Busy Baytown School District Sponsors Custodial School
Baytown School District will sponsor a custodial maintenance school August 20 to 22 in the audio visual room at Robert E. Lee High School with consultant M. S. Martin from the University of Texas. The Retail Merchants Committee meets at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce to plan the annual teacher reception on August 29 and discuss Christmas decorations and parking conditions. Licensed Vocational Nurses will not meet Tuesday night as scheduled. meeting postponed until next month per Mrs. R. B. Morgan.
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Baytown
Robert E. Lee High School
M. S. Martin
The
University of Texas
Retail Merchants Committee
Chamber of Commerce
R. B. Morgan
Woodard
Quitman Itn
Wood County
Rose Cravey
Lamar
Polly Lawhon
Odessa
Curtis
Harlem
Marjorie Denson
Travis
Dolores Gray
Horace Mann
Velma Marian
Jim Henderson
Mel. Burnis M. Rhodes
Shirley Steer
Donald W. Swint
Anson Jones
Bill E. Thompson
Ho M. Williams Jr
Robert E. Lee
Rose Marie Cleveland
Ed Coker
Richardson
Dallas
Patricia Daw
Clear Creek
William Hudnall
Business Office
SMU
Bobbie
Highlands Junior High Band Concert At School Auditorium
Highlands Junior High plans a 7 30 p m concert of marches overtures and jazz with Cheryl Lewis trumpet solo and a twirling routine by the majorettes. Admission is free and open to the public. Lee College registration runs 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday per Dean Walter Rundell as the last chance before Sept 10 11.
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Highlands Junior High Band
Cheryl Lewis
Lee College
Walter Rundell
Lack Of Industrial Growth Blamed School Patrons
Preston Pendergrass and Columbus Council discuss a growing tax burden as industrial growth slows. They warn a reduced school tax intake will force shifts in the district budget, with industry no longer funding capital improvements as before. Meanwhile local notices include a sixth annual bazaar for the Carnce Retreat House and community events at the YMCA, garden club, and Little Theater. Galveston tides are noted for Wednesday.
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Carnce
Knights of
Preston Pendergrass
Columbus Council
Whitney
Houston
Notch
Nore Economic Operaatory
Olen
Inevi Jd
Concensus
Sohidonte
Pan American strike blocked by federal judge ruling
BULLETINS NEW YORK AP A federal court judge denied Pan American Airways an injunction against a Transport Workers Union strike. Washington AP President Kennedy moved to postpone for ten days a threatened strike by about 10 000 ground personnel of Pan American Weeks Airways. Washington AP A government auditor urged Senate stockpile investigators to question George M Humphrey former Treasury secretary and his son Gilbert about burning records on multimillion dollar profits from stockpiled stockpiled sickel.
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New York
Pan American Airways
Transport Workers Union
Washington
Kennedy
Pan American
Weeks Airways
Senate
George M. Humphrey
Secretary of the Treasury
Gilbert Mumphrey
Budget Alternatives Ordered- SCHOOL DISTRICT FACING INEVITABLE TAX INCREASE
Budget plans show two alternate budgets for 1962-63 in Baytown to cover a growing deficit. Superintendent Gentry proposes a $3200 salary raise for all employees except him, with board votes splitting on expanding raises to teachers, principals, and admins. Discussions consider outside funds and local cuts, including reducing summer recreation contributions and selling Junior High property.
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George H. Gentry
Essari
Joseph T. Horeczy
Dent
Simi
Gentry
Knox T. Beavers
Clifton A. Adams
William H. Bridges
Horeczy
Karl Opryshe
Opryshek
Beavers
Bridges
Baytown
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Around Town notices and local happenings update
LESLIE COUCH reports inquiries on Distributive Education credits totaling two and a half, with standard credit two subjects and DE outlined. Mrs. A. G. Ragin is hospitalized in Galveston for medical care as John Wesley Elliott Jr. is noted for strong lungs after being born two weeks ago.
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Leslie Couch
A. G. Ragin
James 4
Pridmore
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
John Wesley Elliott Jr
Junior
Delbert Oliver
Baytown
Gary Lannon
Lottie McMicken
Douglas A. Bashrim
A. E
Snazz
Pruett
York
Sunrise Wednesday Shrimpers Open Season in Bay Areas
Sunrise Wednesday marks the Gulf shrimp season opening with trawlers urged to follow 1 inch mesh rules and obtain Game and Fish Commission shrimp trawl tags costing $3. All aboard and owners must hold a 2.15 fishing license. An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 trawls are expected from Anahuac to Cedar Bayou as brown shrimp are reported scarce and white shrimp are nearing eating size. The season runs to December 15, with regulations on vessel sizes and daily shrimp counts and a rule against dumping heads in bays.
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Game and Fish Commission
Chester Rogers
Baytown
Anahuac
San Leon
Smith Point
Mmouth
Cedar Bayou
Gulf Street
New Lee College
Gulf
Galveston
Bolivar
Bay
Bob Cross
Houston
Special Education Director Hired In Baytown At $8000 Salary
John A. Woodard, veteran educator and rehabilitation counselor, takes the Baytown schools post as director of special education with an $8000 annual salary. The district also adds two special education teachers and a staff of nine, with Woodard leading area initiatives for non English speaking and speech impaired students under Texas Education Agency guidelines.
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Wanda Orton
John A. Woodard
Baytown
Woodard
Houston - Galveston - Beaufects
Texas Education Agen
T Scy
Texas
Decatur County Schools
East Texas State College
Southern Methodist University
North Texas State |Pelinge
University of Houson
Soblen Return Stalled Eight More Days
London High Court recessed until Aug 22 after Soblen's lawyers argued he should be allowed to choose a country such as Czechoslovakia for exile. The 61 year old psychiatrist faces life in the United States for spying for the Soviet Union and the government insists on direct deportation.
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London
Stobert A. Soblen
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
High Court
Czechoslovakia
Soblen
Home Office
Soblen case widens as deportation plan questioned
F Elwyn Jones leading Soblen defense cites an affidavit from Soblen stating a visa to travel to Czechoslovakia. Justice John Stephenson opens a new phase in the case while Soblen, ill with leukemia, remains in Brixton Hospital. Jones warns deportation as proposed could hasten Soblen's death in an American prison after he fled $100,000 bail in New York and fled to Israel using a deceased brother's passport.
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F. Elwyn Jones
Soblen
Sobl
Czechoslovakia
John Stephenson
London
Brixton
Jones
Justice Stephens
Home Secretary
New York
Israel
Estill Morrows Rites Planned At South Main Church
Funeral services for Estill Morrow 76 of 715 EB Hunnicutt are set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at South Main Church of Christ. Morrow, Baytown resident 23 years, died Monday at home. Survivors include widow Katie, five daughters, four stepdaughters, three stepsons, 32 grandchildren, six great grandchildren. Burial at Memory Gardens. Earthman’s Funeral Home directs.
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South Main Church of Christ
Estill
Morrow
Hunnicutt
Baytown
Morrow Construction
Long Beach
Calif
C.J. Haley
RL OG
Upton
Nacordoches
Billy Balke
Memory Gantens
Earthman
Hows
Vetoed LC Library Foot Bridge Proposal At College Board
Monday night the college board of trustees rejected a request by Architect Lowell Lammers to begin a $2000 wooden foot bridge near the LC Library. The Gulf Street ditch will be covered later, leading bears to drop the bridge idea.
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College Board of Trustees
Lowell. Lammers
Gulf Street
The
Bears
Airplane Engine Found In Gulf Off Galveston Coast
The Coast Guard reported a shrimp boat 17 miles southeast of Galveston recovered an aircraft engine and propeller from the Gulf of Mexico. The Three Sisters, owned by Port Arthur Shrimp Co. and captained by Roger J. Guildry, found the 2,000 pound engine entangled in nets. FAA has opened an investigation to determine origin.
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Galveston
U.S. Coast Guard
Gulf of Mexico
Federal Aviation Agency
Coast Guard
Three Sisters
Port Arthur Shrimp Co
Roger J. Guildry
Here
Gulf
Street Dance to Kickoff Crosby Fair and Rodeo
Street dance sponsored by Strashy Sports Association opens Crosby events for the 16th Future Farmers Fair and Rodeo. The fair runs Thursday through Saturday with entries received for rodeo divisions. Tex Tyler is general manager and Lawrence Wintree of Orange is producing the Rodeo Cowlns association championship rodeo. Four buffaloes will be mounted and rodeo events mirror prior years. The rodeo begins at 8 p.m. each night.
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YMCA
Crosby Fair
Strashy Sports Association
P.am
Crosby
World Today in Brief Albany desegregation efforts and other items
Albany schools face desegregation pressure from Negroes while national debates unfold over a 35 hour work week. Senate filibuster attempts block the administration's satellite bill. Indonesia gains control of West New Guinea next spring negotiations proceed. World Council of Churches backs evangelism in Paris. Rocket plans for a Cape Canaveral launch imply a major feat beyond earlier Soviet flights. KennedyEconomic report outlined and oil field investigations continue in Quitman Texas. Atlas ICBM test claims promise solutions to prior rocket issues amid nuclear treaty talks. U.S. accuses Soviets in Geneva over treaty. Agriculture Department legal questions loom as investigators target top staff.
Kennedy eyes tax cuts and reform for 1963
President Kennedy, opposing an immediate tax cut, outlined multibillion-dollar reductions and reform for 1963. He said Congress may be convened in a special session if recession looms, calling the current tax system a drag on recovery and consumer purchasing power. Democrats praised him while Republicans argued for spending cuts to accompany any tax cut. Sen. Harry F. Byrd cited whether expenditures would shrink or be financed by borrowing.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
Rusk Predicts Victory For All Mankind
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Minneapolis that the United States will win the global struggle for freedom against communism. He called this the State Department’s main business and said freedom must prevail against powerful forces seeking to destroy America.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Dean Rusk
State Department
Rusk
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
Trustees face 1962 63 school budget crisis and tax raise
School trustees debate curtailment versus higher taxes as a 1962 63 budget shortfall grows to about 317000 across public schools and Lee College. A wage raise proposal sparks contention while a language lab and teaching machines are eyed, with tax rate impacts estimated around 10 to 22 cents. An industrial retrenchment trend pressures tax bills for Humbie area industries.
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Lee College
MattAdt
George H. Gentry
A. R.stark
Dr. L. D. Victory
Humbie
Berlin anniversary sparks West Berlin clashes at the wall
Western powers expect Soviet protests after West Berliners attack the Wall and Soviet vehicles near Checkpoint Charlie on the first anniversary of the barricade. Riot crowds hurl stones and bottles, police push back demonstrators, while tension rises over the symbol of division and Cold War strains amid a Soviet memorial visit.
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Berlin
West
Checkpoint Charlie
U.S
West Berlin
Ins
Frederick 0. Hartel
Aunt Charlie
Chenttiachy
Space team reports progress in orbit stay mission
MOSCOW reports the Soviet space team remains active near the Earth site today. Washington coverage notes Congress sent a history making vote on a major fiscal package. The House Appropriations Committee approved 4.615 billion dollars for public works nationwide including deepening and widening the Meustow Ship Channel to 40 feet and bond easing.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Earth
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Meustow
Odessa Gets Brief Heat Relief From Thunderstorm
A late night thunderstorm and scattered showers brought moderate relief from the heat in Odessa and surrounding areas in West Texas. Temperatures across the southern half of Texas were still expected to exceed 100 degrees, with winds gusting up to seven miles per hour. Power outages occurred in northern Odessa for about an hour during the storm.
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Associated Press
Odessa
Texas
Arate
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