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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1966
Page
1
Funeral services for Miss Cecile M. Foerster of Houston will be held at 4 30 p m Saturday in the Settegast Kopf Kirby Drive Chapel In Houston. Miss Foerster was supervisor of elementary grades in Houston and was well known by Bay town teachers.
A collage of residents including Gordon Johnson Mickey Jenkins Bert Ailman Charles Fulton Ronnie Berry David Rogers R L Parker W H Bill Warner Roland Kydla Velma Munson Ruth Johnson Ted McCall Jessie Stovall Lucille Talent Bill Henson Garrett Herring Tom Bradshaw Elizabeth Ayler Martha OBrien Hazel Dew and Red Pruett, with snippets of daily tasks, travel, and weather changes as fall begins.
The Baytown Planning Commission will hold the first city wide zoning meeting at 7 30 p m on Wednesday Oct 5 in city hall. Members include L A Hale Dr George Walmsley Bob Beverly W D Hinson Joe Zom Joe Bridges and Mrs Dan Mundinger. Hale says the group aims to educate the public, recruit committees, and seek council approval for hearings by Nov 15 with a Dec 15 plan ready to protect property values.
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower slams taxpayer waste and calls for swift victory in Vietnam, favoring strong action. He avoids urging nuclear weapons while saying the war could be decided in 24 months or grow far larger, as he campaigns for Earl Eisenhower in Cook County.
Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield cited Dwight D. Eisenhower at a Chicago news conference urging use of "as much force as we need to win" in Vietnam. Eisenhower avoided a nuclear option but said he would take any action to win if given the problem. Mansfield urged the general to share specific ideas with President Johnson.
Baytown officials led by Mayor Cravey and Council members on Friday as the Garth Road extension from Park Street to Decker Drive was officially opened to traffic. Councilman Pat Ball cuts the ribbon with Albert Fanestiel and Mayor Cravey witnesses at the Decker Drive intersection.
Baytown union Local 1051 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers announced a new contract with Humble Oil and Enjay Chemical. The agreement includes a wage rise starting Oct 1 1986 and a five day notice windows for reopeners, plus a banking option for vacation time and an apprentice program under federal indenture. The old contract expired midnight Friday and talks followed a stalemate with the Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union over wage offers.
Hurricane Inez weakened after battering Cuba and Haiti with hundreds dead as forecasters warned of possible Florida impact. Inez drifted north from Cuba’s southern coast, her winds dropping, with Cuba’s Oriente Province hit hard and the Caribbean area counting many casualties.
Humble Oil and Refining Co plans a 75000 square foot single story laboratory at its Baytown Refinery. C H Leavell and Co of Houston is general contractor. FPirts Mebane Phelps White of Beaumont designed the building with steel frame, brick walls, and precast stone. The facility will consolidate labs from ten buildings and feature advanced safety, heating, air conditioning, gas detectors, and a central computer control center. Completion expected in late 1967 with four entrances and modern offices at the front.
Ada Vivian Callaway, 87, of 612 West Gulf Baytown, died Friday at a Baytown hospital. A resident of Baytown 45 years she was buried in Cedar Bayou Methodist Cemetery after services at Earthman Chapel. Survived by three daughters, one son, four sisters, eight grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
Laura Glenn a longtime Baytonian died Friday at her Palestine home after moving there in 1963 following 30 years in Baytown Funeral services are set for Sunday afternoon Bailey Funeral Home directed She is survived by two sons David and Wade Glenn both of Baytown two daughters Mrs J D Dorfman and Mrs G V Palmer both of Palestine and fourteen grandchildren A Christian Science Church worker in Baytown she will be laid to rest in Palestine
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