Baytown Area Holiday Events And Programs Listed
Christmas ticket sale for Rumpelstiltskin at Baytown Little Theater opens to members with 75 cent prices. public sale after December 14. PTA meeting at Channelview Elementary School 7 30 p m with school band and chorus. Trinity Church hosts Christmas Pilgrimage open 2 9 p m Tuesday and Wednesday. Baytown YMCA offers swimming classes at Robert E Lee pool. A&M Mothers Club Christmas party set 7 30 p m at Mrs John Leslie's home. Women’s Volleyball league cancels Thursday games, rescheduled after Jan 3. Baytown Duplicate Bridge master point game 9 30 a m Wednesday. Police Wives Club hosts Christmas baskets drive 7 p m Tuesday. DeMolay Mothers meet 7 30 p m Wednesday Goose Creek Masonic Lodge. College Board exams set for Jan 13 at Robert E Lee High School with Saturday deadline. Concert singer Michelle Contella to perform in Huntsville Memorial Auditorium 8 p m Friday. Weather: partly cloudy and colder tonight, low around 40s. Galveston tides 1 5 3 42 a m and 2 02 p m high 1 5 8 03 p m low 6 20 a m and 7 03 p m.
Around Boy Town Highlights and Local Notes
Fisher shows skill with a Polaroid at SJMH visit with Debbie Stone and Chinese friends. Union Reliance survivor honored with Scout pin by Floyd Hadley and Richard Hillliard. Laughlin undergoing back therapy at Hermann Hospital. Allise Walsh seeks powderpuff prep for Jan 20 game. Corky and Nell Dickerson display a white Christmas tree. Sadie and Jack Wilson vacationing. Crocker and Cates answer calls. Mandie Kriger reports a fast trip sans glasses. Ida Stevens on hunting trip. Yvonne Coker listed sick. Baytown bridge players at Houston convention include J I Bradshaw and others. Thelma Hamilton has four tickets for Br. 4 tennit Bowl.
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Eulalah Fisher
Debbie Stone
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Floyd Hadley
Richard Hilliard
Union Reliance
SJMH
Pat O'Sullivan
W. T. Laughlin
Hermann Hospital
Allise Walsh
Vind
Corky
Nell Dickerson
Sadie
Jack Wilson
Crocker
Cates
Mandie Kriger
Ida Stevensells
Yvonne Coker
Baytown Bridge
Connally to Seek Texas Governorship after Navy
John B. Connally will leave as Navy secretary December 20 to return to Texas and pursue the governorship. Connally, 44, Fort Worth attorney and ally of Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn, signals a leadership scramble in Texas Democrats. Fred Korth, 52, Fort Worth banker and Kennedy appointee, named to succeed Connally, brings long Washington ties and a wartime Army career to the post.
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Fort Worth
Tex
John B. Connally
Kennedy
Texas
Fred Korth
Connally
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sam Rayburn
Korth
Washington
Elvis 5
Stahr Jr
Air Transport Command
Army
Panama Canal Co
Defense Department
Navy
REL Student Will Debut In Two Record Releases
Con Pierson, 16, a sophomore at Robert E. Lee High, debuts with two Christmas releases. He belts lead on A Fool Was I and My Dream with Champagne Brothers backing. Rex Kulbeth, Baytown Junior High, handles lead guitar on this disc. Charlie Champagne fronts the other release, while Con plays guitar and sings. The tenor is in the R W Lee Choir, son of Thomas Pierson and Lela Interladion Drive residents. Rex is son of C L Gober of Wildwood. They’ve performed with the Champagne Brothers around Houston. agent Pat Monte of the Performing Arts Center in Houston calls Con a potential star entertainer. Monte notes his singing, playing, and early composing show an orig…
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Con Pierson
Robert FE
Champagne Brothers
Rex Kulbeth
Baytown Junior High
Charlie Champagne
Con
Robert W. Lee
Thomas Pierson
Interladion Drive
Rex
C. L. Gober
Wildwood
Houstow
Pat Monte
Performing Arts Center
Houston
Monte
Robert Lang Rites Set Wednesday at Reformed Evangelical
Robert Henry Lang 97 of Baytown Texas died Monday noon at 12 10 He will lie in state at 2 p m Wednesday at the Reformed Evangelical Church for rites at 2 p m The Rev Barney Fedenwisch will officiate Burial will follow in Kurten Cemetery Lang moved to Baytown in 1927 and was a night supervisor in the Baytown Refinery He is survived by his widow Evelyn Lang of Baytown a stepson David Paul Everett two grandsons one sister Mrs Anna Metzer of Kirksville and two nephews one aunt and four other relatives The family asks donations to the church or charity of choice in lieu of flowers
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Reformed Evangelical Church
Robert Hen
Burten
Tex
Lang
Elton
Barney Fedenwisch Offi
Baytown
Barial
Kurten
Fining Co
Evelyn Lang
Baytown Utilities Department
David Paul Everett the
First deep freeze hits Baytown area with 28 degree low
U S Weather Bureau warned Baytonians to shelter tender vegetation and protect cars from a light freeze that could bring 28 degrees Tuesday night. A sharp cold front swept Texas with 10 degree drops, icing in Panhandle and North Texas, accidents and school shutdowns as winds shifted from south to north.
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Baytown
U.S. Weather Bureau
Houston
Weather Bureau
Texas
Rustin
Ward Way
Dalhart
Amarillo
Lubbock
Midland
Alpine
Dallas
Abilene
Fort Worth
Waco
Austin
Brownwood
Wichita Falls
Texarkana
San Antonio
Palestine
Kerrville
South Texas
North Texas
Beaumont
Lufkin
Galveston
Laredo
Gulf Coast
Port Arthur
Mobile
Ala
Panhandle
Katanga mining threat and global tensions loom in Our World
A United Nations analyst warns French mercenaries plot to dynamite the Union Minicre complex in Katanga if U.N. forces join Congo troops to retake the secessionist province. Other items note labor push for $1.50 minimum wage, de Gaulle resisting Berlin talks, U.S. helicopter readiness for Vietnam, and political shifts in Texas and New York with trials and public addresses.
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U. N
Katanga
U.N
Central Congo
Leopoldvile
Factory workers' earnings hit record in November
Washington reports average weekly hours 40 hours 35 minutes and payroll employment at 55.1 million, tying a month-ago peak. Unemployment stands at 6 percent. In Hartford, hospital janitor Arthur La Fontaine, linked to a fatal fire, is committed for psychiatric observation after testifying he found and fought the blaze.
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Washington
Labor Department
Seymour Wolfbein
Wolfhein
Hartford, Conn
Hartford Hospital
Arthur
LaFontaine
Goodfellows Drive Needs More Donations this Christmas
The Baytown Sun reports ongoing Goodfellows Drive seeking contributions for needy children. Readers are urged to donate via The Baytown Sun, P. O. Box 90, Baytown, with past acknowledgments including 316.44 from a fourth grade Sunday School class and other small gifts benefiting the drive.
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St., Mark's
Baytown Sun
P. O. Box
Baytown
Brown & Root Wins NASA Space Center Design Contract
Brown & Root, in Houston, will handle master planning and design for NASA's Space Center near Clear Lake. The package covers the space craft center master plan and several facilities with initial construction contracts expected by February and full plans within six months.
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R. B. West
U. S. Corps of Army Engineers
Space Center
Space Agency
Fort Worth
Corps of Engineers
Clear Lake
Harris County
Brown & Root
Spacecraft
Aircraft Attacks Airport In Congo
Unidentified aircraft attacked Elisabethville Airport in four strikes before dawn, dropping 28 bombs without harming UN installations. The UN headquarters in Katanga also faced heavy fire as batteries west of the headquarters fired. Origin and type of planes unknown. attacks spanned five hours beginning at midnight. The Katanga mission reported a strike on President Tshombé’s residence.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Elisabethville
Drdfe
U.N
Katanga
LAN
Sid
Kaetangan Morar
Headquarers
Brussels
United Nations
Moise Tshomit
Residencs
Tokyo Assassination Plot Foiled Against Ikeda Revealed
Police in Tokyo report foiling a ultrarightist plan to kill Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda and top cabinet members. Thirteen men arrested. weapons and uniforms seized in predawn raids across Tokyo and Kyushu. Authorities say a Japanese industrialist funded the plot, inspired by regional upheavals and a desire to prevent a Communist revolution in Japan.
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Tokyo
Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
Kyushu
Sas
Textbook Committee Formed With Fifteen Educators
Fifteen Baytown educators join Supt George H Gentry and J M Stuart on a district panel to select textbooks for grades four through eight and high school courses. Members include M C Rushing and Roy H Rowland representing principals, with Erma Johnson W C Beasley and others representing elementary and subject areas. The committee will review narrowed selections and grant final recommendations for English dictionaries geography vocal music American history science world history and vocational industrial education.
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Baytown
George H. Gentry
J. M. Stuart
Mont
W. D. Hinson
Isiate
M. C. Rushing
Roy MH. Rowland
Erma Johnson
W. C. Beasley
School Board Considers Insurance Plan With Commission Split
The School Board will meet Monday to review the district's insurance schedule and decide how commissions will be divided. Chairman Steele M McDonald proposes 19 percent to him and five percent to each of the other two advisory board members, with seventeen agents sharing the remainder. Advisory members argue for equal splits or performanceBased division. A complete review of district policies will also be conducted.
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Steele M. McDonald
Insurance Advisory Board
Mordays
Cerca Wier
S. Archey
McDonald
David ¥. Arnett
Amott
Facheel
Iis Gee
Winter’s grip tightens across western states
Bitter cold from Canada drives subzero readings in western mountain country while readings dip into the teens from Oklahoma to the upper Great Lakes. A low pressure center over Texas and another over Kentucky Tennessee bring midwest snow and rain with heavy accumulations forecast for Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan and parts of Indiana and Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press
Canada
Havre
Mont
Oklahoma
Missouri
Towa
Upper
Great Lakes
Teineis
Kentucky-Tennessee
Midwest
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Inorthacestern Alinais
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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Channelview Elementary School
Yale
Trinity Episcopal Church
St. James House
Baytown Ymca
Texas A and M Mothers Club
John Leslie
W. James
Aggie
League of
Baytown Duplicate Bridge Club
R. P. Merchant
Republic
Police Wives Club
Charles Hill
Goose Creek Masonic Lodge
Robert £. Lee High School
Winnie Brown
Sturday
Michelle Contella
Carl Contella
Willow Lance
Memorial Auditorium
Huntsville
San Houston
State College
D. Gunter
Davis
Rel Student
Robert Henry Lang
Highway Department
Mc Kinney
San Angelo
Lee W. Ray
Roby
Richard M. Gilbert
Macon
U.S. 18
Muleshoe
Littlefield
Larbuch
Cinity
Id Tricity
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Organized Labor
Charles de Gaulle
Allin
Soviet Union
Berlin
U.S
United States
Adolf Heusinger
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Moscow
Ross G. Baker
Bob Casey
Crawford Martin
Hillsboro
Price Daniel
Dadaary
Richard P. Pavlick
Belmont, N. 1
Pesident Kennedy
Edwin A. Walker
Allante
Court of Criminal Appeals
Herston
Iweten
Goodfellows
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NASA
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Brown & Root, Inc
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Department of Second Baptist
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Calhoun
Air Force
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Creftl Brown & Root
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Tungate & Jackson
tcHivence Center
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Brown & Root’s
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William M. Rice
Cal
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Ricky Hurst
Ricky
Sam Houston
the Sun
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Congo
R. L. Ward
Veterans of Foreign Ware
Robert R. Tuck
C. W. Hastings
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Sakuo Jaber Union
Daikichi Imoto
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