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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1968
Page
2
A garbled report outlines planned education changes across grade levels with references to science courses, sex education, typing, Spanish, art, choir, reading, and drama. The text is fragmented and unclear about specifics, dates, or authoritative sources.
The document details required subjects Eng lish social studies mathematics and education plus options for 36 weeks earth science and 18 weeks of a foreign language Span or French. The eighth grade offers one elective period with band or choir. Nearby Bayshore Wagon Wire Square Dance Club schedules an event at $8 per person. Mr and Mrs Sherman Johnson host a gathering with Cecil Walker listed.
Be Mulay and Hartley bridge Hansen named to receive the degree in the Order of Me olay, the highest honor they can earn.
Mrs. Karl Opryshek said she was misquoted as favoring de-emphasis of athletics at the junior school level. At a Monday school board meeting, the athletic department proposed limited inter-school competition for eighth graders, joining Pasadena and Deer Park in Channel District play, while seventh graders would stay intra-district. Supt. Gentry cited concerns about preparing students for high school and a shift in activities such as bands and cheerleaders.
Martin Luther Roden 74 of 1305 Barrymore died at home Thursday He retired from Humble OH and Renning Co Baytown Refinery Survived by wife Lama C Roden daughter Joyce Fay Miller of Kansas City MO sons John P Roden of Everett WA Royce Ray Roden of Baytown sister Mrs A T Robertson of Baytown nine grandchildren Funeral services 2mm Sunday at Earthman Chapel Rev B D Nisbet Jr officiating Interment Cedar Crest Cemetery Pallbearers Ralph Hayes Dallas Holmes Sr F C Riyas Frank Odom Louis Roden J B Burns Honorary pallbearers Senior Citizens Club of Bastown
Formerly paired with J. C. Penney in Baytown, Boves moves to Houston with Glines as a new associate arrangement. The note signals a regional retail shift and the closing of previous Baytown links while outlining the relocation.
Lt Gov Preston Smith urged expanding the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission from three to at least six members with equal geographic distribution. He cited dissatisfaction among sportsmen and conservationists since the 1963 merger of Game and Fish with the Parks Board and 1968 board consolidation, calling for more efficient regional representation and smoother operation.
PFC Howard R. Epps 25, son of Mrs Lenora Epps of McNair, has been assigned to the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam as an artilleryman with Service Battery 6th Battalion near Cu Chi. His wife Mary lives in McNair. she is a 1961 Carver High Baytown graduate. The text also mentions a legislative debate on Parks and Wildlife Commission size and role, tied to a gubernatorial candidate's statements on improving state park governance.
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