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MR. AND MRS. LARRY K. RUNE
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VOL 45, NO J 36
IAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
Sunday, Decam her 31, 1467
7967 Marked Beginning Of 'Steel Age
' By HENRY HOLCOMB
When the historians look back
to 1967 « half century or io
hence, they will probably cnJ
the year “the beginning of the
iteel age In Baytown."
Certainly 19*7 wasn't the year
when U J. Steel'i gigantic pinna
ibr the Baytown area were flnt
mentioned here.
But It t.ei the year when UJ.
Steel made It* plans definite —
they actually started building
And It was the year'when Buy
' town took the first alej* toward
Its "steal age.” * *_
Each year about Jhl* time
newspaper editors across the
land pick the lop stories of tl e
year then ending Each event
or series of events Is, rated ac-
cording to Its Impact on future
things to come, the number of
people It Involved and so an.
The editors of The Baytown
Sun were unanimous In their
selection of the continuing U.S.,
Steel story as the top news of
the year In Baytown
During 1967 several U.S Steel-
relsted things happened here.
A partial agreement wai reach-
ed In a controversy over rail
service to the proposed U.S. Steel
site on east Harris and west
Chambers County.
The agreement permitted con-
struction of a Missouri - Pacittc
Railroad spur across Highway
146 and Trl City Beach Road k>
the site. Construct *on on the
spur Involved relocating an old
lift - span bridge from and un-
used spur In Arkansas.
The huge bridge, one of the
moat Interesting stories of the
year, was floated IOC miles down
the Mississippi River, across the
Intracoastal Cana) and up the
Houston Ship Channel and Cedar
Bayou to Ut new location.
Railroad officials decided It
mould be faster to utilise the
old bride here than to start
from scratch and build a new
atrueturo. The bridge la already
In place. Train* can now emu
Cedar Bayou to the steel alt*.
Work Is seell under way on a
giant rail marshalling yard at
the site.
It was also during this year
that UJ. Steel confirmed that
'*11 had completed acquisition of
14,000 acres of land for Its new
"Texas Works."
' These purchase* and other
U.S. Steel activity In the Boy-
town area caused bank deposits
at all area banks to soar to new
nigh* In 1967 - (66 9 million.
The retail and construction busi-
nesses also spared.
Latsr in 1967, The Sun learned
of several U.S- Steel contract
awards. The figures were asLo-
nomical ... (26 m'llion for the
foundation of the first unit of
the Texas Works and (125 mil-
lion for a 160-Inch plate mill.
The people figure* are os fan-
tastic and the dollar amounts.
By M^rch, reliable sources say
about 1,800 persona will be In-
volved In the construction of the
Texas Works. The fore* 1* due
to reach 2,000 later In 190
When the first phase of the
Texas Works begins production
in the late fall of 190, work ts
expected to be under way on the
eecond phase, and soon totothe
future, steel afllclal* have said.
Several other top stories re-
lated to U.S. Steel.
Garboq*
BAYTOWN residents who nor
mslly have their garbage picked
tto on Mondays will have
theirs collected on Tuesday of
next week.' Those who have
theirs picked up on Tuesday will
have to watt until Wednesday
The one - day delay is brought
about because city garbage col-
lectors have Monday off.
• GodKHtitittvr •
CUFF ALEXANDER of
hast*, FIs., will speak
Talit-
to the
Senior Citizens
Hit At Medicare's
Increased, Rates
WASHINGTON (API - Tit
leader of a nationwide citizens
group says Increasing the, pre-
mium for the voluntary part of
medicare mean* the nation*
elderly art "having to pay for
the failure of Congress to pre-
vent the escalation of doctors'
feet."
"It’s disgraceful." laid WU
Ham R. Hutton, executive direc-
tor of the National Council of
Senior Citizen*, which claim* to
bs the largest organisation of
the elderly In the country with 2
The increoie from (3 to 14 a
month, announced Friday
morning wceahlp aorriw- af April % avptmuS mi
or Bayou Baptist Church, where
he wo* paster from 1930 to 1934.
I» Cafifornia \
QUARTERMASTER SECOND
CUm William.L Barnes, US
Navy, ton of Mr. and Mry. Wil-
liam L. Barnes of-530 Pearl St.
In Baytown, has returned
Lang Beach,' Cadi, aboard the
destroyer USS Henry W Tucker
following « six • month deploy-
ment to the die Western Pa
-eifle.
Completes Training
MARINE PRIVATE Rl_-_
Teqre, aon of Mr*. OBHMfBxt mltible.
udolph
Torre*, 5327 Barkaloo Road In
Baytown, has been graduated
from eight weeki of reerult
training at the Marine Corps
Recruit Depot here. He will now
undergo from two to four weeks
of Individual combat training and
then, after leave at home, will
report to hi* llryt Marine Carp*
assignment.
Aboard Ship
!R FIRST (
SHIPFITTER First a«** Ver-
non J. Kelly. United States
Navy, aon of Mr. and Mrs An-
ttpne O. K*Uy of 7203 *. Dal-
las Baytown, is serving aboard
the newly recommissioned land-
ing wait repair shipJJSS Indra
WMtbtr Aod TMn 0
MOSTLY Heady skies with a
warming tread tor Sunday are
expected In the Baytown area.
Temperature* will range from
to be Hi to to mU M.
on-*—.*_ **■ m a/.|,tftinnal ^-,111
mm fmm to to-II mpk-
PrebnMIMy ef rata Saturday
nlaht and early Sunday U 73
percent.
GALVESTON TIDES Sunday
sartU be Mgb tl 1:11 a m. and
<:M p.m. mod low at ISAS
a.m. and 11 ill p.m.
part of medicare whlcfi pays
doctor ce«t- The cover
(ontrioute* an equal nv
amount - - -
Hutton’s group ha* urged Con-
gress to set limits on 'doctors1
fee* under medicare. But he
asld In an Interview it hasn’t
beta don* because "the medical
profession has an enormous po-
litical Influence and Congress la
afraid because It. needs them
(doctoral to run this.’'
Comment-from the American
Medical Association on the new
ratek was not Immediately
Critics of medicare say It has
A built-in tendency toward High-
er coat* because doctor* are
free to charge "reasonable and
customary"! rates.
Administration officials any
they have no plans to ask for
any form of fee-setting or limi-
tation or fee*.
An administration source ink!
one reason It Is not now corrid-
or tog fee scnraulea It that doe-
tor’s fees are not expected to
use even a* last u tht coat of
living next year.
And. he noted, some A
leaden recently excretaed con-
cern about the increase in doc-
ton fees.
"They know there’s a tot of
pressure" for a fee schedule, he
Humphrey Lands
In hrory Coast
On Africa Jaunt
__ the thump of bongo
• dmms^md b.mcfwt gtoU do^-
Presidpnt Hubert H. Humphrey
launched his 12-day tour of nine
African nations.
Several groups of 50 to 100
well-wishers broke from the
crowd of c thousand, pressed
He* toflcatei farmer Alabama
Oaf. Quern Wallace ha* wen
more tutor regtstratk* the*
h* needs to gel his name on
California's lt*t preaMea
bailee
• Passage oi
school bond losu*.
• San Jacinto Methodist Hos-
pital waged a successful fund
drive to enlarge Its patient csr*
facilities and improve other
services. The drive for (670.500
— the largest goal of any Bay-
town fund drive will be only
r.bout (100.000 shy of the top u
the year ends.
Fund drive officials are press-
ing to go beyond the goal. Sev-
eral large dorurs from outside
Baytown have expressed "great
confidence" In the future of this
Marines Control
Lethal Resistance
Antitrust
Feds Rap Drug
~™£: ■ Manufacturers
NEW YORK (API .- Ttaee Gas-tort
major drug firms nave Bren '
found guilty of antitrust viola
tjons in the manufacture and
distribution of (1.7 billion worth
of antibiotics.
The conspiracy case against
the American Cyanimid Co.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
JONATHAN NEAL PACE, tH. sen ef Mr. and Mrs. K«a
Pace ef Ml Plneook Drive, Hlghlaada, ring* la the new year
for Baytown.
CIA Ceases All
Secret Funding
WASHINGTON (AP) - The,"would not be-in th* national in-
postwar era of secret financing terest and might jeopardize
of private organizations by the iheir chances of developing new
Central Intelligence ' Agency mean* of support,” he said,
end* officially at midnight Sun- President Johnson named the
day. What will follow Is still a (See CIA, Page If
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St<Mh
: ; DOTTIE AND RAY Ttckner will
meet Wendell and Janice Shif-
ted, former Boytonlan* now liv-
ing In Baton Rouge, for n New
XiAr's whirl In New Orleans
which Includes the Sugar Bowl
gam* where they’ll be rooting
(or the Tlcknera’ Wyoming
turn . . . Margo Si
carricti her pet dog to
Little Theater rehearsals- ,
Grady Harris can change sets
in the theater funnier than any
crew member ... Mr. and Mrs,
M. C. Harris are surprised by
b postiJtoIlday vlsil from her
brotHSrG. H. Sorrels and his
son Gary qf While Pine, Tenn.
. . . Kathy Battarbee excited
over a birthday and a new
niece . . . Mrs. John Milligan
« entertaining lots of out - of-town
company prior to her son’s wed-
ding.
— Tim Elliott and Bill Perkins
are celebrating their 16th birth-
day today at a surprise party
for both who were born at Sun
Jacinto Methodist Hospital the
same day and at the same time,
with the added distinctions: Tim
was he smallest born that day,
and Bill whs the biggest; and
now both lads, close friends and
Often mistaken for twins, ate
six • footer*.
Pam Phelps takes a trip to
Monterrey with the YMCA.
' .
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problem for the new year.
The State Department an-
nounced Friday that, In line
with the recommendation of
special panel named by the
President, covert CIA funding of
Oversens activities of some pri-
vate educational and voluntary
group* “will In every Instance
be discontinued prior to Dec. 31,
MfT."
"At the time of termination ol
support." the State Department
announcement added, "some of
the organizations received con-
Iributions to tide them over the
period required to develop new
sources of. fund*:."
A* In the past, press officer
Robert J. McCloskey refused to
name the organizations getting
Central Intelligence Agency
help. He ha* said only a "very
small" number among more
Inar. 1.000 private group* en-
gaged in overseas activities re-
eelved CIA aid.
To disclose their names
Baytown Sun To
Deliver Monday
The Baytown Sun will be pub-
lished Monday - Ne* Year’*
Stop-
Because of the hottday, how-
ever, the business ond advertis-
ing department* will bo closed
Classified advertising customers
may place or cancel ads until
9:30 a.m., Tuesday because of
the holiday Monday
• Seven mm, among them
a Km Rtox Kiaa leader, have
bam aeatoacei to federal
Pri*m terms lor compiling to
vtoUte the civil right* of three
ymmg men slain hi raral Mis
nlatippt mere thaa law years
age-
.. . •,
• Outbreak* ef fighting dnr
tog the M - how Christmas
trace in Soath Vietnam result
nj la death tor seven service-
a Of the ADted forces nod
0 Communists, according to
Pentagon figure*.
. • Law enforcement officer*
arc still took tag far two yeng
bandits who held up the First
National Bank ef Rkomc Fri
day and escaped with *70,000
In cask.
• Susan Holder, IS - year
*U MbaUnlppi beauty. Is the
190 "Maid of Cotton.’ >
• Snow pooeo n hazard for
motorists over n wide stretch
of the country.
• prisoners riot to county
ceilblock to Cincinnati tor the
second time this week. '
°
• Texas Railroad Commis-
sion reports the average cal-
endar day all allowable as if
Jan. 1 will be 3,04,10 bar-
rels, compared with 1,117,799
barrel* a day on Dec. 15.
patt airport aacqrity bander. Briot^MyerT Co~7 and Charlw
and jostled aroundI Humphrey, ^ q,. mVked a slgnlfi-
trylng to shake hit band. He
reacted In good humor.
Humphrey said before hi*
takeoff from Washington Friday
that he hoped to show African*
that America wl*he* Africa
peace, progress and "human op-
portunity."
"Here, as elsewhere through-
out the new Africa,” Humphrey
said at the airport, "people are
building their nation* by their
own effort* and determining
their own destinie*. The.people
of the United State* share your
aspirations ” *’
Principally. Humphrey he*
come to represent President
Johnson at the inauguration of
cant confrontation between the
UJ- government and the multi-
billion-dollar UJ. pharmaceuti-
cal industry.
A UJ. District Court jury of
11 men and a woman found the
three firms guilty, of restraint of
trade, conspiracy to monopolize
and actual monopoly. The panel
returned the verdict Friday
night after beginning delibera
■tioitt Thursday.
Maximum penalties on the
charge* arf fine* of (150.000
against each defendant. The
conviction* also open the way
for civil suits from major pur-
chaser*.'The Sherman Antitrust
Act provide* for treble damage*
J^^ntt^tom Tubman of ,gainlt vioUtori.
Nelson,
oeen conducting a
probe of drug price*.
Clifford D. Slverd, president
of American Cyanlmkl, ex-
pressed surprise and disappoint-
ment in the verdict and said the
firm would "take all poaaible
steps in the federal courts
have this adverse decision set
aside.”
A Pfizer spokesman com
mented.’VWe disagree with and
are deeply disappointed by the
verdict of the Jury. There are
still questions to be ruled upon
by the trial court and we shall
therefore not comment at this
time beyond saying the charges
against us in this case are un-
founded.”
The trial opened Oct. 23. The
three firms were accused of en-
tering Into arrangements during
the period from 1953 to 1961 to
(T-reduce and distribute broad
spectrum antibiotics In violation
of the Sherman law.
Liberia Monday and Tuesday.
Tubman was re-elected last
May for hit sixth consecutive
term.
Humphrey and his wife, along
with Supreme Court Justice
Thuijcood Marshall and a score
of other U.S. officials, are to
join prominent guests from all
parts of the world at the New
Year’s Day ceremonies for Tub} /
man in Monrovia. The capital of ji.j
Africa’s oldest republic, Monro-
The trial occurred as growing
federal involvement In the
health field through medicare
isnd. other programs has gener-
ated increased concern over the
coat and quality of that care.
The drug industry has been
increasing scrutiny
tral government. Sen.
undergoing
• y tjjo feOe:
• Thiokoi Chemical Oerp.
announces at Marshall It h*»
bee* ■'awarded . |UJ million
contract by , the Defense De-
partment to fond, assemble
aad pack anmiunlttoa sup -
pile*.
man In Monrovia. The capip
Africa’s oldest republic, Mo
via was settled by slaves freed
In the United State* after the
Civil War.
The African swing will also
take Humphrey to Ghana, the
Congo, Zambia, Ethiopia, So-
mali, Kenya and Tunisia.
The zig-zag itinerary avoids
all the "revolutionary” African
republics that lean more. toward
Russia W Communist China t.v cases. Abo
Thieves, Vandals
Keep Police Busy
Vandals using pellet rifles
caused about (1,000 in damage
to car and building windows
In Baytown Friday night, police
report.
Police are investigating 15
malicious destruction of propel
Garrison Issues
More Subpoenas
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Diit
Atty. Jim Garrison has subpoe-
naed three men to testify in his
probe into the death of Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy, saying
they had been “in unique posi-
tion to observe activities rele-
vant to the assassination.”
The three were Identified as
Loran A. Hall of Kernville, Cal-
if.; Lawrence J. Howard Jr., 32,
of Elmonte, Calif., near Los An-
geles; and Thomas Beckham,
27, of Omaha, Neb. They were
directed to appear before the
Orleans Parish grand Jury
than toward the United States.
Hovyover, it also excludes
some " traditional American
SSMAET*
Friday ni
three theft cases were Yeryorted.
The property taken, which reach,
rd a total value of (325, inclnd
ed a pointer dog, tools, record-
>1* tap-3 and * billfold.
night, Feb. 1 and 2.
After 24 Years With Sun, Underwood Retires
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By MIKE LON8FORD
Sept. 1,1967, was a red letter
day in the life of Dennis Under-
'T joined the Typographical otliera, had hard times then.
Union In 19», but right after
that came the Depression. The
weed, X I*** * » •*
at The Baytown Sun. He turned j
65 years old. And except for the *»■-
fact that he1* called "Curley",
he really doesn't look hi* age.
But Jan. L 1968, will , be
another calendar date for Den-
nis. That's when he's retiring
after 44 years as a linotype oper-
ator, the last 24 with The Bay-
town Sun.
Dennis Underwood, who ac-
quit ed his nickname, "Curley,”
because of his gleaming pate, -
is the first Sun employe to re-
tire. And he’s been ground quite
awhile, and he's seen a lot of
things come and go.
Born in Chalk Mountain,
F.rath County, Teg., Dennis grew
up around Stephehyille, the
county seat.
"I used to know half the peo-
ple In StephiMville. but not any
more. I haven't teen btek there
The weaker papers closed
down."
Dennis remembers the hard
First ’M Baby
Due Many Gifts
£SSFf!t$£.BL
tlelpating Bajtown niercl
The exact time of th« birfh
must he certified by the at-
now I think It’s in Huntsville."
For a few years, he worked
for the local newspapers out in
^8un b*,Me • h" Item'
ajn. iuomih.v. prenticeship and from
Mence.
ap-
exper-
times which set upon the coun-,out of work by the Depression
ty. and the arid period which ac-
Llke many other printers, companied it later Immortalized
Dennis Underwood was forced!as the Dust Bowl. For four
years, Dennis Underwood had
to work at odd jobs to make fi-
nancial ends meet. In 1933, he
went back to work at his chosen
profession.
"I was still working In West
Texas thpn,” he sald. He said
he met quite a few oqt-of-Work
itinerant printers. ?"
"We were on the main high-
way going north, out there in
Childress. Printers like to look
after their own. Sometimes, It
took half oqr salary to help out
other printers who would stop
by begging for food, Things
were really rough buck then."
The outbreak of the Second
World War found Dennis Under-
wood working for the Freeport,
Texas, newspaper.
"The war caused hard times
'again. There was a shortage of
start i
al New Year’s truce today.
South Vietnam announced '-It
would extend to 36 hours the
day-long cease-fire the allies
plan to begin Sunday.
The Saigon government
to the extension was being made in
-* line with Pope Paul’* appeal
that Jan. 1 be observed ai a
"day of apace" throughout die
world, but Informed* sources to
dlcated it was also In response
to a request from Washington
The Marine casualties were
announced today in delayed
U.S. Command reports that told
of grim new battles in South
Vietnam’s three northernmost
provinces and. massive air
strikes to relieve the hard-
pressed Leathernecks.
The war also continued un-
abated in the air over North
Vietnam. The UJ. Command
announced that Red ground gun-
ners shot down a Navy Fill „
Phantom Jet east of Haiptong
Friday, but both crewmen
tailed out over the Tonkin Gull
und were rescued. *
The focus of the ground war
was along the South China Sea
coast below (he demilitarized
zone, where heavy dashes have
flared and subaided since last
Wednesday. Some battle reports
from the field were being held
tip at U.S. headquarters on the
request of local commanders
whose units were (till sparring
with the enemy alter the an-
nounced start bf the Commu-
nists’ truce period at 1 a.m. Snt-
unlay, local dm*. .
The heaviest casualties came
in a savagf battle which raged
Wednesday and Thuraday and
ended with the Marines storm-
ing the fortlGed village of Thon
Tham Kee 410 miles north of
S.vlgon. »
The fighdng with regulars of
the 716th North Vietnamese
Army regiment broke opt when
landing group of about 1.600
Marines ran Into about 300 of
the North Vietnamese on the
border of Thua Thlen and
Quang Nam provinces and, were
pinned down. ’ '
When the battle smoke subsld-
he would fight the subpoena.
Howard, a welder and fitter,
was reported by his wife to be
somewhere In Mexico and una-
vailable for comment.
Beckham, who lists himself as
bishop of the Universal Life
Church and entertains with yjnt
Western music under the name
of Mark Adams, said he would
not return to New Orleans.
i-’Tf i did, I would destroy my-
self," he said in Omaha. "If
Garrison Is sincere h* can come
up here and question me.”
Garrison said the three, want-
ed as material witnesses In his
investigation, had not been
questioned t>y the Warren Com-
mission which said Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone in shooting
the president.
Hall, a bartender, denied he
ever knew anyone connected
with the assassination and »M\ "T." ‘«
h. ««UM ftcrht th. xuhnoena. ™ f «aay there were Z7 enemy
of help. Then in 1944, I came
to work for The Baytown Sun.
Only then It was called the
Dally Sun. Then after the towns
consolidated, it was The Bay-
town Sun,"
Dennis Unde.tvood has work-
ed for the Baytown Sun since
1944. That makes 24 years come
44-YEAR VETERAN OF NEWSPAPER BUSINESS HITS LAST KEYS
DeAtds Vnderwoed Retires After Long Stint As Linotype Operator
actly being forced to retire. i
‘T,m the first Sun employe to i
(See UNDERWOOD, Page I) meeting.
Viet Cong Emissary
Arrested in Saigon
SAIGON (AP) - President
Nguyen Van Thieu said today
the arrest of a Viet Cong emis-
sary who said he was on his
way to contact the U J. Embas-
sy’ about exchange of prisoner*
printer* arid a general shortage had resulted fa the arrest of
eight more persons.
But Thieu also sakF the emis-
sary was not high-ranking and
that he doubled the man was a
legitimate representative of the
Viet Cong’* National Liberation
Front.
• Reliable sources reported
Dec. 1 that the emissary hud
known killed against the Ma
vine’* 48 dead and 81 wounded.
An almost equally lethal ser-
ies of battles was raging Thurs-
day near Hoi Aft southwest of
Da Nang. A coordinated sweep
by Marines, Infantrymen of the
Cavalry Division and
South Vietnamese-a force of
several thousand men—ran fatq
heavy Communist resistance.
The U.S. Command reported
the Marines lost 19 dead and 25
wounded. The enemy casualties
were listed as 33 dead plua 30
more believed killed by artil-
lery.
Several thousand Marine* and
Vietnamese trooper* main-
tained pressure today fa Thua
Thlen and Quang Nam when
the ok! imperial capital of Hue
and the big base at Da Nang an
located.
In the air war. heavy weather
over North Vietnam again ham-
pered American airmen and re-
stricted available target area*.
Carrier-based Navy plate*
swept through break* fa the
weather to pour bomba on sup-
ply points above Haiphong but
the effort coat one Phantom jet.
February, 1968. And he'* not ex- been arrested by Vltn»mc*c
national police, thereby thwart-
ing a Viet Cbng-U S, Embassy
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