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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1964
Page
1
Baytown Sun reports Rob ert W. Baker for Congress At Large postcards sold out with campaign aimed at statewide reach. Voters prepare for Saturday State Democratic runoff as Baker's candidacy faces ballot.
Reed attends Lee College graduation then rushes to Houston to see son Joe Reed earn a math BS at the University of Houston. The Sprayberry, Wilson families miss grandkids. Mr and Mrs Bill Wilson plan to move to La Grange Georgia. Rotary charter members Henry, Cathrine, C J Fortinberry, Garrett Herring, Dr Clyde Spear, Walter Ker, Acey Drew honored. Alumni gathering eyed for Baytown Barbers Hill exes with D L Tye organizing. Mike Clark profiled in metropolitan paper series. Doc Satterwhite recounts fainting episode leading to a 10 day hospital stay. Mrs Floyd Jones sends a message about Kathy to her mother. Mrs Martin Smiths leaving for the West next Sunday seeking a companion. Jack Walker asks if fishing boats can go out at dawn weather permitting. Baytown Hospital reports surgery in Room. Gary Kappier, Cris Johnson, Jody Laird among Baytown Junior High scholarship awardees.
Golf gear valued at about 26 dollars was stolen from the Carlson home at 706 Base. The missing items include a brown and frie n plaid bag, four woods, nine irons, a putter, a sand wedge, and 12 to 16 golf balls from the Carlson garage as reported by Patrolman Zach Booth. Separate thefts included two white Fender skirts from Tony Hight's car at 122 E Defoe reported at 5 10 p.m. Sunday. Detective Jack Maxwell is probing a burglary at Carpenter's Hall. Initial checks show a soft drink machine coin box theft.
Thomas Berry of Dayton, a former Western Auto Store owner with ten years at the firm, is named Gulf Oil distributor for the Baytown area. He and his wife with three children plan to move to Baytown as soon as possible. The Gulf Warehouse is at 516 Main Street in Baytown.
Weekend crashes in the Baytown area sent multiple family members to Gulf Coast hospital and others to San Jacinto Methodist. The Alexander Vega family suffered serious injuries from a Decker Drive and Baker Road collision, while James R. Barr and passengers in a second car were treated for injuries. Charges of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle were filed against Donald P. Parker.
Baytown dentist Dr Ken Ford elected as the new president of the Baytown Optimist Club succeeding Dr Bob Wintford. New officers to be installed in late June include vice presidents Bert Imman, Lester Alford, Rex Timms. secretary Reggie Brewer and treasurer Jim Carter. Opal Ford active in club since inception.
Don Padgett of Baytown received UH College of Pharmacy’s Lehn and Fink Gold Medal Award at commencement. He also earned the Key of Askelepias from Kappa Psi and the APhA student branch scholarship. He will pursue a UW Madison master’s in pharmaceutical chemistry after earning his UH BS in pharmacy.
Houston AP report says a Pasadena city government inquiry resumed at 9 30 Monday for its third session of testimony. The court, expected to last weeks, examines payments from Merrill Lynch to Pasadena attorneys totaling over 152000 and the 1 percent fee reportedly paid to N A Smith. Former mayor Clyde Gary and current mayor James L Bramler testified they knew nothing of the payments.
Sam Raugh becomes head coach of the Houston Oilers succeeding Pop Ivy, while Carroll Marlin is named general manager. Rod Adams Jr. remains Oilers president and owner. Ivy's contract as GM is terminated. In Dallas, three court appointed psychiatrists urge a sanity hearing for condemned killer Jack Ruby, with Brown seeking talks before ruling.
Baytown Chamber of Commerce launches a year of activity with committees led by President W. zy Strickler. A member questionnaire asks for three committee preferences and new chairmen are named for numerous areas including agriculture education fire prevention municipal improvements membership and finance news briefing publicity retail merchants service industry liaison county and city connections transportation port facilities and more.
Baytown logged over a inch of rain with 101 inches in the weekend as homes flooded and bayous swelled in Northwest Harris County. Dallas and San Angelo reported unusually cool May readings with low 50s to 60s, marking a notably chilly spring across the state.
The school board will hold a secret 7 p.m. session on personnel problems followed by a public meeting at 7:45 p.m. Supt. George H. Gentry says Negro students will be discussed for summer school entry, marking a first for public schools in the area. Robert E. Lee High School registration and summer maintenance plans will also be addressed with Knox Beavers presenting on the new high school project.
Dr Walter Rundell Sr former Baytonian has published a book titled Black-Marked Money The Collapse of Military Currency Control in World War II The Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge released it The author and his family are visiting Baytown for an autograph party from 3 to 3 30 p m on June 3 Readers learn of GI evasions of payroll control during WWII and the Treasury overdraft exceeding 58 billion The Baytown area family resides in Arlington Virginia and the piece notes his Texas education and journalism honors
Police evacuated about twenty four families from homes between La Marque and Texas City as chlorine gas leaked slowly from a tank car on a siding west of the Union Carbide plant. A broken valve was closed and residents were allowed to return home after the leak was stopped.
The Supreme Court ruled Alabama’s ban on the NAACP invalid, with Justice Harlan reversing the lower court. The case traces to 1956 with a 1961 injunction for intrastate business and an Alabama ruling upheld in 1963. The decision centers on constitutional freedom of association and due process amid related loyalty oath challenges from Washington state employees.
The Supreme Court reversed a Flora court ruling upholding Bible reading and the Lord's Prayer in Miami public schools. It cited its 1963 Abington Township decision and ruled that compulsory Bible reading and prayer exercises are unconstitutional.
Baytown supporters are invited to a rally and barbecue for candidate Bob Baker at six p m Friday at the Nind of Columbus Hall West Main. Baker will speak Thursday night at Sylvan Beach in La Porte and is noted as a former state senator who helped make the University of Houston state supported.
The Harris County Republicans announce a June social event a cocktail dance at the Sheraton Lincoln Hotel. Reservations can be made by calling Rita Luton.
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