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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1961
Page
2
A series of exchanged quips about graduates facing road trips marriage and employment. A young man debates family expectations and future income with his father and peers. The dialogue covers working for low wages versus securing a future, with jokes about zippers careers and hitchhiking home.
Elva Shannon 73 of 207 E Sterling Baytown retired construction foreman died Tuesday night at home. Body shipped to Corsier-Pearson Funeral Home Cleburne for 4 p.m. Thursday service at Rainbow Baptist Church with interment Squaw Creek Cemetery. Survived by widow Francis Shannon three sons W E Shannon Jr R T Shannon Paul Shannon two daughters Mrs Williams Mrs La Fem Onidrett one sister Mrs Faulkner one brother F A Shannon eight grandchildren.
SUN SPOTS items summarize a schedule of senior citizens gatherings a duplicate bridge learning session at Mrs Bridges home, and a veterans affair with graves marked by the VFW. Also listed are a memorial English degree ceremony for Ben Thomas and a Baytown man candidate for a degree in education. Justin Wilson to perform at Lee Auditorium with Jaycee support and proceeds to youth activities. separate items note TM activities and military training updates for local residents.
A jumble of names and degrees from Abilene Christian College is presented in a noon stock quote style, highlighting Jerry Bolls and James Carithers receiving bachelor degrees in marketing and accounting, Maurice Cornelius in speech, and Norris Long elected secretary of Alleg Ludtum, with various local addresses and affiliations noted. The page also includes industry stock listings and notices of a civil engineering meeting and a theft report.
Mildred Swick reported a 32 caliber antique pistol stolen from her car glove compartment while parked at the Tower Tuesday night. Navy Moms Club will meet at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Community House for a business session and election of new officers.
A. N. Johnson E W Hunt Jr and J H Lashlee clerical trustee Position 7 L B Phillips Representative nominees are employee relations medical and safety LaVerne McCullough accounting telephone operators administration and shipping E J Freeman Jr knock testing laboratory H P Bolster physical testing laboratory A G Brown and L C Schorlemmer popbledts J W McNulty light hydrocarbons C C Laughlin LOAT laboratory C H Love and T H Garner HOAT laboratory P L Chapman Also crude assay C C Parrish research and development Joe W Jackson and T P Gorman pilot unit Fred J Kana butyl Buster McAlister and John FR Atkinson samplers Travis Craig Jr mechanical clerks vacant Candidates from the Houston Terminal are secretary Marion Allen Helen Hutton and E H Ludwick representative at large John C Gore and C A Lively special plant representative James S Powell and R A Stevens and fuel oil terminal Robert L McKnight
Absentee voting in Harris County for the U S Senate election ended at 8 p m Tuesday with a total of over 3 300 ballots cast. Interim Senator William A Blakley and John Toner were candidates in the late rush as voters completed their absentee ballots.
Senator William Blakley visits Houston amid stiff competition from Republican John Tower in the April 4 Texas Senate race. Blakley argues for U.S. aid to developing Texas resources and against Red China admission to the United Nations, promising to oppose the World Court participation limits and Javits proposed resolution on a national floor vote.
Corpus Christi AP reports Republican John Tower at a rally urges the United States to flex its power against Russia. He advocates a Cuban economic blockade and Monroe Doctrine preservation, condemns aid to Communist countries, and denounces concessions in the Cuban prisoner exchange as dangerous missteps.
Boston AP report says Standard Oil of New Jersey executives told 680000 shareholders that there is no end to climbing oil demand worldwide. President Rathbone warned outside the communist bloc nations should wary of relying on Russian oil, which is priced for political reasons and used to obtain capital goods. Leo Welch criticized Kennedy administration policy and urged more private investment rather than gifts, arguing the US must better promote American investment abroad.
A critic mocks the Peace Corps as attracting professional do-gooders who quickly long for air conditioned comforts in America and the lure of lecture circuits, framing the program as a transient, self-serving venture rather than lasting aid.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said civil rights legislation is unlikely this year despite Alabama riots. He plans to seek rule changes in July to speed end to Southern filibusters and to authorize injunctions against denial of civil rights including voting.
An Ultimas Noticias editorial accuses Fidel Castro of meddling in Mexico. It cites riots and disturbances said to be funded and stirred by the Cuban embassy.
Wooster Lions Club earned a first place district plaque at the Houston convention for wide participation in activities. The district has 53 clubs with points for attendance, reports, dues, and membership. Nelson D Lengnecker was named deputy district governor Region 5 Zone 9 10. R C Anderson won 100 percent secretary honors and the club took a 100 percent participation award from Kerrville Crippled Children Camp. Roy Elms named Zone chairman Zone 9.
Mexico faces a tough 1961 crop outlook with a prolonged drought affecting most regions. In Matamoros Tejeda Saro of the Central Bank announced a $40 million British loan agreement to finance a new border port project this month.
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