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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1964
Page
5
More than 42 000 Cubs Scouts and Explorers from the Sam Houston Area Council will take part in the 15 county expo. East Harris District units join troops to stage shows booths and demonstrations of scouting skills. The fair runs 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and 4 a.m to 9 p.m. Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Relby R Dewvall of 26 Woodhue Drive Channelview announce their son SP 5 Relby L Dewvall 26 is taking part in Exercise Springboard a two week command post training exercise with the Seventh U S Army at Stuttgart Germany He attended Robert E Lee High School.
Burglars struck Bay Lanes and the nearby YMCA on Market Street between midnight Tuesday and Wednesday morning. A soft drink machine and a cigarette machine were damaged, funds were stolen, and office files disrupted. Locks and doors were forced. insurance and security notes cited. Investigating officer Wilfred Spelle led Baytown Police.
A new Boy Scout Troop 857 is organized with Glynn W. Swett as scoutmaster. Charter members include Eddie Gilbert, Danny Brown, Thomas Damron, Roy Thibodaux, Odell Wells, John Wright, and Curtis Wood. Roy White serves as institutional representative and Bill Snead chairs the troop committee with Robert Kalbitz and John A. Woodard among others.
Baytown Fire Department will sponsor a new Explorer Post 875 with Art Lintelman as institutional representative. Post 875 is led by Mike Marchuk with members Ronald Boyd Gary Boyer Donnie DeHoyas Dwight Young and Paul Tippett. Don Cansler chairs the troop committee including Jessie Hoke L. V. Bailey B. W. Smith Joe Hlanek and Wade Gilliam.
A clipped page lists stock quotes for many corporations including Allis-Chalmers Celanese Ashland Oil Colgate Palmolive Anaconda Gulf States Utilities Georgia-Pacific Gillette Safeway Shell and Texas pipelines among others. Prices or changes are interspersed with ticker style references and partial fragments.
A small fire erupted outside a solvent storage drum at the lube de-asphalting unit of Humble Oil and Refining Co's Bayside town refinery at 5 30 a m Thursday. Jack Winston Williams an operator received a minor burn and sprained his right knee. He was treated at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and released. Refinery firemen extinguished the flames with no equipment damage. The fire’s cause is under investigation.
Governor Connally said the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will protect oyster reefs in Galveston and Trinity Bays while allowing dredging closer to reefs than before. He noted the situation depends on tides winds and currents and stressed conservation without shutting down the dredging industry. He said some dredging may harm reefs and other times 300 feet may be safe with favorable conditions. The interview followed a heated dispute over the commission’s rule shift from 1500 feet to 300 feet.
Baytown Police logged a theft from a 1964 car at the Robert E. Lee High School parking lot on Wednesday. A tachometer mounted on the steering column was reported stolen between 11:20 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. The item valued at about $45.
Gov Paul Johnson pushes twenty two bills to curb Republicans in Mississippi as the State Senate advances them while the House resists. U S officials urge Britain to resume trade with Cuba and deny Castro needed equipment. Humphrey says Johnson will accept changes to civil rights bills with enforceable provisions. Ruby lawyers prepare appeals for Texas case. Guerrillas kill six women and five children in central Vietnam ambush. twenty one women wounded. Harlem incident sees a woman killed and her husband stabbed. youths aged 14 and 15 arrested.
Memorial services set for Jewel Edwin Irby 42 Baytown merchant seaman who died of a heart attack in Madras India. Services at 2 p m Friday at Coady Baptist Church. Irby attended Robert E Lee High School. Survived by parents three sisters and a number of nieces and nephews.
Floyd Houston McClurg a retired Baytown Refinery laboratory foreman died Thursday at a Baytown hospital. Funeral at 4 pm Friday at Pout A. Lee Funeral Home for the Pittsburg Texas native aged ? with widow Partee Elizabeth McClurg and two Baytown daughters among survivors. Also surviving two grandchildren. Rev William J. Hodge to officiate. pallbearers named. Also services for Billy Jon Jennings at Highlands Chapel with burial in San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors include widow Janice Jennings, a son Rocky, a daughter Billie, mother Alva Jennings, brother Emil, sisters Jillian Stoner and Gerallene Center. Jennings was a Baytown area resident 26 years and a painter aged 39.
Scout Troop 105 will be sponsored by the Mont Belvieu Lions Club per East Harris district executive Joe Green. Meetings are at 7 30 p m every Tuesday at the Lions Club Hall Mont Belvieu. Albert N Nelson Jr institutional representative Delma Lee Tyer chairman of the troop committee with members Joe F Presnall Joe Wilson Blythe Raymond Lee Tilton Harry Thibodeaux Earl Porter and H H McCollum. Scoutmaster Evan J Freeman Jr charter members include William J Anderson Jr Ricky Fosburgh Mike Blythe Ernie Battle D ie Tyer Tim Walker George Taylor Mark Blythe Brice Miller Keith Ray Rodney Porl Everett Parker Clay Sellers James Clark Richard Dye and Paul Dunlap.
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