Kennedy appeals for racial peace in Nashville speech
President Kennedy urged Americans to resist prejudice and violence in a Nashville address marking the TVA anniversary and Vanderbilt’s 9th year. He spoke of law, responsibility, and the role of educated citizens, while noting desegregation tensions in the South and promising broader civil rights discussion. He praised Vanderbilt’s biracial policy and TVA’s transformation of the region into a center of industry and learning.
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Nashville
Kennedy
Tennessee Valley Authority
Vanderbilt University
Jay
Alabama
Muscle Shoals
Huntsville
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
Vanderbilt
United States
Birmingham
Ala
Viarce
Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Feilt
TVA
Baytown Notices Highlight Local Veterans and Educations
Army Sgt. T L DeMare of Cortez Calif visits Baytown relatives before headed to Korea. Hughie Thomas Norris Jr and Sara Susan Taylor Gray to UT Austin College of Education degrees June 1. First Mexican Baptist Church hosts Rev Paul Stephens with Japan trip film. Weather shows scattered thundershowers. tides for Galveston and nearby bays listed. Steele McDonald attends 65th Texas Agents convention in San Antonio. Baytown Opportunity School spring program set for Monday at Grace Methodist Church. Sgt Clyde Donahoe, Baytown-native, graduates from Military Air Transport Service academy at Orlando AFB. wife Hazel Kilough.
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First Mexican Baptist Church
Paul Stephens
Second Baptist Church
Stephens
Japan
Ramon Vasquez
First Mexican
Steele
Steele M. McDonald
Baytown Insurance Exchange
Texas Association of Insurance Agents
San Antonio
Granada Hotel
Clyde P. _Donahoe
New Braunfels
Baytown
Hazel Kilough
Miliary Air Transport Service
Orlando Air Force Base
Fla
Donahoe
Minnie Kilough
Local Figures Share Weekend Reunions and Visits
James Shires meets a classmate at Lee College. Tanya Blair Mann’s daughter attends the University of Texas and James studies pharmacy at the University of Houston. Airman Rufus Larkin visits Baytown from Kansas, Justice M M Brown conducts a second wedding, Paul Anderson and Bao Turner visit a sick friend, and Lauralyn Phillips with Rhonda Brown stay with Mr. and Mrs. J W Pritchett at 3212 Nebraska Road.
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James Shires
Blair Mann
Tanya
Lee College
University of Texas
James
University of Houston
Rufus Larkin
Lake Charles
Kansas
Baytown
Justice of the Peace
M. M. Brown
Paul Anderson
Bao Turner
Cortie Laughlin
Lauralyn Phillips
Rhonda Brown
Houston
J. W. Pritchett
Nebraska
Lauralyn Jis
Mrs. Fritchett
Baytown Church Plans sermon on prayer topic
St Pauls Lutheran Church at 194 West Main Street will host Rev Harold Bomboff preaching on the subject To Pray or Not To Pray this Sunday May 19 1963 Buck Turner’s Ady notes the event as a courtesy.
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Baytown
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
W. Main St
Harold Bomboff
Buck ‘Turner
Buglers Sound Heralds Medical Assistants Meet
Bugler’s reveil opened a day of meetings and dinners for delegates at the State Medical Assistants convention at Holiday Inn. Registration ran Friday into Saturday noon. The morning session followed the large delegates gathering with Dr. Lee Liggett and Mrs. Viola Davis welcoming attendees. Dr. Robert Mayor Tenery of Ellis County, Texas Medical Association president, addressed the group. He helped shape TMA constitutional revisions during his Board of Councilors years. Amendments to the state constitution were discussed, with Mrs. Mildred Crawford of Bexar County and Rev. Robert Ingram as luncheon speaker.
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Bobby Sutphin
A.m. Bugler
State Medical Assistants Convention
Holiday Inn
Lee Liggett
Baytown
Viola Davis
East
Robert Mayor Tenery
Ellis County
Texas Medical Association
Tenery
Medicare Committee
TMA
Mth
Mildred Crawford
Bexar County
Texas Medical Assistants Association
Robert Ingram
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Houston
Kennedy Administration
Supreme Court
Hospital Chief Attends Dallas Meet
Burton MM. Rattle, administrator of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, has gone to Dallas to attend the 31st annual convention of the Texas Hospital Association. More than 3,000 persons are expected to attend the convention. Some of the outstanding medical and hospital men in the country are expected to address the organization.
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Burton MM. Rattle
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Dallas
Texas Hospital Association
Wallace asks Supreme Court to curb federal troops in Birmingham
Governor George C. Wallace sues the United States in the Supreme Court alleging Kennedy violated the Constitution by sending federal troops for the Birmingham racial dispute. The suit seeks temporary and permanent restraining orders and names Defense Secretary McNamara as a defendant. Kennedy had announced Army units standby in case of riot duty.
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Washington
George C. Wallace
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
Kennedy
Birmingham
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Tennessee Valley Authority
Goth
Redstone
United States of America
Robert S. McNantara
Robert F. Kennedy
Cart
Wallace
School Bond Vote Polls Location and polling spots listed
Location of polling places for the May 21 school bond issue election includes Precinct 12 Alamo School with judge Waller Biahe, Precinct 13 Burnet School John S Blackburn, Precinct 96 Highlands Elementary Wallis Hunt, Precinct 99 Thad Fellon Jack G Rester, Precinct 101 Firemen's Recreation Hall Mrs Pansy Dab ney, Precinct 102 Raytown Junior High A Contreras, Precinct 193 Stephen F Austin School Mrs A Goodrich Jr, Precinct 1417 San Jacinto School Ted L Kloesel, Precinct 165 Travis School John Pierce, Precinct 248 Carver School Woodrow Lewis, Precinct 249 Bowie School Wayne McClurg, Precinct 250 Harlem School Jefferson Walker.
Baytown Trustees Endorse All Five School Bond Proposals
Baytown school trustees united in backing five bond issues on Tuesday despite prior disagreements. The proposals total 4.35 million dollars for a new high school, Robert E. Lee High alterations, Marlen School expansion, Cedar Bayou Junior High cafeteria, and an administration building, with emphasis on air conditioning and 12 month usage. Robert E. Lee students joined a broad voter-engagement effort, distributing materials and promoting the measures citywide.
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Civie
Earch
Baytown
Joe Horeczy
W. L. Bridges
Karl Opryshek
Knox.Beavers
Beavers
Robert E. Lee
Uigh School
Robert Bel Lee
Marlen
McNair
Cedar Bayou
Paod
A. R. Stark
Ben Shirey
Dr. L. D. Victory
Tohouse
Will Meet Wife Daughters Cooper Gets Hero Welcome in Honolulu
Gordon Cooper returns home to Honolulu after orbiting the earth 22 times aboard the USS Kearsarge. He plans parades receptions in Honolulu Cape Canaveral Washington and New York with meetings including President Kennedy and a joint Congressional address. Cooper reunites with wife Trudy and daughters Camala and Janita at Hickam AFB.
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Kearsarge
Honolulu
Gordon Cooper
Earth
Space
Cape Canaveral
Washington
New York
Kennedy
Congress
Hickam Air Force Base
Trudy
Camala
Janita
Cooper
Pacific
Midway
Coopers
University of Hawaii
Iolani Palace
Statehouse
John A. Burns
Cocoa Beach
Fla
White House
Congressional
John Glenn
Glenn
Senate
Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mercury
Fwo
Firemen to Attend One Day Baytown Session
About 20 volunteers from the Gulf Coast Firemen's Association will arrive in Baytown Saturday afternoon for a one day session at the Firemen's Recreation Hall on Lee Drive. Chief A H Lintelman says arrivals start around 4 pm with barbecue supper at 5 pm, a business meeting at 7 pm, pumper races at 8 pm, and a dance at 9 pm hosted by Baytown's Volunteer Fire Department Station No 1.
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Gulf Coast Firemen’s Association
Baytown
Firemen‘s Recreation
Lee Drive
A. H
Art) Lintelman
Baytoun
Austin Pastor to Speak at Robert E. Lee High Baccalaureate
The Rev Edward V Long of St Martins Lutheran Church in Austin will deliver the baccalaureate sermon for Robert E Lee High School graduates at Memorial Stadium Sunday night. Commencement exercises are set for 8 p m Friday May 24 at Memorial Stadium with more than 500 students expected to participate. The Robert E Lee Band directed by Charles Forque will play Pomp and Circumstance and the REL Choir will sing two selections. Terry Grr will give the invocation and John Young will present the benediction. Four red tickets per graduate cover rain plan admissions to the auditorium. rain contingency will move services to the REL auditorium with limited seating for family members.
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Edward V. Long
St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Austin
Robert E. Lee High School
Memorial Stadium
Robert E. Lea
Charles Forque
Graduation letter urges seniors to stay seated at Memorial Stadium
Forty five members of the 1963 Robert E. Lee High School graduating class sign an open letter urging May 24 attendees to remain seated until all graduation activities finish. Diplomas will be awarded by Superintendent George H. Gentry. Keily Rushing to give invocation Judy Kay Smith to direct Alma Mater. REL Band to perform The Triumphal March and The University Grand March. Tom Keating is president of class officers with Eddie Gray as vice president and Sandra Butler as secretary. Mary Virginia Bethea is valedictorian and Jackie Shires salutatorian.
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Robert E. Lee High School
Memorial Stadium
George H. Gentry
Keily Rushing
Judy Kay Smith
Holly McLemore
REL
Tom Keating
Eddie Gray
Sandra Butler
Mary Virginia Bethea
Jackie Shires
Highlands Man Dies of Heart Attack at 34
Hanks Hill Holmes 34 of 208 W Houston Highlands died at 7 20 p m Friday after a heart attack at his service station He lived in Highlands 15 years Survived by wife Lois Holmes daughter Helen Burns of Baytex son William R Holmes of Houston two brothers John T Holmes and M B Holmes both of Joaquin Tex three sisters Mrs Barney Hathaway Paxton Tex Mrs J Bass Houston and Mrs W G Peters Dayton Four grandchildren The body at Earthman Baytown Funeral Home until 3 p m Saturday Then Mangum Funeral Home Center Tex for services and burial Sunday
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Hanks Hill Holmes
Houston
Highlands
Lois Holmes
Helen Burns
Baytéxn
William R. Holmes
John T. Holmes
M. B. Holmes
Joaquin, Tex
Barney Hataway
Paxton, Tex
J. ©. Bass
W. G. Peters
Dayton
Earthman Baytown Funeral
Mangum Funeral Home
Center
Tex
Below Olympus cartoon debuts in The Baytown Sun
The Baytown Sun features artist Interlandi with a new satirical cartoon "Below Olympus." Interlandi, winner of the 1952 Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartoons, uses biting humor to critique broad social and political themes rather than direct current events. Born in Chicago, he studied art at the Chicago Academy and earned a BA from the State University of Iowa. his twin brother Phil is also an artist.
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Brink "Nterlandi
Interlandi
Sigma Delta Chi
Interlands
Chicago
Chicago Academy of Art
t_twestern University
State University of Iowa
Frank Nterland
Phil
Olympus
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