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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1963
Page
1
Dr. Lee Liggett, a mayoral candidate in Baytown, criticizes the citys annexation program and governance form. He urges intelligent planning, cites bond issues and spending, and calls for analysis of taxes and revenues before new levies. Page 3.
Baytown reports a varied week with teen activities and weather notes. Horace Main Teen Canteen opens Friday from 7 30 to 9 30 pm in the girls gymnas ium. A Baytown area forecast calls for cloudy and warmer weather with a trace of rain and a 52 4 degree temperature range. Local schools honor Phi Eta Sigma inductees and feature academic strengths in math science and language studies. Community notes include missing pet offers, a car trunk kidnapping misunderstanding, and promoted public notices such as ICC zoning reinstatement. County costs rise with debt service leading items. Little League tryouts are announced and Barbers Hill voters face a land purchase bond. A Latin Youth drive and Galena Park Ex-Students event conclude the listing of local happenings.
A swirling tornado blasts Dinuba, California and winds lash northern and central California with night snow and rain. A standoff on rail labor rules persists as negotiators clash with unions despite White House urging. An Orange downtown fire destroys half a block of brick houses. The Soviet Union appears behind Cuba troop withdrawals. large groups may depart Havana this weekend. U S antitrust investigators press industry officials for further questioning. Communists denounce Kennedy’s Costa Rica meeting amid tensions in Central America. France’s railways grind to a halt over a 24 day strike affecting coal, De Gaulle government silent. Texas tourism bill moves to Senate. former Gleason manager sues for 415 dollars. A witness in El Paso testifies over $90,000 leasing, Estes’ life story bid, and possible bankruptcy schemes. Cofer of Estes’ legal team highlights finance company blame.
Five finalists have been named in the Lee Relays Queen competition. Gloria Burns Kathy Derden Carol King Tobie Whitten and Sandra Wilkie were selected from 25 contestants, all seniors sponsored by school groups. Larry Kane will announce the finalists on his TV show, with formal introductions at assemblies and the Lee Relays meet.
Belee Bustani, 36, a leading Middle East industrialist and economic expert, died when his private plane crashed into Beirut harbor. A separate AP dispatch from New York reports AFL-CIO union editors urging rejection of a publisher offer ending a 8 day newspaper shutdown. In Rome, soprano Frances WeCann, 42, was found shot to death in her hotel room. Civil Rights Commission in Washington says a staff member was arrested in Greenwood, Mississippi, for refusing to use segregated facilities at a bus station.
Alexander William Jacob 68 of 2217 Cedar Bayou Road died Thursday morning at his home. A Baytown native who lived there since 1925, services set for Saturday at Paul A. Lee Funeral Home with Rev. Jenkins Woods officiating. Burial in Hill of Rest Cemetery. Survivors include his father Alfred Jacob of Baytown, a sister L. Jacob, two nieces Bil Jennische and James Lankford, three nephews Lionel Vernon A. D. Jacob of Monahans and others.
Junior High bands will present a concert at 7 30 p m Saturday featuring J Frank Elsass conductor solo air from the University of Texas Symphony and the all city Houston bands plus a guest clinician from the Texas Youth and Symphony. Auditors welcome with no admission charge.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara spent about six hours meeting on the Air Force Dyna Soar glider and Project Gemini. He left without a decision and noted it would take weeks to decide. He suggested duplication of effort could push toward a modified Gemini satisfying civilian and military needs.
Sun staffer Blue Beathard declares candidacy in both city and school elections. He answers questions with humor on taxes, bonds, debts, and qualifications while admitting no formal platform and claiming independence from party labels.
A supplemental budget totaling 249072 for three funds general water and sewer operating and waterworks interest and sinking was adopted by the Bay town City Council. It outlines revenue from Water District 58 and other sources and specifies expenditures through the rest of the fiscal year. The council also authorized City Manager J. A. LeFevre to explore development of a two acre park site between Baker Road and Craigmont Street with possible lease or swap arrangements with Craigmont Place and Ponde-Tosa subdivisions and considered various bids for locomotive painting.
Definition outlines that what you make is increased by fifty percent to determine the cost of living. The note emphasizes the rule as a simple multiplication factor for earnings.
The city council approved a 268000 street program designating 1d streets for major permanent work this year funded partly by property owners. Estimated total 268217 with 217000 left in funds. costs may vary. Rules set owner payments: curb gutter only on residential, curb gutter plus 25 percent paving on residential thoroughfares, curb gutter and plus 2 percent paving on commercial streets. Commerce is the sole commercial class street. See Streets, Page 3.
Davis, a school board candidate, argues a new high school is needed but presses caution on federal aid and bonds. He backs a new high school and opposes adding taxes without voter approval, proposing options like expanding REL buildings, air conditioning, and administrative facilities while urging careful district growth.
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