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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1959
Page
1
Sun day night December 20 features a two part Christmas program with a Nativity pageant by primary and upper grades. Rehearsals start 2 p.m. Saturday to assign parts. The pageant uses pantomime and reader narration.
Forecast notes chances of showers tonight with a drop in temperatures. Saturday will be sunny at sunrise 7 02 am and sunset 6 22 pm with a low tide at 3 22 am and 3 02 pm and high tides at 6 41 am and 9 52 pm in Galveston.
TOHNNY CHANDLER visits his former employer The Sun. A Howard Payne graduate, he lives in Arlington and works in Dallas and will soon study in Fort Worth. Lou Davis sports new hair. Jesselyn Pirkle sees My Fair Lady in Houston. Betty Butler and Det Anderson discuss The Jack Parr Show. Doris Burleson talks Christmas plans. Frank Russell family enjoy a new foreign car after a trip to Laredo. GW Mallory visits The Sun office. Santa Monica director James Wier receives praise for Maybe Tuesday. Don Cannata new Memorial Baptist educator earns medals for journalism. Midnight callers greet John Taylors’ guests with a Chow dog and a gun. Paul Castner and companion from Greenville are mistaken for prowlers.
In Baytown, readers including Gun Club member and County Commissioner V.V. Ramsey observed the proclamation naming "Ralph Yarborough Day" in the mayoral absence of BR. HH. (Red) Pruitt, as captured in Baytown Photos.
An independent union, Independent Industrial Workers Assn, captured 2,561 votes, defeating OCAW which drew 124 in a two day bargaining election at Esso Baton Rouge Refinery. Teamsters Local 415 received 498 votes, Metal Trades Council 50, and 42 voted No Union. About 3,400 production and maintenance workers were eligible. Balloting ended after supervision by the National Labor Relations Board.
Frigid rescue work continued as authorities reported about 110 confirmed dead with possibly more. Relatives prepared for a mass funeral at Frejus Cemetery while some 200 are counted as dead or missing. hundreds of troops, helicopters, and work crews aided in aid efforts along the Reyran River valley after the dam break.
Red Cross volunteers invite Baytown area residents to record Christmas greetings by appointment at the Red Cross office 220 Ens Defre. Recording is free with discs loaned by Soundscriber Sales Corp, and mailing envelopes provided. Phone 302-4960 for details.
The annual Goodfellows event moves forward with donations and toy collections led by the Baytown community. More than 100 students from three to 17 will perform in a three part show at the Community House starting 7 30 pm Tuesday. Admission is a donation to the Goodfellows. Cartons placed in Baytown stores will be emptied each Monday afternoon and totals reported.
Dr. Jesse Kirkpatrick named president of the Wooster Chamber of Commerce. A Baytown dentist with Kiwanis prominence, he joins W D Moore as first vice president and K A Bissmann as second vice president. J H C Gack Kimmons is third vice president, Roy Wolzhouser is secretary treasurer. A banquet committee led by N D Longreeker with Bill Beck and Dr. M A Jones will plan the annual event for late January or early February.
Santa will greet the kiddies Saturday afternoon at the Christmas Variety Show in the Robert E. Lee High School auditorium. Sponsored by the Baytown Emergency Corps the show starts at 1 20 p m Musical entertainer Billy Western of the Ozark Jubilee will perform Amateur talent from the Baytown area also appears Tickets available from emergency corps members or J D Morton at JU 2 9624 Prizes will be given away.
In a space program test the U S released a monkey nicknamed Sarmaloft in a capsule 55 miles up. The capsule parachuted into the Atlantic about 200 miles offshore. A Navy plane spotted the craft and a destroyer roving to recover it. Recovery was expected about 1 p.m. EST aboard the destroyer Borie.
U S Senator Ralph Yarborough urged Congress to curb foreign oil imports and extend the 27.5 percent depletion allowance to boost Texas oil production. He spoke at a Baytown event, called for Padre Island to become a national seashore, and stressed the need for Cold War Veterans education bills to pass promptly.
AP wired report from Rome describes President Eisenhower's arrival on a rainy warm day at Ciampino Airport as part of his 22,000 mile mission of peace and goodwill. Communists in Rome joined in the welcoming with banners praising him while a 20 minute landing delay occurred due to overcast skies. Eisenhower told greeters his message to 11 countries is friendship and freedom and he thanked Italy for ties of blood between the nations. He called Rome the former center of Western civilization and noted the blood ties that unite the United States and Italy.
The president’s arrival in Rome drew a warm welcome from government leaders and citizens. He planned discussions with Gio vanni Gronchi and Antonio Segni on pursuing peace with justice in the world. Rome’s officials expressed sympathy and high hopes for his historic mission and humane policy.
Samuel B Herbert longtime Baytown pioneer died Thursday at St Josephs Hospital Houston aged 67 He spent most of his life in Baytown before moving to Houston in 1955 He was a member of Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge Local No 211 Brotherhood of Pipefitters and St Anns Methodist Church He is survived by his widow Gladys A Herbert Funeral rites at 10 am Saturday in Fogle West Mortuary chapel officiated by Rev A Frank Dent Burial in Hollywood Cemetery
Houston report quotes Eugene Holloman of Standard Oil of New Jersey at a Houston dinner. He argues competition will grow with imports but the oil industry outlook remains sound. Hollman notes Humble of Delaware will be 100 percent owned by Standard, handling exploration processing and marketing in the United States.
The Baytown Sun announces extensive Anahuac football coverage with the Madisonville game Friday night. The weekend issue will be loaded with photos and stories, and copies will be available at the Anahuac newsstand.
Donald Sexton of Channelview was found not guilty in a jury trial in Justice of the Peace Walter Queen's court on a traffic ticket for riding a horse on the wrong side of the road. Sexton was riding Starlight toward Channelview on Sheldon Road when a car approached. the horse spooked and the car struck the animal’s right front fender. The horse recovered. The ticket, issued by the Investigating Highway Patrolman, stated Sexton rode Starlight on the wrong side. Sexton claimed he was off the road when the accident happened. The jury sided with defense attorney Tom M. Manus. State representation was by Alex Guevara. Jurors: C. B. Welch, R. Reed, C. E. Pillow, Clint Horten, R. G. Mitchell, M. Houston.
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