University honors track and tennis stars at Texas event
SUN Spots highlights Terry King Wayne Porter and Stan Ament among award winners at University of Texas for achievement in sports. Also brief notices include LUM ROARK chapter meeting of United Daughters of Confederacy, patent issued to Humble researchers, bids for a 4000 square foot two story house, a stolen car found near Baytown, burglarized soft drink machine at Carver High, Kathryn A. Nuttall earns Curator Scholars award at Stephens College, Deer Park graduates listed, Celestine brothers to sing at Baytown city hall, and weekend weather forecast with warm temperatures and a record high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry King
Wayne Porter
Stan Ament
University of Texas
Goose Creek Country Club Pool Scene Captures Community Life
Holly McLemore works Galveston area while Dee Garrison illness shifts beauty contest plans. Families like the Walmsleys and Browns enjoy the pool as neighbors, teachers, and students mingle. Notables include Lang, Gonzales daughter with straight A's, and Horace Mann student Mike Jones receiving M awards at a final assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holly McLemore
Galveston
Dee Garrison
Winnie Brown
Liza
George Walmsley
Goose Creek Country Club
Mary Sharp
Larry Rogers
Lynn Miller
Pat Lubbock
L. K. Fuller
al Moskowitz
Nelson McEl
Horace Mann
Kirbyville
Baytown
Robert E. Lee High School 1960 graduation honors many awards
The largest graduating class in school history received diplomas amid 5000 attendees at Memorial Stadium. Valedictorian Mary Lee earned the Balfour plaque and multiple scholarships. Salutatorian Marlene Rushing and top seniors collected church and private awards. Numerous $150 to $400 scholarships were granted by Baytown clubs, Kiwanis, and professional associations to graduates including Peggy Johnson, Rand Evan, and Mary Lee, with honors across academics, science, music, and citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanda Orton
Mann
Vegas
Donna Bryan
Baytown Kiwanis Club
East
Harris County
Robert E. Lee High School
Baytown
Val Comeaux
Peggy Johnson
Uates
Education Assn
Rand Evan
Asso
Bill Nance
Peggy Maroney
Virgil
Baytown Rotary Club
Domingo
Baytown Lions Club
Reader's Digest
Lee College
Marlene Rushing
Pee Joyce Jacobs
Raymond Brock
Baytown, Lions Club
John Sylvester
Mike Lawless
Southern Blueprint Co
Tana_ Miller
Texas Chemical Council
Bausch and Lamb
Billy Edwards
Peggy Kelly
Jan Baethe
Wiliam Hudnall
Sumner
Jack Walton
Arion
Janet Hunt
Hazel Evans
Jo Fuller
Judy Bowers
American Assn. of
Mary Gonzales
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Marilyn Jacobs
The
Bay
From Baytown sports star to Brazosport store owner
The story profiles Fred Palmer Jr., who left Humble Baytown Refinery after a veteran career in the Light Ends Dept to become a state champion boat racer. He then built Palmer's Sporting Goods in Clute, expanding from 1200 to 12000 square feet, while remaining active in hunting fishing and boating and mentoring future champions like Chuck Hearn. Palmer’s arc blends sport success with civic impact and business growth in Brazosport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Palmer Jr
Humble
Baytown
Baytown Boat Club
Palmer
Brazosport
Clute
Robert E. Lee High
Rice Institute
Christine
Chris
Palmer's Sporting Goods
Chuck Hearn
Brazosport Boat Club
Texas
First Methodist Church
Cagein
Paartner's
St. Passper
St. John’s
Hooper Haygood
J. H. Parker
Virgil Altwein
St. Mark's
Wayne McCleskey
Charles Fay
City Boss Asks Second Bond Issue
City Manager J B LeFevre spoke at a Baytown Realtors luncheon urging Baytown to underwrite another capital improvement bond. He noted per capita bonded debt of 66.98 and that the city is finishing a 2.696 million program begun with a 1957 bond issue. He urged that a new bond issue be submitted to voters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Marin
J. B. LeFevre
Baytown Board of Realtors, Inc
Baytown
Tornado Warnings In Texas Up Until July
Washington AP reports Texas tornado warnings extend to July as Weather Bureau enhances storm detection. Four radar sites in Fort Worth Amarillo Galveston and Amarillo upgrade coverage with nationwide systems costing about 1000000 each. The Weather Bureau notes Texas averages 25 tornadoes yearly since 1916 rising to 32 since 1963 due to improved reporting and radar network. Cooperation from private industry and military prompted the upgrade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alex
Weather Bureaus
Texan
Inder’f. Sadowski
Brownsville
Amor Carter
U.S
Weather Bureau
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Sadow
Galveston
Ski
Texas
Gulf Coastal Area
Central
Western
Panhandle
Inireau
Lone Star
Twenty five adult leaders join Baytown scouts at camp
About 255 Baytown area Boy Scouts head to camp next week with 225 at Camp Strake near Conroe and 30 at El Rancho Cima near San Marcos. John Kewley announces plans as various troops and posts from Baytown area organize sponsorships and transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts
Baytown
John Kewley
East Harris
Fir- Say
Ftr Rancho Cima
San Marcos l
Camp Strake
Conroe
Memorial Baptist Church
Mont Belvieu Lions Club
Highlands Junior Chamber of Commerce
Baytown Lions
Cedar Bayou
Turkish government toppled as city returns to routine
ISTANBUL Turkish authorities ease daily life as a military junta governs. Troops guard banks and key sites while the Turkish National Union Committee led by Gen Gutsel moves to stabilize the country after the overthrow of Adnan Menderes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Istanbul
Turkey
Ufe
Portal
Adnan Menderes
Cemat Gutsel
Revo Brimary
Turkish National Union Committee
A Killed In Manila Flood Inundates City
Manila faces monsoon flood disaster with at least 71 dead and thousands homeless. Army and police report 22 deaths in Manila and Quezon City, 27 in suburbs as waters rise and halt transportation. Communications crippled. losses expected to exceed a million dollars as city is paralyzed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Quezon City
Pioneers To View Shaffer's Slides At Banquet
Dr. Sherman S. Shaffer will present color slides titled Tourist's Observations Inside the USS at the Humble Pioneer Club banquet Saturday at 7 p.m. in Baytown. Shaffer, 2nd division head 1934 1952, holds a PhD in physical chemistry and has held posts with Humble Oil Rotary Baytown Chamber of Commerce Education Committee and Baytown Oil Information Committee. He is active in the American Chemical Society Texas Academy of Science and the National Science Teachers Association. V. A. Lirette presides the Pioneer Club, open to long service Humble employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman S. Shaffer
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Humble Pioneer Club
Baytown
Shaffer
Khrushchev derides Eisenhower golf playing in Paris fallout
Premier Nikita Khrushchev blasted President Eisenhower for golf as a duty while deriding U S military circles as anti peace. He said America must be taken down a peg and blamed the United States for the Paris summit collapse in a Kremlin broadcast to labor brigade leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Nikita Shrushchev
Eisenhower
Hell
U.S
United States
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Paris
United Nations
Andrei Gromyko
Mr, K
Channelview ISD Record Low Instruction Cost Per Pupil
Channelview Independent School District posted the lowest per pupil instruction cost in Harris County for 1958-59 at 179.26 dollars, well below the county average of 230.23. The survey by the Tax Research Assn. of Houston compares 23 districts, with Channelview ranking lowest in both instructional and total operating costs per pupil, and notes the district’s assessed valuation and student count shaping the per pupil metrics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Beathard
Channelview Independent
Harris County
Tax Research Assn
Houston
Channelview
Harris
Chan-Channelview
Netview
Research Assn
Baytown Teachers Highlight Years of Service
Mrs Fitzgerald and Mrs Clark, from Baytown, share 40.5 years of combined teaching experience in their fourth and third grade classes. Mrs Betty de Keefer, another Travis teacher, sews shirts advertising Baytown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Clark
Betty de Keefer
Travis
Stirts
Baytown
Ruth Hopper
Loretta Hunt
Wanda Ellis
Willie Fitzgerald
Eva Clark
Western State College
Gunnison
Colo
Amnl
Travia
Hopper
Wnt
Ellis
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UDC
Lum Roark
United Daughters of Confederacy
Production Department
South Pruett and Dailey
Fred Mills
U. S
G. T. Gwin
B. N. Hill
R. S. Manne
N. P. Peet
G. R Shepherd
A. M. Souby
Lowell Lammers
J. Price Hamilton
Tri-City Beach Road
East Wing
G. F. Nelson
Lindberg
Carver High School
Cleve Dickens
Kathryn A. Nuttall
Maxwell D. Nutttail
Stephens College
Columbia, Mo
Lynchburg Grads
Lynchburg Area
Deer Park High School
Frank Butcher
Tommy Cole
Raymond Enck
Ray Fenley
Edward Fitzgerald
Neil Kelly
Avis Linder
la Nelle Lostak
Patsy Partin
John Wayne Meekins
Donald Moyers
Nald Moyers
Mike Pennington
Wayne Viereck
Sue Sanders
Brothers Quartet
REL
Goose Creek
Humbie’s
United Rubber and Chemical Co
Consolidated Chemical Co
Texas Eastern
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Cub Scouts
Ike
Fred Palmer
Fraytown Photos
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