Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1962 Page: 4 of 4
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Origin Of 'Pop Rocks' Has Martin
Puzzled; He Would Like Some Info
boys, but where the rocks came
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attend your
HUMBLE CLUB DANCE
Saturday, October 6
♦ 9 p.m. 'till I
at the SYLVAN BEACH PAVILION
Humble Club Members 12 • • -per couple • • -Guests *4
Enjay Opens Alcohol Plant In Illinois
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SPORTS
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Ganders Try For Second Win
In Game With Texans Tonight
Applications Now Being
Issued Fof Public Hunts
from and why they popped
of little or no importance.
Recently, however, Ray
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the new plant at Bedford Park
(a Chicago suburb) is Enjay’s
first in the Midwest. Initial rated
capability of the plant is 5,000,-
000 gallons per year.
Enjay Chemical Company, a
division of Humble Oil & Refin-
ing Company, is a major mar-
keter of ethyl alcohol in the
United States. At the Humble
Refinery in Baton Rouge, Loui-
siana, ethyl alcohol is manufac- a
tured synthetically from ethylene.
Pioneer Game Night Change
The Pioneer Club’s game night
this month will be next Thursday,
October 11, at 7 p.m. in Commu-
nity Building No. 1. Pioneer
president Charlie Caldwell urges
all members to remember this
schedule change was made to
avoid conflict with the Gander
football game tonight.
turned to that part of the coun-
try for the first time in many
years. He was on vacation and
took his wife and three daugh-
lers to see the old home place
where he was raised. While
there, Ray went rock hunting
with the two older girls to help
them find some flint for their
Girl Scout activities. While look-
ing for the flint, Ray found a
number of the “pop rocks” and
Baytown Briefs • October 5, 1962
Sorority Will Hold
Shrimp Fry Tonight
For Football Fans
Of course you don’t have to be
a football fan to get a plate of the
fried shrimp that the Rho Zeta
Chapter of Bela Sigma Phi will
be serving this evening from 5 to
8 at the Robert E. Lee High
School cafeteria, but it will be a
mighty handy way to gel fed be-
fore going to the Gander-Texan
game that is being played in
nearby Memorial Stadium.
Whether a fan or not, you can
get a delicious shrimp dinner and
all the trimmings prepared by
Annuitant Eddie Huron and his
crew of chefs for SI at the cafe-
teria. The Rho Zeta Chapter is
sponsoring the dinners with the
proceeds to be used for charily
here in Baytown.
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Enjay Chemical Company has
oflicially opened a new plant at
Bedford Park, Illinois, to change
pure ethyl alcohol into specially
denatured alcohols, proprietary
solvents and special industrial
solvents used in a wide variety
of non-beverage and industrial
applications.
Predesigned for future expan-
sions that will enable it to proc-
ess more than 10,000,000 gallons
of alcohol formulations per year,
SW Conference Football
Humble will broadcast five football games in which Southwest
Conference teams are playing tomorrow, October 6. Local radio
stations carrying the broadcasts and the starting times are as
follows:
At 1:45 p.m. the SMU-Air Force Academy game will be
broadcast over KTHT-790 by Eddie Hill and Stan McKenzie.
The next three games will all start at 7:15 p.m. They are Texas
A & M vs Texas Tech announced by Eddie Barker and Glenn
Brown over KILT-610; the TCU-Arkansas till covered by Kern
Tips and Alec Chesser over KTHT-790; and the Texas-Tulane
game broadcast by Ves Box and Dave Smith over KTRH-710.
Then, starling at 7:45 will be the Rice-Penn State game an-
nounced by Jim Wiggins and John Smith over KPRC-950.
In addition, the Company will co-sponsor the live telecast of the
LSU-Georgia Tech game over KHOU-TV, Channel 11,1:30 p.m.,
Lindsey Nelson and Terry Brennan doing the announcing.
Little Suzanne Martin shows her mother one of the pretty “beads” that
her father, Ray Martin, and her two older sisters, Patrice and Marlene,
far left and right, brought in after a rock-hunting trip. Ray called them
“pop rocks” when he was a youngster, but is now trying to find out
what they really are.
Texans of Corpus Christi, show
promise of giving the Ganders
more trouble than they found in
last week’s tilt.
The Texans are also ranked
in the stale’s top ten in class
4-A. They run from just about
every conceivable offensive for-
malion, and will pass from any-
where on the field.
With Ray’s colorful offense,
and the Ganders’ much-improved
squad in action tonight, there
should be thrills aplenty at Me- "
morial Stadium starting at 7:30.
Their third try was charmed
for the Robert E. Lee Ganders
last Friday night. After dropping
their first two games to stale-
ranked teams, the Ganders came
through to win their third lilt,
against Port Neches, 19-0.
The REL squad showed con-
siderable improvements in both
offense and defense at Port Ne-
ches. They moved the ball belter
than they have so far this season,
and held the Indians scoreless
in several lense situations.
Tonight’s foe, the W. B. Ray
gathered them up so the girls
could bring them home and hear
them pop when lossed into a fire.
For the first time, Ray noticed
that the short sections of cylin-
der-shaped rocks looked like
some sort of fossil. Later, he
brought some of the rocks out
on the job with him to see if any
of his fellow employees could
identify them. Everyone agreed
that they appeared to be the fos-
silized sections of a vertebra, but
no one at the POU could give
Ray an answer.
His curiosity aroused, Ray
called Miss 3113 to see if any-
one in the Refinery could give
him some information about the
odd-shaped rocks. Briefs didn’t
have an answer either, but sent
a reporter and photographer
team to Ray’s home to get the
story above and the accompany-
ing picture. So, if you know any-
thing about “pop rocks,” just call
Briefs on Extension 2752 and
help clear up the mystery.
18 and 19. These will be all-day
hunts, and hunters will be al-
lowed to kill 12 quail each day.
All details of the hunt will be
included in the application packet
which will be mailed lo each
individual sending in a request.
The deadline for receipt of the
application in the Austin office
will be 8 a.m. October 31, so
get it in the mail now. A post-
card will be sufficient.
Texans who wish to apply for
a chance to hunt on one of the
six Game and Fish Commission
wildlife management areas
should write now for the neces-
sary application blanks. A post-
card will do. Address it to Texas
Game and Fish Commission,
Walton State Building, Austin.
You will get an application
blank back through the mail
with instructions and informa-
tion pertaining to the hunt.
The areas on which hunts
will lake place and the dates are
as follows: KERR AREA: in
Kerr County near Kerrville—
November 12-25 and November
28-December 7. A total of 400
permits will be issued. ANGE-
LINA AREA: In Sabine and
Cherokee Counties, November
16-20 and November 24-28; 800
permits will be issued. BLACK
GAP: in Brewster County near
the Big Bend National Park, De-
cember 1-14, with 500 permits.
SIERRA DIABLO: in Hudspeth
and Culberson Counties near Van
Horn, December 1-14, with 100
permits. ENGELING AREA: in
Anderson County, November 16-
21, November 26-December 1
and December 6-11, with 360
permits.
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Ray Marlin, operator at the
POU, never questioned the ori-
gin of the small cylinder-shaped
rocks he played with as a boy
while growing up in Central
Texas near Brownwood. To him
and the other youngsters of that
area they were simply “pop
rocks,” getting their name from
the fact that they popped or
crackled when lossed into a fire.
A handful slyly dropped into the
wood-burning heater at school
was always good’for a slight in-
terruption in classes. That and
other such uses interested the
For the first time, a hunt will
be scheduled on the GENE
HOWE AREA in the Panhandle.
However, only 32 permits will be
available. This hunt is set for
November 16-23. All days listed
for the area hunts are inclusive.
Deadline for receipt of ap-
plications in the Austin office will
be 8 a.m. October 31. A public
drawing will be held as soon
after that dale as possible, and
those whose names are drawn
will be notified.
Public hunting is a part of
the game management program
on these areas. Biologists on the
areas determine if there is a
surplus. Anyone interested in ap-
plying for a hunt should mail
in his request immediately.
The Texas Game and Fish
Commision is also accepting re-
quests for applications to hunt
scaled (blue) quail on the Black
Gap Wildlife Management Area
near ihe Big Bend National Park
in Brewster County. There will
be two 2-day hunts with 80 per-
mits to be issued for both hunts,
or 40 permits per hunt.
The hunting dales are No-
vember 15 and 16 and November
%
Lci
a.m. $8
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