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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1969
Page
1
Saturday at the Bayshore Rod, Reel and Gun Club a BEAUCEANT STEAK fry is served from 11 a.m. to p.m. Tickets at the door cost $1. Desserts will be served extra.
Partly cloudy and mild through Saturday in the Baytown area. Temperatures Friday range from the low 60s to the low 70s with continued mild conditions. Morgan's Point tides on Saturday show a high at 7:55 a.m. and low tides at 1:07 a.m. and 11:01 a.m.
In a bustling Sun page, Mrs Mae Overstreet delivers compliments after a long day. Birthday greetings go to Donna Heinsohn in Germany as Al Melinger stays active. Dan Fowler returns calls promptly while Sherman High School juniors win the state sweepstakes for the third year.
The fifth annual all city junior chair festival will be at 7 30 p m Saturday in Robert E Lee High School auditorium. Guest conductor John Magee from Brazosport High and Freeport Junior High leads choirs from four district schools. Four city choirs perform solo and massed numbers with T F Seale directing and Mrs Rhitt Garrett and Marsha Seale as accompanists.
St Josephs Catholic Youth Organization sponsors a teen dance to raise funds for the Cerebral Palsy Building Fund. The dance runs 4 p m to midnight Friday at the Knights of Columbus Hall with Coastliners providing music. Admission is 1 50 advance or 1 75 at the door. Rev Robert Blankenstein moderates. cYO officers include Thomas Giroir president and Jeanette Sobotik treasurer.
Charles de Gaulle records a seven minute nation address Friday night to influence the upcoming referendum. A train wreck near Richmond sends about 400 residents fleeing East Germantown Indiana. No injuries reported. Senate probe sparks complaints from car owners about auto policy cancellations. Lebanon's Premier Rashid Karami resigns after four months amid policy disagreements. House Ways and Means chair notes tax reform tied to oil depletion allowance. City College of New York closes through Monday amid student negotiations. Texas youths push for varied reforms as unrest grows.
Fort Worth era Humble I Club celebrates Humble Day marking fifty years since Baytown Refinery construction began in 1949. The annual employee family picnic returns to Baytown on Saturday May 10, moving to its former company site between the refinery and town.
The article explains clocks must jump ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday as daylight saving time begins. It covers Indiana and Michigan time zone quirks, plus Kansas shifts between central and mountain zones, noting regional variations and public responses.
Crosby Texas Crosby School Board postponed calling a 2.2 million bond issue while discussing a tentative May 17 election date. Architect Matt Howard said construction could not start before January, with use by September 1951 unlikely. The petition for the election awaits legal details before formal action. timing hinges on attorney work.
Baytown police and firemen plan meetings with city councilmen next week to discuss proposed $100 a month pay hikes. A council committee led by Ted Kloesel and including Donni Hullum and Lamar Kelley will study the pay issue and make a recommendation. The group expects to meet with the police and firemen Tuesday and Thursday.
Baytown Levee District directors set their first organizational meeting for 7 p.m. Friday at The Tower. Rep. Joe Ailend, author of the bill creating the district, will attend. The initial board includes Jimi Bailey, M. Cecil Bobbitt, Mrs. Johnella Boynton, Andy Braswell, Jim Cauley, Bill Duplantis, Robert Gillette, M. E. Gillis, Dr. Louis Hughes, Jim Kyle, C. W. Magoulik, E. Y. Muller, Robert E. Peterson, Walter Rundell, Bill Strickler, John Wiesner, and E. C. Woods.
Lee College Regents voted to require a $50,000 bond for Hobart W. Enoch, tax assessor–collector and college funds handler. Attorney Bruce Ramsey urged bonding to the college and a bond at least double the maximum funds in hand. The motion to adopt the recommendation passed unanimously with other actions approving $235,923.11 in bills, including a $141,535.70 payment to Gene B. Hazelwood Construction for the Academic Facility.
The Texas Senate approved a $1.25 per hour minimum wage bill, sending it to the House amid battle lines. The plan would raise workers not covered by federal rules, including about 416,000 farm employees, with staged increases through 1972. Exemptions include dairy workers, ranch hands, live-in workers, and some youths, domestic staff, clergy, and small-company switchboard operators.
CV Voters will cast ballots Saturday to decide whether to raise the interest ceiling on unissued school bonds totaling 985000. Precinct 140 votes at Delavala Elementary with judge Benjamin R Wilson. Precinct 220 at the high school shop building with judge R L Barrett. Eligible voters include those on the school rolls. The unsold bonds are remnants of a 2.1 million bond issue approved in June 1966. The current ceiling is five percent and bids will determine the new rate, not exceeding six and one-half percent per state law. Second phase plans for the 1966 program are delayed until remaining bonds sell.
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