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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1963
Page
2
Election totals from Houston city polls show candidates including Nick J. Smerinski and Louie Weldy among numerous names. Voters selected council contenders for District A and District 4 with results pending for At-Large positions as ballots wrapped up.
Baytown and area families are noted in a cluster of funeral notices. Survivors include spouses, children, siblings, and grandchildren from Baytown, Palto, and nearby towns, with services at Baytown churches and local cemeteries.
JP Brown spoke at a Channelview Volunteer Fire Department banquet at the Tower in Avion. Brown, justice of the peace from Raytown, praised Channelview since 1921 as among Harris County's best towns for firefighters and saving lives. He invited members to visit his office. the event honored department leaders and listed attendees and officers.
Announcement states the Horace Mann School choir, directed by Miss Francis All, will perform with entertainment provided by the students. Parents are invited to attend the event.
Community members and interested persons are invited to attend the Opportunity School open house at 7190 3 pm Monday, with refreshments and information. The Gander Booster Club plans a 7 30 pm meeting at Robert E. Lee High School cafe, and a Fridays screening of Movies of Just will discuss plans for the club’s annual football barbecue for players and their fathers.
Danny Potter son of Mr and Mrs D G Potter 366 Ashland Street Channelview recently performed with the Clarinet Choir of Sam Houston State Teachers College New York Potter freshman member of the Bearkat Band and Woodwind Choirs under Harley Rex will attend the concert at the Music Building Red. The Woodwind Choirs comprising saxophone ensemble woodwind quartet and clarinet choir will perform in the Recital fair. Barbers Hill PTA will meet at 2l pm in the school music room with Supt WC Underwood High School Principal John Einenm and Elementary Principal J. C. Horn discussing The Family Is Education Our Affair. An executive committee meeting follows at 2:30 pm.
A dense list of noon call stock quotes features numerous corporations and tickers across industries. Companies such as Allis-Chalmers Aluminum Ltd Amer Cyan Amer Tel Olin-Math Anaconda Chrysler Dow DuPont Eastman Kodak Goodyear Tidewater Union Carbide Exxon Gulf Oil IBM International Nickel Liggett-Myers Monsanto and others appear with varied percentage figures and prices, reflecting a snapshot of financial activity across manufacturing, energy, chemicals, and transportation sectors. The fragmentary page emphasizes ticker shorthand and cross-listed names, typical of a mid-century financial roundup.
October yielded 4575 in revenue from Corporation Court including 565 in parking fines. Traffic fines reached 2695 and cash bonds forfeited 1215. Parking tickets disposed 622 with 608 issued and 375 pending. two hour payment rule reduced paid tickets to 49. Traffic cases 427 with 76 drunk and 105 miscellaneous charges. 33% traffic, 67% drunk, 5% miscellaneous disposed.
Numerous patients admitted to Gulf Coast and San Jacinto Methodist list names and rooms including Mrs R C Wright in Baytown room 130 and Mrs Pete Malik in Dayton room 127. New arrivals note multiple couples welcomed at San Jacinto Methodist with spouses from Crosby Channelview Houston and La Porte plus births on Saturday and Sunday at both Gulf Coast and San Jacinto Methodist.
Baytown residents will receive TB Christmas seals through a citywide drive running into December. Thad Fennema, campaign chair, announces the effort to fund early detection and treatment, with Larry Jackson as co chair. Volunteers from youth clubs and women’s groups will distribute seals and share information aboard at Baytown stores and clinics.
Humble Oll and Refining Co donates a 3 foot long air conditioned mobile medical unit with lab and examination room to the Houston Area Diabetes Association. The clinic on wheels will support Houston Diabetes Detection Drive from Nov 17 to 24 with Baytown tests set for Nov 18 19 and 20 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital from 4 to 8 p m. Dr W T Harrison notes the unit will be the main downtown hub operating six days a week and marks it as one of the first of its type built for Humble field locations.
Channelview hospital notes list admittants from Houston and Channelview including Elix Jeffcoat Frances Etonl Usry Pauline Wik ILe Day Barney Mitchell Jame W L Robertson James Chapel Hemphill Billie Jean Sloan David Allen Kelly Betty Joyce Churtz vonne Emmert Betty Lea Em mert Ronald E Bible and dismissals of Reva Fountain Lorene Harper Mae Bell Bed good Robert J Perker Irma Ruth Nowell Irene Jackson Ruby Hammock Wanda Lee Carey from Houston Patricia Melntech Geriinde White Elizabeth Staneley Robert Clayton Cheryl Lynn Jenkins Betty Ann Land Channel
Four Southwestern University students from Baytown were chosen for the Southwestern University Choir for 1963-64. Named from Baytown were Nekla Ruth Day Iris Elizabeth Jones William C. Jones Robert Craig Pryor and James Earl Calley. The choir, led by John J. Richards, will soon begin a Texas tour.
A funeral was held Tuesday at 16 am at Calvary Missionary Baptist under the direction of Paul A. Lae Funeral Home. The Rev Avis McBride of Pasadena the Rev RL Walters of Amarillo and the Rev Tom Burleson of San Jacinto officiated. Burial followed at Peeblos Cemetery.
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