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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1960
Page
8
Frank Briscoe newly elected district attorney in Harris County advocates strong punishment as crime deterrence. Speaking to the Baytown Ward Club he projects lower Houston murder rates by year end 1961 with more death penalties and longer prison terms. He cites a case where punishment saved a store owner's life.
Dee K Baker age 62 of ZT Carolina Street died Thursday at a Baytown hospital. Funeral services will be 0 a m Saturday at Paul U Lee Funeral Home with Rev Robert M Cheek officiating. Survivors include wife Inger Marie Baker of Bay How n son Harold L Baker of Texas City four sisters and four grandchildren. Pallbearers named. Burial Memory Gardens Cemetery Raytown.
A Baytown man and woman, Lista Vasquez and Amanda Quijuana, were arrested with narcotics agents raiding Vasquez’s home at 1126 Pine. A Houston man, Freddie Winters, was also arrested, while a third suspect fled through a window and remains at large with a statewide pickup alert. Baytown officers assisted with Constable Anderson and others on the manhunt.
AP reports Minnesota Democrat Burdick declared victory in a tight North Dakota Senate race. Results from a few precincts remained, with state canvassing to audit. He claimed election lead amid ongoing counting and anticipated July audit before final certification.
Mr. and Mrs. William Norcross of Caldwell announce the birth of a son, William Owen, on June 2. The baby weighed five pounds seven ounces. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Daniel of Cedar Bayou and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Norcross.
Funeral services for Horace Martela 46 of 5014 Denmark Houston will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Morning Star Baptist Church Houston with Rev James Johnson officiating. Burial in Golden Gate Cemetery under Walker Funeral Home Baytown. Survivors include his widow two daughters three sisters a brother five grandchildren eight nieces and two nephews.
Castro announces the seizure of a Texaco refinery in Santiago after refusals to process Soviet oil. Shell Esso and Texaco face losses, while Cuba seeks cheaper Soviet crude amid talks with other firms. Cuba imports about 60,000 barrels daily to meet demand.
Funeral services for Oscar Taylor of Huffman will be held on Saturday in Natchitoches. Walker Funeral Home will transport the body to Natchitoches for burial at Emmatt Cemetery. Survivors include his widow Alice Taylor of Huffman, his mother Emma Carpenter of Natchitoches, four children, three sisters and two brothers.
A reader describes a merry go round game with numbered platform steps. Start at platform 1 with two single-digit numbers, then build sums across platforms, loop around, and derive the total digits via modular arithmetic. The method scales with each extra lap, revealing the first two numbers from the final total.
A garbled OCR item blends US political trivia with a memory testing quiz and a set of old riddle questions. It includes running mate names from various eras, a joke about a zebra, a device to test papers, and a math puzzle about four uncles with combined ages totaling 274 years.
A fragmented note taunts youngsters with a joke and a drawing task. It asks to draw two lines from point one to point two in numerical order, adding that if two numbers share a line, connect each pair. The creator hints at playful mischief and a simple geometry challenge.
A puzzling note explains rearranging letters in five common Bagtieh words to reveal a new color. By moving letters into right-hand squares, the original white theme yields another color name. The exercise relies on preserving initial letter sets while forming valid color terms. The shaded Megonal aquares hint at the white region and color shifts through letter reordering.
Stock table brief lists midday quotes from Merrill Lynch Pisrés Fenner and Sith. U S Steel and Westinghouse show mixed moves with others like New Orleans Cotton noted. Market mood appears cautious as quotes drift with minor percentage changes and bond context omitted.
Frank R Boyle of La Porte joined 16 000 attendees at Kiwanis International's 43rd annual convention in Miami Beach Florida. Abigail Van Buren appeared as a guest speaker and the event drew the largest crowd in the organization's history. Officers and members presented community updates while local families and service clubs shared news from La Porte and surrounding areas.
Harris County Commissioners Court tables a request from the County Fire Fighters Assn to organize the county fire marshal’s department at an approximate annual cost of $50,000. The item appears in a roundup covering district aid, port revenue, and flood control notes.
Former Secretary of State James F Bytes in Houston says a reversal of the 1954 Supreme Court segregation ruling is possible. The Texas attorney general's office has evidence on Armando Cervantes Martinez, sought for murder. A blind Fort Worth man reports his life savings were stolen by a woman he was to marry this Saturday.
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