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Ae Mltowa 1 PAUL LEMMOBt 1014 X. Commerce the fcruMon Theater to 'GREAT Thte coupon to goM for tMuto presented at the box lagbnwt SUN CLASSIFIED JU 2-8234 JU 2-3235 Golden of Southeast Ttxcn VOL. 42, NO. 197 BAYTOWN, TEXAS Tutfday, April I-1, 1961 TELEPHONE NUMBER: JU 2-8302 PtrCopy SENATE APPROVES ELECTION LAW STUDY SUN Spots Credit Union WENDELL J. Traylor, assistant manager of the Humble Employes Federal Credit Union for almost two years, has resigned to become assistant manager of Humble Em- ployes Federal Credit Union in Houston.

Clarence Caraway will replace Traylor. Another new employe of the credit union here is Katherine Scott. Banquet Meeting MOTHERS OF ninth graders at Baytown Junior High School will meet at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the auditorium to plan the annual ninth grade banquet. Mrs.

R. K. Saunders and Mrs. E. A.

Kelso are chairman of the event. Bridge Tourney BAYTOWN DUPLICATE Bridge Club will have a master point tournament at 9:30 a.m.- Wednesday in the Community House. 0. H. Dawson will direct.

Games are open to the public. Admission is 50 cents. Crosby Revival THE REV. Kenneth Woods of Trinity Tabernacle Assembly of God is speaking at 7:30 p.m. daily at Crosby Assembly of God, 14035 Crosby-Lynchburg Road.

Singers for the services are Johnny Cuthbertson and Jimmy Adcox, both of Baytown. Exchange Student GRACE METHODISTCnurch Methodist Men will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the educational building and will have on the program Dirk Hoffmann, 18-year- old international exchange youth from Germany, who will show slides of native German life and talk about the international youth exchange. Henhey To Speak W. C.

(POP) Swain, chairman of the Baytown Selective Service Board, will attend a briefing for board chairmen and chief clerks at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Houston. Maj. Gen. Lewis B.

Hershey, national selective service director, will be the speaker. The session will be held at the Building. Other members of the Baytown board are invited to attend. Conference Speaker E. G.

WARREN will address the joint conference of Petroleum Industry Electrical Association and Petroleum Electric Supply Association in Galveston Wednesday. His subject will be "Remote Control of Refinery Tank Farm Equipment." He is a senior electrical engineer in Technical Division at the Baytown Refinery. (Continued On Face 2) COLDER tonight and Wednesday with scattered thundershowers. Wednesday's Tides GALVESTON tides Wednesday will be high at 1:30 a.m. and 2:38 p.m.

and low at 8:04 a.m. and 10:42 p.m. ANNA MAE Johnson, who describes herself as "one of the girls" who look after the business of the Humble Employes Federal Credit Union, phones in a news item about the union Don Allen all smiles after being the honored guest at a party given by Baytown doctors Johnny Fox drops a "thank you" note in the box. Martha Hester has trouble with an Apache seems he is afraid of everything Mary Cantrell spends the day hunting for an opossom hiding in her house Marshall Haferkamp tells about the Sam Houston College raids and results. Dorothy Krejci and Glen Alice Taylor have an enthusiastic discussion about the merits of Texas University vs.

other colleges Wanda Burch drops a drawer but misses her feet Suzanne LcBlanc among those taking an interest in the art of jumping. Five-year-old Wayne Novasod breaks his arm Sadie Wilson makes a weekend trip Hazel and Bill Stegall generous with their trees Robbie Chandler gets excited about a ebon- robe i. Former Baytonian Dan nor makes an appearance on the local seme MiMrprt Moore I rrfiirns home after a stay in a SPRING GETS ROLLING SPRING MUST be really rolling when scenes like this pop up. The four Daughters of Divine Charity are (from left) Sister Sylvia, Sister Romauld, Sister Martina and Sister Paschat, testing their equilibrium in South Bend, Ind. Cancer Drive Leader Cites Useless Deaths By BLUE BEATHARD Half of the persons who now die of cancer in Baytown and Harris County could be cured if they saw a doctor early enough.

This was pointed out Wednesday morning by Frank C. Smith, chairman of the board of directors of Houston Natural Gas in a talk at the Community House to volunteer workers who will participate in the 1961 Cancer Crusade in Baytown. Smith, who will discuss the drive at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday on Channel 13, told the'group that only one out of eight cancer patients survived 15 years ago. Today, one out of three he said, but two of the three could actually be saved if cancer were detected early- "Early cancer can often be cured and this is what we must emphasize in the drive," Smith said.

Pointing out that funds are need- ed to finance research toward I bor-to-Neighbor march by Bay finding the cause and cure of cancer, Smith said the money given will someday result in victory over cancer. The spoken word and printed leaflet can save lives, today, however, by leading cancer victims to doctors before it is too late. Out of the present population of Harris County and at the current rate, one out of every four persons will someday have cancer, Smith said. This amounts to 300,000 cases, and 185,000 of these persons will die, unless a cure is found. B.

Wilson of Baytown introduced Smith, pointing out that he was one of the founders of the Texas Division of the American Cancer Society in 1946. Also introduced were Frank Turner, chairman of the Baytown crusade; R. L. Parker, head of the business solicitation section; and Mrs. E.

B. Thaman, chairman of the Neigh- town women the night of April 18. Mrs. Thaman explained the use of work kits to the women present who will participate in the drive. Anyone else who wishes to help may call her at JU 2-2138.

She also urged workers to view the television program about the drive from a.m. Wednesday. Smith had earlier told the women that by their participation in the crusade, each of them would probably save one or more lives from death by cancer through informing the people of cancer's danger signs. "There cannot be better in-- dueement than this for you to work in the campaign," he said. Nearly 2,000 persons died of cancer in Harris County in 1960, Smith pointed out This year, there will be 5,300 cases, including 3,500 new cases.

Of these, 1,800 will die and at least 1,100 will be cured. Unemployment Insurance 225 Eligible For New Pay A estimated 225 unemployed Baytonians may be eligible for extended unemployment insurance benefits. John Durham, manager of the Texas Employment Commission office in Baytown, said Tuesday. Beginning Wednesday, the Baytown office at 117 E. Texas will accept claims from workers who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits since June 30, 1960, and who may be eligible to file lor extended benefits under a new federal program which becomes effective Wednesday in Texas.

"Approximately 450 workers have exhausted their benefits in the Baytown area since June 30, 1960." Durham said. "However, it is doubtful if more than 50 per cent of this number will be eligible for the extended benefits." Many have secured jobs, he pointed out, while some have retired, some have withdrawn from the labor market and others have left the area. "Even so, this program will City, County Stalemate On Plumwood Ditch Work A stalemate has resulted in the' efforts of the City of Baytown and Harris County to come to an agreement about Plumwood ditch. Previously, city officials had talked with County Commissioner V. V.

(Red) Ramsey about the city assuming responsibility for the ditch in return for money the Harris County Flood Control District would spend in maintaining it during the next 40 years. The tentative amount of $7,500 was agreed on. The city planned to use the funds for concrete pipe to go into the ditch so as much of it as possible could be covered. Baytown would also maintain the remaining open portion of the ditch which extends to Cedar Bayou. Ramsey submitted the proposal to Commissioners Court but was told the City of Baytown would have to agree to cover the entire ditch immediately after the funds were given.

Without the agreement, the flood control funds could not be legally allotted. The City of Baytown could not make such an agreement. Even with the $7,500. it would not have nearly enough funds to cover the entire ditch. So the situation is at a deadlock, and it appears that neither party can met the other's requirements.

City Manager J. B. LeFevre said the most unsightly and dangerous portion of the ditch has now been covered, anyhow. The dry has just completed installing $15,000 worth of pipe in the ditch from Davis Road to Adams. Funds for this work came from what was left in the city's bond program for drainage.

initially provide many badly needed dollars to workers who have been unemployed over a long period of time," Durham said. The new program, known as the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act, became federal law April 8. All workers, including those covered under Texas law, and out-of-state claimants who may have filed against other states, including servicemen and federal employes, may be eligible for additional benefits. The additional payments are equal to one- half the amount they received or were entitled to receive before they exhausted their benefit rights- Persons who think they are eligible should visit the Texas Employment Commission office, Durham said. He emphasized that claimants must have exhausted all benefit rights under any unemployment insurance law, must still be unemployed, and must be available for work and able to meet the eligibility requirements under the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act.

The Texas Employment Commission is acting as agent for the United States-in paying the additional benefits. The temporary extended unemployment compensation program approved by Congress expires June 30, 1962. Youth Fair Is Slated April 21,22 The Baytown Youth Fair and Livestock Exposition, sponsored by a group of Baytown merchants, will be held Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22, at the National Guard Armory on North Main. A parade at 2 p.m. the opening day will kick off the activities.

Bozo the Clown, a television performer, will head the parade along with the 4H and FFA queens. The parade will begin at Thomas Circle, proced east on Texas Avenue to Main, and then go north on Main to the Armory. Former Highlands Resident Dies In Kernrilk John Quincy Adams, 91, of Kerrville. a retired farmer who operated a farm more than 40 years near Highlands, died Sunday night in Kerrville. Funeral services will bo held at 3 p.m.

Wednesday at Earthman Highlands Chapel with John W. Goodwin, minister of Highlands Church of Christ, officiating. Interment will be in White Cemetery. is snrvivod by his wi- Mrs. Ullio Adams of Hiflhiands; fix daughters, Mrs.

J. B. Hester, Mrs. Louise Blanton and Mrs. Pauline May, all of Highlands; Mrs.

Tholma ti a of Weldon; Mrs. Fannie Couch of Beaumont and Mrs. Bessio Turner of Baytown: one son, Howard Adams of Austin; one daughter- in-law, Mrs, Zelma Adams of Highlands; three brothers. Walter Adams of Austin; Rill Adams and Storrrvsn of two sisters. Mrs.

Lillian Mapols of OrrvVrt arvl Mary of Texas Crty. 23 grandchildren. All 4H and FFA members may participate in the fair, and any other young person from 9-20 is also eligible to enter. There will bo judging classes for all breeds of beef and daily cattle. A horse show will be held immediately following the parade.

Hogs, chickens, rabbits, goats and goose will also be exhibited. Projects in leathercraft, homo, canning will also he shown. Awards are to be presented in each division and class. A sportsmanship award, sponsored by Mrs. Baird's Broad, is planned, also.

Rides and concession stands will bo set up along a midway at the fair. Clyde Childors is parade chairman ami anyone interested in entering a horse or float in the par- ado is asked to contact him at JU handcraft, sewing. cake baking and Adolf Eighmann hears himself described as arch persecutor of Jews during World War II as trial gets underway in Jerusalem. See story on Page S. Branch Rickey Pittsburgh Pirate vice president, dies in a Pittsburgh hospital of hepatitis, diabetes and pneumonia.

Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana says situation in Laos Is "still delicate, dangerous and a long way from settled." President Charles de Gaulle says France is ready to discuss the future of Algeria with various sections of the Algerian population "notably with the of the rebellion." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer leaves Germany by plane for United States to meet with President Kennedy about the future of tbe Atlantic alliance. Moscow's officialdom keeps tight lip to Western newsmen concerning widespread rumors that the Soviet union has launched a man into space. Capt. Charles Elson. master of the Ill-fated British liner Dara which sunk with 190 feared tost, tells newsmen that sabotage Is "one of the possibilities" as to tbe reason for the tragedy.

Texas House Slate Affairs Committee sends to tuihcommit- tee a bill to trading stamps In Texas. Sponsors of bill say cause higher prices or poorer service to the customer. Houston Baptist Pastors Conference commends Beacon Hill Baptist Church ot Fort Worth for forcing State Rep. Tommy Shannon to resign for supporting brewery niri. Sharp policy dispute is going on within the Kennedy administration about how far to go in helping the Cuban refugees overthrow the Castro government, according to a New York Times report.

Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall urges Congress to authorize a national seashore park on Padre Island In Texas. Amid reliable reports of increasing rebel activity hi mountains of Cuba, there is growing indications that Castro regime may be quietly mobilizing anti- invasion defense again, observers say. UN spokesman says Katanga government has bJockrd all UN bank funds in the Congo city, following President Molsc Tshombe's threat of economic sanctions against UN unless Ethiopian soldiers hi Knbalo were replaced or ordered to give up their "act of aggression" against Katanga forces. Meeting Set Monday New School Tax Board To Get OK By JIM BOONS A special meeting of the School District Board of Trustees has been set for Monday, April 17, to appoint a Board of Equalization for the coming school year and to review the current policy book of the board. Four members of the equali2a- tion board! will be appointed at the meeting, probably three realtors and one engineer, at the request of trustees.

Supt. George H. Gentry and George Bennett, tax assessor collector, will make recommendations to trustees. School needs and bus service for the Craigmont Country Club Oaks subdivisions were discussed by trustees and a group representing that area during Monday night's trustee meeting. Harold Moore, acting as spokesman for a group of school patrons from the two subdivisions, asked trustees' what plans were in progress for use of land in that area already owned by the school district, and when something could 1 be expected in that area.

Moore said that with present growth continuing, the number of children would probably require a school within five years. Trustees agreed that school facilities should be provided when thn number ot elementary school- age children reaches approximate- 300. Figures showed there are about 74 children in that age bracket now living in the Craigmont Country Club area. Children from these areas are now assigned to Baytown Elementary School. They are taken there by bus.

Football equipment bids totaling $10,076 for junior high schools and high schools were accepted on a low bid basis from W. A. Holt Sporting Goods and The Sportsman. Inc. Trustees voted to send Athletic Director Dan Stallworth and Coach Pete Sultis to Corpus Christt to study bidding and specification procedures followed by a school there in asking for bids on athletic equipment.

The action came after Kim Warden of The Sportsman, asked that specifications be written more completely with less emphasis on brand names or more brand names included. Roy Fuller Trustee Chief Roy L. Fuller, now beginning his third year as a school trustee, is the new president of the School District Board of Trustees. He was elected after returns of the April 1 school vote were canvassed and the board reorganized. Dr.

W. H. Bridges is the new vice president; Knox T. Beavers, secretary, and Clifton Adams, assistant secretary. Roy Fuller succeeds La Vern L.

Fuller as presi- Lee College Plans Open House Friday Parents of Leo College and Robert E. Lee High School students will be honored Friday night at an open house program designed to acquaint parents with faculty members and the facilities offered at the college. Registration will start at 7 p.m. and the program is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.

Upwards of 2,000 people have been invited to the affair, and special efforts are being made to locate graduates as far back as 1935. Invitation is extended through the press to those who can not be reached by mail. Entertainment will feature Lee College talent and an award presentation to five outstanding graduates. The awards will be presented on the basis of service to the community and credit the graduates have brought to themselves, the college and the community. Faculty committees have planned entertainment, publicity, invitations, refreshments, and registration.

They are also organizing special exhibits from art, chemistry and biology classes. Brochures depicting the life and activities ot the campus and pictures of each department to show a portion of its daily work are being planned. dent of the board, a position usually held one year. Karl Opryshek who won over La Vern Fuller for Position 4 in the school election, was inducted as a board member along with Bridges, who is beginning a third three-year term. Outgoing president and retiring Trustee La Vern Fuller gave the oath of office to the two trustees.

Other retiring board officers for the past year were Roy Fuller, vice president; Edward M. Nelson, secretary, and Beavers, assistant secretary. Dr. J. T.

Horeczy and Opryshek are the remaining members of the seven-man board. A resolution thanking retiring Trustee' Fuller for his six-plus years of school service was passed by trustees. The resolution will be mounted on a plaque and presented to Fuller at a later date. Loft News By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tornado warnings for North Texas were issued Tuesday as two cold fronts collided with warm, moist air from the Gull of Mexico. Severe thunderstorms with several tornadoes, scattered damaging wind and hall storms were forecast fcr on area along and 60 on oithrr side of a line from Dallas to FaycHcvillc, Ark.

Deadline Wednesday-Wooster Area Improvement Bids Due Merchants contributing to tho fair are Kldon Rorry (American General Tsnuranooi, k. L. Krasoff Houston Lighting ami Power Houston Natural Gas. J.Tim Bailey. McOurg Sorvico Station.

First National Rank, Holiday Turner Chevrolet. John M. Harris CYmn- fV'Ir'pl -irl As- v.intc Star Harns Solons To Hear CV's Plea Evidence concerning alleged irregularities in the petitions calling for Channelview to be included in the San Jacinto College District election last year will be presented to Harris County state legislators at its weekly caucus Wednesday in Austin. Rep. Charles Whitfield of Houston, who met with a delegation from the Channelview Citizens Committee at his home Saturday, will present the information.

He said there is "overwhelming proof of direct violation of law" con corning the petitions. Signatures of 10 per cent of the qualified voters of the Channol- view district wore required for it to bo included with four other school districts in voting on creation of the college. Channolview residents voted more than 3-1 against creation, but tho overall vote was favorable. Channelview Citizens Committee has led tho drive to make it legally possible for the school district to be do-annoxori from tho col- lego. A bill which would make it possible has boon introduced in the Legislature, but Harris Conn ty legislators indicated they would not support it unless evidence of fraud could bo shown in tho election.

Supporters of tho college district in Channolviow argue that tho petitions woro chocked by tho cotin- 'ty tax assessor collector's office to accuracy, and were oerti- I fiod as having enough signatures, after any duplications were removed from the Tboy also that any dupli- ioaiirvn of signatures (instances where tho samo person signed tho 'rvot'lion more than woro probably flue to confusion of a M'f of petitions boing cir- at the same time to nonii- cwijrintcs far tb district hoard of trustees Harris County Fresh Water Supply District No. 8, which includes Wooster, Brownwood and Lakewood, will receive bids until 5:30 p.m. Wednesday for improvements of the water and sewage systems of the district. A $452,020 bond issue was approved by voters of the district Oct. 15, I960, to finance the improvements.

The district recently sold $350,000 of the bonds to finance the first portion of the work. Included in the bids Wednesday will be completion of a new 1,500 gallons-per-minute water well with turbine pump; construction of a Rnllon ground storage tank ind a 500,000 gallon elevated er construction of sanitary sewage collection lines and ap- purtenancos; construction of water distribution mains; a high service booster pump house and foundation; and prefabricated pump house and foundation. Water plant site piping nnd appurtenances and chain link fence arc also included in the bids which are broken down into nine projects. The bond issue was passed with an assurance by tho board of supervisors that it would not necessitate an increase in the present tax rate of J1.15 per $100 valuation. In a letter before the election, explaining the proposed projects to residents of the water district, it was pointed out by the board that there will be a substantial in- crease in main water lines connecting Wooster, Brownwood and Lakewood with the three water wells; extension of six-inch lines to provide fire mains for unprotected areas; correction of sewage system deficiencies in the area of Bayshore Drive in Brownwood; a lift station and sewer line for the lower end of Wesl Bayshore Drive; correction of gradients and reduction of infiltra- ition in Brownwood and Wooster areas: correction of sewage overflow condition near Bunirt Elementary; correction of sewage do j'iciencies in the Lakowood area, 'and improvements in tho sew- lace disposal plant.

State Solons Move At Fast Pace Today AUSTIN 100 Mis whipped through local calendar sessions in both houses today before the Senate began considera- Son of the controversial automobile safe driving insurance plan. An interim election law study committee would be created by one of the resolutions (SCR30) passed in the Senate. The State Democratic Executive Committee and the Republican Party recently recommended the Texas Election Code be given a complete overhaul. Sen. Tom Creighton of Mineral Wells, sponsor of tbe resolution, said the code's faults uot be corrected by a hasty patchwork job of separate bills.

Republicans claimed in November that because of the poorly-written law on ballot marking many presidential election votes were miscounted. Another measure approved in the Senate was a bQl (SB279) by Sen. Bob Baker of Houston calling for creation of a joint committee to study development of the state's beach areas. It would report to the 3563 Legislature. Most of the other bills, approved in the House and Senate dealt with game and fish matters, water districts, local courts and other uncontested matters.

In a joint session. Gov. Price Daniel told the members that instruction in Spanish should be broadened and made available to lower grade levels. He made his remarks in delivering the opening address of the International Good Neighbor Council's 14th General Assembly held in connection with the joint session of the Legislature. St.

Joseph School Not Affected By Integration Order Baytown could possibly have its first integrated school in September as the result of a desegration order by the Galveston Houston Catholic Diocese. A pastoral letter from The Most Rev. Wendelin J. Nold, bishop of the diocese, Sunday stated that "all qualified Catholic children, regardless of color, will be eligible for admission into the parochial schools existing in the territory embraced by Harris and Galveston counties." Father William Tinney, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Baytown, said the order will not affect St.

Joseph's Parochial School here, since the closest Negro Catholics are in the Barrett Station area. He said, however, that Baytown is in the area covered by the letter and that a Nepro Catholic in the parish would be eligible to attend the school. Catholic high schools are not included in the desegration order. It also does not include schools in the diocese other than those in Galveston and Houston counties. Sixteen Negro mission churches in the diocese have 38.734 members.

The nearest of these is at Highlands, Father Tinney said. One Catholic elementary school in Houston. St. Mary's, integrated its first three crados last yrar. Experience gained in the school showed that thr system of gradual integration is impractical, Bishop Nbld said.

HOLMES NEW MANAGER HOT.MFS. rieht. boon namod of tho l.owi* and fvvkor fn the Mo-k of Raj way at Rakor Road. Dirk Cooko, a native Bw.vtnnian, in assistant manager. RIMwm-cnttinir oorc- monio5 havo hoon wtwdnlod for 9 Wod- photo on page 8.

Lewis-Coker Store Opens In Lakewood Ribbon-cutting ceremonies at 9 a.m. Wednesday will signal the opening of a now Lewis and Cokcr Supermarket in tho 7200 block of Bayway at Baker Road in Lakc- Kennclh Dismang. president of the Woostor Chamber of Commerce, will snip the ribbon and preside at tlv brief ceremony which will open the ultra-modern supermarket to the public. Tho store, eighth in the Lewis and Cokcr organization which serves Houston, Pasadena and now the Baytown area, has square feet of floor space and was designed for "restful shopping." according to Eugene Lewis, sec- rotary treasurer of the firm. The interior is bright and well- lighted, with wide aisles.

Soft background music creates a pleasant atmosphere. Manager of the store is Glonn Holmes, who has been operating stores for Lewis and Coker six years. Dick Cooko, a lifelong Bay- tonian, is assistant manager. Automatic facilities have been installed to expedite the checking- out process and determine a shopper's bill rapidly and accnrately, according to Tho store will also have facilities OPENING, Page.