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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 03, 1961

Page

2

Advent Season Opens at St. Pauls Lutheran Church

Advent season begins Sunday at St Pauls Lutheran Church with Holy Communion morning services and a 2 p.m sermon by Rev Harold Bombhoff The Dayspring From On High will be the sermon topic. Special Advent services recur each Sunday with a part I service of prayers and hymns and a sermonette followed by a part II Thank offering service led by the American Lutheran Church Women.

Christias St. Paul's Litheran P.m Harold O. Bombhoft Abbrey Ganske Bob Bitner W. H. Keintschel E Winnegartner Gvonal

Lewis Roberts To Be Speaker At Kingdom Hall

Lewis B Roberts a master of the Baytown congregation will speak at 4 p m Sunday in the Kingdom Hall Lehoveh s Witnesses 1905 Hawthorne His talk bears on the subject How Long Would You Like to Bearers of the Fear Inspiring Name and a scripture Deuteronomy 28 36 A group study follows Then Bible studies at 3 p m Tuesday in Bay-Tex area and the ministry school and service meeting at 7 30 p m Thursday

Kingdom Hall Lehoveh’s Witnesses Hawthorne Lewis B. Roberts Baytown Congregation Bible Studies Bay-Tex Theministry

Pentecostals Plan Special Prayer Meeting Set

The Pentecostal Church of God schedules a sick people prayer service amid fear and illness. Rev L A Harveyster leads Sunday School at 9 45 with Bible Study, evangelistic services at 7 30 pm. Women's Missionary Union meets 9 20 am Tuesday followed by Young People’s activities at 7 30 pm. Transportation line 383 220.

Pentecostal Church of God L. A. Harveyster Aim Women's Missionary Union

Water District 27 Sets Ballot for Jan. 2

Fresh Water District No 27 will elect five supervisors and a tax assessor collector on January 2. Terms of E. E. Atteberry W. L. Askew W. T. Karr GA Mills and Joe M. Roach expire along with Mrs. Gladys Stone who serves as tax assessor-collector. The district cut its tax rate from 7 cents to 70 cents per 100 valuation for the 1961 roll. Filing deadline at district office 5034 Wade Road Coady is December 1.

Board of Supervisors E. E. Atteberry W. L. Askew W. T. Karr GA Mills Joe M. Roach Gladys Stone Wade Road Coady

Funeral Notices for Mrs Martha Sones and Obe Echols

Funeral services are announced for Mrs Martha Emme Sones of 3418 RX Main a Baytown resident who died Friday at 1 25 pm. Services will be at 2 pm Sunday at Wilkerson Funeral Home and burial at Pear Valley Cemetery. She is survived by five daughters two sons twenty two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Also funeral services Sunday at 2 pm for Obe Gite Echols a native of Mexia Texas who moved to Baytown in 1928 and worked as a pump operator for Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown. Services at Wooster Baptist Church with burial in Magnolia Cemetery in Baylon. He is survived by his widow three daughters two sons and ten grandchildren.

Martha Emme Sones Main Baytown Eardman Fyneral Wilkerson Funeral Home Brody Tex Purol Pear Valley R. L. Leng Boytons T. Reed Schols Gite Echols Arbor Galveston Hospital Mexia Echols Humble Oil and Refining Baytown Ratillery Wooster Baptist Church G. N. Grady Pasetor Ofielating Surial Baylon di Echols Mamle Echols Boytown C. T. Russell H.H. Crawford Chilton Wille Dee Sanders Rockdale Cart Thomas R. Echols Palthearere

Herbert Named Chief of Baytown II Group

Herbert V. Herbert of Baytown, an insurance man, elected president of the Baytown Little League East League along with officers Louis Gaines as vice president and Lloyd Townsend as secretary treasurer. Dan Mundinger named president of the West League with Ernest Mueller as vice president and J. Smailling as secretary treasurer. Cleon Easley to head construction of a new lighted ball park near Lakewood swimming pool.

Herbert V. Herbert Baytown Insurance Baytown Louis Gaines Lloyd Townsend E. R Bud) Donnelly Ralph Garrett James Cherry Dan Mundinger Ernest Mueller Jack Smailling J. C. Froneberger T. A. Mitchell D. F. Whatley Cleon Easley Lakewood

Final Bay Town Chamber of Commerce directors meeting 1961

The final meeting of 1961 for the Bay Town Chamber of Commerce board of directors will be held at noon on Monday with President Robert L. Gillette presiding. The agenda includes the annual election of directors followed by electing a new slate of officers.

Baytown Chamber of Commerce Robert L. Gillette

Episcopalians Celebrate Advent Year at Trinity Church

Advent Sunday marks the new church year at Trinity Episcopal Church with services at 8 am and 11 am. The Advent Wreath will be blessed and lighted. The 9:35 am Family Service features a junior choir and organ. Parish leaders, acolytes, lay readers, and two choirs are listed, with coffee time and church school schedules announced. Young People’s League and Junior League meet with plans for supper and an evening program.

Trinity Episcopal Church P. Walter Henckell James Harrop C. G. Cezeaux J. E. Boydell Howard M. Kay Keith Dutson LeRoy Holcomb H. A. Garner Bill Stewart Hank Bethea Charlie Liggett Bill Baugh Rusty Boggess Clifford Hammons John Taylor Scott Liggett D. C. Walsh Jimmy Shepard Josh Higginbotham Ralph Terry Lan Williams J Grant Halter Joe Wiles R. L. Dockendorff D. E. [Nicholson T. W. Brundrett Dulate

Community notes from Cedar Bayou Methodist program

The Cedar Bayou Methodist Church announces a Sunday 10:50 am service featuring a sermon by the Rev. Don Duran with Usher groups listed. Sanctuary Choir will perform with organ accompaniment. Evening service at 7 pm. Scouting groups plan a service project and clothing/shoes drive aiding Goodwill industries in Houston to fund handicapped workers.

Don Union Don Duran Cedar Bayou Methodist Church B. E. Franklin L. O. Casey L. 2 Wililcox M. G. Brown J. B. Upton W. J. Tadlock J. T. Tucker E._H. Enderlin Sanctary Choir E. Sheldon Kline Eddie Franklin Woman's Society of Chris Scouts Cubs Explorers Goodwill Inn Dustries Houston Goodwill

Boy Scouts Call for Good Turn Day Bag Donations

Baytown residents are asked by Boy Scouts to fill the Good Turn Day bags for collection Sunday. The notice urges community participation to support local service efforts on the designated pickup day.

Baytown Boy Scoutts

20th Century Meet the Press and Sunday Highlights

Television listings show Chet Huntley reporting on 11:45 D3 schedule. Programs include Lassie Bulbwinkle Show Houston Headlines Follow The Sun Dennis The Menace Walt Disney Ed Sullivan Lawman Car Bonanza 16 Bus Stop Adventures in Paradise Candid Camera What’s My Line Play of the Week Houston Special Theatre and Late Show Californians.

Lassie Bulbwinkle Houston Dennis the Menace Walt Disney Ed Sullivan Lawman Jack Benny

Time codes for event schedule listed

A string of times appears as 1:00 1:15 1:20 3:30 3:45 4:00 4:30 indicating a sequence or timetable without additional context or descriptors. The fragment suggests precise points for activities, sessions, or gate openings within a program. No names or locations are given.

Goodfellows Drive Encourages Baytown Support

Baytown residents are urged to donate to the Goodfellows fund. The goal is $2,000 but any contribution helps. A 50 cent gift per person could aid 1,000 children. Mail contributions to Baytown Sun or drop them at The Sun office.

The Goodfellows

Rate hike request cites rising costs since 1959

The speaker notes a proposed rate increase to offset higher operating costs, contending the 1959 rise tied to well-head prices and not operations. They argue a 1954 cost issue mirrors 1961 and that a unified package should have covered both increases at that time.

Seminar on Christianity and Communism for Baytown Baptists

Mentorist Baptists host a 6:30 pm seminar on Christianity and Communism led by Bill Pinson of the Baptist Christian Life Commission in Baytown. The discussion, open to adults and young people, will be in the church Fellowship room followed by a 7:30 pm service addressing The Peril of Panic. Pinson, born 1934 at Fort Worth, is a noted ethics instructor and writer for Baptist papers.

Training Union Baytown Bill Pinson Baptist Christian Life Commission Dalla Pinson Christian Life Commission Fort Worth Lancaster High School Lancaster Tex

Hospital Beat Admits And Room Assignments

Hospital bulletin lists patients by name and room at St. Josephs in Houston and Lillie-Duke in Baytown along with admitting notices. Mrs Luther E Grizzle and Mrs Marcus Mason reside in rooms 113 and 120 respectively, with others listed for surgery or medical care across Gulf Coast facilities.

Neil B. Cook Thompson St. Joseph’s Hospital Houston Gary Martel Donahoe Wooster Lillie - Duke Hospital Gulf Coast Luther E. Grizzle Cedar Bayou Road Medica William R. Campbell Baytown Marcus Mason E. Homan Lanny C. Yates Bowie H. H. Cutchen E. Defoe Queen Horton Richard L. Dodd W. R. Dodd Main

New Piano Drive Reaches Halfway Mark at Coady Baptist

Coady Baptist Church reports halfway completion in a stamp sale to fund a piano for the new auditorium. The drive began weeks ago as members push to acquire the instrument with trading stamps. The Rev. C. E B. Meadows Jr. selects Christian Conversion as Sunday topic at 10 50 a m and discusses The Offense of the Cross at the evening service. Ivas Montgomery directs music with Miss Terry Wilker Ison as accompanist. Christ as program rehearsal set for 5 20 p m Sunday.

Coady Baptist Church C. E B. Meadows Jr Ivas Montgomery Terry Wilker- Ison Church Christas

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