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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1966
Page
1
School administration studies bids on Sterling High School equipment including band instruments uniforms pianos and library gear. Bids opened March 31 referred to the administration for study with recommendations due at the next trustee meeting. Honor roll note and local community items follow with various notices and schedules.
Voter locations are set across multiple precincts including Alamo Burnet Highlands Thad Felton Ashbel Smith Horace Mann Jay High Stephen F Austin San Jacinto Travis Carver Bowie Harlem precincts and notes Baytown areas. Firemen's Recreation Hall move and Chambers County precinct inclusions are mentioned for SF Austin and Baytown districts.
Baytown could sponsor a federal navigation project from the Houston Ship Channel to Goose Creek, a 1.25 mile span. Costs total about 2080000 with most paid by government and utility firms likely to cover local shares. decision paused for two weeks awaiting council vote and federal approval.
News notes a secretive operation to locate a lost hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean floor near Palmares Beach Spain amid calm weather. In Britain Prime Minister returns to power with a landslide victory over Edward Heath and the Conservatives. Verwoerd’s Nationalist party secures historic South African mandate. Billie Sel Estes, former West Texas promoter, remains imprisoned for 15 years.
Three Americans and at least three Vietnamese killed and 113 wounded as Viet Cong strike a U S officers billet in Saigon. In Binh Dinh Province about 275 miles northeast, 20 Viet Cong killed. Defense Secretary McNamara says buildup raised overall military strength despite short term losses in some Army divisions.
City bids on 12,000 feet of sewer lines for Four firms including City Construction Rental and George Construction of Houston submitted bids for concrete, vitrified, and epoxy lined pipes to serve the Sterling area and the new high school. Awards expected April 25 with about 75 working days to complete. Also bids sought for city hall by April 21. Parking meters on Jones Street to be removed to ease traffic. 60 public spaces created near new savings and loan building. Mayor Cravey notes two-lane flow and a near 4 to 1 return on parking spaces.
Three Baytown men Edward Lanshouse Augustine Salazar and Ernest Garcia Jr were arrested after police found a box containing marijuana in a vacant house being torn down in Houston Harris County. Investigators stopped a car on Nance Street and seized marijuana valued at about 16000 dollars in paper bags. The men were charged and taken into custody near 1 a.m.
The Channelview School Board renewed seven coaches contracts while leaving Bowden Cook without renewal. Contracts renewed: Charles Bright Dan Ray Hooks Jack Thornton Billy Ray Davis Glen Gray Hollis Naquin Jack Ney. Cook plans a public hearing with attorney Joe Reynolds, arguing an unethical handling of his case.
Rev. J. J. Krimmer pastor of Trinity Tabernacle Assembly of God Church left Thursday for Akron Ohio to attend his father funeral. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Funeral services for Joe Paul Hance 45 of Baytown will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Paul A. Lee Funeral Home Chapel. Interment in Memory Gardens of Baytown Cemetery. Hance, an operator at Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown Refinery, died after a two car crash near Buffalo. His wife Bonnie Rose and daughter Sandra Jean survived along with two sons, and his mother, sisters, and five brothers. The family originated the Charity Bowl Pee Wee football game now sponsored by the Baytown Optimist Club.
AP dispatch from St Louis reports Missouri Pacific Railroad will cut more than 20,000 employees across 12 states due to the firemen's strike. Notices will be posted today and take effect in 16 hours. Only essential officers and supervisory staff will be kept to maintain the railroad and operate some trains.
Four candidates run for two school board trustee seats while nine vie for three college regent spots. Incumbents Knox Beavers and Ben Shirey seek reelection. challengers include Robert Wahrmund and Carole Opryshek. Regents incumbents Alma McNulty Warren Spivey Jim Black and six others compete for three seats. Polls open 7 AM to 7 PM with results expected by 3:30 PM Saturday. Baytown Sun staff and Jaycees will report results.
County tax collector Carl Smith warns residents that 1966 car license tags are sold at various locations with closing times. Baytown outlets set 7 30 p.m. latest. Lewis & Coker Lakewood may sell until then. Other offices close earlier, and penalties apply for driving after midnight Friday with old tags.
Thad Felton, chairman of the Baytown Chamber of Commerce bridge and crossing committee, calls a noon Tuesday meeting at Goose Creek Country Club to push Cedar Bayou and Houston Ship Channel crossings. Members include Jack Jacobs, Harry Hartman, RB A Pructi, James Da, Perry Britton, Fred Hartman, and County Commissioner OV Ramsey. ex-officio members are County Judge Oscar Nelson and County Commissioner H H McCollum.
The Lee College board appointed a nine member regents board after residents voted to separate from the public school system. Board President Knox Beavers cited a 1951 state law and said submitting to a vote would be illegal and there was no option but appointment. Beavers and Ben Shirey face reelection amid the trustee campaign.
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