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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1964
Page
1
Baytown dog pound on Park Street faced freezing conditions and neglect as twenty dogs perished overnight. Humane officer Roy Tankersley faced questions about pound conditions, while volunteers toured the facility and counted twelve dogs and a monitored cat in observation.
St Marys Spots Library Council will meet at Highlands Second Baptist Church at 3:00 a.m. Monday to assist in completing its library. Members of St Agnes and St Joseph from Catholic churches will attend corporate Sommtaler Sunday at 7:30 a.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church choir from Houston will sing at Masses 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. with a luncheon after the second Mass. Funeral services for Henry Sklar, 58, East Bernard, will be held Monday in East Bernard. he is survived by a sister and niece. Cedar Bayou Past Matrons Club meets at 7:20 p.m. at 3603 McKinney Road. San Jacinto Baptist Association holds a quarterly Women’s Missionary Union fellowship and Sunbeam workshop Monday night and Tuesday at First Baptist, directed by Joyce Gill of Dallas. Highlands Northside Baptist Church postpones its building dedication. date to be announced. Cheyenne Tribe No. 11 Red Men to install new chiefs Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Wigwam, 514 W. Main. Generally fair weather expected through the weekend with temperatures 46 to 96. Tides: Sunday low 4:08 p.m., 8:16 p.m.. Monday high 2:12 a.m., 4:54 p.m., low 7:00 a.m., 10:18 p.m.
Town figures join Baptist Student Union mid winter retreat near Austin. Friends of Joe Speck report health improvement after a heart attack at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. Judy Ducat named assistant to Laura Woods at Barbers Hill teen reporter role. Rufus Honeycutt couple appears in a Walt Disney film scene. A “Thank Heavens Exams Are Over” party hosts about 14 girls at Wanda Plocheck’s home after exams.
Registration opened Saturday for the annual mid winter Lions Club conference of District 232 in Baytown expected to draw about 425 Lions and their wives from Liberty Trinity Houston La Porte and Anahuime. The event features group meetings a luncheon at the Holiday Inn a style show and a banquet at Robert E. Lee High School with international director Carroll Weberg as speaker and a Red Room entertainments for spouses.
Ten science instructors and 20 students from Robert E Lee High School were chosen to attend the Gulf Coast Science Foundation Distinguished Science Lecture Series. Dr John A L McKetta UT Austin Dean will discuss Your Future in Science or Engineering at the first lecture on Saturday Feb 1 at Clear Creek High School. Additional speakers include Dr Alexander J Dessler Rice University and Dr Hans B Jonassen Tulane University with lectures Feb 22 and March 74.
Baytown Chamber manager Frank Krystynatak Moore urged local leaders to push for recreation projects financed by three banks. He suggested forming corporations to buy land and build facilities, noting 520,000 per investor and potential tourism payroll boosts. Moore said residents should expect a brochure and plans as the committee moves forward.
The Echo 2 balloon satellite, the largest ever launched, was placed in orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It is expected to be visible over the United States tonight as it orbits at about 1000 miles altitude, with scientists confirming inflation and initial operation.
Funeral services for Louie Frank Leonant 33 of Mont Belview will be held at 2 p m Sunday at Sterling Funeral Chapel in Dayton with the Rev Ronnie Skages officiating Burial will be in Cedar Crest Cemetery Leonant died Friday at 2 45 p m in a Baytown hospital He was born in Bassett Nebraska a three year Mont Belvieu resident and worked with Singer Sewing Machine Co He was a member of the Mont Belvieu Baptist Church Surviving are his widow Mrs Betty Leonant of Mont Belview his mother Mrs Pearl Betty of Bassett Neb two stepsons Albert and Bill Nothnogel both of McCook Neb two brothers Ralph Leonard Grass Creek Wyo and Vine Leenant Portland Ore four sisters Mrs Mahalia Hart Bassett Neb Mrs Ruth Treeland Pomona Calif Mrs Jane McComrick Pomona Calif and Mrs Mabley Bleich Norfolk Neb and seven grandchildren Pallbearers are Felix Rypkowski Cliff Tanner Ray Whitman Arthur Barrow Houston William and J Pomykal
Washington AP by unknown writer reports Gov. Nelson Rockefeller attacking Sen. Barry Goldwater over his anti United Nations stance and plan to sever ties if Red China is admitted. Goldwater counters Johnson on budget and faults federal bureau. Smathers urges Democrats to back Johnson and blasts Goldwater as self appointed. Russell and Wal1319? etc.
By BILL HARTMAN HOUSTON Savings firm Bayshore Savings Association faces court scrutiny over who controls the firm. District Judge Phil Peden heard from both sides after an ousted board sued and a new board formed at the Jan. 9 meeting. President Robert A. White testified he voted proxies to remove two directors, leading to vacancies filled and four additions to strengthen the association. The old board deemed actions illegal. Kribler and Jon Shumway, named co-managers by the new board, will run during settlement talks. At one point, attorney R C Lanier offered to buy half the stock at 450 per share, a price White had cited for shares he sold to Lanier.
Dallas doctors recount Kennedy head and brain injuries too extensive for revival after the November 22 attack. The Parkland Hospital report details resuscitation attempts on Kennedy and notes Connally’s chest surgery and Oswald’s fatal injuries. The Texas governor, wounded, regained consciousness briefly, while Oswald died on the operating table. The piece cites Dr. Jenkins and others assessing the trauma as irreversibly damaging.
Mrs. Eula Zit Slaughter 65 of 105 E Nazro Baytown died Friday in a local hospital. Funeral services at 10 am Monday at Paul A Lee Chapel with Rev. Earl Bissex officiating. Burial in Hill of Rest Cemetery. Survived by husband A R Slaughter two sons Kenneth Martin and Harold Martin a sister Grace Sevdier and a brother Howard E Minter.
G J Mitch Micheletti of the Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District says the Brownwood Lakewood levee survey is on schedule. A Houston Chronicle report claimed funding delays. officials defend the process as the only efficient path to congressional authorization. Congress has allocated 200000 for the first year of a comprehensive Gulf Coast flood control study, with Galveston Bay to be studied first in five regional units.
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