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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1967
Page
2
Funeral services held for Mrs Leona Isbell Brett 66 of Highlands after dying in a Baytown hospital. The service took place at Earthman Highlands Funeral Home with Rev Bonner Magness officiating and interment at San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors include husband Paul Brett three daughters and eight grandchildren.
A Baytown reader outlines steps toward a public debate on faith and baptism between Ross and McDonald, noting signed propositions and ongoing negotiations. The letter urges end to confrontational newspaper clashes and proposes using the auditorium for both debate nights if no local preacher responds by December 15. It also endorses McDonald’s earlier editorial reply and commends Baytown Sun for allowing press freedom.
U S forces repelled a heavy night barrage nine miles west-northwest of Dak To as Communist gunners used mortars and rockets. One American was killed and many wounded. Elsewhere in Vietnam, allied river patrols and gunships repelled a Viet Cong assault on a government outpost near Meixong Delta, while Air Force and Navy pilots pressed strikes despite monsoon clouds. Reports also noted Chinese accusations over a North Vietnam port incident and Viet Cong raids near Saigon, with casualties among a Pacification team and ongoing skirmishes near Bu Dep three miles from the Cambodian border.
The Crosby city school district faces renewed pressure to desegregate as part of a national program from the U S Health Education and Welfare Department. Peter Libassi of the Civil Rights office said target dates for Southern systems exist and most should finish by fall 1969.
Completes test and is now a fully accredited record technician in the medical records department at Baytown Hospital in Baytown.
Baytown resident Mrs Thelma Jean Simon listed in Room 115 and Billy Ray Littlefield in Room 320. New arrivals include Lynn E Anderson and spouse at 113 Lazy Street, newborn born in December at Gulf Coast hospital.
Crosby chapter of Future Farmers of America hosted Bilest speaker Ken Sparks and David Baros from the Soil Conservation Service in Anahuac. The meeting featured slides on Gulf Coast grasses and a segment on agriculture as a vocation.
The Bruin's Dovis team will meet at Cedar Bayou Junior School gym at 9:30 on Saturday for a games night.
In a Dominguez district home sheriff deputies found Mrs. Ena Holt dead in an upstairs room after an eight month religious seclusion. Her son Robert Holt 36, his wife, four children, Holt’s sister and brother and two teenage nephews left their home when served a summons. Authorities listed death as natural potentially weeks old. Robert and Loyce Holt faced charges for failing to send their children to school. Neighbors described a prior strike by Mrs. Holt leading to family quitting jobs. Last line notes national park visitation figures for 1930.
Funeral services for Louis Jackson a Baytown resident aged 60 will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Washington Chapel Church in Metropolis Rev B L Davis will officiate The service will be under Johnson and Frazier Funeral Home. Survivors include four brothers Norman Fred James Jackson of Baytown Leon Jackson of Los Angeles and five sisters Rena Cowins Lites Matthews Mandy Lee Baker Delfine Marton and Oveta Brooks. Nephews will serve as pallbearers.
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