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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1965
Page
2
Ada Cecilia McNallen, 83, died Tuesday. Satterwhite Funeral Home in Kenridge will handle arrangements with the family. Funeral details will be released by the funeral home.
Obituaries list stops for Benjamin Saldaqug and Ignaditoba Gregory among others. Survivors include spouses, children, grandchildren across Houston Crosby Baytown and surrounding areas. Services led by Rev. A Jorsdan Pendleton and burial in local cemeteries follow religious rites.
Dr Albert Schweitzer known for medical feats in Lambarene is reported seriously injured. Mrs Eddie Going underwent brain surgery Tuesday at Methodist Hospital Houston and remains in critical condition after a Saturday car wreck in Schillenburg.
The Lee County school district and Lee College District named First National Bank of Baytown as their new depository under a two year contract awarded in June. The bank pledged securities totaling 34.4 million for school and college funds. transfers occurred at 1 am Wednesday at the banks with no actual money exchange.
Epsilon Psi chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma will hold a 7 p.m. Thursday meeting at Sterling Municipal Library with a program on Japan. Rough Riders will meet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lakewood Clubhouse.
A Houston area delegation from Harris and Galveston County bayshore communities urged Texas Highway Department leaders to complete Highway 146 to freeway standards. The group listed business and civic leaders from La Porte Seabrook Shoreacres Kemah Baytown and Bayport and noted ongoing right of way purchases and condemnation steps. They highlighted Bayport Baytown and Humble as key economic anchors and urged completion from Spencer Highway La Porte to Red Bluff Seabrook, stressing regional growth and the Bayport Port deep-water facility as incentives.
Funeral services for Andrew Jackson Ferguson 70 of 802 E Hunnicutt will be at 4 p.m Thursday at Earthman Chapel. He died at 3 a.m Wednesday in a Houston hospital. Survivors include a son A J Ferguson Jr of Houston a daughter Mrs Norma Ruth Hunt of Rosharon Tex seven grandchildren and three sisters plus two brothers. The Rev A L Jordan will officiate. Burial will be Cedar Crest Cemetery. Local officials and business leaders attend.
Baytown YMCA sponsors annual box chicken fry on Saturday September 18 at the Bay shore Rod Reel and Gun Club 3223 Minnesota. Eddie Huron and crew plus Baytown board fry over 1000 chicken halves to support the YMCA. Meals in a box and eat in only at the club hours from 1 to 5 plus tickets from YMCA board members or calling 583 1797. Donations will be...
Lee College Art Department will sponsor the Sam Houston State College Aj Department circulating exhibition of original Prints from Sept. 10 to Oct. 1. Jack McClendon, LC art instructor, announced. The show features 20 to 30 prints in black and white and color across woodcuts etching lithography collagraphy and more. Size ranges from 17 by 22 inches to 0 by 12 inches. The exhibition will be in the main building and the public is invited to view.
The Railroad Commission anticipates legal challenges as the new compulsory oil and gas lease pooling bill takes effect Monday in Texas. Gov. Connally signed the measure, predicting a new era of cooperation between oil producers and landowners. The bill rates as the era’s major oil legislation since 1949, with roughly 550 unitization agreements approved since then and about five percent of disputes.
Ignac John Gregory 78 died at 3 p m Tuesday in Crosby burial at Sacred Heart Cemetery with rites at Highlands Chapel and Sacred Heart Church Survivors include wife Mary Virginia, five daughters and several sons and a sister Victoria Gregory of Houston He had lived in Crosby 38 years and left 30 grandchildren.
Father of Mrs. Vera Hartt of Baytown died unexpectedly Wednesday at his home. Funeral services will be announced by Waller Funeral Home of Crockett. Survivors include a granddaughter, Mrs. C. J. Bailey Jr. of Baytown.
About 600000 New Yorkers on federal surplus relief face shortages as butter and cheese run out. Dried beans and split peas, routinely donated to welfare and low income families, are also temporarily unavailable. James J. Donnelly, head of the Bureau of Surplus Foods, says the supply has been exhausted.
Harris County justice of the peace Precinct 8 Judge Bud West oversees a case involving Fred Wicklop, public relations consultant for Humble Oil and Refining Co. based in Baytown. The proceedings focus on administrative or regulatory matters affecting local operations.
Funeral services for Benjamin Enoch Middaugh 74 of Baytown will be held Thursday at Earthman Chapel. He was a longtime Baytown barber who died Tuesday in a Baytown hospital. Survivors include his widow Vera Middaugh two sons Bill Middaugh of Houston and Bennie Middaugh of Montevallo Alabama five sisters and a brother along with four grandchildren. The Rev Edmund Pendleton will officiate with burial at Memory Gardens. Famed silversmith Paul Revere made copper boilers for Robert Fulton’s Clermont.
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