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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1966
Page
2
A brief listing of noon stock quotes provided by Dempsey Tiegeler and Co Inc. detailing current prices and latest market movements for selected securities.
Marshall Haas chairs the pollution committee and will present at a Baytown Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Holiday Inn. Other committee members include Sammie McPhail, W. D. Broyles, J. Esmere, Wanda Orton, and others. Discussion covers Houston pollution research and steps to alleviate the issue.
Richard Wayne Tompkins, of Highlands, is survived by his father J D Tompkins and grandparents, plus his sisters Mrs Sara Listi of Highlands and brothers Kit, Raymond, Wiley, Mack, and Jerry Tompkins of various Texas locations and Colorado. Funeral services are set with Rev Derwin Walker and Rev Tom Holcomb, with interment at Memory Gardens of Baytown Cemetery.
At the National Federation of Press Women awards in Houston the California team led with 17 firsts 5 seconds and 6 thirds earning 67 points amid 492 entrants across 17 categories. Montana and Arizona followed with multiple top placements while three Texas women won firsts Lucy Wallace McClelland Esse Forrester O'Brien and Ellen Conner for books and poetry for children.
Historians credit varied origins for football from ancient Greece to China. The authenticated start places it in 11th century England as kicking Dane head, a tale of skulls replaced by inflated cow bladder due to bone hardness.
Saigon reports U S combat deaths rose to the year’s third highest week. American fatalities totaled 142 with 241 wounded and one missing or captured, versus 109 killed and 636 wounded the prior week. Allies logged 1,230 Communist deaths and 166 captured, while South Vietnamese losses reached 151 killed and 20 missing.
At Cape Kennedy eight satellites atop a Titan 3 rocket aimed to form a 10 250 mile spaced network linking Washington and Saigon and other strategic points. The batch includes seven communication satellites and one engineering test craft with a gravity-stabilized arm. If successful, eight more satellites are planned for August aboard another Titan 3.
AP correspondent John Roderick, after 21 years abroad, laments the loss of the plain doughnut and the rise of glazes and flavors, notes America’s affluence and urban renewal, and contrasts it with Japan. He warns of mediocrity and conformity, urging a return to the simple doughnut.
Police report vandals sealed a fence at Roseland Park on Wednesday night and opened a large pool fill valve flooding the pump house with about four feet of water. Pumps damaged, pool closed until further notice, with estimate of 1506 dollars in damage.
Attend reunion in Hearne Texas last weekend brings together Jim Ray and Don Stubbs and their families from Baytown. Thirty five families represented at theStubbs family gathering.
Baytown Shrine Club hosts its annual past presidents night at the Holiday Inn. The event starts Friday at 7 p.m. with dinner served at 8 p.m. Members and their ladies are urged to attend.
Funeral services for Eugene L. Dobson aged 60 of Channelview will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Earthman Funeral Home chapel. Interment will follow at Forest Park Cemetery in Houston. He died Wednesday.
Senator Harrison Williams Jr. opened an inquiry into a racial discrimination claim at a New Jersey nudist camp. Loretta Gueye of Brooklyn said she was refused entry to Sunshine Park in Mays Landing because she is Negro. The matter was referred to the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights to probe potential violations of public accommodations law.
The 48th Lions District Convention will be held at Houston's Sheraton Lincoln from June 17 to 19. Delegates attending include Jack Kimmons, George Bennett, Dudley Huckabee, Arlie Froehner, Ervin Froehner, Bruce Woods, Vernon Myers, James Cauley, C. M. Bond, and Ed Pendleton.
A weather system delivering hurricane force gusts and torrential rain swept from Oklahoma into North Central and Northeast Texas. At Carswell Air Force Base Fort Worth winds reached 75 mph as sirens sounded and planes were tied down. power lines failed and glass shattered in several stores. Reports spoke of a possible tornado near Azle while radar tracked a large thunderstorm mass crossing the Red River. By morning most turbulence eased to light to moderate showers north of a Brownwood Tyler line. forecasters issued an all clear though scattered thunderstorms were expected again by evening.*
The Second Baptist Church will present a Father’s Day program on KTRK TV Channel 33 at 7 a.m. Sunday. Music includes Glen Walker, Ww. C. Herring and daughter Pam, plus a church double quartet. Pastor Rev. Paul Stephens will deliver “The Father of the Prodigal.”
The State Savings and Loan Department reported an application filed for a savings and loan association in Bridge City with an authorized permanent reserve fund stock of 312,500, 2,500 shares at par 35. Proposed directors include locals from Bridge City West Orange and Port Arthur among names listed.
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