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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1972
Page
1
The plan calls for brick buildings with underground drainage and trim repainting. It includes new aluminum windows doors and screens, rear apartment renovations for hot water and gas and water restoration, new refrigerators stoves and bathroom fixtures with tiled tubs, 220 volt lines, individual metering, no central air conditioning, and tenants to pay their own electric bills. Any remaining funds may cover fences and related needs.
Baytown area rainfall varied widely on Wednesday with totals ranging from 0.1 to 2.33 inches. Thad Fennema reported 2.33 inches at his Lakewood home, Harris County Mosquito Control’s H G Work logged 0.92 inches near Highway 146, and Jordan Voytek in Highlands measured 0.1 inch amid limited showers.
The Lee College regents voted 8 to 1 Aug 18 to authorize bus purchases in July amid questions about timing. Dr. Cleveland said the order could be reversed with minimal costs, and officials noted fall delivery to serve out of district students.
The U S Coast Guard recovered a body from Galveston Bay near the explosion site of a 38 foot cabin cruiser. Harris County deputies and other responders searched from the Houston Yacht Club area and Baytown Wooster units aided the effort. The body is believed to be a Pasadena man. search was halted at night and resumed in the morning. The incident involved a boat that exploded twice, burned, and sank around 3 30 p m Wednesday.
Four Channelview workers escaped injury when a driverless four ton sand truck rolled 120 feet down a hill and crashed into the Cedar Lane treatment plant in District 21. The truck stopped short of the men. the impact knocked down a concrete block wall and caused smoke from damaged wiring. No one was seriously hurt. initial damage estimated at 4300, later repairable for about 800.
Conversational Spanish will run 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays starting Sept. 7 and Conversational Russian 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays starting Sept. 3. Each course lasts 12 weeks. Taught in the St. Cloud Method by Jes Roman, contact Continuing Education at 427-5611 extension 214.
Twenty eight Baytown area residents received degrees from the University of Houston in summer commencement. The list includes Deborah Carol Fields, Winona Marie Montgomery, Joy Ann Reeves Balls, Mary Nan Carter Redmond, Carolyn Geyer Smith, Carolyn Joyce Williams, Helen Bacum Woodard, Linda Slaughter Baller, Dorothy Faye Harris, Beatrice Reynolds High, Jerry Erwin Schima, Martha E Heaton Currie, Fern Banson Clemmer, Robert Patrick Orchin, Bartlett Johnston, Delores Marie Henneke, Stephen Sidney Smith, Marjorie Ann Gilmore, Faye Barrett Russell, Mary Cooper Norris, James Roy Blanscot, George Joseph Hobart, Edward Axel Fredhalm, Monalisa Rose Janacek, Roy Glenn Barrett, and Owen George Fuchs.
Baytown police arrested a 16 year old in a noon hour incident while he played pool at a Baytown apartment recreation room. The youth confessed to fleeing from Brother Roloff School on Corpus Christi island aboard a stolen boat on August 3 and hiding in a mobile home yard until capture. He and a 14 year old companion allegedly stole multiple vehicles in Pasadena and Baytown, including two Chevrolets and a Ranger pickup, with the younger boy already arrested. The suspects reportedly targeted unlocked cars, hot wired them, and slept in vehicles or in apartment complexes as their pattern.
Nixon plans a stop in Utica to dedicate Dwight D. Eisenhower High School and will then return home to San Clemente. At the GOP convention, harmony prevailed but antiwar demonstrators were arrested. police used CS gas to disperse crowds outside Coral Beach Hotel. Barricades and helicopters surrounded Convention Hall as delegates moved in.
Beauceants will hold a garage sale from 9 am to 3 pm at 1505 Strickland the home of Mrs W R Ashewood. Proceeds go to the Knights Templative Foundation. Weather notes mention wind in the center of a cascade sometimes reaching 300 miles per hour.
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