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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1962
Page
1
Baytown City Council will hold its annual budget hearing for the 1962-63 budget at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in city hall. The public hearing invites all interested citizens to attend as the budget proposes a 14 cent rise in the property tax rate from 1.72 to 1.86 per 100 dollars of assessed valuation.
Pete Hargrave discusses the United Fund Drive set to begin in Baytown. Visitors at Connally headquarters include Manne, Waddell, Mabe, Tidman, Heinrich, Rutter, Fonteno, Connally, Hunt, Crawford. Notes include Lane Ward’s thank you, Karol Walters’ name, Judy Dunn’s grades, Robert Richardson at Houston classes, and local scenes from county and Presbyterian church to deer park football coverage.
The Baytown Sun discusses the impact of Humble Oil's Baytown Refinery labor policy on 500 workers and East Harris County. It urges diversification to attract new industries, notes retirees will affect the economy, and urges residents to view the change as a challenge and opportunity for growth rather than calamity.
In a speech from Washington the former Army commander who helped integrate Little Rock Central High urges 10,000 protesters from all states to oppose federal court orders in Mississippi. Separately, Deputy Defense Secretary Gilpatric says the Army will expand its guerrilla-like forces by about one third to 6,649 over five years.
The report covers the United States selling Hawk missiles to Israel amid regional tensions, an assassination in Cuba and a coup in Yemen, leadership changes in Algeria, a North Korea prisoner exchange dispute, a Soviet nuclear test, Canada’s televised political crisis, and a stranded airliner survivor tale at Shannon. These items reflect Cold War era volatility and shifting alliances across Asia, Africa, and the Atlantic world.
In a rigorous scholarship race meet at Rat h, seven outstanding students, including Lee Migh and Selvel, demonstrated strong exam quality to reach finals. Winners from Roth and the median earned scholarships from their committees, marking notable achievements.
Baytown lawyer Robert L. Gillette was appointed to the Jefferson Davis Hospital board of managers to succeed the late A C Kraft. The six year term was unanimously confirmed by the Harris County Commissioners Court with Gillette praised by County Commissioner W V Ramsey. Gillette, a Baytown resident since WWI, is a partner in Reid Strickland Gillette and Ramsey and has led Civic groups in Baytown. He joins Frank Liddell on six year terms with other city and county appointees named to the board chaired by Ben Taub.
In a heavy downpour about 50 supporters gathered at John Connally’s Texas Avenue headquarters in Baytown to welcome the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. He urged voters to study the party platform, pledged a vigorous campaign, and stressed education, pollution control, and tourism. The Baytown stop accompanied a broader Harris County swing and the promise of a Holiday Inn motor hotel opening nearby later in the year.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Connally visited Baytown headquarters at 128 W. Texas Ave to meet East Harris County supporters. Baytown chairmen Ward and Walker arranged the stop as part of a Harris County swing.
Washington AP reports Congress approves a resolution endorsing Kennedy to act as he sees fit to block the spread of Cuban communism. The measure, debated after foreign policy talks, gives the president leeway to determine timing and means, with Senate approval already secured.
A midnight Sunday strike will halt all dock work at the Port of Houston after a terse edict from the International Longshoremen's Association. The order, issued from New York, covers from Searsport Maine to Brownsville Texas and directs no contract work. Shipping firms hurried to move cargoes out of the port by Sunday midnight to avoid disruption.
Baytown received nine tenths of an inch of rain on Wednesday keeping the monthly total at 2.684 inches and the yearly total at 23.56 inches. Port of Houston official Vaughn Bryant noted shipments continued, while cooler temperatures lingered.
On the road schedule lists Cedar Bayou at Texas City Blocker 6 30 p.m. Horace Mann at Galveston F Anstis 6 40 p.m. Baytown Junior High vs Texas City Frye Memorial Stadium 90 p.m. Highlands vs Galveston Lovenberg Cedar Bayou Stadium 4 30 p.m. Friday Baytown at Port Neches Groves Channelview at Houston St Thomme Jim Danbury 7 30 p.m. Crosby at Tarkington 8 39 p.m. Neenaa at Anshese 7 30 p.m. Jetson Telegraph Saturday Suiciiin Squad vs Pert Nechee ives Scranetal Stadium 7 09 p.m. University of Houston vs Tesas ASM at Biss flium 4 00 p.m.
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