The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 324, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1957 Page: 2 of 12
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Itlrr VmlawR •
Friday. October 25, 1957
e • • •
SUN SPOTS
tOetotoee. from Page One) [annual ehuckwagon supper will
begin at 6 p.m. Saturday In Roae-
Chuchw oqOfl Slipper I UlSi park. Guests will wear west-
MORRBIX *ARK G*rden_clut>j'ern *Wrc
Fellowship Meet
IWSHIP
Deaths-
Funerals
Noon Call-
Stock Quotes
STAUFFER
HOME PLAN
CALI NOW FOR
YOUR FREE HOME
DEMONSTRATION
PH. JU 3-2897
KIDD
Funeral rites were held at 10
a.m. Friday at First Baptist
A FELLOWSHIP meeting for
Robert E. Lee High school stu-!
nwtHddTiT.
ship hall of Baytown First Bap- {M|wf o( the ofp, 353
Market
|tist church after Friday night’s
football game,
Miami: Oaene Jung (Ger). Stea-
ling (
chen for Freeport. Ship* in Port of j
Houston: 18,
Elk Dance
A DANCE for members of the
Baytown Elk lodge and their
friends will be held at the lodge jJ
from 9 p.m. Saturday until 1 a m
Sunday.
Hubcaps Gone
TWO HUBCAPS from a 1952 Pack-
ard were reported stolen to Bay-
is. S«n Jacinto K of C I '"wn police at 9:30 p m Thursttay
Counril No. 2*88 !by Walter Dunn of Highlands. He
laidd the car was parked at the
HHHH (Cedar Bayou stadium at the time
the caps were taken.
Comb* la in V».i cntlraw
Pramitt. ** l» Nt« Varlt
(•Mara ClOaa
BAYTOWN
PA t SO POUNDS—NO
AFT. ONLY
SUN.
OCT.
27
Ships At Humble
ARRIVES THURSDAY: Esso New
Orleans, J. S. Burrows from More-
head City. Sailed Thursday: Sa- ___________
bine. Salune Transportation for tliere at 2 p.m. Saturday nt the
The pastor. Rev. R. M. Cheek,
officiated.
Follow ing the services the body
was taken to Tyler by the Earth-
man Funeral home.
Graveside rites are scheduled
Clyde
illmi
like Mini.
MRS. SAM
ling
h y
10RT0N, 220
: Briarwood. told Baytown police at
(6 p.m. Thursday that an English
bicycle was stolen from Horace
Mann school between 8:30 a.m.
and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Mirror Stolon
A REAR VIEW mirror was taken
from his car sometime Thursday
•morning. Dr, Wayne H. MeCles-
BEYOND THE $ E A $ ! >y.1607 Oklahoma, told Baytown
THE WORLD ITS FIELD!
ITS TRIUMPHS REACH
gOO PEOPLE
lice at 1:48 p.m. Thursday.
200 ANIMALS
IS ELEPHANTS
4,000 SEATS
1UM.M tarnu
UWIAina
MATINEE
ONLY
* am urn , _ . _ .
B«tii>ni4o.LkHw Thefts Reported
aoUT^w* I THEFT OF a steam iron, plastic
-a gaMBUM wastebasket and several cans of
w jaiNRAia w was reported to Baytown
police at 11:48 a.m. Thursday by
* 6Z0PPES were stolen from his home, 3120
(sensational iowa-
Uoursuiaai
2:00 P.M.
Adults $1.50 - Children 75c
RESERVED AND ADMISSION
TICKETS ON SALE CIRCUS DAY
AT HERRING DRUG, 11» W. Tax.
ALSO AT CIRCUS GROUNDS
Halloween Dance
WOMANS AUXILIARY to Fire
Station One will sponsor a Hal-
loween dance from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. at the Firemen's recreation
hall! Prises will be given for the
most original and tackiest cos
tumes.
'Demand Meters' Cause Trouble
(OMttrard Pram Page Due)
Rose Hill cemetery
Honorary pallbearers at the
Friday morning service were
members of the Baytown Odd
Follows lodge, of which Kidd was
a member.
They included Wayne Hughes.
J. Riley, A. L. Cappa, C. G.
Price. J. B. Turley. Paul DeVert-
er, Horace Jone*, Dr, Malcolm
Jones. Monroe Pryor, Clarence
Phillips, Fhay Godfrey and Dutch
Ptacek.
Kidd died suddenly at 9:15 a.m.
Thursday at his home, 3316%
Minnesota.
Death was attributed to a heart
a,He*was born m Tyler Dec. 21, 9*^°“
1899.
He came to Baytown 11 years
ago when he became coowner
of the Tyler Cafe.
Survivors include the widow.
Mrs. Mary Kidd of Baytown: his
mother, Mrs. Pearl Kidd of Tyler,
one son. Darwin Kidd of U» An-
geles, Calif.: one daughter, Mrs.
Jack Reeves of Gladewater, Tex.;
two brothers, Noble Kidd of Tyler
and Lawrence Kidd of Charleston,
S. C.; one sister, Mrs. W. D.
Melner of Tyler; and four grand-
children. _
PARKERS HOLIDAY
REDONDO BEACH. Calif. (UP) oh ' H
—Violation flags on parking me-
ters didn’t bother motorists of this
beach community today. When the
city council drafted a new traffic
ordinance, someone forgot to in-
clude parking meter regulations
Library-
i Continued From Page •>“*)
She simply called it, "atro-
cious.”
The building at the intersection
of West Texas and South Jones
was built In 1925 by Gov. R. 8.
Sterling tnd given to the town
of Goose Creek, Mrs. Shewelt re-
called.
Goose Creek had a population
of about 2,500 then.
The identical faculty serves the
modem City of Baytown and Its
population of 32.000.
j “To say that the library Is
I crowded would ba the understate
ment of the year," said Mrs
mm
NOW SHOWING
THRU SATURDAY
BRUNSON
GIANT
FUN CLUB
SATURDAY
MORNING
10:00 A.M.
The windows were covered
with bookshelves years ago, And
we have cases of books in our
workroom which should be on
shelves—if we had shelves on
which to put them or room to put
the shelves.
"There is no reading room in
the building since the area that
we do have Is pracUcally all
taken up with our books.
"All a patron can hope is to
find the book he wants, check it
out and take it home to read it,’
Mr*. Shewell explained.
The Baytown library—a branch
of the Harris county library-
currently has 19,144 cards out.
And between 5,000 and 10,000
books are checked out each
month, ■
Thus nearly half of the persons
who have cards use them every
month.
Lee pointed out thdt the usual
ratio is 20 per cent, putting Bay.
town in a category with cities
whose much larger populations
read no more books than do Bay-
tonlans.
Yet, using another of Lee's
yardsticks, Baytown Is behind the
Texas ayerage. .
Figuring one-half book for each
resident, Baytown, with a popu-
lation of 32,000, should have at
leaft 15.000 volumes.
Lee noted that Baytown has
leu than 10,000—Including those
stored in crates for lack of shelv.
ing. Of those remaining, 4,360
werebought with fundi raised by
the library; 4,000 are county-
loaned books; and 1,000 books
that have been donated.
Baytown is also found want-
ing In the sise of ita library for
its population.
‘ We have found that a li-
brary should have just about j
as much area as the commun-
ity's post office,’’ Lee explained,
"Considering the site of Bay-
town’s three post offices, its li-
brary is only about 20 per cent
as Urge u itabouMbe."
Turning to the annual report
of the Harris County Public li-
brary for 1967, Lee noted the
Baytown branch had a greater
1966 circulation than any of the
other 16 branch units.
It loaned 74,977 books last
year—an increase of 8,012 over
the 66,966 that were loaned In
1956.
Summing up the Baytown situ-
ation, Lee said he was Impres-
sed with the job that the li-
brary does in consideration of
its sise.
"That Baytown people read
as much as the figures prove
they do it a tribute to their
thirst for knowledge, entertain-
ment and quality relaxation,"
Lee said.
“It is a pity, therefore, that
such a book-reading population
hae no larger nor more comfort-
l able a library." _
(Courtesy Merrf Lynch,
Karat. Fanner A teane)
Alleg Ludlum ........35%
Allis-Chalmers ............. 26%
Amcr Cyan ...a........*... 89%
A T and T ................104%
Anaconda Oop ............. 42%
Ander Pilchard............ 24
Beth Steel ................. 40%
Br Am Oil ................87%
Oelanese ................ 12%
Oelotex .................... 25%
Chrysler ................... 68 %
Cities Serv ................ 50%,
Colurab Gas................ l.V.'
Creole .............. 77 1
Dow Chem ................. 52%'
Du Pont ...................169%
Dresser ........... 39V
Eastman Kodak............ 90%
El Paso ................... 28%
Fairchild Engra ............ 7
Freeport Sulp..............79
Ford ......................62491
Gen Electric ..............59%
Gen Motors ......... .'38%
Gea Tele ............... 38%
Gen Tire ................... 26).
81%
Gillette 8af ................ 36*
Goodyear Tire ............. 79%
Greyhound .......... 14%
Gulf Oil ..................110%
Gulf State Util ...........SOS
Houston Oil .............. 4
H I and PO .............. 48%
HUMBLE .................58%
Imperial Oil ..............39%
Int'l Nickel ...............70
Int’l Harv ................ 30%
Jones A Laugh ..........44%
Kerr-McGee ..............41%
Libby McN .............. 8%
Liggett and Myers .......84%
Loew's Inc ...............12%
La Land ................. 38%
Mack Trucks .......•'•••• *2%
Merrill Petr .............. 9%
Monsanto ...............1. 31%
Nat Dairy Prod ........ S6U
Nawp New* ..............78
Ohio Oil .................31%
OUn-Math ................ 39%
Pacific Pet ..............20%
Pancoastal Oil ........... 6%
Peaney1* ..................**%
PhUlipa Petr ..............37%
Pure Oil .................ss
Royal Dutch .............42%
Sapphire ........... %
Scan .....................55
Shell .........................
Sinclair ...................
Schick ....................
Skelly .................... K’*
Socony-Vac ...............4®*
Sou Pacific ...............36'i
Sperry-Rand ............. 18
St Regia Paper ..........25%
Stan Calif ................ 48‘)
Stan Ind ..... 3®^
Stan Ohio ................42 *
Stan NJ ..................
Stude-Packard ............ 4'i
Sun Oil ..................75
Sunray-Mld Oont ...... 22%
Tennessee Gai ..........25%
Texai Co ................
Texas Gulf Prod ........28%
Texas Gulf Sulp ..........I»*
Tidewater ........*.......24%
Textron ............... 1*
Texaa Eaatwm ..........«%
Union C and C......'......®*%
Un Oil of Calif...........43%
United Airlines ...........1®%
United Carbon ...............
U. S. Steel ..............64%
Woodley Pet ...............
W. R. Grace..............*2
Austin produced a table show-
ing that two Baytown consum-
ers used 2,900 and 3,000 kilowatt
hours, respectively, and that the(
larger consumer would, have
paid a smaller amount than the
sniallcr consumer on a straight
per kilowatt hour charge.
‘This example, 1 believe, il-
lustrates the point 1 am trying
Teachers-
(f aatlaued From Page One)
Junior
Mrs. Ethel M
Illinois. English
studies at Baytown
High.
Mrs. Evelyn Thompson, 286
Arbor, secretary at Anson
Jones Elementary.
Mrs. Christine Morris. 125
Weaver, seoand grade teach,
er at Burnet Elementary.
Miss Euta Potter. 403 X.
Jones, dean of girls at Robert
E. Lee High school.
Mrs. Ruth Bussey, 1003 West
Murrlll, teacher at Ashbel
Smith Elementary.
BIK Day was begun In 1954.
In addition to guided lours of
plants and businesses where of-
ficials explain detailed opera-
tion to the teacher*, they are
taken to lunch by their hosts.
Teachers chose the firms they
preferred to “study," listing
first, second and third choice.
All but about 70 got their choice
of the places they wanted to
visit, because of so many du-
plications, but it is hoped they
will have first choice in 1959.
Host business and industrial
leaders represented a cross-sec-
tion of Baytown’s economic life,
.ranging from BwaMe raft nary
to laundries, banka and super-
markets.
to put over with reference to
so-called demand meters," Aus-
tin said. "It Is easy to Me that
demand meters equalise the
cost of current to large and
small consumers alike."
"To charge for kwh only
would penalise all of the smaller
customers by making them car-
ry a portion of the expense of
serving larger customers.”
Demand meter* measure the
peak load of current uaed by an
individual consumer, business or
Industry In a 16-mlnute Inter-
val during any month. The
month's charge Is then based
o nthe peak demand.
Hale, 3221 1 Austin told the council that
and social , not new by any mean*. They
the use of demand meters "is
have been in use since the 30’s,
and are Inatalled not so much
to raise revenue for the com-
pany, but to more equally dis-
tribute the cost among high and
low consumers."
There are 438 demand meters I
In Baytown, Austin said. Hej
been installed since World War
added that most of them have!
IX "because of the Increasing!
amount of current the company!
Is called upon to produce. This
increase Is due to more air con-
ditioning units and more elec,
trical appliances.
"It's not that you have to pay
any more with demand meter*.
The demand la wholly under
your control. You pay only for
what you demand from the com-
pany. We cannot store electrici-
ty. Therefore, we must be ready
to deliver the amount of cur-
rent wanted by any or all con-
sumer* in our system at the
exact time they demand it." ;
Mayor Pruett said he and oth-|
had "numerous complaints
er members of the council had
about demand meters and wej
do not think the Houston Light
Ing and Power Oo. haa the In-
terest of Baytown or the custom-
ers at heart In this matter.
They arc just after the dol-
lar."
Councilman Clayton said he
didn't think it any more fair
for HLPCO to charge more for
electricity “Just because it must
have the equipment to produce
it than it would be for the city
to charge more for water In
January when not as much 1*
used as in August when pump*
run full blast all the time.”
Austin said he could not see
the water example as an ap-
proprlatc one to Illustrate the
demand meter question.
Benefit Dance
Sponsored by River Oak*
LION'S CU B
SYLVAN BEACH
Saturday, Oct. 26th
9 P.M. to 1 A.M.
Mu*ic by . *<
BUDDY BROCK
$2.50 Pe* Person
For Reservations Call Houa-
ton JA 9-1844 or JA 8-1889
AN ADVENTURE IN
GOOD EATING!
Our esceDent food combined with tha
kind of parsonal... friondly service you
like makes dining 'out et th# Rebel e
'** reel edventure. TRY IT!
Go to church—then meet your friends *t
The Rebel Inn for our special
ROAST TURKEY DINNER
Delicious Turkey With All The Trimming*
Rebel
Inn
PHONE JU 1-4979
*702 MARKET
We eater to Wedding Paritoa
aad Private er Industrial Partita.
4 large diatog
room, to
stove yea
■ T
NO Cotton.............. Up 18 an L tor Lee.
Brigadiers
Spotlight
United Fund
Lee Brigadier* will pay trib-
ute to the United Fund drive in
their halftime drill Friday night
at the Gander-Texas City tilt.
The corps will form a large
cent mark, facing Gander fans.
Out of the cent mark a dollar
mark will be formed, as the
fans “are urged to turn their
pennies into dollars" for the UF
drive.
Chunky Rogers will be com-
pany commander; Sara Elms,
drum major; Janiece Savage
and Nancy Kelly, lieutenants.
Twirlers will include Dodie
Derryberry, Judy Bryant, Emma
Herring, Sharon Steere, Nancy
Goolsby, Loretta Holmes, Bev-
erly Walsh, Theresa Thomas,
Joyce Stassl, Maiy Ann Bridges
and Susan Taylor.
Highlight of the REL band
drill will he the presentation of
the sweetheart She was elected
by secret ballot this week, J. C.
Burkett, director, aald.
Band member* will form
star, playing “Stairway to the
Stars.” Within the star fonna-
tion the twirlers will make an
outline of T for Texas City and
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Your statements...
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And hovo you ordored Christmas Cords yot?
mathernes
Fret parking at 211 W. Paarca
TODAY ONLY
OPEN
TROUT
SANDWICH
Regular 55e Order
PHONE ORDERS PROMPTLY FILIID
THE TOWER
NO. 1
DECKER DRIVE
PH. JU 2-9088
NO. 2
2505 MARKET
PH. JU 3-1375
at POPULAR PRICES
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ADVANCE TICKETS
FOR THE
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CIRCUS
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Baytown Business Concern,:
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H«t Doot To Kraft'i Toy Stota
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 324, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1957, newspaper, October 25, 1957; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1043081/m1/2/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.