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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1968
Page
8
AP reports during Christmas week American casualties rose. 185 killed in action, 437 wounded, 130 of whom did not require hospitalization, raising totals to 15,997 killed and 99,742 wounded. South Vietnamese and other allied losses shifted. enemy deaths fell to 1,488. U.S. strength in South Vietnam grew to 486,000.
Boston report cites a 24.5 percent rise in venereal disease cases in Massachusetts since Labor Day. Dr. Nicholas Fiumara notes hippie influx in Boston and surrounding areas contributing to gonorrhea and public lice, linked to casual contacts and alcohol or LSD impairment.
Texas businessmen began receiving a one million bonus in the form of a four-tenths per cent decrease in state unemployment compensation payroll taxes. The Texas Employment Commission said more than 30 000 employers about 40 percent of those in the unemployment insurance system had their rates cut. The fund reached 300 million by Oct 1 with TEC reporting just over 319 million. The commission estimates over 70 percent of taxable employers will pay the minimum rate of one tenth per cent this year. Individual tax rate notices will go to employers around Jan 20.
Frank Finley, a retired secretary and business manager for a suburban school district, arrived 45 minutes before the IRS office opened to become first in line to file his 1967 income tax. This marks the ninth time in 10 years he has secured the first spot.
A scanned listing details a busy TV schedule across networks including NBC CBS and NET. It lists morning to late night programs with religious services cartoons sports news soap operas game shows and classic westerns featuring numerous named programs and stations across Houston Galveston and United States networks. The long grid mentions Sunrise Service Today Show News and varied fare from Captain Kangaroo to Bonanza to The Tonight Show and Weather with Kuulani among many others.
Honor society Phi Kappa Phi will initiate DE WAYNE LAWLESS an accounting major from Baytown and Margie Dean Dobbs a home economics major from Anahuac at Lamar Tech in Beaumont Friday night.
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