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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1962
Page
1
The Craigmont Garden Club will sponsor a rummage sale from 4 am to 6 pm on Friday and Saturday in the old Wilkerfeld Building on Minnesota Street in Old Baytown. Everyone is invited.
Washington protests target steel executives and government leaders as investigations loom into a $6-a-ton steel price increase. The drive seeks a rollback if possible, potential legislation to curb price fixing, and continued labor cooperation in the anti inflation effort. Other items note a postponed teacher association meeting and a Craigmont Easter egg hunt.
Baytown city council postponed appointing three members of the Housing Authority as it weighs building 50 more units under the federal program. The panel approved 150 elderly units and reviewed costs totaling about 400000 dollars. Officials debated federal aid and the authority’s direction while a special meeting was set for April 17 to study a nuclear defense report.
A two story LC Library on display features a workroom staff lounge and wings with reading rooms and reference areas. The main floor holds a centrally located checkout desk and blackboard equipped conference rooms, while the second floor offers ten temporary offices for instructors and future stack expansion. Present holdings exceed 2,500 volumes with room for up to 100,000, and a bond-funded building designed by Lowell Lammers is weather centralized with glare controlled windows and a technical processing area for staff use.
Baker son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Lee Baker Sr Crosby has been assigned to Company I 397th Regiment Fort Chaffee Arkansas for basic combat training in an eight week course. Friday forecast calls for fall skies and mild temperatures with Galveston tides high at 4 50 am and 8 21 pm.
Sam Houston State Teachers College music faculty announce the Charles E. Forque Award to honor a freshman student for outstanding contributions in music education. Forque, SHSTC alumnus class of 1952, was bandmaster at Robert E. Lee High School in Baytown and is renowned for lifting public school music standards. The award covers full tuition and music fees for the recipient who meets music division requirements, presented annually by the department of music.
Lee College Vocational Nursing program places in the upper half of state board exam participants in Austin. John R Goumple announced Thursday that 12 Lee College students took the March 23 exam, with an 81.8 class average. Pauline Gore led college scorers at 87.2 while Medeline Smith Perkins of Dallas Vocational Nursing had the top score overall at 97.6 with four years nursing experience prior to training. The March cohort formed the college’s first graduating class amid 68 participating programs and 11 candidates from two years of professional nurse schooling. Next exam set for July 21, 1982 in Austin. applications due five days before.
Robert E. Lee High School principal Holly McLemore stated there is no official skip day in the calendar. She noted three official senior days at the very end of term and said graduates who have already qualified are not required to attend classes.
The Jarvis County Water Control and Improvement District 38 invites bids for water supply and sewage treatment upgrades including tank and plant improvements. Deadline is 7 pm Tuesday April 17. About 13 firms have submitted bids. bidder names opened and read at the District Office.
The item discusses rates affecting families and the distribution of burdens across the population. It notes that two or more rate adjustments apply to certain households and outlines the general principle of proportional sharing among citizens.
Washington AP reports more than 145000 National Guardsmen and Reservists will be released in August unless new Cold War tensions arise. Kennedy announced the plan noting units will stay in a heightened readiness if a crisis returns. The move follows a permanent strength buildup and will leave total armed forces at about 2.68 million next September, up 200000 from last year.
Striking public school teachers returned to their classrooms in New York after a one day walkout that disrupted operations at about 908 schools. Union leaders planned early radio broadcasts to relay the back to work call and announced the strike’s end at 3 00 am following a seven hour AFL CIO United Federation of Teachers executive board meeting.
State investigators traveled to Dallas for further scrutiny of Billie Sol Estes gyrations as Attorney General Will Wilson held his third court of inquiry in three days. Witness W. Leonhardt of Commercial Solvents Corp was summoned while a mix up at a hotel switchboard briefly exposed his whereabouts during a prior Texas stop.
The Civil Service Commission announced the filing deadline for police civil service test applicants as 6 30 p m Wednesday April 8 with extended guidance through Friday. Applications are available at the police department or Civil Service Commission office in Wisconsin Avenue. height minimum five feet six inches and weight minimum are stated. The salary begins at 5060 per month with a raise after probation.
Harris County Judge Bill Elliott officiated at ceremonies for Jack Huron and Seaborn Cravey as Baytown City Council members. Huron won District 3 seat over Roy H. Hughes. Cravey was re-elected unopposed. A runoff will decide District 4 between Velma Ansley and Herbert. The meeting covered subdivision right of way issues, Green Street opening, bids for jail repairs, and other city matters.
Baytown residents Daniel Heiman and Lowelly Lammers are appointed to key East Harris County posts for Gov. Price Daniel. Heiman becomes county car chairman, Lammers chairs the East Harris County campaign and Baytown headquarters at 215 East Texas. Mrs Heiman is office manager with local supporters invited to headquarters. Other volunteers include Mrs. Jacobs Gold Blevins Thompson, David Furderburk finance chairman, Tony Camps publicity chairman, and Treasurer Pullen.
Bay Town volunteers and Baytown Fire Station No 2 officers attend a display and lecture series on bomb safety and detection. Citizens tour exhibits and hear demonstrations while police and fire personnel discuss protective measures and emergency response procedures.
FAA installs safety gear at Lyndon Johnson ranch airstrip amid broader military testing plans. Argentina's CGT Readies an $8 million strike wave against austerity. UK PM Eden Macmillan to address US publishers on April 26 in New York. A pilot who died defending civilians is posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Centaur rocket requires eight more days before its maiden test.
Fifty four sick or wounded Bay of Pigs captives will be released Saturday after ransom payments into a Canadian bank. Negotiations continue for ransoming more of the 1,179 invasion prisoners as a committee of exiles arranges flights to Miami with two doctors aboard. The Cuban tribunal set ransoms from 25 000 to 500 000 per captive totaling 62 million dollars, with families' committee reporting about 26 million collected.
Lester Lord of Burnet Drive reports disturbance as wren family nests in a ski jacket by an ice box block fishing activity for three weeks. The odd scene includes a bathes, a nest, and chatter about hatch dates and local wildlife antics.
In Geneva AP reports the Soviet proposal for a moratorium on nuclear tests was dismissed by the United States and Britain. They said they cannot trust the Soviet Union to observe any pause and warned that the planned Pacific atmospheric blasts would proceed unless Moscow accepts an enforceable ban with enforcement measures. Smaller nations urged compromise as tensions rose at the 17-nation disarmament conference.
AP reports views from striking staffers signed today to resume West Coast and Hawaii shipping under a Kennedy era court order. Vessels tied up in the Norfolk or mob scene were loaded and ready to ship. a lumber export effort aimed to save port operations during the day.
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