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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1961
Page
1
The Rev and Mrs Jack Peters will be honored at a farewell tea from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church as the minister resigns to move to Des Moines Iowa. Friends are invited through the press to attend the event.
Cooler with partly cloudy skies and scattered thundershowers expected today. Partly cloudy and cool Friday with tides in Galveston. Friday high tides at 12 46 a m and 12 13 p m, low tides at 4 46 a m and 8 16 p m.
Public Health Service convenes about 100 federal and state health officials to draft protective measures if nuclear fallout worsens. discussions cover food safeguards, milk processing, soil treatment, and dairy product options to maintain nutrition while reducing radioactivity risks.
Cedar Bayou shipping tonnage fell to 227892 tons in 1960 the lowest in a decade shell and crude oil dominated the load while Cedar Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel carried about half of Texas outbound traffic from Sabine to the Mexican border. The Army Corps of Engineers compiled the figures from districts along the Gulf Coast. Baytown officials seek Corps help to boost downstream tonnage as Cedar Bayou decline continues. The year saw Texas shipments totaling 117,034,410 tons with Galveston Mouth of the Houston Ship Channel handling about 50,196,596 tons.
United Nations delegates pushed for Moscow to refrain from detonating a 500 megaton hydrogen bomb. The political committee approved the appeal 75 to 10 with eight nations backing the measure despite Soviet opposition. Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Iran, Japan, Norway, Pakistan and Sweden sponsored it.
Ivo Andric, a prewar Yugoslav diplomat and Bosnia focused writer, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature worth 48300 dollars. The Royal Swedish Academy lauds his epic depictions of Bosnian history and human destinies, noting his historical trilogy and The Bridge on the Drina as key works.
A city wide committee to coordinate Know Your America Week activities in November 1925 was appointed at the Chamber of Commerce meeting. The panel includes Jack Youngblood Bob Chenoweth H Frank Goss Albert Nelson and others with ministers to promote events November 19 and a closing program at Robert E Lee High School auditorium. The effort calls for school club and church participation and a mayoral proclamation.
Houston leads as the largest port by volume, followed by Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Corpus Christi. The ranking lists the top Texas ports in order of cargo handled.
About 24 Baytown Police Department patrolmen and officers will take a Civil Service examination at 7 p.m. Monday at the Police Administration Building to qualify for appointment to lieutenant. Eligible are officers with two years on the force per Civil Service ruling. only two sergeants, Set. HH, Steeke and Sgt. E.R. Harty, meet the two-year experience requirement for reclassification. The lieutenant post was vacated by ROH Turner, promoted to lieutenant.
Baytown schools Friday will host professional and industrial visitors for the annual Business-Industrial-Education Day to acquaint students with the tree enterprise system. After hurricane losses, plans shifted to use one of the lost days. Norman D Ol ive is chairman and visitors report to Robert E. Lee High at 8 a.m. and other schools at 9 a.m.
Our World Today reports on a Soviet nuclear test impact and ongoing U S political concerns. Vice President Johnson visits Baylor Hospital as Speaker Rayburn's condition improves slowly. Democratic Senate factions clash over Kennedy policies amid Middle East unrest and Berlin-Germany diplomacy.
A group of contractors filed in Harris County district court to halt bid reception for the $15 million stadium home to the Houston Colts. They contend wage specifications exceed fair pay, seek court action to block bids and contract signing if bids proceed. Officials aim to start work within 24 hours after Monday’s bid opening, with earlier delays pushing completion to April 1963. The Houston Sports Association continues stadium work with a $900,000 project for use next year.
J R Cone 70, formerly of Baytown, died Sunday in a Waco hospital. A Page, Texas native and retired pharmacist, he ran a local drug store before moving to Waco in 1950 from McKinney. He was buried in Llano’s Masonic Lodge cemetery. Survivors include his wife and two daughters.
Baytown advisory board convened to map a master plan for drainage in five areas Stephen F Austin School Fiumwood Subdivision Oak Addition Harbor Street and Glen Arter Subdivision. It completed a street problems survey and submitted a report to the city council.
Five outstanding science students from Robert E. Lee High School were selected for lectures by Dr Edward Teller at Rice University next month. They are Dan Brian Rickey Rawley Ray Cook Helen Rose and James Mears. REL teachers will accompany them.
A weak cold front triggered heavy rains up to seven inches across South and West Texas, causing flash floods on highways and road closures near San Antonio and Pleasanton. No deaths or injuries reported, but vehicles were stranded as water rose, with rainfall and hail observed in multiple counties.
Cady a Toward Stickney reports Justice has retired and Stickney awaits death in the electric chair for the May 24 1958 Galveston Peach slaving case involving Mrs Shirles Barnes. Weaveal Mrustan noted saved from the chair 40 minutes before a prior death date last June 10. Austin lawyer Rob Laaney urged a U S Supreme Court justice to revoke the death sentence and review the case anew.
The Baytown United Fund campaign shows a Thursday total of 108 042.56 dollars as the drive aims for a 185 807 dollar 1962 quota to support 36 Red Feather agencies. Baytown agencies include Thrift Exchange Opportunity School Cerebral Palsy Center Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Health League Welfare League Child Care Center Baytown YMCA Red Cross and Community Chest administration. Countywide services feature Lighthouse for the Blind Faith Home Goodwill Industries and other Houston based programs.
U S troops cross into East Berlin as East German police briefly close and reopen Friedrichstrasse checkpoint known as Checkpoint Charlie. American tanks back the convoy then withdraw as East Germans threaten to halt the border. A lone unidentified American driver tests rights, aided by three U S Army jeeps, before the sedan is escorted in and later returns to West Berlin. Border closure follows.
President Kennedy called for restraint and economies to balance the next year’s budget. He urged postponing or trimming increases in programs deemed desirable and said the payroll should be kept to the minimum needed to get jobs done.
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