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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1967
Page
1
Baytown City Council voted unanimously to continue the $6.00 a month subsidy to Belfort Ambulance Service Co on a per day basis and pledged to solve the ambulance dilemma within 10 days. Alternatives include placing service under police or fire departments or contracting with a private firm.
Daily revival services at 7:30 p.m. hosted by Trinity Full Gospel Church on John Martin Road read south of Highway 73 with Rev John Templin preaching. Public invited. Also notes on military commission for Stephen E Thompson, PTA meeting in Cedar Bayou, local obituaries and community notices including heart attack victim David Albright, various local events and academic honors for Baytown residents.
Baytown forecast calls for partly cloudy skies through Sunday with daytime showers and a high 86 and low 63. Galveston tides show Sunday low at 4 24 a m and high at 3 36 p m with Monday low at 5 36 a m and high at 2 24 p m.
La Porte Mayor Harold Pfeiffer and two City Commission members attended the Thursday council meeting while several Baytown hopefuls were highlighted on Saturday. The piece notes John D. Shearer promoting his town, Mrs. Beverly Rock and Mrs. J. M. Richards active in visible efforts, Leo Rizzuto explaining local politics to a candidate, and local residents like George Chandler, Mike Blackman, and Sue Haynes mentioned in passing.
Preliminary events in Baytown opened Saturday with the Baytown Relays races set to begin at 7 30 p m. The relay finals and crowning of the Baytown Relays queen are scheduled for 7 30 p m.
Promoters say prospects are very good that Cassius Clay will defend his heavyweight title against Floyd Patterson in Detroit April 45. Eddie Smith, attorney for the group seeking the bout, said they want Detroit and hesitated to publicize details to avoid jeopardizing the deal.
District Attorney Jim Garrison asks Canadian and Texas authorities to arrest two men charged in an incident that his office says may or may not relate to the Kennedy assassination probe.
Baytown City Councilman Raymond Donnelly, ambulance service study committee member and mayoral candidate, denounces Mayor Cravey for turning the ambulance problem into a political issue. Donnelly cites promises and radio claims as distracting citizens while seeking a proper solution.
A tiny filly named Little Bit enters the world at 9 30 p.m. on a Saturday in March. She is healthy but needs leg alignment, with a promising lineage from Scrap’s Melinda and Scrap’n Time. Owned by Aubrey and Ada Brown, the filly is learning to walk and run as plans for a racing future unfold with Bud Stephenson of Lynchburg keeping a close eye.
City council approved creating a Fresh Water, Recreation and Resources Board to work with Houston agencies and the Army Corps of Engineers on water resources, pollution, levee work, and Goose Creek widening. Members named include Muller, Fioayd, Rose, King, Clevenger, White, and Longneck. The panel will study land subsidence, groundwater, bays, and plan water for How Town from Trinity rivers.
Washington County Sheriff says Rev. J H Frazier failed a polygraph test while three other Brenham ministers passed amid a grand jury probe of vice and a bawdy house. Frazier denied links to threatening calls and plans to sue Sheriff Schulte for defamation. Police guard schools as calls threaten jurors and their families. One grand juror committed to a state hospital after mental depression.
Beach City voters will select three aldermen Tuesday with four candidates names Nicholson Holland Galloway and Daniels Incumbents Nicholson Holland and Daniels. Balloting at R J McGaffey home on Bay Ridge. Ruth Hoover city secretary said four absentee votes were cast. Friday was absentee voting deadline. Beach City Board of Mayor and Aldermen Eloise Jordan mayor. Incumbent aldermen Bill Bush and A J Crawley terms not expiring. Approximately 150 qualified voters in Beach City.
F Philip Dignam will speak on criteria for evaluating literature at a Baytown Citizens Committee for Decent Literature public meeting. The 7:30 p.m. event at Citizens National Bank includes a brief business session and reports on activities since the September charter. The group promotes education on good versus bad books and films such as Pages of Death. Dignam, former clergyman and author of The Boy Who Changed His Name, has written children stories based on New Testament parables.
Voting in the school district’s annual trustee election was light with 1,560 ballots cast by noon from four of thirteen reporting places. Incumbent absence and weather cleared by noon. Reports of registration duplicates due to new procedures prompted caution as voters waited for clerks to verify lists. Results to be aired on KWBA and Baytown Sun switchboard.
Orange County officers probed a Thursday dynamite blast under a high pressure natural gas line near Orange. About four sticks exploded, denting the pipeline and risking a catastrophic petrochemical disaster akin to the Texas City explosions. The damaged Gulf pipeline services Cedar Bayou Baytown and other Gulf Coast facilities. Sheriff Chester A. Holts warned the blast could have produced many deaths.
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