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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1961
Page
2
President Kennedy flies to North Carolina to receive his 21st honorary degree, deliver a speech, and observe airborne troops demonstrations. A broad array of international and domestic updates follow, including military alerts, political tensions, and labor news.
Mrs. Alvin Nance returns to Willie D Duke Hospital for tests. Ronnie Boodell son of Albert and Mrs Boodell of Lindbergh in Gulf Coast Hospital for surgery in Room 130. Christopher Parker son of Ernest and Mrs Parker in Gulf Coast Hospital, Maryland. Mrs. John Whalan of W Main in Room 109 Gulf Coast. Admitted to San Jacinto: Mrs Damon Hance Pasadena Room 346. Mrs Cecil C Brown Houston Room 315. Mrs I Glenn Harbour W Texas Room 340. Mrs Louis Lambright Highlands Room 248. Mrs Francis Deal Norris Highlands Room 247. New arrival Milton Winston Skeen Highlands and wife welcome son born October 11 weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces.
About 70 percent of Syrians favor breaking from President Nasser and the United Arab Republic, with a sizable minority loyal to Nasser. The Kuzbari cabinet leans west, while some army factions may push for more. Communists remain suppressed, and parliament is due within four months.
The Kennedy administration shifted farm program cost reporting to revalue government owned surpluses at initial cost, removing storage and handling to cut losses. The move, announced by Secretary Freeman, would have spread losses over years under the old method and blamed the prior administration for much of the deficit.
Mr. and Mrs. W C Sanders of Missouri announce the marriage of their daughter Marguerite Lucy to Kenneth Lee Prince son of Mr and Mrs J R Prince of Highlands. The couple exchanged vows in Houston. The bride and groom are Robert E Lee High School graduates and attended Lee College. The bride works at Prudential in Houston and Prince at Sears in Baytown. They will live at 195 Mississippi after their honeymoon.
James H. Baker longtime La Porte superintendent resigns after 17 years on medical advice. He had been on sick leave and taught, led as principal at La Porte High, and will be replaced by an interim assistant while the board fills the vacancies. J S Smith remains in charge of business with a salary increase to 10006.
Washington report notes world stocks and production of cotton rising, reversing recent decline. The international advisory Committee, an intergovernmental body of 35 cotton countries, says it does not favor higher acreage to avoid new surpluses and maintains cautious demand outlook.
Deer Park City Council Wednesday night admitted defeat in an effort to annex neighboring industry for taxation. The council repealed the annexation ordinances after Judge Tom Stovall Jr. ruled for the industries in Harris County District Court. Companies involved in the contract include Shell Oil Co. Diamond Alkali Co. Rohm and Haas Co. and Lubrizol Corp. with a 1956 agreement to pay 165000 annually to the city in lieu of taxes.
A survey of 17 Southern and border states reported 31 more school districts desegregated this fall with 392 Negro students enrolled in previously all white schools. Alabama Mississippi and South Carolina retained segregation. Dallas Atlanta and Memphis admitted Negro students for the first time, with Dallas desegregating 18, Memphis 13, and Atlanta 9.
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson approved issuing 5.2 million dollars in revenue bonds to finance the Toledo Bend project on the Texas Louisiana border. Construction may begin on the Sabine River dam about 23 miles from Mevacnen.
The Sabine River Authority received approval from Mrs. E W Frochner of Baytown for a project by the Board of Water Developement. The board met Thursday in Gonzales to discuss the development, with funeral services noted at Seyl er Funeral Home for a local figure.
Garth Bates charged Wednesday that Mayor Cutter misled the public on the hospital district election. Speaking at the Cosmopolitan Club, Bates claimed the county hospital issue would divert the 2.8 cent tax from medical care to other uses to fund a tax cut, offsetting a 86 cent increase totaling about $2 million yearly.
In Willoughby Ohio four Wickliffe policemen staked out Our Lady of Mt Carmel church. One hid in a confessional booth to catch a suspected arsonist a six year old boy who said other children laughed at him in the church school when he didn t know the right answers God has embarrassed me police quoted the boy as saying he had tried three times to set fire to the church.
Training at Lackland AFB completes for Airman James D Rainwater son of Ella M Rainwater 16528 Oaklane Channelview He graduates Channelview High and is assigned to March AFB California for training as a communications center specialist
Dr David J Turell of the Levy Clinic Houston will address the Baytown Diabetes Lay Society at 7 45 pm Monday in the Chamber of Commerce on Cholesterol Fats and Blood Chemistry The topic aims to aid heart patients and diabetics and the meeting is open to the public
Tyler AP report details a high school program where students in a building trades class design, construct, and sell a three bedroom home for profit. Profits Finance gear and trips, while many graduates join local unions. the district funds a revolving program continuing since 1954 with brick construction since then.
New York AP reports space flight advances could make commercial manned flights feasible by 1975. H A Koelle of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center predicts rapid tech progress, with lunar stations by 1968 69 and a lunar settlement by 1975, plus multiple annual round trips by 1975 and into 1980.
England has been governed by a succession of ruling families including Normandy Blois Janetagenet Lancaster York Stuart Hanover and Saxe-Coburg and Windsor shaping its monarchic and constitutional evolution across eras.
Houston Port Commission will build three new wharves at Public Wharves 23 74 and 25 costing 3 215 000 with Claude Everett Con Sith Co as low bidder The Hou Tex Co will construct transit sheds for 379 961 Financing comes from revenue bonds in a 9 million program The project comes in 625 000 under the budgeted improvements and marks the first use of internal engineering plans in years by Howard Tellepsen chair of the commission
A simulated emergency tested firefighting first aid and rescue services of 16 ship channel firms during Fire Prevention Week. About 40 appliances participated in three stages uniting Rohm and Haas and Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown unit to join the drill reflecting lessons from the Amoco Virginia blaze.
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