorial offices at Box 431 and
the letters will all be printed on
a first come, first served basis
in the big Christmas edition of
the paper.
Don’t wait! Do it now!
business was time-consum i n g I
discussion on what to do about.
the city’s growth problems and
little concrete action developed.
For instance Minor Smith, an
Angleton attorney, was there to
pleasd for a reduction o' taxes on
a five acre tract of land known
as Highland Park Sub-Division
The area, owned by George Mol-
ler. Bob S. Owen. Mrs <
Masterson, F. L. Williams
Smith, was purchased for devel-
opment several years ago. The
group believed all taxes to have
been paid. Smith said, and later
found this not to be so Taxes,
penalties and interest owing
amounts to $864.73, dating back
to 1920.
Smith maintained Liat
Coach Bill Reed h unched his | tin, Ronnie Nelson, Mike
1961-62 basketball prc<ram for
, uv-u. Alvin Junior High School Mus-
Yellow tangs this week, taking the “A”
and “B” squads to Freeport for
their debut.
Reed’s “A” String dropped
their game, 37-30, ar»! Lie coach
said ‘ our defense los ’ the ball-
game for us and we I be work-
ing on that”.
David King was high point
man with 14 points. *avid Hum-
mel was runner-up, Topping to
six points; and other? were Dar-
rell Hunt with fii r. Charles
Thomas with four and Nolan
Ryan with one point
Reed said his Por tes shot 25
per cent from the field. Free-
port carried the gam* with Lieir
36 per cent accuracy
Coach Billy Ray D.-’Key’s “B”
Team lost. i5-9, and t was re-
ported that Jimmy Sharks shap-
ed up well on the club’s defen-
sive action.
Reed explained tha: the A
and “B” squads will play on the
same nights, with C ach J i m
Watson’s eighth gra tiers and
Coach Glenn Yorks seveth
graders playing on
courts during the Dis irict 12-AAA
season.
Reed expects Lie iajor “A”
Team action from D rrell Hunt.
Nolan Ryan, David King, Charles
Thomas, David Hummel, John-
ny Rodriquez and Di ' id Arnng-
ton; while Dickey w probably
send in Larry Huffn an
Spinks, Monte Dobell Al Smith-
son, Jommy Sparks, md Walter
Turner who was una lie to start
Tuesday because of i uiess.
Other squadmen >r« Travis
Taylor, BiUy Dixon, MUton Lof-
1 settlement an-i a dis- playoff for the second time since of 35 cents per
by the plaintiff wiith pre 11958.
i such be possible;” Fore- Angleton and the Nederland
letter said. ; Bulldogs will play ill the quart-
< mbers of the couilt, along icrfinals at 8 p.m. Friday in
' ounty Auditor Frank! Nederland.
T ’> or. signed Forema|n’s re-
Hnen.iation to signify approv-
'• beuiement.
sixx ial meeting wednes- ——- — - —
< »urt passed an order di- ’ lock with the Clebu ne
ig Taylor to draw check
amount of the settlement,
it being understood that
amount is in full settlement
payment of any arid
Nederland advanced to this
spot Saturday afternoon by the
slim margin of first downs aft-
er taey battled to a 13-13 d< ad-
I. •I,*. 3
Jackets at Cleburne.!
The score was ever, each team
showed a pair of pene trations and
both the Bulldogs and Yellow
Jackets gained 149 jards during
the afternoon, leavin,': the decis-
ion to be made on first downs.
A tabulation showed that the
Nederland aggregation registered
11 first downs to nine for Cle-
burne and that was ;ood enough
to advance the Jefferson County
team into the quarterfinals in the
title race.
^ts Wind Up Grid
In Second Place
' 1 ; and pleasure fcr the
■ ' n just passed. “I feel that
' ids did a good job this
he said. What made me
v , Proudest of them was that, al-
' ‘ h \ve played a very tough
de with no open date, we
' ' -bed all of our baL games
!''n. never stopped fig it ing,
ne’:-i ertertained the idei of
■ !1- up and continued ti im-
pro »■ throughout the seasen.”
; he athletic director con-
U, did : ^-seniors, as a whole,
, . -■-••• gw
is always
local youngsters w.io need, quick-
ly. to get off their annual epist-
les to Santa Claus, The A1 vin
Sun has again put into motion
its ‘straight line” to the North
Pole.
Nels o n
members
1 to
investigate this matter recom-
Whenever the fall leaves begin
to tumble from the trees and
brisk north winds whisk ♦hem
across lawns and vacant lots,
the danger of grass fires in-
crease tremendously and Alvin’s
volunteer firemen know that
they’re apt to be called from
their jobs ... or their sleep . . .
more and more frequently.
Fire Marshal L. T. Delesandri
said this week that the pre-
valence of grass fires, anti the
DUUlll IIldllllzllIH.-U Uiai IdXVb, V
penalty and interest prior to 1932 and life)
should be wiped out entirely as
the tract of land sold for $4 then
at a tax sale, thus negating any of the committee appointed
previous delinquent taxes He ai- —
so asked that the property taxes mended that future coverage ex-
from that time until the present i elude all el cted officials, t h e
be adjusted if an examination; the city attorney and the city
now shows tho values to have engineer. The basis for this re-
been out-of-line in previous years commendation was a saving of
Jr. refer- about $800 annually, they report-
red the matter to City Tax As- ed. They also considered at
sessor-Collector C. P. Strickland, length the p oposals of three in-
^asking that he check the tax val-. surance firms and then authoriz-
lues and determine if an equitable I ed Lie committeemen to work
the!w»th City Treasurer S. C. Jones
in ascertaining certain provisions
included and contract with one of
the firms prior to Dec. 1.
More routine matters included
the purchase of water meters;
reports on \»ater well work and
the cleaning of sewage lines; a
pay increase for Street and
Bridge Depai tment operators to
$1.90 per hour from the previous
rate of $1W the purchase of
pipe and Uvalde rock; the fact
that city ordinance requires
chickens to l>e retained on the
owner's prop rty; a discussion on
a drainage »asement in West
University Place; a proposed
contract with Clinton Kennedy,
auditor; the recom mend ation
that a street sign program be
started; a discussion by Council-
man Kelly Swindell on bookkeep-
ing adjustments required w4ien
men and machines in his depar
ment work on projects for other
city departments; a discussion of
complaint- alxiut littering of ad-
joining prope ties after dances at
the American Legion Memorial
Community «'enter; acceptance
of a dinner i citation for city of-
ficials from 'he Lutheran Broth-
erhood; and a request that the
city health officer examine two
Sec COUNCIL
Page 5, Column 3
r •out by a
squa
Angleton Goes
Ahead Into ■ The Houston Natural Gas Sys-
1 tem has asked tae l ity of Al-
t/IKlfi Pi 1 lIlIllS : v'n and 48 other communities for
' ' authority to place in effect an
! An Angleton WUdcit footba 11 adjustment changing the first two
(team that refused t) be deried(Steps of present residential
I J battled heir way into the quart-1 mail commercial ga? rates.
!(jpaiy>, .-k kJ # erfinals in the race for the Class Under the request’d revision
I'lUlIltSII SIS football championship at filed Tuesday, the fist step in
'Freeport Friday nig it by over- tne rate and the minimum bill
llfl- 4 : wiieiiiiing i’ **’ * »• - •
u employed me tt( defend Cats, 32-14.
- ' case. I have' invest!• ’ The Wildcats were forced to
L j ' ><! prepared the case for come from behind twice and
were trailing at halftime when ----- — --------
they put on a second half scor- f^vt each month. All other steps creases in othei operating
ing surge that gave :hem the bi- rczxt: -.c cc™,
Sun s Big Premiums
< puds, Band-Aid strips, first jhead. The plastic lifeskin features
yer cream J-j- j- I— --■ •
and close, anti the real hair
the
I whelming the Bay City Bl sckl would be increased from $1.60 to three years ago was related only
Cats, 32-14. $2, the initial consurn !ion brack- to the increase in the cost of
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for resale to its customers
that it did not cover any
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Bowen, A. E. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1961, newspaper, November 30, 1961; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1245295/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.