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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1969
Page
1
San Francisco State College was hit by a formal teachers strike under acting President SL Hayakawa who questioned if the school could stay open. A similar strike disrupted San Jose State College on Wednesday.
Demonstrations continue at an 18,000-student campus since November 6 with limited violence. Police arrested five demonstrators on charges of intimidating nonstrikers and using obscene language as teachers back student strikers who have boycotted classes.
About 1,000 jeering teachers, striking students, and supporters from other schools picketed the foggy campus on Monday. They shouted insults at teachers and students moving to classrooms as tensions rose during the labor action.
Three brothers R J Young M N Young and T A Young of Baytown travel to Albuquerque New Mexico for their youngest brother I N Youngs funeral services set for Wednesday A DeMolay Mothers Club meets at Goose Creek Masonic Lodge at 730 pm Grace Methodist Church hosts Zone meeting for the Woman s Society of Christian Service starting 900 am Wednesday Funeral rites for Dr George Harley Fahring 87 pioneer physician and civic leader in Chambers County set 2 pm Wednesday at Anahuac First Baptist Church Dr Fehring died Tuesday in St Elizabeth s Hospital Beaumont He was president of the Security State Bank in Anahuac Baytown adult chapter American Field Service meets 730 pm Tuesday at Robert E Lee High School Senior Citizens Club meets 2 pm Thursday at the Community Building to hear on home nursing service plans
Dense fog blanketed the Baytown area Tuesday morning as a gradual warm-up began. The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies through Wednesday with temperatures ranging from the low 40s to the upper 60s.
Baytown families including the Walmsleys visit Taps New Mexico for snow over the holidays while Hastings and Watsons join crowds near Mexico City. Clyde and Ida Stevens deer hunt with Ida reporting no luck. Marine Sgt. David Alford returns from Vietnam duty and will report to a new station in Columbus, Ohio. Harold Hogue recalls a TV ad about Glen Erwin. The Baytown Mexican food business may see a small profit drop when Miguel Lonsford moves to Galveston. the phrase Miguel could eat Mexican fund three times a day appears in the text.
A secret Air Force funded two year study led by Dr Edward A Condon at the University of Colorado will state there is no scientific evidence that unidentified flying objects are spaceships from another world. The report, financed by 500000 dollars, cautions it cannot prove a negative and does not deny the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth.
Bradford, Pa AP Eleven people died when an Allegheny Airlines Convair 580 failed to land in bad weather and flipped onto a snow swept golf course. Seventeen others survived, many suspended by belts. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board pursued similarities to a Christmas Eve crash nearby.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, charged with assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, faced a potential fourth postponement as defense attorney Grant B. Cooper prepared to answer a federal grand jury or risk contempt. Court expected two-week jury selection and two months for evidence, with more than 200 witnesses anticipated. The trial, in an armored eighth-floor Hall of Justice chamber, involves five counts of assault with intent to murder beside the Kennedy case.
AP wire reports thick fog and severe weather disrupts traffic and halts all passenger flights at Hobby International Airport amid widespread accidents and groundings. Separate items note final appeals in a draft conspiracy case, mass hiring by GM, a Texas juvenile delinquency panel meeting, a national refinery strike, and a Vietnamese peace plan denial.
In the Mekong Delta a 600 man U S task force tried to encircle a Viet Cong company under flare light. The Viet Cong force, believed 100 plus, fled before dawn after the Americans reported killing 48. U S casualties were eight killed and one wounded. Helicopter borne troops from the 9th Division scoured the area for survivors.
The House passed a bill to raise Richard M. Nixon’s presidential salary to 200000 a year plus a 50000 expense allowance and a 40000 travel allotment. The plan, urged by the Kappel Commission, must clear the Senate and await Johnson’s signature before Nixon’s noon January 20 swearing in.
A crew of 26 census takers canvasses the School District and city to count school age children six through seventeen by Sept 1. They will also conduct a family census to track population growth. The effort, led by Holly McLemore, runs through Jan 34.
Deposits across Baytown area banks rose to 123,162,593.24 at year end, up 10,332,730.62 from the prior year. Citizens National, First National and Peoples State collectively held 71,924,962.97, with individual gains shown for Citizens National Bank 40,005,875.4 and Peoples State Bank 14,104,052.70. Other local banks reported varied totals, including Highlands State 5,473,495.02 and Crosby State 6,041,556.68, while Channelview 7,277,715.49 and North Shore National 35,077,878.68 rounded out the area’s deposits.
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