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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1969

Page

2

Turbulent Vietnam War updates filter in from Tay Ninh

Reported shelling hits U S bases near Phong Vinh and a base of the 25th Division near Saigon with light casualties. Two Mekong Delta provincial capitals Kien Phong and Vinh Binh suffer hits. a delta town civilian death and 16 wounded in a mortar strike. U S analysis suggests the current offensive phase is nearly spent while new actions are debated. B52 raids around Saigon continue though no direct threat to the city. Stratofortress flights target marshy zones west of Saigon. In politics, President Thieu struggles to corral a strong union. Tran Van Bon plans to pull the National Salvation Front from the National Alliance for Social Revolution, aiming to consolidate pro-Thieu groups.

Thern Tay Ninh U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division Phage Vinh Saigon U.S. 25Th Division U.S Kien Phong Vinh Binh Mekong Delta Nguyen van C Hieu Sen Tran van Bon Ngo Dinh Diem National Salvation Front Pro Thieu National Aliance For Social Revolution

Free Kittens Offered by MHS Resident

MARK Wiess of 100 W offers four kittens free to interested persons who call at his home after 4 p.m. The kittens are half Persian and half Maltese, with two males and two females.

Mark Wiess

Welcome Wagon Club Meeting at Newby's Restaurant

Community notices list the Welcome Wagon Club meeting at noon Wednesday at Newby's Restaurant with library official Mrs. Hubert Maeser reviewing the book Or I'll Dress You In Mourning. Also included are military leave news about Carl R. Dittman and various church and school announcements.

Welcome Wagon Club Newby’s Hubert Maeser Sterling Municipal Library

Two Baytonians At Lutheran Convention

The Rev. Harold Bomhoff and delegate Walter Teggeman will represent St. Pauls Lutheran Church at the Southern District convention of the American Lutheran Church in San Antonio April 14 17. More than 500 pastors and lay delegates from 260 Texas Arkansas Louisiana and New Mexico congregations are expected. A special speaker Rev James Voelker will discuss evangelism and the new ALC vice president Rev David Preus will address church issues. The opening service is 730 pm with Dr W A Mohr as messenger. Delegates from San Antonio Odessa Austin will participate.

St. John’s Lutheran Church San Antonio Texas Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico James Voelker Commission On Evangelism American Lutheran Church David Preus William Larsen Carroll Andersen Neal Johnson W. A. Mohr Ronald Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Lutheran Church In America Teggeman

Thefts and Vandalism Reported in Baytown

Baytown police are probing two thefts and property destruction. Kenneth Oxford reports a broken car window worth about 20 dollars at 1312 Burbank. Ernest Reviles says tools worth over 100 dollars vanished from his service station at 404 Grantham. Thomas Larkin states a garage entry while away yielded gunpowder and over 50 pounds of metal for ammunition, estimated at 25 dollars.

Baytown Kenneth Oxford Burbank Ernest A. Reviles Grantham Texas Reviles Thomas P. Larkin Mocking Bird Lana

Baytonian Hurt In Auto Crash Near Goose Creek Bridge

Alfonso O. Rodriguez Jr., 36, of 307 Laredo, is in satisfactory condition at Houston VA Hospital after a one car crash near Goose Creek Bridge on West Texas at 5249 a.m. Sunday. Rodriguez, alone in his car, lost control and rolled over a ditch. He was first taken to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, then by VA ambulance to the Houston hospital.

Alfonso O. Rodriguez, Jr Laredo Houston Veteran’s Administration Goose Creek West Texas Rodriguez Dale Schimming San Jacinto Methodist

Rites Pending for Mrs Daisy Jean Fleming

Arrangements are pending at Earthman Highlands Funeral Home for Mrs Daisy Jean Fleming 93 former Crosby resident who died Sunday in a Nacogdoches hospital. She drove in Tompson Texas and is survived by four sons Luther B Fleming Roy C Fleming Paul E Fleming and Charles Fleming and two daughters Mrs John H Rolofson and Mrs E J Broussard plus eleven grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.

Fleming Earthman Highlands Funeral Daisy Jean Fleming Crosby Nacogdoches Tompson Tex Luther B. Fleming Roy C. Fleming Highlands Paul E. Fleming Pasadena Charles Fleming Storm Lake Iowa John H Rolofson Blandinsville E. J. Broussard Tempson

Harvard ends? War protest underscored by march in Austin

Nearly 1,000 peace marchers gathered on the Texas Capitol lawn after a parade organized by the University of Texas Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The turnout included high school students and off duty soldiers in an orderly demonstration. Mobile State Junior College resumed classes today for the first time since April 2 when unrest closed the predominantly Negro school of 200 students as President S D Bishop noted a senate of students, faculty and administrators had been created to address problems.

Austin Texas University of Texas Committee Mobile Ala Mobile State Junior College D. Bishop

Funeral Notice for Charles A. Johnson of Baytown

Charles A. Johnson, 45, of Baytown died Saturday in Houston. Survived by wife Thelma and seven children, plus mother Lillie Johnson, sisters Ella Tones and Hattie McCoy, brother Ercile Ray Johnson. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Mont Olive Baptist Church Cedar Bayou. burial Robinson Cemetery. Johnson and Frazier Funeral Home in charge.

Thelma Johnson Baytown Mona Joyce Johnson Carlton Johnson Alfred Eddie Johnson Don Michael Johnson Dianne Johnson Charlie Johnson Verna Johnson Lillie Johnson Ella B. Tones Tucson Ariz Hattie B. McCoy Ercile Ray Johnson Mont Olive Baptist Church Cedar Bayou A. A. Dancy Robinson Cemetery Johnson and Frazier Funeral Home

Former Baytown Resident Dies In LaGrange

Mrs. J. P. Onie Starling 86 a former Baytown resident who lived in LaGrange for years died Sunday in a LaGrange hospital. Funeral by Koenig in La Grange. Survivors include four sons and three daughters with many grandchildren. list of Baytown area relatives provided.

J. P Onie) Starling Dickinson J. H. Starling Huffman Mildred Owens Elgin Frankie Davis Bastrop Betty Jane Kuhn la Grange Baytown J. P. Starling W. M. Stephens Joyce Toronto Dorris Williams Mary Lou Wimberly Margie

Fleming Advocates Sliding Scale Tax on Capital Gains

Fleming argued that mineral depletion allowances are arbitrary and not tied to extraction or exhaustion rates. He proposed a sliding scale tax on capital gains with the lowest rate for assets held the longest, aiming to adjust taxation to asset longevity.

Fleming

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