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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1963
Page
1
Lots Inn hosts Baytown Chamber of Commerce convention committee members at a noon Wednesday luncheon for Baytown club presidents with Vice President Charles Tillery chairing and John Bryant coordinating. About 100 guests invited to hear a proposal inviting district and regional conventions to Baytown.
Daily town vignettes reveal playful children and neighborly quirks. Aunt Violet naps unsettled by kids. Mrs. Warner plans a Florida trip amid chatter. Residents encounter birds, shrimp season, and fishing licenses as Conser vation Officer Payne chats with Baytown anglers. Local anecdotes close with Thad Felton’s string of good news.
In Moscow U S Undersecretary Harriman and Lord Hailsham met with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko as Western and Soviet positions showed cautious optimism for a nuclear test ban excluding underground tests. Khrushchev welcomed the envoys and teased Harriman about his age.
OCAW Local 4333 schedules Tuesday night and Wednesday morning meetings to decide the local's future after Humble Baytown Refinery workers voted nearly two to one for Gulf Coast Industrial Workers, an independent union, to handle bargaining. Anthony Hodnick says leadership will present the recommendation and may decide on charter status. Local leaders deny plans to let the independent union infiltrate the OCAW.
About 175 machinists at Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown Refinery were offered an eight cent per hour wage increase plus a $100 bonus. IAM Local 105 and District 37 will vote on Saturday. The raise would be retroactive to July 1, 1963, while other contract demands include joint apprenticeship control, no strike clause, and protections for benefit programs. Current pay is $3.42 per hour under a contract cancellable on five days’ notice.
C J Templeton 82 of 516 Rites Baytown died Monday at a Houston hospital. Funeral 10 a.m. Wednesday at Earthman Chapel with burial at Huffman Cemetery. Retired farmer lived 23 years in Baytown. Survived by Nora Templeton widow four daughters two sons sister and brother plus six stepchildren 13 grandchildren 17 great grandchildren. Burial officiants First Baptist Church and Baptist Temple pastors.
Washington reports speculation that President Kennedy might travel to Texas to help celebrate Vice President Lyndon Johnsons birthday amid a large Negro integrationist demonstration on Aug 28. Salinger says no definite plan exists though a Texas trip is not ruled out. If he goes, he would likely stay overnight and return after the event.
A flood of short items reports Cambridge protests against militia restrictions and a British defense consolidation plan likened to a Pentagon. The UN Security Council to meet on two African questions, while Gulf Oil touts big field discoveries on Louisiana offshore leases. Other notes cover labor, Detroit policing, a fatal shooting in the Bay Area, oil production decline, a Mississippi voter deadline, a Corpus Christi jewel theft, and a Binghamton intoxication case.
A suit filed Monday by five Democrats asks the U S District Court to reapportion Texas legislative districts by population and to halt elections until reapportionment is carried out. Plaintiffs contend current apportionment discriminates against urban voters and violates the 4th Amendment, citing Harris County as underrepresented.
Fred C. Cook 60 of 42h E. Adone died in a Houston hospital at 1 pm Monday. Funeral services will be at 4 pm Wednesday at Earthman Chapel with Rev. Paul Stephens and Rev. A. L. Jordan officiating. Interment Cedar Crest Cemetery. He was a 20 year Baytown resident who ran a recreation center. Survived by widow Sarah, four daughters including Mrs. Roy Lee Claus and Mrs. J. R. Adams, two sons including Billy R. Cook, two brothers H. E. Cook and Lawrence Cook, a sister Mrs. Ethel Martin, and sixteen grandchildren.
Mrs. C. B. Manly 91, a former Baytonian, died Monday in a Jacksonville hospital. Graveside rites are set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hill of Rest Cemetery. She lived with daughter Ella Bayless in Jacksonville since her husband’s death. charter member of First Methodist Church in Baytown. Pallbearers named. funeral home handling arrangements.
Democratic congressional leaders met with President Kennedy to press for a settlement of the rail labor dispute. They described optimism that a presidential board report and proposed legislation could avert a walkout, with a July deadline and a potential cooling-off period if talks fail.
Travis and Burnet elementary schools hire two new teachers. Marie Lowery will teach third grade at Burnet and Ernes tine Harbin will teach fifth grade at Travis. Five Highlands Junior High staff resignations follow, including Betsy DeLay and Mary Moak.
Governor George Wallace of Alabama told the Senate Commerce Committee he will not aid enforcement of federal public accommodations law in Alabama. He said he would stay as governor and let federal authorities try to enforce it, repeating his opposition to racial integration in restaurants hotels and other businesses.
School Superintendent George H. Gentry outlined plans to curtail certain school social activities for the coming term and a 1964 grade reorganization. The board accepted the proposals and will implement them as needed. The measures target formal parties and weekly or monthly gatherings across grade levels, with parent cooperation requested to reexamine programs started by parents.
US Representative Albert Thomas will visit Crosby on Saturday July 27 to speak at the dedication and formal opening of the new Crosby postoffice building. Postmaster Louise Lintelman said other postoffice department officials have been invited to attend the 3 p.m. ceremony and the public is invited.
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