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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1966
Page
1
Dean Walter Rundell of Lee City is recruiting trailer license plate instructors for the college and was located traveling to Alexander and James Bowie from here en route to St. Louis. The 1966 plate D-30334 was recovered by the public works department.
Weather and tides report cloudy and warmer through Thursday with temperatures from 49 to 72 degrees. Tuesday's range was 49 to 72 and a 3 am Wednesday reading at Sun weather station was 38 degrees. Thursday tides in Galveston will be low at 12 18 pm and high at 6 36 am and 4 36 pm.
Glenella Diebel is hospitalized at Lillie Duke for tests. Mrs. Paul Prince calls about a date change. Doris Whitcomb practices her Chinese account for a forthcoming part at Gaytown Little Theater. Shirley Hopper aids with meeting information. James Mears, UT senior, dean's list in chemistry and mathematics, son of D. A. Mears Highlands, grandson of Paul and Mrs Mears Baytown.
Lester Alford is named president of the Baytown Optimists Club with Edward Rutledge as secretary and Jim Carter as treasurer. New directors include W L Warford Tony Campos Charles Fuller Bill Thulis Fred Dittman Joe Brack J W Schiller Elbert Barringer and Utah Waldrop. Officers to be installed in June, Alford has served eight years in the club and 45 years in Baytown. Joe Brack is the current Optimist president.
Baytown schools in cooperation with Goodwill Industries plan the annual thrift exchange drive starting April 22. Students will receive bags to collect usable clothes and small appliances for Goodwill, with bags returned the following week and pickup for large items arranged. Goodwill will credit 80 cents per bag toward clothes for underprivileged children, aiming for 1000 dollars. 344 needy students currently receive free lunches and clothing through the program. Leaders Mrs. R. R. Harrington Jr and Mrs. F. L. Jaubert spearhead the effort as donations seek to aid local youths.
Police investigate a Tuesday daytime burglary at the Baytown home of F. H. Scott. Scott found his apartment ransacked on returning from work and reported a tray wool suit missing.
The Box town Ministerial Alliance sponsors a seven part Good Friday program from 12 noon to 3 pm hosted by First Presbyterian. The Rev. Charles Teyki leads arrangements for the Seven Last Words meditations with section readings, addresses, scripture, brief meditations, and silent prayer. Ministers from multiple churches participate.
Larry McKaskle, 26, former administrative assistant to Houston Mayor Low Welch, visits Baytown as a candidate for Albert Thomas’s late District 3 seat. He plans weekly appearances, attends Lions Club, and stresses education while backing Johnson’s Vietnam policy until a workable alternative emerges. He invites Baytown residents to contact him at GX 72948, Houston, or write P O Box 16043, Houston 22.
Baytown City Council approves immediate direct negotiation of a contract to repair a crumbling sewer line between Second and Third streets on Pearce. Emergency ruling bypasses bids. Council also adopts first reading on a second annexation along Tr City Beach Road Highway 146 and Needlepoint Road.
Political newcomer Patrick Ball won the only contested Baytown City Council race for District 1 as turnout lagged with 1574 ballots plus 56 write ins. Ball topped rivals W M Knowles and C Ptacek, earning 961 votes to 421 and 138 respectively, while incumbents Braswell and Fanestiel secured reelection in Districts 4 and 5. Ball, 31, is a Baytown insurance man succeeding J. Robert Barnes.
Voters approved incorporation of Mont Belvieu and Beach City areas Tuesday by large margins. Mont Belvieu plans a town of about ten square miles with 450 to 500 residents, while Beach City will form a two square mile municipality. both avoid tax plans for now and aim to deter annexation by nearby Baytown. Special elections are expected within 30 days to name officials.
Bayshore Constructors Inc of Baytown won a $127,626.80 contract to install 12,000 feet of vitrified clay sewer lines for the city. The project runs along Garth Road near Gulf Coast Hospital to Baker Road and toward Sterling High, with completion aimed by mid-summer. Federal funds are involved and Holland is to negotiate the contract.
Secretary Orville Freeman predicts feed costs may fall up to ten percent by autumn if retail food prices drop with farm prices. Opera star Maria Callas renounces U S citizenship amid marital and financial troubles with Gio van Battista Meneghini. Two Boston union agreements raise wages to 16.30 a day for three years ending strikes. Red River flood displaces about 2,300 Manitoba residents and evacuation spreads to North Dakota and Minnesota communities.
Lee College board of regents will offer 1 300 000 in improvement bonds at 7 38 p m Wednesday in the School Administration Building. Moody's rated the bonds A and S and P scoring is sought. Funds fund land purchase and the 3 vocational facilities and an academic building with total costs estimated at 1 3 million. Construction starts at the current campus for vocational tech facilities as plans near completion.
Baytown Chamber of Commerce launches a community calendar to reduce conflicting events. President Eldon Berry urged cooperation, asking organizers to call the chamber to check dates. More than 100 attendees discussed committee priorities and 1966 project ideas focusing on streets, business district, youth programs, and a branch courthouse.
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