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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1963
Page
1
The Horticulture Club will gather at 9 30 am Wednesday at the home of Mrs E N Neville 807 Elmworth for a horticulture meet. Weather outlook partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with widely scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Galveston tides for Wednesday at 10 38 am and 10 39 pm.
William Willington Parker, 34, of Baytown, died Monday in a hospital after 40 years there. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Earthman Funeral Home chapel with burial in Memory Gardens. Survivors include widow Margaret Parker, two daughters, parents, siblings, and grandchildren. Parker worked 34 years at Humble Oil and Refining and captained the first Gander football team at Robert E. Lee High School.
Roy K Nough visits town to get acquainted during a busy morning. J B LeFevre returns from Labor Day with fish tales. Leo Frost takes on a new role over the weekend. Mrs W C Underwood offers information. Rufus Hon eycutt dismisses a rumor. Sunday blue laws are discussed. W B Hooks arrives in a new car at the cafe. Robert Back Hill shares early morning fish yam chatter and a lift home. Avy and Gladys Gould describe a wonderful vacation. Elder John Kilgore prepares for an interview. Oscar Becker, 802 S Circle, remains a patient in Room 10, Bay Town Hospital. visitors now allowed per his wife. He is recovering from a heart ailment.
Humble Oil and Refining Co. paid its annual school tax early with a 30,0000 receipt Tuesday to Tax Assessor George L. Bennett. The September payment starts four monthly installments toward the 1963 tax bill, with October November and December payments expected. The full 1963 bill rises due to higher levies adopted with the 1963-64 budget. Last year Humble’s school tax was 2,876,460. The remainder will be due in January.
Lee College faculty take a brief holiday before registration on Monday and Tuesday. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week with time permits issued, waiving transcripts for freshmen who meet test requirements. Tests for the School and College Ability will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday and 6:30 p.m. Monday in the college auditorium. Transfer students need college transcripts. those with 2 college hours may skip the test. Registration runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, with first classes September 32 and an expected enrollment over 1,200.
GCWU Open House attracted about 250 Bayton ians to the new Coast Industrial Workers Union office near Bay Theater. The union, certified by the National Labor Relations Board as bargaining agent for Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown Refinery staff in July, listed officers Roy D. Kilough as president M C Harris and James H Parker as vice presidents C B Hargrove as secretary and Billy N Young as treasurer R L Potter chaired the hospitality committee with G C Grube H L Herrington s and J T Irvin as members.
Gov Wallace ordered the Tuskegee public school closed to postpone the fall term amid federal desegregation pressure. Helmeted state troopers and mounted deputies blocked entry to the 12 grade school as teachers and students were turned away, with no federal intervention seen yet.
Former Baytown mayor R H Red Pruett was appointed to the Port Commission by Harris County Commissioners Court on a 4 to 1 vote. Pruett, who served 12 years on the Baytown City Council and as mayor, aims to help Harris County grow the Port of Houston into the largest port. He replaces John Turner on the four member panel.
Baytown home owners and business for a monthly survey for commendation recipients tied to the summer cleanup campaign led by Baytown City Council and Park Committee chair Velma Ansley. Selection panel includes Mrs. C H Bone Robert Klaus and others with at least four residential commendations and one industry plus one independent business named.
The era's outlook includes a National Planning Association forecast of more jobs and longer time horizons for the U.S. economy over the next decade. Internationally, Canada's Social Credit faction splits at a Quebec convention while Sino-British tensions address Hong Kong. Domestic policy debates surface in Kennedy era remarks on Viet Nam and trade, with Javits criticizing short term fixes.
About 11,612 Baytown District children and 435 other youngsters begin classes Tuesday at St Joseph's Catholic School. The Baytown district plans a teachers meeting Wednesday at Robert E. Lee High School with a 9 a.m. start and a morning reception hosted by the Chamber of Commerce Retail Merchants Association.
School officials updated the driver license exam schedule with added testing days. Baytown and La Porte sites expanded hours to include evenings, Fridays, and Saturdays to handle higher workloads, while St. Joseph's and St. Jasper's expanded staff and facilities plans.
Mrs Hazel Lee Lawhon of Baytown died early Tuesday in a Baytown hospital. She worked for Mitchell State Farm Insurance in Saytown and is survived by husband W E B Lawhon, daughter Athol Price, son William Keith Lawhon, mother Filda Keith, father Charlie Keith of Texas, two brothers Pete and Edwin Keith. Grandchildren Tony and Latty Price. Funeral 4 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Baptist Church. Rev A L Jordan to officiate. Burial in Memory Gardens of Baytown Cemetery. Earthman Funeral Home directed. Mrs Lawhon lived in Baytown about 20 years.
A devastating two car crash on rain slick Highway 146 near Dayton kills ten people including Carl and Matt Odom and their children Keith 6 and Cary 13. Only Troy Lynn Odom survives in fair condition. The other victims include four Lufkin natives in the Chevrolet and two Pasadena residents among the dead. Police report the Chevrolet crossed center line in rain as the Buick headed north. driver unknown. Further details on the wreck follow on Page 2.
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