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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1962
Page
1
United Rubber and Chemical Co of Baytown and seven unions failed to reach a new contract Monday. James C. Hubbard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service met with company and union officials in Houston and reported no settlement, making a strike imminent.
Funeral services for Mrs. C L Frazier 80 of Oklahoma City mother of L E Larry Frazier Baytown, will be held in Oklahoma City. Other survivors include son Marry Frazier and three grandchildren. School football physicals for Robert E Lee set for 1 pm Wednesday in the field house per trainer Age Crow. Union talks continue with strike threat after contracts expired August 15 affecting about 260 workers. Golfers Mickey Reilly and Lee McDowell qualify in Texas Junior Golf Tournament. Local PTA and CAP meetings announce sessions and budget reviews. Juveniles caught stealing gasoline at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital transferred to probation.
CROCKETT CATES celebrates 4 birthday. David Bryant walks proudly as a new papa. Marion Pace shows a dress with four white buttons, gifts from her son Ken. Yvonne Coker plans to move to Richardson near Dallas as Lucas Vegas and sons depart for New York, returning in two weeks. Betty Perkins shares a feature tip. Mrs. George W. Edwards coins PTA reporter. Mrs. Leslie Wilburn greets an old friend downtown and notes summer heat. Mrs. Kelvin Gourlay celebrates granddaughter Carla Lanelle Hanley. John Guemple assists Lee College employment service. duty for Musley Morgan. W. F. Ehrhardt, soon to be father of the bride, laments his position. Mrs. R. T. Kerr reports a strawberry roan and white feet in yard. envier asked to write.
Alfred George Susie Jr. 21, son of Mr and Mrs George E Smith, 2607 Cedar Bayou Road, died at 2 35 pm Monday in a Houston hospital while a junior at Colorado School of Mines. He graduated magna cum laude from Robert E Lee High School in 1959 and won the Bausch and Lamb Award. He was active in several clubs and Honor Society. Donations to Colorado School of Mines scholarships in his name. Funeral Wednesday 10 am at Kopf Chapel Sam House Houston. He is survived by his parents a sister Miss Jacqueline Susie two brothers Daniel and Charles and a grandmother Mrs Freeman James Houser. The Susie family moved to Houston three months ago after six years here. Dr Susie was director of research and development at United Rubber and Chemical Co. until moving to United Carbon Houston. Rev C Eugene Askew to officiate.
Partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with widely scattered showers. Galveston tides show high at 1:54 a.m. and 1:04 p.m., low at 8:23 a.m. and 4:24 p.m.
In Alexandria Virginia two seven year old girls Rita Ohlgren and Maria Theresa Morley disappeared Sunday evening. Police and FBI along with hundreds of responders searched Brookville area including woods storm sewers and a gravel pit. A bloodstained cardboard fragment found near a parkway seemed unrelated as authorities pursued leads in a growing missing persons case.
Acting Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold gives Katanga President Moise Tshombe a week to ten days to accept a United Nations program to unify the Congo peacefully. The report notes Soviet atomic blowups and other world events including Powers Cuba talks and Estes Kefauver pushing for contempt citations against steel firms.
Lee College will raise the district tax rate from 11 to 17 cents due to a 3.3 percent rise in expenses, reduced tuition and fee income, and large losses in fund balances. Board members note enrollment changes after San Jacinto College’s arrival and discuss a possible consolidated district with Chambers County.
Mary Gibbs Jones, widow of builder and philanthropist Jesse H. Jones, died Monday in her Lamar Hotel apartment at age 90. She helped found the Houston Endowment and supported scholarships, Rice University building for women, and brought the Metropolitan Opera to Houston. Funeral service Wednesday at St Pauls Methodist Church with in-state preceding. She leaves two daughters, a daughter-in-law, six nieces and four nephews.
Humble Oil & Refining Co. chairman Morgan J. Davis laid the cornerstone for Humble’s new office building on Tuesday using an antique silver trowel. The nearly completed neosimakery sits on a full block bounded by Milan Bell Leeland and Travis Streets. Over a thousand guests witnessed the ceremony including Mayor Lewis Cutter, George Morse of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, and retired Humble president Hines H. Baker who offered a dedication prayer.
The district, facing income drop, raised the tax rate from 1.31 to 1.47 per 200 valuation, with junior college rate rising from 11 to 17 cents for a total levy of 1.64. The budget totals 5.72 million, athletic costs reach 160,000 with football generating about 80,000 annually. Audience questions addressed federal aid opposition and appraisal costs.
Four member majority on the Baytown School District board approved joining the federal surplus milk program amid debate over potential federal control. The district will be reimbursed four cents per half pint sold, with a possible pay raise for cafeteria workers from savings and funding for a language lab. The plan can be dropped with 10 days notice, and most Texas districts participate.
Susan Dianne Crawford, 2, was found safe in Memorial Park near the 16th green after 12 hours missing. A man in khakis emerged with the child and handed her to an officer, claiming he was Dough Marshall, a carpenter on his way to work. Charles Crawford, the child's father, embraced his daughter with tears.
Presley E. Frazier 82 of 2305 Towa Baytown died at 10 45 am Tuesday in a Baytown hospital after rescue from drowning at Goose Creek stream on Highway 146 He collapsed while fishing and artificial respiration revived him briefly before his death Survivors include wife Lela three sons Jeff Ed and Wesley three daughters Vernetta Ellis Dorothy Nell Ammons and Bootiche Funeral arrangements were to be announced by Bertiman's Funeral Home
Herman P. Pressler Jr. of Humble Oil will address Baytown Rotary Club at noon on Wednesday on Public Relations and the Businessman. The Houston lawyer and public affairs leader has served on Humble’s board and in its management, with ties to the American Petroleum Institute and various bar associations. He lives in Houston with his wife Elsie Townes and two sons.
Crosby school board meeting discusses budget of 501052.78 with local taxpayers protesting a proposed 313000 valuation increase that would raise Crosby’s share of the district budget from state and county funds. Superintendent Koonce suggests raising valuations to lower the rate below 1.35, while the audience notes the unair conditioned auditorium and warm conditions.
NASA reports astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter overran target by about 25 miles after a three second delay in firing braking rockets during the May 24 orbit. Scanner data misreadings disrupted automatic retrofire. manual action added delay and helped explain the overflight.
Baytown voters will decide on a police wage raise this Saturday. Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for 37 patrolmen and two clerical employees. Absentee voting ended earlier. city cites civil service limits on eligibility. Patrolmen currently earn 360 dollars monthly, rising to 400 after six months with no merit or cost-of-living raises. Sgt. C W Cowan, police association spokesman, says 45 dollars a month extra is a fair request for on call 24 hours daily work.
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