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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1961
Page
1
Baytown area calendar items include X ray clinic notices at Baytown schools with 417 people scanned, church and auxiliary meetings canceled, and various civic group events. Local boards discuss library plans, bond issue, and upcoming youth sports programs plus square dance lessons and YMCA activities.
Nancy Munninger and Dr William Sharp promote Polio Vaccination Week starting today urging residents to get polio shots before summer. Dot Berry takes her daughter Lynne to swim. Howard Brunson recovering after Baytown Hospital surgery. N Neureiter named publicity chair Baytown League of Women Voters. City Attorney George Chandler hospitalized with eye infection delaying planned honor. Tom Heflin buys coffee at dawn. Russell Liles travels to Houston to testify in a cert case. Mrs W A Stevenson praises Amarillo paper Pulitzer. Rev and Mrs Richardson plan Southern Baptist Convention trip to St Louis. John Sweeney Rice and Carl Lee A&M ran SWC track prelims in HoustonLast Friday. both are farmers Gandors.
A Kennedy Khrushchev summit on cold war problems is a definite possibility with odds 3 to 2. Laos and a ban on nuclear tests could block it, while progress might speed it. Kennedy may extend his Europe trip beginning May 31 and possibly stay for a final meeting with Khrushchev in Stockholm or Vienna.
Leslie Douglas Ashley 23 and Carolyn Ann Lima 18 of Houston face murder charges in the torch killing of Fred A. Tones, a Houston real estate man, on Feb 6. Jury selection opened in District Judge Miron A Love’s court as prospective jurors were questioned and cautions issued about courtroom decorum.
Three Baytown contestants swept top honors in the Little Miss Humble Day bathing beauty contest during Humble Day at Himble Recreation Club on Bel Biull Road. Centered winner Susan Chaisty 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 8 Chaisty of 3424 Alnois, poses with crown.
More than 120 Robert E. Lee High School students received letters of recognition for academic and athletic achievement at the school’s annual spring banquet. Top literary awards went to Lee’s two debate teams, four speakers, and the one act play cast in UIL competition. Fifty plus students earned drama, public speaking or journalism honors, with multiple district and regional placements across TIL events. Baytown athletic director Dan Stallworth led ceremonies as Principal Holly McLemore opened with an invocation and Superintendent George H. Gentry introduced coaches and guests.
Deputy Brown reports a Sunday night break in at 1924 Bayway pharmacy. A small amount of narcotics and cash were taken, with drug shelves ransacked and windows broken. Owner James Frank discovered the theft Monday morning when opening for business.
Houston Sports Association and Harris County Commissioners Court neared agreement on a lease for a new county stadium after a two hour public meeting. Commissioner V. V. Ramsey voiced optimism about a June 1 deadline and highlighted profit sharing from gross receipts and HSA backing as a 35 million operation. Also noted were baccalaureate and commencement plans at Memorial Stadium with limited seating and four tickets per graduate.
A Midland talk cites Justice Department replies as small producers seek antitrust action against major interstate crude oil buyers while Senate Republicans attack Kennedy aid to education and government reorganization. Thunderstorms dampen parts of the Texas coast with clearer skies in North and Central Texas. A mixed race group of freedom riders vows to continue tour after a bus firebombing and beatings in Alabama amid civil rights tensions. RK Force leads a Massachusetts manhunt for two alleged killers who shot the Middlesex County jail warden. Edger W. Cook, 48, and Norton Porter, 21, are identified as fugitives. Three sons of the Mesquite family drown on a Mother’s Day outing near a lake in northwest Dallas. parents Calvin and [name not given].
AUSTIN AP reports the Senate discussed authorizing a national seashore area on Padre Island. The bill would permit the governor to deed land on the Gulf Coast once Congress enacts related legislation. A second item notes Vice President Johnson citing a Chinese regime collapse within 12 to 18 months as a possible outcome.
Baytown area residents without polio vaccines are urged to get shots during Polio Vaccination Week in Harris County. Adults and children should consult private physicians or receive free vaccines at the Harris County Health Unit office, with hours 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. The effort is sponsored by the County Medical Society, city and county health officials, and the National Foundation.
Sen William Blakley plans return to the capital to oppose federal aid to education. He says Texans deserve local control and will campaign against the program while pressing education bills. Blakley cancels appearances in Odessa Midland Amarillo Lubbock and Pampa to resume Senate work. He defends his absence from the chamber as campaign demands and insists voters will not be taxed without local solutions.
Karen Lada Kelley of Mont Belvieu placed second and served as first runner up in the Little Maid of Cotton contest in Memphis Tennessee. She represented Texas among seventeen contestants from across the states with support from the National Cotton Council including wardrobe and travel for the family. Her father Lloyd Kelley a coach and athletic director at Rubbers Hall High School is noted.
Geneva AP An American concession clears the way for an international conference on Laos despite delay. Three rival Laotian delegations attend as Kennedy approves a plan allowing all sides to speak, including pro Western government loyalists, Pathet Lao, and neutralists under Souphanouvane and Phouma.
Britain and Russia said the four nation Laos talks will open Tuesday with Laotian delegates described to avoid labeling them as government representatives. The United States, while acknowledging the royal government of Premier Oum as Laos only government, will attend in a limited capacity to test Khrushchev’s neutral Laos pledge amid the French British compromise.
Senator Barry Goldwater will appear at 8 p.m. Monday at Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston to rally for Senate candidate Joln Tower. The campaign swing with Goldwater includes Lubbock and Fort Worth stops, with former Gov. Cake Stevenson joining in Houston for a statewide telecast. A Houston delegation met Goldwater in Dallas, led by James A. Bertron and Albert Fay.
Funeral services for Mrs Na am Aurea Brown Pope 96 of Sachar Houston were held at 4 pm Sunday at Old Hardin Cemetery near Koun tre. Rev Jimmie H Gray officiated. Burial followed in Old Hardin Cemetery. Survived by two daughters Mrs Al 1 Vivrett Beaumont and Mrs Paul A Lee Baytown, two sons Clayton V Prone Silsker and Dation Pane Humble, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
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