The Baytown Sun from Baytown, Texas • Page 1

Baytown Engineers Saluted In This Edition The Baytown Sun Invites MR. AND MRS. FRANKLIN WAITS 1112 Jones to the Brunson Theater Good For Two Tickets When Presented At the Brunson Box Office This Pass Good Through Feb. 27 Now Shewing "THE REIVERS" Starring Steve McQueen aptoton OVER 50,000 READERS EVERY DAY YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER Vol. 48, No.

130 TELEPHONE NUMBER: 422-B302 Sunday, Feb. 22, 1970 BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520 Ten Cents Per Copy SUj, 'OTS Draftee. Tickets L. Q. Arnold of 803 Briarwood said Saturday he would be "glad to pay" parking ticket fines for Baytown area draftees whose cars were tagged Friday while they were at the Houston induction station for physical examinations.

Lodge Honor Sel CEDAR BAYOU Chapter No, 1), Order of Eastern Star, will honor members of Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge No. 321, ai 6 p.m. Saturday with a covered dish supper at the lodge hall on Ferry Road. At lend Funeral MR. AND MRS.

E. H. Howell of 710 E. Humble Friday attended graveside services for Mrs. Howell's grandmother, Mrs.

Carolyne Hooks, 100, who died Wednesday in Houston. Interment was in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Beaumont. Tapes Gone F. J. SCHILEIN, 3301 Minnesota, reported to police that a radio and five lapes were stolen from his home between 10 a.m.

and 10 p.m. Friday. Tola) value of the loss is $105. Cycle Knees Sel MOTORCYCLE RACES will be held starting at 1 p.m. Sunday at the race track on North Main 12 miles past the Interstate 10 overpass.

Admission will be $1 per person. Weather And Tides CLEAR TO PARTLY cloudy and root with slight chance of showers is the Baytatvn area weather forecast for the weekend. Temperature range expected, lower 40s to lower 60s. MORGAN'S POINT tides for Sunday: Highs at 4:01 a.m. anil 2:31 p.m.; lows at 4:01 a.m.

and 4:13 p.m. Monday's tides: Highs at 4:07 a.m. and 3:25 p.m.: lows at 4:19 a.m. and 4:43 p.m. SUN DIAL: Sun will rise at 5:55 a.m.

Sunday and set at 6:16 p.m. Monday: rise at 6:54 a.m. and set at 16 p.m. BAYTOWW TSPE CHAPTER CHIEFS OFFICERS FOR the town Chapter of Texas Society of Professional Engineers this year are led by Tommy Cook seated, center, who is the 1970 president. Sealed on Cook's left Is the internal vice president, Les McDonald, and on his right is the external vice president, A.

K. Zubik. Standing left to right nreThad Fcnnema, past president; Walt Morgan, treasurer; A. B. (Fred) O'Brien, secretary, and Kerwyn Pictsch, state director.

ENGINEERS' WEEK Schedule For Bond Talks Set A schedule for speakers who will explain the city's proposed million capital improvement bond program to be voted on March 17 was announced Saturday. The schedule: Feb. 24, Ike D. Hall, Human Relations Council, 7:30 p.m., Community Center. Feb.

25, Elcion Berry, Senior Citizens Club, 2 p.m., Community Center. March 2, Rick Peebles, West Baytown Kiwanis Club, noon, Wyatt's Cafeteria. March 3, Dave Moore, Alamo Parent-Teacher Association, noon, Alamo Elementary School. March 4, Bill Hartman, Dirt Gardeners Horticulture Club, 9:30 a.m., 5105 Tamarach. March 5, James Csuley, Ki- Club, noon, Tower.

Same jdate, Ernest Hauser, Harris County Community Action! group, p.m., Aapurtment 2-1, Sam Houston Courts. March 6, Gordon Smith, Chamber of Commerce lunch- THE MAYOR MAKES It official Engineers Week In Baytown Sunday through Saturday. T. E. (Tommy) Cook, president of the Baytown Chapter of the Texas Society of icon, noon, Holiday Inn.

Professional Engineers, met with Mayor Glen Walker this March 9, W. J. (Bill) Strick- week for the proclamation signing. ID tribute to the national, Our World -f-WASIHNGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvln R. Laird Friday predicted the Nixon administration's $71.8 billion Pentagon spending request Is such a "rock bottom" budget thai Congress will likely increase It, The budget Is some 15.2 billion under estimated spending this year about the amount Congress cut in appropriating defense funds In 1939.

ORLEANS (AP) District Attorney Jim Garrison, who sought to prove a conspiracy was behind the death of President John F. Kennedy, Friday was assured of another term in office when his lone opponent for re-election withdrew from the race, Phil Trice, a Republican, gave no reason for abandoning his attempt to unseat Garrison. WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon Friday released a Cabinet task force report which recommends a shift from Import quotas to tariffs on foreign oil. However, the task force report admits that this shlfl could carry such heavy price tags ns abandonment of basic security concept- rintioniil self-reliance for petroleum. The President, in releasing the report, postponed Indefinitely any action on It, pending congressional hearings and international consultations.

(AP) A special commission Is scheduled to submit ils proposals fur shifting to an all-volunteer armed force fo President today. Sources familiar with recent deliberations of the 15- niemher commission salil they understood the group favored a range of costing up to $4 billion a year more. The proposal is expected to draw sharp criticism from military professionals and Pentagon ofJIclals. ler, National Secretaries Asso-j state and city observance. The Sun publishes its Engineers iciation, 7:45 p.m..

Citizens I Week supplement in itils weekend edition. Annual Youth Fair, Rodeo Set April 10 -fCHICAGO (AP) Five antiwar activists, convicted earlier In the week of Inciting riots during the 19G8 Democratic National Convention In Chicago, Friday were sentenced to five years in prison, fined $5,000 each and ordered to pay the costs the prosecution. Judge March 11, Martin, Ho-) Ju us Hoffman Two Killed In Car Wreck At Tunnel Increase Over 1969 4,829 Eligible To Vote In Chambers Election ANAHUAC (Sp) A total of voters hove registered in Chambers County for 1970, Tax Assessor-Collector Sherwood Blair announced. This marks an Increase of 271 over last year's 4,558 voter registrants, The peak year for voting in Chambers County was reached in 19C8 when a total of 5,057 registered. The order of Uic ballot for the May 2 primary election will be set soon, according to Guy Cade Jackson III, outgoing Democratic Executive Committee chairman and attorney in Anahunc.

Jackson will not run for re- Bank. March jSlrahan, Tower. 10, Dr. Richard D. Lions Club, noon, i lary Club, noon, Tower.

MR. AND MRS. E. E. Fisher celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary Barbara Elkins gels a new hair style-Fair and Rodeo Parade, Leon Daniell talks about by the Baytown Fair his clocks Hazel Bays 1 Association, will be- held Fn- rnakes plans to attend April 10.

Stocking Revue. Ail organizations are invited participate and prizes will be in various categories, according to Mrs. Fred 'Huey, parade chairman. Congratulations to Robert Keliey new mascot to the Volunteer Fire Department, District 3 Ginny Osterhus does some gardening Connie Bergus adds a ruffle to her costume for the Striking Revue Helen R-awe greets l.iz Carpenter in Houston. Mrs, Rawt went to school with Mrs, Carpenter at HOUSTON AP) Gen, Earl the University of Texas.

Rudder, head of the Texas Mrs. A. R. Padgett of New i System was listed in serious Jersey is visiting Die today after under- major opera- and her son, Don, this; going a third week. She will be here until jtion Friday.

Saturday Birthday greet- i Rudder was first admitted to ings are in order for Mrs. la Bryan hospital Jan. 29 for By J.INDA FERRELL held the following day, April The annual Baytown Frank Haas of Rosenberg be the judge, The purpose of the horse show, which is set one week! prior to the fair and rodeo, is to provide- a better show, have! more participants and have more tune available. Tommy Kimmey, chairman of the livestock and calf. The annual horse show will'scramble committee is still sponsors for the: event.

A saddle, on display at An-; Shoe and Saddle. 'Texas, will be given away at the performance of the on April 18, Donations 1 are $1 and are available from; members. Proceeds from this will be used to buy furnishings for the newj lT After Surgery Gretchen Cheryl. Harp and daughter No Service Charge At Peoples State Bank F.O.l.C. treatment of a stroke.

The next week at Methodist Hospital here surgeons removed a blood clot from his brain. Two days later, at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, another operation to stop a bleeding ulcer was performed. Johnny Ludtko, president of the Baytown Fair and Rodeo Association, called a special meeting to discuss the fair and rodeo. John Singer gave the board of directors report.

It included a tentative completion date of March 15 for the new building; (See YOUTH, Page 2) BULLETINS WASHINGTON (API A special commission told President Nixon today the can he eliminated next yc-ar and the armed forces switched gradually to an all- volunteer basis with higher pay and other reforms. The commission told Nixon "the nation's interests wlil be better served by an all- volunteer force, supported by an effective standby draft, than by a mixed force of volunteers and conscripts." FRANKFURT, Germany IAP) An explosion in a mail sack ripped a man-hole sized gap today in an Austrian Airline Caravelle with 38 persons aboard and forced It to make an emergency landing at Frankfurt airport. The jet carried mail for Israel. pronounced the sentences after turning down an appeal on the grounds that wiretap evidence was used In the trial. Finch Says Busing Up To Boards AUBURN, Ala.

(AP) U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch says it Is up to local school boards to decide how buses are but has reaffirmed Ms stand ogalnst busing to achieve racial desegregation. Finch said here Friday at news conference- that his department's policy has always been "not to Impose busing are prohibited from this to achieve racial balance- but we come in ami try to work with the boards. "They have the buses in hand and they determine if they lurn right or left." The secretary said he supports the tennis amendment passei! Ibis week In the Senate and requiring nationwide application of school desegregation guidelines "only to the extent that think there (should be a uniformity of ap- plication of all our programs 'at HEW." His department, be said, has attempted to enforce a "single application jtry." He added, however, "You're hung up with the distinction the courts traditionally make between de jure (legal) and de I facto (residential) systems." across the coun- election because of Ms appointment to the Trinity River Authority Board. D.

W. Mc- Clotid will be unopposed for this position in the Muy 2 election. Brooks is unopposed in the bid for congressman of District 9. Candidates for District ti state representative incumbent are Price Daniel Jr. and Edgar Groce.

Unopposed candidates Include Clarence D. Cnln, district Judge of Die judicial court; 0. F. Nelson county judge: J. B.

(Jimbo) WooSdrldge, county arid district clerk; Mrs. Jimmlo Tunze, county treasurer; Robert L. Hall county surveyor, Three candidates for county commissioner of Precinct 2 are E.A. (Ed) Ronald Leo Edmonds and Alva Harmon. Incumbent H.

McColluin of Mont Belvleu Is unopposed for Precinct 4 commissioner. Justice of the peace candidates are Incumbent Mrs. Mary Dugat and Richard Wells Precinct Incumbent Calvin Walker, Precinct incumbent Jim Meredith, Precinct and Incumbent Paul T. Williams, Precinct Incumbent V. R.

McManus, A. Barrow and Daniel Hankamcr, Precinct 5. Candidates for precinct chairman, nil unopposed, are A. G. Sherman, Precinct fra A.

Turner, Precinct G. E. Troxcli Precinct B. White, Precinct D. L.

Smith, Precinct H. N. Morrison, Precinct W. E. Clark, Precinct C.

Crone, Precinct 9, An election for mayor and tlirce councihnen In Anahuac will be held April 4. Incumbent Mayor H. E. Moor ia opposed by a former mayor, Hugh James. H.

J. Gulllory will run tor the position vacated by Arialuiuc Attorney Joe Sundlin, who resigned a year before his term ended. Elliott Peebles Is also a candidate for coundunun. Outgoing councilmcn Dalton I-aFour and Cecil Fuller have not announced whether they will seek re-election. Deadline for filing is March 4.

Chambers Clerk Stands Pat On Teen Marriages ANAHUAC J. B. legislature. It was an attempt (Jimbo) Wooldridgc, veterun Chambers County and district clerk, dediired Saturday that the only way he would recognize an informal (common- law) marriage of a H-ycar-old girl and a IfJ-year-old boy would be to have a suit brought iJtfainst him "and really back me up against the wall." Wooldridge made the statement in reply to an Inquiry by The Baytown Sun after Texas AUy. Gen.

Crawford Martin ruled Thursday lhat Texas county clerks must accept and record the controversial new declaration of informal marriages. Wooldridge is president of the County and District Clerks Association of Texas. The new law is part of the Texas Family Code passed by the last session of the Texas to create a record of a common law marriage to prot.ect the legality of offspring from such unions and to assist spouses In making any subsequent dependent welfare claims. In codifying Texas marriage laws, Hie legislature failed to make provision for a minimum age for such informal marriages without parental consent. The attorney general ruled that a general provision on the hooka establishing minimum uges for marriages applied.

Many other county clerks in Texas have also refused to accept the informal marriage declarations when the ages of the couple are below the limits of 18 and 2) set for formal marriages without parental consent. Harris County Clerk II. E. Turrenlime is accepting the Collision Injures 4 Others By WANDA OUTON, Two persons were HllletJ ajid four injured in a head-on colli- son at 10:35 p.m. Friday o.tr the Baytown side of the La Porte- Bay town Tunnel.

Deaci are the drivers, Robert Natlum Burns, 25, of 3131 Southwest B'rccway, and Mrs, Anna Ruth block Houston. Lewis, 32, of of Crawford the in Burns and his sister, Miss Janice Yvonne Burns, 27, of 35)40 Shaver in Pasadena, were enroule to visit a Buytown brother, Cecil Burns when the wreck occurred, State Highway Patrolman Mark Argo sairf. Mrs. Lewis was driving toward La Porte and had passed a car and returned to the right lane when her car again veered into tlie left lane and struck the Burns car head-on, Argo said. One of the three passengers in the Lewis car in critical condition at Ben Taub Hospital, suffering from head and Internal injuries.

She is Mrs. Edith McDanicl Rlcard, 20, of 5020 Octavia, Houston. Two other Lewis passengers were Dugat, 42, of 2210 Brewstcr, Houston, who was treated for minor injuries at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and released, and Alphone Kelly Antwinc, 34, of 3604 Quitmari, Houston, a patient at Gulf Coast Hospital. Anlwine's injuries are not believed to be serious. Burns was a teacher in the Pasadena School District in South Houston.

His sister is a teacher at Kiehey Elementary School in the only brother's car. Pasadena. She passenger in was her iN ul are Film OUTDOOR NATURE Club of Houston will present an Audubon Wildlife film, "Island at fl p.m. Monday nt Iho Houston Builders Association auditorium, 2710 W. Alabama.

Dr. Walter Brek- enridgc, director of Minnesota Museum of Natural History, who made the film, will narrate it. Busches Donate $50,000 For Pipe Organ At CB Methodist Y'Ali COME "WID WW WEST ART SHOW Vtb. 23-26 rtf By FRED HARTMAN Mr. and Mrs.

have given $50,000 to Cedar fiayou United Methodist Church to finance a organ. After the check was received by Edgar chair.nan of (he hward of trustees, the congregation immediately set to complete the two-year project. Except for four years soon Both an; natives of Cedar Busch I Bayou, fcoth have been devout members and have been new pipe (honored for having membership in excess of 50 years. Busch spent most of his business life in Baytown as president of the First National Bank. Although retired, he still serves on the board of directors of lhat institution.

Busch is perhaps best known after they were married and in Baytown and throughout after fiusch had returned from Texas for service as chairman in the U.S. Navy in of the highway committee of World War 1, the Busches have the Baytown Chamber of been members of the church. Commerce. Many of the highways over which thousands of cars operate daily were conceived and pushed by Busch and his colleagues. He also i (has been on the board of Texas Good Roads Association.

The Busches have had ex- FULL SERVICE No Service Charge Citizens National Bank Trust Co. tttnCett r.o.i.c. tensive business and real estate interests in the community. The land on which Roseland Park now sits was given to the city by Mr. and Mrs.

Busch and others in their family. Just this month, ground was broken for a new Woolco shopping center on. acreage owned by the family at Texas and Highway H6. Holiday Inn's site once belonged to them as did property now in Roseland Oaks. The gift of frnds to provide the organ is but one of others the Busches have made in recent years.

Mrs. Busch has long been Identified with music at the church. A committee in charge of the GIFT ACCEPTED KDGAR ENDERL1, left, chairman of the bosrd of trustees of Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church, accepts a 000 check installation includes Mrs. J. D.

for the church from Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Between donors Giddings, Mrs.

Busch, Mrs. and receiver Is the Rev. Roy Felder, pastor of the church (See ORGAN, Page 2) fBaytown Sun Photo By Johnella Boynton).