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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1968
Page
1
Baytown school districts begin summer band practice as drum interest surges. Directors like Charles Forque and Gene Stephenson report growing enrollments across Baytown Junior School and Ross Sterling high schools with plans for new bands and special ensembles.
Story Hour at Sterling Library invites children ages to attend with Mrs. William J. Gidley teacher and storytellers Mrs. Bill Hartman and Mrs. Frank Turpin. Beach Civic Association hosts a covered dish supper at 7 30 p.m. Tuesday in West Bay Road Community Building. Weather in Tri-City calls for a 20 percent chance of scattered daytime thundershowers, otherwise hot and partly cloudy with mid 30s to mid 90s temperatures. Galveston tides note high at 6 34 a.m. and 2 12 p.m. with low at 11 41 a.m. and 11 51 p.m. Medical assistants meet 7 30 p.m. Tuesday in Gulf Coast Hospital lobby. Dr J J Bucanek to speak. Robert E Lee High School students have two weeks left to schedule yearbook and ID photos with Chad Rick Studio, per Principal Henry Armstrong. Baytown area Masons urged to donate at Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge No 321 AF&AM mobile blood bank, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, August.
DALTON WOODS and family of Baytown meet astronaut John Glenn and his family at Astro World in Houston. Margar et Callaway smiles as another order arrives. Lane Ward completes plans to attend the University of Texas. Rufus Honeycutt seeks an old-fashioned baby buggy for a movie promotion. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Alford attend an insurance meeting in Alabama and visit relatives in Georgia. Mayor Seabarn Cravey recovers from illness. Lacy Lusk hurries in from the heat. Police Chief and Mrs. Blair Mann send a postcard from Pennsylvania en route home to Baytown after their sister’s death. James “Slick” Ellis vacations in Colorado. Birthday wishes to Muzzy Fitzgerald and Donna Daniell. Sandra McGee checks on some addresses. Cheryl Peloquin starts a new job. Buddy Barber in Baytown on leave.
Baytown council reviews the Urban Rehabilitation Standards Ordinance 27 pages long. It sets minimum health and safety rules for all structures, including hot water, electricity within 300 feet, sanitary conditions, pest control, and safe stairs. The code applies to residential and nonresidential buildings and seeks enforcement by the chief building inspector with an appeals board.
Eisenhower shows satisfactory improvement after sixth heart attack. Piedmont Airlines crash near Charleston West Virginia now tolls 35 dead as three more victims die. Gallup poll finds 2 of 3 voters favor de Americanization of Vietnam war pledge. Maddox hints at Wallace bid while backing Goldwater in 1964. Johnson ends 18 hour liquid fast at Brooke Army Medical Center. McGovern gains Kennedy aides support after two days in race. Ulbricht to press Czechoslovakia for assurances on West Germany ties.
Baytown Lions Club marks its 40th anniversary with a dinner meeting at 7 30 p m Monday at Goose Creek Country Club. David A Evans of Texas City, president of Lions International, will attend as special guest. A social hour runs 6 20 to 7 30 p m with master of ceremonies Dr Richard Strahan and a musical interlude by Pam Phelps and Jar Lammers.
In Los Angeles Watts area, police exchanged gunfire with civilians during a Sunday night disturbance tied to the third anniversary of the 1965 riots. Three civilians were killed and 31 people, including three officers, were injured as 200 officers reinforced Will Rogers Park. Police pursued possible plotting amid attacks on a police substation and a heavily Black neighborhood area.
Regular union meeting of the Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union set for Tuesday at 3114 Market. President C. H. Hargrove urges all members to attend.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP America's Applications Technology Satellite 4 tumbled in the wrong orbit after a Centaur booster failure. Engineers study propellant pump issues suspected to have frozen causing the engine to fail to start. ATS 4 remained attached to the Centaur stage, hindering control and limiting usable data from a $28 million mission.
Chicago preparations for the Democratic National Convention include a half mile fence topped with barbed wire around International Amphitheatre. John B. Criswell says plans are on schedule as 5,500 Illinois National Guard troops prepare for mobilization and security checkpoints will gate entry. Strikes loom from cab drivers seeking partitions and higher commissions and from transit workers threatening to strike ahead of the convention.
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