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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1960
Page
10
The record notes Mrs Ialand served as the speech judge for a school event. It mentions separate games for boys and girls in volleyball and softball, indicating a coed activity schedule with gender-specific games.
A candidate thanks citizens for their votes and support in a close city election victory. He congratulates his opponent Mr Cravey on a fair campaign and pledges to serve the community. He notes appreciation from friends and acknowledges placard damage on election eve.
The Humble Optimist Club will discuss plans for its Humble Oil and Refining Co. salute program to be held May 9 and a report on a pew Leone Baytown day. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Tower.
A lively survey of model airplanes traces postwar craze from rubber-powered balsa kits to radio control and control-line planes. It names beginner paths, shop guidance, and the Nations Model Airplanes Championships in Dallas July 25 31, noting eager enthusiasts, diverse models, and rising youth interest in aviation crafts.
A Barbers Hill junior high honor student and tennis team member travels with sponsor Wan Inderwel typing sponsor to a state meeting on Thursday. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Prema Gwendsan, she is an honor student and a long-time Barbers Hill Band member who will serve as drum major next year.
Damaged OCR fragment showing a dense list of company names and sponsors across industries. The text mentions Goodyear Tire, Gulf State University hints, Kerr-McGee, Libby McN. Liggett and Myers, Olin Mathieson, Pure Oil, Royal Dutch, Shell, Socony-Mob, Studebaker-Packard, Texas Gulf Prod, United Airlines, United Carbon, Upjohn, U S Steel, Westinghouse, and various regional oil and chemical firms, but provides no coherent narrative or event.
Cary Chessman, the California inmate known for a decades long campaign against capital punishment, was executed by lethal gas after nine earlier death-date delays thwarted by stays. He argued his trial transcripts were flawed and wrote four books from death row.
Farmers and ranchers may haul stock and produce in unlicensed trailers under 4000 pounds without plates for market use. Trailers used for market goods may also return other products to the farm. The attorney general ruling clarifies non hire use and return trips.
Baytown sent delegates to Medical Students Day at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr H H Duke, District 9 TMA councilor, opened the Doctors Club program. Speakers included Harvey Renger of Hallettsville and May Owen of Fort Worth, with talks on practice economics and future medical care for Texas.
Roy H. Hughes, elected Saturday to Baytown city council from District 5, thanked voters in a Monday statement. He credited supporters and urged continued cooperation to make Baytown progressive with planned future growth.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Earthman Chapel for Ada Starett 72 of 210 Schilling who died at 745 a.m. Saturday in Baytown She had lived in Baytown three years Rev R R Harris officiated Interment was in San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery directed by Earthman Funeral Home Starett is survived by five sons Brooks Donald Carl Robert and Frank Starett of Channelview one brother Elliott Skidmore of Gasaway W Va one sister Mrs Ede Booth of Gasaway and 14 grandchildren Pallbearers were John Shute Pearl Lucky Gene Simmons Bill Hoffpauir Eric Hoffnauir and Bill Comiry
Three year old Juanita Lupe, of 6710 Bayway, suffered concussion after being hit by a car driven by Mrs Lennie O Thompson of 808 Carnegie at Market and Wisconsin. The incident occurred at 6 30 p m Saturday. Chief Roy Montgomery said accident investigator James L Lankford charged Mrs Thompson with driving without a license in Corporation Court.
Velma Jordan Ansley, elected Saturday as Baytown’s first woman on the city council, writes voters with mixed emotions of happiness and humility. She thanks supporters for campaign help, commends her opponent Ray Tickner for a clean race, and pledges to serve as a faithful representative through her 1962 term.
Diversified Occupation Club members honored their employers Saturday night in a Tower dinner. About 25 employers joined 65 attendees to hear W A Price, assistant zone manager for General Motors Chevrolet Division, speak on training skilled workers. Rice and Cummings spoke, Hawaiian decorations set the theme, with Jim Sirrett and Bill Woodall entertaining. Dick Mahan and Charles Patterson led ceremonies. guests included Holley McLemore and Mr and Mrs Price and their son Donald.
Judge J. W. Mills will address the American Association of University Women at 7 20 p m Wednesday in the Community House. He will discuss juvenile problems and the role of the court in one county with Mrs W F Heaner presiding.
Local lodge events list dinners and meetings for May 1960 including Goose Creek Chapter No. 1192 and Bayou area units. Notices invite members to dine at Tower Restaurant May 6, 1960, with reservations due May 4, 1960, and announce st the Bay Town DeMolay and OCAW gatherings, plus memorial and cemetery services and a local monument company ad.
A daughter named Caralyn Marie Carnes was born Thursday at Gulf Coast pounds weighing ten ounces. Grandparents are Mrs Wiese of Halrietisville, Mr and Mrs J F Holder of Baytown, and Mrs R P Carnes of De Leon. The baby has a brother James Dwayne, age one.
Profile details Baytown figures Robert E. Lee High School graduate life secretaryship to the late Principal R. B. Sparks. Hughes Trim Shop owner in Baytown with civic ties and long service in local fire department, IOOF and chamber groups. Cravey and Carvey teach, live in Baytown, with military service and family updates.
Judge Barney L. Ward has returned from a three day traffic court conference in Austin, resuming duties at the CORPATION court with renewed focus.
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