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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1963
Page
1
Police Chief Roy Montgomery, serving 13 years in the city, was admitted to San Jacinto Hospital Tuesday morning. Doctors described his condition as extremely critical just before noon. He previously underwent lung cancer surgery two years ago.
Baytown events include Civil Air Cadet meeting postponed due to exams with a new date set for May 28 at Baytown Airport. Also noted are 4 H Club postponements, Army tweaks for 65th Artillery assignment, Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union meeting at Bay Theater, and Texas Bankers Association attendance by local bankers. A rummage sale at Redeemer Lutheran Church and a partly cloudy Baytown forecast complete the notices.
Edythe Musick oversees Baytown school cafeterias on an advisory committee for Lamar Tech’s School Laundroom Workshop set for June 2013. The 7th annual workshop draws about 300 cafeteria directors managers and staff. Charlie Hil elected vice president of Kappa Kappa Psi at Sen Houston State Teachers College. Mrs J A Hill of Nebraska visits her son-in-law and daughter the Coxes as they welcome baby Stephen Andrew. Opportunity School presents strong end of year program. Martha Lilly and Jerry Gieger face movie or shopping plans. Wanda Barke and Jane Goodson kept busy on an unknown topic. Ann Malone cheered by a burned out light bulb.
The Houston Colts defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 in a baseball result last night. Buck Turner Majearoan is promoted as a winner in a car purchase promotion.
Baytown Housing Authority plans 50 low rent units for seniors at two sites behind Holly Inn and Archer Courts with a maintenance building. A loan of 635,637 dollars from the Housing and Home Finance Agency funds 48 units with centers, a project cost of about 639,037 dollars, and projected rents around 20 dollars monthly. Architect James A. Davis outlines accessible design features and low maintenance goals. Bid opening to follow regional approval in Fort Worth.
Washington AP reports President Kennedy sees Alabama Governor George Wallace as a challenger who could appeal to segregationists in 1964. Wallace aims to block admission of a Negro student at the University of Alabama possibly in Huntsville in June or Tuscaloosa in September to gain martyr status. Kennedy warned federal troops would only be used if racial disturbances escalate while promising to protect Negroes' rights. Alabama Democrats may place Wallace on the ballot with an uninstructed slate, while Kennedy's electors could be listed separately. Wallace has outlined plans to run for president and believes he can win the South, forcing a House step to resolve a close election.
NAACP attorney says Supreme Court decision on sit-in demonstrations will boost Negro protests, allowing access to public eateries. Motely notes ruling clears Southern stores to serve Negroes. Birmingham officials respond cautiously as desegregation momentum grows.
Baytown Hospital joins spring graduation spirit as relatives of staff and students prepare for REL and nearby ceremonies. Dr. Malcolm Jones’s son Stephen, Janet Holsomback, and multiple nurses’ children, plus Kathy Higdon and others, are noted as REL graduates or caps and gowns participants.
In Istanbul and Ankara a failed coup attempt by ex Colonel Talat Aylemir was crushed within hours. Gen Ceydet Sunay said the treacherous act was defeated. one person was killed and four wounded in Ankara. Cadets and four colonels were arrested as tanks and troops restrained unrest. Aylemir fled Ankara and authorities detained conspirators at Istanbul radio stations.
Baytown stock owners plan to travel by six chartered buses from Citizens National Bank to Houston on Wednesday for the Jersey Standard annual stockholders meeting at the Music Hall Sam Houston Coliseum. About 2,000 stockholders are expected to attend the on the road meeting with reports from M. J. Rathbone and Michael Haider and a luncheon at the Humble Building follow up.
Austin AP Legislators unveiled a record seven million dollar budget increase as the state higher education system expands to include Houston. Gov. John Connally backs the plan raising total education spending by about 187 million for the two year period ending 1965. The bill, likely to pass conferees, aims to adjourn by Friday while lawmakers study a bulky two year spending package.
Statesmen of the 15 Atlantic Pact powers gathered in Ottawa to approve a compromise for an allied nuclear force. France opposed any new or extraordinary commitments, while Britain would assign an 180-plane V bomber fleet with hydrogen bombs and the United States three Polaris armed submarines to General Lemnitzer. The communique outlines force augmentation, closer nuclear policy liaison, and a nameless force without its own command structure.
The Supreme Court postponed ruling on whether a businessman may constitutionally discriminate in serving customers and if he can seek state help to enforce such discrimination. The decision overturns convictions of 44 sit-in demonstrators over segregation, with Justice Harlan arguing ownership rights to segregate may lie beyond the 14th Amendment. He warned state action could still enforce discrimination. Chief Justice Warren emphasized that city ordinances compelling segregation violate the 14th Amendment.
US policy aims to unite Cuban exile groups without backing a single faction. Carl Albert predicts Lyndon Johnson will be the next president. Kennedy’s jet plane sets 15 speed records Moscow to Washington. Conlair moves west as heat holds in the South. Johnson urges Oklahoma farmers on space program value. Negro shoppers boycott Greensboro stores. Common Market delegates inch toward trade barrier cuts. Gordon Cooper is honored in Washington with a parade, medal, and speech to Congress.
Birmingham leaders plan to seek federal court relief to void a Birmingham school board order expelling or suspending more than 1,000 Negro pupils who protested segregation. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr urged restraint and legal action, while the board cited truancy policy as it expelled participants over 16 and suspended those under 18. The move followed a tense, fragile biracial accord in the city.
Baytown residents joined a select group to view Gordon Cooper orbit the Earth in Faith 7. Attendees included Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr and Kentucky Gov. A B Chandler, with Charles Seligman Jr. and Pat Balt among the Baytown guests. The private observer group met Dr. J R Maxwell in Dallas and joined Col. Paul Liebernich USN retired at Pat Patrick Air Force Base before Cape Canaveral.
Mrs Maggie C Wise 88 of 161 W Gulf Baytown died at 847 am Tuesday at home She was a Baytown resident 44 years Funeral arrangements by Paul A Lee Funeral Home Survivors include her daughter in law and son in law Mr and Mrs E E Yount of Baytown a daughter in law Mrs A Wise of Houston two grandchildren and six great grandchildren Services pending Mrs Wise was a member of Memorial Baptist Church and the eastern Star at Atmore Alabama
Light voting in most of 13 precincts as residents weigh five propositions totaling 4.35 million dollars for school improvements. If approved, the district faces an eight cent tax rate increase to retire the bonds by 1989. 1,016 ballots cast by 11 AM across 12 precincts. 101 precinct report unavailable.
The House rejected a proposal to prohibit flying the United Nations flag on public buildings for the second time. The 72 to 68 vote fell short of the two thirds required to advance the bill. Representative Howard Green of Port Worth urged opposition, accusing opponents of taking orders from backers who send “dear comrade” letters.
Baytown Police Department will send five officers Tuesday to an FBI sponsored bank robbery conference in Pasadena. The session led by Special Agent Robert E. Rightover will be in the Corporation Court room. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover notes rising crimes against banks, with offenses up 30 percent from 1961 to 192.
University of Alabama trustees agreed to admit Vivian J. Malone of Mobile and Dave M. McGlathery of Hunstville to the all white campus but asked a federal judge to delay their entry until Alabama’s racial situation calms. They ordered the dean of admissions to process both applications for summer session beginning June 16 at Tuscaloosa and the Extension Center in Huntsville.
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