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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1963
Page
1
Baytown YMCA announces swim classes for members 6 and up, with sessions Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. at the High School pool. Fees: 15 cents for members, 5 cents for nonmembers. Also notes prep for bonfire at mall Friday night and a story hour event at the library with proceeds aiding charitable activities.
The Yee College faculty and families attend a Halloween party in a spook house setting. Wilton Roper photographs the event while Mrs. Ernestine Bright coordinates phoning for the upcoming diabetes drive. Ed, a department manager at Main Stem store, is praised as coach of the week.
Democrats held key offices including Kentucky Mississippi governor and Philadelphia mayor with Republicans reporting potential inroads. Philadelphia margin about 67000 votes marked by civil rights issues. Indiana and San Francisco shows mixed gains and remaining party control. Statewide counts in Kentucky and New Jersey reflect broad national implications for 1964.
Pasadena OCAW Local 4367 summarizes three top officers resigning as 400 members vote to install new secretary treasure and a new vice president and accept a committee report finding no misconduct in the last election on Oct 1. Ramey begins duties as secretary treasurer. The impact on the runoff and a special vice president election remains undecided.
US reviews Vietnam policies, including ambush and data programs, as Ngo Dinh Diem era figures are cited in a broad World Today report. Separate items note a California mother and four children in Los Angeles, Senate debates Kennedy foreign aid, and a Reno crash with seven dead and 32 injured.
Funeral services for Mrs. Brian Van Antwerp Kanewske 24 year resident will be held at 4 pm Thursday at Pant u Lee Funeral Home. She died at 1 am Wednesday at Medical Artsy Hospital in Houston. Rev Fitwin T Summers will lead burial in Cedar Crest Cemetery. She was born in Ras town and is survived by husband Tammy Kanewske of Hay-Moin, mother Anterry of Siiwe, and sisters Mrs Ormar John of St. Lanne Mon and Mrs Fear Gugenbickle of Fermdale Calif.
Baytown council this week agreed at a special meeting to grant the new city manager Prin Lanham wide latitude to run city operations. They outlined a policy focus, a street repair priority list, and a study plan for street conditions while discussing staffing and engineering needs for the Public Works Department.
Harris County government officials will host a breakfast at 7 a.m. Tuesday November 18 at the Holiday Inn, inviting more than 100 area civics and business leaders. Attending will be members of the Harris County Commissioners Court, Dist. Atty. Frank Briscoe, County Clerk Ra? Bob Turrentine, and others. Officials will brief on duties and take questions in a session following the breakfast, the twenty second in a series of similar programs across Harris County.
Baytown voters go to the polls Saturday to decide four proposed state constitutional amendments and a $6 million Harris County jail improvement program. The election includes an amendment to abolish the poll tax and replace it with a voting fee. Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 16 area sites, 22 in Baytown. a valid poll tax receipt is required to vote.
The Russian side lifted the blockade of a U S Army convoy on the autobahn near Marienborn. British and French convoys moved toward Berlin from the other end as traffic reopened. The Soviet and Western statements claimed contrasting interpretations of the event with no violence reported.
About 60 Brigadiers from Robert E. Lee High School and members of the American Legion Auxiliary will kick off Poppy Day at the gates of Humble Oil Raytown Refinery. The sale continues Saturday with area volunteers aiding war veterans and raising funds for medical care and hospital help.
President Kennedy will travel to Texas in November to honor US Representative Albert Thomas in Houston. Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Lyndon Johnson are expected to join. the trip includes speeches in Houston Dallas Fort Worth San Antonio and Austin with a $100 a plate Austin dinner and a Thomas dinner in Houston drawing thousands. Senator Ralph Yarborough has been invited to the Austin event as part of a major Democratic Party visit.
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