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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1962
Page
8
A young man David O'Brien began the Epsilon Sigma Alpha Ele show modeling a brown velvet Eaton suit for toddlers. The Community House event featured ten fashions from the Carousel with red colors and varied outfits for ages from year olds to high school, including velvets cottons and velvets with bold patterns.
Washington AP Rep Harold Cooley chair of the House Agriculture Committee says there will be no field hearings on cotton by a subcommittee before Congress convenes in January. He notes lack of concrete proposals from the cotton industry or Agriculture Department makes hearings unnecessary at this time. Cotton stocks are rising in government warehouses under the price support program and disposal of cotton in the United States has slowed. quotas for 1963 are being prepared.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Hicks, geese and hens as domestic companions long before the dawn of written history, suggesting early human-animal bonds and domestic practice without clear dates or full context.
Westminster Presbyterian United Women in Church will install 1963 officers led by Mrs. J. Keating at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Fellowship Hall. Rev. Teykl selects Advent topic God’s Word of Comfort. Choir directed by Gene Boynton to perform at 11 a.m. service. Youth pledge drive and Romans study noted. church activities span Sunday events and ongoing programs.
The Rev. T. P. Bolenbaucher, ordained U P Church minister, is named pastor of a new Pentecostal church to be organized in La Porte as a mission under Texas District. He has served in Texas and New Mexico and previously led Faith Tabernacle in Cleveland. Aimed at foreign missions, the church plans prayer programs, youth activities, and a day of prayer with a goal of 10.7 million dollars for missions, schools, hospitals, and churches worldwide.
The audience at a fall fashion parade wore black outfits and brown combos, with many in black or black with browns. Notables included Mrs. W. C. Jones and daughter Elizabeth, Dr. Alvera Griffin, Mrs. Dee Wheatley, and Mrs. Gene Gillis. The event featured intermission entertainment by Linda Lamch and Walter Dix, with ESA Juniorettes leading toddlers down the runway.
Scouts Unit 68 at Roseland Pavilion showcased Jimmie Carpenter’s film African Safari during their November gathering. The event included presenting the unit charter to John Mitchell of Baytown State Farm Insurance, with H C Lyles representing East Harris District. The program welcomed new members, awarded year-service stars, wolf silver arrows, and various merit badges, den and activity honors, plus recognitions for attendees and den mothers Mrs. W K Roquemore and Mrs. C F Ingram.
The Rev. Burnette W. Dowler will preach at the ILam. service Sunday with the sermon Miracles for Men drawn from Galatians. The Senior High Youth Choir, Organist Mary Pennington, and junior and senior choirs rehearse, while a Cerebral Palsy Center speaker presents a program. Deacons meet Wednesday at 3 pm.
Mr and Mrs L M Steed of 110 Ark welcome a son Arnold Fulton Steed born November 26 at Gulf Coast Hospital. He weighed eight pounds twelve and a half ounces. Grandparents are Mrs W G Arnold of Baytown and Mr and Mrs Gus Steed of Chilton.
Names and relations fill a Thanksgiving homecoming record. Philip Craig Snyder returns to Baytown after two weeks with Keith and Jane Shawver in Big Springs while Charles Snyder’s family vacationed in Minnesota and Michigan. Charles Harrison visits Baytown area with Dr. and Mrs. Padgett in Bayway Dr. L. J. Weiler and family travel from Cross Plains via Burnett as Barbara Bearden recovers at home. Judy Lamberson, OL Lake freshman, comes home for break and serves as Sigma Alpha Eta pledge and school paper reporter.
Bayway Christian and First Christian Churches hold Woman's Day services Sunday with church women leading worship and special music. Rev. Warren and Rev. Bissex address the theme God's Power Redeems the World. Activities span morning services, missions offering, choir and youth events through the week.
St Pauls Lutheran Church announces First Advent services on Sunday with Holy Communion at 8:30 and 10:45 am and a special Advent service at 6 pm preached by Rev Warald O Bomboit. Morning topic Springs of Light and night Swords or Plowshares. December Advent services at 6 pm each Sunday. Dec 23 features Children's Program. Christmas Eve song service and Christmas Communion at 6 pm. Christmas Day festival at 9 am. Luther League aides and children’s groups under Mrs B W Stinson to participate. Church council meets 7:80 pm Thursday. Larry Meyers appointed to fill Ralph Johnson’s term on Board of Deacons. Junior instruction 8:30 am Saturday. membership class 7:30 pm rem Monday.
Mrs Winnie Jense joined the Golden Age Club meeting at Lynn Haven with 21 attendees. The Southern Belles from Robert E Lee High School sang, hosted by Service League members, with plans announced for the annual fistnas party on December 19 at the Community House and a wrapped Christmas gift exchange.
Wooster Baptist Church hosts a Foreign Missions Emphasis December 39 through the week, led by Woman's Missionary Union under Mrs J T Treat. Daily prayer periods begin at 9 30 am with sessions Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday and a 7 15 pm program Wednesday featuring Extending the Light and a pastor Grady AL Fon sermon. Sundays include talks on missions by Mrs AL FP and others, with evening service titled Praises at Midnight and music by Fred Parker.
The Lee College concert in the college auditorium opens at 1 45 PM with a Christmas program of music from the 17th to the 20th centuries. It includes Praetorius and Menotti pieces as well as folk carols from England France Germany Spain and Russia. Five student directors Nancy Williford Evelyn Raney G W Bald ridge Marion Haven and Andrew Shipp will direct their own selections under Joe Charles Stephenson.
All Saints Episcopal Church marks the first Sunday of Advent with 8 am and 11 am Holy Communion led by Rev. Peter Katt. He speaks on The Bridegroom is at Hand at the later service. Choir, ushers, altar committee, fellowship hosts named. nursery and church school sessions listed. Junior Choir rehearses Saturdays.
Houston AP George R Brown was elected president of Brown & Root Inc world wide construction and engineering firm He succeeds his brother Herman Brown who died November 15 after guiding the firm since its 1929 founding Brown had been executive vice president and will lead the company in Houston and beyond.
Junior Historian Club of Robert E. Lee High School will install new officers and about 60 new members at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Community House, observing the club’s 2th anniversary. Sponsors are Mrs. Sybil Jordan and Robert P. Kelley. Officers include Don Parkhurst president and Elizabeth Jones first vice president.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Edward Foster announce the birth of their son Terry Allen Foster on Sunday at Tidelands Hospital. The baby weighs seven pounds, five ounces and has a brother named Eddie. Grandparents are Allen Morris and Orval Foster with great grandmothers Lou Foster and Susie French.
A concise note notes the death date of Johnny Appleseed as March 0, 1e and mentions beavers' teeth grow continually to wear down. The text blends historic myth with natural fact on tooth growth.
A religious exhortation argues that salvation comes from more than faith alone, listing numerous biblical verses for God saves, Christ saves, the gospel saves, grace, words, hope, calling on Jesus, confession, and faith as parts of salvation. It contrasts faith plus works with the idea that faith alone is insufficient.
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