The Baytown Sun from Baytown, Texas • Page 1

3 VOL 43. NO. 15 TREPHONE NUMKft: M24I02 13, TEXAS LIGHTNING STRIKE FORCES REL TO CL O.K. Dowswi O. H.

DAWSON, 68, a resident of Baytown since 1523 and retired employe of the development department of Humble Oil and Refining Baytown Refinery, died at 10 p.m. Sunday in a Shreveport, hospital. He lived at 2109 New Jeraey and turvived by his widow, Mrs. Josephine Dawson. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m.

Tuesday at Haynesville. La. BAYTOWN TEXAS Gab will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Tower to see game films of the football game and to make final plans lor the Texas University, of Texas Stag Banquet planned United Fund Ti BAYTOWN'S UNITED Flffl drive still needs $32,549 to reach its quota, E. C.

(Jack) Kimmons, drive chairman, said quota set for 1962 is $185,807. Dr. ArclMtr II DR FRANCIS ARCHER is ill at Gulf Coast Hospital. He may be transferred to a Houston hospital Monday or Tuesday. Conrtr Opponent CARVER HIGH School, winner of its football district jpll play Dunbar High Scnofll lOUufkin at 7:30 p.m.

semi-finals tidntt on sale at Carver lor 50 -for children and $1 for adults. Tickets at Ihe gate will be $1,50 per person. PoftnH Night CEDAR BAYOU Junior High Parents Night will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the school Parents will.go through day's i served In the cafeteria." Mixer MlwiM FLETCHER HICHERSON of 116 Cabaniss told police Saturday an electric mixer was talten from his car white it was parked at Lee College. School loordMMt SCHOOL TRUSTEES will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Monday at the School Administration Building lor the November meeting. Architect Lowell Lammers will report on building projects. Brownwood'Lakewoo 'Request Court Approves Levee; No Commitment Made By FBJBD HARTMAN (Sp) Harris County Commissioners Court Monday gave informal approval to a proposed levee to protect the Brown- woxl-Liikewood area but withheld any commitmentpending a complete study of the project. A group headed by E. V.

(Gene) Muller, chairman of the levee committee the Wooster Chamber of Commerce, presented the plan to the court. The committee asked that the court become the sponsoring agency of the project With Muller were Nelson Longnecker, Wooster resident, and Eddie Cox, who represents the Brown interest in Brownwood. Mrs. E. E.

Sheffield of Houston, whose family owns a strip of land jutting from the Brownwood peninsula, was also one of the levee backers, 1 When presenting the proposal to the court, Muller called attention to the fact that the Brownwood-Lakewood area liad not only sioner Kyle Chapman of Precinct 1 said he had received a similar request from the City of Shore Acres and sure me court would get requests from La Porte and Morgan's Point. For that reason, Commissioner; Chapman said, it was his opinion that any sort of levee construction should be considered on a county-wide basis. The court said it felt a recommendation was needed from county flood control engineer Harold suffered from by Hurricane tidewater pushed Carla but from fresh water caused by heavy rain during the storm. This compounded flooding conditions, he said. At one time during the height of the storm the Brownwood-Lakewood area was hit by Udes four and one-half feet above those recorded anywhere else along the Texas Gulf Coast, Muller pointed out.

Although the court favors- the proposed levee, County Commis- Cold Front Is Speeding HOUSTON 0. B. Ellis, -1 59. director of the Texas Prison System, is dead of an apparent heart attack. Ellis, who lived near the state prison in Huntsville, collapsed in his chair at the Houston Club Sunday night.

He died before he reached a hospital. Ellis was with eight other prison members of the prison board and staff members. They COLDER TOHIG1IT wHh cloudy min continuity Into Tuesday. TuMtoy's Tkks GALVESTON TIDES Tuesday will bf high at SrM. low at 10:54 p.m.

pjn. and Jensen, who could not attend the meeting because he was stranded somewhere between his home and the court house by floodwater caused by a heavy downpour Monday morning. The court also indicated it felt a feasibility study should be made of the levee proposals by the U.S Corps of Army Engineers after Jensen had made-his report. I was the court's feeling that i should-not make any commitment (See LEVEE; Page Texas Prison Boss Ellis Dies; Age 59 were at dinner when slumped in his chair. A prison board meeting, scheduled for this morning, wag postponed.

H. H. Coffield 1 of Rockdale, chairman of the board, said Ellis' assistant. Jack heard, will take on the duties of acting director. Ellis is, survived by wife, Gertrude, and a son, John Ellis, 29 sports editor of the Lufkin News.

Funeral were complete early today, REACHES FEET UPWARD New Humble Tower Part Of Expansion Program One of the world's tallest super-' fractionation towers has been put into operation at Humble Oil and Refining Baytown refinery. The tower, 14 feet in diameter, stands 220 feet above the ground and functions as an intermediate processing step between the refinery's naptha rerun unit and the paraxylene and aromatic distilla- is a major link in tion units. The tower current expansion of facilities which will make Humble the largest producer of orthoxylene and wraxylene with an annual produc- ive capacity of 25 million gallons orthoxylene and 115 million gal- ons of paraxylene. JOYCE BENNETT, daughlu of Mr. and Mrs.

R. Burnell Bennett, 1903 Tennessee, has been chosen as song leader for members of the freshman class in her dormitory at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass Miss Bennett is a graduate of Robert E. Lee High School Wilma Ehrhardt of Baytown among 35 juniors and seniors at Lamar Tech named to Who's Who Among Students American Universities and Colleges. A junior English major, she is a memtw of the Freshman Spirit Committee and is recording secretary of Al pha Chi Omega sorority. She also it treasurer of her junior class, secretary treasurer of Gamma Delta and was a homecoming queen candidate.

Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ehrhardt of Baytown. Mary Lou again with a Chapter here Carter affiliates Beta Sigma Phi Chris Myers is busy with plans for "Know Your America Week" next week This a month of special weeks by tbr way.

Baytown observing "Vwith Appreciation Week" and the "TB Associntion Golden Anniversary Week" Kathryn Holland better after a tick siege. Murray Rofen, former Baytwvn Insurance man now of Little Rock enttrfahvd a jrrmip of friends at hmch Monrtay. In thf party Nelson McF.lmy, Robert L. Mayw Al Ctaytwn WBrrjr This new unit was completed and put into operation in record time of 10 months from design stage to production including the time lost during and following Hurricane Carla. A substantial portion of the research that led to the development and manufacture of these two petrochemicals was conducted at the Baytown Refinery.

Orthoxylene is the base stock for manufacturing phtalic anhydride which is used in making paints, varnishes, dyes, flavorings, cosmetics and in compounding plastics. Paraxylene is used in the manufacture of synthetic fabrics. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Light snow and rain whipped down on the Texas Panhandle Monday as a cold front sped deep into the state and brought rain to scattered areas. The new outburst of winter weather came on the heels of a front that shortly before dawn extended from Paris on the Red River to Del Rio on the Rio Grande. Heavy downpours of rain were touched off ahead of the front.

A 4-inch rain soaked Falls City, 50 miles south of San Antonio, early Monday while 14 streets in Houston were closed by high water during the early morning hours. More than 2 inches of rain fel. at Houston late Sunday and early Monday. Skies were partly cloudy to Coffield said he collapsed about 9:30 p.m. An ambulance took the administrator to Houstonls Methodist Hospital, where a doctor said he was dead on arrival.

Ellis came to ihe Texas prison system from Tennessee on 1 1S48. He was manager of the She! by County Prison Farm in Mem phis wHen he. got the Texas job during'the administration of Beauford Jesjer. "He brought the Texas-prison system up to one of the best in the nation," Coffield said. "Ellis has rendered outstanding service to the State of Texas." Friends at Huntsfille.said Ellis had had a minor illnew for abou a week.

He spent Satuiflay in bee with a fever. BRICRt GO TUMBLING -BULLETIN- MOSCOW (AP) United States and Britain today askld Soviet Uttion to return fo Geneva There was no immediate information here as to whether the Russians will accept the offer. Bujt last the Soviet "resumption was proposed in similar notes delivered by American and British messengers to the Foreign Office. to rule out such a possibility. He said a unclear test ban treaty must be worked out within the framework of a general disarmament agreement.

cloudy over the state with scattered showers and tnundershow- ers and a few patches of fog and drizzle along and southeast of the front. Occasional light rain mixed with light snow was reported at Amarillo. Optimists' Youth Plans Get Underway Tonight Baytown Optimist Club Monday ijzht will begin its annual Youth Appreciation Week observance with "Family Night" at the Tower. A dinner will be held at 7 p.m. or club members, their wives and children.

Mayor Al Clayton has officially proclaimed the Youth Apprecia- ion Week in Baytown. The Optimist Club will climax the week with a giant party Saturday night 'or youngsters. Announcements will be made of the Junior Optimist and Junior 3pti-miss of the Year. A typical boy and girl from these Junior dubs has been elected. Awards will be presented the winners.

Among the guests at the party will be the junior club members, teen-age baseball teams, their managers, Opti-Mrs. Cluh mem; Tl hers and others who have helped the Boys Work prop-am of. the Optimist Club. Youth Appreciation Week is observed annually by the 2,000 Optimist Clubs in the U.S. and Canada.

The observance began seven years ago when a group of North Carolina Optimists originated a plan of taking a positive approach toward youth. To counteract publicity given the minority of juvenile delinquents, the Optimists devised "Youth Appreciation Day" to stress the majority of good youngsters. This developed into International Youth Appreciation Week in 1957. Abraham Ribicoff, U.S. Secretary of Health.

Education and Welfare, has commended Youth Appreciation "Optimist International's sponsorship of Youth Appreciation Week seems to be an expression oi adult confidence that the coming generation will be equal to the formidable tasks which confront it" he said. "I share this confidence," he continued. "My own belief that the future tor today's youth will be bright fe based on literally hundreds of examples I hwe seen ot the way young people tntoy are eager to loam, fo expand their hwiwms. fo partTrifwtr civic affairs, to eortribtttifn iwnrtwn Five Califomlans are Injured when tliclr private plane crashes, and btirnK near Houston residential area after takeoff. Two fires at Edna within 24 hours cause estimated $225,000 damage and town fire- marshal nrwrn is to blame.

Spwikpr Sam Rayburn's periods o( mental clarity arc Anthony 3. Drexel Bkldle, U.S. ambassador to Spain, dies at Walter Revd Army Hospital. Baylor's mascot bear cub from blow on head during hectic kidnap plot, University of Texas says. Spacecraft trouble delays attempt to orbit chimpanzee and virtually wipes out United States for arMting man year.

REL 'Prof President Of STAT A. D. Davis, biology teacher at Robert E. Lee High School, is the new president of the Science Teachers Association of Texas. He was elected at the eighth annual conference of the Advancement of Science and Mathematics Teaching at the University of Texas.

STAT meets jointly each year with the Texas Council of Teachers of Mathematics. At this meeting some of the nation's leading science and math people discuss latest developments in their fields Davis taught school in Leander prior to Robert E. Lee. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and has done graduate work at the University of Houston and Southern Methodist University. He teaches a biological science curriculum pilot course at REL a teaching plan which started in the fall of 1960.

REL was one of several high schools chosen across the nation for the pilot course. Financed by the National Sci ence Foundation, this course is climaxed by an intensive six weeks "block" study in the las semester of the school study. Da vis said his biology class has mi crobes for its block study. They do intensive research on the growth, nutrition and interaction of microbes. From the beginning of the school year the students prepare for the last six weeks of research and special expert ments.

The teaching plan eventually will become a permanent curri culum outline for science classes Davis xtiid. Former V. M. Mokitov Into depths of Sovfrt society an If IWN! Iwi'a woiniwl Into a United Na me force te end of Katanga Province are ex- pwtfd wlfli CVwwrll Total nf rtk- Mi SEAMEN BOOST UF Chimney Hit, CouW Collapse A shaky stack of bricks that is keeping the chimney at Robert Lee High School from plunging through three floors after a lightning bolt severely damaged the structure about 9 pan. Sunday during a thranderstorra.

Nearly 2,000 students got; forced holiday while school otfi- cials surveyed the damage and' tried to devise a way to keep the stack from collapsing. Some students showed tip or classes at the regular time and Wfere sent: hone. The bolt struck the 60-fpot-fiigfi chimney about sfac feet below the top. It serves the heating system in the basement. W.

E. (BIH) Broyles, consulting engineer for the school district, Monday morning was determining whether to ask for bid? tff tempt to tear down, the itack with school workers and help from eon- tractors. No one would estimate the extent of damages, but private guesses placed it at about! 510,000. If the top of the stack falls through the one-inch thick roof, damages would go as high as $100,000, observers said. A circular area around the chimney: has been destroyed byi falling School workmetfg Monday; morning interlaced heavy boards across the roof of the building in an effort to limit the damage should the stack collapse.

Heavy rain Monday morning hampered workmen. George H. Gentry, superintendent, and Holly McLemore, high. school principal, said they hoped classes could resume Tuesday, Hit it was possible classeipiioakl lave to be dismissed another day until the danger was over. The stack is directly above a classroom area near the center of the building and the southwest, section Of the -administration offices.

The boitlproom is directly bejojk- the stfBk tbe stack in one piece, it feared It coold go all the way to the basement- through the second floor classroom area and the administration offices on the first floor. The damaged stack was discovered shortly after 6 a.m. Monday by G. E. (Moon) Mullins, head custodian.

He said the first floor was wet where rain had seeped through the damaged roof. According to Humble Oil and Re'fining Baytown Refinery, gauges. Baytown had 2.25 inches of rain during the weekend most: of it during 1be electrical slonn from 9 p.m. Sunday 7 a.m. Monday.

The stack, which has been struck by lighting several times in the past and most recently two years ago in the summer, is not protected by any kind of lighting rod. Roy Fuller, president of the school board, said the possibility of erect(See WEATHER, Pages) W. A. SCOTT, United Fund solicitor for merchant seamen in Baytown, congratulates these crew members on the Esso New Yorker for the fine showing in contributions. John Molls, right, is a machinist on the ship, and Ralph Durdle, middle, is chief mate.

Molls added about $15 more to his pledge after he heard about the hurricane damage in the Baytown area, Scott said the merchant seamen living in Baytown always make an outstanding contribution to the- United Fund. This is the third year the seamen have gone over the top in their quota. Ready For 'Turkey Day 1 Game Steer, Aggie Fans' Banquet Nov. 20 Friends and former students of Texas and the University of Texas will gather in an "uneasy truce" next Monday night, Nov. 20, as they celebrate the second annual Stag Banquet prior to the traditional Thanksgiving Day football showdown.

The Longhorns will be priming for a victory to complete an all- winning season and a probable national championship. The Ag- gies will be looking for i-evenge to ease a painful memory 21 years old. Festivities will get underway at 6:30 p.m. with a social hour, during which the game film will be shown. The banquet follows promptly at 7:30 p.m.

with the program apt to start at any time. old adversaries sent out over 150 non-combatants to last year's initial outing. Aggie President James A. (Bifsy) Davis and Texas Proxy Bob Perry arc expecting 250 for this renewal of the fpud. P.

HamWin. president of the Southern Electric Supply Fred Hartman, publisher of Thr- Baylown Sun. who will ho Hskcrl to add his romrvtrnis to the affair; Tim Nolan and Bob Byron, the "Tim and Bob" team from Houston Radio Station KPRC, who will be asked not to comment: and Bill Zak and Dewey Comp- lon, both of Houston Radio Station KTRH. Four 50-yard line seals for the Thanksgiving Day game will be away. Tickets to register for the prize are on sale for SI will speak for while Peter Solito, Houston will hurl the Texas barbs As a special feature the Houston through ilio Club.

The nrr does not have In ho present. Thr Slag Banquet tickets are $3.50 each. AKK' exes selling the tickets are Davis. Wade Hayncs, John Seligman. Jim Read.

J. B. Ethridj Mngourik, Pete Bill Hargis. Jim Bond. Golla, Connie Oilplant is.

Jess of Tr.vis 1ms everybody ticKits excep Royal. Royal claims he is too busy trying to figure a way to letter James Sax ton. Mrs. Barnett's Rites Set Tuesday Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday for Mrs.

Mertie Odell Bamett. 45. of 1112 Parkway, who died at 7:25 p.m. Sunday in a Baytown hospital. A native of Berring, Mrs.

Barnett moved to Baytown in 1923. Services will be held at the Centra! Assembly of God Church with Rev. Lonnie Bowlen, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Blurt Creek T-. town; three sons, Ruben Bryan and Gordon Wilburn Barnett of Baytown: father.

Allen P. Gieger; one brother. Wilburn Clovis Gieger; one sister. Mrs. A.

A. Arnett. all of Baytown. Drive On To Detect Diabetes Baytown's annual detection drive for diabetes began Monday at the public health office, 3012 Market. Sponsored by the Baytown Diabetes Lay Society, the tests consist of taking blood samples from Hie lingers.

The detection drive is free. Everyone is invited 10 participate, Mrs. L. B. Bright, president of the Diabetes Lay Society, said.

Mrs. Bright pointed out the people likely to have diabetes are those who are past 40, overweight and who conic diabetes poured. Also, women are wore likely to get it than men. The earlier diabetes is detected, the more easily it can be controlled, Mrs. Bright continued.

Tlk' most usual syniptons of dia- belt's iiiv excessive thirst, excessive urination, hunger, loss of hi, easy tiring, slow healing of cuts and bruises, changes in vision, intense itching, pain in fingers and toes and drowsiness. What is diabetes? It takes place when the. body cannot make full use of all the foods that are eaten, such as the sugars and starches. It is when the pancreas does not secrete enough insulin to turn these foods into energy or to store them for future use. These foods increase the blood sugar until thp sugar passes through the kidnovs into the from families in has already ap- Purl M.

Lyons, Resident, Dies one daugh- Purl Monroe Lyons, 75. of "08r Cemetery at Soda Tex under direction of Paul U. Funeral Home. Mrs. Barnett is survived AftM Club will present its now; husband.

R. B. Barnrtt of ia rr Miss Linda Dnisv Rsrnrtt and rangrmmfs pmto wffl topii SM Bwwtt rf faf-fry SartUman He is survived by JoiK-; a Mvs. A Garreti; three liient, died at in Kyte Lyona I Bay UAvn hospital. Lvcns- one brother, re B.

Lyons; Five sisters, Bfiytowr, Rr- K. H. Stormer. Mrs. M..