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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1960
Page
1
Baytown residents raised 123.05 in the Lions Club annual Dimes Drive, the smallest daily total since it began. The drive continues through Friday with a booth in front of First National Bank on Texas Ave to support community service projects including sight conservation.
Names will be drawn at 3 p.m. Thursday to pick winners of Baytown merchants eight hundred dollar bonus and more than 60 other prizes. The Brunson Theater hosts the drawing though winners need not be present. Over 60 prizes and thousands have registered. deadline is 1 p.m. Thursday. To enter, visit one of 44 participating merchants, fill a form, no purchase required, open to anyone 16 or older.
U S Weather Bureau reports a hard freeze for Baytown with a 28 degree low and warns tender vegetation needs protection. Motorists should check radiators as winter arrives, with Arrival time at 2 27 pm. The article details frigid lows across Texas from Lubbock to Corpus Christi and notes light frost in the Rio Grande Valley.
AP reports a brief 50 minute gunbattle as rebels aimed to free imprisoned Perez Jimenez officials but were defeated by forces loyal to President Romulo Betancourt. In Beaumont, Howson committee plans to extend its probe of Jefferson County vice to other parts of the state after concluding here.
In New York a board of inquiry convenes to examine the devastating blaze aboard the carrier Constellation during construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Investigators will assess fire safety, including the use of metal versus wooden staging, amid near unanimous criticism of procedures and oversight.
Baytown Sun reports that Goodfellow bag deliveries to 1000 area youngsters start Thursday. Volunteers from Carpenters Local 1334 Girls Sports Association and others pack bags with toys, fruits, nuts and candy at Carpenters Hall Decker Drive. Special Christmastime events include a showing at Brunson Theater to collect remaining gifts, with donations totaling $1,782.74 so far and a goal of $2,500.
Rob ert Hill, longtime Baytown resident, hospitalized for observation at Lillie-Duke Hospital. A C Stephens of Mont Belvieu, oil well driller, also a patient there believed to have suffered a heart attack. Dr Hamlet S Davis at San Jacinto Hospital improving from a heart condition. News mentions holiday travels, visits, and social conversations among local residents and families during the Christmas period.
President Eisenhower, in what he calls his final Christmas message as commander, urges world peace as the absolute necessity of our time. He notes most of his adult life was spent in uniform and highlights the global broadcast of the message on Christmas Eve and Christmas.
Baytonians enjoy a long weekend as Christmas falls on Sunday with banks, offices, and many downtown retailers closing Monday. Post Office operations pause with limited mail handling. Humble Oil plans skeleton crews. schools dismiss Wednesday and resume Jan 3. Lee College resumes Jan 3. The Baytown Sun skips Monday issue. registration submissions resume Tuesday.
Reports say a U S destroyer conducted an hour long mock attack on a Soviet freighter in the Mediterranean on November 4 almost causing a collision and prompting a protest note naming the destroyer as the Corry. Col Joseph Mobuta declares no immediate invasion plans for Congo to topple pro Lumumba government in Oriental province. Richard Baer, handcuffed, transported to Frankfurt after German police arrest on charges related to Auschwitz killings. Prime Minister Ben Gurion tells Parliament Israel’s Negev reactor will be dedicated to peaceful research. Lin Ping says China will resist U S intervention in Laos. Discoverer XIX orbits Earth to map temperatures for future Mi dax satellites. Rail commission head Tompson predicts two percent rise in crude oil demand.
Tony Briscoe, elected Harris County district attorney, says his office will review Sunday closing law complaints if filed, while Houston officials vow enforcement after Christmas. Baytown officials report few complaints and note many essential services already open.
Baytown city council will meet for a brief session at 7 p.m. Thursday in city hall with two items on the agenda. Bids to be opened on traffic signals for three Highway 146 intersections and bids on a landfill disposal tractor, opened earlier and tabled, are under review. New signals for Highway 146 intersections with Texans Ave Fayle and James will cost about 12 to 15 thousand dollars and address six lane traffic with lane arrows. The library site controversy is not on the Thursday agenda.
President elect John Kennedy selected Roswell Gilpatric, former Undersecretary of the Air Force, as deputy secretary of defense. Gilpatric, a New York lawyer and Yale alum, will serve under Robert McNamara, as Kennedy begins budget planning amid economic worries.
Gov. Jimmie H. Davis administration pursues House passage of a $28 million sales tax increase tied to school integration amid federal court actions. The plan would raise the tax to 3 percent state wide for eight months starting Jan 1, with revenues funding private school cooperatives. House, Senate votes required, with opposition uncertain.
Mrs Ida Bell Gearey 2 of Raytown died at home 4123 Cedar Bayou Road Wednesday Funeral 2 p m Thursday at Farthingman Funeral Home with Billy Balke and two other ministers officiating Burial Hillcrest Cemetery Survivors include two daughters Mrs D L Myers and Mrs W R Holleman both of Raytown a son L Garey of Raytown 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild
Warley Wadley, Baytown advertising manager, travels to Amsterdam aboard KLM for a Christmas visit with Frieda Wadley and her mother. He expected to file a series of articles on the trip, including a play by play of the transatlantic flight and observations of European stops, returning to work January 8.
Raytown police search for a suspect who ripped a pay phone from a booth in or near the Arrow Hotel area on Market Street after Christmas. The theft, estimated at 125 dollars in silver, was reported by Simmons, owner of Brisson Food Market. Police urge anyone with information to come forward.
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