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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1962
Page
1
The 1962 63 budget hearings cover district and city budgets with absentee voting planned until Tuesday. A 2 cent tax rate hike is proposed with a 45 pay raise for policemen. The district election will determine the final budget approval.
Hot and partly cloudy with isolated showers. Galveston tides high around 1 59 a m and low around 8 00 a m and 10 58 p m. Vernon E Mills of 180 N Burnet completed a Naval Reserve Training Seminar at William Jewell College Liberty MO. Mills is a Diamond Alkali mechanical engineer. Beta Sigma Phi City Council meets 7 45 p m Wednesday at Miss Evelyn Robson 1403 Woodlawn. Budget committee meets 6 45 p m. Trinity Episcopal Church Women plan 2 p m Wednesday guild room meeting. Dewey Compton Radio Station KTRH farm director speaks at Baytown Lions Club noon Tuesday on The ore Tomorrow If There Is no.
A shorted electrical wire caused a fire at Henke and Pillot Inc. at 9 W. Texas, damaging a front-wall section and causing about 5000 dollars in losses. Police Patrolmen Don Herring and Mike Marchuck alerted firefighters at 12 11 a.m. Sunday. four trucks responded, quickly containing the blaze and sparing merchandise. The store reopened Monday, with repairs to the wall planned and no merchandise losses reported.
Waco High School class ring from 1937 with initials HJ found in the Gulf Coast Hospital parking lot may be picked up at the hospital clinic. Baytown Lide Theater works on The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker with Lloyd Causey Claude White and Z M Chastain assisting. Betty Paul rests between studies at the University of Houston.
Huntsville Alabama AP reports workers at the Marshall Space Flight Center briefly walked off, resuming a strike after returning to their duties during the day.
About 1 250 union members from the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union walk out at Shell refiners in Deer Park, closing the plant at midnight. Pickets at three gates. no one crossed lines. Strike follows firing of hundreds of workers and job downgrades, demands 6.5 percent wage increase with a 17 cent minimum, and histories of demotions. Shell declined comment.
Elmer Gray and son Eddie failed to secure the Estes estate as Morris Jade of San Antonio offered 6.5 million for the assets tied to the West Texas bankrupt promoter Billie Sol Estes. The seven member creditors committee will review a final contract between trustee Harry Moore and the committee, with Chicago drawn drafts and possible telephonic approval.
Dr John R Coleman head of economics at Camogie Institute Pittsburgh will televise economics courses for Lee College this fall on Channel 11 KHOU-TV and Channel 8. Lectures will cover money talks government role in business and international gold flows with credits equal to regular fees. In district students pay 27.50 per course with 12.75 more for out of district students.
A 40 year old McAllen man Hans Fix was bitten multiple times in a Gulf of Mexico shark attack while surf fishing near Padre Island. He died about 20 minutes after being brought to a Brownsville hospital. A witness described water boiling as the shark struck.
Summer-weary Texans marked more than seven weeks without measurable rain in parts of the state. Forecasts show continued heat with 100 plus temperatures and scattered thundershowers. Austin logged its 51st dry day, San Antonio 49th, Laredo 26 inches last week, and Galveston 44 days. Main drought effects include crop and livestock stress and voluntary lawn watering limits as city pumps struggle to meet demand. Two deaths in Houston and Dallas tied to heat have been reported as baseball schedules shift to later start times for cooling.
Baytown Sun students receiving UH degrees include Grace Lewis, Kathryn Colence, Spalding Rogers, Gene Edward Alley, Carol Ann Alley, Minnie Ola Davidson, Joe Edwin Vanier, Floyd Woleik, James William Fayle and others. Degrees span BS in education, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, architecture, and master of education.
Funeral services for Mrs Letha Margaret Beaird aged 69 of 602 Lincoln will be at 10 am Tuesday at Central Baptist Church with pastor Thomas B. Gama officiating. She died Monday at home after a long illness. Graveside services will be held at 10 am Wednesday in Oddfellows Cemetery. Survivors include her husband Thomas Dee Beaird of Baytown, two sons and five children.
Soviet spokesman rejects partial nuclear test ban proposals even as Swedish scientists report atmospheric tests. Reports of Viet Cong actions, Chinese and North Vietnamese support, and multiple military developments fill a chaotic international scene. Atyphoon Ruth tracks toward Japan while poliomyelitis clinics expand in several counties and a mass stock robbery probe unfolds in Plymouth.
The Retail Merchants Committee of the Baytown Chamber of Commerce plans the annual Teachers Reception for August 29 at the Robert E. Lee Cafeteria. District teachers will receive gifts. W J Strickler reported a survey of downtown parking as 3000 spaces, including Knowles Lot, with some spaces freed by removing restrictions and meters installed. Bob Feinberg chairs the committee.
Houston police charged Eddie MeZeal, a Jefferson Davis Hospital worker, with murder after a 19-year-old Mont Belvieu man, James Ford, was shot once in the chest on Robin Street. MeZeal admitted firing after a dispute over a $526 dice game, and was arrested at his Mason Street home following a house-to-house search.
Officials of United Rubber and Chemical Co in Baytown met with James O Hubband of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to resume negotiations after contracts expired at midnight August 15. Union members agreed to continue work as talks continue with about 2 workers affected.
A drift bottle found off Fisher's Reef prompted a wide search by the Harris County Emergency Corps and Marine Division. The note, written in ink by a ballpoint pen, asked for help and mentioned Sea Gull Island and a stranded person with a broken leg. Sheriff Otter consulted the Coast Guard, which reported no Sea Gull Island between Brownsville and Florida, and crews checked nearby islands and the Houston Ship Channel while awaiting clearer clues.
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt ordered police to use forceful measures to halt rioters after a weekend of demonstrations near the Berlin Wall. Thousands protested shootings of a refugee by East German border guards, clashing with Soviets and Americans as East and West police moved to quell the unrest.
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