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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1962
Page
1
The School Board of Trustees planned a 1 p.m. Friday meeting at the School Administration Building to study school insurance options and related matters. The session aims to review coverage and policy options for district operations.
Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday with widely scattered showers. Tides show Saturday high at 6 47 p m and low at 11 22 p m. Sunrise and sunset times are not clearly stated.
John A J Busch named head of the new city operations department with direct report to City Manager J B LeFevre. He will oversee public works and city maintenance as the council backs centralized, efficiency focused organization following budget hearings. Busch, city engineer since 1955, has lived in Baytown town all his life and previously worked for Humble Oil and Refining Co and the City of Houston.
Rebels under Premier Ben Bella press for civilian support around Algiers as armed columns approach the capital from western Algeria. Boumedienne orders units to restore bureau control while Wilayas 3 and 4 call residents to streets despite machine guns. French sources say major conflict unlikely but tensions rise.
A tip led to the arrest of Evan Lewis in Baytown on burglary and aggravated assault charges tied to an express office theft. Detectives recovered a tape recorder, a pistol, and hi fi components. Lewis admitted the burglary and named an accomplice. Police said further charges would be filed and the case involved a stolen television set from R. Marlin Television Sales.
Detroit firemen rescued a boy named Michael Woks who crawled into a laundry chute while in pajamas. Fire crews had to cut through a wall to reach him, and he suffered only a bump on the head. He offered no clear reason for entering the chute.
Baytown City Council cut 48 746 from the 1963 city budget with hopes to trim the gap between income and expenses. Agreement was unanimous as council reduced the contingency funds and deferred some allocations to a general fund reserve. An added 24 000 in expected tax income for next year was announced, narrowing the deficit but still signaling a potential tax hike.
American officials press NATO allies to curb Communist bloc shipments to Cuba with limited but hopeful responses. In Washington, Arthur Goldberg becomes Supreme Court justice and Wilbur Mills ascends as secretary. Space agency tests heat shields. Hoover recovers after tumor surgery. Cuban counterrevolutionaries executed. global talks on disarmament advance in recess. Torches light Cyprus while Tex Panhandle promises weekend relief as wheat growers vote on controls.
The pastor of Our Lady of Good Harbor Catholic Church canceled classes minutes before the desegregated school was to begin the third day. Rev. Christopher Schneider said he feared violence amid the tense situation.
NASA's Houston space center project drew low bids from Texas and Nebraska firms. W. S. Bellows Construction Co. of Trouston and Peter Kiewit Sons Co. of Omaha submitted 4 145 085 for the first five units, above the 3 955 6 estimate. A contract award was expected within ten days as Fort Worth district engineer Col. R P West said. The center sits on a 1700 acre site east of downtown Houston for astronaut training and future spacecraft work.
Safety officials urged motorists to reduce traffic fatalities during the Labor Day weekend. The National Safety Council estimates 410 to 490 people may die in traffic accidents in the holiday period from 6 am Friday to midnight Monday.
The Railroad Commission investigates a well on a lease operated by the chairman of Star Steel Co. in Hawkins Field after a survey found a 20 degree deviation. Pipelines to the lease may be severed if the bottom lies outside the lease boundary. hearings could follow for other questionable wells in East Texas.
Houston attorney Jackson B. Smith Jr. won the Harris County Democratic Executive Committee nomination for probate judge by 102 to 99 over acting Judge Arthur C. Lesher Jr. The victory reflected a liberal-leaning bloc’s support and followed a tense meeting to fill the vacancy. Republican nominee Victor M. Petty was not chosen.
The Humble Lectures in Science and Engineering at Baytown's Refinery outline eight two week courses for the spring and fall of 1962 63. Eminent scientists from the United States and Ireland will teach topics including Advanced Concrete Design Polymerization Chemistry for Engineers Operations Research Modern Inorganic Chemistry and Mechanisms of Reactions on Solid Catalysts. Dr G E Kimball and Prof Rutherford Aris lead sessions with guest instructors from Princeton Harvard Minnesota Queen's Belfast and MIT.
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