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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1962
Page
1
Downtown stores will stay open until 8 p.m. each night through Saturday, Dec. 22, per Robert G Feinberg, chairman of the Retail Merchants Committee. The notice details late shopping hours amid a busy holiday period.
Cedar Bayou Baptist Church will host a Christmas party and foreign missions offering at 7 p.m. Friday. A film titled The Holy Night will be shown. The event is open to all members and their families. L. Smith Dies funeral rites set at 4 p.m. Thursday in Beaumont for W. L. Smith, father of former Bayionians Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Smith. Gospel music on TV includes Does My Jesus Care and When He Reached Down His Hand by Glen Walker and choir from Second Baptist Church on KUHT Channel 8 at 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Weather calls for increasing cloudiness and warm temps. Galveston tides: high 4:01 a.m. and 8:04 p.m., low 4:01 a.m. and 11:55 a.m.
FIRST LT. Stephen Wilhite, son of Mr and Mrs A Wilhite of Massey Tompkins Road, serves in the U S Air Force in New Delhi India. He has three years in service with two years in France and expects to remain in the region for at least another year with a troop carrier squadron C130. A Baytown merchant note and a car trip from Battle Creek Michigan highlight Christmas decorations in Baytown. local students sang in a cantata at Sam Houston State College. Ingleside High School Band director A A Holle, 615 Stella, will lead the band at Memorial Stadium for the semi finals football game between Ingleside and New London.
A 28 year old Houston man William L. Herring confessed to burglaries in Baytown and La Porte after a high speed chase that included gunfire. A partner, Mollie Sue Herring, was captured near Sylvan Drugs in Houston. In Baytown $7 to $8 was taken. La Porte safe intrusion yielded barbiturates opium and nembutal. Herring received treatment for a possible gunshot wound and was turned over to Baytown Police for processing while La Porte Police pursue charges.
Beaumont report says John Mack Herring was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shotgun slaying of a female classmate. Houston dispatch notes Leslie Douglas Ashley, 24, is found sane by 11 jurors and a woman, meaning he still faces the electric chair for the torch and gun killing of real estate man Fred Tones.
Harris County voters are invited to a 7 30 am breakfast at Holiday Inn Baytown where County Judge Bill Elliott and County Commissioner V V Ramsey will explain a proposed 9 6 million domed stadium bond plan for Houston. The bond election runs 7 am to 7 pm on Saturday December 22 with voters asked to approve funding.
Baytown Optimist Club teams with Holiday Inn and The Baytown Sun for the Welcome Stranger event on December 22 1962. A motorist will be stopped on Highway 46 then treated to a Christmas dinner at the Holiday Inn and given Christmas gifts from local merchants. The campaign is led by Optimist president Charles Fuller with Lester Alford as general chairman and a local committee including P Nice Set Ettardy Dr Robby Wilton Roper and Bob Beverly.
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Wooster Baptist Church for Mrs Mamie Sue Echols 69 of 218 Arbor. She died Wednesday morning at her home. Survived by three daughters Margaret Crawford Chilton Tex Mary Lee Sanders Rockdale and Ruth Russell Corsicana two sons Thomas and Carl Echols Baytown ten grandchildren a brother Wiley Coleman Tomball a sister T A Gregory Baytown she belonged to Wooster Baptist Church and had life PT A membership. The Rev G N Allison and the Rev James Farmer officiated. Burial in Magnolia Cemetery Dayton under Paul A Lee Funeral Home direction.
Mrs. Price Daniel led the appreciation night honoring the Daniels before about 2,300 Texans. Ben Ramsey handed her a Lincoln Continental as tributes poured in from Gov. Price Daniel, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Gov.-Elect John B. Connally, and other officials. The event featured pine backdrop, light humor, and praise for Daniel’s career.
Freezing weather grips northern Texas with a 21 degree low in Baytown at 5 a.m. Thursday. Officials expect a warmup beginning Friday as frost warnings urge protection for vegetation and water pipes. In West Texas temperatures rise toward dawn while Brownsville reports 41 degrees.
President Kennedy faced questions on Cuba and Adlai Stevenson at a news conference. He praised Stevenson’s U.N. work while denying administration leaks attributed to any NSC member. He said the Cuban issue should be for history to judge, and left open who leaked council discussions.
Washington announces a taped hour long program titled After Two Years A Conversation with the President to review Kennedy's first two years in the White House. The NBC ABC and CBS networks will air the special at 630 PM EST and 830 PM respectively with a three network committee producing and Sander Vanocur William H Lawrence and George Herman serving as interviewers.
A candidate for the Baytown Chamber of Commerce board delivers a farewell press conference criticizing editorial silence and alleging a conspiracy among editors Beathard Rogers and Hooper. He recalls losing to a diverse slate and vows to speak directly to readers about the misquoting of campaign remarks.
Chief Goodfellow reports a family of five seeks Christmas help as their breadwinner cannot work due to illness. The plea highlights urgent need for Goodfellows funds, with Baytown contributions lagging at the December deadline. The piece notes the effort aims to prevent any child from going without Christmas gifts.
Baytown council meets at city hall to decide on annexing 1542 acre Ashbel Smith tract behind Roseland Park to place it on the tax rolls next year. Attorney Strickland petitions challenge the move while council weighs eastern expansion, sale prospects, and industrial site plans before year end.
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