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VOL 37, NO. 337
IAYTOWN, TEXAS
Saturday, November 9, 1957
Today’* Newt Today
TELEPHONE JU 24302 Rve Cenh Par Ce^y
Crash Feared
44 Aboard
Late Plane
HONOLULU (UP)- A double-
decked Pan American Airways
Srafoeruisc with 44 person*
rf.!
aboard waa repotted overdue at
Honolulu today and feared down
tn the darkened Pacific Ocean.
A Military Air Transport plane
led that it sighted blinking
■vicinity aSHUta
in the
port at
mg airliner made Its last re-
st 8:04 p m. e.t.t., Friday an
a flight from San Francisco
Honolti
iluiu.
The Navy Search Rescue CenUI
at Pearl Harbor confirmed the re
port of the sighting of blinUm
lights. It immediately sent Coasl
Guard and Air Force
nortiieast of Honolulu shortly after
$ a m. e.s.t.
HAJ. DAVID MH.I S
Funeral Monday
For Victim Of
Airplane Crash
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Itaunl rites have baen set at
4 p.m. Monday at the Colonial
Fuaeral home In Pasadena tor
Maj. David-CUfton Mills, 40, son
of MV, «nd Mrs. Rex C. IMS
SOB East Francis, Baytown and
husband of the former Bobble
Rath Farmer of Highlands.
flerment trill be to, Forest
park East cemetery sear League
aty with military graveside
rites. ' ■ f
■Ttw plane carried eight crew-
men and 36 passengers aboard
Earlier, the newnjen of
planes went called iato. action
the huge air and sea search i
intensified. A Pan Amertr
spokesman said the plane
only enough fuel to last
a.m., e.s.t., and only V the
was used on an emergency
The plane, which was due to Ha-
waii at 12:45 a.m., ei.t.,
at 8:04 p.m . e.s.t.. that It bat
passed the point of no return, UW
miles from Honolulu — but there
has been no report since
The Stratocniiser, piloted by
Capt. George- H. Brown of Palo
Alto, Calif., left San Francisco at
2:30a.m., e.s.t., on the 2,400 mile
Pie Navy submarines Cusk and
Carbonaro were the closes ves-
sels to the point where the plane
was last reported and were divert-
ed to the sSrch. Two Coast Guard
cutters also joined the search.
Pan American dispatched I
DCTB with a crew of observers,
ON CITY UTILITY
NO TOY SPIT NIKS-YET
MOSCOW (UP) - • Mama, buv mr> Spot
nlk."
"There are no Sputnik* on sate hen-, Ml*-
eha," the Kusslsn mother told her ft-yenr-old
boy. The scene was at the toy counter uf
The Gum, Mos<-ow‘s largest department store.
Turning to a neighboring shopper, the moth-
er grumbled: "I'm sure there will be many
more Sputnik* In the skies before our (ar-
teries make such lay|."
This dialogue, which probably has been re-
peated thousands of Hines among the people
oI Russia, refleets two things:
—How the .Hputnik and nil It signifies has
penetrated the public consciousness, and
—The gull between the nucrcsslnl Soviet
policy of producing what Russian authorities
consider wflrst things first" and delay. It not
entire disregard, of secondaries.
Gander Rally Wins
Spencer Sparks
At Brazosport
$1,450,000 -
Bond Ballot
Set Nov. 23
Anahuac voter* will go to tha
polls Nov. 23 to decide the fat*
of a proponed 11.430,800 revenua
bond laaue (or construction of
munlcipally-owncd electric utili-
ty and sanitary *ewer system*.
Date for the Flection waa aet
at « special meeUng of tb« Ana-
huac aty council.
which will be able to stur oit oo
the search an estimated 16 hours
Maj. Mills, an Air Forte In-
structor, dlad Ort. 29 whan the
In addition, ant Air Force and one
Coast Guard plane warn amt to
the area.
rescue headquarters at
Harbor.announced that U
WE
Air Force tanker plane on which search a 3$
he was a passenger crashed and the Pacific
burned between Flagstaff and of Honolulu.
Cameron Arisona
Memorial sendees were con-
ducted Saturday at bia home
m
Roswell, N M.
A second
Walker Air force Base,
bombers and seven
■■H would help
■ by 100 mile block of
about 1.000 miles east i
vdpfl
•si \
memorial service
usbhRSIs
which Maj. Mills was an active
worker.
Maj. Mills was bom Jan. 15,
1917 at fieur Lake, Tax.
He graduated from West Oo-
(See MILLS, Page Two)
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spots
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DASHIELL - Huey chapter,
Children of the Confederacy,
will meet .At 10 a.to. Saturday
at the home of Mrs. W. H. Wll-
112 Crow
Hants, 112 Crow Road. Program
will be a panel discussion con-
cerning the catechism of history
K
ftp Sailor
■MipH
„ Baytown
warn
wTt-
sodetles itoxt
in pi cw uneani
at Core Laboratories
. IfiBS
lfehLbHtS
at Pearl Harbor
limits in the sky
the night in a vain
Former Bayou
Postmaster
Dies In Vaco
EAST
PwBVDOB ' CABSKAW
A HAVEN FOR CHILDREN
IVEY
THESE CHILDREN an among those who aro being helped to live a more normal life by
the Baytown Cerebral Pahy center. The Flying Ganders of Baytown an planning
Ftyalhcn on Nev. 23-24, funds from whleh wilt be
on Nov. *3-24, funds from whleh wilt be used to build a badl.v-needed therapy
nt the center. In this photo are Boh East and Dan Casselman (standing), living
Gander officials, and the children, Dennis Devine and Marilyn Ivey. (Baytown Photos)
Who'll *e
Ai ity, Navy In Race
To Launch Satellite
: ......
Cecilv Daniel Foster, Ointral
Texas native and longtime real-
dent ot Cedar Bayou, died early
Saturday in Waco. He was 72.
He served as Cedar Bayou
postmaster for many years and
had lived in Waco for the past
three years. He had been in
bad health.
The Paul U. Lee Funeral
home sent to Waco for the body
and wUl announce funeral ar-
rangements here as soon
they are completed.
Foster was formerly a railroad
man and worked for the Mis
sourl Pacific here before getting
Hrfr
Mrs. Mittie
Baytown; tour daughters, Mrs.
kkymkDjmxr;n of Mr. fat **531*
. A Homestead, Fla., and Mrs. Bela
Lmiuj 7* Wataon Jr. and Mrs. Preston
tivwH Ward, both °f Baytown; three
sons, Walter R, Foster of Ana-
huac,. Arthur D. Foster of Bay-
town and Paul E. Foster of ,
WASHINGTON (UP) — Army instrumented satellite in March asfast as
ace experts raced the Navy to-
MOfi'Opi
day in a new all-out effort to be
first to shoot a U.S. satellite up
with the Soviet Sputniks at the
earliest possible moment.
■Hie Defense Department's am
prise decision to reverse itself and
throw Army missile hardware into
the program underlined the deter-
mination of the United States to
catch up with the Russians and
salvage lost prestige,.
It also showed administration ol-1
fidals are trying to guarantee that
a made-in-Amcrica Sputnik will be
launched successfully, perhaps in
a few weeks.
Scientists associated with the
U.S. satellite effort said Defense
Secretary Neil H. McElroy's order
Friday tor the Army to backstop;
the Navy Vanguard program sig- '
naled an early launching. But they j
did not try to guess whp would)
be first-
The Army said it is "confident”
part of the International Geophysi-
cal Year.
Holadqy insisted there was "no
race” between the two services.
But both were Certain to push
their programs to completion as
UF Workers
Elated As
Goal Nears
Sputnik I.
■The Army's Jupiter C is a three-
PMe nytet whfoJlM flown as
[far asT^uO miles from the Cape
Canaveral. Fla., missile test
range. It has hit speeds up to 12,-|
000 miles an hour-or more andl
asv .uo Miuvw, piernem v annual a wim a wetenr
Mae Foster of tific satellite launched by a Jupi-
ja-— ' a__* ...--.ij,!-.,-.-*. TL-.
ter experimental missile. The
Army aw reported to lgw M
a satellite ready to go for six
months at its Redstone Arsenal in
Huntsville, Ala.
William
M. Holaday, McElroy's
guided missile director, indicated
the decision of who will be first-
the Almy or Navy - will depend
Norfolk, V., a brother, Willie Efej" » —C ready to
The Navy has been proceeding
Bob Foster of Waco, and a sta-
te*, Mrs. Carey Gown of Waco.
along a
Eleven grandchildren also sur-, that calls tor semting up six-pound
timetable
test moons next month and a fully-
The scent of victory was In
the air around Red Feather
headquarters Saturday as
contributions swelled to 1199,-
990 and General Chairman Ver-
non Wright of the United
Fund drive announced that
only S2.584 Is needed to meet
the 1958 quota.
to get the nod
fimmHoJaday.
The, missile director said
Army' satellite will be cylindrical
in shape — like Sputnik II—while
tM^arjjW^ artificial moon is
altitudes 61 SB mRirt. Tlw 'speed of stopping themselves than
...........Brazosport did in stopping them.
tiring in the over-the-top do-
nation today,” Wright de-
gS^gjggg
Insure adequate financing for
our 23 Red Feather agencies.
Today's figure* brought the
month-old campaign to within
14 per cent of completion of
the 3182,990 goal. Drive lead-
er* emphasized that a healthy
surplus is needed in the drift
In order to counteract normal
shrinkage* which are encounter
ered during the yenr.
needed to put a satellite into orbit
is 18,000 miles an hour,
The president displayed the nose
cone of the Jupiter C during his
televised address Thursday to
show that with it U.S- scientists
solved the problem of reentry into
the earth’s atmosphere — a key
to perfecting the intercontinental
ballistic missile. It was fired
Aug, 8, ' .
The Russians used military
rockets to launch their sateUHes.
Up to McElroy's turnabout order „ .... - . ..
effort. Vanguard scientists have Porter appeared to slip and
it was Intercepted by Walter
Kontecsny, at that moment a
ver? prominent Brazoria County
L'X|x)itci
Walter’s run waa longer than
hi* name, and he was harder to
cateh than his name Is to spell.
In fact, he ran «4 yards for a
TI) that gave the Exporter* a
12 to g lead at half-time.
By FRED HARTMAN
BRAZOSPORT (Sp>—Robert
E Lee* sputtering offense was
matched against Brazosport*
•puttering defense here Friday
night In r district 12-4A home-
coming clash for the Exporter*.
The Ganders won, 15*12, be-
cause Brasosport couldn’t con
tain Gordon Spencer and Steve
McWilliams.
These two Senior Ganders,
nearing the end of brilliant
schoolboy careers, tried in vain
to keep the Baytown eleven In
the championship race. Their
heroic efforts went for naught
for they wearily trudged to the
dressing room to hear about the
(■atepa Park victory over Pasa-
dena and with it bi-district nod
early next month
Spencer had a great night. He
leorcd one Lee touchdown. He
carried 19 times for 133 yards.
He kicked an extra point. He
bad another 25-yard gallop void-
ed by a bolding penaltiy against
one of his mates. He did well
on defense.
McWilliams ran 14 times for
50 yards, but one of his Jaunts
was a five yard left end sweep
for a TD that sewed up the ball
game. Steve’s 63-yard gallop on
kickoff rctufn to open the
third period gave the Ganders
their victory opportunity. This
run rfnexn’l xhnw „„ In the 0nl7 » *k,‘l,l0r» !
One minute tha Gander*
seemed headed for a score that
might have made a rout of the
game. The next Instant the Ex
porters were lining up for a try
for point.
It was that kind of gam* un-
til the Ganders went shead again
tn the opening minutes of the
(See ■FKICE», Page Twe)
Kids, Humbles'
Off Monday
Thousands of Humble employ- Baytown Chamber of Commerce,
as and Baytown school children
will observe Veteran* Day Mon-
day as a holiday.
But It will be a regular busi-
ness day for the remainder of
Baytown,
Not even the Baytown vet
erans' organizations -American
Legion, VFW and DAV have
planned any type of formal pro-
gram for the occasion.
Supt. George H. Gentry said
ail of tlir schools In the Bay-
town district will dismiss class-
run doesn’t show up in the of-
fensive statistics.
The Gander* did a better job
And two lapses almost cost the
dethroned champions a dccisH
Late in the rtconAf^uArter,17
the Ganders owner! tne ball
the Exporter six with second
down coming up. Spencer had
been cutting the homo team line
to ribbon*
Quarterback Wayne Porter,
pfayteg tor the first time since
opefflng night, called what look-,
ed like an option-keeper play.
crew will he
at work at Humbie’a Baytown
refinery.
Billy O. Smith, chairman of
the merchants committee of the
said buslncaatnen voted at the
beginning of tbs year to observe
five holiday*. Veteran* Doy
only ft
wa* not ’one of them.
All three Baytown banks go
along with buxines* home* In
observing a regular buslnrs* day
Monday.
In- line with the buslnc»*-as-
usual theme Monday, Police
Chief Roy Montgomery warned
Baytown motorists not to Ignore
parking meter* thinking that
since the day is * seml-hollday
they will not he to operation.
"Parking meters will be in
operation Monday," Montgomery
Present tor the session werg
Mayor Hugh James; CouncllKten
E, L. Crocker, Thom** T, Lilly,
C M, Jordan, E. J Joffroy amt
8am T. HUI Jr.; Mr*. Margaret
Keith, city secretary; H. W.
Darat, the city’* fiscal agent;
and Kern* B Taylor, city at-
MOV.
Two separate proposition- wi,
appear on the ballot.
The find will determine the ta-
[wane* of *1.150,000 revenue
bond* to secure fund* to build
an electric tight and power *y*-
tent,
s
■Tha aecead pertain* to the is
suance of taoaooo revenue bond*
Ite aemwe toad* ter ■mUmUm
m a atntiaty aewer system.
Only polling ptace tor the elec-
tton—the Anahuac city halt—win
h« open from 7 a.m, until 7 p.m.
th* day of the balloting
Mayor James and the council
stressed that the two system*. If
approved by Anahuac residents,
I will b* paid tor from th* revenue
of die system* and will cost tax-
payer* nothing
They also pointed out that tilt
pteM#r fke qmtenut are ade-
quate far Anahuac'* current pop-
ulation end are so designed that
hey SRH care for future growth
’* IMfly
Mayor James aaid that tn*
counctU, In arrivtng at u* uceiriou
to cell the election, obtained tn*
forms lion from 78 Texas com-
immltlc* which have their own
municipal electric systems.
"A majority of them told u*
they found the electric system to
be the most profitable of all
utilities,” he added.
Th* proposed electric system
would provide the same voltage
and service presently supplied-
Anahuac by Gulf State* Utilities
Co
A capacity of 4.000 kilowatt* ta
Httld. motorist* who .ignore .planned lor the plant
them wilt be issued ticket*.'* ’
M'
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Gray. Instead,
^Veteran's Day--
• n#4 "
Allied World1 Honors
War Heroes Monday
C. H.OIive Ends 32
Years With Humble
and Paul Fureh, r;
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out of the “stt-
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dubious
and
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By WANDA ORTON
4 Hun Staff Writer
. Civic pride I* something that
comes as natural as breathing to
C. H. Olive, 1521 Yupon.
Retired Friday from the Bay-
town Refinery, the former May-
or of Peily ha* *erved hi* com-
munity well.
And !<e continue* to do ao-
Currently he 1* Interested in
obtaining land tor too new unite
planned by the Baytown Hous-
ing authority. He !• commission-
er of the housing authority which
was begun during hto tenure
as Mayor of Pelly In the early
40’S.
Sam Houston and Lincoln
court* were built then, replac-
ing a “disgraceful slum area.”
Olive'* name It imprinted on -
the cornerstone at Sam Hous-
ton court*.
Olive began helping his town
* '* .........,
Turner’s to buy a new truck.- We
raised the money ourselves."
A Jfotary Public, Olive is go-
ing oh his 13th year a* election
Judge at Precinct 101,
Hie political career began la
1937 when fee was elected * city
commissioner in Pelly. In 194L
he was chosen Mayor of Pelly
and served two terms
Afterward, he was corporation
court judge of Pelly and later,
Bv FRANK WATSON land a goal the lesson *f war Nov. jj. In London, the Silent
Written Espeelally for The Hun and the goal of peace. >,
In France, It I* known a* Jour) President Woeelrow .ypitaon.
^r'^lwi?' A , ,fc. on Nov. 11, 1910. toned a proai-
lo Canada, it goes by thel, .. .... ...£•■■, .
dentist proclamation that le<l
the way to a tiaditton of gjir-
ades, patriotic speeches, sound-
ing of tap* and wreath-laying at
the grave* of those who gave
their live* In that War,
In Britain, a* well as Ip the
United States, the two mtoulei of
guage it goes under, Nov. If silence tradition ta observed onJfight lot freedom
remain* one of the bright red -
letter day*-on the calendar of
name of Remembrance Day,
In Britain, the forma! title is
AVmlstlce Day
And, In the United States,
Congress three years ago chang-
ed the name of the legal holiday
t<F Veteran* Lay-
By whatever name or Ian*
period 1* followed by a special
service at the memorial cenotapn
In Whitehall, the famed Lontlon
thoroughfare. The two minute*
of alienee U generally observed
throughout the British empire.
On Nov. 11, 1920, two impor-
tant events fell on this day of
peace. Both Involved unknown
warrior* who fell In-battle In the
iitiftory,
- For two minutes, beginning at
the Itth hour of th# nth day of
the 11th month, World War I
Allies put aside the worries
about war tor thoughts about
for Bsytowi). Goose Creek add the cause of peace.
Pelly when the three town* wgre
consolidated,
(See OLIVE, page Seven)
m
:ely from a bout with flu . . .
8. O'Brien Jr., makes a sate,
A
mm
w
back in 1035 when he joined th# > - J
•'old pelly fire department,*-#*" "Jg
■ he remain* ■■Ml
is Bill Beck makes a
Fisher and Margare
to El Campo and bacl
mm
Today he remain* active In
Fire Station No. I, nerving a* t
treasurer. He ta also treasure*
of the West Main Qvic club. M
He helped organize the BaJfJ
town Emergency corps and «
still active In R:
Ford
doesn't
out pecan trees-
anyonc could
SANTA'S HERE TODAY!
Rgcanmjte 11*8 m» muar-
er of the Emergency corps/he
laughed, "whenever the phec"
writing jobs are handed m
Nov. U—the anniversary of
the end of World War I--Is a
federal “legal public holiday" In
the United States, District of
Columbia, Alaska. Hawaii,
Guam. Puerto Rico, the Vlrgia
ISUrds and the Panama Canal
Zone. Th* day !* also solemnized
in Canada, Britain and France.
Britain's queen mothei, her-
*elf, dramatically aymbolized
the sharing m thl* >eace ob-
servance.,three year* ago when
fine vtoted Williamsburg. Va.
arm prayed in George Wash-
ington’* pew In Bruton * parish
church.
; Nov. tl commemorates one of
he most riotous demonrtratkm*
k the nfe of mankind, the’eesr
ation of firing In Europe In
918. It 1* perbap* not too much
hyperbole to say that, after the
world, wa* In danger of being
blown apart. It nearly "explod-
wtth Joy at the Armistice.
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about her trip to
difora u w the Grandmother's
iiveatton. I
Chri *'■" The S -nfs r
get this “she *f Santa an-' M* r;. ; rh Just t tore it
on hi* first v' it since text
get this “she of Santa an
everyone else, Santa to traveling modern thl* yenr.
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