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Serving BAY-TEX—The Golden Circle of Southeast Texas
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BAYTOWN. TEXAS
Thursday, May 7, 1964
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 5124302
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SUN
Spots
Bnvtonion Honored
jIlrHmW a ■wFWWawW OFtiO
SHARON MITCHELL Guthrie,
daughter of Mr*. Kathryn Mitch-
tll of 2819 Virginia in Baytown,
was honored at Howard Payne
College's annual Honor's Day as-
sembly May 1. Mr*. Guthrie re-
ceived a
typewriting award.
Anohuoc Graduate
THOMAS WILLIAM Prescott
Jr., son at Mr. and Mr*. T. Vi.
Prescott of Anahuac, is one of
400 candidates tor the Bachelor
of Business Administration de-
gree from the University of Tex-
as. ,
Receives Scholarship
GLENDA L. RODGERS, daugh-
Orb 4E.
ter of Mr. and Mn. Otis E.
Rodgers of 3C3 N. Mata in High-
lands, student at Howard Payne
College in Brownwood, has ^re-
ceived the Hi B. "Bunin Schdltr-
ship in Elementary Education
Miss Rodgers received
rwsrd in a special Honor's Day
assembly held May i at the coi-
1 May 1 at the
lege. ~
Nursery School
WOOSTER BAPTIST Nursery
School is taking application*
now for the coming school
year. Each applicant most
lour yean old by Sept. L The
school meets from 8:« s.m. to
12 noon Monday through Friday.
Crosby Graduate „
PHILIP SHEPARD Leman
Route 1 to Crosby is s candi-
date for a Bachelor of Business
Administration degree from the
University of lMl this month.
fumral Services
FUNERAL SERVICES Will be
at 4 r-.m. Thursday at Hnehschei
Funeral Home in Jtoeebud, Tex.
tor G. M. Francis. M, rf Troy,
who died early Wednesday
■ is the father
Burial will be to a Rosebud
cemetery. j* addition to the
vived by two oMff Wm-»»
two dw*tetr».
«.<», MtWtoy-'w-
of 3201
srafiEr**4
406 East Tern brimF
Craig AmrW Townsend, son «rf
Bachelor af Business Adminis-
tration degree at Commence-
ment May 30 at tie University
of Tcxm.^hb^h
Variety Show
A VARIETY
A VARIETY SHOW is schedul-
ed at Horace Maim Jitoter High
School auditorium atiL30 g
novdvy
Thursday (tonight),
will sing and sevt
acts will be present*
* * *
s#
r,k ‘ Woofer . ^
PARTLY CLOUDY Awt-day
wad Friday wtth widely wat-
jnsKsasL
aa.iatmrmn rww
Wffl be Mgh SM ill MS. •»«
I tea pun. atol tow at t ril a-*-
and 7:5* pm.
CALIFORNIA PLANE CRASH KILLS 44
LBJ Off On
Inspection
Of Poverty
TOO HOT TO HANDLE
BATTLING A FIRE started by explosion of a
truck, firemen back away from
pomps of % gaa station la
dangerously clow to gai
station in Minneapolis,
Two persons were injured in the blast, and
nearby buildings and autos per* damaged by
the fire.
Jury Trial Rejected--
Civil Rights Bill Passes
First Test By One Vote
WASHINGTON (API
ate sponsors of the civil rights
bill have won their first test of
fcW.Tn&.’STS
HRS
vote.
veto* were Use first on ——
ments offered to the
passed MU since the
civil rights debate h
the
Senate’*
began on
March 9.
The defeated amendment,
called up by Sen. Thruston R
Morton, R-Ky., would have pro-
vided tor Jury trial* in criminal
contempt of court case* arising
out of antidiscrimination tajunc-
m authorized by the biB.
It was opposed by the John-
son administration and the bill's
both Democrat* and
sponsors,
Republic*
Sen. -Richard B. Russell, D-
likely to be offered next week in
and effort to reverse foe out-
Mtt^"foo
to foe
thought we
Body Of Thinl
Slain Youngster
Is Discovered
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
alkout at railroad firemen hit
toe nation’s largest trateyard
today. A union spokesman said
other boy*.
Parolee Suspect
In Slaying Of
Two Policemen
S^tTSav;
•was* •«“»
'£
er 53 or 63 and goes by-vari-
a liases, is sou^it in the
iday slaying of John S. Kers-
EffvS?hTSictiv^The nowsky, 20. to New Brunswick,
®p5rws|jk
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.
(AP)—A nationwide alert
issued for a Sant
- ' for qut
Jersey sendee station attendant.
The FBI advised law officers
not to attempt an arrest of
Lewis Henry Wells without help
as foe exconvict is believed to
‘ heavily armed and may have
e or more companions with
. . .,v ... ;j;,j
Write, who lists hi* age as
gn
out _______I J
Monday slaying of Ji
20. in New Brunswick,
jfrMfi |
patro&^^am^Frank
w, uod«, r rPuencKsourg
said an FBI'ballis-
HILLSVILLE, V*. (AP)-FBI
agents, following a trail from
massachusetts to G^i o r g i a
through an ex-convict’s use of
had enough to cany it. But the
pressure! were too great. “
The vote Was a bit too close
for comfort for the other side.
Sen. ThomwH. Kucbri, GOP
floor manager tor the bill,
called it distressing.
The vote left as
-Presl-
ATHENS. Ohio (AP)
dent Johnson said today “our
challenge—not tomorrow but to-
day—is to accomplish objec-
tives which have eluded man-
kind since foe beginning of
time."
In a speech prepared for de-
livery at Ohio University! John-
son said foe nation must:
“Bring equal justice to all our
citixens,
“Abolish human poverty,
, “Eradicate killing and crip-
iltog diseases, and lengthen foe
plin„----- — —„---
life span of man to 100 or 120
years,
"Eliminate illiteracy,
“End open bias and active
bigotry,
“And, above all else, help to
neither
war any more.’
The visit to Athens was an in-
terlude to a trip through Ap-
palachia, Johnson's second such
tour in 13 days, aimed princi-
pally at drumming up backing
war on poverty pregram.
Off from the White House
town by hHiflOjrttr at 814 a,m„
foe President flew first to Cum-
berland, Md., for a speech to
which he depicted foe aotipov-
erty program as a campaign of
the continuing American K«WH
Julian.
From here Johnson flies on to
visit six states, meeting the un-
employed, visiting farmers and
promoting foe antipoverty drive.
The Ohio University address
carried on that effort, tying it
to with the other goals which
Johnson
set for Americans.
Not to a day. not in a year
will these gool* be reached,
SSSaoSSS
Senate's
crat Mike Mansfield snd Repub-
lican Everett M. Dirksen.
Under fols, defendants in
criminal contempt cases grow-
ing out of the toll’s endorcement
provisions would be entitled to
trial by Jury only if foe penalty
was in excess of 30 days in jail
or a $300 fine.
Just when their amendment
will reach a vote was left up in
the air.
Mansfield told the Senate
there was a possibility ii would
stolen credit cards, have found be voted on" late Monday
early Tuesday, but he said no
such discovery in little more
than a month.
Use of a credit card at a near-
by service station led foe FBI
Wednesday to foe location
mountainous terrain of a body
they identified as that of David
Wuiff, last seen when be left bis
home April 1 to Will^bifio,
NJ., to sttend a school func-
Whfl# medical authorities
checked for foe cause erf foe
boy’* death, police sought
fink it With Joseph Francis E
an Jr„
*aRi3!2££Z
,n Morton’s if they offer me. ^
««ara."s
» m nu pppi mv
ready to custody to Sumter, S.C.
charges of kidnaping
Bryan, one erf the FBI's 10
tost wanted criminals when he
most mm __ J■
________last Tuesday in
New Orleans, has been charged
with kidnaping John David Rob-
10, of Ml
Ison, 10,
t. Pleasant,
Alike, 8, of Hum-
and Dennis
boidt, Term. ■
The body of young Robison,
who disappeared from hi* bom?
Feb. 2T, was found March 31 to
grave near Hallan-
dale, Fla. The Burke bey had
been harmed when he was
d with Bryan at the time
• erf his arrest Dennis had been
missing from his home for four
days,
St. Petersburg, Fla., authori-
ties have sought to link Bryan
also with the March 23 disap-
pearance there of Lewis
(Hackle) Witeon. 7. The child's
body was found last Thursday
Fla., near a spot foe FBI has
learned Bryan got stock to the
Bryan was arraigned Monday
to New Orleans on the kidnaping
charge in foe Robison cai
^returned tojoufo Carolina
ns said three other mo-
i were in front of Frank-
beside Franklin, and
commitment bad been obtained.
Southern foes can Steve off a
vote by continuing to talk
*1
Motorcycles,
Car Involved
m Collision
Jerry Rodger Franklin. 26, of
3231 Wisconsin, is to Grit Coast
Hospital with head injuries after
a spectacular motorcycle - car
collision about 11:2U
task with great
not with cynicisms — there
achievements will be tine glory
3WUr to to front of
foe promise
a greater tomorrow.
that is
At News Conference
LBJ Makes Kids
Solons Squirm
WASHINGTON (AP) — While lor face a possible late summer
reporters’ children squirmed in recall,
their seats and munched on “The people’s business must
cookies President Johnson come first,” the President de-
passed on the kind of news that clared as he mixed business
makes congressmen squirm: Act replying to newsmen's question
the administration program I—with pleasure—playing picnic
there were l,080,people on hand
—a record, of sorts, for foe usu-
ally serious .business of dealing
with the press.
On the sober side, Johnson:
Announced that Secretary of
Defense 'Robert S. McNamara
will make still another visit to
South Viet Nam to see how foe
war agafost Communist guerril-
las is progressing.
Asked labor to hold wage de-
mands within the bounds of pro-
| ductivity increases and appealed
L to business to fold the price line
PRIZE HEIFER
sSsisWtJW? Cattle-Raising Champ
ttoe for timid
spirits ami trembling spirits.
"It is a time tor reaching out
to extend the boundaries of
the brain and widen foe dimen
ant of knowledge.
“We have it within our power
to find the best of solutions to
foe worst or problems. We in- ^Wen currently is a 17-year
tend to do tost that. oid high school boy who wants
"Let your young^hearts intri to a Veterinarian.
^tentraemies- Freddie Barton, who has been
eSf of prowty and raising cows for toMrte
disease, UHteracy ^ strife.” JWjtfk
Johnson announced that a con- pionships to a row d g
tract has
AreaR'
tkwi to
Simi1 SJ5 ffs
ve^SvTWs, he said, will make Future Farmers Fair. At; the
L(Sim^aWareaCe^f ^Ohio^is | bull
pju-
Wednesday on Highway 146,
near the Massey-Tompkins Road
?-c-> intersection.
DMotcs Franklin, hU wife,
wa* treated tor abrasiens and
minor cuts and released.
Franklin was driving his mo-
torcycle and his wife was
passenger when it collided head-
on ttafo a car driven by Arthur
Lee Brummett of Liberty.
The Franklins were in
_ roup of six motorcycles on an
outing to Daytor
cling toward Baytown when the
accident occurred. Both were
thrown off and their motorcycle
was knocked back into a motor-
cycle driven by Raymond Carl
Williams, 1307 Pershtog. Wil
state with substantial
ment This, he said, leaves
one Ohio area in this
compared with 10 out of
dustrial areas in 1961.
category tore ^ grand_ championship
in a palmetto grove at Venice, wf^
eats, said he was almost
stopped wher. his motorcycle
was hit. The Franklin vehicle
was a “total wreck.”
The windshield of the car was
ward at impact. The front of
the ear was damaged extensive-
ly. Williams’ vehicle was slight-
<**+***+m***W»% ly damaged.
Williams said three other mo-
torcycles
Two REL Junior
Achievers Get
$100 Scholarships
Two Robert E. Lee High School
They are Colleen Bailey,.IT,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. "B. C.
’, 904 Idlewood, and
Dwight Y.
Young, 18, son of Mr.
. C, C. Young Sr., 701
, Pearce,
The Baytown youngsters
among six to receive the schol
airships for their work in the
Junior Achievement companies
during the year.
Both were members of Uni-
smashed and it was presumed Both were members of Uni- ^. (AP) - a
that Franklin w«B thrown for-kem Junior Achievement Com- tractor, hitched to Te.xa. Tele-
FRF.DDIE BARTON, member of Crosby Future Farmers of
America, won a grand champion prise for his registered
Hereford heifer at the Sheldon, Dayton and Hwnhte fairs.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. 1. Barton, he won grand champton-
ahip In the Baytown Youth Fair iaot yew. RredMel* » Jpa*
ior at Cro(*y High School where Larry Cooper is FFA apon-
Crosby Youth Can't
Lose For Winning
o« « win s-»
two months. His registered
ird heifer won grand
so raises seme cattle.
Next stop on Freddie’s tail
host in the White House back
yard.
"I strive to please/’ Johnson - crew of ^ and
said at one point Wednesday ral Aviation Agency ob-
and the setting proved it. Be-
and the setting proved it.
fore him were tots to teen-agers,
children of newsmen invited to
the presidential news conference
and plied with punch served up
at gaily colored refreshment
stands.
The newsmen’s wives-respond-
ed to the presidential invitation,
too, and by White House count
or even cut prices.
Said he knows of no agree-,
ment with the Soviet Union that
involves Soviet acquiesence to
American spy plane surveillance
of Cuba. ,
Hoped that the Senate will
pass the civil rights bill by the
end of the month or the early
part of June so that Congress
can turn to such administration
programs as the antipoverty
and medical aid measures.
Johnson said “some cynical
people think there may be a de-
iberate slowdown in the "Sen-
ate” and then went on to say
that if there fe one he would
"seriously consider” calling
Congress back after the Repub-
lican National Convention in
July and foe Democratic con-
vention in August.
“I think foat the people of this
country are entitled to have a
vote on these important meas-
ures,’’ he declared. "This ad-
ministration is. entitled to have
a vote on them, and l am going
to ask the Congress to vote
them up or down.”
But the afternoon was too sun-
ny and the President too intent
on playing the showman to re-
main on a serious track.
Asked about his health-he
suffered a severe heart attack
in 1955—he' blended medical.
schedule will he the Baytown mai, and that I don't have any
Youth Fair in June.
Kaplan Rites
Held Thursday
been 'awarded three reserve
championship prizes for his
steers Another Hereford heifer
last year at the Baytown Ypufo
Fair. - "' ■ W-//1 -, *, ]
Freddie is a junior at Crosby
where he is active in Future
Farmers erf, America and foe
Freddie plans to study veteri-
edicine at Cooper's alma
Texas AAM Univer-
nary mi
mater
sityi
The
registered Hereford heif-
studems were awarded $100 er that ^ Men a^foreeAirne
Freddie^is the son o — r-
Houston. He died at 7:50 a.m.
Kaplan came to the U.S. from
Poland nearly a half - century
ago. He moved from New York
to Houston where he began in
the grocery business as a vege-
' * “ rd to
table salesman. He moved
Baycown 45 years ago and es-
tablished Kaplan’s
North Main.
Grocery on
•two, ** veieri- SBMSSiEM Borrowed
w hi,
widow, Mrs. Sara Rossnstock
Kaplan of Baytown; a daughter,
Mrs. Maurice Gerson of Hous-
ton; and (wo grandchildren.
He was a member of K’nes-
seth Israel Congregation in Bay-
-i:
Farmer Threatens
To Cut Phone Line
pany at REL, counseled by phone andr,Xi)e5P^ j8’
United Carbcn Company. Dwight ble near Elkhart, stood ready
. j l lirees frr>m th-x trirruinfl
was also named best junior to pull the line from foe ground
achievement salesman of the today.
year by the Houston Sales Exec- Juan Macias, 45-year-old farm
ulives, Inc. cr who owns the land under
The banquet was the cuimina- which the cable runs, said,
lion of a school term of work “They told me foat if I cut the
with junior achievement com- i/ne, I'd cut off service all the
panics set up by foe youngsters, way to Chicago.'
t. • “ Rice Hotel. Meanwhile, *
A. the clock as the 48-hour time
rsoti limit he gave the company to fe-
was move its cable ticked away. The
deadline comes Friday after-
ft ir«s, °a%5£
■ • •------• mornirg.
According to Baytown Pobce,
Turner said he. loaned his ear
to Leslie Monday afternoon “tor
rbout 45 minoies.” Charges
noon.
B. R. Reeves , of Palestine, a
'if company lawyer, persuaded
Macias Wednesday for a 48-hour
Dr reprieve from Macias’ original
The incident was an out
hundreds of rural
and Texas Telephone 4 Tele-
graph.
cent rate increase imposed
Feb. 1. Like others he had asked
that his telephone be removed
after April l unless the rate in-
crease was rescinded.
Urc v
he go
The company held fast, say- were filed later that day -
tag foe increase was necessary Leslie failed to return the
to meet its obligations. And Ma-
cias kept using his telephone al-
though he refused to pay the
new rate. *■ v
Later, when he thought his
phone would be taken out, he
went to Elkhart and* paid all
charges against him, he said, un-
says he wants 'fete- -------—. , ,
or lie wants the by ordering the main foie taken tfcm
that my blood pressure is 125
over 78, that my heart is nor-
Explosion
Follows; No
Survivors
CONCORD, Calif. (AP)-For-
ty-four persons were killed to-
day in foe crash of a Pacific
Airlines plane in foothill coun-
try 40 miles east of San Fran-
cisco.
An airlines spokesman said
the plane carried 40 passen-
server..
The twin - engined Fairchild
F27 was Flight 733. It originat-
ed :.in Reno,.... ......
Sheriff’s Sgt- Louis Skuse re-
ported from the crash scene, on
a ranch 10 miles east erf Con-
cord, that there were no sur-
vivors,
George M. Galvin, assistant
to the airlines president, said
Capt. Ernest Clark was the pi-
tot, The first officer was R. An-
dress and foe stewardess Marge
Schafer.
He said foe passenger list was
not available. *
A Tasajero rancher, Gordon
accmticcon said thA 1*n1fino
Rassmussen, said the ''plane
. There
exploded Into small bits,
wasn't a piece larglr than a foot
in diameter, except for foe
landing gear, after it hit.”
Rassmussen said he saw the
toej.pJanfr coming- in.....and that it. .
"faltered, there was a puff of
smoke and it crashed a mile
from m.v ranch.”
The air controller’s office at
Oakland International Airport
said the plane abruptly disap-
peared from its radar scopes.
Sheriffs officers
closed oft
the area where wreckage was
scattered Widely.
The wreckage did not burn. /
Late News
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
•VS. Embassy in Moscow tm
protested to the Soviets that
three American military at-
taches were drugged while on
a trip to Odessa, (he State
Department disclosed joaay.
Press officer Robert __ ,
Closkev, reporting the incident
gave few details and did not
attempt to give a reason for
foe action.
aches and. pains. I feel fine. I
get adequate rest and good pay,
and plenty to eat”
Without any prompting at all,
Johnson reminded ms audience
here and those across the coun-
try who heard him on radio ana
watched him on television —Jjf
foe now-famous dog-ears
He even remembered to pok.
fun at his. press secretary,
bushy-haired George
Reedy, by
telling the children: “Someone
even suggested you should be
Sggtssfix
■Flournoy was employed
;ars at Humble Oil and
person ought to remain anony-
ought t
mous, at least un'
hair cut again.”
he has his
Car Found
In Dallas
IA cir “borrowed” for a few
moments from a Baytown man
last Monday has been found
abandoned in Dallas and
young couple jailed as a re-
sult. r'
Liiuliai Leslie, 19, of Baytown
and his 17-year-old wife are be-
ing held in McAlester, Okla., in
connection with a charge filed
in Justice of the Peace M. M.
Brown’s court, accusing them
of car theft by bailee.
The car, owned by Charlie
b, Ih, ’KffifS'BaU when
they boarded a bus for Okla
Police Detective Sgt. L.
con-
to
got
Sgt. Ricketson said
tacted the McAlester
hold the couple when
report foat they were in Dallas
and had boarded foe bus for
McAlester.
Sgt Ricketson said he un-
derstood Leslie would haive ex-
.......* foat foe
Funeral Friday
:or Wreck Victim
Guy A. Flournoy
Funeral services for Guy Aus-
Crosby’s First Baptist Church.
Graveside rites will be at 4
p.m. Friday at Edna, Tex., un-
der direction of Earthman High-
lands Funeral ffon»7 The Rev.
J. T. Barnett and the Rev. Bob
Holbrook will officiate.
Flournoy died at 10:20 a.m.
Wednesday in a two-car collision
•
A Crosby resident 22 years, he—
was cochairman of the Harris.
County division of the United
Fund. He was a deacon at Ctt»-
fining Co.’s Baytown Refinery,
He was in the cost accounting
^IwriV^are mmm. Mm.
Eva Mae Flournoy of Crosby;
a daughter, Mrs, Wynona Ra«
ryncma
Sanderiin erf Pasadena; three
sistrs, Mrs.. Emma Hattenbach
sisrrs, Mrs., cimma nanenoacn
erf Nixcm, Mrs. Eva Cogbum of
Pasadena. Mrs. Lessie Thomp-
seal of Houston: six brothers,
M. M, Flournoy of Bay City, W.
P, Flournoy of Fort Worth, D:
V. (Speck) Flournoy of Bastrop,
M. R. Flournoy of Houston, K.
O. Flournoy of El Campo, C. R,
O. Flournoy of El Campo,
Flournoy of Houston; two
children, Rhonda Kay —
Ty Wayne Sanrterlin,
Pasadena,
f*7
HL&P Official To
Address Chamber
rrr-,,.. -i....... ’ "■ "i'tw j.sj
tom Robb of Houston, direc-
tor of industrial development tat
Houston Lighting and Power Co*,
wiJ present the program at the
Friday- noon luncheon meeting
of the Greater Baytown Cham-
ber of Commerce at the Holiday
Lnn. • - "'■»§•>
Robb will discuss what hi*
Company ,is doing to attract in-
dustry to die area.
He WBL also show a film on
the industrial iwtentiaf of the
Gulf Coast area. Daw Moor?,
chamber manager, said this film
has been rhown only twice 4-
once to the HL&P board at di-
rectors and once to a group of
Eastern investment bankers. .
Reservations rtmured^--
for the luncheon unless mem-
bers plan to bring fonts, Moore
' said. ~“
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