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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1962
Page
1
Partial cloudiness and sun with scattered showers early Sunday forewarned. Cooler Sunday with southerly winds shifting NW. Low Saturday night 69, high Sunday 70. Baytown items include James A. Jones filing for School Board District 5, car crash update, blood donors sought for Ross Defenbaugh, local students and community notes, plus upcoming events at Lamar Tech and Trinity Lutheran Church.
James Black of Gary Ind has moved to Baytown to manage a new Marbon Chemical Co styrene plant. The venture, a joint operation with Enjay Co, aims to produce 75 million pounds annually using Humble feed stocks. E B Badger Co won the construction contract and work should begin soon for an end-of-year operation start.
Baytown League of Women Voters launches its annual finance drive February 19 to February 28. Funds support voters guides surveys and local issue analyses while backing constitutional revision voter registration and election law improvements in Texas. The league emphasizes nonpartisan voter information and relies on donations from selected individuals and firms.
Baytown hosts National Engineers Week events starting Monday with an Honest John missile display on Sears Roebuck's lot. IV engineers and the Baytown Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers organize talks by registered engineers for school groups and civic clubs. Dr Hermann discusses radiological engineering and Lamberson covers petroleum engineering for oil and gas in the Gulf Coast. The film The American Engineer will be shown at Robie Lee Tech School and local junior high schools. The Engineers Ball Friday at the Tower invites engineers and guests with $6 per couple tickets.
New York AP dispatch reports Francis Gary Powers, after nearly four weeks of interrogation, has told intelligence officials a tale substantially the same as his trial testimony in the Soviet Union. Washington officials say little new is learned about how the U2 pilot was shot down over Soviet territory. Powers, exchanged for Rudolf Abel, has been under tight questioning since his return and briefly met his wife and parents.
Baytown residents focus on local races as most candidates paid filing fees by Saturday noon. H N Love remains an exception and plans to pay by midnight Saturday. Eight of 96 Democratic and ten of 25 Republican candidates had not paid by Saturday morning. Frist/party chairs accept fees by postmark or in person.
U S officials say the guerrilla war in South Vietnam could be won with minimal American combat and casualties. In Houston two airlines faced false bomb scares prompting futile searches of Trans-Texas and Continental planes.
Wooster Chamber of Commerce leaders heard Judge Bill Elliott describe the Clear Creek NASA site and Baytown expansion as a growth hub. He urged support for a levee project, a new park, and a public hearing March 61 to advance the levee proposal with officials from Johnson County and U. S. Army Engineers study funds. The event drew about 100 local business people and included notes from Lyndon B. Johnson and Rep. Albert Thomas on levee efforts.
Gun Club oyster fry attracts over 2,000 as Bayshore Rod and Gun Club members join officers in surveying Baytown area facilities and hearings. Lutkin commission targets building costs at 38 000 while volunteers sign up new members and inspect lab sites damaged by Hurricane Carla. Local officials travel to Sea Brook and Galveston Bay to assess oyster beds and labor offices in a shifting recovery plan.
Foreman told about 300 attendees at the Bayshore Chamber of Commerce annual installation banquet in La Porte Yacht Club that the Texas bench is strong and that defense lawyers defend the accused. He urged state lawmakers to pass laws funding private clubs and liberalizing curfew and liquor rules to boost tourism and nightlife.
Hamburg and Bremerhaven faced catastrophic floods as north sea storms battered coasts. Officials report at least one death with many missing or displaced as dikes burst near the Elbe. German and U.S. crews battle flood breaches while ships ride distress off Denmark.
The U S Postal Department will advertise for bids on the Crosby Post Office building on March 4 with bids opened May 4. The 12 600 square foot structure will sit north of Crosby State Bank on Avenue B and be leased for 10 years to the department. The one story building includes 2 400 square feet of interior space and a loading platform, septic area, and around 1 39 square feet surrounding the tank. Mrs Fred Lintleman is set master of Crosby Post Office with Carl T Seale in charge of calling for bids.
Baytown's LULACS plans a membership drive during LULAC Week February 17 to 23. Andy Contreras said the drive aims to double its members as Frank Alonzo's band plays at the LULAC Home on Baker Road from 9 pm to 1 am. A district meeting and officer elections for Baytown Council No. 227 are scheduled at the LULAC Home next Friday at 8 pm.
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