20 Mar 1962
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1962
Page
1
Harris County Democrats debated the May 5 ballot on poll tax repeal and horse race betting. Absentee voting opened March since Tuesday, with a few ballots cast. The meeting at Civil Courts Building featured Gov. Price Daniel and a clash over party loyalty and Kennedy welcome.
Simone Marshall joins Air France inaugural Houston flight plans for May 2. The Grimes family remodel completion at 137 Mapleton. temporary Michigan home since Hurricane Carla. Various notes include staff calls, a state convention feature by Employes Federal Credit Union, and local social updates. Virginia Venable Kidd and Mack advance to the Young America Speaks semi finals. UT and Texas Tech debate score for UT scholar prize.
Baytown Jaycee sponsors a 7:30 p.m. Tuesday gathering at the Chamber of Commerce to determine the future of the Quack Shack youth center across from Robert E Lee High School. Damaged by Hurricane Carla, the center has $2,500 in repairs needed and officials await decision on repair or rebuilding.
Humble Oil Baytown Refinery officials will join Eastern and Baytown Teachers Credit Unions at the 28th annual Texas Credit Union meeting this weekend in Galveston. Delegates include C T Kelly and John W Sylvester, with W S MacKinnon as Houston Chapter president and Dan Matthews among attendees. More than 2,000 delegates are expected as sessions run Thursday night through Sunday morning at Moody Convention Center.
Members of the Highway 146 Association formed last week will break ground next Monday on a one mile section between the three level interchange and Spencer Highway in La Porte. A luncheon reception at Zeisig's Restaurant follows. 80 tickets available for $3 from the Baytown Chamber of Commerce.
A wide range of items appears from a late era news page: McNamara’s Honolulu hop for a top secret Viet Nam talk, five men meeting near the capital to avert a Dutch Indonesia clash over West New Guinea, Governor Wesley Powell in recovery, Kennedy urging a global communications satellite, a Pacific port disruption court hearing, Fort Polk officials banning protest, Donald Kay Wilson’s execution, Mrs. Kennedy sampling exotic New Delhi dishes, nationwide dreary weather, Baylor University hospital updates, Kennedy signing pension and welfare safeguards, tariff hikes on carpets and glass, and a $1200 emergency fund transfer for the San Jacinto Monument repairs.
U S District Judge Ben Connally declined to hold the Houston School Board in contempt of a grade year racial integration plan. Negro lawyers argued the board used enrollment tactics to dilute the order, targeting a brother and sister rule forcing siblings to same school. The board revised the rule after hearings, removing kindergarten implications.
Washington reports Labor Department solicitor Cartes Donahue reaffirmed the prevailing wage rate for NASA’s manned space craft center construction on Clear Lake. Critics warned the rates favored skilled workers and could add about $1 million to first phase costs. Labor Secretary Artie Geld ordered a review after requests from lawmakers Teague Roosevelt and others.
A cloudy sky and showers moved across Baytown as spring arrived. The Weather Bureau warned of lingering thunderstorms from Waco to Fort Smith and a 120 mile wide risk area. Forecasters noted a Pacific cool front bringing gusty winds hail and possible isolated tornadoes with broader chances of showers statewide.
President Frondizi moves to nullify Peronist election gains as five provinces fall under federal control. Military leaders debate continued influence while civilian appointees prepared to govern provincial capitals amid protests from Frondizi’s own party and labor unions.
Geneva AP Britwin signaled willingness to cut enforcement machinery to a minimum to win a nuclear test ban deal. Lord Home pressed Gromyko for reasonable compromise and insisted on verification. Sampling inspection proposed while India urged neutral country involvement, but Westerns questioned lack of on-site teams.
Baytonians back Houston Colt 45s with grandstand seats still available at 2.50 each for the opener on April 10. Tickets arriving Tuesday at The Baytown Sun are reserved and can be obtained by phone or in person. Names of anticipated attendees include Sam Savage Thad Fenelon Dr Donald Branson J D Poskey Art Lindemith and others among Baytown fans.
Baytown schools will issue new textbooks for grades four through eight this fall. Fourth graders receive A Journey Through Many Lands geography, fifth grade Journeys Through the Americas, sixth grade The Eastern Hemisphere, and Thorndike Barnhart English dictionaries for four to seven. Eighth grade music uses Music in Our Times. eighth grade history uses The Story of the American Nation. High school texts include Science, Discovery and Progress, Physical Science A Basic Course, Rise of the American Nation, The History of Our World, and World History The History of Our World. Textbook committee, led by Supt. Gentry, includes Enna Johnson, W. C. Beasley, and others.
Four Raytonians were named Distinguished Students at Texas A and M College for the fall semester. Michael W. Thurman son of J W Thurman E Wright Avom V Waynes Ur son of Mr and Mrs a Ve Vimes T Killough son of Mr and Mrs Dave Killah W Cleveland and Wop SP Mecaascat are honored. Thurman majors in business administration with a 2.44 GPA while Killough a freshman civil engineering major posted a strong showing. Rudder announced the awards noting strong academic records and campus leadership among the honorees.
Officials of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union Baytown Local 4333 urge members to attend a 7 p.m. meeting at the union hall where the workmen's committee will report on contract negotiations with Humble Oil and Refining Co. Baytown Refinery. An executive board session precedes at 6:30 p.m. A 9 a.m. Tuesday membership meeting was held for those unable to attend. The committee presented a written report on negotiations while a 30 day extension of the contract was in effect since February 9. The union and company have agreed on some provisions but stalemate remains over others.
Raymond Jude David 23 of La Porte was indicted for murder in the Abireh 2 slaying of Martin Hl. Tewes 48, a Baytown Refinery employee, shot at the La Porte home of David’s mother in law, Marjorie Cox on San Jacinto Street. Police say David arrived with a pistol to confront Tewes. Tewes died at the scene. David was arrested soon after. Other indictments included Artie Flores 25 for a Houston gang murder on Jan 27 and Albert Young 35 for killing his wife Johnnie Mae on March 8.
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