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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1962
Page
1
Two jet airliners with 18 percent occupants on a collision course in eastern Kansas veered apart after one pilot swerved to avoid disaster. FAA cited shared 33 000 feet altitude and suspended two traffic controllers.
Teens are invited to a dance at 8 p.m. Friday in the Volunteer Firemen's Hall in Nazro. Admission is $1. Music by the Perry Mates combo will honor Lt. Col. Richard Worth, on duty at Fort Polk, La, and include the Texas Army National Guard's 49th Armored Division. The event supports the unit while on duty.
Local brief items list new babies, births, hospital notices, lost glasses, volunteer drives, travels and social events. Eric Smedlund welcomed a daughter and Paul Stephens became a new father. Baytown friends sought, and various residents reported hospital stays, sightings, and stolen taillights near San Jacinto Hospital.
Harold Decker of Houston as head of the Independent Petroleum Association of America told the Senate Finance Committee that the oil industry is in serious trouble. He urged amending the administration's trade expansion bill to roll back imports by large companies and proposed a 14 percent cap on oil imports of domestic crude production, excluding residual fuel oil, equal to a 250,000 barrel per day cut from 1,380,000 daily imports. Robert Force of Dallas, for the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, said current import limits are ineffective and the national economy has risen 25 percent while crude production remains static.
Mrs Ben nie Terrell of Highway 146 sold a new plywood boat before her paper arrived. Four more calls came after delivery. The ad cost 84 cents and ran once. Baytown Sun ad space urges readers to place Baytown Sim classifieds to find buyers. Call 582 8234.
Algeria faces a puzzled political scene as rival factions negotiate a temporary readership pact while Deputy Premier Ahmed Ben Bella's prologue captures attention. Elsewhere a long Nike Zeus test rocket program unfolds with a 5 000 mile journey toward test sites as weather disrupts campaigns and air searches continue for missing Nepali flight in dire conditions.
President Kennedy sent disarmament negotiator to Geneva with a pledge of new concessions for a nuclear test ban treaty. A White House conference set U.S. strategy, stressing that acceptance of international inspection is key, and Kennedy urged Khrushchev to drop total opposition.
In Nashville three-way Democratic primary Clement leads a field including Memphis City Commissioner William W. Farris and Chattanooga Mayor P. G. Olgiotti. The race centers on personalities with Clement citing his 1953 59 record in education mental health welfare and industry.
President Kennedy urged universal screening of medicines and asked women to surrender thalidomide found in homes. He backed stronger safeguards to prevent harmful drugs, lauded FDA critic Frances Kelsey, and pushed for broader regulation beyond a Senate bill. He also pressed on nuclear test inspections and urged improved civil rights talks in Albany, Georgia.
London AP reports the British government refused political asylum to fugitive spy Dr. Robert Soblen and moved to deport him to the United States where he faces life imprisonment for espionage. Transport plans involve Pan American Airways with potential passenger Soblen aboard a New York bound flight as debates continue over safety and diplomacy.
Joe Cathriner 77 brother of Henry and E S Cathriner of Baytown died Wednesday in a Baytown hospital. Funeral 11:20 a.m. Saturday at Settegast Kopf Funeral Home Houston with Rev R M Cheek officiating. Burial Prairie Lea cemetery Brenham. A longtime Houston real estate man moved to Baytown six months ago to be near his brothers. He formerly managed West University Place Building and Realty Co and helped many local homeowners. Survivors include brothers Henry E S Cathriner of Baytown and W M Cathriner of Whittier California, sisters Mrs M F Carmean and Mrs H W Zeiss of Houston, and Mrs Stanford Steel of Fort Worth. He lived in Houston over 45 years. Burial address 4005 University Blvd Houston prior to move to Baytown.
Four Baytown men join the resident intern staff at John Sealy and its sister UT hospitals on campus. The new Baytonians are Dr. Earl J. Stouffler Jr and three residents in biology psychiatry obstetrics and gynecology. The 187 strong internship group is the largest in the state.
Weather bureau predicts drought relief in the Northeast over the next seven days as floods prompt air force and local relief efforts. Reports mention flooding in Fort Worth area with Richland Hills evacuated and families moved out by Air Force trucks amid lingering damage.
The Sunday drive in Chambers County will roll out Sabin oral polio vaccine with 12,000 doses. Clinics staffed by physicians or registered nurses will run noon to 6 p.m. at multiple locations including Chambers County Building and Barbers Hill High School. Makeups Aug 12 run 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and Sept 16 and Oct 28 schedule further doses.
A federal judge sentenced State Supreme Court Justice J Vincent Keogh to two years in prison for obstructing justice in a federal bankruptcy case. Co-defendants Fiott Kahaner 36 a former assistant attorney in Brooklyn and Antonia Corallo 47 received lighter sentences.
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