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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1964
Page
1
THOMAS R. BACON father of Mrs. Ray Spear of 1518 E. James Boag died in Abilene Monday morning. Funeral services are handled by the Eliot Funeral Home in Abilene. District updates note carnival plans for Steph en F. Austin group and PTA events.
Present forecast shows cool and variable conditions through Tuesday with moderate to fresh northeast winds. Temperatures Monday may range from 59 to 80 degrees as Gulf coast tides list high and low times including early morning and afternoon windows.
United Fund support funds medical care for Baytown's Health League located in San Jacinto Methodist Hospital basement. In 1965 the budget assigns 9331 for the free clinic and referral service. after one week UF has $70877.22 of a 197145 goal. Max Mosesman hails the effort as outstanding. Health League operated by local volunteers since 194L, providing medicines and referrals to Ben Taub and Jeff Davis in Houston.
Local notes include Pendergrass mail address at Jefferson Davis Hospital Houston 19, Harry Massey offering an extracurricular service Monday, Larry Stoerner returning to The Sun office, and Byron Haney the ticket snatcher at Rice Stadium. Mentions of Jimbo Wooldridge planning Anahuac Lions Club centennial and praise for emergency crews who aided stranded brothers L G Rhoden and Flord Rhoden after their boat ran aground.
Detroit AP GM and the United Auto Workers announced a tentative national contract ending the strike that idled about 280000 workers. Local issues remain in 117 of 430 plants, with ratification needed before the agreement takes effect.
Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr urged Texas reforms in law enforcement agency structure exchange and trial procedures after reporting on the Kennedy assassination. He concurred with the Warren Commission and noted no untoward information gaps, while highlighting media pressure and security lapses at Dallas City Jail and in Oswald and Ruby cases.
A Houma couple’s boat gasoline tank disappeared from Mrs. Jessie Hambrick’s Cedar Bayou Road home while Hurricane Hilda battered the area. The tank owner Maurice Williams and wife Amy Hambrick Williams request its return to 1200 North Main. Police also reported burglaries at Jissone’s Lounge on Decker Drive with a juke and pool machines pried open and a theft involving a bicycle and a siphoned truck gasoline batch. Police noted possible larger thefts around town during the weekend.
A clothing and relief drive in La Porte collects clothing shoes utensils blankets and food for Hurricane Tilda victims. Items should be ready by 4 pm Wednesday at the Community Church on San Jacinto Street and will be sent to Cameron at 3 am Thursday. For information call Mayphore GA 1-185.
Fifty seven East Germans escaped through a tunnel under the border wall to West Berlin this weekend. One East German border guard was killed by gunfire during the operation as authorities reported the event as a major mass escape since 1961.
The day covers Atlanta civil rights act debate as Supreme Court opens term. Mississippi officials Rainey and Price return to duty amid civil rights case arrests. Kennedy defeats in Pulaski Day parade context. Bombing arrests rise in Mississippi. Texas traffic deaths spike. Syria shakeup, Belfast tensions, Indonesian piracy, and early freezing weather cross-country. Satellite DIPS performance cited as subpar despite ambitious range aims.
Former Hurricane Hilda weakens along the Georgia Florida border toward the Atlantic. The death toll rises to at least 36 with destruction in Louisiana. President Johnson declares federal disaster aid eligible. Winds reach 40 to 50 mph, tornado risk remains, and a 20 mile wide alert strip from Leala to Charleston is issued. Pensacola searches for missing surfer Bill Waters.
South Viet Nam AP reports two Viet Cong battalions were mauled after government forces recovered from a bloody ambush. Government troops, aided by aircraft armed helicopters and artillery, pressed a near 12 hour air supported assault. One American was killed, others wounded. Viet Cong losses estimated from Ga to T5 dead, around 200. Lt. Paul D. Jemison survived after feigning death.
Harris County Judge Bill Elliott of Houston will discuss country government in the third session of the government workshop sponsored by the Baytown League of Women Voters Monday evening at Cinzential Bank. Registration fee covers study materials. sessions run weekly through Oct. 26 with topics on state and U.S. government and party roles. Elliott, 38, serving his second term, is head of the commissioners court and probate judge, with duties across executive, judicial, and juvenile affairs in Harris County. His Pasadena residence and family are listed.
The State Department disclosed that 15 Soviet government officials forcibly entered two hotel rooms used by U S military attaches in Khabarovsk two weeks ago. They reportedly seized photographic equipment and other personal property.
Shoppers can win two hundred dollars during a Baytown merchants contest held Thursday evenings from 6 to 9. Tickets are distributed in stores and later drawn at the Baytown Chamber of Commerce on Friday at 10 a.m. The winner must claim by noon Saturday at a participating store, with the prize presented Monday at 40 a.m. The weekly prize rolls over if unclaimed and last week’s unclaimed $100 was added to this week’s pot.
A 16 year old youth wounded a man who forced entry into a Houston area apartment. The intruder, identified as Teeny French of SOSW Cleveland, was shot once in the left chest and taken to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital then transferred to Ben Taub. Police say French assaulted the resident, knocking him onto a couch, before being shot by the resident. The victim is in fair condition and expected to be arrested after discharge.
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