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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1950
Page
8
The Baytown Singing Convention will meet at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Channelview High School. C. C. Parrish is president, with C. D. Nelms as vice president and G. W. Mallory as secretary and treasurer.
The Baytown Elks Lodge ritual team won first at the Texas convention in Brownsville, with 12 Baytown members and their wives present. Team members include Gene Bauer, R. C. Wishart, Ben B. Sones, Clifford M. Bond, Cal Hartrick, J. D. Saunders, and Rev. P. Walter Henckel, chaplain. El Paso placed second and Port Arthur third. the Baytown group plans to return home over the weekend.
Grace Lynn Everett, a Cedar Bayou girl, won the School Award of the Tri Cities Post No. 323 American Legion for honor, courage, scholarship, leadership, service, companionship and character. Salutatorian daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Everett, she is an accomplished vocalist and pianist.
In Wytheville a man, Paul Hufford, 27, was cleared of charges of fathering a teen girl's baby after the girl testified they were intimate last July 6. Hufford presented an alibi and a medical exam followed a mistaken identification as Pauline Bufford revealed she had dressed as a boy since infancy.
Summer band sessions begin Monday for Robert E. Lee High School and Bartown Junior High with two one month blocks. Horace Lawn Junior High starts June 12 under Elmer Hargis while J C Burkett directs Robert E. Lee. Sessions include morning rehearsals and sophomore band practice, with rosters and performances at football games and a Lions convention trip for the Robert E. Lee band.
Henderson Oilers raced to a 3-14 lead and held on to beat the Paris Panthers 12 to 2 in the lone ETEX game of the night. Two Paris errors aided the Oilers, while Frank Smodic and pitcher Fred Branson struggled with control, Branson surrendering three unearned runs after loading the bases with Dub Aiken at the plate.
Ray Lee a Robert E Lee High School graduate has been chosen as a junior counselor for Boys State which opens in Austin tomorrow He and six Baytown delegates depart for Austin tonight Four of the six are from Robert E Lee and two from Cedar Bayou High Their sponsors include Kiwanis Barnett Rotary and the American Legion Lee was a previous delegate chosen to return as junior counselor for his outstanding record He led as lieutenant governor of Boys State and earned a trip to Washington D C Boys State sponsored by the American Legion of Texas runs through June 11 at the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin where delegates learn state government by organizing city county and state bodies and conducting sessions
Willis Kelley returns from Southwestern University Georgetown to spend the summer with his parents Mr and Mrs 3 Rhea Kelley. Private First Class Thomas E Westmoreland, stationed at Biloxi Mississippi, visited Baytown with his parents. Billie Margaret Shewell arrives from Baytown to Denton for summer session at Texas State College for Women. Mollie Mervin and Mitchell Single ton, children of Dr and Mrs HM Singleton, left for Joplin Missouri to visit grandparents. Janie McAlpin of Seminole visits C ed McAlpin family for Goose Creek chapter Hast ern Star installation. Mrs B O Wallace and Mrs D W McGregor return from Dallas market. Mr and Mrs CR Upchurch and Barbara Sue journey to San Antonio New Braunfels and Austin visiting relatives.
School officials report reduced sickness among students due to a 1,008,000 dollar building program featuring radiant floor heating. In its first year the program cut absences from colds and similar ailments by fourteen percent, said Dr Norman Wampler superintendent of schools.
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