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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1968
Page
1
Community notices list meetings for Cedar Bayou Lodge 321 AF and AM, Tri City Beach Civic Association, Humble Duplicate Bridge Club, Baytown World War I Veterans, and more. Weather forecast for Baytown is mostly cloudy with mild temperatures mid 60s to upper 70s.
Community bulletin lists visits and travel plans. Mr and Mrs Carl Poteet of Hooks visit Pat Davis in Highlands. Rev M Cheek returns from Brazil. The Kadjars sit in a tree house. Pat Guidry weekend trip. Dub Ward winds down after a city council campaign. Tirley Weikel becomes an expert at pancake dough mixing. Cindy Anderson awaits Susan Kenny’s Jet arrival from Pennsylvania. Ruth Ann Lively praised for pancake making. Mrs Paul Rooney returns from Baltimore with granddaughter Erin Clark. Martha Hester takes on more responsibilities. Edwina Hughes preparing a special movie for children. Margie Willbeam promises lunch. Polly Beavers seeks a dog lover. D R Lee uncovers a distaff pilot story. Simone Marshall says farewell to Baytown friends.
Three candidates who opposed a new central high school and desegregation measures were elected to the Crosby School Board over incumbents W. L. Loftin Robert Buchanan and James Marek. Woodard Petrick and Spence won with strong support from the Citizens Committee for Better Education and Crosby Tax Association. New board president James Ewell and vice president Petrick were chosen. regular meetings will be on the third Monday, with the April session moved to April 16 for Easter.
At about 1 30 a.m. Monday Baytown officers Weldon Jones and Robert Watson responded to the SOU block of Peggy to investigate unusual noises. They found the source was a mockingbird unable to sleep prompting the terse report.
Incumbent Mayor J B Gill was re elected Saturday in Mont Belvieu with 204 votes to Henry A Scar’s 37. Arthur Davis 106 and J W Grimes Jr 137 won two year terms on the city council, while Claude Hamilton 46 O E Bagent 58 and Buddy Irby 63 trailed. In the race for a one year council term Fred Chitty was defeated by Virgil Carlile 100 to 82 with Billy Gene Lawrence at 30.
Justice of the Peace Gienny Vickery of Baytown opposes Harris County Clerk Bob Turrentine seeking authority to perform marriages. Vickery, available at all times, says he handles about three percent after hours and on weekends and performs roughly five marriages monthly at various locations.
A Wardall Road residents group will present a counter plan to widen Ward Road from Highway 146 to Kilgore Road to four lanes with an esplanade. City officials and about 20 residents met at city hall to discuss funding, safety, and curb and gutter costs as the project is estimated at 324800 dollars with owners paying about 101680.
Unofficial results show incumbents O A Boatright Cheney R Coker and John P Henderson winning three seats on the Lee College Board of Regents with 1185 ballots cast. Boatright 341 Henderson 533 Coker 296. other candidates Burnside 479 Campbell 376 Cook 422 Harrop 304. Swearing in set for April 18 at next regents meeting. Boatright is Mont Belvieu plant manager for Warren Petroleum Co and former teacher. Henderson UT Austin graduate and Baytown Refinery head. Coker Lee College and Lee College graduate and vice president.
Shelley Greenwood a 16 year old Robert E Lee sophomore won one of two grand awards at Houston Science Fair with a senior high biology project The Possibility of a New Mutation of Hamsters She inbred two hamsters for her experiment yielding deformed offspring and blood differences Glenn Shankle of Lake Houston shared top honors in physics and will advance to the International Science Fair in Detroit in May Kathy Center also of Robert E Lee placed third in senior chemistry for Oxidation and Chem See SCIENCE Page 2.
In Memphis thousands of mourners and civil rights leaders assemble outside a gray stone church for a silent march honoring Dr Martin Luther King Jr The King family travels from Atlanta with Coretta and three oldest children joining the event while National Guardsmen guard the plaza nearby in a tense show of security.
Harris County March of Dimes volunteers will be honored at a dinner at 7 p.m. Tuesday marking the third annual Mothers March Appreciation Dinner hosted by American Legion Post 77 located at 5505 Kelving in Houston.
Baytonians dialed long distance calls for the first time Sunday with relatively few problems officials report. New system caused busy signals during peak periods as volume spiked from 3,600 to 6,202 calls. Operators guide callers through area codes and universal information 555-1212 while connections occur with about 20 seconds of silence.
Saigon sources said President Johnson extended the off limits area to about 5 500 square miles below the DMZ and limited air raids to below the 19th parallel. Week end fighting left more than 600 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong dead as allied troops lifted the siege of Sarin and pursued enemy forces in rugged hills.
A British jetliner bound for Australia and New Zealand crashed in flames at London Airport today. Rescue workers say up to 103 passengers and crew of five may have perished, out of 131 passengers aboard.
Baytoun schools will not be dismissed Tuesday but any student or employee may be absent to attend memorial services for the late Dr. Martin Luther King without penalty, according to Supt. George Gentry. The school board meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday with only routine business on the agenda.
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