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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1966
Page
1
The paper misnamed Loretta Ingles as Loretta Gingles among 37 students with an A in a course. The Sun regrets the error. Disconnected items mention museum visits, story hour at Sterling Library, juror prospects, weather notes, tides, and a montage of local people in various activities.
A fund was set up in memory of Kathy Stephenson to support Sterling Library purchasing new books. Proceeds come from friends of the family after her death in a Waller County automobile accident. Also noted are a rummage sale by Cedar Bayou Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star on Aug 19–20 at 3409 Market, Sterling High School choir practices, and a Baytown Rotary Club luncheon with a 4 barbershop quartet under Gene Branscome.
The school board will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday to continue studying the 1966-67 budget and set a date for a public hearing. It will consider bids on cafeteria supplies and equipment and for the demolition of old classrooms. Bids on bread meat milk ice cream candy and art supplies will be opened. August 20 is the deadline for adoption. a public hearing is required by law before adoption.
Sporting clubs from Sabine to Baytown and others plan more protests against shell dredges near live oyster reefs in Trinity and Galveston East Bays. Joe Nelson of Smith Point led a weekend demonstration around a Parker Bros. dredge in Trinity Bay and outlined targets for three East Bay dredges and one in Trinity Bay for next weekend. A prior tour of Galveston Bay by officials, conservationists, and Bob Eckhardt failed to draw protesters. Nelson said pickets will continue weekly then daily until action is taken to save the oysters.
Nelson and local boaters urge Parks and Wildlife Board legislation to regulate shell companies dredging near oyster reefs. They report dredges cutting up to anchors offshore and call for daylight work, safer distances, and a minimum 2,000 foot buffer from the oyster beds.
Funeral services honor Maj George Glenn Duke 34 a career Air Force officer killed in a Thailand crash after a heavy rain landing at a Southeast Asia base. Duke a nephew of Mrs W H Munson and Mrs HK H McCollum Baytown Galena Park High School graduate served 13 years with bases including Stewart Harmon Ellington Elgin and England AFB earns medals such as National Defense Medal Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross. Rites at Port er Loring Funeral Home San Antonio Wednesday 10 30 a.m.
Police identify Charles Joseph Whitman as the shooter at the University of Texas campus in Austin. At least seven people are dead and 25 injured after a sniper rampage beginning at 11 55 a m. Victims include UT instructor Robert Boyer and Austin policeman Billy Speed. Whitman, an ex Marine from Needville near Houston, surrendered after hours of fire.
New York AP reports machinists rejected a tentative settlement ending a three week air strike against Trans World United Eastern National and Northwest airlines. Thousands of travelers face cancellations and delays as airlines absorb losses and tourists seek new plans.
Michigan voters face a Democratic U S Senate primary between former Gov G Mennen Williams and Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh a race that could reveal public views on the Vietnam War. Williams heads a strong party and labor coalition while Cavanagh relies on late campaigning and crossovers in a lengthy ballot spanning governorships, local offices, and an interim term contest sparked by Patrick McNamara’s death.
Baytown City Council set a 6 30 pm meeting to consider MOPAC spur crossing requests across four streets to serve a planned U S Steel plate mill east of Baytown near Cedar Bayou. U S Steel backs the plan while Southern Pacific opposes. SP has intervened with U S Steel against a second spur.
At Janet Auchincloss and Lewis Rutherford’s New York wedding, John F Kennedy Jr gave a large brown and white speckled sea shell. Caroline Kennedy gifted blue leatherbound books. The ceremony drew about 2,000 guests and heavy street crowds.
U S B52 bombers struck a Viet Cong base camp about 25 miles northwest of Saigon at dawn. Ground forces of the 25th Division later found 30 000 rounds of ammunition mines and booby traps with no enemy bodies. A Starfighter was shot down near Hanoi and a helicopter raid brought in troops with light casualties.
Congress and White House press for a quick settlement as machinists union chief P L Siemiller argues wage and fringe benefits should take effect immediately to end the 25 day air line strike. Senate and House panels hear bills to compel strikers back to work while union members reject a White House engineered settlement.
Police reported a Monday afternoon crash at the Baker and Decker Street intersection around 1 06 PM. A female motorist was taken to San Jacinto Hospital in non critical condition on first report.
Houston machinists voted to accept a three year contract amid national rejection. About 70 to 15 approved at Skylane Inn while National Airlines group showed near unanimous opposition. Local union leader Jack Kaminsky cited fear Congress could intervene and trigger a strike across National, Eastern, and regional shops.
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