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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1971
Page
11
New Mexico football coach Rudy Feldman confirmed he will remain with the Lobos, rejecting an offer to join Baylor University in Texas. The coach stated his decision today after the Baylor link surfaced on Thursday.
Baytown community listings include Yale party at Lisa Head’s 2013 Arrowhead with counselor Mrs Embhart. Baytown Aircraft Club to meet at 7 30 p m with Ernest H Dodds of FAA speaking. Rebekahs and Odd Fellows Christmas party at 7 p m with gift exchange. Baytown Rough Riders host Christmas party at the fair grounds. Ross Sterling German Club hosts Christmas hayride and carol singing at 7 p m at Marcy Smith’s home. music study club Christmas party planned at Tower with hospitality chairwoman Mrs Thad Johnson.
A Baytown weekly column recounts a West Germany letter from Philip J. Van Natter praising the Sun’s Chief Goodfellow drive and donating to help Baytown children at Christmas. The drive remains several hundred dollars short of its $3,000 goal as groups rally support ahead of next week’s update.
Gayle Schroder, chairman of First National Bank of Baytown, said the board voted unanimously to convert to a state charter with trust powers. Shareholders will vote Jan 25, 1972. The bank would be renamed First American Bank and Trust of Baytown and join the Foundation of Full Service Banks while remaining FDIC insured and Fed member.
The Senate approved a foreign aid bill authorizing 2.75 billion dollars by a 33 to 21 vote to clear the way for adjournment. The measure sets spending at 2.37 billion dollars yearly through February 22 while the money bill is finalized. The House planned to act next year, delaying final action until January.
TWQB staff told a Texas Water Quality Board panel that enforcing a two parts per million dissolved oxygen goal for the Houston Ship Channel could cost cities and industries along the bayou up to $40 million a year. Deputy Director Joe Teller criticized EPA demands while outlining the timetable to implement the plan to meet the two ppm standard. The board adopted the timetable to avoid losing federal funds, though staff say the goal may be unnecessary.
Decreasing cloudiness and cooler Friday with fair conditions Friday night. Friday temperatures a low in the 40s to 60s. Morgan's Point tides Saturday high at 4 43 a m and low at 3 31 p m. Saturday sun rises 7 11 a m and sets 3 25 p m.
Sterling outs drew Lee in 1971 football receipts with 38996.60 to 30567.48 aided by the Smiley playoff gate of 7397.19. Regular season Sterling led by about 1000. Galveston Ball games approached similar totals. Port Arthur 1970 regional tilt remains the high gate with 32000 yielding 13404.16. Season-ticket sales show Lee at 3497 and Sterling at 836.
The Texas Water Quality Board voted to join Houston Lighting and Power Co in a federal suit against the EPA over Cedar Bayou plant pollution controls. The commission had considered intervening, noting no fresh water is available for EPA’s proposed alternate plan. HLPCO seeks to stop EPA interference with Cedar Bayou cooling discharges into Trinity Bay.
Baytown gas customers will likely see higher bills this month as Houston Natural Gas Co. raised wholesale costs on Dec 8 and United Gas Inc. seeks a similar Houston rate increase. HNG expects about 35 cents more per customer, while United claims Houston customers will pay about cents more monthly. Both firms previously raised rates in 1963 and 1970 due to higher wholesale prices approved by the Texas Railroad Commission.
The August welfare rolls increased for the first time in four months though total expenditures declined, the government announced. In other items, Pakistan halted fighting with India via cease-fire within one day, the U S Army described detentions as 8 by 10 foot ventilated rooms, and East and West Germany agreed to ease travel to West Berlin.
Baytown police report 1971 traffic wreck totals through November at 1253, below 1970 and 1969 figures. Five fatalities so far this year mirror last year, while November saw 127 wrecks with 33 major injuries and 350 tickets issued, including 33 drunken driving charges.
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