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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1967
Page
1
Dallas AP report says Drs Joe A Howell dean of men at Southern Methodist University has been named to enlarged duties as SMU's dean of students, expanding responsibilities at the university.
The June 30 stock page lists many firms including Amis-Chalmers, RCA, Ford, General Electric, IBM, Exxon, Mobil, Bethlehem Steel, Texaco, and Union Carbide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 868.64 points to finish at a new low for the day, reflecting broad declines across sectors and major blue chips.
Cassandra Darlene Hunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Author S. Hunt of 100 W. Humble, celebrated her first birthday on Thursday. Grandparents include Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hunt, W. A. Bradford, and Mrs. Lou Bradford of Baytown, with additional grandparents Mrs. Well Perkins of Baytown and Mrs. Betty Bradford of Arlington.
Baytown police logged four felony thefts on Thursday. Baytown Motors manager Dan Edwards said items were stolen from cars on the lot including three batteries one tire and a chrome air cleaner. Miss Loni Ann Riley reported multiple items stolen from her East Fayle apartment including three suitcases full of sweaters and dresses an alarm clock electric fan a swimming suit and four pictures. Creative Arms apartments manager Fred Treadway said three black wrought iron chairs and two plaster of Paris statues were taken. Nathan DeGraffenhend of Beaumont reported a stolen car stereo tape player and ten tapes from his vehicle at Weingarten’s parking lot two around noon Thursday.
In heavy rain a two car collision near U S Highway 90 south of Uvalde kills Luther Ray Downing 18 of 13201 Edgehill and Mary Lou Smith 9 of Hou te 5 Box 641. Injured are Faye Kay Wolfe 28 and her children Debra Kay 7 and Donald Lloyd 3 and La Verne Agnes Cyr 15. All were taken to Tidelands Hospital. Downing car traveled north on Uvalde.
Commander Harry Whitmore canceled the KENEDY Commandery meeting scheduled for Friday. No further arrangements have been made.
Robert Carlton Odom Sr. 50, of 1401 Bob Smith Road Baytown, died Thursday at a Houston hospital. An Enjay Chemical Co. electrician, he was a WW II veteran, Cedar Bayou Methodist Church member, and active in Baytown teen baseball. Survived by wife Kathryn, son Robert C. Odom Jr., sister Mrs. OL. L. Moore, brothers Fred and M. C. Odom, and three grandchildren. Funeral 3 pm Saturday at Cedar Bayou Methodist, with Rev. E. J. Davis officiating. Burial Cedar Crest Cemetery, Earthman Funeral Home in charge.
In Orange Texas on Thursday night officers and 7 state patrolmen kept peace during a shift change at Firestone Chemical Co. The strike, begun January 20 by the Firestone Chemical and Atomic Workers Union after rejecting a one-cent hourly raise, drew only minor disturbances. Other unions elsewhere accepted similar terms.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Peace Tabernacle will hold a bake sale from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Sears parking lot entrance. Proceeds support church programs and community outreach.
Multiple obituaries list Robert Carlton Odon 30 of 1401 Bob Smith Road who died in Houston at 7 p.m. Thursday, an Enjay Chemical Co. electrician, WW4 veteran, Cedar Bayou Methodist member, and Baytown teen baseball supporter. Also Lawrence Eberly Casey 29 Belton, former Robert E. Lee High teacher, died after a lampasas auto crash. services at Cedar Bayou Methodist Church with interment Cedar Crest Cemetery. Nanabeth Kay Casey, 2% of Nesday, surviving mother Nanah Baker Casey. Pallbearers named.
Funeral services for Mrs. W. A. Shows 90 mother of N. J Conway of Baytown will be at 4 p m Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Fort Stockton. Burial will be in Fort Stockton. She died Thursday afternoon in a Pecos hospital after living in Baytown 20 years and Fort Stockton 15 years. Survived by daughter Mrs Judson Crawford of Fort Stockton two sons N J Conway of Baytown and J J Conway of Big Spring seven grandchildren and several great grandchildren.
Jefferson County jail in Beaumont reports two inmates Daniel Levine 22 Port Neches and Kenneth Dewey 7 Port Arthur overpowered jailer John Leonard with a knife. They forced him to a cell on the seventh floor, locked him in, then escaped via elevator and front entrance around 4 am while both were held on auto theft charges.াংশ
Mrs. Wilma Cooper, a teacher at Charles R. Drew Junior High in Crosby, receives a National Science Foundation grant to attend a summer mathematics institute at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana.
Baytown Mosquito Control invites inquiries to contract by calling 426-3911 between 7 and 9 p m. A single inspector, Paul Kelly, oversees daily two hour office window for public consultations.
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