Baytown Activities Highlight Charity Ball and Local Events
Beta Sigma Phi members invite help for the Metabo- Research Fund charity ball at Rice Hotel Crystal Ballroom Houston. Nick Na Evarro orchestra to entertain. advance tickets $2.75, $4 at door. Proceeds go to the research fund. Also plans for Grace Methodist church masonry will be released in six weeks. Senior Citizens Club hosts games April 13 at St Mark's Methodist. Teenage dance Friday night at Firemen's Recreation Hall. Shrine Club event at Baytown club building. attendees bring covered dish. C W Campbell reported missing but found safe in Kemah. Kiwanis welcomes Larry Prean to discuss Clear Lake City development. March of Dimes seeks $200,000 in Baytown efforts. Mothers March on Polio planned Jan 30. Weather mostly cloudy. Galveston tides Thursday high 10:41 a.m. and 3:32 p.m.
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Beta Sigma
Kiwanis Club
Larry Prean
del E. Webb
Houston
Baytown
Baytown People In Brief Local Notes And Greetings
A string of brief sketches features EULA POTTER resting, JERRY GIEGER seeking private drama lessons, MARTHA LILLY greeting giggling youngsters, LOUISE LAUGHLIN in a red cast, WILLA DENE HINES discussing hair spray, JIM HALA failing to keep a rubber plant alive, DAN STALLWORTH paged in a hospital, HARRY BOWEN visiting, BARRY SMITH seeking expert readers, HARV MASSY back at desk after flu, NORMAN HARGRAVE making a phone call, RUFUS HONEYCUTT hunting a daily full-house movie, KEN PACE assisting customers with spilled toothpicks, VELMA ANSLEY organizing a March of Dimes publicity photo, E. L. JORDAN seeking bill explanations, BOB ECKHARD introducing legislative ideas, birthday wishes to PANSY MATTINGLY and CATHEY CARROLL, DON BAKER spreading good cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eula Potter
Jerry Gieger
Martha Lilly
Louise Laughlin
Willadene Hines
Jim Hala
Dan Stallworth
Harry Bowen
Baytown
Barry Smith
Harv Massey
Norman Hargrave
Rufus Honeycutt
Ken Pace
Velma Ansley
E. L. Jordan
Harris County
Bob Eckhard
Texas
Pansy Mattingly
Don Baker
Negro Wins Admission To All White Clemson College
Harvey B. Gaunt, 19, of Charleston wins a court fight for admission to Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower court ruling by Judge C. C. Wyche, upending his decision that Gaunt failed to prove denial based solely on race.
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Alexandria
C A
Clemson Agricultural College
South Carola
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Harvey B.gaunt
Charleston
C.C. Wyche
U.S. District Court For Western
South Carolina
Wyche
Gantt
Texas Senate assigns committee chairs in state affairs and finance
Governor Preston Smith names Senator A M Aikin Jr of Paris to lead the Senate State Affairs Committee and Senator Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo to chair the Finance Committee. Eleven crewmen of disaster prone Carrier Constellation are reported.
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Texas
Gay
Preston Smith
A. M. Aikin Jr
Paris
Senate State Affairs Committee
Sen
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Constellation
Author Kantor defends Spirit Lake amid Baytown book ban
Pulitzer winner MacKinlay Kantor says his novel Spirit Lake is for mature readers and based on real events. He argues the Baytown school board and a parent who objected to the book did not read it in full, and that censoring it omits painful historical truth about the 1857 Spirit Lake massacre.
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Robert EB. Lee
MacKinlay Kantor
Andersonville
Sarasota
Fla
Baytown
Spirit Lake
Cone Tom H. Chrisley Jr
W. Houston
Highlands
Chrisley
Ee Kantor
Henry Luce
Kantor
Sun
Robert E. Lee
New Group Pushes For Better City
The Baytown Organization of Bi-Partisan Activities formed Tuesday at reer Park pavilion with 50 to 60 attendees. Lamar Kelley presided and named a six member nominating committee to draft officers and by laws. The group aims for a nonpartisan environment to promote growth and assess good local candidates, without endorsements. They plan monthly mailings and meetings to inform the public on candidate views and consider combining city council and school board elections to cut costs. Kelley noted nominees include Jack Henderson Ed Vaught W C Tidman W P Slaith and Doug Tromblee.
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Baytown
Reer Park Pavilion
Lamar Kelley
Kelley
Uptown
Jack Henderson
Ed Vaught
W. C. Tidman
W. P.slaith
Doug Tromblee
Readers protest Baytown book ban Spirit Lake
Two Baytown residents urge the school board to reverse its ban on Kantor's Spirit Lake. They argue banning books lowers education, warn of a wider ban and a witch hunt against other authors, and condemn censorship as a threat to intellectual life.
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MacKinley Kantor
Spirit Lake
Baytown
Kantor
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Rabelais
Salinger
Faulkner
Hemmingway
Balzac
Steinbeck
Lewis
41 Year Baytown Resident Mrs Jessie Mae Jones Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Mae Jones of 1000 Massey Tompkins Road will be held at 11 am Thursday at Earthman Chapel. She died Tuesday in Austin. She was a member of Eastern Star and Memorial Baptist Church. Burial will be in White Cemetery. Survivors include daughter Mrs Ernest J Casey and son G W Jones, plus two grandsons and four great grandchildren.
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Jessie Mae Jones
Massey- Tompkins Road
Earthman Chapel
G. W. Jones
Bayown
George W. Jones
Clyde W. Casey
Baytown
Weather and world tensions mix in fragmented reports
Rain and freezing weather threaten South Texas while other headlines cover Kennedy delaying tax cut plans, Katanga tensions, De Gaulle and NATO, Africa’s unrest, and a Mississippi desegregation riot case with Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker among those indicted.
Khrushchev Urges Reds Mend Ways at Meeting
Soviet Premier Khrushchev urged the Chinese Communists to mend their ways and warned that nuclear war would ruin the Soviet camp. He attacked Peking’s war and peace theories while addressing the East German Communist party's sixth congress. He asserted Russia never started wars to spread communism and blasted some Marxists for seeking victory by war. The United States was noted as having 40,000 arms in a line about future threats.
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Berlin
Khrushchev
Nob Cal
Peking
Communist Party
Khrush Jehey
Speace
United States
Baytown Manager McElroy Dies After Surgery
Baytown Chamber of Commerce manager Nelson A McElroy 46 longtime Baytown resident and former high school athletic coach died after stomach surgery earlier in the day He had served the chamber for 17 years and previously worked in education and aviation during World War II.
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Nelson A McElroy
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Pearl Harbor
Aytown
Baytown
Bryan
Waco
San Angelo
JMO
Texas
Tri-Cities
Pacific
Anese
Horace Mann
U_ 5
Army Air Force
No Deaths Nor Bad Injuries Fire Calls Up In 1962
Baytown reports no fire deaths or serious injuries in 1962 as the Baytown Fire Department responded to 458 calls and the Emergency Corps to 28. Chief Arn Lintelman notes 453 calls versus 273 in 1961. Property involved reached $3,533,690, over $2 million more than 1961. insured value totaled $2, SH.
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Baytown
A. H
Arn) Lintelman
Roseland Park Pavilion Use Policy Considered
Baytown City Council members discuss a possible Roseland Park Pavilion use policy. The tentative policy prioritizes recreational gatherings, limits reservations to 90 days ahead, bans full-day monopolization, forbids admission fees unless for charitable purposes, and prohibits activities that damage the building. Reservations would be via the park supervisor at city hall.
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Roseland Park
Baytown
Bakers Extend Road To Aid School Building Plan
The county extension would add Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road access from Garth to North Road, serving a 16 acre district-owned tract eyed for a second high school. Trustees weigh calling a bond election as Superintendent Gentry backs the project amid stadium and hospital wrangles.
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Hartis
County Commissioners Court
Bakers Side
Cedar Bayou
Lynchburg
Garth Road
North Road
Main Street
North Main Street
Supt
Gentry
Karl Opryshek
Stadium and Charity Hospital
Opryshek
Lang
Connally pushes broad Texas reform agenda in inaugural address
Gov. John Connally urged legislators to pass laws covering tax revisions, loan shark regulation, election reform, and women's rights. He touted sales tax inequities fixes, stronger small loan rules, and urged a constitutional amendment for equal legal rights for women. He asked for funding to expand staff and bolster the attorney general's office.
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Austin
John Connnally
Texas
Connally
Associated Press
Yars
Commission On State and
Texas Railroad Commission
Hiring Of Six New Teachers Okayed
The school district approved six new teachers for Burnet and Alamo elementary schools. Five replace resignations at Travis and Burnet Elementary, with Mrs Shirley J Waggoner and Mrs Dotis E Billings among the hires. One new position creates a special education class for 10 12 year olds. Several resignations and leaves of absence were announced including Mrs Sandra M Flynt and Mrs Monteze Botkins.
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Burnet Elementary
John L. Taylor
Carver High
Shirley J. Waggoner
Travis
Dotis E. Billings
Ally
Beard
Mary Ruth
Sandra M. [Belote
Alamo
Fourth Flynt
Burnet
Connie Plagens
Monteze Botkins
Poll Tax Deadline Urges Baytown Voters in 1963
Less than two weeks remain for Baytown area residents to buy a poll tax receipt essential to voting in 1963 elections. The Jan 32 deadline prompts a drive by poll tax deputies and the Baytown League of Women Voters to issue records amid confusion over constitutional amendments. Major April elections include two school trustees, mayor, and three Baytown City Council members, with a possible county bond election. Names and locations of poll tax sales points across Baytown and La Porte are listed, including banks, stores, and post offices, as the effort intensifies.
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Baytown Area
Baytown League of Women Voters
Texas
Baytown
Lula Bailey
Weingarten’s
John Clarence Baldwin
Baldwin Grocery
Oak Addition
Jenny Mac Birdwell
McNair
Barty .R. Chandier
la Porte
Eddie Cleveland
Geraldine Woods Cleveland
Leggett Drugs Store
Andres Contreras
LULAC
Hall
Baker Road
Latrell Dean
Tower Drive-in
Cephs
ueNene Alma ‘Dietz
En Mattie Bell Dozier
Clearj
Creek’ National Bank
Henry Doyles
Baytown Arena
Roy Elms
United Rubber and Chemical Co
Alice Fayle
Citizens National Bank
Ida May Gamen
Winter Vacations Boosted by Classified Ads
The piece notes millions took winter vacations costing over 4 billion dollars and promotes Sun Classified Want Ads to sell unused possessions. It highlights Mrs. E. G. Gadkins turning her piano into cash in two days for 200 dollars and invites readers to place ads by calling 592-8234.
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E. G. Gadkins
Live Oak
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Eas County
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Texas Association of Expositions
Texas Chamber of Hold
Comerce Managers Association
Tie
Gulf Coast
Baylor Uni
Enginee Life Cing
Figang
Sahinal High School
Mann
Southwest Conference Football Officials Association
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Robert FE. Lee
Molly
T. A. McElroy
Clyde
Ww. McElroy
iSee McElroy
Are & Lagunelacasure
Highway Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor
Department of Public Safety
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Robert M. Elder
Jack Pennington
Herman Faulkner
Lyon Guidry
Bay of
Jack's Grocery
C. A. Ross
Eddie Cox
Mrs. H.C
Steffani
Peoples State Bank
the Tower
O. Walker
Humbie Oil and Refining Co
SOS Live
Oak Street
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