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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1963
Page
1
Kenneth E. Badgett, a Baytown District 3 candidate, says property tax increases require voter approval and supports bond issues for capital improvements with clear justification. He criticizes annexation timing and urges more local say in decisions to grow Baytown.
Final trip of the Tus Harris County bookmobile to Wooster area on Monday includes a community book sale at the Rice Hotel and Lakewood Shop Bing Center with sessions from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern Star chapter plans tea at Dal F. Grigg home. La Porte City Council race features Odell L. Brown not seeking reelection with Frank Baker and Dennis Durham filing. Baytown weather notes cooler Sunday with a cloudy Saturday. Galveston tides Thursday through Monday listed.
Local notes from Humble Baytown area include Dr Charles Kemball teaching at Baytown Refinery with a Belfast background, Warren Edwards improving at home, and Sam Houston State College intern Barry Smith awaiting Houston assignment. Weekend activities feature a 30 mile hike by Dayton youths, news of Dads Club events, a NASA bid, theft reports, and a St Patrick's Day dance at Elks Lodge along with student achievements and military moves in Germany. John Doe?
Our World reports a Bolivian Air 41 aboard aircraft missing and feared crashed in sparsely settled terrain near the Chile Bolivia frontier. Authorities track search and evaluate weather as front clears Texas skies and promises thunder showers eastward.
A storytelling hour for four to six year olds is set for 10 am Thursday March 21 at Sterling Municipal Library. Librarian Hank Blasick oversees book selection with Mrs J C Johnson and Mrs Skipwith Smith who will narrate. Mrs Smith, a Chicago art institute alum and Houston newspaper illustrator, helps with illustrations. Mrs Johnson has lived in Baytown 23 years and is pursuing an elementary education degree at the University of Houston with a speech minor.
Texas Employment Commission rulings were overturned for former Humble Oil Baytown Refinery workers who took early retirement. Appeals assisted by OCAW led to restoration of some unemployment benefits after initial denials and six week disqualifications. About 73 to 100 cases were appealed with hearings at Baytown City Hall ongoing.
A reader letter from The Sun at 210 W. Francis St discusses Wimpy's death and a dog story. The unsigned note asks why a little dog won’t come home, mentioning a Wednesday paper bag and two children.
Washington reports a Communist infiltration into Brazil's government fueling a congressional push amid Brazil's ongoing upheaval. Cuba sails out a Soviet troop carrier carrying up to two thousand Russian soldiers, potentially fulfilling Khrushchev's pledge to Kennedy. No U.S. comment issued on the move.
A Baytown man called Permenter was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to transporting and transferring eighteen thousand dollars in stolen merchandise from a Texas City store to Mississippi. The FBI described plans to start a drug store and a past role as an assistant manager and druggist. Three other defendants have been charged but not yet tried.
Two real estate developers were killed and bank president Weldon Hornsey barely survived in a Pasadena attack Friday night. Hornsey shot Harris Sr. and himself after attempting hospital treatment for nerves. Police reported Hornsey, a bank director, was distraught over his mayoral bid.
Joseph Guberman 86 Baytown pioneer merchant died at 2 a.m. Thursday in Houston after relocating to the Jewish Home for the Aged. A Russia native who came to Baytown in 1916, he worked with his brother Ira before starting his own store on the site of the current House of Fashion. Surviving relatives include a daughter Mrs. Morris Abrams of Shaker Heights Ohio, grandchildren in Shaker Heights, and nieces and a nephew in Baytown. Funeral services will be held at Levy Memorial Chapel with burial at Adath Emeth Cemetery. Donations to charity are requested in lieu of flowers.
The State Department reported that two Soviet reconnaissance planes flew over Alaska on March 15 1963 in U.S. air space for about 25 minutes each near Kuskokwim Bay. Washington lodged a formal protest in Moscow via Ambassador Kohler, noting it as the first clear Soviet overflight of U.S. territory and demanding measures to prevent a repetition. President Kennedy was briefed as the note proceeded.
Baytown Sun interview with Tom Chrisley, candidate for Position 1 on the school board, argues for reducing administrative salaries and payroll, trimming library expenses, and slowing high school facility expansions. He questions federal aid and says education should be managed locally, favoring an updated junior high and cheaper alternatives.
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