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Monday, February 3, 1969
IAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77120
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No Bridge
HUMBLE DUPLICATE Bridge
Club win not meet Monday night.
Their regular meeting dates are
the second and fourth Mondays
JC Garage Sale
BAYTOWN JAYCEES are invit-
ing the public to a "mammoth”
garage sale, to be held "all day”
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
at U N. Ashbel.
PWP Speaker
A HOUSTON TAX consultant
will be guest speaker at
meeting of the Baytown area'
chapter of Parents Without
Partners aL7:3U p.m. Tuesday at
the Civic Center, 2407 Market.
More information may be ob-
tained by calling Mrs. Adele
Trachalek at 427-2827 after
p.m.
Revue Kick-Off
BAYTOWN JUNIOR Forum is
inviting the public to attend a
"luck-off" party for the forth-
coming Red Stocking Revue.
The party will be at 7 p.m.
Tuesday in the Baytown Civic
Center.
Founders Day
BAYTOWN CITY Council of
Parent-Teacher Associations
will have its annual Founders
Day meeting at 10 a.m. Wed-
nesday in the Baytown Civic
Center auditorium. A program
and luncheon will follow at 11
.iMR. ;
Open House
BARBERS HILL Oddfellow
Lodge No 28 will have open
house beginning at 7-r» p.m
Tuesday at the lodge hail in Mont
Belvieu. A film of the activities
of the two homes that are sup-
ported by the Oddfellows and
Rebekahs will be shown. All
Oddfellows, Rebekahs and the
public are invited.
Board Meeting
THERE WILL be a Church
Women United Board Meeting at
j>:3u a.m. Tuesday at Grace
Methodist Church. All members
are urged to attend.
LC Film
AN ENGLISH film, "King and
Country." wiltbe presented at 7
p.m. Wednesday in the Lee
College auditorium. This is the
fourth in the college's Fine Arts
Film Series. The public is invited
and there will be no admission
charge.
On Dean’s list
CHARLES DOUGLAS Marable,
son of H. W. Marable and the late
Mrs. Marable, is on the Dean's
List at the University of Texas
College of Pharmacy, His grade
point average for the fall semes-
ter was 3.35 out of a possible 4.00.
Story Hour
STERLING MUNICIPAL Libr-
ary story lime for pre-school
children will be held at 10 a.m.
Tuesday. Junior Forum mem
bers in charge of the story telling
*1 Tuesday are Mrs. Peter Buenz
* and Mrs. Tom Ron. “
On USS Columbus
KA1MRMAN THIRD Class Wil
ham Barker, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry M. Barker of 505
Grantham, is serving aboard the
guided missile cruiser, USS
Columbus, in the Mediterranean.
Glasses Found
A PA1K of prescription glasses
lias been found at 1704 E. Texas.
Owner can claim by calling 422-
7828 and giving adequate
description._
I 1 »n* uipionM
I WEATHERtej
Nixon OKs
Talks On
Mid-East
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pwg-
dent Nixon has decided to ac-
cept s French proposal for early
talks among gnat power repre-
sentatives at the United Nations
on ways to brook the deadlock
in Middle East peace efforts.
He hopes particularly for pas
allel action by foe Soviet Union.
A reply to the Parte govern-
ment is due to go out this week.
It is expected to make dear
that while the United States
aero hope in consultations with
the Soviet Union, Britain and
France its primary purpose is
to move off dead center the
U.N. peace-seeking efforts of
Swedish Ambassador Gunnar
Jarring. _
In a related move, Nixon will ^ cicw
mid a friendly message to Gar Trttfco
mal Abdel Nairn in the near of
fkiture, replying to a note of con-
i he received from the
President.
note will be dedgned to
indicate that If' Nasser, as re-
ported, plans to propose rpsum-
ing diplomatic relations with the
United States he wjll find Nixon
Teachers from both Baytown
lugh schools will be among the
Harris County high school and
junior college chemistry
teachers meeting Thursday on
the University of Houston
campus to form a "Chemistry
Teachers Association."
They are Mrs. Patricia Rich-
ardson and Mrs. Martha Bentley
from Sterling, and Pat Barry
and Haldean Brown from Robert
Lee. They will meet at the
University Center at 6:30 p.m.
Tiw new organization is being
lorjpefl under the sponsorship of
the Southwest Texas Section of
, [the American Chemistry
Society.
A steering committee of rep-
resentatives from local area,
high schools and the American
Chemical Society has already
PARTLY CLOUDY and cooler
is the Monday weather
forecast in the Baytowa, area.
Temperature range expected,
low 5tte to mid-SOt. A cool front:
arriving late Sunday night
expelled heavy overcast and
showers.
the Middle East crisis, Z
and the Vietnam situation .have
dominated Nixon Yforeign poli-
cy concerns during hbi first 10
days in office, he has also set in
motion a plan to visit several ^
Western European capitals
the next two months and confer
with allied government chiefs.
Diplomatic soundings for the win
trip have been started, and the the
White Houto te due to make
announcement soon on his
plans.
BUSTER BROWN’S entry in a
Beaumont dog show came out on (See mxofi ^ g
lop. Buster s dog, Fritz, a (-
weimeraner, won a first place
ribbon.
Happy birthday wishes to
To Committee
Monday.
Fifth grader Elizabeth Rice is
. the lucky one in her family —
within recent weeks, she won the
SL Joseph's School candy sale,
and a door prize at the Credit
Union... Margie Kloesel's note
of appreciation is appreciated,
- ... Betty Johnston stays busy
s" these days getting everything
ready for the Women's Worry
Clinic . . . Miff and Dan Men-
doza celebrating a wedding an-
TSveSary rr. trie Rev . P. Walter
Henckelt looks over records for
liie year Trinity kindergarten
began, in 1847, and finds the
names of Bryan Stratton, John
‘ Sylvester Jr. and Norman R.
Hargrave listed among the
pupils enrolled. *
Nixon exp
andji meet with
Charles de Gaulle. Other capi-
tals which figure In tafi
speculation are London, Bonn
and Rome.
A meeting with Soviet Irodere
House Bills Go
AUSTIN (AP) - The legisla-
ture starts its fourth week to-
day with referral of a big stack
of House bills to the commit-
tees that are the first hurdle
each proposed new law must
cross.
Both houses convene at
11 oa.m.
House reading clerks were ex-
pected to be hoarse by the time
they made their way
dozens of bills read for the
time and sent to committees.
Appointment of the committees
No Soviet Charge
At.. V
PnpUi State Ink
Mom Hr V.D.I.C.
cleared the way for
introduction of the measures.
Senate hearing: start today,
and House hearings continue.
The House Appropriations Com-
mittoe started its hearings
Thursday, as soon as the meas-
ure had been introduced.
Planned for this week is final
action on an emergency bill
raising state employe retire-
ment benefits by 10 par cent
and increasing minimum checks
Ifrom $40 to foo a month.
Thank You,
Groundhog!
Fat chance the groundhog had here Sunday to see
his shadow!
Cloudy, overcast skies and dripping rainfall
dominated the scene, but at least as far as the
groundhog’s time-honored forecast is concerned, that’s
good. According to groundhog authorities, this kind of
weather confuses the little beast and he stays around
to romp in what he thinks will soon be spring weather.
H. G. Work said only .22 of an inch of moisture was
recorded by his rain gauge on Highway 146 over
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But other parts of Harris
County may have had more rainfall.
Despite the groundhog’s forecast of spring, cooler
weather seems in store for the immediate future along
the Gulf Coast. A new cool front arrived late Sunday,
dropping temperatures. Scattered frost is forecast for
Monday night f|
Baytown Teachers To
Join Chemistry Group
formed tentative plans and
nominated a slate of officers to
be elected at the first meeting, swer period
An ad hoc committee will be
appointed by the new chairman
to study a proposed set of by-
laws.
Objectives of the association
will be to create closer co-
operation among Chemistry
teacher, to insure that the
resources and professional
development programs of the
association reach those involved
in chemical education, and to
provide a vehicle for dialogue
between chemistry teachers and
professional chemists.
The meeting wi|i begin with a
dinner for teachers and their
gliests.OscaR.Sarabia of
Sliarpstown High School will
preside at the business session.
Dr. M. K. Willcott of the Uni-
versity of Houston chemistry
department will then speak on
Modern Methods of Spectral
Analysis^* A question and an-
wiil follow.
Lynchburg Ferry To
Get History Marker
The official Texas historical and the San Jacinto Rfvsr to
marker for Lynch’s Ferry will
orected In April, Frank E.
of Houston, chafeman
the Harris County Historical
Survey Committee, said.
The marker will be placed
the San Jacinto Battlefield
Park near the Battleship Texas
off Highway 1J4
Dedication plans will be an-
nounced. The marking of his-
toric sites and landmarks is
part'Of fire Texas State Histori-
Survey Committee’s
gram to record, appreciate,
mark, preserve and survey
'exas history. More than 3,300
official Texas historical mark-
have been awarded through-
in out Texas shire fire program
was begun in 1964. '
The Lyhch’s Ferry marker
be one mile northeast of
1832 by Nathanial Lynch, one
of Stephen F. Austin’s “old
three hundred* colonists. Usual to
charges at ferries like this
were 35 cents for a man and
hone; 4 emits for a bead of
site of Lynch’s Ferry, a j mules,
r ferry of Texas under
Mexico and the Republic of
Texas. It was established at
Vietnam* ^ talks ^ confluence of Buffalo Bayou (See FERRY, Page 7)
cattle. But rates could be raised
for risky high-water service.
Lynch, who was from Mis-
souri, was «n active Texas mer-
chant and judge. After a small
settlement grew up near his fer-
ry, he platted the town of
“Lynchburg” about 1835 but
few shared his enthusiasm for.
foe spot*
In March and April, 1331, as
Texan settlers fled the Mexican
Army during the War for Inde-
pendence, hundreds cross the
San Jacinto at Lynch’s Ferry,
By April 2, 1836, the prairie
Sulphur Springs attorney said
represented a woman
related to the convict
McAdams also , said ho
received a letter from an
Oklahoma woman who said
was covered with wagons, horsesJ she was Pskner’s niece.
tents, and baggage.
Nineteen days later at foe
attic of San Jacinto, the
General Santa Anna,
Backlog Of Pending Cases
Before U.S. Courts, 97,245
Violence, Traffic Claim
44 Texans Over Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Texas weekend violent
death toll skyrocketed to 44 by
Sunday midnight with traffic
again foe groat killer.
Latest reports foowed 21 of
foe victims died in traffic acci-
dents
The count began at 6 p.m.
iftWay.
Among foe dead were:
Jack Bradford, 36, of Mans-
field who died of knife wounds
received in a north Fort Worth
melee Sunday.
Donald Burke,' 30, t service-
man from Perrin Air Force
Base in North Texas, was killed
shortly after midnight Saturday
when hit car hit a duster of
trees and broke in half
Dennis H. Parris, 17, of Dal-
las was hurled from his car and
crushed beneath another vehicle
Saturday night on a Dallas free-
way. *
An early morning shooting
Sunday in Lubbock killed Henry
>. Davis, 36.
A two-car collision near Bee-
vOle in South Texas Saturday
night killed Mrs. Ethel Frels,
50, of Beevflle.
A truck-car accident 30 miles
Now They’re
Kin To Him
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (AP)
'exes prison officials sa
several parsons have claimed to
be relatives of a convicted
murderer who died Jan. 13,
leaving an estate of 616,000
from leather craft work.
James Clint “Cowboy”
Palmer of Sulphur Springs,
Tex., had served 33 years of a
99-year term wtjen he died at
the fills farm unit northeast of
Huntsvflle. „ „
His unclaimed body was sent
r foe lJnlv«lty of Texas
Dental School in Houston for
Accused of slaying a man in
1985 and burying him in East
Texas, Palmer made saddles,
purees, hoots and belts and
sold them in foe prison craft
diop.
C.L McAdams, Ellis unit
warden said a Falfurrtes, Tex.,
resident, listed in Palmer’s file
as a coudn, visited the prison
last week. A letter from a
Walker County Judge An
Gates has been apjrointed
temporary executor of
Palmer’s estate. v-
%______GLEN WALKER
east of Dallas on Interstate 30
killed Bennie Larry of Kaufman
Sunday. The accident occurred
during a heavy fog.
Dolton J. Meimon, 32, died of
buBet wounda Saturday night in
Houston. ^
Randall Lucker, 13, of Atasco-
16 was killed Saturday when he
Hid his hone wero hit by a
truck near the south edge of San
Antonio.
Police reported a tavern argu-
ment ended in foe fatal shoot-
ing Saturday at Houston of Abra
Semien Jr., 19, of Church Point,
La.
Howard Smith, 15, was killed
Saturday when the tractor he
was driving overturned -hi a
field near his home outside La
Porte.
■Officers said ( derringer in
the hands of Mr*. Archie Hunter
discharged accidentally and the
shot killed her son Patrick, 2,
at their Houston home Saturday.
Roy Lee Jones, 56, died at a
Houston residence Saturday aft-
er another shooting which de-
tectives blamed on an argument.
Death by asphyxiation wai the
official verdict after Mrs. BID
(See VIOLENCE, Page 5)
Councilman Walker
Is Mayor Candidate
THE REIGN IN SPAIN
OurWorid
Today
noMAr warn
+ A college student is shot to
death on a South Side street in
Kansas City, police say, while
at least six witnesses watch.
City Councilman Glen Walker
Monday morning became the
Hurd councilman to pitch his hat
into the ring as a candidate for
mayor in the forthcoming April l
election.
Walker filed his candidacy
with City Secretary Mrs. Edna
Oliver, thus joining Councilmen
Albert Fapestiel and A M
Andy " Braswell in seeking the
mayor s job.
Walker said his decision to run
had been made in foe last three
days “due to considerable en-
couragement from friends atid<
circumstances which have de-
veloped over the past few days.”
Walker declined to comment on
tile circumstances he referred
to. \
Walker's decision to run for
mayor leaves his, own council
seat a wide-open race. He has
completed serving one term as
councilman from District 1,
naying wpo the job in 1866 over
two other candidates without a
runoff
FiHiesiietafKlBrasweiteach
nave one more year to serve in
itteir council posts from District
- _
5 and District 4, respectively, but
each has indicated they wish to
resign before the April 1 election,
l’lieir intention is to allow new
candidates to file for their posi-
tions to serve the remaining one
ye^r terms. Their posts would be
voted on in the election April l,
Mayor Seaborn Cravey. who is
ending his second term in the top
spot, has not indicated whether
or not he will be a candidate for
re-election.
In addition to the District 2
+ Boris Karloff, the gentle
monster who ' created
Frankenstein in the movies
and starred in a host of horror
films, dies in a hospital near
London.
+ The prosecution and the
defense start with a fresh list
of 15« names to tap for two
alternate jurors for the
presidential assassination
conspiracy trial of Clay L.
Shaw in New Orleans.
+ An Iraqi military
spokesman claims that 14
Israeli jet fighters attacked
spot and the mayor’s ^job, two
other council posts are to be
voted on in the April l election.
1'erms of Councilman Lamar
Kelley of District 6 and Donnie
Hulium of District 3 are conclud-
ing. Neither juts announced his
intentions, but Kelley last week
removed himself from any
speculation that he would run for
mayor.
Walker, 36, moved to foe Bay
tewnareawHlftHH pastor of the
Second Baptist Church in High-
lands. Froih 1862-1866, he
traveiedTisan^
the Pioneer Herald. He beeame
associated with Radio Station
KWBA in February of 1866, and
was promoted to manager of foe
station a year ago. Last year,
Walker and’his wife bought foe
Bible Book Store on Park Street
and now operate the store as The
Book End. Mrs. Walker was for
inerly with the audio-visuals'
department of the school system
here. They have three children,
Melinda, 8, Eric, 6, and Marla, 5^
Walker is a member of foe
Baytown Rotary Club and its
.current program chairman. Hei
is currently serving as interim
pastor of First Baptist Church.
lie says
down two planes which
crashed in flames in the Syrian
Golan Heights, new occupied
by Israel.
+ Viet Cong troops firing
from ambush along the banks
of a canal cut into two South
Vietnamese companies in the
Mekong Delta, killing 28 of foe
government soldiers and
wounding another 15, military
spokesmen report.
Sorority Meeting
TA chapter of Phil weaponry and might join foe
+ The Red Chinese envoy,
Liao Hochu, who defected in
the Netherlands, is believed (o
be in foe United States, act-
cording to Dutch sources.
+ President Nixoh calls his
Urban Affairs Council to
another meeting in foe White
House as he continues for-
mulating plans to deal with foe
problems of foe nation’s cities.
. + Senate Democratic
Leader Mike Mansfield says
maneuvering by congressmen
trying to prevent a vote on in-
creasing their own pay
"makes us look bad.”
+ Red China has progressed
faster than expected in nuclear
Total Is
(Up 71 Pet.
|Sincel955
WASHINGTON (AP) - A re-
port sent to the attorney general
today showed that foe backlog
of civi and criminal cases pend-
ing in U.S. district courts at the
end of foe last fined stood at a
record 97,215.
The report, prepared by the
Administrative Office of the
US. Courts, aid the backlog
rose 71 per cent from 1965 al-
though the number of cases
filed remained “relatively sta-
ble.”
As part of his fight against foe
rising tide of crime in the coun-
try, President Nixon ha called
for more federal judges and
prosecutors in order to dispose
of foe cases faster.
A companion report by the Ju-
dicial Conference of the United
States also express concern
about congested court calendars
and suggested in addition to
more judges:
—A careful and fooroutfi
analysis of foe inventory of
pending cases
-Notification to defense law-
yers of the need to complete
trial preparations as promptly
aspossible.
-Stronger judicial control
over requests for continuance
The Administrative Office re-
port indicated foe backlog at foe
end of fiscal 1966 consisted of
criminal esses pending
and 32,432 civil suits.
The median time in which a
defendant may expect to get a
jury trial, according to statisti-
cal data in the report, h 5.6
months. This varies from a high
of 22.8 months in foe Eastern
District of New York to L4
months in foe Western District
of Kentucky.
Defense lawyers arid U.S. at-
torneys generally consider 4 to 6
weeks as, a maximum that a
person should await jury trial.
The following figures show foe
I median time defendants await
jury trial in federal courts
[across foe nation, with foe me-
dian time it takes to (Huron
| guilty (dess in parentheses:
First circuit, 7.8 months (3
I months); Second circuit, 1(LS
(8J); third circuit 9 (5.3);
| fourth circuit 46 (LO); fifth' cir-
6.3 (LS); sixth circuit 4.0
|(2J); seventh circuit 9.3 (3.5);
eighth circuit 5.5 (11); ninth
circuit 46 (L9); tenth circuit 14
l(L7) and foe District of Colum-
bia l&l (8,8).
DEPUTY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Lynn
Sigma Alpha sorority will meet
at 7:30p.m. Tuesday in the home
ot Mrs. E. A. Rose, 472 S. Burnet
Drive.
long • range missile club as
early as 1*68, Asian and
European diplomats in London
THIS TEAM of lawyers is providing foe defense for Sirhan B. Sfrhan, accused In foe
killing of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. From foe left are Russell Parsons, Grant B. Cooper
and Emile Zola Berman. ♦ •_
Sirhan B. Sirhan
U.S. Army Troop Cuts In Europe Opposed
CHIEF
Comp
L„.
mpton heads foe Los Angeles prosecuting team which
attempting to convict Sirhan B. Sirhan, accused in
i muraer of Robert F. Kennedy.
GKAFENWOEHR, Germany
(API —,U. S. Army leaders are
stiffening their resistance to
turthercuts in the combat troops
America has stationed in
Europe..
This was made plain here this
past week by both Gen. Lyman
Lemmlzer, the American who is
the Supreme Allied Commander
in Europe.
The Army's desire to keep
what it has got ot least, is per-
haps the most significant de-
velopment to cone out of the
current military exercise, Car-
bide Ice, thfU will end Tuesday
liwugh air transport capability
lias vastly improved, the bring-
ing ol forces from the United
Suites to Europe was a reinforc-
ing action, nothing more, ;
Lemmlzer emphasized that
theU.S. troops now here are at a
bare minimum to keep up their
Lemnitzer declared that al- commitments. U. S. forces in
West Germany have 230,000
men.
Lemnitzer asked newsmen not
to overlook the great number of
supply personnel it took to get
the equipment ready for theln-
cormng troops to use and what it
will lake to put that equipment
(See TROOPS,‘M* *)
No Clues In
$180,000 TSU
[Funds Theff
HOUSTON (AP) - Police - ;
were without clues today follow-
ing the theft of 6130,000 in reg-
istration money from the busi-
ness office of Texas Southern
University.
Burglars using an acetylene
torch cut a hole in a walk-in
afe Saturday night and took foe
money fwai a smaller afe fat-
side.
A. L. Palmer, fiscal vice
president of the university, aid V
r$42,000 in cash and $138,000 in
checks were ln the small safe.
“Some of the checks were
stamped for deposit but many
were negotiable,” Palmer said.
He said foe money came from
students who registered Friday
and Saturday. The spring se-
mester at TSU began today.
Clinton Horne, TSU auditor
who discovered foe theft Sunday
morning, aid about $15,000 in
cash was picked up by an ar-
mored car before registration
ended Saturday afternoon. The
unhrereity carried no burglary
insurance.
The burglars entagtd tbe buW
ing—Hannah Hall—through a
window, police said. The torch
was found inside the large safe
and acetylene tanks were, hid-
den in bushes outside the win-
dow.
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