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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1966
Page
1
Masonic rites will install HERMAN COLLINS as Worshipful Master of Goose Creek Lodge 352 AF&AM at 7 pm in the Masonic Temple at the corner of Texas and Gaillard. A reception will follow the installation.
Baytown readers catch a mix of light notes and small moments from community figures. Jim Wise welcomes a daughter while Phil Hebert and others receive light ribbing over style and teams watch a golf duel on TV.
Missouri Pacific Railroad plans an additional spur route through Baytown will be discussed again at 6 30 p m Thursday city council meeting. Property owners pledge a protest and have formed a delegation to voice concerns.
Highlands prepares for the installation of Bill Phillips as Worshipful Master of Sampson Masonic Lodge 231 AF&AM with ceremonies at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Masonic Temple. Other officers to be installed include L P Crawford, W. E. Dunks, A. V. Bickley, and Travis Craig Jr. among many, with a reception and family attendance invited.
James P. Boyd Jr testified before the Senate Ethics Committee that Senator Thomas J. Dodd said the 1964 Germany trip aimed to bolster Julius Klein a Chicago public relations man and refashion his image. Boyd also said David Martin referenced interviewing a prisoner in a German jail, while Dodd contends the trip was for internal security inquiries.
Maj William Oliver Smedley, a Liberal party figure and pirate radio owner, was charged with murder after Reg Calvert 37, founder of Radio City, was found slain at his London home. The Thames estuary station at Shivering Sands was taken by a boarding party just before the shooting, though police offered no link between raid and killing.
More than 100 people are expected to attend the annual Bay Area Board of Realtors buffet supper and dance at the Holiday Inn Friday night. Clifford M. Bond says active, associate and affiliate members get two free tickets and may bring guests at 3.50 each. The dance starts at 9 p.m. with Chet Brantley and his orchestra, lasting until midnight, with no official program or speeches.
O. Cambern district manager for General Telephone speaks at the noon Chamber of Commerce luncheon detailing direct service plans from Bay town to Houston and other improvements by General Telephone. The event is at the Holiday Inn.
In Pompano Beach, hundreds of Negroes rioted early today, throwing rocks at police and property. Police dispersed the crowd with billy clubs and tear gas threats, injuring a few officers. 24 people were arrested as stores, cars and homes suffered damage. The flare-up followed an alleged assault on a Negro boy by a white store owner.
Huckabee passes the gavel to James M. Cauley at the Lions installation banquet at Goose Creek Country Club. New officers include Henry Armstrong first vice president Vernon Myers second vice president Bruce Woods third vice president and Erwin Froehner treasurer with George Bennett as secretary. Directors for 1966-67 are Ewing Gunn Jack Bishop M. M. Brown and Peck Meier with W D Hinson as instating officer.
Administrative personnel at Sterling High moved into the new Ross Sterling High School building under makeshift conditions. Principal Winnie Brown outlined plans for normal operations after July 1 and an upcoming three day open house with tours. Staff include Roy White and Don Treuhardt assistant principals, Louise Jones director of special activities, Iris Jones librarian, Mandess Woods registrar, and secretaries Stella Becka and James Cherry. Only one phone exists in Brown's office with wiring along the floor. News ongoing to list equipment, take bids, order supplies, and prepare for the September opening as 15 van loads of desks and chairs are expected to arrive.
The court rules the Balbroza Commission may compel a pipeline firm to take gas from all producers in the field. A separate ruling upholds three sales tax collections on leased loading gear for ocean vessels as not unconstitutional on foreign commerce.
Dow Chemical Co. filed an unfair labor practice charge against the machinists union as 230 workers at Dow and Ethyl Dow plants walked out. Nine other unions backed the picket lines, while wage talks stalled on a five year contract. Dow says non union staff run plants on extended shifts to keep operations going.
U S Steel seeks to intervene as a co defendant with Missouri Pacific in a federal case brought by Southern Pacific over rights to serve a proposed mill site. Steel argues mill construction could be affected if either railroad is blocked and may be delayed if both are unavailable. The motion accompanies a responsive answer, awaiting court approval to join as a party. A Baytown protest is planned at the City Council meeting, with an alternate Missouri Pacific route discussed.
President Johnson signed a law allowing poor people awaiting federal trial to be released without bond. He said the reform ends needless cruelty and ensures defendants are treated as individuals, not dollar signs. The measure does not mandate release for all or limit detentions in capital cases, but targets noncapital cases where the judge deems the defendant trustworthy.
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