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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1959
Page
1
Local Jaycees will gather at 7 30 p m Wednesday at the Quack Shack with regular meetings shifting to every other Wednesday. Also notes on Mrs Fern Williams taking a 10 day vacation at La Porte Courthouse Annex and other holiday community events.
Hugh Lansford will head the 1960 slate of officers of the Bay Town Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. Phil Bennett is vice president and H Coleman secretary treasurer, with A S Bynum as state director. W A McElhannon chairs the membership committee along with Leroy Machala and others. The law and ethics committee is led by K T Beavers, Thad Fennema and E L Ekholm. Roy Fuller is parliamentarian, assisted by Albert Faneslie. The nominating committee includes A S Bynum, A H Howard and S H.
Eunice McGahee aids a neighbor while Tommy Griffin prepares to celebrate his birthday. Teresa Cashion meets distant kinfolk, Nelda Garner makes a call, and Rita Ellis is relieved no emergency involves her. Estelle McMicken and others get caught in rain while Christmas shopping. Dena Conner visits Baytown and Mont Belieu with relatives. John Marsh enjoys a Christmas gift parking ticket. Robby Jean Schiller comments on her hair. Martha Tilly faces a virus. Robbie Chandler seeks silence, Vic Davis and Dennis Underwood enjoy lunch, Minna White has hamburger supper, Ronnie Cooper fears mumps. Marian Murray works to organize an office. Evelyn Trchalek discusses weather. Shirley Ann Pyle returns from Stephen F. Austin College.
Heavy storm drenched Baytown with up to 7.8 inches, the heaviest fall of the year, causing widespread flooding and damage. Areas near West Texas Ave and East James St flooded, about 13,000 phones out, and city construction projects halted until ground dries. Baytown Refinery reported light damage while water over roads halted travel. Public works director noted rainfall 65.68 inches for the year to Wednesday 7 am, with Humble Center noting 6.3 inches in a 48 hour span. Municipal services, including Bell phone lines, were disrupted and restoration targeted by Thursday if possible.
The Harris County Flood Control District and Baytown school system reached a settlement to avoid court over a 60 foot easement for a drainage ditch on Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road. The county offered to pay for the land at about 50 dollars per acre and would not disturb nearly 100 feet of school frontage. Superintendent George H. Gentry acted as peacemaker as trustees weighed the proposal and the possibility of condemnation.
The Baytown Sun notes the NATO meetings in Paris this weekend and asks readers to call if their service member son is returning home for Christmas so the paper can include the update.
A family story from a mother with four children, no father, and dire poverty shows a crippled child and three shoeless siblings. They survive on bread, beans, and potatoes in a two room rent, as Christmas seems impossible. The Goodfellows mobilize to provide aid, ensuring a holiday for the children.
A Christmas pageant staged by the REL drama and choir departments will be presented Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Robert E. Lee High School auditorium with free admission. Miss Gayle Knight will narrate. Students Mary, Joseph, and St. Francis of Assisi are portrayed by Marilyn Brumley, Bobby Jordan, and John Lee, with other named cast and crew supporting.
Baytown Police vacancies will wait for a new Civil Service Commission after the council abolished the prior board four months ago. Assistant Chief Herbert F Freeman resigns to enter business, planning a Gull ice station on Highway 146. He has served since 1951, rising from patrolman to assistant chief, and is married with two children.
The Baytown Optimist Club presents Welcome Stranger a dinner event Monday night with a surprise guest from an out-of-town driver. Lester Alford chairs the program with city police merchants and civic leaders aiding. Merchants pledge gifts and donations possible by calling Alford. another club project is selling Christmas trees.
A wolf wandered into a Kendalia home and stayed with the resident’s dog. Mrs. Jes dang shot the wild animal after seeing its tag. She turned the carcass over to Rendall County and collected a bounty, converting the event into Christmas pin money.
A Baytown City Council special meeting was set to amend the electric power rate ordinance to extend a new rate structure to 9500 Baytown customers of Houston Lighting and Power Co. The plan, discussed at a Houston dinner with Mayor H. R. Pruett and officials, would cut annual bills by about 40000 dollars. The change, effective Feb 1, targets residential and small commercial customers, with Ta cents for the first 17 kWh and 50 cents for the first 12 kWh in commercial rates.
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