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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1968
Page
1
Baytown Youth Fair tale follows a Sun Reporter chasing a big prize in a carnival game. The narrator, tempted by a slick booth operator, loses money while chasing a stuffed bear and learns a sly pitch about advertising a win.
Annuitants club BLT production Barefoot in the Park will meet at 2 p.m. and curtain call is at 8:20 p.m. Wednesdays and on Fridays Saturdays at the Community Building. Tickets are 2 for adults and 1.50 for students. Call 424-7617 for reservations between 2 and 5 p.m. for the Humble Annuitants club. Ruby McKewen of Baytown admitted to San Jacinto Hospital for pneumonia in Room 312 with visitors welcome. Past Matrons Cedar Bayou Eastern Star meet 7:30 p.m. Monday at Mrs. F. T. Kinnaird’s home. ER&E Seminars: Prof L F Albright of Purdue and Prof E K Gaden of Columbia recently spoke at Esso Baytown Research Center on reactor walls and protein in petroleum.
Weather forecast for Baytown reports cloudy but continued warm conditions with widely scattered thunderstorms Friday and Friday night. Temperatures expected to range 70 to 80 degrees. In Galveston, Saturday features a high around 1:12 p.m. and a low near 4:13 a.m.
MANN, taken to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital from the Humbije Refinery Thursday, is reported doing fine despite hypertension and should have no visitors. Lor and Helen Carter travel to Acapulco with Mr. and Mrs. Art Hoehnes of Houston. Dan Savell inspects a new house he's building. Lacy Lusk lets a friend place a yard placard for a candidate. Max Carlier and sister Rhonda attended a John Wayne movie filming at a Baytown motel with parents Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Carter. Pegey Hill will work with the band in REL's Lil Abner production.
The Baytown YMCA schedules a summer day camp in three two week periods starting June 1 at Camp Rebel Decker Drive. Open to boys and girls ages 7 to 14, daily from 8:30 to 4:30 with bus transport from schools. Activities include archery, crafts, hiking, nature study, games, and storytelling with special session activities such as overnight, outdoor cooking, themed dress up day, and a full day Gulf Coast field trip. Cost is 25 for members and 30 for non members per two week period. registrations before lunch receive a 2.50 discount. Camp directed by Jim Armsworth with student staff and junior counselors. call or visit the YMCA for brochures.
Camille Ulrich 57 lifelong Crosby resident banker and rancher dies after long local life. Former Crosby State Bank director since 1926 he graduated from Rice University and belonged to the It Association. Survived by wife Eunice two sons Pete Ulrich Mont Belvieu and Joe Carroll Ulrich Dallas a brother Jerry Ulrich Crosby two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Burial Cedar Bayou Methodist Cemetery.
Washington AP reports the Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate to 5.5 percent for New York Philadelphia and Minneapolis banks with the remaining nine to follow. The move signals higher loan costs nationwide and may slow inflation, impacting Baytown finance firms as they study Washington reports before acting.
B&B Office Supply Inc opens at 1010 Decker Drive offering office supplies equipment printing and furnishings. Owners John S Blackburn and H L Boggess bring 14 years each in the business and will host a formal opening in coming weeks with staff Maurine Hurst Nancy Cross and Bill Lewis.
The Lee College Board of Regents voted unanimously to seek bond funds and higher tax authority at a May 14 election. The plan includes a 3944,000 bond issue for facilities to serve three years of growth and an eight cent increase in the maintenance tax, allowing a total rate up to 23 cents per 100 dollars assessed. New trustees Cheney Coker and John Henderson joined, and Moody Foundation funds support remodeling plans for Walter Rundell Hall.
Funeral services for R. D. Bob Martin 84 retired Humble employee and former Baytown Craft Board member will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Houston. He died Wednesday in a Houston hospital. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery. He is survived by a daughter, a grandson, three granddaughters and a great grandson.
San Jacinto Day marks the 132nd anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. Most banks and loan institutions will be closed Monday, while city offices and post offices operate normally. Festivities begin Friday at 3 45 p m with events in Baytown and surrounding areas noting the holiday, though it is not a federal holiday.
Our World Today reports the largest strike in 21 years with 165 000 union members walking off in Houston. Banking and construction sectors expect a strong 1963 despite higher interest rates and rising costs.
President Johnson cancels a congress speech amid calls for sweeping big city reforms while a TV executive critiques race unrest coverage as incomplete. Police intensify a nationwide hunt for Eric Starvoalt, the fugitive linked to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder, as Texas Rangers pursue a sandy-haired mass slayer in cowboy attire. a fifth Mexican family member dies.
Washington signals growing impatience with the Hanoi deadlock over initial peace contacts. The new U S proposal lists 30 potential sites, raising the count to 15 acceptable locations, with Paris excluded for now. Secretary Rusk urged Hanoi to provide a serious, responsive reply while U S restraint on bombing persists to spur negotiations.
Neel Richardson named partner at Chandler and Park, Baytown law firm. Richardson joined in September after UH law school graduation in August. Houston native holds Baylor University business degree from 1963 and resides with wife Pat at 301 Tri City Beach Road.
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