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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1971
Page
2
Police report a woman discharged a pistol at a service station on North Main at 4:87 p.m. Tuesday during a disturbance. Officers filed no charges due to insufficient evidence. pistol was confiscated and no injuries cited.
Dean Little Page son of Mr and Mrs Charles Little of 1806 Kentucky is a finalist in the 25th Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation competition. He attends the University of Texas and majors in political science.
Baytown honors scoutmaster Charley Taylor of Troop 58 McNair for decades of service. The Silver Beaver Award, a national honor, recognizes outstanding youth service and was presented alongside James E. Sherwood in Baytown. Taylor, 7207 East McNair, led about 42 boys, organized canoe trips, and raises funds for their troop house moved from donations and fund drives.
Tools remain burglars preferred targets in Baytown homes. From David Rogers 2201 Kilgore Road a garage yielded $400 in tools. A toolbox with $175 to $200 worth of items was reported missing from C A Phillips 203 Scott. A hydraulic floor jack and two jack stands valued at $250 were taken from C D Wright 2808 Kettering. A pistol and cigarette lighter were stolen from a car at Rebel Inn on Market belonging to Eugene Scott. Frank H Kraft 3301 Minnesota reported a missing wallet containing $200. he said he lost it near Morton’s Meat Market.
A fragmented list shows prices and changes for numerous companies including Jones and Laughlin Steel Kerr McGee Kraft Foods Kresge Ling-Temco-Vought MacDonald Douglas Magnavox Marathon Oil Mobil Monsanto National Distillers Occidental Penn Central Roan Select Trust Schlumberger Sears Shell Sperry Rand Standard Oil of California Standard Oil of Indiana General Motors Delta Airlines Dresser Industries Extendicare Atlantic Richfield McKesson Gillette Gordon’s Jewelry Gulf States Utilities Houston Lighting & Power Sunoco SyMtOX Tenneco Texaco Allis Chalmers Armco Bethlehem Steel Columbia Gas Dow Chemical DuPont El Paso Natural Gas Dow Jones indices and other market indicators appear interspersed with sporadic percentage figures and a final Dow Industrial change.
President Nixon ordered the suspension of the Davis Bacon prevailing wage rules on federal and federally aided construction projects worth about 25 billion dollars. He called on states and other governments with similar laws to act, arguing the rates inflate costs and spread inflation through contracts. The move follows Hodgson’s warning no voluntary agreement could curb the wage price spiral.
Funeral notices list W H Hicks 50 of 2003 Terrace Lane as 10 am Thursday service at Pai U Lee Chapel with burial at Cedar Crest. Survivors include wife Vivian and children Wayne Gary Pennie Hicks plus parents and siblings. Ernest Berry Bates 36 of Crosby Funeral at Missouri Street Church of Christ with burial at Memory Gardens. 12 sisters and 1 brother. three children. Kenneth Malcolm Morris 54 of 714 E Gulf services at Paul A Lee Chapel. three daughters and a son. WWII veteran. 36 years with Humble Oil. burial in Memory Gardens Baytown. many relatives listed.
The committee to select a new president includes E. L. Gunn and Dr. Henry Dismukes from the presidents group, Tom Stone and Anthony Parker representing the faculty, Dr. Jim Williams directing administration, Valerie Provost as a student member, Paul Edwards as an ex-student, and Larry Hale as a citizen-at-large. After regents review, personal interviews are expected to begin. several applicants have visited informally, but no formal interviews yet.
The film Diary of a Mad Housewife runs at Brunson through Tuesday. It follows Tina Balser a bright educated wife who crumbles under husband Jonathan s demands and begins an affair with writer George Prager. Tina vows to change her life after the crisis and vows not to remain mad.
Nixon tells governors he seeks action not issue on revenue sharing. Reports of civilian spying grow louder as Abner Mikva condemns officers as subversives. A White House study questions haste in restricting a herbicide linked to birth defects in animals. My Lai testimony describes civilians as enemies. Caley claims order to destroy. Judy Krecek, a Kankakee teacher nearly blind, explains coping with coloboma. Recording For the Blind aids her reading, while U.S. air strikes claim Ho Chi Minh stockpiles amid helicopter losses. Rabbi Kahane barred from 37-country Jewish delegates meeting on Soviet Jews.
Hearing notes that the treatment plant will gain facilities costing about 68000 funded from surplus funds and 1971 revenue. TWQB approved plans but they are seen as insufficient for the district’s problems including a faulty collection system. The Highlands board will return to Austin Friday to review local coping plans amid recent board changes and elections.
In Lancaster County Pennsylvania the Amish face land scarcity and rising prices that threaten farm livelihoods. Families struggle as land costs reach 1500 to 2000 dollars per acre, forcing some young adults from farming into other work while others relocate. Prices for tobacco and eggs have fallen, equipment costs rise, and farm ground has fallen from 82 to 74 percent of county land since 1954. Officials warn population growth and tourism erode Amish privacy and may push the community away from farming within twenty years.
A reflective autobiographical novel set in rural Pennsylvania follows Belle, a shy loner and grandmother, as she recalls life among elders and her son Eric, a novelist. The prose is deft yet plagued by vaporous thoughts and enigmatic dialogue, with echoes of John Updike’s Pennsylvania themes.
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