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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1963
Page
4
Gov Connally describes the assassination scene and President Kennedy's shooting. He recalls struggling with the moment as Secret Service urged evacuation, reflecting on why the leader was killed and the rise of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance.
Fragmentary hospital notes list patients and staff such as Gali Crissy Laren Holt and San Jacinto identities. Several garbled lines hint at admitted individuals, some with unclear ages or diseases, including references to doctors and locations like Highlands and Midway.
BE. J. BRYCE of Pasadena won a Thanksgiving turkey at Shirlee's Garage on North Main. Bryce is employed in La Porte. His wife is Mrs Nelda Faveller Bryce.
Multiple Texan residents perish in separate crashes. A Cessna 310 over Lake Pontchartrain kills five, including Perryton residents Ben Templeton and companions. In Newfoundland a Piper Comanche 4 crashes after takeoff, killing Kennety Anderson and Samuel Henry among others.
Dallas investigators staged a reenactment to fix the sequence of events in the Kennedy assassination. Officers traced Oswald and Ruby connections, with FBI agents in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo probing Oswald’s movements.
Funeral services at 10 am in Bortnman Funeral Home Chapel for John Steele 71 of 1201 Kane who died Wednesday 8:45 pm in a hospital. Rev Themes Guinn will officiate with burial at Cedar Creek Cemetery. Steele born May 7 1872 in Chilton Texas moved to Baytown in 177 and retired from the Produce Hice Deparimen Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown Refinery. Survived by wife Pearl and daughter Eleanor Shirley La Porte three sons Jonnie Fountion Herman all of Baytown six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
HAL Boyle offers a lighthearted gratitude list on Thanksgiving. He notes smaller turkeys, a yearly Christmas, aging teens, available parking, and milder weather as daily benefits. He adds no hydrogen bombs, fewer chores, and overall blessings to count amid the holiday.
A Thursday dawn fire heavily damaged the Colony Martel Motel on Highway 90 near the Cedar Bayou Beach intersection. Estimated losses reached 330000. The blaze destroyed four cottages and damaged the rest. Baytown Fire Chief A FH.Acti Lintelman credited multiple fire units from Baytown Wooster and Fire Station No. 3 plus Crosby Highlands volunteers for battling the flames. The motel owner G B Magee was reportedly told his mattress was burning by an unidentified Alabama truck driver who was in the front cottage when the fire started. The origin of the fire was under investigation.
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