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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1966
Page
1
A Lee College Tri City Beach Civic Association board of regents will meet at 7 30 p m to discuss the proposed community building program. A pre meeting briefing for community leaders is set for 6 p m in the Tri City Beach Road area.
A group of Humble company executives including Knox Beavers attends a business session in New York. Air Force recruiter Carroll Miller discusses officer benefits. Lt. Harold Wert, Army Engineer Corps, remains in a cast after a knee injury. Various local residents are noted in brief items: missed game, wrong-number call, and weekend plans.
Ballots mailed to Baytown Chamber members invite nominations for ten board seats. Nominations due by 5 p.m. Friday. official ballot to be mailed Thursday, Feb 11. Retiring directors with six years served cannot seek a new term for three years. Current directors listed. retiring and ineligible directors named.
Psychologists link bow tie liking to maternal instincts and boyish traits while Sun Classified Ads show practical problem solving. A one day ad for Joe Wilburn of Mont Belvieu earned him 299 dollars profit from a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air sale with a 300 dollar asking price. Listings urge readers to call 495.3570 or 582-8923 for ad writing and to submit Tuesday cancellations by 5 PM.
Congress prepares a busy week with the House floor set to act on a permanent GI Bill program for veterans since January 31, 1955, and a companion Senate bill for a temporary but costly benefit. The Taft Hartley 14B repeal faces a prolonged Senate filibuster, with votes expected Tuesday and Thursday.
Lee College faces a 1.3 million bond issue with plans to use some funds to buy land at unspecified locations off campus. President Sam Bramlett says bond money is not earmarked for adjacent Whiting Street parcels, though officials seek to acquire more west of Whiting as funds allow. The regents previously secured options on three Whiting lots and rejected two other tracts due to funds.
New Baytown residents Mr and Mrs C W Sparks came to trust the Sun classifieds after a run of hard luck. A $600 theft preceded their move and a missing Pekingese sparked a dramatic roadside rescue when a Sun staffer spotted the dog causing a traffic jam and alerted the grateful owners.
Candace Mossier returned to court for the fourth week of her sensational murder trial in MEAN Florida. She and her nephew Melvin Lane Powers face a June 3 killing of multimillionaire Jacques Messier. The state moves to admit an eavesdropped conversation while the defense calls it a constitutional violation. The state says the call was a plea to handyman Roscoe Brown to alter his story. Brown testified she asked him to change his account as authorities pursued Powers. If allowed, the state will call Thomas J. Spurlock to identify Powers palm print at the Key Biscayne apartment where Messier was slain.
Baytown police raided the Bayshore Red Reef and Gun Club during a Saturday night bingo game at 3223 Minnesota. Six officers charged Grover Edge and four vice presidents plus Audrey Mack Rhodes with maintaining a gaming house after seizing about $2,500 in equipment. Det. Lt. James P. Taylor described the raid as quiet and orderly. five defendants posted $1,000 bonds and were released.
Karl Opryshek, 66, influential in Baytown schools, died Sunday after a heart attack in a Baytown hospital. Funeral 9 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church, with graveside 3 p.m. at New Braunfels under Earthman Funeral Home. Born in Austria in 1899, he moved to the US at 12, graduated from Texas A&M in 1922, then worked 37 years at Humble Oil Baytown Refinery. He was a reform-minded trustee and advocate of federal aid for schools.
Dr Hebert E Boehme a thrice married Tacoma physician convicted of trying to kill his wife by injection acquitted on a similar charge regarding his second wife faces up to 20 years The Del Rio Laredo Seguin and San Antonio bricklayers threaten strike unless a new contract is reached with the AGC Federation of Homemakers pushes to keep peanut butter at 90 percent or higher in talks with FDA UT Austin interns and two UT students killed in a road crash near Minden Louisiana Dentistry editor cites blocking groups hindering water fluoridation as needed preventive for tooth decay and public health authorities investigate an alleged international baby market operation in Laredo after two infants found at a home
President Johnson opened talks with South Viet Nam leaders in Honolulu after signaling a tough stance at home. Officials said civilian programs would be emphasized at the strategy conference, while Johnson and Vietnamese leaders stressed military resolve. Thieu praised U S firmness against Hanoi and Viet Cong, with Cao Ky and Thien greeting them at the airport. Thieu aimed for a hardline policy, including intensified moves against the North.
Bay town building permits for January 1966 total $450,212 with 24 new residences valued at $348,660, far up from January 1965. No commercial permits issued. eight home garages, five residence repairs, and five additions or commercial repairs filed. Major project is Northside Baptist Church addition costing $44,350 by Marvin L. Ross as contractor.
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