Baytown News Roundup Of Meetings And Tests
Baytown Human Relations Council meets at 7 30 pm Tuesday at city hall. Port Arthur Troop 65 camped at Camp Reber in Baytown arriving for the Gander Port and staying through Sunday. They stayed at Coady Baptist Church and were hosted by R J Wilson and Weston Wheat of Port Arthur. Troop sponsored by St Marks Methodist Church of Port Arthur and its Women’s Club Topic: Mrs Lawrence French former Venezuela resident will present Islands Life program for Gulf Coast Bayou Women’s Club dinners resume 6 20 pm Monday at Holiday Inn. Mont Belvieu Woman Society of Christian Service holds rummage sale Sept 29 26 at Firemen’s Hall. Phi Delta Lambda Beta Sigma Phi meets 3 pm Monday at Mrs Hal Cook’s home Firemen’s tests: Civil Service exam for Baytown firemen at 6 pm Sept 29 at Sterling Municipal Library. apply at 3120 Wisconsin 9 am to noon Mon-Fri. open to men 40-35 years, starting pay 405 per month. Policemen tests: civil service exam for two Baytown police patrolmen at 6 pm Sept 29 at Sterling Library. apply at 3120 Wisconsin 5 am to noon Mon-Fri. open to men 21-35, starting 405 monthly. The lucky Monday shopper is Mrs R J Espinosa 2711 Grant Apt Houston. cash prize of 10. Promo sponsored by Baytown merchants.
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Port Arthur
Camp
Women's Club
Lawrence French
Venezuela
Islands
Bayou Women's Club
Holiday Inn
Baytown
Sterling Municipal
Baytown Civil Service Commission
Wisconsin
Baytown Police
Sterling Municipal Libra
Weather And Tides Briefing For Galveston
Forecasters call for a cloudy, unsettled pattern with scattered daytime thunderstorms possible Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures span from 73 to 88 degrees. Galveston tides show a high around 4:40 a.m. Tuesday with a low near 12:27 p.m. and minor coastal activity.
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Tanger
Community Memories From Around Towns and Schools
Around Towns shows local scenes with Ashbel Smith PTA guests Police Chief Blair Mann and staff at school activities. students study and wait for end of day while community figures like Darrel Davis and Mrs Ellis Smith engage in frequent duties. A youth rally notes Jimmy Clark’s remarks and Explorer Post 562 searches for outdoor tasks at Bolivar Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Timdleston
Ashbel Smith
Parent - Teacher Association
Blair Mann
D. J. Gautreau
Ashbel Smith School
L. Downing
Highlands
Brad Turner
Bill Dobbins
Darrel Davis
Patroctor
Han
Jimmy Clark
Ellis Smith
J.C. Johnston
Dale
Connie Wotitka
Roger Dickey
Hershel Resser
Mark Peel
James Patti Lansford
Stevie Underwwood
Requiblican
Paul With
Jimmy
Martin
Dwwight Dyer
Kenneth Startin
Tommy Trelozier
al Dyer
Gary Fuller
Ed Ferguson
Duval Stovall
Explorer Post 562
Bolivar’s Point
W. D. Stovall
Barney Webber
Rice Tote
Jerry
Sim- Tens
Dana
Houston
Quorum Split Delays Congress Ahead of Election
Washington AP report notes Senate leaders urge absentees to return as three failed quorums spark urgent action. Reapportionment battles dominate, with Dirksen pushing a rider to delay court rulings until 1965. House debates timing while seeking a workable path before Election Day.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Afontana
Coneres
House
Dirksen
Supreme Court
Baytown Stores Extend Thursday Hours in October
Beginning October 1, Baytown retailers will stay open Thursday nights and join an advertising contest sponsored by merchants. The Baytown Sun will publish details each Wednesday. A $100 cash prize will be awarded to a Thursday night shopper. prize tickets and promotional mailers are available at the Chamber of Commerce office. Merchants must pick up tickets by Tuesday and order additional mailers if needed. Details on how to win will be published with the contest announcement.
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Baytown
Binks
Baytown Sun
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
the Chamber of Commerce
Sun
From Eggs To Elbow Grease Four Baytown Boys
Four Baytown juveniles pelted a car with eggs near Morrell Harvard Intersection about 10 Bar Sunday. Police caught up with the youths after a father son police conference. They promised to clean Gene Peacock’s car, inside and out. Gene Peacock, former Robert E. Lee High School football player, was affected.
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Baytown
Gene Peacock
Robert E. Lee High School
Morrell
Harvard
Gene
Burglar Ransacks Office Thieves Busy Elsewhere
Police report numerous weekend burglaries including a break in at Frank Theilen’s office at 4520 Fainway where desks and cabinets were forced open and papers scattered though no items were taken. A coin changing machine was stolen from Park Street Washateria, containing about $40, and a car at Memorial Stadium had a tire and wheel stolen. A car at Lee College lot lost an air filter element while an incident on Dyer Street and other streets noted prowlers and thefts. Investigating officers name Harvey Frost Zach Booth and others.
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Cain
Washateria
Frank Theilen
Fainway
Harvey Frost
Park Street
Memorial Stadium
Ivy Smith
Zach Booth
Travis Arnold
Brianwood
Lee College
P. Kenny
N. Circle
Dyer Street
Asa Street
Texoma
Easthumble
Morrell
Frank W. Baileygan
12 Inch Cloudbursts Hit Texas Flooding Dallas Gets Heavy Rains
Deluges of more than 12 inches poured across Texas Sunday and Monday, triggering floods, rescues, and blocked roads from the Texas border to Dallas and Fort Worth. McKinney logged 12.10 inches and Carrollton 10.47 in 24 hours. Evacuations occurred in Richland Hills, Carrollton, and Brownwood as creeks rose and streets flooded.
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Associated Press
Texas
Dallas
del Rio
Mexican
Fort Worth
M. C. Harkiison
McKinney
Carrollton
Hishway
Bell Helicopter
Richland Hills
Carswell Air Force Base
Arlington
Texarkana
Junction
Mineral Wells
Boyd
Gunter
Justin
Pitot Point
Roanoke
Valley View
Gainesville
Muenster
Orphanage Marker Dedicated in Baytown Ceremony
A Confederate orphanage marker was unveiled near Baytown marking the Bayland Orphanage site from 1886 to 1888. The ceremony honored Louis Van Meldert for securing the marker, with Baytown and Houston leaders, Daughters of the Confederacy, and Children of the Confederacy participants attending.
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Baytown
Louis van Meldert
Bayland
Lacross
Missouri Street
Church of Christ
Bay
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Houston
Arpald
Bagland
DePelchin
Ralph W. Widener Sr
Texas
United Daugters of the Confederacy
Lum-Roark
Dabney - Goodwin
Dashiell - Huey
Children of the Confederacy
Vast Rescue Efforts Amid Nuclear Chamber Tragedy
Otto Grotewolit reports a tangle of elevator cable rescue attempts at the Neville test site where four men trapped since Saturday night remain in a 100 foot deep chamber. Officials say efforts to salvage them continue as plans to address the nation unfold. status expected early in the week. The Vatican council okays broad measures reducing bishops power, while De Gaulle begins a 20 day goodwill tour of South America. Negotiations edge toward averting a nationwide railroad strike after all night talks. Siamese twins separation success in Chicago brings rest, as Texas toll rises with 15 dead this week. A missing pilot, with two others ferrying three light planes, is sought over the North Atlantic. The Warren Commission awaits a 700-page report by midweek. Gen Thomas D. White Space Trophy honors J. Gard Copper for orbital flights last May.
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Neville
Ann
Kildahe
General Strike Cripples Saigon as Viet Nam Slips Toward Collapse
In Saigon a general strike crippled communications and city functions including port activity power and water supplies and transportation. In Qui Nhon rival student factions seized the radio station and besieged the province chief. Meanwhile Montagnard tribesmen trained by Americans reportedly killed 17 Special Forces troops and harassed advisers as autonomy demands rise in four provinces. Government forces suffered heavy losses with 230 casualties cited over the weekend. Premier Nguyen Khanh has only 38 days before a civilian council takes over, while a border battle left 29 dead 41 injured and 15 weapons seized.
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Saigon
Nam
Cal
Qui Nhon
Aml
Ban Me, Thuot
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
Secret Testimony Opens Grand Jury On Murders In Mississippi
Federal grand jury in Bisoni Mississippi hears secret testimony in the case of three murdered civil rights workers. Sheriff Rainey of Philadelphia and deputies Price testify about arrest records and the missing men. The probe involves many residents and a lengthy search led by authorities from President Johnson’s order to the discovery at a dam site.
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Bisoni
Miss
FBI
Neshoba County
Aes ¢ Rainey
Philadelphia
New York City
Meridian
Negra
Rainey
Auxiliary
Cecil Price
Price
Limi
Wagen
Mississippi County
Johnson
James Chaney
Philadelphian
Rites Monday For Resident Theodore Rankin Sr.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Earthman Funeral Home Chapel for Theodore Eugene Rankin Sr., 69, a Baytown resident who died Saturday night in a Baytown hospital. The Rev. Jim Brown officiated. Interment followed at Brookside Memorial Park Cemetery in Houston. Rankin, a retired barber and Central Baptist Church member, is survived by his widow Minnie Lee Rankin. one son Theodore E. Rankin Jr.. three sisters Ola Carpenter, Jean Simmons, and Tootsie Franks. one granddaughter Sharon Lee Rankin. and one niece Laura Entyett.
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Earthman
Tlome
Theodore Eurene Rankin Sr
Baytown
Jim Brown
Brookside Memorial
Park Cemetery
Houston
Earthman Fanera
Minnie Lee Rankin
Theodore E
Cystic Fibrosis Drive For Funds Set Tuesday
Beta Sigma Phi members will march Tuesday afternoon in Baytown and Highlands to raise funds for the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation. The door to door canvass is the third drive in the area, with captains listing locations and pickup routes. Donations can be left at Citizens Bank or given to any captain, with receipts issued upon request.
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Beta Sigma Phil
Baytown
Highlands
National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation
Harley Ponder
Tre Groovy
Citizens Nationank
Ponder
Man
Pender
Citizens Bank
Research Foundation
Sammie McPhail
Brownwood
Lawrence Farsman
Lakewood
James Huey
Wooster
Ben
Bank Robbery at Eustace Nets $12500, Suspect Escapes
Athens AP report says a man about 30 robbed the First State Bank at Eustace taking about $12,500 in small bills. He fled in a geta-way car with a companion, a likely olive green Studebaker, per Corsicana Police Chief Bil Armstrong. Officers say North and East Texas agencies track the escape.
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Athens
Tex
First State Bank
Eustace
Bil Armstrong
Corsicana
East Texas
Stoud
Bandit robs Baytown store again. Edwards linked
Curtis Edwards, 43, of Yupon, arrested after another Sum-Tex store robbery at 1302 Harbour. He is charged with robbery by assault in Justice of the Peace M. Brown's court. Witness Nora Frazier and Judy Jordan identified him as the same man who robbed August 4 and September 16. Police found cash in Edwards' home after a 12:45 a.m. Sunday arrest. Chief Blair Mann praised the investigation.
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Hiquor
Baytown
Harbour
Tau P.m
Curtis Eawards
Stave Atteadkants
Justice ’of the Peace
Judy Jordan
Waskey
Nora Frazier
Edwards
Ros
Frazier
S Merchant
Huntsville State Prison
Hal Ricketson
M. J Gi
Jom Rosamond
Billy Welch
Blair Mann
Researcher To Speak To Lions Club
W H Gammon director of research and development for Aland Gil and Refining Co and owner of United Carbon Co Baytown plant will speak to the Baytown Lions Club at Tuesday noon at Power. He will discuss Ashland and United Carbon division and his career in chemical engineering with United Carbon Houston. Vernon L Myers materials coordinator at United Carbon Baytown is program chairman and will introduce Gammon.
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W. H. Gammon
Aland Gil and Refining Co
United Carbon Co
Baytown
Baytown Lions Club
Power
Ashland
UnitedCarbon Division
Gammon
Ash- Houston
Aransas Ust
Riative
St Louis
Missouri Schrat Ashland
Lions Club
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Woman Society of Christian Service
PHI Delta Lambda
Beta Sigma ‘Phi
Hal Cook
Miriam
R. J. Espinosa
Grant
Espings
Galveston
A.n
Dane
Kleen
del Hip
Capitol Hill
Viside’ Lis
Bob Eckhardt
Carl, S. Smith
Harris County
Don Garti
Citizens National Tax Assessor
Eckhardt
Garriemment
Ison
Smith
Baytown League of Womens
Folers
Politi
Tom Farmer
Mon
Atown
Ile
Heart
Carl S. Smith
Bob Eckardt
DON Garrison
Citizens National Bank
Otto Grotewolit
East Cerny
Bertio Afer
Prudtot
Vatican
Charles de Gaulle
France
Caravcas
South America
Chicago
Walliran
New York
Kerrville
Europe
Kannaedy
White House
National Geographic Society
Gen. Thos D. White Space
Aairontut J. Garde Copper Dr
HuBert
Lasso
Grand
En Bryan
Toby
Wiklund
Craigmont
Pandernic
Colette Kilgore
Bayshore Motors
Lincoln - Mercury
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