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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1968
Page
1
Bayshore Rod Reef and Gun Club meets at 7 30 p m Tuesday at 3223 A Minnesota. A report on Bay 1 town Chamber of Commerce projects and shell dredging in the key area will be given. Public invited per Jessie Smith president.
Twenty percent chance of scattered daytime thunder showers through Tuesday. Temperatures in the mid 70s. Galveston tides: high at 4 a.m. and low at 7:45 p.m. Bayshore Center advisory council to meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight at St Pauls Lutheran Church. Last weekend for Boytown Little Theater production The Boyfriend with 8:20 p.m. shows and phone reservations at 424 7617. Robert P. Wiles of 611 W Jack Baytown earned a Master of Science degree at Tulane University on Aug 17. Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church youth vs adults volleyball at 7 p.m. Tuesday. homemade ice cream served. Rotary Club noon meeting at Power Restaurant on Wednesday Aug 2 with Don Marler speaking.
In Chicago AP dispatch delegates battle rages over seating and platform planks as Humphrey and McCarthy supporters trade blasts. Nixon camps in Illinois and vows to carry the state and the nation. Labor leaders anticipate AFL CIO Steelworkers backing Humphrey amid push for fair delegate competition.
A Baytown society page notes Morris Fayle and Dub Rogers pausing for coffee while Holly Lemore enjoys a good story. Barry Nettles arranges a swap of picture and story, and Bob Warford promotes the Optimist Club as David Evans supports the Jaycees. The Byron Strattons return from HemisFair, Wanda Burch teaches a word to her daughter, and Randy Rogers offers jobs. Richard McWilliams returns from New York as Ralph Schroenderan depart for Ohio. Denny McAfee visits Baytown after an summer in San Francisco. Marshall and Shirley Cates welcome their new son. Mary Lynn Johns checks fashion in Baytown, Ida Griffith introduces kin, and birthdays unite Mrs Foster, Mrs Fulmer, and Mrs Rees. Karin Sage returns to San Antonio after a two week Baytown visit. Sam Alford marks his fiftieth birthday.
An eight year old Beaumont boy died and 11 others injured when a lumber truck crossed the San Jacinto River Bridge on Highway 90 and collided with two cars. John Plum mer Jr. died at the scene in the Plummer car driven by his father John Plummer, 51. The wreck sent lumber debris everywhere and blocked the roadway as investigators worked.
Luxembourg teen Robert Maquis arrives as a U S A F S exchange student to stay with the Henry Post family at 104 Hull Baytown. He will study at Robert E Lee High School as a junior and plans two more years of study after returning to Diekirch. The Luxembourg student was chosen among eight from his country for scholarship and character.
Fred Sims of Baytown describes the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach as hot crowded and memorable News media crowds swarmed the hall with speeches and introductions Sims met major party candidates and voted on some rules He supported Nixon's nomination after initially backing Reagan and praised Mixon’s growth and organization Nixon’s acceptance speech reportedly hit key Republican platform points and captured attention.
Mobs smash Amb cars and attack Arabs in Jerusalem after bomb blasts ignite rioting. A sniper kills one and wounds another on a Long Island train. President Johnson remains at the Texas ranch with no announced plans. In Vietnam, forty agitators are removed from a Marine brig to restore order. Aggressive campaigns and violent deaths mark events across the United States.
President Eisenhower, age 72, remains in extremely critical condition at Walter Reed Army Hospital after repeated ventricular irregularities. Doctors report a transvenous pacemaker was removed as it failed to stop spasms, with two further episodes since the latest bulletin. Vital signs steady between episodes as the general rests, nearby by family and medical staff who continue to monitor his condition.
Rice University president Dr. Pitzer resigns to become Stanford University president. Announcement came from Rice chair H Malcolm Lovett and Stanford Board president W Palmer Fuller. Pitzer is Rice’s third president in 56 years. will succeed J E Wallace Sterling as Stanford lifetime chancellor on Sept. 1.
AP reports North Vietnamese troops suffered over 200 dead in fierce fighting around Tay Ninh as U S armored columns pursued remnants. U S officers noted about 50 regiments slipped away under cover of darkness amid four days of intensified combat from the Mekong Delta to Da Nang.
The Credit Bureau of Greater Baytown uses DE students from local high schools, training three last year and employing two who graduated mid term credits. Owner W. J. Strickler praises the program for blending school work with business training. Deborah Howell, senior at Robert E. Lee, and Tana Hull, mid term graduate from Lee, reflect on benefits and future plans.
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