SUN Spots and School Notices Highlight Baytown Briefs
Worker CECIL A. GORDEN of Huber Camp was taken to San Jacinto Memorial Hospital after overheating at J. M. Huber Corp. His condition was listed as good. Baytown area notices include registration for Baytown Negro schools on Aug 31 for grades 1-12, with seventh through twelfth graders reporting again next Friday. Night school at San Jacinto College will run day and evening hours to assist prospective students. Child Care Center No. 2, run by Mrs. Commencie McCloud for the United Church Women, starts this fall at Oak and Johnson. enrollment for working parents opens Friday Sept 1. Mrs. Francis N. Read, formerly of Baytown and now in Franklin, Pa., died Thursday. funeral set for 2:56 p.m. Saturday at Burger Funeral Home. survivors include F. N. Read and a son living in Baytown.
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Cecil A. Gorden
Huber
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
J. M. Huber Corp
Baytown
San Jacinto College
Commencie McCloud
United Church Women’s Organization
Oak and Johnson
Francis N. Read
Nebraska
Franklin
F. N. Read
Humble Oil and Co
Ne Reads
Tides Timings Update for Galveston Saturday
Galveston tides rise to high water at 4 52 a m and 3 40 p m with lows at 7 21 p m and 10 24 p m updating the day’s water schedule for local maritime readers.
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Galveston
Texas Woman's University honors 65 with master's degrees
M and Dorothy Day receive master of arts degrees in physical education at Texas Woman's University in Denton. The event caps a list of 65 advanced degree recipients as community notes mention Priscila Myers return from Puerto Rico, DeMolay conventions, local residents at Garner State Park, and other local sightings and visits.
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University of Houston
Ronnie Arcenaux
B.C
Jack) Kimmons
Harry F. Massey
Ken Dimmang
Baytown
Texans to Witness Nearly Total Lunar Eclipse Friday
A Friday night eclipse should give Texans a view of a near total lunar eclipse. The event begins at 7 36 p m with the moon turning brick red by 9 08 and a curved silver edge remaining visible for a partial phase.
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Texans
Beabibiecs
UN Warns Tunisia Will Defend Self
United Nations session hears Tunisia threaten self defense if France does not pull troops back from Bizerte. Delegates cite Security Council resolutions and demand UN action. President Bourguiba warns the world may reject the UN unless forceful steps are taken.
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United Nations, N.Y
APY
Tunisia
United Nations
France
Bizerte
Mongi Slim
U.N. General Assembly
Security Council
Assembly
Habib Bourguiba
U.N
Slim
Governor Warns Tax Increases in Texas TV appeal
Governor Price Daniel warned a television audience that Texas faces higher taxes if economy measures fail. He said the 2 percent sales tax could rise to 3 or 4 percent in coming years and noted many states have increased sales rates. He urged prudent economy and state fund reorganization to avoid an income tax, while outlining topics for a third special session including farm roads funds, loan shark rules, annexation, tourism, abandoned property seizures, and curb juvenile crime.
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Austin
Daniel
Gulf Oil plans petrochemical complex near Baytown
Gulf Oil Corp moves toward a large petrochemical complex north of Baytown with an ethylene plant near Mont Belvieu and a high purity propylene unit. Land negotiations for about 1,000 acres are unfinished, with plans to develop facilities at Port Arthur refinery and Harris County site near Cedar Bayou.
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Mont Belvient
Gulf
Port Arthur
Harris County
Cedar Bayou Stream
Mrs LaVasa Zegler Dies In Pineland Texas Funeral
Mrs LaVasa Zegler 80 of 1904 Parkway Pineland died at 6 am Thursday at a son Robert Zegler's home. Funeral 3 pm Friday at Bethel Church Pineland with Rev Henry Lee and Rev Loel Hammock officiating. Burial in Martin Cemetery. Survived by two sons a daughter a stepson a stepdaughter a sister a brother and numerous grandchildren. Estimated cause and full details not provided in readable text.
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LaVasa Zetter
1904
Parkway
Bethel Church
Pineland
Tex
Henry Lee
Loel Hammock
Martin Cemetery
Baytown
J.C. Cook
Brenham
Space Agency Inspecting Harris County For Space Lab
A four man NASA inspection team toured Harris County seeking a site for a $60 million manned space flight laboratory. They visited available tracts in Precinct 2 with local officials and Scouts, eyeing Harris County as a top candidate. The tour follows earlier stops in Florida and Louisiana, with plans to visit Texas coast and Dallas-Fort Worth areas, then the Pacific Coast. The delegation includes Parsons, Byrnes, Campagna and Miller. Texas lawmakers say Harris County has the best shot at landing the lab as Cape Canaveral is named for a new moon program site and related facilities are planned in Louisiana.
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Federal Space Agency
Harris
Y. Ramsey
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Texas
National Aeronautcs and Space Agency
Florida
Louisiama
Houston
Ameg Wi
Dallas-Fort Worth
Pacific Coast
John F. Parsons
Ames Research Center
Moffett Field
Calif
Martin Byrnes
Langley Research Center Space Task Force
Hampton, Va
Ward Campagna
The
Space Task Force
Phil Miller
Goddard Space Flight Center
Bellville
Harris’ County
Space Laboratory
Cape Canavaral
Fla
Insurance Chief Candidate eyed as council approves plan
A four member Baytown committee will name a candidate for insurance manager at the Sept 7 meeting. The panel urged a single manager to secure the most economical policies, limit to 60 percent of commissions via one agency, and allow deviated 0 percent coinsurance. The council accepted the recommendations 4-1, with Roy Hughes dissenting on the 60 percent limit and desire for more than one manager.
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Baytown
Baytown Insurance Exchange
Texas Insurance and Banking Commission
W.L
Dub) Ward
James M
Jim) Bryan
Velma Ansley
David Funderburk
A Ns
J.B. LeFevre
al Clayton
J. B. LeFevre
Ward
Roy Hughes
Bryan
Seaborn Cravey
Hughes
Resignation and Peace Corps Bill Advance
Rio de Janeiro President Quadros submitted his resignation at Brasilia. Washington Kennedy's overseas Peace Corps bill passed the Senate for a permanent basis, marking a major policy move.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Donia Quadros of Braval
Brasilia
Washington
Kennedy
Overseas Peace Corps
Senate
Cape Canaveral Is Chosen Space Site
Cape Canaveral in Brevard County moves from citrus hub to space launch center after NASA selects the area for 80 000 acres to build pads for the Nova rocket. The plan, rival sites noted, will relocate about 500 residents, with Gov. Bryant calling it Florida s biggest development and a multi billion dollar commitment.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Brevard County
America
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape
NASA
Atlantic Ocean
Florida
North
Merritt Island
Charles W. Skelly
Farris Bryant
Lucky Bucks Boost for Baytown Shoppers Saturday
The Retail Merchants Committee of the Baytown Chamber of Commerce will distribute 100 silver dollars to shoppers at random this Saturday as a back to school appreciation gesture. More than 30 stores participate with cellophane bags of silver dollars to be handed out on downtown streets and inside shops during the second week of a four week event.
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Baytown
City traffic counters tampered by curious youngsters
Police Lieutenant Turner reports four counters on Main Street have been placed to measure traffic volume. A fifth will be installed Monday. The strange devices locked to utility poles attract children who tamper with the delicate meters, hindering traffic data. Parents are urged to keep kids away from the meters which are funded by the Texas Highway Department.
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Police Lr
Bo) Turner
Turner
Texas Highway Department
West Berlin airspace tensions rise amid Soviet threats
US authorities insist civilian airliners may continue flying into West Berlin despite Soviet pressure. Britain warns Moscow any interference with Western rights to West Berlin air access will risk a dangerous situation and blame will fall on Moscow.
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Authoritiey
West Berlin
Soviet Union
Moscow
Rites Saturday for Mrs. Wilson in Baytown
Mrs Alice Lou Wilson 73 of 401 N Jones Baytown died 12 45 am Friday in a Houston hospital She came to Baytown in 1922 with husband T W Wilson superintendent of Gulf Coast Oil Corp which brought in the first Goose Creek oil well The couple lived in Hull Dassetta area until his death two years ago She moved back to Baytown survivors include sisters Daisy Guidry and F C Towell a niece and a nephew and several great nieces and nephews Funeral at 2 pm Saturday Paul W Lee Funeral Home Chapel with First Reader David G Glenn of the First Church of Christ Scientific Hollywood Cemetery Houston to follow
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Alice Lou Wilson
N. Jones
Houston
George F. Guidry
Ventura
Calif
Paul WU
Lee Funeral Home Chapel
David G. Glenn
Church of Christ Scientific Reading
Hollywood Cemetery
Paul Vi
Bee Tetera Horne
Berlin Crisis Deepens as Ulbricht Demands Full Route Control
Walter Ulbricht, East Germany’s Communist leader, calls for control of land water and air routes to isolated Berlin and urges peace talks to settle post World War I remnant issues. Western pressure and border tensions escalate with warning shots fired at Frohnau barbed wire barrier as Berlin braces for further clashes. East German forces deploy 106mm howitzers near the border and reinforce the West Berlin garrison amid a seventh day of border nerves.
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Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
East Germany
East Berlin
West Berlin
German Democratic Republic
GDR
Jas
McNair
John L. Sanders
Amarillo
Tex
First State Sales Tax Rules Due Today
Texas Comptroller Robert S Calvert announces the first regulations interpreting a 2 percent sales tax to take effect soon. Rules cover outer clothing versus inner wear and contracts before Sept 1, with permits required for store tax license holders. Retailers and wholesalers must collect tax on personal use purchases and on use of items bought without tax.
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Austin
Comptroller
Robert S. Calvert
Calvert
Howev
That Boom Masonic That Boom Masonic
Memphis traveler Lloyd Dinkins heard a thunderous crash at an Arkansas service station while signing for gasoline. An attendant reassured him that the noise was just airplanes overhead, shortly after the Masonry group “That Boom.”
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Memphis, Tenn
Lloyd Dinkins
Arkansas
Memphis
Five Scientists Here Get Honors
Five Baytown dentists and scientists are elected by the Texas Academy of Science for the 1961 62 Visiting Scientist program. The group includes N. F. Chamberlain Gil V. Chambers De W. J. Farrissey W. A. Morgan and R. H. Berry. The program narrows the college high school gap by sending scientists to lecture demonstrate discuss and guide careers. Funds come from the US National Science Foundation and donors.
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Humble Oil and Refining
Baytown
Texas Academy of Science
N. F. Chamberlain
Gil V. Chanbers
de. W. J. Farrissey
W. A. Morgan
R. H. Berry
Tnow
Texas
Ipanel
Sisit
Hin
US National Science Poundation
Iite
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Gulf Oil
LaVasa Zegler
Pineland, Tex
Kreiter
Pittsburgh
Walter Rundell
Rande
Fadell
F Cunningham
Casie Martin
Brookland
Vancouver
B. C
Space Agency
Louisiana
Oak Addition
Clayton
W. W. Ramsey
Precinct 2
Danbria Street
Cedar Bayou
Safeway Cab Co
Sportsman’s Club
Newport
Cleveland
Ohio
Underworld
Law
Virginia
Prince Edward County
Tusian
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Chicago
Newfoundland
Anand
Mrs. Wilson
Recea
Masonic
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