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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1960
Page
1
Civil Defense courses in disaster survival will run two hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays for three weeks with morning 9 am and evening 7 pm options at the Robert E Lee vocational building and an evening 7 pm class at Carver High School. Registration at the first class. Hurricane season alert style, program notes, and local scheduling details.
A collage of social mentions covers Herbert Bounds family returning from San Antonio and Kerrville, and neighbors supervising pool activities. Various locals including Barbara Twyman heading to Austin, Chuck Chandler injuring an arm, and Brenda Sehiton at Valentine National Park appear amid stray jottings and community updates.
Capsule notes Japan marks the 15th anniversary of Hiroshima with pleas for nuclear ban efforts. U.S. officials discuss civil rights amid national politics as Nixon campaigns in Seattle and New York. Reports mention election challenges, waste storage licensing, and disarmament commission talks set for August 15 despite boycott threats. Dallas voters weigh school integration as courts keep pace with orders.
Raul Castro declares Cuba firmly in the Soviet economic camp and welcomes Moscow aid and military support. He ridicules the U S blockade, praises Khrushchev, and says Fidel will be kept in power while awaiting a possible visit date.
The Baytown Humble Employees Federal Credit Union marks its 25th anniversary with a week of events beginning Tuesday. Chartered August 9 1935 it started with 77 members and made over 34800 loans totaling more than 13 million dollars. Balloons decorations and a silver dollar cartwheel will be given to each member during the week.
President Eisenhower plans to leave Newport Sunday with Mrs Eisenhower to resume duties in Washington. He returns for the reconvening of Congress, aiming to push a legislative program early next week possibly via television and a Senate message. The trip features golf at Newport Country Club and time with grandchildren before Labor Day.
Port of Houston officials including general manager J B Turner and press agent Lloyd Gregory met with GSA administrator Franklin Flotte in Washington to push for the 8 million bid on the San Jacinto Ordnance Depot. The decision is due next week from the Dallas office as bids were opened earlier this week.
R Duplissey and family celebrate as Weet Sterling earns jet pilot wings at Greenville Air Force Base Mississippi. The graduate attended Robert E. Lee High School and Texas A&M before service. Local relatives praise achievement and note future assignments.
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold rushes to New York for an emergency Security Council session after canceling plans to send trains into Katanga and amid warnings of possible bloodshed. Moise Tshombe vows to keep U N troops out as Congo’s Lumumba government threatens radical measures if Belgian troops remain. Soviet warning and Western division loom as the council prepares to debate Belgian withdrawal and Congo tensions.
An American exchange student in Salt Lake City cites contradictory Soviet claims that he is a spy and that he voiced anti Soviet statements. Edwin Morrell, 31, says Trud accuses him while the Ministry for Higher Education notes expulsion stemmed from not fulfilling his study law. Trud alleges he provoked and degraded Soviet life and tried to infiltrate union groups to spy.
A street dance at 8 p.m. on Wednesday August 17 will launch Crosby FFA rodeo events. Crosby Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors a community celebration leading into a multi day fair and rodeo in East Harris County with booths from Crosby FFA Baytown FRA Highlands 40 Club and others. The fair runs Thursday through Saturday August 18 to 20 with daily rodeo events at the Jopan arena a poultry auction Friday and the calf scramble tradition.
A list of Humble United Fund Drive chairmen and assistants was announced at Humble Oil and Refining Co. Baytown Refinery. John P Henderson is general chairman. Heintschel and Oliver named as assistant chairmen with previous Community Chest and annuitant roles. Others include C F Carlson and James Mecrop. The campaign aims to raise Baytown funds and involves local organizations and the Little League program.
President Eisenhower plans a public appeal on a major program as Congress reconvenes, while Johnson and Nixon warn against political squabbling. Kennedy prepares to return to Washington as civil rights and wage bills top the agenda.
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