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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1968
Page
1
George C. Clark, Pasadena SSA district manager, will speak on social security and medicare at a Wednesday 10 a.m. meeting of the Humble Annuitants Club in Bays Town Community Building. All Baytown area annuitants are invited regardless of club membership.
Donna Hill presents a stock car racing trophy to her father Gary Hill during halftime in Beaumont. Virginia Venable Kidd discusses teaching experiences at the University of Texas and Dee Heald earns a degree from the University of Houston. The Boyntons travel to Mexico. Meigs and Keating remember meeting at registration as their children start first grade. Barbara Huckaby comments on a movie. Birthdays and travel notes wrap a small local item.
Residents of Busch Terrace west of Goose Creek petitioned the city July 1, asking for street, drainage, sewage and lot maintenance improvements. City workers note progress in traffic signs, drainage work, lot clearing, and repairs on Laredo Street as a special August trash pickup occurs.
Crosby School District moves to apply for USDA commodities funding with a January 16 1969 cutoff. Supt Prochazka notes a $216 handling fee and mentions appeal of HEW Civil Rights Act funding cut. Trustees hire five teachers, accept resignations, extend audit firm, and approve amended 1967 68 budget, with bids on dairy products.
Robert E. Lee High School Latin students earned top honors at the National Junior Classical League convention at Michigan State University. REL sent 28 delegates who won five first places, seven seconds and seven thirds in scholastic events and five firsts plus eight seconds in Olympic events.
Army doctors report Eisenhower's survival prospects guarded amid broad uncertainty. Air Force to inspect 135 engine jets after a crash raising concerns of possible structural failure. Pope Paul VI prepares to fly to the Eucharistic Congress in Bogota, Colombia, as authorities await his stance on Catholic unity. Nixon enters presidential campaigning with confidence of victory. Two SNCC members face trial in Dallas for property destruction. A heart transplant recipient in Houston is reported stable after surgery. UN reports 18 North Korean infiltrators killed in 21 border clashes Aug 4–18. LOsservatore Romano criticizes Catholic communion with non-C Catholics as hindering unity. Security tightens for Pope Paul VI's Colombia visit.
President Johnson refuses a total bombing halt of North Vietnam and any de escalation until Hanoi shows genuine willingness to end the fighting. He told a Veterans of Foreign Wars audience that the next move must be theirs and warned critics in his party.
Baytown resident and 38 year old Glenn Lippman seeks Position 8 on the school board in the October 5 election. He emphasizes maximizing the school system to prepare children for tomorrow while opposing incumbents Sam Alford and Jim Choate Jr for Position 6. Lippman, an assistant maintenance manager for Tenneco Hydrocarbon Chemical Division, and his wife Barbara have lived in Baytown since 1959 with two children, Kyle and Karen. He is a Texas registered engineer and former college and professional football player.
Baytown bank charter hearings were postponed again as one applicant's lawyer also represents Gov. Connally in Chicago. The delays tie into the national convention delegate fight, with no new date set and state officials hopeful a soon-rescheduled session will occur.
Southern Canal Co and the Coastal Industrial Water Authority agreed on a 1,650,000 purchase for Southern Canal facilities. If closed, CIWA will deliver Lake Livingston water to U S Steel near Baytown by Oct 1 1969. Mayor Welch praised the deal as CIWA plans to build a 575 million water system.
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