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Sun All-District Grid Team Featured In This Issue - - See Page 17
The Baytown Sun Invites
MR AND MRS. TOM EDGETT
621 Lloyd '~ '
This Pass Good Through Dec. 21
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Now Showing
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and
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Annual Goodfellow
Movie Set Monday
John Wayne, that legendary good fellow of movie fame,
is the star of this year’s Goodfellow movie at the Brunson
Theater next Monday, Dec. 17.
Big John will be featured in one of his most popular
films, “Rio Lobo,” in this benefit screening to collect
money for Goodfellows.
In addition to the main movie, viewers will be treated to
eight cartoons.
The action Storts at 10 a.m., with a 50-cent admission tag
for all seats. Besides the bargain movie ticket, fans are
welcome to give an additional donations for the Goodfel-
lows. . ,,
Thursday at Wyatt’s Cafeteria. Proceeds from the moyie will be turned over to the Good-
Mps. Leon Brown will' give a fellows so underprivileged children may enjoy a happier
Christmas.
As you know, Chief Goodfellow at this time of year is
rounding up all the money he can get for the bags of toys
and goodies to place under Christmas trees for deserving
youngsters.
And thanks to the drawing appeal of “Big John” in “Rio
Lobo,” Chief Goodfellow is looking forward to a “big take”
at the box office.
To quote one of John Wayne’s most famous expressions:
“That’ll be the day.”
And the day is Monday, remember, at 10 a.m. at the
Brunsoa
School will be out — fun will be in. What a great way to
start the holidays!
Council Meeting
BEACH CITY Council will
meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at
the Beach City Community
Building.
Retired Teachers
BAYTOWN AREA Retired
Teachers will meet qt noon
selection of Christmas read-
ings for the December meet-
ing. ' -
Noon Optimists
--------BAYTOWN NOON Optimists
will not have their regular
noon meeting this week but
will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday
~ for the annual Christmas party
at the Optimist building on
Market.
Kiwanis Club
ROBERT E. LEE Brass Choir
under direction of Charles For-
que will present a program at a
meeting of Baytown Kiwanis
Club at noon Thursday at Holi-
day Inn.
Senior Citizens
BAYTOWN SENIOR Citizens
..........Dtubvrih-meetat-Zp.m.-Tbufs-
day at' the Community
Building for a business session
and election of 1974 officers.
Christmas Film
STERLING Municipal Library
will show the film, “The Night
Before Christmas," at 5 p.m.
and again at 6 p.m. Wednesday
Israel To Be At
Peace Meet: Eden
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ference until the POW issue is
...... n settled.
-Foreign Minister Abba Ebai
has reaffirmed that Israel will
-attend the Arab-Israeli peace
conference in Geneva next
week despite the threat of an
Israeli boycott from Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan.
Dayan told newsmen
at the library. Boys and girls T uesday that Israel s
are invited to the free feature, delegates would not attend the
j xx •. | conference if Syria was on
In Hospital hand and had not handed over
W. P. MARVIN is in Gulf Coast a-list of the Israeli prisoners of
j
Hospital, Room 107. He can
have visitors.
Weather-
And Tides
CLEAR TO PARTLY cloudy
and mild Wednesday with
cooler temperatures expect-
ed Thursday is the Baytown
area weather forecast. Low
expected Wednesday night,
low-6Gs: high expected
Thursday low-70s.
MORGANS POINT tides for
Thursday: Highs at 6:26
a.m. and 3:01 p.m ; lows at
6:22 a.m. ++ and 5:54 p.m.
++ Denotes weak tide.
war it is holding. He also
demanded that Red Cross
representatives be allowed to
visit the POWs.
LaferT
St-. -.
no objection to, negotiating in
Geneva with Egypt, Jordan
and Lebanon. But he said the
Israeli delegates would,not
deal with Syria at the con-
The left-wing Israeli news-
paper A1 Hamishmar com-
mented that Dayan should
“understand cabinet decisions
correctly ... and not give his
own interpretations of them.”
Israeli border troops pa-
trolled parts of occupied West
Jordan today as dozens of
Arabs demonstrated against
the expulsion of eight of their
neighbors, Security forces
broke up demonstrations in
two towns on the West Bank,
where Arab saboteurs have
gone back into action after
almost four years of peaceful
softened [Arab-Jewish coexistence.
The demonstrators were
shouting against the expulsion
School Board Awards
Contract On Building
Eban
Dayan’s threat, telling an
election rally that Premier
Golda Meirrs government has to Jordan of the mayor of the
village of Bira and seven
others accused of supporting
the Palestine guerrillas and
inciting resistance to the
Israeli occupation.
Goodfellow Bags Make
Christmas For Some
SCOTT LANE celebrates his
11th birthday Friday . /*. E. C.
iSmoky) Wood figures on tak-
ing a vacation, his first in 15
years, after the holiday rush
... M. P. (Pal) Fuller reports
Baytown businessman M. L.
(Wimpy) Wismer is recover-
ing nicely from surgery.
Ron Anderson explores the
possibility of a sideline project
... Bill Staner gets some free
ready-made Christmas gifts
.. . Gary Jones works on a col-
lege gift project... Bill Darl-
ing makes a trip to neighboring
Chambers County on Business,
_ Congratulations to Terry and
Lynn Grubbs on the birth of a
son. They named him Jason
... Jo and Bill Hastings trade
family news with an old friend
... Seaborn Cravey has a big
order to fill for Christmas.
Dewie Maris proves helpful
Lynette Johnson is busy
Previous
contributions ......... .$855.00
Mr. and Mrs. Archie
A. Walker.............. 2.00j
Mary Martha Class,
St. Mark’s Methodist
Church................ 10.00
EHen and Carol Skewes,
John, Ann and Elizabeth
Boucher in lieu of
Christmas cards....... 10.00
Kerry Boyd............ 1.00
James Bowie PTA ..... 10.00
Betty L. Corley ........ 2.00
Mrs. J. C.
Sheffield................ 10,00
Baytown Assembly
No. 153 Social Order
Of Beauceant.......... 3.60
Appelt Electric Co...... 6.00
Cub Sout Den 2,
Pack 255 ..... 13.88
Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Altemore in lieu of
Christmas cards....... 5.00
In memory of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis
VanMeldert ........... 7.50
Mallory Baptist
Women, Memorial
Baptist Church......... 17.50
Bookmobile Staff ■'
of Sterling
Municipal Library ..... 20.00
L. A. Reanes Family
Survival is the main thing.
While more fortunate people
take these things for granted,
the poor have to worry about a
roof over their heads, food and
clothing. .
But there is one day out of
the year when much more is
desired for their children. Like
all parents, they want Christ-
mas Day to be something spe-
cial for their youngsters.
Chief' Goodfellow has been
around for a long time in Bay-
town to make sure that needy
youngsters enjoy Christmas.
Thanks to many helping
hands, Chief Goodfellow has
been able to buy Christmas
goodies and have them deliv-
ered to children who need them
most.
Goodfellow bags symbolize
the essence of Christmas —
giving. If you want to be a part
of this wonderful tradition,
send your donations to the education; Mrs. W.B. Ma
Goodfellow Fund, P.O. Box 90,
Baytown Sun, Baytown.
The chief is now getting
regular donations but he is still
far hehind where he should be.
The size of the donations does clean-up laws being repoi
not matter. What does matter
is that enough Baytonians
Christmas in memory contribute to make Christmas authorities are being contacted
gelling_ ready for^Chri R. t. Shymanski....... 10.00 happierfor those less fortunate about violations-thaHave neti
youngsters.
Pat Blackburn
carolers begin practice.
and
TOTAL
$983.48
Bonus
Checking
Is Here
Citizens National Bank
F.D.I.C,
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
Impoverished families
mostly have to concern them-
selves throughout the year
vith the essentials — food,
clothing and shelter.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
From Your Friends At The
BAYTOWN STATE BARK .
"Masyvlc* Chtrf" r.D.j.C.
+ AUSTIN - State Insur-
ance Commissioner Clay
Cotten resigned today to go
into private law practice
here, and the insurance
board appointed Don Odum
as the new commissioner.
+ UNDATED - A threat-
ened two-day work stoppage
by independent truck drivers
to protest higher fuel costs
and lower speed limits ap-
peared to have only scatter-
ed support today.
+ CARACAS, Venezuela
— Venezuela’s apparent pre-
sident-elect, Carlos Andres
Perez, says the price of his
country’s oil is going up, and
not just in terms of dollars
and cents.
+ CAIRO - The Finnish
commander of the United
Nations peacekeeping force
blames “misunderstanding
and trigger-happiness” for
the daily shooting along Suez
Canal cease-fire lines, And
he remains optimistic about
the truce holding up.__
„+ BEAUMONT - A $50
million steel mill will be built
on the east bank of toe
Neches River across from
Beaumont, it was announced
Tuesday night. The George-
town Texas Steel Corp. Mill
will produce up to 500,000
tons annually of high and
low-carbon wire rods.
MERV ROSENBAUM
Beautify City
Group Names
New Officers
Mervin Rosenbaum of 423
Willow Lane is the new presi-
dent of the Beautify Baytown
Association:
Sig Osterhus has been re-
elected first vice president and
Mrs J.C. Weisinger is the new
second vice president. Mrs.
L.C, Ferguson and Miss Mary
Landry were re-elected trea-
surer and secretary.
Rufo Sanchez will continue
as chairman of the awards
committee and Woody Butler
as chairman of the ordinance
committee.
Sig Osterhus will continue as
chairman of the special events
committee. Other committee
chairmen are Don Treuhardt,
membership; Mrs. Refugio
Martinez, publicity.
The ordinance committee
activities are underway, with
numerous violations to city
to the committee. Violators are
urged to voluntary action. City
been corrected voluntarily.
$706,790
Additions,
Remodel
By JOHNELLA BOYNTON
The school board Wednesday
morning awarded a $706,790
contract to builder Gene B. -
Hazelwood for new additions
and remodeling of Robert E.
Lee High School and for
remodeling two elementary
school auditoriums.
The action was taken after
the board trimmed off $29,000
in physical education lockers
and $6,380 in other items at
Robert EL Lee’s project and
omitted floor covering at the
elementary auditoriums from
the contract, an item bid at
$19,200.
Nevertheless, the $706,790
committed for the projects was
still some $66,790 above the
$640,000 budgeted. School
trustees said pay for it by
dipping into the $120,000 excess
of budget over bids received
last week on two junior school
auditoriums and a band hall
renovation. - —-
Renovations and additions at
Lee were considered some of '
the most critical needs in the
bond issue voted last spring.
Trustee Jerry Don Smith
pointed out.
(See SCHOOL, Page2)
ment has asked the City of
Baytown to provide $82,100 for
storm sewer construction for
Spur 330 (Decker Drive) im-
provements and $12,900 for
building curbs and gutters.
City Manager Fritz Lanham
said he will recommend to the
city council Thursday night
that the storm sewer funds
come from 1970 bond money
Bulletin
Nixon administration today
proposed a 25 per cent reduc-
tion in gasoline production
with priority delivery to
emergency services, fuel
production, public trans-
portation and agriculture.
Under fuel allocation re-
gulations proposed to take
effect Dec. 27, business-in-
cluding nonprofit and
government organizations-
would get toe same amount
of gasoline they did one year
earlier.
Other distributors would
get whatever was left over,
but in no case would receive
more than 80 per cent of
what they received a year
earlier.
The regulations would
govern bulk distribution of
gasoline but will affect in-
dividual consumers by schools.
sharply curtailing supplies
available at the retail level.
Decker Drive Improvements - -
City Asked To Pay Spur 330
Storm Sewer, Gutter Costs
The Texas Highway Depart- assessed for curbs and gutters, department to adjust existing After property owners are
traffic signals at the intersec- notified about their share in
The assessment fees will be
nominal, the city manager
points out, since the total
amount needed for curbs and
gutters is only $12,900.
In addition the city will be
responsible for the relocation
of 200 feet of two-inch water
line and encasing a street
crossing on the same line, es-
timated at $2,000. The city also
tion of Spur 330 and Garth the costs, the city council will
Road.
The curb and gutter cost is
for a two-foot outside width of
the concrete pavement on each
side of the roadway plus the
supporting stablized sub-base
under the two-foot figures. The
cost will be $5.40 per linear foot
for the 2,390 linear feet of curb
and that property owners be I has been asked by the highway and gutter.
By WANDA ORTON
Baytown City Council will
decide Thursday night whether
to raise Garth Road bridge in
, the contract awarded a year
ago to Warren Brothers.
When the contract was eight months, it was pointed
awarded, plans called for out Tuesday morning at a
widening the bridge but not
elevating it higher than its
existing 12 feet.
A change order in the con-
tract could delay the con-
struction project another six to
Crosby Trustees To
Study Bid For Aid
CROSBY (Sp)-An applica-
-$100,000 Emergency
School Aid Act grant for the
Crosby School District will be
presented to the school board
at its meeting next Monday.
The grant application was
reviewed as required by law,
schools, a remedial math pro-
aL Drew Intermediate
and a computer math program
in Crosby High, programs al-
ready in effect this year under
a $106,000 ESAA grant.
Members of the advisory
committee include the Rev.
Chester McCown, chairman;
elevation of 13M> feet. Busch
said original plans were for a
12-foot bridge but he pointed
out the problem of subsidence
to the highway department.
by the school district advisory Chester McCown, chairman; Hl^wa^ ^rtment plan-
committee in a public hearing Knute Blomstrom, Miss Verna
Green, Mrs. Ann Simien, Mrs. a
last Thursday.
If the application is ap-
proved by federal officials the
grant would finance the em-
ployment of two liaison people
to work between the school and
home to aid students who are
exhibiting failure patterns and
poor adjustments, according to
B.S. Griffin, director of in-
struction for special programs
for the school district.
The application also re-
quests the employment of a
reading specialist to coordin-
ate the reading program in the
Other requests include a
reading-laboratory in the Simpson.
have to be obtained and
another hearing would have to
be held on assessments.
John Busch, consulting en-
gineer, said he continues to be
concerned about subsidence in
Baytown and elevation of
bridges. The Decker Drive
bridge over Goose Creek
Stream is at a nine-foot eleva-
tion and the Park Street
bridge, 13*4 feet.
A new bridge on Decker
Drive (Spur 330) in Texas
Highway Department con-
struction-pteria-caHs—fer-an-
Mildred Chenevert, J. W.
Bush, Wilson Gradney, E. B.
Swanson, Mrs. Gladys Alexan-
der.
Also, Mrs. Marie Moore, the
Rev. J. T. Barnett, James
Mills, W. L. Loftin, O. C. Nel-
son, Travis Carter, Freddie
Eagleton, Mrs. Gus Holmelin,
Mrs. Riley Chambers; Leroy
Machala, Harvey Smith.
Also, Bill Murff, L. D. Mor-
gan, James Mick, Mrs;
Beverly Adams, Mrs. Helen
Bluitt, Mrs. Diane Gillet, Mrs.
Doris Tanner, Mrs. Wanda Sil-
vey, Charles Mills and Douglas
additional n feet but
they are limited by the road-
(See GARTH, Page2)
■ if}
HOMEBUILDERS’ OFFICERS
ness as the initial step in
growing and in making respon-
NEW 1974 OFFICERS of Baytown Homebuilden Association are,left to right, Perry Walker of stole decisions.
Perry Walker Homes, president; Dorothy Vidrine of Lakewood Co. Realtors and Dot construc-
tion Co., vice president; and Jim Goerner of Starett Homes, secretary and treasurer. Members
of toe association’s board of directors are Joe Aylor, David Rogers, J. Q. Belt, Troy Herring,
Jim Nelson, Charles White, Jim Canley and Glenn Hudson. ^
hold a hearing of benefits.
Lanham told The Sun he does
not know yet when construc-
tion will get underway.
The highway department
will provide for construction of
grading, structures and sur-
facing at an estimated cost of
$593,000 on Spur 330'from the
vicinity of Airhart Drive to
Garth Road, a distance of ap-
proximately 0.8 mile.
The road will be widened to
four lanes. This area presently
narrows from four lanes to two
lanes.
The Texas Highway Corn-
council work session. mission approved the project
More right-of-way would in response to a request made
'
Decision Due On Garth
Bridge Contract Change
by Mayor Tom Gentry at a re-
cent meeting in Austin in re-
gard to the Loop 201 project.
DON MARLER
Baytonian’s Book Has
Mental Health Theme
In his first published book,
Baytonian Don Marler ex-
plores what mental health can
teach the church — specifical-
ly, the fundamentalist church
and its members.
But Marler, mental health
director of District K of the
Harris County Mental Health
and Mental Retardation
Authority, takes the view of
one within the church rather
the Bible, sex and man’s own
view of himself. The author
pleads for freedom for both the
ehureh and its members, citing
the Scriptural. assurances of
freedom in Christ.
Marler was the director of
the Bayshore Center for Men-
tal Health and Mental Retar-
dation here until the recent re-
organzation of Harris County
MH&MR. He is the author of
than an outside critic. He him- numerous articles in profes-
self is a member of the United sional journals.
Pentecostal Church. Though
much of his text is addressed to
fellow Pentecostals, his ob-
servations are more broadly
directed to all churches en-
snared in manmade tradition.
Marler holds a master of
social work from Louisiana
State University. He is a mem-
ber of the National Association
of Social Wrokers and a mem-
ber of the Academy of Certi-
fied Social Workers.
,10
Marler’s book, entitled “Im-
prisoned in the Brotherhood,”
will go on sale here Saturday
with an autograph
honoring the author from 1 to 3
p.m. at The Booksellers, 126 W.
Texas.
It is Marler’s feeling that in
the church, “we have impri-
soned ourselves and each otl
in a religious system.” Doubt
is a necessary part of faith, he SHOPPING DAYS
argues, encouraging the ex- ^ a oudictm 8 C
pension of individual aware-l,* a I IV1M o
Marler touches upon a var-
iety of traditional concepts
relating to topics like racism, Mr
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 12, 1973, newspaper, December 12, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105077/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.