The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 246, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 5, 1966 Page: 1 of 14
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VOL- 43, NO, 246
IAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
Sunday, Juno I, ISM
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 5124302
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'Deacon' Lives In The Past So You Can Be Smart In The Futur
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haystack” without such a card
catalog.
"This Is the sort of file that
every library would' like to
own," she said, “but rarely does
because you don’t often find a
citizen generous enough to give
the time to develop such a flle.ltober, friends made a donation
"Deacon Jones has made to the library. The librarian
available to the public informs-1 bought two Churchillian histories
tion on various facets of Bay- and a reference book called
town and it* economic and so- "Essay and Genera] Literature
cial history. Perhaps we would Index.” The latter is a list of
have had some of this informa- books, similar to the Reader’s
tion anyway but without this in- Guide list of magazines,
dex, it would be difficult to lo- The word “index” is what
cate. This Index has made such caught Deacon's attention. Why
Information available to school not an index on Baytown area
children and historians and history?
everyone who is interested in This was a mammoth task,
the development of Baytown.”
The card catalog presently
has 500 cards and is growing he likes his toy.
at a rate of 25 to 30 a week.
“Be sure to emphasize this is
just the beginning,” Deacon said
of his long-range hobby.
He began the card catalog in
January, inspired by a gift
made to the library in Ms hon- “old timers” in the area,
or. With money left from Dea- A Baytonian for 40 years,
con’s retirement party last Oc- Deacon has been a "collector”
, By WANDA ORTON
History buffs of Baytown can
thank I. M. (Deacon) Jones for
living in the past.
At Sterling Municipal Library
this retired electrician is com-
piling a card catalog devoted
to people and pltoes in an 18-
mile radius of Baytown.
The library staff and patrons
are delighted.
Mrs. Flora Wilhite, librarian,
said many times it would be
"like looking for a needle in a
for about that long. He has do- tory and he kept the “throw-
nated to the library many of away.”
the special newspaper editions Deaoon Is a frequent visitor
he has saved for years. These to The Sun office, pouring over
include The Sun's D-Day edition
of May 8, 1945; The Sun’s July
28, 1933, edition about the open-
ing of Morgan’s Point Ferry;
the Baytown-La Porte tunnel
edition of
Deacon
History Carved ta Stone,” gh
<n the east of Harrisburg on information about Mstorh
the west and almost to Liber markers. One of these marke
ty to the north and a little below by the way, is the grave mat
Clear Creek area to the south, er stone of Mrs. Hamah
Deacon says one of the best Burnet, wife of David G. Bur-
books at Sterling Library (or net, on Burnet Drive in Lake-
historians is "Candle by Night,” *
by Harold J. Matthews.
"It’s a deceptive title," he
said, “but it has a lot of good
Information, especially about the
Bayland Orphanage that was
<*tabli*hed her in 1967 for
250 orphan* of the Civil War.”
Deacon naturally has pleiad has moat Impressed me in ah
up lots of surprising bits of in- this research is that l» fern
formation about Baytown's oar-
)y days. For instance, he
learned that William Scott’s
home, later known as the old
Wooster home on Mapleton In
Brownwood, was called “Point
Pleasant” In its heyday.
W. J. Jones’ book, "Texas library.
cover the area from Anahuac
copies of this newspaper dating
back to 1931.
With disappointment, he notes
newspapeit, die Newt-Tribune
and the Democrat, are lost
Tht Sterling Library has The
Sun editions on microfilm from
1954 to the present. Mrs. Wilhite
said the library is anxious to
ret all previous editions of The
Sun on microfilm and plant to
include this request in the next
library budget.
Laboriously, Deacon is going
through The Sun microfilms,
iolting down material for the
card catalog. It takes him an
hour to go through one month of
newspapers. So tar he has gone
through two years of The Sun.
Territory in the card catalog
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Sept. 21,1953.
sometuajp
history in the most unusual
places - such as the city dump.
Taking trash to the dump
about three weeks ago, Deacon
noticed a 1852 copy of the Bay-
town city directory in the heap.
This 1862 volume contains a
goldmine in historical material
and not many of these direc-
tories are available now. The
Chamber of Commerce didn’t
even have one.
Deacon gave the chamber Ms
personal copy of the 1852 dlrec-
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nets 1* provided in
Red's "A History of tbs Pros-
ed loots
byterian Church of Texas,”
Deacon realized, but be Is a
man who likes to stay busy and
comparatively now town," Dan-
con said. "But the thing that
"Operation Card Catalog" for
these past five months has kept
him engrossed in books, old
newspapers, magazines, micro-
films of newspapers and
seeords and frequent talks with
people — Burnet, Ashbei Smith,
De Zavala — firing hero.
“They probably rode an boron-
back through this very area
where we’re sitting now at the
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Space Walk Is Off;
Call Tracing
Devices Due
Here Soon
LATE
NEWS:
Voting la the IT preclude
cast of Saa Jacinto River waa
extremely light Saturday aa
E. O. Cambern, general man-
ager of General Telephone Co.’s
Baytown office, said Saturday
that devices for tracing the ori-
gin of obscene and harassing helping decide two nmoffo —
telephone calls are on order for
use in the Baytown telephone
system.
„ Camberp said it would take
several weeks for the devices
to arrive and added that they IS, which include* East Harris
would be installed at the re- County,
quest of the Baytown Police De-
partment,
“We will work with the police
and install the devices in cen- prove Almedu-Genou and Lit-
tral switchboards only «at-their
4r«l^’’ .Cambern said. , ,]
The tracing method is a de-
vice that holds electronic dr- of passage,
cults open. It has already re- Fewer than
suited in -the arrest and filing
of charges ag&ittst an Alvin man
accused of harassment by tele-
phone. ^
, Law enforcement representa-
tives say the tracing equipment
and reviled Texas Criminal Code p.m.
prove extremely effective in the
fight against anonymous phone
Harris County voters went to
't-fm
a bond election.
’ East Harris voters were
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between Crawford Martin
Council Hears
Franklin Spears for state at-
torney general; Lanro Crus
sad BUI Rice for State RepTO-
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sentatlve, position 8, District
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Abandoned
Aa $11 million bond tome
money would be need to lift*
CAPE KENNEDY, 7b. (API
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added,<"we don't want to work/the spur would enter U. S.
Steel's property. .
. "U. S. Steel’s coming to Bay- This tentative routing would
town,” Love told, "is good for possibly affeta few homes in
us (Missouri Pacific) and ifs
good for the city. This will be and Alexander Drive. Definite
largest and most modem plans will not be released, how-
1 mill In the U, 4., maybe ever, until a detailed study of
tfaid. t all aspects of the first proposal
axoatss fergusoN
Missouri Pacific Railroad of-
dais Friday presented to Bay-
town city officials plans and a
tentative route for the extending
of a spur track to U.S. Steel’s
proposed site In West Chamber*
County just «ast of Baytown.
J. C. Love, assistant general
manager of Missouri Pacific’s
- Gulf District, said his company
0* hopes to have the four miles of
track Installed by the time 114-
Steel has construction under-
way. Coat of the spur trill be
several million dolors.
J. W. Doison, Missouri Paci-
fic's district engineer, said a de-
Ion. PoUctted observer* didn't
give this issue much, chance
rJ 9 astronauts agate today as
they abandoned their "angry al>
hgator” and had £w
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CARD CATALOG fULL Of HI
a hardship cat anyone.
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Mrs. Flora Wilhite, Sterling Librarian, left, and Deacon Jonas
pane A- Cerium's space walk
been cast 19 to noon la the 17
East Harris county precincts,
but election Judge* were hope
the area between South Mato
postponed 24 hours until Sunday.
The
and excessive use at furi during ^ Jj
satellite early today contributed H
the
tot to* lute would pick up to
steel
even the world,” be
Th* prite will otoae at T
We are at
pting to pick a it completed,,..
location for a spur track that is "We will attempt to wiggle
satisfactory to us, U.8. Steel through the properties there
and everyone Involved,” Love without disturbing any more pro-
said. prty than is necessary,” Dolson
The Missouri Pacific officials said. "We’ll hit just a few rest
tai dthe tentative plans are tor .iences and streets as possible,
the spur to break off the curve Lov gave no target date for
m the presnt Missouri Pacific completion of the track but he
tracks in downtown Baytown indicated that Missouri Pacific
near South Main. It would turn wanted to get on with the pro-
just south of White's Auto Store, ject as soon as possible so that
cross Alexander Drive and go it will be completed by the time
almost due south to Highway U. S. Steel begins construction.
146. It would cross 146, Tri-City "For that reason,” DoUon
Beach Road and Cedar Bayou said, "we wanted everybody to
jtreum at possibly the first bend know our plans just as soon as
south of Rose land Park. Here, we could present them.”
to the latest troubles.
"We re pretty well bushed,"
command pilot Thomas P. Staf-
ford reported after tee exhaust-
Trumpet Girls
STERLING HIGH School Drum
and Trumpet girls will meet at
2 p.m. Monday at the REL
Brig. They will oe meeting from
2-5 p.m. for the next three
weeks, Monday through Friday.
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Weather And Tides
Mew Freshmen
Meeting Slated
calls.
Ranks
ing chase of the satellite.
IMPORTANT business is slated HENRY E. Stevenson, son of
for the Baytown Citizens Traffic Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. 8tev-
Oouncil meeting at 7 a.m. Wed- enson, has been enrolled as a
nesday, according to J. W. Gir- member of the freshman class
ardeau, vice chairman. The at Franklin and Marshall Col-
meetteg is set for
Room at Holiday Dm.
The system works by a revers-
ed telephone circuitry which
allows a call 8nd its electronic
linkage to be broken not only
by calling station but also by
the called station.
The circuit is placed at the
central switchboard and tele- wtavtnum .... -
phone company personnel can nt,
trace the call to Its originating ® 1rjjihuLr*
jss'js.S* p“"“ iiv rtSls
Class Picnic TV revteed T«a Criminal tS, bradmt, and
CROSBY HIGH School sopho- Code, Article 476, provides » ” a_5 ?*r CCTrt-
mores class had their annual fine of not less than $100 or *" ?**"?than .ytow?'
picnic near Humble. Chaperons more than $1,000 or Imprison- ta
were Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ander- ment of not less than one month me bracket 's 24.4
son, Mrs. Allison Koonce, Mr*, or more than 12 months, for M
Eddie Glover, Mrs. Leroy Jan- harassing, annoying, abusive or ™*
acek, Mrs. Buck Loftin, Mr. and intimidating phfo*e calls as well ^ n*Vf Trii6' .mana??,”
Mrs. Dale Henson, Mr*. I. L as those of an obscene nature- Bartmro O^lw Oom-
Clemmons and Mr. and Mrs. tee only type, covered under the
Lewis Harris. old code.
The provisions became effec- ber luicheon membership meet
Woman Marina nye Aug. 30, m . ... ^
EDELLE GRESHAM, daughter A j*«»wes^ ft SLSTrS
of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gresham Mid that similar systems are ZT V? qqo t» M MTWrtVoer
6f Crosby, has joined the tetelit In other parts of tee gg ^ ^
gence brwch of the Women’s country, but many are limited ^ 1*** ^nerjft'a«
Marine Corps^She wifi leave * f^teore^ tte income
to thteOTea^S be c^“ ^ ot J2-500
2S5;SJm «>-, I-— »«
N.^ «nd I, taking training In M*2*1 pmmb-
(See CALLS, Page Mj tion ffoure estimated by fofof L
1966, was 42,000.
(See INCOME, Page 14)
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own mind whether and when the
EVA space walk should he
done. Perhaps we should wait
until tomorrow morning.’ ;
lire Mission Control Center ta
Houston, Tex., agreed and put
the walk off until Sunday mom-
High In $10,000
Income Bracket
In
this fall,
is a 1966 graduate
of REL and was f member of
the National Honor Society and
vice - president of the Debating
tee Red
(See Picture On Page 14)
tailed study is now underway in
an attempt to construct the track
extensions where the fewest
number of residences wil be in-
volved. "to accomplish
lot of study ns necessary,
:<on said.
Sokflor Assigned
ARMY PFQ. Larry D, Eathe-
ton of Highlands has been as-
signed to the 173rd Airborne
Brigade in Viet Nam. Eatherton
entered the Army in June, 1964,
after graduating from Robert E.
L*e High School. He was last
stationed at Fort Gordon, Ga.
Receive Degrees
STEPHEN P. Coburn of 2204
Alabama and Tom R. Edwards
of 1504 Mississippi received mas-
ters degrees at the University
of Texas Graduate School of
Business commencement exer-
cises Saturday.
Viet Mom Fund
A TOTAL OF 2,985 pounds in
supplie* at sn approximate cost
°t $825 have been shipped hy
Baytonian* to MaJ. Lawrence
Cummings at Dong Ha. There
remains tome 350 pounds to be _ . . , .
shipped. An estimated $65 Is J*1®1*5-
needed for this, Mrs. Cummings
ing. The 2^-hour walk .longest
ever attempted, had bent sched-
uled for 10:30 e.m. today.
Club.
Dol-
PARTLY CLOUDY with little
Change In temperature through
the weekend Is the Baytown
nrea weather foreeaat. Tem-
perature range expected, S8-8S
degrees.
Ground controiers then made
an effort to shake loose the
X - */ v
hung-up shroud on tee target
satellite by firing its control
thruster*.
City officials attending the
briefing at Gooae Creek Coun-
try Club were Counciimen Al-
bert Fanstiel, Andy Braswell,
Pat Boll, Raymond Donnelly
ar4 Clem Massey; Fritz Un-
ham, city manager; Jack Mor-
ion, city engineer; and George
Chandler, city attorney. Mayor
Seaborn Cravey was unable to
attend.
In addition to Love and Dol*
son, other Missouri Pacific of-
ficials attending were R. A.
Griesman, assistant traffic man-
age, of the Houston district; R.
Carmicftl, assistant general
ajgent; and E. F. Hodhett, sen-
ior assistant engineer.
Love stressed the print that
the new spur must cross some
property and he said some
homes would be involved, but he
50 New Workers Will Be
Hired By Humble. Enjoy
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That started tee satellite
GALVESTON TIDES Sunday
but It fail.
bucking and pit
will be high 7:8* a.m. and low
at 11:34 p.m.
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the
clamshells of the shroud, which
covers the docking collar.
With all hope of Uniting up
with the sateUite - caled an
vTDA for augmented target
docking adapter . gone, tee
ground told Stafford and Cemaa
to fire their thruster* and grad-
ually pull away from <t-.fi-
There * no further chance
that we can dodk," Mission Di-
rector Wiffiam C. Schneider
said. .
The Gemini 9 flight has been
A total of about 50 employ-
Refinery and Baytown Chemical
Plant since July 1968. This new
hiring program is the fourth and
largest conducted over the past
10 months.
“We are pleased once agate to
be in a position to provide addi-
tional Jobs," Meier and Coates
said. "These new employments
will strengthen our organiza-
tion* and will also have a posi-
tive influence upon the econo-
mic life of the community."
Applications for
in th* three craft*
cepted at the Community Build-
ing beginning Monday.
GALVESTON TIDES Monday
will be” Ugh at 6:18 a.m. No
low tide.
menu will be made In three
mechanical craft skills to tee
near future by Humble Oil and
Refining Co.’s Baytown Refinery
and Enjay Chemical Cb.’s Bay-
town Chemical Plant.
These employments will be
made in the electric, machinist
and instrument craft skills, ac-
cording to Refinery Manager H.
H. Meier and Chemical Plant
Manager J. J. -Coates.
When these men are employ-
ed, they will Increase to about
130 the number of hourly-paid
employees hired by the Baytown
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be ae- original Agena target satellite
failed to reach orbit because its
Atlas booster failed. *
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THE BCE HILTONS are mighty
prbud of their new grandson,
born last week to Lexing-
ton, Oita , , . R. L. Parker
"squares sway” his trainees at
Ellington . . . John Durham
searches for a picture that could
not be found , ., I V. Waldrop
is on tee sick list
Jimmie Shepherd is getting
ready to leave for Lackland Air
Force Base near San Antonio
next Tuesday where he will take
basic training. He has just
returned from a whirlwind trip
to California,
S. W. Fox is in Room IDS Bay-
town Hospital. He can have visi-
ters ... Alton Herring promises
to take a non speaking part
(but a starring rote) to the forth-
coming production at Baytown
little Theater ... Toni Kent
gets a message out early . . .
Mr, and Mrs. E. D. Dehlquist
have moved back to Baytown
and are interested in duplicate
bridge games, Carolyn Ram-
sey, tee Welcome Wagon hoet-
eSs. reports . , . Virginia Wert
Makes some more of that delic-
Mexico Film *4
WEST BAYTOWN Kiwanis Club
members’ will see a film,
"Magic of Mexico,” at Its Mow
day noon meeting at Rebel Inn.
He Hopes To Have 1,000 Soon
Baytonian Building Up 'Mink Farm* Population
HoMay Camp
HARRY HARVEY, Larry Ander-
son and Mr. and Mrs, L. L.
Anderson of Crosby, camped at
Bracketville over Memorial Day
weekend. They also made ex-
cursions into Kingsville end
Mexico, visiting Mrs Anderson’s
mother in Wharton on the way
back home.
Even with litter* ranging be- vacation traveling through the
tween four and six minks on northern United States, Canada
the average, Gibson estimates and Alaska, visit! ng mink ranch-
it will be two yean or more es and asking questions. •
before he can start to produce
in any meaningful quantity to
sell. At present he can field on-
ly 85 or 90 animate, an almost
200 per cent increase over his
original stock of 30 which he
bought for breeding purposes.
in tee middle of breeding sea- er*, stock and food to addition
ton, and the new - born mink to equipment for handling,
are kept apart from all but stock can be a mater
their mothers in cages placed Grown km
bought for i
By DREXEL TURNER
There may be better ‘
than Texas to raise m
Leonard Gibson hasn’t found
them yet.
Since December, Gibson — a
butcher by trade and owner of
a small cafe here in Baytown-
has been raising mink in sheds
he built on his homestead in
Chambers Cbunty.
His partner in the operation
is hit 24-year-rid son Donald
who works for a Baytown aoft
drink distributor (hiring the day.
So far, tee operation is only
a sideline but Gibeon intends to
tore it into s going concern just
as soon as the mink win let
KimmAemwwmmmm
—witt thick $50 on the open market, Gibson’s
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but
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in the shade so as to give
.mi
By December he was ready to
start and to far. he has no re-
gret*. Things have been relative-
ly smooth considering that Gib-
son and hi* wife and ton have
had no previous experience oth-
er than what they’ve read and
af<
of isolation
calms
tee
become frenzied, and unable to
move their children from the
tee prime i
cage, they are pruned to dash
wildly about it, snaps
finally they trample or
offspring to death.
Baytonian Sentenced
for Drift VioMioii
The idea for a mink operation
has long Intrigued Gibton — a
native of Nacogdoches and Bay-
The mate difficulties until now
Diet for mink includes plenty
town resident tor nearly 14
year*. When the mink ranebtef
technique wan developed Gibaon
began to read up on It, but the
ranch to Chambers County waa
still a long way off.
Originally Gibaon had conceiv-
and ta mitigating tee effects of
recent rates, :
hot along with powdered milk
for the mother* during tee
AUSTIN (AP)—Thomas Gam
French, 26, of Baytown- a mem-
ber of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was
sentenced Friday to II months
in federal prison for violation of
the Selective Service laws.
French entered a gullty,,pla*
thy « to flffltegr to- report to
the Austin State Hospital for
JtrVBttAB Mg'
welder'* gloves as a precaution
against their sharp teeth and •"* lun**
quick movements. Gibson's ton H**e thing* Gibi
quantity one* a ye
tee meat to
MINK RAISERS
is Its
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MBm Hinkle the safe way te
gloves,
team operates a
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lout peanut butter fudge . . ,
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Linda Dyar brings hum to
and bags of the latest (ash
look from Europe.
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