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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1962
Page
1
Ambassadors and leaders explore conditions for Berlin negotiations as a Soviet envoy and U S officials engage in talks aboard a presidential yacht. The meeting marks a tentative step toward easing strains in East West relations amid ongoing global tensions.
Residents invited to Chambers the Houston Natural Gas Co community building at 7 pm Thursday to hear Doug on a pro Broome related project. Includes notes on NASA lab talk at Clear Lake and a Rim of Man in space via Lubbock student. Also mentions funeral plans for Mrs Ragan and local civic association meeting at VFW Hall.
Partly cloudy and mild through Friday with lows in the 40s and highs near 70. Galveston tides show a high at 22:01 and a low at 7:51, with both a.m. and p.m. readings.
Bayton residents share tips and updates from Dallas trade institute to Baytown Boy Scout Week preparations. Reports include advancements in Troops 68 and 93, upcoming Knights of Columbus dance, Littl League recruitment, and local residents aiding family matters and community activities.
President Kennedy proposes a $193 million permanent welfare expansion with increased grants for dependent children of the jobless. He calls for broader federal-state aid reforms to emphasize rehabilitation over relief checks, extending the $100 million annual aid to unemployed families, raising the federal share of rehabilitation costs, and funding day care for children of working mothers. The plan, to be followed by more messages on health care for the aged and education aid, marks a major overhaul of federal relief since the 1930s.
Texas lawmakers near agreement on a loan shark control measure with caps on loan amounts and interest rates, tighter regulation of lenders, residency ownership rules, and a new small loan commissioner. The package also includes a $275,000 tourist ad effort and funds for monument repair, juvenile parole offices, and college programs.
Marie Moers, after 41 years at Humbly Oil and Refining Co Baytown Refinery, retires with a party and plans a world voyage with friend Mrs L A Bergeron. She organized the Coin Your Ideas Committee which grew from 20 monthly suggestions to 100 175 yearly. Moers will sail freighter for 88 9 days visiting ports, then spend time volunteering at Houston Children's Hospital and enjoying travel, reading and yard work.
Fourteen students will graduate from the Lee College School of Vocational Nursing in its first graduation exercises at 8 p.m. Friday in the Lee College auditorium. Dr. George Walmsley Jr. gives the main address, introduced by John Giemple. Dean Waller Ruudell will present diplomas, with invocations and benediction by local pastors. The class began Jan 31, 1961, with 16 students and two affiliate hospitals, Gulf Coast in Baytown and Tide Lands General in Channelview.
Clouds thickened in the lower Rio Grande Valley and along the Texas coast bringing the first prospect of rain in the week. Ground fog cloaked Palacios while San Antonio saw high thin clouds. temperatures ranged from 24 to 60 degrees with light rain possible in the south edge of South and Central Texas.
Public Works Director Grantham reported about 1500 dollars in city water and sewer damage from the recent freeze. An eight inch main on South Main near Spur 201 broke, with many valves frozen. Repairs were expected to finish by Thursday afternoon, with several other issues already fixed.
Deputy tax assessor Carl Smith stated Harris County anticipates about 300000 eligible voters after the poll tax deadline with a projected 340000 to 375000 registrations. Tax offices remained open until midnight to accommodate late payments as Baytown gears up for municipal, county, state, and national elections in 1962.
U S District Judge Joe Ingram ruled Sylvan Beach at La Porte desegregated after hurricane damage repairs, ending a three year suit by four Houston dentists. The decision bars Harris County from enforcing racial limits at the park and leaves appeal decisions to County Judge Bull Elliott. The dentists named are Farris Barclay Joseph R Willie Lee O Mosley and Hugh Ford.
Baytown City Council weighs legal steps to handle abandoned property including cars stored by Jack Smith. The plan would allow public auctions and city possession after storage costs exceed value, with legal constraints on disposing of impounded vehicles and removing plates and inspection stickers.
State police reported a private aircraft crash at Sant Houston Late Park matching a missing May 5 plane. Onboard were a Cal Tax man and a Houston woman, with the craft identified as N5922-0. The wreckage location would align with the Pallas plane route, naming Tony Bratford, 34, and Dore Tee, 22, among others.
Harris County prepares for the Mothers March to raise funds for the National Foundation. From 6 to 7 pm residents are urged to light porches and secure dogs to aid walkers. About 25 000 mothers are expected to march delivering literature and envelopes for donations across the county.
Baytown Corporation Court filed 6,009 cases in 1961 with an average of 22 daily dispositions. Fines totaled 60,000, largely from moving violations at 35,899, plus 16,332 from bonds and 159 in parking fines. 792 jailed for drunkenness and 600 other cases for violations of city ordinances. 322 warrants jailed, 244 served, 59 not served. Dispositions include 3,935 fines and 1,785 forfeitures. 281 set time, one found not guilty. Parks tickets issued, 216 paid. 590 tickets voided. City budget details incomplete.
Unverified reports from a well informed source say former foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov is hospitalized with a heart attack in Moscow. The Foreign Office declined to confirm the claim while noting no official word has been issued.
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