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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1967
Page
1
Rabbi Hyman Judah Schach of Houston's Congregation Beth Israel will be guest speaker at the Rotary Club meeting at noon Wednesday. Tower Al Melinger is program chairman.
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and continued warmth through Wednesday. Tuesday temperatures expected around 85 degrees, Monday's range about 60 to 85. Galveston tides: high at 7:42 a.m., 3:18 p.m., and 9:30 p.m., with no low tide.
Martha Brown completes a five mile hike at Camp Silver Springs. Mrs C A Banning, 88, remains in San Jacinto Methodist Hospital Room 222 recovering from a stroke with eight living children. Ernie Dittman crew haul 49 white perch at Rayborn Dam in 45 minutes. Mont Belvieu alderman candidate Frank McCune receives 75 votes. Clyde Pond and Floyd Adcox busy during Clean-Up Week. Anna Battarbee assists with coverage. Mary Beth Young carries dressmaking equipment. Ell Edwards remarks on appearance at an early morning meeting. Itis Curtin wears green clunky shoes. Flora Wilhite questions late IRS checks. Grace Hargrave dinners with an interesting person. Mrs E C Porter late for Houston trip. Gladys Milton resumes business duties.
Baytown buzzes with two elections and heated talk as neighbors and friends vie to serve best. The Sun shares a lighter side of the campaigns amid charges and counter charges, evoking scorn and mirth among Vyoters, with photos to accompany.
La Porte City Commission voted to take over ambulance service and fund a solution. The move involves Lomax, Morgan's Point and Shoreacres areas and follows notification from Tommy Teague, vice president of Art Simpson Funeral Home Inc, which has offered assistance. Baytown had been fined in the search for an answer to the service.
About 2000 Baytonians attended the YMCA open house at the new Wye Drive building. Jim Armsworth says the event showcased tours by staff and board members and highlighted a member drive aiming to add 1500 new members. Mae Jones organized day arrangements.
Raymond Lewis, 25, of 314 Noa Avenue Barrett Station, was charged in Justice of the Peace M M Brown's court with murder in the death of Eugene Wells, 21, killed about 6 p m Sunday at Wells home. Harris County Sheriff investigator Vernon Harris said Wells was shot once with a .22 rifle. Lewis claimed Wells told him to shoot after an earlier argument.
Sanitation Department invites residents to call beginning Tuesday at 582-4051 to arrange special pickups on Wednesday and Saturday. Floyd Adcox, head, notes this is for junk items not regular trash and includes refrigerators, tires, furniture, and old clothing.
Crosby Wing president Truman Reed was elected to succeed James Ewell on the Crosby School Board of Trustees. Ewell was re elected for a seventh term. Wilbert L Eagleton, a Barrett Station contractor and apartment owner, became the first Negro to serve on the Crosby board after defeating incumbent Floyd Remkes. Eddie Faust was chosen vice president with Bob Bradley as secretary and Buck Loftin as assistant secretary.
Baytown hosts a two week offshore drilling school at the Holiday Inn directed by the University of Texas with Lee College and oil-industry sponsors. About 21 attendees from Houston to Guanabara Brazil and Australia gather for daily sessions led by UT officials and other industry leaders.
John Stuart, deputy superintendent, says new rules require all new students to have shots for measles mumps rubella polio diphtheria tetanus and pertussis plus a recent tuberculosis exam. Sixth graders must have boosters and officials warn it takes months to complete the full immunization series while exceptions may be granted with medical doctor notes.
In Austin a Senate committee split 5-6 to kill then 64 to approve floor debate on a constitutional amendment granting four year terms to governors and other statewide officials. The plan drew comments from staffers Julian Read John Mobley Larry Temple and Bill Cobb as lawmakers weighed the measure amid past voting irregularities.
A roundup notes varied reception to a book on a presidential death, Texas writers' sharp criticisms, post office reform talk by Lawrence O'Brien toward a nonprofit system, and other national items. Witnesses tie Richard Speck to Chicago killings. McNamara signals pause on bombing North Vietnam. Franklin Alexander of the W E B Dubois Clubs held on a $25,000 peace bond after a protest that disrupted Texas Southern University.
Voters were slow to start in Baytown on election day with noon totals showing 1325 ballots cast. Analysts expect turnout to rise toward 4500 5000 by poll closing and note past elections reached 1574 in 1966 and 4858 in 1965. The mayoral post and three city council seats are on the ballot with incumbents and challengers named for Districts 2 and 3.
Eleven Robert E. Lee Latin students won the state high school Latin contest at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Four first place medals, five second place medals, and two third place medals led REL to the top overall showing among Latin departments. Sherman Childers notes the school motto Labor Omnia Vincit guides students daily. REL will send twenty students to Tucson, Arizona on July 30 to pursue a third straight National Sweepstakes Award. Incarnate Word High School San Antonio took second, Richfield for Waco third, and Beaumont High School fourth.
Crosby High School principal Jerry Prochazka is moved to the superintendent’s office to assume duties of tax assessor, collector and business manager Charles Culbertson, who resigns to join Diamond Alkali in Pasadena. Robert Cunningham, junior high principal, moves to Crosby High, as Superintendent D Perkins says the trio will share duties for the rest of the school year.
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