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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1971
Page
1
In the 19th century Elizabeth of Russia kept palaces 400 miles apart in St Petersburg and Moscow. At her 1761 death her closets held 15000 dresses. Moroccan desert dwellers known as blue men wear indigo robes whose color stains hands faces and beards.
The National Weather Service reports a rare fog event across Houston due to a funnel system, with the temperature dipping to a record low for August at Houston Intercontinental Airport. Baytown rainfall measured .2 inches Sunday, while Work’s gauge logged 1.8 inches Friday. July total 4.21 inches and the year total 14.73 inches. Thundershowers forecast for Monday, and Baytown police logged several nonfatal traffic incidents amid wet roads. False burglar alarms added to police workload as fog eased.
Voelkel outlined a proposed budget increasing pay for all city job classes with policemen and firefighters rising from 599 to 601 monthly in Houston terms. The plan avoids a 1971 72 tax increase to fund 6 5 million in general obligation bonds for capital improvements. The sinking fund balance grew due to higher bond sales and better interest, and a deferred 150 000 debt service payment aided the year end. The council must adopt a new budget by Sept 27 with a public hearing after a week long legal notice.
Washington reports a cooled relation between President Nixon and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns over monetary and fiscal policy. Burns criticizes inflation control while Nixon weighs board restructuring options amid public discord and concerns about monetary expansion.
A board notice says draft boards have not drafted since June 3 due to stalled amendments to the draft extension. Congress and Sen Mansfield push for a firm end date for Vietnam by December 1 1971. Until new law passes, boards will only operate under presidential direction and existing law.
The council resumes consideration of a 5 000 dollar legal fee to Vinson Elkins Searls and Smith for bond suit services from January by the Taxpayers Alliance. It sets a public hearing on the 1971 72 budget and considers Ferguson Street a No Parking Zone and banning mobile gas units. It reviews bids for fencing the abandoned vehicle impoundment area behind the police building, evaluates Planning Commission recommendations, confirms the library board member appointment, and receives committee reports and unfinished business.
Baytown fire fighters were sent to Ward Road and Kil gore Road at 5 02 p m Saturday when a newly installed pipe smoldered near a new apartment construction. A plumber was sweating the pipe joints when insulation caught fire. A 10 04 a m Saturday call to a mobile home in Colonial Trailer Park on McKinney Road was due to a skillet left on top of a stave burner.
Three young Houston residents were injured in a two vehicle collision two miles north of Highlands on the Crosby Lynchburg Road Sunday. David Barge 16 and his brother Dan 18 were in one car and Cynthia L Rollins in the other. They were taken to Tidelands Hospital by Baytown Ambulance Service and listed in good condition Monday morning.
Slender Wrap, the Europe perfected inch loss method, debuts at a Baytown studio grand opening Tuesday at 107 KE, Texas. Art Davis, company vice president, says the treatment guarantees a full five inch loss on the first wrap as the firm promotes the new facility for Baytown women.
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