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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1966
Page
1
Regents will meet at 6 30 p m Thursday in the college library for a regular session. Other items on the page note Baytown council discussing a community television franchise and a car stolen on Channelview.
Glenda Chandler is hard to reach by phone while Sandra Laughlin handles luncheon decorations. Nancy Braswell, eight, named best camper at Martha Mabley Girl Scout Camp. Virginia West checks up German announcements. Flora Wilhite discusses a new book. Wanda Brown calls for college students to read for Baytown Lide Theater. Pierce Swofford helps Kathy Galliesen with German lessons. Doris Barton seeks a photo, Joe Demn pays for coffee, Jim Kyle hosts Wichita Falls visitors. Weldon Newby discusses fishing. Babe Black takes a test. Hobart Enoch travels to Colorado for his daughter. Pete Sulus talks football. Norman C. McElvany of U.S. Steel plans vacation. Tommy Hathaway and Clark Hill visit from University of Arkansas.
An American cargo ship Baton Rouge Victory carrying war supplies to Viet Nam was hit by a Communist mine in the Saigon River and sank after run aground twenty miles east of Saigon. Seven crewmen were killed. Marine landings totaling about 1,500 men occurred southeast of Saigon with no contact reported with Viet Cong forces. In the air war, four Thunderchiefs tangled with four MiGs north of Hanoi, while pilots conducted 80 missions attacking storage depots, bridges, barges, and antiaircraft sites across North Viet Nam.
State Sen Chet Brooks says the Texas Department of Public Safety seeks applicants to fill 109 vacancies across Highway Patrol and license services. Beginning salaries rise to 400 monthly during training, with longevity pay after years of service and an upcoming across the board raise debated for next year.
Houston would be the best location for a new University of Texas medical school the UT board indicated in a memo cited at a budget hearing. Regent chair W W Heath said Houston offers easier faculty recruitment due to the medical center and resources. San Antonio’s Texas Medical School faced staffing gaps, prompting new hospital construction and federal involvement. The recommendation reflects legislative advisory limits and aims to ease recruiting strains.
About 240 Baytown football players reported for fall practice with 120 at REL and Ross Sterling. Cedar Bayou Stadium hosts workouts as Sterling lacks a field. Notable weights include Danny Lavell at 248 pounds and praise for Jimmy Arnold’s punting. One knee injury reported, but no one stayed out. Coaches expect heat to ease with pads Friday.
AP reports NASA officials negotiating a contract to turn a Saturn I second stage into a manned space station or "house trailer" for astronauts with a projected cost near 9 million dollars.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara outlined a new Pentagon plan to train 40,000 men yearly who are ordinarily disqualified by education or health in intensive programs using Defense Department facilities. The aim is 100,000 in the next fiscal year and beyond, with over half expected to qualify for service. McNamara tied poverty to national security and warned standards would not be lowered, while stressing the program’s military underpinnings and broader context of Vietnam and domestic unrest.
Kelly Rushing son of Mr and Mrs W H Rushing of 612 W Lobit is a UT senior in business administration on an IEES exchange program in economics and commerce. He works at the Commercial Bank of Greece editing English copy and travels including the Orient Express. He plans to return Sept 7 and resume classes Sept 19.
Robert E. Lee High School releases the 1966 yearbook covering the full year from fall to graduation. Distribution starts Thursday at 8 a.m. in the auditorium with pink receipts required for standard copies and special handling for lost receipts. Bonafide ID and written authorizations needed for transfers or third party pickups.
The REL band declined a Florida invitation to the States Parade in Jacksonville citing travel costs and student absences. Band director Charles Forque called the honor significant but not feasible. The event features one band per state with performances at Highlands Jamboree and the Astrodome on Saturday.
The Baytown school board adopted a 41 vote to seek clarity from four agencies on UIL transfer rules that critics say discriminate. The dispute centers on Negro students transferring to a predominately white school while white students transferring to a Negro school are denied athletic eligibility for football and basketball.
School trustees accepted bids from 13 firms for custodial supplies totaling 14805.95 and two firms for printed forms totaling 824.88. They also approved an offer from A. B. Dick Co. for paper and stencils at 1355.54, while preparing salary adjustment recommendations for about 30 district employees.
Baytown recorded a 90.2 degree average for June per the Climate Data publication by the US Commerce Department. Highs reached 84 degrees on June 3 and 5, with two 34 degree days on June 13 and 30 and rainfall totaling 2.33 inches, 1. inches below normal. Two weather stations operated in Baytown at The Baytown Sun and Esso Research and Engineering Co. Baytown division.
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