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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1964
Page
6
Dear Helen Bottel receives letters about underpaid dog walking, aging drivers, and a dystrophic teen’s plight. Crocky suggests stricter tests, while a friend asks for encouragement for a disabled youth. Mrs. C.H.A. praises the Caring Helping Hand column.
A Brownwood teen Sammie Pruett received a kidney from his mother at Lackland AFB hospital. Doctors said Sammie was doing very nicely with his new kidney functioning, while his mother Mrs Vernon Pruett was recovering and expected to leave the hospital soon. The six hour operation created an artificial bed while keeping his natural kidneys in place to be removed later.
Lake Charles La Jan IAP The Norwegian freighter Tharf ries will leave here Tuesday with the first load of a 1 1 1 300,000 sale of United States rice for Russia. The initial shipment will be 12 560 tons of Arkansas and Ummisiana grown and milled rice. Another 26 600 tons will be exported later through Lake Charles. The rest of the sale announced Jan 15 by Continental Grain Co of New York will be shipped through Texas ports. The bagged rice was sold to Russia under a State Department permit. New York harbor has an unrivaled waterfront of 6 miles in New York and 295 miles in New Jersey.
Houston AP reports defense rested in the 42 day Bonds murder trial. Evidence focused on Beverly Chambers, 16, and her mother Ophie Parrish, with testimony about threats from Bill Walden and the weapon. Defense seeks to show taunting and distress as key factors while the state presses for confrontation and motive.
Wiley Bell 41 of Pasadena announces Democratic bid for State Representative District 4. A Port Terminal Railroad employee for eight years, he favors a two party Texas system and the creation of a Game Fish and Oyster Commission elected by the people. He opposes capital punishment and supports redistricting to create 19 representatives and two senators from Harris County. He backs expanded tourism and remodeling of the San Jacinto Monument.
In San Francisco a University of California researcher describes monogamy as a bizarre natural state. Dr Russell Lee argues nature favors polygamous mating, with males procreating with as many females as possible. He says modern monogamy diminishes the male hero role and pride once linked to fathering offspring.
The Celaflux Federal Credit Union, with 305 members from Celanese Corp of America, will hold its seventh annual meeting and second banquet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Holiday Inn in Baytown. President D B Friermood announced the event and listed other officers and local members.
Vatican City reports Pope Paul VI decided to permanently place the remains of Pope John XXIII in a Vatican grotto despite John XXIII’s earlier wishes for burial in St. Peter’s Basilica. The decision follows visits by thousands who descend beneath the basilica to pray at John XXIII’s resting place. In New York Sir Alec Douglas-Home argues that easing Communist influence rests on comfort and access to basic needs, citing Britain’s stance on Cuba.
New arrivals and admissions list at Gulf Coast and San Jacinto Methodist hospitals include Charles Hart Darlene Tisdale Mrs Hose Rios Mrs J Foster Philip A Hamin Ahha Ray House Lorenzo Avilog Terry Whiteside Jewel Scott Tomlinson Archie Larch Jr Forest Hargrave Mrs Webster Wand Jessie Plummer Jr Elizabeth Whitener D P Smith Miss Mary Elfen Cooke Ivan Clegg Joe Ann Dunham Tuy Bayway Rebecca Thurshey and families. Details show patient names and rooms with several new births at Gulf Coast.
In San Antonio, the Texas Veterinary Medical Association opposed any tariff concessions on livestock meat or meat products in Geneva trade talks. A resolution adopted at the opening of the annual convention warned such concessions would cause tremendous losses and threaten the nation's cattle industry, announced by Dr. Robert Jones of Childress, the association president. More than 200 delegates attended the three day convention.
City of Baytown invites sealed bids from qualified bidders for furnishing and delivering an unspecified amount of concrete pipe to a site within Baytown. Bids due 4:30 pm February 10, 1914. Bid security required. City may reject any or all bids. Bid documents from City Hall Clerk Oliver.
Legal notice states compliance with Texas water pollution control regulations for issuing Regular Permit Form WPCB-107. L. H. Moon box number O1207, Railroad Commission District 2.14, Harris County. Discharge origin and destination listed as same water course into tidal waters via Tabbs Bury.
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